The theatres for music, plays, poetry readings etc. were a completely separate things; build usually in a crescent shape and focused on the acoustics and all that. So the circular roman amphitheaters were made specifically for the other entertainment, that was more about getting as many people as possible to be able to see the stuff instead of hearing. So the first use was most likely some form of gladiator battle or something similar

I’d imagine the fear is just because a lot of people are not tech savvy at all and tend to be scared of new things, “googling” and pushing colorful buttons is something most people are used to, but writing phrases you don’t fully understand into a mysterious text box is not. Though personally I have no fear towards terminal either, so maybe I’m wrong with that analysis

Worse, the panel is actively bothersome. If you are left handed and use touch screen, the damn panel will constantly and randomly jump out since it’s located in the left corner. And of course you can’t disable or move it. That alone would have been enough for me to throw 11 into the trash where it belongs

6/8GB lmao. I have some tabs, spotify, discord, protonmail etc. open, casual stuff. This one is my old one running zorin, I can get it to about 1GB on idle which is fine since I have eye candy settings. I had mint on this earlier, but for some reason it drank memory like a sponge and I could barely have couple tabs open, so I dunno whatever zorin is doing but it’s working way lighter

Haha oh yes, it’s just whenever I search for some solutions it feels like I end up finding at least one reply with the instructions to use terminal only for installing

There are about 30 different ways to do any single thing and whatever way you choose is guaranteed to provoke 17 neckbeards into writing essays on why you’re wrong and, while they’re at it, you also picked the wrong distro.

My favorite one is
“Oh linux is easy these days, you don’t have to even open the terminal”
“Haha noob why did you install the flatpak version, never do that, always install everything as .debs through terminal”

Yeah hieroglyphs don’t record vowel sounds, so on many accounts we don’t actually know how something was pronounced. There’s good guesses made based on later phonetics, but there’s unavoidably also stuff that’s just forever lost. Latin is way easier because we can just use the church latin pronunciation that still survives, don’t even need to go for the classical one. It’s not like average people know the difference anyway

Yeah even after major surgeries they usually try to get you up and moving as quickly as possible. If you just lay down your muscles will atrophy quick, and the scars inside and outside can more easily form in ways that might cause huge problems later on, or simply just restrict your movement. Moving also helps your guts work, fluids flow, and the usual processes working kinda means the healing will kick in too

insisting that allistic people can just be besties with autistic people is a pipe dream

Oh yeah definitely, things like these depend on the personalities, and at least in my experience us autistic folks tend to just clash with most allistic people. Not with everyone, but it’s a lot harder to find any circles you can fit into… Anyway things could still be better than they are now, if autistic traits weren’t seen as such weaknesses, which increases how badly we are perceived socially. The modern times are a terrible match! For example in one book from 1800s written by a relatively low-class person from my country there was a description of a person that pretty clearly was on the spectrum, but they weren’t described harshly at all. Just told to be an excellent worker, even if a bit strange for wanting to just spend all summers working in the forest alone.

Of course things have been pretty terrible for “low-functioning” people through recent history (we do have evidence at least some ancient tribes took care of their disabled so who can say if we go back enough), but I’ll argue that this development where autistic traits are becoming just a liability is very recent. Hell, when I was in university I could do fairly well because I could just read books and then write essays on them and pass courses, but some years after they changed that and now those require group-work and I would fail all of them.

Even though it’s true the “bridge” between autistic and allistic cannot be erased, it does not have to be so damn long

I’ve been using Startpage, it gives me often better results than google does these days. The image search is shit though, have to use something else for that

Oh the taiwan-person! I recognize them too, I never remember their username but the flag always sticks out to me for some reason

Mint planet would smell so good though

And fuck yes, if there was a magic pill that I could take and I’d suddenly be absolutely dead-average neurotypical? Yeah, I’d take it. I’d swallow a handful.

As another on the “high-functioning” category (though not very high I guess since I’ve failed in life already), I find this always so heart-breaking. I understand exactly where it’s coming from, but it is still so sad to me. We are conditioned to see ourselves so flawed, so unworthy, there’s no understanding to be given. You look at the others and there’s the glass wall you can’t cross, and they tell you to come over as if it isn’t there. We just can’t fit in the narrow roles society has to offer without diminishing ourselves by masking, and that’s just suffering alone in a different way anyway.

I can look at myself and think I wouldn’t change a thing, since I’m selfish enough to see the problem to be how others treat and perceive me, and very scared of becoming someone else as changing myself on such deep levels would mean. But I also fully agree; it does not get better. Society will not change and people don’t even want to, and you cannot change either, because you are you. The mismatch is always there.

I do hope you end up finding people that vibe with you, even if it’s totally hopeless now. I’m deeeeep in depression so I have only kind words to offer anymore

“Everyman’s Right”

As a side note fact they changed it to “everyone’s rights” (jokamiehenoikeudet -> jokaisenoikeudet) recently

Oh man reggae is my most hated music thing 100%, the whole genre. Listening it makes me unexplainably angry, like, physically furious. I want to kick someone, to throw anything near me and bite my hands. Violently disgusted. It’s so slow and somehow soggy. No, just fuck no

It can also be social conditioning. Being gay or trans is still usually portrayed socially and in media etc. as something that happens to “other people”, so even if you know about it, you don’t necessarily realize you can be one of those other people

It seems like a lot of people don’t understand what attacking another nation entails. Is it the blind belief your country is so much superior nothing will touch you? The war always comes to your doorstep in some form. Sometimes it’s economical collapse or terrorist attacks, sometimes it’s bombing

What are people on the left doing.

You also have to remember that there isn’t just some single entity of “left”. And I don’t mean only the ideological divides even, I mean there’s tons of different cultures with different political cultures in them. What even “being left” means is wildly different if you compare USA or some random nation elsewhere.

This platform is mostly USAians yes, but not only. Do you mean american leftist unity? Because looking for some sort of general left unity is a lot more complicated than unity inside a single political system

My worst was a cat that was put into a small cage and then poured gasoline on, and then lit on fire. I didn’t even look it up, I just saw (and heard) it because someone else was watching. I never recovered from that

Aahhh, yes of course, the classic white-good evil-black problem. Thanks for the answer!