After shitting in the duck pond and fleeing, he returns to his tiny home:

A fuck-off huge, old wine barrel.

Then, suddenly, Diogenes appears, plucks every feather from the duck, shoves it into the faces of those sitting on the bench, screams ‘This is no bird, behold, a man!’, laughs manically, shits in the duck pond, runs away.

Ba ba ba BA BA BA OOHM MAH MAOW MAOW

Fellow autist here, though I don’t think I have adhd:

I was once where you are now.

It can be done.

Entirely unironically:

Believe in yourself, don’t be too stubborn or proud, but also don’t let the haters get you down, … and as Johnny Cash once said, “know when to walk away, know when to run.”

dehydrated spongebob screaming

I knead ittttt!

Oops, I assumed you were Gen Z or A!

Uh, uh,… radical, tubular, or something, lol.

… Groovy?

lol.

Yeah, there’s a lot of fairly age specific lingo in all age brackets… and its possible the ‘mad hops’ phrasing also had a regional component that I just never noticed due to not travelling to many other parts of the US as a kid?

Uh yeah, maybe its a bit outdated of slang now, but … ‘you’ve got hops’ is basically ‘you can jump high’.

Hops is … I guess just older, 90s/00s, Millenial slang for ‘jumping ability/prowess/skill’, something like that.

‘Mad hops’ meaning like… how you’d say ‘she’s got mad skills’, its meant as a uh, positive compliment, its an adjective basically meaning ‘impressive’ or ‘unbelievable’.

I was gonna say this too.

Bazzite is functional, has helpful utilities pre built in, and is pretty idiot proof for the average user, as compared to many other linux distros.

99% of it ‘just works’.

Use Bazaar, install flatpak, other useful stuff is pre-installed, use them, if you wanna do something fancier, documentation exists and is pretty good.

Beyond that, for the truly tech illiterate, you just need to make the icons and DE look the same as what they’re used to, and then grandma will probably be able to figure it out… I think you can fairly easily do this with a good number of linux distros, and there are some that are just designed around this concept.

jump

Bro, I can jump so high!

Oh yeah?

jump

Damn dude, you got mad hops too!

We should go jump ourselves on top of some cheddar, let’s go!

-fin-

Probably has something to do with more and more things like this happening:

https://cybernews.com/news/france-lyon-microsoft-office-tech-adoption/

On a related note, the latest Trump administration cabinent picks and antics unironically cured my impostor syndrome.

If these gaggle of fucking demented backstabbing morons are good enough to run this country…

And they can show that about half the country is actually so stupid and or intentionally blind and or evil to somehow not realize their cult leader just obviously is a huge rapist and pedoohile…

Then I am better than this country.

Better qualified, more empathetic, more competent.

Turns out it was just angry clowns gaslighting us the whole time.

Well uh fuck em, this is all so stupid that I now actually have the correct amount of self-confidence and self-respect, it is indeed this entire society that is a joke, not that I am somehow fundamentally inadequate.

And, roughly 20 years later, the internet has an arguably equally infamous meme answer:

An anime vtuber screaming “Plap Plap Plap GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT!”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uPPNHVma5Y

So uh, I guess this meme has come full circle and is now in a sense, the internet growing to adult age and answering itself?

Sorry for not replying to this for a while, been busy/distracted.

Basically: Ah, I have misunderstood you somewhat, thank you for the corrections, and well basically I agree completely.

Only possibly thing I could add is that uh… yeah, Ender’s version of ‘against self interest’… is itself potentially genocidal to humanity, it is very extreme, so… yeah that aspect of it is pretty rare in fiction, its usually nowhere near that grand…

So yeah I agree, Ender probably is not the best example of a more ‘normal’ version of that.

I am being somewhat loose with terms because I am talking about a whole bunch of statistical data broadly, more specifically, the GSS survey data from the comment I am replying to, and also the other 3 studies that can be found either at or by following through the other links I’ve provided.

But uh sure, in terms of the GSS study, what is being looked at is currently more precisely defined as’female sex partners,’ more specifically, since you’ve become 18 yo.

https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/5060/vshow

So uh anyway, I thought that was fairly clearly obvious if you’d actually read even the first few paragraphs of the link in the comment I am replying to, that explains the methodology used to generate that graph.

I was trying to just summarize it for those less well versed in statistics.

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Either way, my main critique is still valid.

The comment I am replying to seems to imply that because of the error bars on this particular way of presenting GSS data, that the whole idea of more and more males having less and less sex is somehow not credible…

… and this is not the case, there are many, many other studies, far more than just the 3 I’ve linked, that show that just broadly, young people are having less and less sex.

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If you can actually find the actual, precise phrasing of what the GSS survey asked in 2018, heck I’d appreciate it, but uh yeah, it does seem to be the case that the GSS survey in 2018 does not expliclity and directly ask whether or not a respondent has had sex with how many people in the last whatever time period…

The whole problem here is that the questionairre itself is changing over time, and thus the methods of calculating whatever graph out of reverse engineering these changing questions is frought with complexity and error.

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https://nuancepill.substack.com/p/2024-update-to-the-gss-sexlessness-graph

This is the same dataset, the GSS, being again teased in similar ways, with 2024 data.

Apparently we are now up to roughly 27% of 18-29 yo men and 20% of 18-29 yo women having had no sex in the past year, and apparently, the actual wording of the question in the 2024 survey was:

'About how often did you have sex during the last 12 months?’.

So that would be all inclusive, but also:

In 2012, PARTNERS was used (a variable excluded from the most recent survey), as SEXFREQ was only asked to people who had had one or more sexual partners on this year.

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This is the kind of shit that makes using this GSS survey to look at this issue less statistically valid… you’re not actually looking at the same answer to the same question, calculated 8n the same way, over the whole time period that is displayed in these meme graphs.

This is what is meant by “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Again, the whole point of my comment is that yes, the original graph here is a dumb graph because of how it in particular is constructed, but that it is also dumb to then conclude this whole concept of young people having less sex is bullshit.

There are other, better, more statstically valid studies, graphs and datasets that exist which do a better job of showing the trend/issue people are talking about, and do show that it is a real thing that is happening.

This is what spammers, scammers, identity thieves, ‘pig-butcherers’, credit collections do.

It absolutely works.

Corporations lie blatantly all the fucking time.

Its just that they lie in ways that usually are not able to be legally defined as some kind of a legally actionable version of a lie.

They are usually more worried with ever having outwardly admitting something that they could be sued over, than they are with any kind of human to human sense of accountability or believability.

Every, single, thing they are mass releasing or designing as an official stance has gone through some kind of legal team, or a team under a legal team that follow’s guidelines from a legal team.

This is just how megacorps work.

They are not people, they are a sociopathic machine, operated by people who very much tend to be sociopaths.

Here’s the summarized version:

Be Polite.

Act as if you only understand ‘the effects’, have a nebulous notion of ‘the cause’.

Act like you know little other than this, and insist they explain it to you like you are a five year old.

Waste as much of their time as possible, without becoming hotheaded, instead become sad-confused.

“I’m not so much angry, as I am disappointed” type of vibe / energy.

And if possible, be genuinely kind to the low level, actual people you talk to, they literally do not make the rules.

Yep.

It boils down to:

Reality is actually magic (ie, fundamentally incomprehensible and inconsistent), and our magic guide book, and my interpretation of said magic guide book, is more correct than any other book or person, because this book says it is, and says it is the bestest magical book, and I am the bestest knower of the magic book.

It is magical thinking, a worldview based on a psuedo reality derived from psuedo logic (where psuedo means ‘fake’, ‘impostor’, ‘sham’), which is a key component of many cults and also severe psychological disorders.

Replace ‘electricity’ with ‘wind’ and/or ‘moving air’ and/or ‘breath’, and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought ‘spirit’ was.