Cartman is still a fatass in 2026.

Or does he have a ‘lipid mass regulation deficiency’?

literally everyone is slightly autistic. that is a useless classification.

it’s like saying have to eat food or you have to poop. so does litereally every other person who ever existed… it’s not a distinguishing aspect of any one person over another.

when you self-diagnose you are doing nothing more than taking a horoscope. i bet you are a ‘little bit of a Pisces’. too.

You aren’t supposed to keep up with that shit. It’s stupid.

Assuming it isn’t your professional job in some capacity.

My take is if people get offended at you not calling them some preferred nomenclature… they are assholes. Well-adjusted people typically don’t start a shitfit about such things. Nor is a single person’s testimony anything to make a broader assumption upon.

Saying we are all on the spectrum is the same as saying nobody is on it.

That’s why I’m skeptical. Saying you are autistic has no meaning anymore. Anyone could say it and believe it abotu themselves.

That’s VERY different than getting clinically diagnosed.

There is a massive difference between officially being diagnosed as being autistic and self-identifying as it. A differences based in clinical science.

What is messed up is people can’t acknowledge this, or act like this difference is oppressive and problematic.’

According to self-diagnosis, I can easily convince myself I’m autistic or a million other mental conditions. But I am not. Because I’m not a professional clinician, and even if I was self-diagnosis is a violation of professional ethics.

hidden or deleted?

are you talking about the accounts that post once and then self-delete?

my undergrad experience was awesome, but my grad experience was bad.

really good schools/programs can isolate you from the shitshow and actually are very professional. but they are rare.

it could also have been you meshed with the politics of your school. i very much meshed with the politics of my undergrad dept, but was a pariah in my grad program for those very same politics/values.

Brave to this comment man. This relates to so much of my own experience and what is so fucked up and self-destructive about academic life these.

God forbid you just want to do good research and teach your students factual knowledge and skills. Now it’s just consumerism qua intellectualism and everyone is copying each other chasing ‘success’.

I remember when I was in grad school a blogger/professor ran some stats on admissions in my field basic on public data and it showed clear and obviously biases and trends in PhD admissions and he was basically ousted from the field. Bea cause it didn’t fit the narrative that somehow PhD admissions was this ‘objective measure’ of quality of a student’s work and potential… when all it was was a measurement how famous your advisors were.

useless to who? You?

academia is not an enterprise that is about usefulness. one of the reasons it’s collapsing so poory, and education more broadly, is the narrow minded insistence that it must be useful in terms of economic productivity.

it can and does have many uses, the question is to whom and for what, and oftentimes those are politically loaded.

a lot of your TAs didn’t have that debt. They had trust funds.

I was in grad school and one of the reason I left is I learned I was basically the only person in my program who was paying my own way… and that most of my professors… also came from money. And they were all shocked that I actually lived entirely on my stipend.

And you can find stats on this. The majority of med students, for example, come from upper income homes. Just like the majority of students at elite schools, also do, and the majority of admits to med schools come from better schools…

in the real world? yeah, on lemmy however, it’s very controversial as there is a large and vocal contingent of leftists who think socialism/communism is awesome and the USA is pure evil, who tend to see think mass violence and oppresion on a populace is a necessary evil for a better future and who think the USA population has it far worse than the population of Russia and China.

every waking moment of your life is on lemmy?

for me it’s maybe 5-8 hours out of my workweek, only an hour today!

I’m skeptical. I just think there is a higher percentage of people who use that label to justify their persecution complexes, which justify their anger/rage that they direct towards others. I bet you the vast majority of people who rail about ‘normies’ are themselves, are very much normies themselves.

even IRL I have seen a huge uptick the past few years of people, in casual conversation, self-diagnosing themselves with conditions to excuse their poor behaviors, or sometimes even their simple mistakes. I don’t understand any of it, personally. As far as I can tell mental health terminology has become basically slang at this point, whereas 10-20 years ago it was nonexistent in pop culture and casual speech.

No there is just a major world event, a war in Iran, and people want to dump their angry hot takes about it incessantly. So you are going to have a big influx of people grandstanding about it being good or evil.

The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots, because well, just like bots, they are working off a contrived script about who is good and who is evil.

I’ve seen some pretty broad and good takes about the current conflict, but they are far and few and most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.

you assume the impact on my life was positive instead of negative.

Not all people are loving and kind. Some people have very limited redeeming qualities. Like, wow my mom bought me some nice presents for Xmas… doesn’t really make up for the 20+ years of verbal abuse and resentment and her taking out of her lack of happiness in life on her child. The only redeeming qualities my parents had were examples of who not to be.

The first time I ever felt safe and happy in my life was college. The first time I came back from my first break I bawled my eyes out because I’d never ever before in my life felt safe and encouraged and positive before. It was mind-blowing that adults who were open minded and kind existed, because I grew up in a shithole rural town where such adults simple didn’t exist and most adults were miserable people who were full of hate and rage towards anything that wasn’t sitting on your ass and watching TV and complaining about life.

And yet despite all the horror they forced upon me, I was a decent enough person to care for them as they die. Not because I love them, because I refuse to be as shitty, selfish, and awful to them as they were to me.

softness is typically inversely related to durability.

durabile fibers tend to be larger and less comfortable against the skin.

You aren’t painting the full picture. The new stove is probably more efficient, cleaner, etc. Modern digital tech makes them better at these things. I have a 20 year old purely analog stove. It sucks balls. But I’m too cheap to justify buying an new one until it breaks. That’s entirely on me though.

You are also grossly exaggerating things. I have a 4 year old washer, it came with a 10 year warranty. it broke twice already but both times it was covered under warranty at no cost to me. It was electronic failures. It’s super efficient and I love it. Granted if I bought a cheapo one that was $300, it probably wouldn’t have such a good warranty.

There are lots of choices. Nobody is forcing you to buy fridges that break. And plenty of companies do consumer testing for you such that you can buy a reliable model.

What you have is nostalgia. I had computers in the 90s too… they broke all the fucking time. I barely got 1 year old of a HDD back then. So yeah you had to repair them. Modern SSDs last much longer because they have no moving mechanical parts, on time of being blazingly faster.

Shitty stuff was always shitty. Good stuff is will always be good. There were shitty computer brands and appliance brands 20 years ago, maybe you were lucky enough to never encounter them, but the notion that ‘things are bad because modern’ is complete boomer nonsense. Modern appliances are way more reliable, efficient and superior to decades old appliances. It’s just that have different points of failure that your 20 old appliance didn’t.

Same with cars. Old luxury cars had electronic gizmos that broke. Modern cheap cars are better than old luxury cars, so now they have the same extra points of failure. Like… if you want a car 80s/90s car that’s purely mechanical… cool, go buy a used one. There are plenty of them out there, but they tend to be collectors items at this point because people only really want them for the nostalgia factor. For everyday use a modern car is far superior in reliability and comfort to those cars, esp apple to apple comparison. a 2026 mid range Camry has more luxury than a 2000s Lexus.

Community comes with costs, and I don’t think many people are willing to pay the costs of community.

I for one, would rather be alone and happy, than part of a community and miserable. Like I was in the past. Belonging comes at a cost. The issue with modern life for many people is they want the benefits without the costs and that’s not how anything really works.

You have to give up your individualistic freedom to truly belong to something.

Maybe life seems fleeting because you are trying to perpetuate capture the present as if you can control it?

I don’t try to control my life. I don’t really worry about the past, or the future. Life doesn’t seem fleeting at all to me, just very chill.

What would you prefer? To sit on your ass and do nothing for 80 years?