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"We're all a little autistic~"

Girl I bet your RAADS-R score is like, 40 at most.

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If there is a god, god's pronouns would be "god".

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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You might not live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, but that's a skill issue.

Childhood trauma Georg, who sees 10000 possible attacks a day, is now tunnel-visioned on the 255 ways that not being counted might butterfly effect to threaten him personally.

I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.

The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.

The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)

The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.

The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.

I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.

How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.

...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.

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A rabbit soul tried to do this to me in the womb once but I won

Pregnant woman: eats rabbit

Rabbit soul staring at developing baby: This is where the fun begins

Baby a few years later: Has weird eyes and scampers

More

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This is what lies beneath my suave, collected, polished, sometimes-intimidating exterior.

be soft

but be ready

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i genuinely never heard a seal until now

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You can tell Anon is better comedian than me tho, because their whole critique is a joke: of the last thirty posts on this blog,

like half aren't even reblogs,

most of the reblogs are without addition, and

like 2/3rds of the reblogs with additions are positive riffs or playful misinterpretation.

Anon is such a good method actor that they perfectly shut down their critical thinking, and just skimmed looking for enough examples to confirm the reaction they wanted to have.

I could never commit to the bit so completely, and this is why I'm a third-rate hack who'll never make it in comedy.

a lot of your reblog humor seems to just be gratingly disagreeing with the post or stating the exact opposite idea, as if pure contrarianism is funny on its own. you gotta branch out a little imo

You know there can only be one response to this, right?

But actually, the thing is, it is funny on its own.

To me. (Consult blog description for relevant instructions.)

And I don't do this for you. I do this for me and for the people whose humor is similar to mine.

(Which is apparently common enough that a couple hundred people are still somehow putting up with my bullshit, following this blog, waiting out this long famine until I start posting the good funnies again.)

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a lot of your reblog humor seems to just be gratingly disagreeing with the post or stating the exact opposite idea, as if pure contrarianism is funny on its own. you gotta branch out a little imo

You know there can only be one response to this, right?

But actually, the thing is, it is funny on its own.

To me. (Consult blog description for relevant instructions.)

And I don't do this for you. I do this for me and for the people whose humor is similar to mine.

(Which is apparently common enough that a couple hundred people are still somehow putting up with my bullshit, following this blog, waiting out this long famine until I start posting the good funnies again.)

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Hey now, don't blame me for the definition - the bureaucrats over at BIPM are the ones who calibrated 1 SI Cringe to "whatever mentalisttraceur did in the last 24 hours".

underneath the "cringe culture is dead" memephrase is an implicit "no one is ever allowed to find me annoying"

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My IQ is much like my cock.

I'm going to keep making jokes about them in this format until people start liking them.

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My IQ is much like my cock. A narcissistic crutch I use in place of real self-esteem.

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My IQ is much like my cock. Implausibly large.

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My IQ is much like my cock. Tiny... most of the time.

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My IQ is much like my cock. Tiny.

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Cringe culture is dead

underneath the "cringe culture is dead" memephrase is an implicit "no one is ever allowed to find me annoying"

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maybe the trump shooter was autistic and did what he did because he was just misreading social cues.