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  • Yep, this is precisely it.

    I really seriously believe that autistic/neurodiverse people and especially kids should be viewed as a kind of class of person that is at high risk of being discriminated against, hate crimed, targetted by state violence.

    Hans Apsberger was a fucking Nazi who ... literally coined the term autism and yes, he is the guy apsbergers is/was named after... and yes, he directly orchestrated the deaths of 'mentally disabled' children.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-hans-aspergers-nazi-collusion/

    They're gonna do another genocide, based on more junk science, just like the OG Nazis.

    RFK Jr has already said he wants to take everyone on any kind of prescription psychiatric medication, move them to forced labor farms, house them in bunkhouses, remove their phones, all contact with the outside world, and also make them all quit their meds cold turkey.

    https://slate.com/life/2025/06/donald-trump-rfk-jr-kennedy-health-wellness-farms.html

    This is the kind of shit you hear TrueAnon describing cults doing.

    But scaled way, way up.

    This is a recipe for causing millions of psychotic breaks, just cold turkey, unmanaged total cessation, no gradual wind downs with check ins with therapists and such, also done in basically slave labor conditions.

    Possibly also worth mentioning is RFK Jr's aunt Rosemary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

    She was suffocated as a newborn for 2 hours.

    This caused her to be developmentally delayed.

    They lobotomized her (while she was awake and conscious) at age 23.

    This regressed her to the state of a 2 year old.

    She was institutionalized and largely hidden from the public for the rest of her life.

    ....

    This is literally Nazi mad scientist shit.

  • Tylenol.

    Acetominaphen.

    ... Arguably the most common component of general, over the counter pain relievers... on the planet.

    I mean...

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

    Here ya go, here's a 2024 study debunking the thing that RFK is likely referencing.

    EDIT: Further, folinic acid as a 'treatment' for autism.

    So... yes, there are early preliminary studies indicating that this may be a way of alliviating some of the effecfs of non-syndromic ASD.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5794882/

    Non-syndromic ASD is essentially nonverbal, nonresponsive ASD.

    ... There are many autistic people and kids who are not non-syndromic, an ASD diagnosis does not even require this kind of behavior.

    Further, the proposed mechanism of action in using folinic acid to 'treat' autism is that it acts upon an abnormal level of folate blockers...

    While it is true that ASD folks tend to have more of these folate blockers than non ASD folks...

    Many of them do not.

    Generally speaking, abnormal folate pathways... appear to be called Cerebral Folate Disorder (CFD) by this Dr. Frye who seems to be spearheading this line of research.

    ... I am also somewhat concerned that many of his studies are funded by Autism Speaks, an organization notorious for, amongst other things, not actually allowing autistic people to speak, generally viewing autism, as Dr. Frye put it, 'a devastating life long condition', akin to leukemia (cancer of the blood) which must be cured, thus propogating a stigma, stereotype and fear of autism, and of course, being a shitty non-profit that spends the vast majority of its funding on 'operational costs', as opposed to... you know, actually doing things that might be helpful to autistic people... and more or less advocating eugenics while saying they aren't but then immediately afterwaed advocating a different kind of eugenics.

    https://www.themarysue.com/the-autism-speaks-controversy-explained/

    Nevertheless:

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40362912/

    There are a number of small scale studies like this one, done by people not directly associated with Dr. Frye, that do seem to show improvements amongst non syndromic ASD individuals who also have this folate abnormality and/or the genetic mutations that are associated with it....

    But I am so far unable to find any large scale studies.

    Soooooo...

    Yeah.

    I am going with 'very preliminary positive results for a subset of autistic people' on this one.

    Maybe, maybe, at best, Dr. Frye has discovered an actually physically distinguishable subtype or subcomponent of ASD, and a potentially effective treatment for that subcomponent.

    Maybe.

    Oooorrrrr...

    Maybe there should be a study which takes into account how ASD kids respond to folinic acid, when you also devise a way to measure whether or not the parents treat those.studied autistic kids as hopeless defectives, vs actual tiny people whose brains just work a bit differently.

    There is still a huge amount of research showing that the 'nurture' component of a person's upbrining greatly affects their liklihood of developing, and severity of ASD.

  • No no, we've tested this in focus groups, and we are quite sure that what you want is a kind of generalized, averaged slop that vaguely resembles a bunch of other distinct things you like, but isn't any of them.

  • I figured this out roughly around the same time he was buying Twitter, not too long after CP77 fixed up their wanted/cop response system to... actually work, and exist.... and I just kept shooting Elon, and hordes of other ElonCops, like Smith in the fucking Matrix.

    Bastard turned me into a goddamned cyber psycho.

  • I... did not realize that, I guess it makes sense, but I also think the concept of a skill check being able to do something analagous to critting is actually a good idea, if other rules or the scenario ... fit this as a mechanic.

  • He actually is in Cyberpunk, if you fuck with the ini files and model directories / file paths / name references a bit and do some reverse engineering... at least as of v2.0.

    They may have cleaned it up by now, I've not fucked with it much in a while.

    Elons's face would only ever populate onto NCPD officers, and he has a balding, thinning hair style, similar to how he did prior to joining Tesla, before he presumably started get hair plugs or transplants of some kind.

    I never did find any voice lines from Elon though, ElonCop would just have generic male cop voice as with the rest of the NCPD.

    I think what happened is he did get a proper facescan done... around or right before when Nvidia barged in and told CD Projekt: You need our money, we will give it to you if you act as game dev guinea pigs for our newfangled AI rendering and lighting tech which utterly obliterates the design principles of 20+ years of 3D game engine design.

    At that point, they had to rearchitect... everything, and the library of models/faces that they were going with up till that point ended up having to be more or less tossed, they made a new one, and only a few references to the older 'library' remain as basically legacy bits of the game.

    Thats my uh, 'game theory'.

  • I have been saying, for I think years now, that Elon thinks he is JC when he is actually a even cringier version of Bob Page.

    He literally had JC as his Twitter avatar for like a year at one point.

    Its so fucking pathetic.

    I guess I am glad the actual scriptwriter agrees.

    Elon is the fakest try hard gamer that has ever existed, landing us in a reality that is somehow more absurd and ludicrous than even the wackier elements of DX, all because daddy didn't love him and he just wanted to be cool.

    Cyberpunk as a genre is a warning, not a fucking aspirational instruction manual.

    I guess we can only hope he neuralinks up his own brain at some point, and then shortly thereafter discovers the folly of making it use bluetooth.

  • ... And Trump will look down, and whisper:

    No.

  • BATMAN

    Jump
  • There are decent fiction books (and video games and movies etc) where that more or less is the backstory...

    ... but not too many people maintain religions based around those kinds of fictional books.

    People cling to the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god...

    because it makes morality, and the world, follow a kind of universal and objective justice and plan, even if the details are beyond their comprehension.

    Its a mental crutch for people who are bad at critical thinking, any a very effective cudgel for those cynical or delusional enough to wield the threat of such a god with charisma.

    fairy tales for adult babies.

  • just imagine his bowtie spinning whenever he gets 'flustered'.

  • Lol coming soon to upgrade the 'Florida Man' meme:

    Fucking Polio!

  • This will surely boost those cratering tourism numbers!

    Come visit Disney World, Cape Canaveral, the Everglades, Miami Beach!

    We guarantee you'll never be able to forget your visit!

  • It is totally true that things are even more complex than just resolution, but that is why I linked the much more exhaustive write up.

    Its even more complicated in practice than all the things they bring up, they are focusing on mainly a movie watching experience, not a video game playing experience.

    They do not go into LED vs QLED vs OLED vs other actual display techs, don't go into response latency times, refresh rates, as you say all the different kinds of HDR color gamut support... I am sure I am forgetting things...

    Power consumption may be a significant thing for you, image quality at various viewing angles...

    Oh right, FreeSync vs GSync, VRR... blargh there are so many fucking things that can be different about displays...

  • Ehhh I definitely see 5th Element as being fairly fucking creepy... Leloo (sp?)'s ... whole thing is that she basically has an insane case of coma induced amnesia, and in many ways is... mentally, a child, for much of the film.

    So... yeah, its kind of the inverse of the 383 year old witch girl that just happens to be in a 14 yo's body trope thing.

    This is an ... on the threshold of adulthood/legally consentable person's body... that is inhabited by someone who is extremely scared, confused, traumatized, has no idea wtf is going on, doesn't even intially speak the language of those around her... due to... ostensibly being a person who has been... either dead and then regrown, or in a coma for ... thousands of years... or something like that... by the logic of the movie.

    I know the whole core of the movie at the end is love, but its still fucking weird, frankly regardless of the physical age gap, to be sexualizing someone who is not of a normal adult's mental capacity.

    ........

    Now, Leon?

    NatPort's character, uh, Mathilda, ... very much does develop a uh... uncomfortable level of attraction to Leon.

    But as best as I remember... Leon is basically terrified of and disgusted by this, acting much more like a protective and nurturing surrogate father than a uh ... 'daddy'.

    He consistently refuses her more uh, risque behaviors and advances.

    She, on the other hand, is a traumatized orphan from a family that is ... fairly strongly implied to have exposed her to a lot of sexualized behaviors ... before they were all killed, in front of her...

    I think that Mathilda acting the way she does toward Leon is psychologically plausible, though it is uncomfortable to actually see... but what we see from Leon is... arguably, a pretty responsible and non exploitative way of handling this... given the somewhat insane overall scenario/premise of the movie.

    ........

    Frankly, having grown up in a white trash neighborhood... I actually knew girls, my age, growing up, who acted a lot like Mathilda, barely into middle school and constantly making highly explicit sexual references... and offers... at the bus stop...

    And without going into too much detail, the father in that family ended up going to prison....for repeatedly SA'ing his older daughter... that whole situation had been going on in secret for years...

    ... and it finally blew up when he tried to start doing this to his younger daughter as well, and the older daughter and mother ended up getting into a brawl with the father.

    Yeah. Not... great, very not good.

    But, sadly, a quite young girl acting highly sexually provocative... yeah, that does happen... when that kind of behavior has been traumatically normalized for them.

    For what its worth, last time I talked to that girl, a woman by that time, she had found a partner her age, they had been together for some years she was very much in love, they were planning to marry, and moved faaaaar away, so I hope things worked out for them, they seemed like they could.

    To the best of my knowledge the dad is uh, still in prison, probably gonna be there for quite a while longer.

  • https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

    Extensive write up on this whole issue, even includes a calculator tool.

    But, basically:

    Yeah, going by angular resolution, even leaving the 8K content drought aside....

    8K might make sense for a computer monitor you sit about 2 feet / 0.6m away from, if the diagonal size is 35 inches / ~89cm, or greater.

    Take your viewing distance up to 8 feet / 2.4m away?

    Your screen diagonal now has to be about 125 inches / ~318cm, or larger, for you to be able to maybe notice a difference with a jump from 4K to 8K.

    ........

    The largest 8K TV that I can see available for purchase anywhere near myself... that costs ~$5,000 USD... is 85 inches.

    I see a single one of 98 inches that is listed for $35,000. That's the largest one I can see, but its... uh, wildly more expensive.

    So with a $5,000, 85 inch TV, that works out to...

    You would have to be sitting closer than about 5 feet / ~1.5 meters to notice a difference.

    And that's assuming you have 20/20 vision.

    ........

    So yeah, VR goggle displays... seem to me to be the only really possibly practical use case for 8K ... other than basically being the kind of person who owns a home with a dedicated theater room.

  • Goddamn that is brutal but also very accurate, fuck.

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    Becoming more religiously fundamentalist.

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