Looking at the lighter squares, I really enjoyed libstick.

I have a vague memory of a spaceship. Maybe i was firing a laser? I remember it being hard at first, but I Got Gud, and as an adult people are impressed with my typing speed.

Maybe in metro areas, but the small town I live in has a game shop that has/had LGBT+ safe space and mask required signs, and apparently people have come in brandishing guns demanding they take them down. Evidently no one ever got hurt, but the vitriol is definitely there. They probably supported Hillary as I bet they’re a bunch of libs, but I guess they didn’t advertise that.

I agree wholeheartedly. Another fave is calling people one disagrees with “psychotic.” But yeah, it is important not to be ableist while criticizing things.

I think they’re referring to the description of AI as “hallucinating” its products, but yeah, pretty bad description that further marginalizes an already pretty shat-on group. Was looking for something to say, but you beat me to it.

Which is wild as I know someone going for a masters in social work, but the conditions set by the school says that she can’t get below a B more than twice on anything. But sure, we need doctors, so let 'em all in!

Everyone knows for a joke to be funny, the delivery has to be cipher text.

Eh, it was already there. Lots of racist and eugenics ideas swirling around mew age beliefs.

Ah, you don’t need to be delusional to make a bad faith argument. She chose to make this bad, misleading take, delusion has nothing to do with it.

Also hasn’t Magneto attempted genocide, like, several times?

I like these, but as a sometimes manically inquisitive folk I love the last one a lot.

Blames it on “psychos” but somehow doesn’t think that affordable (or y’know, free) mental health care is a priority. Every time this happens somehow the mentally ill get blamed. Turns out psychopaths can live indistinguishably from the rest of the public and supposedly well-adjusted “sane” people can commit mass shootings or justify genocides. Maybe instead of blaming a large, marginalized group, we can improve people’s conditions so maybe they won’t do this. For kids this may be actually doing something about bullying, providing mental health care, and hiring teachers that don’t not-so-secretely hate kids.

Love the imperial machine coopting Star Wars. They totally understood the media and are doing what Lucas would want with it.

To be fair, I have had some issues like my screen not displaying anything all of a sudden using Arch, but I think that was more NVIDIA’s fault. Adding a boot parameter ended up fixing that.

The main hospital I’ve been to I don’t think is actually religious-themed, but I find myself distrusting it anyway because I live in small-town, Midwest. My psychiatrist doesn’t know I’m queer because I fear his reaction. The hospital assures you that they will not discriminate, but it has “My I don’t discriminate shirt is raising a lot of questions the shirt should answer” vibes. Also I have a fairly stigmatized mental illness and have had inpatient stays because of it, so I definitely don’t trust them having seen that side of them, but I feel that applies to pretty much any hospital. Long story short, I don’t really trust hospitals in general, not just religious ones.

I would be a little careful calling all these things narcissism, though. Narcissist personality disorder is a real thing, and people have no control over that. The harm these people cause to other people is not a result of mental illness, but as you said, a series of systems that discourage treating people like people and more like commodities.

Getting real academic larp vibes from them. I’m not exactly an expert, but something feels very wrong.

While this might fall into the category of religious delusion, I think it’s more likely some grift that positively absurd. A delusion is not something someone can control, and I’d bet this person made a conscious decision to be this bad.

Yeah, this article definitely gives me the impression that this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Hyping up how the parents feel shame for yelling and completely overlooking the shame imposed on the kid? In fact, completely overlooking the kid altogether?? The only time they mention doing right by the kid is in context of doing right by the parent. But yeah spanking is just wrong: getting angry and hitting your kid seems like it has a different term associated with it. And yelling fails to effect positive change, and easily causes negative impacts. This reads as someone trying to justify old-fashioned (and almost always wrong) methods using new-fashioned ideas of authenticity and avoiding shame.