Skinny polymath nerd who is antisocial, often bored with life or the people around him, has a major sweet tooth, and near permanent dark circles under his eyes because his thoughts and projects keep him from sleeping.

Off the top of my head, characters sharing this stereotype are: L from Deathnote, Saiki K, and (if you swap tobacco and opium for adderall and chocolate) Sherlock Holmes

(Not that I’d say I’m as intelligent as any of them; also my life is definitely more boring than all of theirs)

I recently did some digging on the fruit of the loom logo because I remember learning the word cornucopia and connecting it with the logo on my T-shirts and underwear.

Yeah, I was mistaken. The dye on some of the clothes just made the logo look like there was a cornucopia. Like the leaves on the side being brown and a tiny bit of those leaves at the top right with the small white grapes at the bottom right also looking the same brown color? It definitely looks like a cornucopia until you look very closely.

(The logo shown in the image above is a more modern one, look at the earlier ones from around the turn of this century and you’ll see it better)

I would imagine it depends on what kind of dyslexia.

If someone can’t process similar looking letters well, I’d imagine most reading of even small sentences is likely painful.

I get some of that and I suck at spelling words with repeated letters because I can’t remember which ones are repeated. But, for me, the hardest part is that my brain doesn’t let me look at all the words. My eyes jump multiple words/lines at a time and hey some of the time, skimming paragraphs is fine. But when I’m trying to actually read something or learn something from the book… it feels like an impossible task.

Some of the problem is also related to ADHD where I can’t seem to actually focus on reading even if I can go through the words one by one. I have to reread sentences dozens of times before my brain finally realizes “oh there’s actually information here?”

That being said, I can and do still read. When I’m down a rabbit hole in Wikipedia articles my brain is locked in and I have the motivation to keep trying when I keep missing information.

I also think maybe I’m just really out of practice. I used to read books back in elementary school. I definitely still had trouble getting all the information out of them but when you’re reading fantasy it’s kinda fun to let your imagination fill in the gaps. Maybe I just need to start doing that again, reading for pleasure instead of purpose. I bet that would make the idea of having to read a research paper less daunting.

Oh also if anyone else is like me, I recommend highlighting like literally every sentence and trying to “translate it” especially for dense or jargon filled sentences. Like try to explain what the sentence is saying in your own words. It is tedious but it helps stop the “I’ve literally read this paragraph 8 times and not actually read any of it” phenomenon

I did it myself on a relative’s very old laptop a few years ago. I think it was specifically the 32bit Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) upgrade for Windows 95 (maybe 98?)

I just searched it up and was able to find an iso with only 129MB which is still impressive. But that’s a clean install and I think it’s for both x64 or 32. If I get more time to look into this later, (or if I can find the floppy disks themselves) I’ll try to find the original and send it to you if you want

Also you’re right, the fact it got images is pretty insane. Then again the only real “graphics” would be default icons, and possibly the green landscape but I wanna say that it didn’t even have that background image when I finished the upgrade; I think it was just a solid color. (The real crazy thing I remember was that the laptop had a color capable screen but had a purely black and white OS on it originally lol)

I think much of the kernel carried over. Also I can’t recall if I updated it to 98 before xp or not. That might’ve cut down on the needed install space.

Anyway you’ve gotten me curious, I kinda want to find that laptop now. Maybe I’ll use it to make authentic “Analog nowhere” style art with paint lol

Edit: This site seems to have the boot images for windows xp floppies and exe’s to create them. Looks like only 6 floppies are needed in total for all of Windows XP SP1

Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.

That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.

Edit: It seems I might be mistaken and the two-disk upgrade was more likely from 98 or 98SE not directly from 95.

Having seen many things on the internet I wish I hadn’t, I think there are actually 12 holes. Roughly working top down:

• 2x: gore
• 2x: slightly more socially acceptable gore (especially on non-humans)
• 2x: that’s just weird but not gore I guess
• 1x: mainstream porn
• 2x: I don’t think these work like fetishists think they work
• 1x: this definitely doesn’t work the way fetishists think it works
• 1x: probably uncomfortable, also why?
• (1x: not guaranteed to exist on everyone but the most “vanilla” of all the holes)
• 1x: probably ouch but some people are into that ig

“Uhhh human horn? How ridiculous! Why would a virile male like Lrrr need human horn? I don’t even know what it’s for! What is it something you uh put in salad dressing?”

If he calls it his “horn” he’s either Canadian or just someone who has watched too much Letterkenny lol

My hyperfixations jump around a lot though mostly it tends to stay in the STEM arena of things.

Currently I’m trying to design a language framework for building as low-level a language for reality as possible. Strangely (or not) I’ve touched very little in the way of linguistics and I’m wayy out of my depth in the field of logic and of all things category theory as well as philosophy because holy shit it’s kind of amazing we can communicate anything at all lol

In addition to that (and somewhat tangentially related) I’ve also been diving into the science of spiking neural nets and neuroanatomy in an effort to create an extensible self-supervised net I could then copy train to do a variety of tasks for me. Like the previous fixation, I am also very out of my depth in this project (also there are a lot more knowledgeable and well funded people who will almost certainly beat me to the punch), but even if I fail it’s already been a fascinating journey. Oh and I greatly dislike python so I’m basically reinventing the wheel multiple times in rust so that likely doesnt help my progress lol

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Come away!

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Come away.

I didn’t mean that in the “lowkey my dick is huge” way lol. I’m not even that big which is the point because I’m not even in the “size-queen” range and there are still times where it’s annoying. I’d imagine those annoyances get worse as size increases, ego big dicks are overrated.

(PS: Regardless of size, women tend to like men/women/enbies that are good with their hands.)

Bro trust me it’s better to have a dick that fits than one that doesn’t. Not being able to do certain positions with certain women because your dick is too big to be comfortable for her for is frustrating

Edit: I didn’t mean this to come off as cocky (lol). I’m not that big and I’m mostly asexual so what good is it anyway haha. Point is, even having a dick that’s slightly over average can still be annoying, so having a pornstar sized dick is probably much worse; ergo, dick size is overrated.

I would argue fashion/self-expression is also a main purpose of clothing. We like being creative and are drawn to aesthetics. Some people like dressing up or doing fancy makeup even when they’re not going out to interact with people just because the art itself is entertaining.

So I disagree that comfort and protection are the only intrinsic purpose of clothing.

The real curious thing is that these expected neurological rebound effects aren’t universally experienced. Some people are affected more strongly and in weird ways by withdrawal.

Being ADHD probably has something to do with it, but I can take my adderall (a relatively high dose btw) every day for months and then quit cold turkey and feel no noticeable withdrawal symptoms besides being hungrier and laughing at things more easily on the first few days after quitting lol

Now I’m wondering if there are neurodivergences for which GABA modulators cause different effects than expected and for which withdrawal symptoms might be negligible. Then again, GABA is like the major inhibitory neurotransmitter so maybe it’s not possible for the brain to function/develop well at all with any anomalies dealing with those receptors.

(This is not my field; I’m just curious.)

*the importance of getting laid is overstated

Is that better?

1. Travel to a place where prostitution is legal
2. hire and/or become a prostitute
3. profit (possibly literally)

I’m aromantic so perhaps my view of “dating” doesn’t fit. And, before I say anything else I should preface that the sexual preferences of a random internet stranger (me) should not be taken as indicative of universal self worth or appeal. You are valid regardless of the opinions/proclivities of others, especially random internet strangers like me lol

Anyway, I am kind of on the ace spectrum. I’ve only really been with cis women and with them I’m just indifferent to sex. I thought it would be the same for men despite not feeling any attraction whatsoever towards them, so I decided to experiment.

Turns out I was quite wrong and I am actually viscerally repulsed by both men and male genitalia. I can’t just power through the grossness like I can with others.

So, I would be quite hesitant to date a nonbinary person with male genitals. My gay friends were very chill with my reaction in the experiments lol, but I get the feeling that if I did end up having a reflexive negative response to a nonbinary person, it would probably increase any dysphoria they feel and I don’t want to to do that to anyone.

I also dont feel attracted to anyone with facial hair (regardless of “biological sex”) so that might cut down on the nonbinary population I would have a desire to date too.

The main point Id like to make here is that gender in general stupid for many reasons including, in my opinion, trying to define attraction. I don’t care what pronouns someone uses or if how they dress aligns with a specific gender or what social norms they adhere to specific to genders. What is most important to attraction is, specifically, attraction.

Does this person have the seemingly random traits my brain likes and not the ones it dislikes? Great. Maybe for some people those attractive or repulsive attributes fall along gender lines perfectly but I seriously doubt that’s the case for anyone especially since gender lines are more gradients than lines in the first place.

I would probably be fine dating a nonbinary person who has the traits which I like (physical and non-physical btw, like idc if someone’s hot; if they’re rude or cruel to others, they can gtfo) and not traits I dislike but that’s kind of as specific as I can get and none of my attraction/repulsion stems directly from gender.

Anyway, I again would like to tell anyone reading this that if someone (including me) doesn’t find you attractive, it should have no bearing on how you see yourself or your perceived self worth. Tell yourself “they don’t know what they’re missing” and keep on being you because you’re awesome and they’re just some idiot whose opinion shouldn’t matter to you anyway. (Plus there is plenty more to life than sex, I mean who cares about sexual attraction when there is cool physics and mathematics to learn right?)

Alaska USA has a significant Russian population. Also I doubt ICE is trying to deport people from Alaska because it’s massive, empty, and makes money

Becoming lucid in a dream and not being able to wake up no matter how hard I tried.

Come on man, time to get off, I need to use the phone