BashfulBob

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[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago

System is working as intended.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

They played a game called "Four Square" where the strategy was to get the other players "out". Luigi was reported to have said "I'd like to get CEO Brian Thompson OUT if you know what I mean", then winked and made the Brace Belden Noise

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

He also would have made the kill with a vacuum cleaner

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

You'd need clothes to change into and a place without cameras to make the switch.

The sheer number of security cameras in and around New York make that difficult unless you've got a stash house with a new wardrobe hidden somewhere in advance.

That's before you account for how effectively he was tracked entirely via facial recognition.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Here's a 76 hour YouTube series that answers all these questions. No I don't have timestamps, you just have to listen to the whole thing.

If you're smart, you'll understand that um, aktuly beef is a universal panacea and salad cause cancer.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

youtuber

WTYP. wtyp-gang

Unfortunately she contributed to spread this to the world

Christians love a covert. The "I was X and my life was bad, but then I became Y and my life became good" is a classic sales/marketing refrain.

I doubt she's the first YouTuber to accept an endorsement deal to change her opinion publicly. And I bet that extra money went a long way towards curbing her gut-wrenching sense of anxiety over her success as a media personality.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Because they wouldn't be on foot, presumably.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

The post-COVID degradation of general preventative care and the anti-vax hysteria might be playing a role, as well. How many hospitals don't have enough saline to treat the influx of flu-victims during the peak of the season? How many clinics and ERs have simply shuttered due to skyrocketing costs and skinflint insurance companies? How many elder care facilities have lost too many staffers (traditionally popular jobs among now-unwelcome migrant workers) to function as anything except morgues?

Even absent the threat of COVID, domestic society is being hollowed out by finance and private equity.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

People won't just "get better", but society can be structured to become more accommodating towards different groups. In that sense, the barriers between people come down and they can collaborate and collectivize more easily. For the same reason you'll see cities with amenities for the blind or wheelchair bound, you can imagine communities that are geared to accommodate folks with neurodivergent diagnoses.

What I see - which becomes frustrating in its defeatism - is people who can't imagine a better world or are hostile to any kind of change from the standard. Folks who spit and howl over a sign language interpreter at public events or bemoan the burdensome cost of inserts into sidewalks to aid the blind (like you can find all over Japan or Belgium) make even incremental progress this endless bureaucratic burden. The idea that maybe you don't need to bombard everyone with a kaleodascope of glittery advertisements in order to hijack their attention shouldn't be as radical as it is.

But I like to think a country that's friendlier to autistic people is friendlier to everyone, for the same reason guide walks and warning sounds for the blind and visual queues for the deaf can be a boon to the sighted and hearing as well.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, the capitalist approach is to identify people with autism and groom them into being sports gamblers and Funko pop horders.

Then you tell them they need soul crushing careers in finance, sales, and logistics in order to cover the cost of their habit.

Getting folks engaged in more socially productive careers (autistic or otherwise) sounds more attractive than getting them addicted to consumerism and threatening their high to squeeze them for their labor.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

One could argue that

From Each According To Their Ability. To Each According to Their Need

"Solves" neurodivergence by valuing it. You're no longer a round peg getting forced into to the most profitably shaped square hole. You're an active participant in a system that's designed to help you find where you fit in best for yourself and your community.

That's the theory, anyway. In practice, its all still people being people. And it's not like the USSR or Soviet China have been above ableism during their runs.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm more inclined to believe they were able to facially recognize/trace him all the way to Altoona PA, and the McDs call in was just what sealed the deal.

Did the police fabricate his social media history? Come on.

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