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Haus of (Brain) Decline rule

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Took me a while, too.

There's a character called "The Brain" on the children's cartoon "Arthur" that was previously voice acted by "Steven Crowder". After Crowder left the role, it was taken by "Haus of Decline" (person in the post).

Hard to parse if you don't know what 3 of those 4 names are.

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Thoughts after my first month on Lemmy

One of my formative experiences here was regularly commenting on a new and small, but active Stardew Valley community. I also got like 11 upvotes for my comments, but those upvotes and the few responses felt so much more qualitative than those on Reddit. It actually felt like a community where you recognize the people after a while.

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It hurts.

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Where I'm from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.

On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you're used to roads aligned with them.

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"Counterterrorism" now officially means targeting trans people. The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

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Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present "sex non-conforming" in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It's important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

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Small tips and tricks

Pay attention to the rotating stock in the different shops - Oasis, Desert Trader, Krobus. I was too lazy to check regularly on my first runs and thought it was mainly decorations and all the useful stuff is available permanently.

Krobus sells one IRIDIUM SPRINKLER on Fridays! Amazing when you don't have enough iridium yet. He also sells mixed seeds on Thursday (always running low on those to make tea bushes) and buff food on Saturdays.

Oasis has Speed-Gro for 80g on Thursdays instead of Pierre's 150g and 3 Omnigeodes on Wednesday.

Desert Trader has stairs for jade on Sundays.

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I often feel a connection

Yes, and there's a scientific basis to this: The double empathy problem.

One of the symptoms of autism used to be considered a lowered sense of empathy, as autists seemed to struggle relating to other people. But that's not the case: Autists only struggle to relate to non-autists (and vice versa), among their own both groups get along fine

So it's not an innate trait of autism to have lower empathy, we just communicate on a different frequency, which has to be decoded (which takes energy). If we meet someone who's on our wavelength, communicating is intuitively a lot easier.

It reminds of being in a different culture and meeting someone of yours.