Get a tight mesh strainer and a mixing bowl. Put preground coffee into the strainer and poir hot water through it from an electric kettle. It’s not meaningfully different from making pour over coffee in a chemex, but I bet you it’ll make the coffee snobs real twitchy.

Well yea, but that’s the difference between trying to actually exercise a discreet muscle group and trying to look like you can do the exercise.

There’s no fucking way Glomble is the real name of a video platform.

I really don’t see your argument here. The humor in the comic is based entirely on the subversion of expectation. Specifically the implicit understanding that these kinds of minor inconveniences are not the product of intent (malicious or otherwise).

That was the joke presented in the meme, yes.

Yeah, I think that line is getting used as a thought terminating cliche. While the statement is certainly true, not being immune is completely ignoring the idea that people can vary in how susceptible they are.

Starting at my feet and working my way up, I flex each muscle as independently as possible and then let it relax. If you don’t manage to fall asleep while focusing on the process, you’re so relaxed by the end that you’re at least really comfortable.

BG3 clearly has a lot of effort and polish put in, but overrated still resonates with me. I didn’t get out of act one because I find DnD mechanically tedious to play and the the gallery of rogues style characters more annoying than endearing.

They think that if you don’t use the word “driving”, then you don’t need a driver’s license. I assume desperately trying not to use the word car is some kind of mush brain attempt to not admit it is a vehicle.

You can’t make somebody part of a community if they don’t care about the idea of community. It feels like this woman is just projecting her insecurities. ie. “I do all of the volunteer work that I I’m trying to browbeat others into, so why do I still feel like I’m not welcome?”

Might have something to do with the fixation on the idea of a “transplant”. Can’t say I’ve heard that before. Must be a New York thing.

As to why I think you are autistic; misunderstanding common aphorism, rigid focus on “how things should be”, hard statements attempting to assign intent to actions without mentioning tone. Especially that last bit equating inflection to indicate a question as understanding tone.

I’ll try to clarify. In conversations between non-autistic people, there is an additional layer to the conversation beyond the information in the words themselves and beyond the implications of basic punctuation. Body posture, eye contact, facial expression, volume, and cadence at which you speak all convey both emotions and intent. These things can be observed and interpreted instinctively.

People with autism cannot do this to one degree or another. They absolutely still broadcast these things when they speak, but are largely unaware of it.

Think of it in terms of sound. How could you know if you are whispering or yelling if you are deaf?

Are you doing the emotional equivalent of whispering when you speak? Answering questions with a one word sentence with flat affect. People will change the subject or switch to talking to someone else because they interpret that as you expressing disinterest.

Are you doing the emotional equivalent of yelling your inner feelings with everything word. People will become visibly uncomfortable when you speak and try to get away from you as soon as they can.

When you claim you speak in a “clear, loud, neutral voice” while staring them in the eyes; I believe that you are both clear and loud. I’m not so convinced that you are as neutral as you think.

Reading through the responses, it is blatantly clear that you are autistic, so I’ll ask a question that might not have occurred to you. When someone else is speaking, do you wait for them to finish speaking before you do? Are you aware of the tone of your own voice? Both of these things matter far more for how people will react to the things you say than I think you are aware.

When I see thumbnails like this, I click the three little dots and select “Don’t recommend channel”. I encourage you all to do the same.

I’ve never really bothered with relationships, and everytime I see some shit like this, it validates that choice.

One of my siblings just… doesn’t like pizza. All of the individual components are fine in other dishes, but not together. I don’t understand.

I looked it up because I was curious; If you adjust for cost of living (PCPI, adjusted by regional price parity. Thanks wikipedia); Then California ranks 13 and South Carolina is 47.

Apparently D.C. is #1, which I could have guessed, but Wyoming is #2, which I definitely wouldn’t have.

Just a little FYI information as a PSA announcement.

You can call it decadence all you want but wet pizza toppings are objectively bad for the quality of the pizza. It doesn’t matter how much you pat it dry, that pineapple weeps liquid as it cooks and makes the texture of the cheese beneath it gross.

Remote work is a step in the right direction at least. In my case, I’m generally just too exhausted to bother going anywhere other than home and work, which definitely limits any socializing. Work culture isn’t entirely to blame of course, but it sure isn’t helping.

What communists, libertarians, and anarchists never seem to grasp is that their “end goal” would be a highly temporary state. Tribes will form. Somebody will start gathering power of one form or another, and then the cycle starts anew.