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Terry Pratchett describing ASD?
“(âŚ)you know weâve all got alcohol in our bodies⌠sort of natural alcohol? Even if you never touch a drop in your life, your body sort of makes it anyway⌠but Captain Vimes, see, heâs one of those people whose body doesnât do it naturally. Like, he was born two drinks below normal.â
âGosh,â said Carrot.
âYes⌠so, when heâs sober, heâs really sober. Knurd, they call it. You know how you feel when you wake up if youâve been on the piss all night, Nobby? Well, he feels like that all the time.â
âPoor bugger,â said Nobby. âI never realized. No wonder heâs always so gloomy.â
âSo heâs always trying to catch up, see. Itâs just that he doesnât always get the dose right.”
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the ranks of secret police are filled by those who perform poorly in merit-based systems.
students are actively parroting male supremacist rhetorics at school and that is serving to devalue women teachers and make classrooms less safe.
there is cause for concern regarding the immediate impacts, as well as long-term consequences of masculinist and male supremacist ideologies on youth, teachers, and schools.
Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledgeâ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2025.2515863
a monk once said:
on Warren G. Hardingâs speeches
Aristotle, “Politics”
When a democracy has ripened fully, Plato argues, that a would-be tyrant will often seize his moment.
“He is usually of the elite but has a nature in tune with the time â given over to random pleasures and whims, feasting on plenty of food and sex, and reveling in the nonjudgment that is democracyâs civil religion.
He makes his move by âtaking over a particularly obedient mobâ and attacking his wealthy peers as corrupt. If not stopped quickly, his appetite for attacking the rich on behalf of the people swells further. He is a traitor to his class â and soon, his elite enemies, shorn of popular legitimacy, find a way to appease him or are forced to flee. Eventually, he stands alone, promising to cut through the paralysis of democratic incoherence. Itâs as if he were offering the addled, distracted, and self-indulgent citizens a kind of relief from democracyâs endless choices and insecurities. He rides a backlash to excessââtoo much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slaveryâ â and offers himself as the personified answer to the internal conflicts of the democratic mess. He pledges, above all, to take on the increasingly despised elites. And as the people thrill to him as a kind of solution, a democracy willingly, even impetuously, repeals itself.
TIL the most complex word in the English language is “run”, with 645 possible different meanings.
Think about it: When you run a fever, for example, those three letters have a very different meaning than when you run a bath to treat it, or when your bathwater subsequently runs over and drenches your cotton bath runner, forcing you to run out to the store and buy a new one. There, you run up a bill of $85 because besides a rug and some cold medicine, you also need some thread to fix the run in your stockings and some tissue for your runny nose and a carton of milk because youâve run through your supply at home, and all this makes dread run through your soul because your value-club membership runs out at the end of the month and youâve already run over your budget on last weekâs grocery run when you ran over a nail in the parking lot and now your car wonât even run properly because whatever idiot runs that Walmart apparently lets his custodial staff run amok and you know youâre letting your inner monologue run on and on but, goshâyouâd do things differently if you ran the world. (And breathe).