VulcanTourist / is on Nostr

Founder of the Society of Insouciant Candor.

Displaced secular humanist Vulcan with a hatred of self-delusion, tribalism, and selfishness. Promoter of democratic socialism as an unobtainable ideal. FULLY independent (non-tribalistic) thinker: don't expect me to defend or support you merely because you profess liberal ethics if you fail to demonstrate them. Ad hominem is NEVER acceptable.

My mind is a rough draft.

Twice gifted; agnostic atheist. #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #OCD #HSP #Mensa

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2025-05-24 22:49:06

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@nprofile…psrp
What about the pre-AI authors who still couldn't be arsed to (proof)read their own work, leaving it rife with error after typing it and submitting it to a global audience for consideration? I find that even more detestable.

2025-05-19 01:54:59

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@nprofile…hr7s
What the heck is Finch?

2025-05-18 00:16:25

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@nprofile…hr7s @nprofile…67cd
The autism support group I once attended had another regular whose personal struggle was a bit like yours but more fundamental: he'd know what he wanted to say but struggle mightily - LONG pregnant pauses in reply - to find and form the words to communicate his intent. He was a mathematical savant, so perhaps it was the inelegant syntax of English that tripped him up.

2025-03-21 23:40:20

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@nprofile…7c02
Not only that, there is at least anecdotal evidence that autism traits have been expressed in the gene pool for millennia. Yet, rather than get switftly weeded-out as detriments to survival, they have persisted and perhaps even grown, suggestive of the enormous benefits they can confer to civilization even when not fully nurtured.
Are they a hint of a future speciation event?

2025-03-16 06:01:25

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@nprofile…afth
Can I please be allowed to go live on it? I want to be there when real life imitates the events of Space: 1999 finally.

2025-03-16 00:57:19

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@nprofile…s6hu
@nprofile…zvcd
Hopefully those protesters go equipped with effective earplugs the next time, now that they know what they're up against. I'm assuming that there is an earplug effective (enough) against 160 dB wavefronts; the kinetic shockwave of it would at least be unavoidable.

2025-03-13 23:14:17

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@nprofile…s06p @nprofile…gyq6 @nprofile…7w3s
The effort put into the Play Store is focused on monetization, control, and exploitation. Remove those malignant focii, and it wouldn't require much resource at all, thus why F-Droid can exist.

2025-03-13 23:09:24

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@nprofile…s06p @nprofile…gyq6 @nprofile…7w3s
I've had F-Droid installed on phones for quite a long time. I haven't installed very many apps through it, but I insist on having it as a resource.

2025-03-02 13:17:50

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@nprofile…vdm6
I stopped having anything to do with theaters long before smartphones or even cellphones existed. Before those things became potential public disturbances, people found other ways to callously create them, like bringing their ill-behaved children to ruin others' experience.
I say this as a means to highlight that this civil disrespect is not a new phenomenon and has been common throughout my entire lifetime, over six decades. It's probably been true for much longer than that.

2025-02-27 00:39:13

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@nprofile…vdm6
SOME people eagerly answer "yes" to that question, and those people are now in control of our government.

2025-02-18 07:04:47

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@nprofile…s8q8
When I was young, I watched a crow torture and kill a young bird of another species. I have never gotten over how that made me feel.

2024-12-29 00:33:32

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@nprofile…ccc4 @nprofile…67cd
Oh, I've SEEN the hierarchical structure all my life since childhood. I simply REJECT authority when it's wielded poorly or inhumanely.
I'm not anti-authority: I'm anti-idiocy and anti-cruelty.
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