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      <title>Fuck aba therapy</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    Lets get all the soft words out of the way: aba therapy is the use of psychological and sometimes even
    physical torture to train kids with autism and other conditions to act more like normal people. It
    does not care about acceptance, does not even try to help them develop and learn in any meaningful way,
    is blind to any advanged autistic people might have in some areas and doesnt even try to use those
    advances. All aba therapy does is get a monster out of a cave and beat it until it lost all its geist,
    put it in a suit and tie, than throw it into a office to pencil push rest of its life. It doesnt even
    stop for a microsecond to wonder if the monster has any feelings, if its physically capable of things
    humans arent...
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    Are society doesnt want people who think differently, are undistracted by much of the social bullshit
    that completely takes over the minds of many, are much more sensitive and intune to the world around
    them... for heaven fucking shake why is not putting up with fucking loud sounds a bad thing? Do normal
    people even have ears?! Go and read the countless online articles about noise pollution. <b>Noise
    pollution causes earing loss, stress, sleep issues, heart attacks, environmental damage,
    increased risk of avoidable accidents...</b>
    and not putting up with it is a disorder? and kids who dont put up with it should be psychologically
    tortured until they show zero resitance to all the things I listed?
    <br/><br/>
    A lot of it connects to capitalism. The capitalists want workers who will mindlessly do whatever they
    are told, not workers who ask questions. The capitalists want workers who will put up with stressful
    and dangerous work spaces, not ones who demand it gets fixed even if it cuts into profits.
    <br/><br/>
    Some alternates to aba therapy (there are things here for adults to, children arent the only ones
    with autism):
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      Spending time on hobbies and interests that you actually care about
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      Filling the mind with well made works of fiction and history
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      Art and music
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      Study science and philosophy
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      Safe and responsible use of psyadelic drugs
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      Spending time going on hikes, biking, and doing fun things outdoors
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      Pets and animals
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      <title>Dogs against doge</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 5 Apr 2025 23:17:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    On this website I have said before that as a nonhuman (I am a nonhuman believe it or not) my
    power to engage in revolution is lower than all you humans and my words and actions are less
    meaningful due to my isolation as a nonhuman. But like I said before I am still caught up in
    your problems reguardless and when shit hits the fan I will still be there doing what little
    I can. Today that happened. I went to a protest: a protest against doge. For a moment my
    nonhumanism impacted me less than it normally does. I realized this when I saw a dog with
    a sign on it. That sign said "dogs against doge". Even the dogs and nonhumans were protesting.
    It may not have been the dog revolution or the nonhuman revolution but it was still a revolution
    against a form of evil. And that is something dogs, cats, aliens, big foot, whatever the fuck I am...
    can fight for no matter how little are existing does anything in the bigger picture.
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    The revolution will not be <s>televised</s> on social media!
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      <title>On the issue of wikipedia</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <h3>Why do I write this?</h3>
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    Wikipedia is one of those things a lot of people like to shit on without really
    thinking deep about the sytem as a whole. People tend to look for yes or no
    answers than they should instead be trying to understand things on a dialectical
    level so they can understand the <i>why</i> instead of just the <i>what</i>.
    Teachers dont understand how the articles are actually editted, edge lords
    like to shit on it without actually knowing the issues with wikipedia, youtubers
    like to push out content shitting on wikipedia without ever going into the
    actual details why wikipedia is bad... Before you start shitting your pants
    <b>I am not defending wikipedia by any means</b>, quite the opposite actually.
    I am just here to tell you like most things in life <b>its bad but not for the
    reasons you think</b>.
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  <h3><i>Its editted by random people on the internet</i></h3>
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    And academic books are written by a few people in fancy buildings,
    documentaries are made by a bunch of nerds with cameras, research papers
    are written by old dudes in lab coats... With all of those there are systems
    in place to make sure its reliable and yes, wikipedia does have a system in
    place its just different than what other sources use. Thats what makes those
    different from fucking reddit. All of those can be equally shitty if you
    just eat up whatever is given to you instead of questing where it came from.
    One thing all of those systems cant stop (thats if they even try) is bias.
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  <h3>On bias</h3>
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    No where is without bias. No matter how much they try to get rid of it its
    still there. Its often more than just <i>a different way of looking at
    things</i>, it can be full on poising to the brain and flat out demand
    you close off your mind. That is why religion is dogshit. Thats why
    you gotta be strong and not let that shit in. A little god and jesus than
    as soon as you know it being gay is a sin, women are objects, the church
    controls you... a few good opinions and sources of information aint going
    to save you, building up a philosophy and lens to view the world from can
    be just as much as a tool to free the mind as it is a weapon to be misused
    by shitty things like religion. As much as reading helps its a journy you
    can only take alone.
    <br/><br/>
    Wikipedia's bias is not limited to just republican or democrat. Its not
    communist or fascist either. It embodies the will of both republicans and
    democrats, only aims to defend the status quo, and prefers to echo the words
    of those with money and power. <b>Wikipedia's bias is: neoliberal.</b> Its
    humanitarian enough to not appear as an opinion held by asses but at the
    same time isnt willing to hold people in power accountable. Anything bad
    america does is covered up and pushed deep into parts of the articles barely
    anyone reads, anything bad enemies of america does is made much easier to
    find. <b>The most dangerous type of bias is bias that pretends its not
    bias.</b> Once something makes you believe its nonbias it can start making
    you believe everything it says is the unquestable truth and slowly lock
    up your mind. Yes, even I am bias.
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  <h3>Those who never speak are never wrong</h3>
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    Lets get this out of the way, wikipedia may not be deep and analytical
    but it tends to be very dense. Schools dont like that because they dont
    want their students to gain new information: they want their students to
    to quote fancy sounding quotes from people that went to colleges that
    most cant afford. <b>The ideal source is something that is dialectical,
    analytical, and dense.</b> Wikipedia is just dense. <b>And the sources
    schools want us to use is none of those!</b>
    <br/><br/>
    The more you say the more incorrect things you will say even with a
    constant error rate, the more you say the more you need to fact check
    which could get overwhelming increasing the error rate. How do academics
    get around this? By stuffing their articles with word porn to make it
    as un-dense as possible so they can say barely anything while keeping their
    word count up. That is a terrible way to do things. Its better to openly
    define a way of going about understanding the world so everything can be
    connected and tied together while giving the reader the authority to
    analyze your words instead of eating it up. When you speak you have to
    risk being wrong and if you cant learn to accept that and continue
    learning new things than its better to not speak at all. Wikipedia
    still only goes half way, enough to scare away schools not but enough
    for some topics.
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  <h3>Replacing wikipedia</h3>
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    Wikipedia for the most part is usable not going to lie. Today I was
    using it to look up information on anime. I even link to wikipedia
    on my website sometimes. I am careful about what articles I link
    though, not all wikipedia articles are equal. <b>A good wikipedia
    replacement does not exist.</b> They all have the same issues:
    everyone is too focused on making a nonbias source when they
    should be openly announcing their bias and writing more
    analytical.
    <br/><br/>
    <b>Get yourself a library card!</b> While wikipedia will cover
    you for quick questions your base of knowledge should be built
    by reading books. Not everything can be summarized and quoted.
    A good book is one that takes its time to buildup information
    while still being dense enough. A book will tell you a complete
    story instead of just data points. A good book opens your mind
    by showing new ways information can connect. Wikipedia, news
    articles... only ever serve to give you disconnected data points:
    aka tell <b>what</b> to believe not <b>how</b> to believe.
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      <title>Dream log 1</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    Last night I had the type of dream that inspires new stories. In my dream the favorite author:
    Kurt Vonnegut, was a unix and emacs user. And he wrote a book about someone in some government
    position or something along those lines who spent there entire life fucking around with unix
    and there favorite editor was emacs. He made countless, guides, journy entries, random life
    stories.. and had everything on his system optmized using scripts to do many different tasks.
    The whole world ended and the last person on earth was someone who knew pretty much nothing
    about computers and they found this unix system in the place they picked as there hideout.
    Through all the things left behind on the unix system the last person on earth learned to
    not only survive but live well as the last person. They even became a unix power user through
    the guides left behind.
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      <title>Overthinking</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    Whenver I decide to add something to this website I always overthink on how
    to add the thing. In general I just overthink how I will do everything. It
    slows me down. Right now I am overthinking trying to think what to write
    and how to format it. I always end up doing way less when what I planned
    on doing. My partner overthinks a lot to. We overthink together.
    Though we overthink in different ways. I always end up going fuck this
    and throwing together a terrible mess while he just ends up giving up
    from the start.
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    Overthinking is just as much of a power as it is a curse. It fuels my
    ideas and thought process just as much as it slows me down. Its a quite
    difficult weapon to use but still quite deadly indeed.
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    Next time you overthink do what I do: eat junk food.
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