🥄

Deep down, aren’t we all…Charles?

"Seven of your professional contacts engaged with some business-virtue-signal hype-train drivel posted by someone you have never heard of.

I’ll split my chips between Birdman and Spiderman: Homecoming, but save one chip for Batman.

It’s roughly when the US shut down practically all of our manufacturing plants and laid off the vast majority of our manufacturing talent.

We’ve had some 40 years of mostly not passing down the knowledge of how to manufacture things well.

What manufacturing we still have is pretty amazing, but the demand for cross training - should those jobs return - is going to be way more than the remaining available talent can take on.

Bringing it back in 1980 would have given us a shot to pass on all the skills of the previous generation of skilled tradespeople.

We could do exactly the same in this scenario.

At least we know we can build our cannibal dystopia in a way that’s safe for the cannibals.

Oh my gosh, that sounds amazing.

Someone doing the scene from the end of “Secondhand Lions” would be delightful.

I hope to have someone in my life who will do this, making a scene, as a joke, at my funeral.

I’m terrified of living in such a way that people take my funeral seriously. I want my funeral to be remembered for overall fun but poor taste.

Removed by mod

He will remember to next time, at least.

It is.

Before reading this my personal theology was based mostly on defending everyone’s right to ask big questions and feel uniquely uncomfortable with all available answers.

After reading this, it’s still that, but amended with a supernatural certainty that non-Abrahamic Dog God can be killed by Robo-Dog.

Great question. I’m not OP. But a bunch come to mind.

Disclaimer: Even in recent classic eras of science fiction, it wouldn’t have been safe for authors (who need publisher trust to buy food) to get diagnosed as neurodivergent, so I feel like we’re left with wether neurodivergent individuals embrace their work, rather than if the author ever acknowledged any personal neurodivergence.

Disclaimer: I’m not neurodivergent. I don’t feel safe seeking a diagnosis. And things aren’t binary, so what the hell. I do acknowledge it’s interesting that I relate strongly with a bunch of these characters, and can bring them to memory quickly as some of my favorites…

With that disclaimed:

• “The November People” by Ray Bradbury comes to mind. It explores how classic Hollywood “monsters” would handle themselves as roommates, mostly through exploring their mental diversity rooted in their physical/cultural differences.
• Asimov’s robot detective stories (start with The Caves of Steel) have protagonists whose planets effectively make them neordivergent anytime they visit another planet than their birth world.
• “Stranger in a Strange Land”, by Heinlein, is about a neurodivergent (for Earth) young man who grew up as the sole human citizen of Mars.
• Philip K Dick’s detective protagonist from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (aka Blade Runner) is clearly neurodivergent, as is his wife.

Edit: As others have mentioned, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, of course!

Ooh, I like the meta joke - that none of his students can read or write.

“challenge accepted” air quotes

…

“Is it working?” Air quotes

…

“My fingers hurt” smaller, kind of sad looking air quotes

The implication that I will tolerate nearly anything to stay off of the phone is both rude and… accurate.

I’ve found they like to get up there and then beg for attention. Then they get down on their own later when they’re bored.

I keep checking on them because t’s not impossible that a cat could get stuck, but none of mine (well, feral cats that adopted my tree, anyway) ever have actually been stuck.

Someone opening a can of tuna and then all coming down to beg for it would be a hilarious bonus panel.

God wants us to hit children. That’s why he made them smaller than us. (This is sarcasm.)

Some people underestimate how strong a few minutes of boredom works as a deterent to bad behavior in kids. And there’s always the nuclear option - a long rambling academic lecture, with the only escape being through demonstrating (age appropriate) active listening skill practice.

I think my kids sometimes wish I used corporal punishment…heh.

it’s not that difficult if you get a primer from someone seasoned at it.

Random thought - this is a rare case where survivorship bias works in my favor. The best mushroom mentors really are the ones that haven’t died.

Or at the very least, the very worst mushroom mentors aren’t around to teach me…