I don't know that I'd call it a compliment or an insult? It just was. It was unusual to see "a few dudes in short sleeve button ups and khakis who look like a mildly jamming dad band" keep the concert energy up after Veil of Maya played and performed a much more stereotypical hardcore set. They didn't speak to the crowd at all, other than the one interruption when the sound wasn't right. My comment may also have been influenced by the fact that I've watched some of his (Tosin Abasi) guitar tutorials on YouTube and it is exceedingly clear that he's working with a healthy dose of the tism. Calling it autistic wasn't meant as a compliment or an insult though, just a matter of fact neutral statement about the experience.

This happened to me at a concert in Cincinnati once. Veil of Maya opened and played a great face melting hardcore set with thrashing and screaming and moshing, then Animals as Leaders came on and played the most autistic set I've ever seen. Every one of them looked like a music school postdoc just casually jamming, while the pit was still going and having a great time. At one point, the lead guitar Tosin notices some issue with the speakers, stops the music, goes up to the mic with the tiniest little mouse voice, and is like "I'm hearing an audio issue I can't play through, speak amongst yourselves while we get it fixed". Absolute banger of a show. I think of that every time I hear "talk amongst yourselves" now.

The most important thing I've ever been told about quantum is "shut up and calculate." Results don't seem physical? That's quantum. Results don't make sense? That's quantum. Shut up and calculate

Bruh some of the earliest planes were literally called biplanes. The gay has been complicit in aviation demon magic since the very beginning.

No no, I think there's a misunderstanding here. If you can accurately describe to me what an n-brane is or have ever used terms like "deformation in the local topology", I assume you've done SIGNIFICANTLY more psychedelics than most people. I've never had easier access to psychedelics in my life than when I spent most of my time near the math buildings at uni.

Look I'm fine with people being straight and all, I just don't want them shoving it in my face

I too grew up in a southern military family. Interests other than football or otherwise hurting other people? That's a paddlin

Idk. Based on the number of fight scenes in that series that start with glistening men ripping off their clothes before fighting, I'd argue that kiryu at least has a kink for public indecency

Be on site military contractor

Told I'll be making infinitemoney.jpg

Actually make slightlymorethangs.jpg but with no pension

Tfw ptsd from analyzing combat footage

Tfw actively and daily shunned as "not one of us, just a dirty filthy contractor"

Tfw you can't get another engineering job because your entire portfolio is classified

Tfw when there is no mental health support or support groups available for aforementioned "just a dirty filthy contractor" reasons

Decide to go back to college instead of killing self

Check brand new school email

"Hi, my name is Sgt Fuckface! Here at the national guard we're looking for promising young graduates like you"

Gotta love that even the very emotional "men have feelings and need support too" post ends with "treat them as wretched because they are wretched." Absolutely fucking tonedeaf to bring that type of negativity and derogatory generalization about men to this context. Big "not all men, but..." energy

Wasn't "protecting Russian language and culture" one of Putlers first justifications for the invasion? Like, I think it's kinda fucked up to ban the language and culture, but then again my country has never been invaded by a neighboring war criminal who used "we're just protecting our language and culture in your land" so my opinion isn't nearly as valid as the opinion of people who are currently in that situation

100k/day (36.5 million anually) is ~0.03% of Meta's 2022 profits (121 billion). That's not a fine, it's barely even a tax. If you make 50k/year profit and the government gave you a similar fine, they'd be taking $15 from you. That sounds more like bribe money for Norwegian politicians than a good faith attempt to protect their citizens.