In my experience as a kid, directly managing my emotions was practically impossible at that age. That’s got little to with autism though, a lot of kids are like that. The autism just means there will be different triggers than most other kids.

Many of my difficulties as a kid were in not understanding something everyone else just knew intuitively. For example, when playing a competitive game with friends, family, or classmates “The Game” doesn’t actually matter. Which game, who wins, who looses; These aren’t why people are there. But that’s how everyone talks about it. Everyone pretends that’s why they’re there. The reality is they’re simply using it as an excuse to spend time with each other. “The Game” serves no purpose beyond giving structure to a session of socializing. If you can explain that to him, and he can grok it. It’ll cut off much of his concern for wining. Maybe not completely, as some people are just annoyingly competitive. It’s possible he’s one of those. In which case I’d recommend switching to cooperative games.

Changes in the schedule are only a little different. Again because of how most people talk about things, it seems they’re fixed. When in reality most know intuitively, plans and schedules are dynamic. I eventually learned to do what I call “Planing for Chaos”. I needed to learn that every schedule is only a hope, not a guarantee. And when inevitably things don’t go as planned, I needed to come up with contingencies. Some generic: Put on headphones and listen to something while I wait. Others are more specific: If this doesn’t happen, I’ll go do this other thing instead, then check back. But it depends on understanding that the schedule is never anything other than a hope.

Disagreements are going to be the most difficult. I’m still not good at that. I generally avoid them, which I know isn’t good. Mostly because when I don’t, I will get… Intense. And I’m a rather large man now. It’s extremely easy for me to intimidate or even scare people when I get upset. And that’s never what I want to do. It generally works against me, no matter how compelling my argument.

Good luck. I hope that was some help.

Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won’t send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won’t work.

I put in one for GrapheneOS and another for Servo the browser engine. Not sure which is more important.

Processed foods are not universally bad for you. Some are healthier than others. The idea is to try a bunch of the better ones, see which you like.

As far as unprocessed foods. Apples tend to be very consistent. There are lots of kinds. Find one you like (mine is Honeycrisp) get lots of those for quick snacks.

File size doesn’t matter.
Both are portable and wouldn’t be moved while in use.
And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD.
But they’re still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.

I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.

Do you mean external drives?
Movies don’t need much speed at all. And HDDs have much better cost/GB than SSDs

In this case. NYC is a very public transit dependant city, so making busses free will help. Creating city owned grocery stores in under served food deserts will help. It’s also one of the most wealth un-equal cities in the world, so adjusting taxes can help.

Privacy is antithetical to ActivityPub federated networks. Everything on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pifed, PeerTube, etc is absolutely public. There is no way to prevent people from seeing anything to post to any of these services.

Real privacy needs to be a built in function from the very beginning. It’s not really possible within ActivityPub.

Everyone needs to understand this. There is no privacy here. There won’t be, because there can’t be. That’s the way it is.

He’s not even mayor yet.
And his stated initial goals are all about affordability.

He can replace the police chief whenever he gets around to reforming the police. Until then, it’s politically better to maintain stability in one area, while overhauling another. Don’t fight wars on multiple fronts if you don’t have to.

Of course they do. Just ask any random person if you can look at everything on their phone.

It’s a combination of ignorance, convenience, social pressure. They prioritize those over some amount of privacy violations.

Haven’t noticed

No idea. Never occurred to me to try to publicly live stream myself, while maintaining my privacy. Just seemed counter productive.

There is software to do that kind of thing. Putting a black box over your face, altering your voice. All that kind of stuff.

Or you could go low tech. Wear a mask while holding up cards with what you want to say. That’d be cool.

And you want to have some unidentifiable background.

That’s not what a Gish Gallop is.

A rhetorical technique in which a dishonest speaker lists a string of falsehoods or misleading items so that their opponent will be unable to counter each one and still be able to make their own counterpoints.

Myopic
Definition 3: Narrow-minded

Also you aren’t really connecting the dots well as to how Lemmy can be censored by corporate authorities, or what specifically those are. Explaining those may help your case. Size also, it’s not clear how that really matters to censorship.

I wanted to start blocking the most high-censorship instances until I could find a fully zero-censorship instance and simply block all the ones with censorship. […] I found out there are no zero-censorship instances

Unless you’re using a zero-censorship instance it likely will block zero-censorship instances. So it’s not a surprise you couldn’t find one.

Lemmy relies on a broken “federation” system where each instance is supposed to be able to fetch posts from other instances, but it’s never been finished to reach a fully working state.

You need to define “fully working state”.

Lemmy’s official docs say you can’t even do federation over Tor at all. This means it uses DNS

Not necessarily. It could be possible to use standard IP addresses directly instead of domain names. In fact odds are good that would work already.

So you can only ever have the “average joe lemmy” and “average joe reddit” with everything approved by the authorities, and then “tor copies of lemmy” and “tor copies of reddit” where you have free speech but you can only reach other nerds.

That’s overly simplistic. Under a substantially sensorial authority the “average joe” would out of necessity, become such a nerd.

People seem to think Lemmy is different because this weird censorship fetish is extremely popular and most of you are happy to see bans happen to certain people, not just bots, so a small Lemmy that censors certain people feels fundamentally different from a big reddit that censors more people. But it’s the exact same thing, it’s reddit.

It’s not Reddit. The difference is, democratic censorship vs corporate censorship. Reddit users have no real power over what gets censored or not. On Lemmy they do. If your instance censors something you want to see, there’s little friction in moving to another one.

That’s a big difference.
Unless you think people are owed reach and exposure to a broad platform. In that case yes all censorship is suppressing your right to be heard by everyone in the world.

To be clear you don’t have that right.

It’s not actually a solution to reddit. It’s not designed to be different

Censorship isn’t the only way to differentiate from Reddit. Lemmy is also different in countless other ways; Algorithms and advertising to begin with. It’s myopic and supremely egotistical to think your one idea is the only difference that matters.

I’m completely happy with Boost

They’re still operating an ad based business model.
Not really all the interested.

I have no problem with it.
People need to be aware, nothing on social media is private.

By the cops or FBI maybe. The NSA is absolutely recording any and all phone calls that touch five eyes phone networks. That’s what Snowdon warned us all about.

I’m sensitive to heat. Hot drinks, food, showers.
Everyone around me seems to like things much hotter than I do.