As opposed to the extremely non-emotional arguments such as "But I like how meat tastes" and "cheese tho" and "for every animal you don't eat I'm gonna eat two"?

"Psh, you think humans don't murder other humans? Tell me you don't pay attention to history without telling me you don't pay attention to history."

How can anyone like reading those samey-same replies constantly?

What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?

There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

I'd be interested in seeing these studies.

The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That's exactly what trigger warnings are for. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance.

Incorrect. Trigger warnings inform you that the content is present in the media you're about to watch. What you do with that information is up to you.

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This explains so much.

Unearthed for GBC. It's a fun little block-pushing puzzle game that just came out last month.

(Full disclosure, I'm one of the beta testers, but I didn't get paid or anything. I just really like the game.)

I was reading Matt Parker's new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went "wait, what if you did this"

I didn't even think of that. Another good question!

I'm not asking about a Dorito shape.

I don't think that can be a thing.

A tip: "You got me, I actually [complete opposite of what I've been saying for the rest of this thread]" is typically sarcasm.

My dude, I'm as autistic as the next person on this website, but even I gotta say: You will not make it on the internet if you don't learn to recognize sarcasm.

At this point it's clear you're just trolling.

At some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions.

You got me, I don't give a shit about the environment, unlike you, the biggest tree-hugger in the world.

Oh, well, if others are worse then I guess you're not doing anything wrong.

If you know there's going to be a traffic jam at 5PM on the I-Fuckit, aggravated by your presence, is that not intent or, at the very least, gross negligence?

At what point do carbrains become liable for destroying the environment?

a non-hispanic/latina actress

She's a white American Latina. If you mean "a non-South American actress", say that.

You didn't care that people were attacking her for being trans until she had a dumb take about a bad song?

Top Ramen because I'm broke af. (The soy sauce flavor has no animals in it, though I didn't use the flavor packet.)

I'm serious. I want to know exactly what OP is imagining would happen.

How do you envision that going, exactly?

You fool, you'll bring the end times down on our heads!

They're trying to break the curse, just like when the little dumbass who lives with me goes after my oat milk ice cream. You can't let them!

Lmao fuck, I was reading from top to bottom

They put that shit in their TOS?? Fucking dumbasses

"It is different when real imminent harm to real organisms in the actual real world is involved"

stares into the camera like I'm on The Office

Are they actually worse, or are they just not what you're used to?

This would solve so many problems.

Thermodynamics.

Plants are fed to animals. More plants than would be used if you just ate the plants yourself.

No, in fact Y'shtola pointed out that they had no way of knowing what reflection it was.

At least this will (hopefully?) stop people from loudly proclaiming that it's the Twelfth.

We felt that we needed to make it authentically and we needed to do a proper job, otherwise the thoughts of those people who live in the ninth reflection wouldn't be properly conveyed.

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Nah. Someone lamenting that the world is unfair and needs to change does not need to be reminded that the world is unfair.

What's the benefit of leaving your house?

Where do you slot ADHD folks in the autism vs allism spectrum

???

ADHD is orthogonal to autism. You can be autistic with ADHD or allistic with ADHD.

But my original comment still remains the use of allism generally comes with a negative connotation. Whether that’s part of the denotation makes no difference.

You're reading connotations that aren't there. This is a community of autistic people. We don't do that "say one thing but mean another" thing.

If you don't want us using the word "allism", should we also not use "autism"? The real divide comes from having a word for one group but not the other.

It's weird though because I never did those events. I just had them as soon as I unlocked the toy chest.

Everyone knows that, though. So what's the point of saying it when someone is trying to make things more fair?