It took me YEARS to learn that adults, in fact, did NOT want to hear about their spelling errors or grammatical errors or errors in punctuation. I honestly believed I was doing them a service and couldn’t figure out why they were so resistant to learning.
My adult family would refer to me as “Funk & Wagnalls” and I enjoyed sharing a nickname with an encyclopedia, though I didn’t realize they were teasing me because I was always so literal.
I just remembered a story that I think perfectly encapsulates the kind of person I was as a kid.
When I was in kindergarten, I noticed a lyric in one of the songs my teacher would play for us.
"Carrots are always orange."
I knew this was wrong. I liked learning weird fun facts, and I knew carrots weren't, in fact, always orange. And so I thought to inform my teacher of this.
"Yes, they are always orange." She said in reply.
As an autistic young lad, I did not like to be told I was wrong. I especially didn't like to be told I was wrong when I was objectively correct in a way that was very easy to prove. But I also did not like confronting authority figures. So I dropped it.
Until it was my turn to bring a snack for the class.
I begged my parents for a particular snack, and on my turn, I brought a container in with the snack I brought to share with the class.
Yellow, purple, and red carrot slices.
I was the coolest person alive to everyone in the classroom that day, and I proved my teacher wrong.
Anyway causing that kind of harmless chaos is probably why I'm like this now.
two itty bitty studies for my bigger project. if you’d like to read a little more about them, I have it on my patreon in a free post. also I misspelled lake kutubu on my sketchbook im sorry.
if there's one thing we can learn from this booping experience it's that we need to give people notes and interact with them for tumblr to be fun and thriving
Some things I think people are overlooking in the tiktok ban bill, because it's not just a tiktok ban:
It gives the US government the ability to ban *any* app, website, or company they believe to be "controlled" by an "adversarial power" which can change whenever they want
It allows the President and the Administrative branch almost unilateral power to designate *any* app, website, or company to be under the control of an "adversarial power" (and just think about how that can be used un the hands of, say, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis)
They have to offer little to no evidence for this. For example, tiktok - a Singaporean-headquartered and ran company, partially owned by US interests, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and whose userdata is stored Austin, TX - is apparently controlled by the Chinese government
It also gives the Federal Government the ability to investigate and shut down any provider who gives access to these banned websites or services, including VPN. They will have unilateral power to dismantle VPNs through outrageous fines what will essentially force them to not operate in the US
A lot of the Congressional Representatives who supported this bill have large donors and/or stock in US Tech companies like Meta, Google, or Palantier who would benefit from the downfall of tiktok or the ability to purchase it and monopolize the market
Those same tech companies which sell our data constantly anyway, including to "adversarial powers"
Havent seen anybody talking about what a powerhouse March 14th-17th is. You start with Pi Day on the 14th, then Ides of March the next day, Stone Cold Steve Austin Day on 3/16, and ending with an actual holiday in St. Patricks Day. A 4 day marathon that has something for everyone. A true pillar of our society