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A whole lot of poorly configured or cheaply made electroninc appliances or chargers ... yeah I can often literally hear when you've plugged something in wrong, it makes a high pitched whine, because it is overamping.

Also, if you're near high tension power lines?

You have to be pretty darn close to be in danger from actual electromagnetic effects.

But... that hum? The buzz?

Turns out that that is actually what causes a lot of long term health problems in people sensitive to it.

Literally the sound, not the EM field, makes you agitated, stressed, on edge, and if that is just your baseline for 20 years, that constant stress accumulates and basically ages you faster, and can cause mental health problems.

Well I'm glad you have/had a supportive family instead of a dysfunctional awful one like me.

I've been forced through an ever evolving series of mental health diagnoses by my family until after 20 years of the wrong meds for misdiagnosis... yeah turns out I am autistic and have ptsd/cptsd from my insanely narcissistic and manipulative and mentally unstable family.

Turns out once I get the fuck away from them, I can actually manage fairly well on my own. Oh and theres the whole got two bachelors degrees simultaneously and am very good at a multitude of tech/programming/db admin/data analysis type stuff, and I was making more money than my entire immediate family combined until their most recent attempt to declare me insane for disagreeing with their (objectively wrong) econonomic and political opinions (my degreees are in econ and poli sci, none of them have any degrees).

... Anyway, there's much more to an autism diagnosis than just the heightened hearing/seeing/touch sensations, but that is a fairly significant component of it.

There are some decent, long form, like 200+ question tests you can take online from actual medically endorsed autism awareness organizations... if you think you may actually have it, take one of those and then take your results to a psychologist.

So, its now around a day or two later.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/09/dramatic-sell-off-of-us-government-bonds-as-tariff-war-panic-deepens

I was right, Varoufakis is wrong.

Again, Varoufakis idea is:

Central to this new global order would be a cheaper dollar that remains the world’s reserve currency — this would lower US long-term borrowing rates even more. Can Trump have his cake (a hegemonic dollar and low-yielding US Treasuries) and eat it (a depreciated dollar)?

and

Consequently, the euro, the yen and the renminbi will soften relative to the dollar. This will cancel out the price hikes of goods imported into the US, and leave the prices American consumers pay unaffected. The tariffed countries will be in effect paying for Trump’s tariffs.

Summarized, he thinks that:

US Bond prices will go up

and/or

US Bond yields will go down

and

The USD will appreciate compared to the Yen, Euro, Renminbi, that is to say, a dollar will be worth more yen, euro, ren.

What is actually happening is:

US Bond prices are going down.

US Bond yields are going up.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-JPY?window=1M

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-EUR?window=1M

USD is depreciating, not appreciating, compared to yen and euro.

The USD/CNY is exchange rate is set at a fixed rate by China, and they haven't moved it yet.

So uh, no Mr. Varoufakis, Trump cannot have his cake and eat it too, infact he shit in the cake and then threw the mixture all around the room, now he gets nothing that he wanted.

Trump has destroyed the Bretton Woods USD hegemony, but in a way that is utterly catastrophic for the US, not some extremely clever 12D chess move.

I used to be able to do this as well until I got into my 30s and my vision naturally degraded.

Was quite good at FPS games, paintballing... the first time I went to a rifle range for an introductory shooting class, the instructor suggested i look into a shooting scholarship due to my exceptional fine motor control and visual acuity... I had very fast reaction times in martial arts (Karate), but being naturally timid and having a skinny twink build kind of cancelled that out.

The reality is most people think you are delusional, and if your family/friends are authoritarian, they'll try to get you mentally evaluated as seeing hallucinations.

Its less Superman and more Xmen being persecuted for being different.

I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

One third of Americans, about 100 million people, are in fact this stupid.

This is (one of) the real horror(s) of fascism:

It forms a cult of personality.

As in, a literal cult, a 'Dear Leader can do no wrong', honest to god, utterly delusional cult.

Just go check all the polls of people who still specifically support Trump's tariff policy.

Combine that with the fact that 20% of the US is functionally illiterate (reading/writing skills of a 2nd grader or worse), and the average literacy level is between a 5th and 6th grader, meaning that next 30% of people are... just barely out of elementary school when it comes to literacy.

Those numbers are for US adults 18 or older btw.

As other commenters have mentioned, I too have multiple family members I have had to go no contact with in the last few years because they are in the MAGA cult, are incredibly aggressive, delusional, manipulativr, etc.

In my case specifically, my Dad fell all the way down the QAnon rabbit hole, and the last time I was with him in person, he was showing me how he manufactures ghost guns (no serial numbers) in his garage with some vintage machining tools.

In a sane world he would be on a red flag list as a potential domestic terrorist.

In the actual world he is just a retiree with a hobby.

No, you're misreading this.

Trump is comparing Hamas guards holding hostages to Nazi guards holding prisoners, and he is suggesting that Nazis prison guards acted with love and kindness when a prisoner was in a very dire state.

The he switches to 'no, the Hamas guards slapped their hostages'... implying they were worse than Nazi death/slave camp guards.

Seeing as we are on .world and the last comment I made featuring the Bear Jew with a Louisville slugger as an example of how to properly treat a fascist got deleted by a mod...

Maybe I can get away with saying 'Be the change you want to see in the world'.

You'd have better odds of living to see Moshiach on earth.

For what its worth, CyberPunk 2077 is ... an alt history that diverges from our own ... at some point in the 1960s I think?

Like... the Soviet Union still exists. In 2077.

Point being: The 'Japanese megacorps taking over much of the American economy' fear of our own 1980s is very, very much a big part of the lore/universe.

Pondsmith published the first version of the lore in 1988 as the TTRPG 'Cyberpunk', originally set in 2013, and this kept getting added to and expanded with subsequent editions.

Arasaka is... well hopefully without spoiling too much, Arasaka corp is basically run by a Japanese fighter pilot ace who pretty much swore eternal vengeance on America after Japan got nuked and lost the war, and his idea of how to do this includes figuring out how to become immortal, so that he can continue to run a megacorp that ultimately usurps American sovereignty and turns the country into his neo-corpo-feudal subjects.

You can get almost all of that by playing through the Corpo intro character path and actually watching the informative slideshow thing in the elevator and on walls/screens in the ... megalobby, so hopefully thats not too spoilery.

Also in Die Hard it is Nakatomi Plaza iirc, Nakatomi being the name of the fictional Japanese corp.

Anyway woo random trivia.

The initial comment it was replying to was exaggerating for comic effect.

The initial comment it was replying to was written by me.

I was not exagerating.

Gerudo just popped in and basically said that they thought I was being intentionally harsh as well.

Both of you have now ascribed a motive, a goal to my description of Seattle... that I do not have.

I was simply flatly stating my lived experience in Seattle.

People in Seattle are actually terrible at forming genuine relationships, that is my completely honest, not exaggerated assessment.

I am also an introvert.

I was just describing that yes, Seattle is full of introverts, who suck at socializing.

There is no joke. There was only an attempt at being contrarian in an equally exagerated manner back toward a percieved exageration that did not exist.

In fact, quite hilariously now imo, this entire course of discussion is itself an example of how an anti-social behvaior, assuming unstated intentions behind statememts, reading in context that isn't actually there... produces confusion and interpersonal friction.

I appreciate your willingness to explain, but I am still confused.

... I am the person who described Seattle as introverted and anti social.

You are ascribing motive, intention, to my original description, that motive being 'to talk down about something', ie, to insult or degrade.

I am not doing that. I am describing my lived experience in Seattle as objectively as I can.

Yes, it is my personal, anecdotal experiencd, so it may or may not be truly representative...

But I am not exagerating in my assesment.

You have assumed I am doing that, and just said something with a contrarian intention than the intention you incorrectly assumed I had.

That still isn't a joke.

It is just being contrarian.

I am not trying to be an ass, I am autistic and I do not understand what the joke is supposed to be.

This reads to me as a contradictory paradox.

If you say the joke is that Gerudo was facetious, ie unserious, sarcastic, didn't actually mean they liked Seattle when they said they 'liked Seattle for a reason'... and then they do indeed confirm they do actually like Seattle's social introversion because they are an introvert...

Then... they were being serious in the first statement... ie, not facetious.

So... that cannot be the joke.

If I exaggeratedly said 'Man I LOVE~~~ hamburgers!" ... and someone said 'wait are you serious?' and my response was 'Yes I do really love hamburgers.'

Then again, the only thing I can see as the part that is supposed to be funny in any way is the exaggerated tone.

That to me just reads as ... dramatic, quirky, enthusiastic? Not inherently funny though?

... Is the 'joke' that they didn't realize why they liked Seattle untill I described the social norms?

The... joke would then be... it is funny that they couldn't describe or put words to why they liked something and had to have their own thoughts described by another person before they could articulate them?

That... seems more like an insult than a joke? I guess that could be funny if I were predisposed to enjoy cruelty/mockery against Gerudo... but I'm not, so that just seems rude.

I am at least self aware enough of an autist to know that many people find my confusion in this scenario funny, when I would describe that as cruel, but I am genuienly baffled by how what Gerudo said was 'a joke'.

Ok so... FOSS Dev submits a software (music creation tool) to Steam, to be 'sold' for $0, ie, available freely.

On the splash welcome screen to the software, there is a link to his patreon for donations.

Steam's automated vetting/verification process identifies the keyword 'patreon', but misreads a u as a v, or that reversed, in the url, and sends out an automated response saying 'direct links to request donations are not allowed, please remove'.

FOSS Dev somehow thinks this is a real person talking to him, writes up a response (with valid objections, that Godot and Krita and others feature donation links)...

... He does not recieve a response, but changes the link in his software to point to another webpage with a different url, where that webpage then points to his patreon, and uploads this new build to the automated first pass vetting system...

... and is surprised when this immediately passes vetting and is accepted.

Ok. Mhm. Yep.

...

Does FOSS Dev... did it occur to him that a platform like Steam that recieves, what, thousands of these kinds of applications a month, tens of thousands?, and is extremely well known for having a shockingly small employee headcount... might be using automated systems?

Might have a detailed flow chart for producing what are basically detailed error messages?

Has this person never heard of how call centers for large firms just give their phone support staff a script generated by such systems?

Has this person never used an automated support chat bot that only actually kicks you over to a real person if you specifically request it and/or exhaust its pre built in help options?

I am sorry but this dude is having an emotional breakdown from an automated bot response he doesn't realize is an automated bot response.

He at no point ever shows the response from Steam to his pointing out that other FOSS software has donation links. There apparently... wasn't one? ... Because actual lengthy responses get assigned to a ticket cue for an actual human to read and reply to at some point, later?

I am absolutely baffled as to how anyone with any familiarity with 'Steam Support' could possibly think they are talking to an actual human being in this scenario.

This is like feeling personally betrayed by a nonexistant YouTube video reviewer support person when you upload a video with copyrighted music and are told it won't be elligible publishing.

...

Now as to the actual Steam policies, the actual issues here... yes, in general, Steam is not geared toward FOSS releases with optional donations, yes it is bullshit that there are older software/games that got grandfathered in, no argument with any of that.

But he already solved the problem, on his end.

He already changed the url to not include a direct donation link by bouncing it to patreon via some other link.

The entire tech support adventure he had with trying to get donation DLCs was completely unneccessary... he already had an accepted build with a donation method accepted.

The entire tax adventure he had is also... he just says he has a very weird and uncommon legal setup with his sole proprietorship, and is frustrated that that makes the process complicated as well.

I get that this is frustrating, but again... if Steam said no to a donation only DLC... and he already has a build, accepted, with a working donation link that entirely circumvents the process, meaning he would not even be getting any payouts from Steam at all, and Steam will not be generating any revenue, whatsoever, because that software is listed as available in Steam for free, so there is no Steam cut...

Then this person is complaining about having to deal will some bs paperwork to be able to have his free software published on Steam, for no cost to him, at a cost to Valve, and he benefits massively by increasing the number of potential eyeballs on his software.

This is analagous to complaining that you have to fill out paperwork to recieve like free food benefits or reduced cost housing or a low cost bus fare.

...

In conclusion, yes, Steam is not the best option for FOSS releases.

Yep. Its a commercial storefront, primarily.

Alternatives exist, that are specifically supportive of FOSS projects with flexible donation/payment models.

I don't know why you'd go to the hardware store and be angry that they don't sell fresh fruit.

Should there maybe be some kind of push to try to convince Valve to offer some kind of option like that?

Well... maybe?

If Steam actually did basically what itch.io does, then uh, itch.io stops existing in ... what, 2 years?

Looks like Miami also does not have any specific vernacular for 'friend' on these maps, so... maybe if you just overlay all these maps and find all the deadzones, you've found the areas of antisociality?

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

Yes.

Literally Hitler.

'My New Order', a collection of Hitler's speeches up through 1939.

Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

Did people not know about this or forget this?

Trump literally routinely read Hitler's speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

Lefties who were politically active during Trump's 2015 campaign were... fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed 'You're just calling him a fascist because everything you don't like is fascist' at us.

Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn't know this?

Or are you just younger and/or weren't so politically involved a decade ago?

I do not understand how your joke works.

If you genuienly enjoy antisociality as a norm, because you tend to be introverted, then you just like Seattle because of that.

You would then not be joking, in the sense of sarcastically saying you enjoy something you don't actually enjoy.

'I knew I liked Seattle for a reason' is then just the same as saying 'Yup, I'm also anti social and I love it here'.

The 'joke' isn't that you actually don't like Seattle's social norms and were being sarcastic, because you just said you're introverted.

I honestly do not understand how this is a joke.

Is... just using the pithy/vague phrasing... in and of itself... the joke?

Ah.

I am American.

I live in hell.

We have a much broader problem of corrupt grifters in... basically everything, at every level of society.

Sorry for doing the American thing and assuming you are also American.

I'm gonna need a Carlos to Cubit to Banana diagram.

With a slinky for scale.

... either you enjoy having no friends...

... or you enjoy superficial performative 'relationships' that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

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