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Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”

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almost every autistic trait has something to do with extremes, and for most of them, autistic people can be on either end of the scale. sometimes this is for hyper/hypo sensitivity reasons, and sometimes it’s due to overcompensation.

examples of some typical autistic traits and their equally austistic counterparts:

no empathy? how about having such extreme empathy that you cry when your stuffed animals are ignored?

no/wrong facial expressions? how about exaggerated facial expressions because you learned early on you were doing it wrong?

nonverbal? how about being hyperverbal and not knowing when to stop talking?

highly advanced vocabulary? how about when you can’t remember common everyday words in conversation?

can’t tell when things are awkward? how about having such an sensitivity to awkwardness that you can barely stand being in the room when an awkward moment happens on tv?

has a meltdown over a small tag on their shirt? how about being so oblivious to physical sensations that you don’t know you broke a bone?

doesn’t follow social norms? how about a strict adherence to social norms, often accompanied by severe anxiety that you’re not doing it right?

can’t stand bright lights and loud noises? how about pressing lights so close to your eyes that you’re temporary blinded and constantly making noises when it gets too quiet?

no eye contact? how about intense, sustained eye contact that you don’t know when to break?

constantly rocking back and forth? how about being unable to walk without getting disoriented?

Here’s a list of other programs. Keep posting till it’s widely known.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:

Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.

Everyone wins!

I’m sorry, that you were offended by my post. I’m very sorry that you were upset by my post about peediepie being unfunny and popular with nazis. It’s really a shame that you were #triggered by my words.

He had been very nice to me all semester and sat next to me and talked to me every single day, had borrowed some of my sonic games and liked to talk to me about sonic and other games we both liked, and even got worried about me when I didn’t come to class.

I remember one day I sat in a different spot than usual and he still came up and sat next to me. It was such a small gesture but to me it was a big deal because I always felt like everyone just sort of tolerated me and it was so nice that someone went out of their way to sit with me and talk to me.

So on the last day, I was talking to him (after beating the shit out of everyone in class at Mario kart despite using the motion controls. I’m just that good at Mario kart I guess, hell yeah) and was thinking of asking if we could hang out, but he said something about having to meet his girlfriend before I got to ask him. I felt pretty defeated, I guess I hadn’t realized I had a crush on him until that moment but I felt pretty sad that he was taken.

So then when he did ask me out like a year later over tumblr I was like “:0” and got all excited and couldn’t sleep that night because I was really giddy. Like a huge dork I had to ask him if he actually meant ~dating~ after we’d already been talking for a while (even though it was pretty obvious that was what he meant) and he was like “yeah but like only if you want! We can just be good friends if you would rather do that” and it was really sweet and nice and I just. 🥰

So now we’ve been together for two years and lived together for a year and are now engaged. And we’re moving into our first house in March.