It's perfectly natural for autists to like trains because trains are like our older brothers, to whom we can look up. Trains are big and strong creatures; unstoppable and proud, but they are elegant and logical. Not human but like humanity they are higher than beasts. The train is like a stoic sword hero who does what must be done and whose will must be respected, for his course cannot be altered. A train is an adult man with asperger's who has a job. And he's faster than everybody. I could be like him some day.

I am informed that the Office Québécois de la Langue Française has endorsed "contenu dégénératif" as its official translation for "AI slop", which definitely says something about the comparative approaches of the two languages

funny how "unrelenting" and "relentless" are the same word

unrelenting suggests that you're just choosing not to relent, leaving open the possibility that you might relent in the future if you feel like it, whereas relentless suggests that you couldn't relent even if you wanted to, perhaps due to social issues

When finally he came to Paris, he wrote: "The only thing I have changed is my location: my ennui has followed me." He could not tolerate discussions, because they wore him out and he could never give his reasoning. His nature was basically anxious. Thinking that he would die young, he made his will at the age of forty-two; at forty-six he was for six months the victim of a violent, tormented, overwhelming passion of which no one knows the outcome and to which he would never refer.

Nancy has succumbed to the lust for arcane power, and it shall thus eternally elude her. Cringe.

some british people seem simple, cheery, and optimistic, while others seem dour, cynical, and ironic. british people can be of at least two types