I loathe today's world

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Of course racism has always been offensive. The problem is that these days many people label things they don't like as rasistic. You point out that you have concerns about the huge amounts of money given out to other countries by your country even though there are lot of poor people in your own country? Racist! You point out that that one person you see who just happens to have different skin color than you is acting suspiciously? Racist! You get harassed by a person with different skin color and happen to mention the fact that his skin was certain color? Racist! You don't want to hang out with that one dark skinned girl at school because she bullies you? Racist!

...Except no, none of these situations are racist. But tell that to the people who blame others of racism every time they don't like something. Calling a black person a jerk without even knowing them and just because they're black is racist, calling them a jerk because they call you names in the school yard is not.

That is part of my point with the original topic too. ^ ^ ^

And one scary downside to life today is that we now live in the post-nuclear age and the world is starting to heat up again at this time. Particularly the US has a lot of threats.

Not a surprise to me at all. "Intelligent conversations" are MUCH more likely to happen under pseudonyms (at least in a well-moderated forum) than among people using their legal names. When people use their legal names, everything is all about how they look, to whomever they are trying to impress, rather than about anything of substance. People are freer to speak their minds when using a pseudonym. (On the other hand, the resulting freedom is productive only up to a point; without moderation, a large online forum inevitably degenerates into endless flame wars or worse.)


Being autistic won't be a "goldmine" until we build a much bigger and better-organized autistic community than now exists.


Yep that has certainly been an improvement.


If he wants to meet fellow movie/game enthusiasts in person, he'll need to either find or create a group on Meetup.com, which has made organizing small groups a lot easier than it used to be.

It has been my experience that these groups tend to be both of the extreme end of the hobby and highly cliquish/intolerant of outsiders. At least with the video store I could run into "normal" people who have other interests and can accept that not everybody who loves movies lives and breathes them. That's not even counting the fact as a father of a young child it is difficult to join another special interest group whereas with a store I can just take him in the stroller.


Isn't that the truth! I have a few relatives on Facebook that sound like literal Saints (and are very well articulated) when in reality they are two faced, lying, backstabbing narcissists.

Years ago, I heard the older generation worrying that the younger generation would be unable to write in anything but text speak. But text speak fell out of favour and now it's the content of the writings that's cause for concern, not their use of text speak contractions.