I can see some purpose in having a ‘smart’ toilet for monitoring health. Your pee and poo can have some value in seeing if there anything that needs to be dealt with medically. But even that is difficult to do. For one thing, it must still function ad a toilet first before anything. Meaning it uses the simple mechanical flushing and refilling and stopping when it is sufficiently full.

However for this the analysis and storage of data must be 100% at the user’s control. If they want it gone. It is gone. Irrecoverable. Any update must be done via USB or other connection. No wifi or internet.

And even then the analysis can be off for obvious reasons. People need to scrub their toilets and some keep it clean by having one of those pucks in the tank that sanitize the water. All of these can interfere with any results out of a medical setting.

Adams’s law.

Same year here… fuck us, amirite?

What is so fucked is that many people who experienced ww1 also lived to see ww2 and the build up to it. If there was one thing that the 90s promised was that the future was gonna be a cool and better place. I mean the internet has given me the gift of being able to acquire all the knowledge I want, but the downsides have been massive.

You’re forgetting that there are many brainwashed younger people who totally bought the bullshit. It won’t be easy.

You literally stated the story of my fucking life.

Yes I am aware. But still…

Dude, the amount of times I freeze framed the one where she bends forward to kiss Aladdin (it was the genie) it wasn’t funny. Oh and the tape I used was a pirated one with shit quality, too…

Edit. What I am saying is that while this is not 100%, it was something. It also made wonder why Aladdin wanted Jasmine after that, when he can have a whole harem of these gals!

Because it was actually really fun to make for everyone involved. The voice actress who sang even thought it was really funny and cool to be a mouse dancer.

Damn straight.

Look… just make it out of plastic! This actually only makes the problem worse. If you want to recycle, it makes it MUCH harder since they need to remove the outer paper cover. Both cannot be together in a recycling plant.

I’ve done it quite a few times. No regrets…

I never touched that file. Actually wait I did. I put in a quick script to run the Gmouse.exe. Basically to run the mouse driver which you had to do manually every time! But with it there you could automate it and not worry about it.

Ahh, gmouse…pkunzip (which I called Punk unzip). Fun times.

Much better.

I am an elder millennial who never forgot the MS-DOS commands of my childhood. So I would kick that guys arse!

One way I look at historic figures for who might and might not been a high functioning autistic individual is to look at how well they may have functioned socially vs. How technical they were.

Take William Bligh for example. He was the captain of the Bounty when the famous mutiny happened. Contrary to popular belief, he wasn’t some tyrannical captain who was so monstrous that his crew were pushed beyond human dignity. He actually was milder than most captains and had unusual methods of keeping his crew in shape. For example he ordered his crew to dance on a daily basis. Why? Because for prolonged periods of time there was actually minimal activity needed on the ship, so many sailors would be lazy and get out of shape. By having them dance he was trying to keep them in shape to do their jobs when needed.

It worked and it was practical, but it made everyone hate him. He was a highly socially inept man and the mutiny on the bounty was NOT the only mutiny or rebellion he had to deal with.

But… as a sailor he was brilliant. He really did manage to keep his men healthier than normal, and as a navigator he was probably one of the best to have ever lived. No joke. When the crew set him adrift on a raft with the few loyal members with him. He navigated across the open pacific without a map and nonexistent tools, working only by memory and the stars that he had memorized and managed to make a trek of thousands of kilometers to the nearest safe port.

That kind of obsession on detail is not something that comes without being somewhat on the spectrum.

Amateur. Back in the 90s i collected odds and ends because I wanted to exactly be like a Sierra online adventure game protagonist.

Also I collected coins. But I guess that was not eccentric enough to be an autistic thing?

Zionists are often extremely antisemitic. The founder of zionism was so antisemitic that his quotes can be attributed to Hitler or Goebbels and people wouldn’t tell the difference.

My first real social experience on the internet was on php forums. There are still such forums around and I am still part of a few.