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[–] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Boatspotting

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where's the part where he suffers?

It came after "the cure" when he never felt as happy again

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, and they even pathologized it. I guess some things never change.

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals' tendencies to pathologize anything they can't relate to.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.

[–] greencactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to fight the urge to start a debate if trains or ships are cooler

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ships, trains and planes are all cool.

Trucks though...

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get "cured" instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean." sweeping gesture toward the window

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?"

"My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool."

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did that doctor do to him?

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Small procedure involving a ball peen hammer and metal spike applied to the back of the eye socket we would recognize today as a lobotomy.

Maybe. I don't know shit about it.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shamans.

"Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don't know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move."

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels spot on.

Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget putting entirely too much effort into building contraptions with sticks, clay, wood, rope, etc. Somebody had to invent the forge bellows.