Autistic Political Correctness
I made a mistake today spending five minutes looking through Twitter and quickly found people arguing about whether autistic people should be referred to as people with autism or vice…
Trying without a failure condition is not trying
Just do it There are many instances where common advice can be useful when providing a convenient conclusion (see Thought-terminating cliché), though often vapid and ultimately useless. This is not…
Responsibility and reckless confidence
The reason I am so confident The reason I often feel confident about my views is because I believe that I have no problem whatsoever correcting myself whenever I'm wrong,…
Autism doesn’t mean you can behave however you want
This post/rant goes into how certain autistic individuals have given autism a bad name.
My prejudices in a list
(Part 2/2) Introduction You can find Part 1 here. There is a very high chance you will be offended by this as I am prejudiced against a lot of people.…
IELTS was very hard
I recently took a computerised IELTS (Academic) test (except the speaking part), and it was far harder than I expected it to be. Serves me right to be overconfident—I did…
Plagiarism concerns
Just a casual, slightly frustrated post wondering about whether I've plagiarised any philosophical ideas or concepts without giving proper acknowledgement. I've spent a lot of time thinking alone and "reinvented"…
This server thing (Part 2)
Looking good? It's been a day so maybe it's still too early to celebrate, but this is looking a lot better now.Trying to run my own server using a cloud…
This server thing
Now you know which hosting provider I'm using Update! I may have solved the problem by adding a swap file. I think the problem was caused by me leaving half-written…
Technology is a miracle most people don’t appreciate
A rant about how ignorant people who don't understand how difficult things work assume they run on magic and supernatural make-believe. As technology advances, the sheer number of things that…