I kind of miss sometimes how in the old place, random celebrities would sometimes pop up in my mentions (even some of the ones I didn't know were celebrities and had to look up) 🤪 #RandomThoughts
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In the movie, Crocodile Dundee, when he is surprised by 7 million people all wanting to live together, and everyone laughed, is it an autistic thing to completely understand his level of disbelief and think that it's funny but also not? 🙋♂️
From 2010 to 2017, there was a thing called #AseanCitizen that we Aseans started as a grassroots movement. We were all bloggers from across, well, #ASEAN or South-East Asia.
Some of us joined together to produce one of the best multi-authored regional blogs. We talked about our cultures, write about what makes the region awesome. As well as, try to address the oftentimes silly and sometimes heated debates.
It's all gone now. Forgotten. The blogs dead or offline. We all grew up, got busy with our personal lives, and moved on separately. And the important reason? We lost interest in it as we started to see ASEAN was, is, and will never be for the grassroots.
That was the end of what was once a vibrant grassroot ASEAN Citizens effort. We did it all voluntarily. Without a single recognition from the top-down organisation that is ASEAN.
But today? ASEAN is still a top-down organisation. They kept trying to get the grassroots involved, but they are always failing. Why? Because it is a top-down organisation, as simple as that. They will never understand until they shift their mindset and approach to bottom-up.
(P.S I want to restart this grassroots movement, but I just no longer have the spark. Give me a very good reason why I should give it another chance. Or, at least, guide the new generation.)
Were you too forced to have a Bar Mitzvah (or Bat Mitzvah) party and had to invite a bunch of kids you barely knew so that you could fill out a "friends" table?
And then you had to take turns dancing with half of them too even though you were socially awkward and physically clumsy as Hell?
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Is it internalized ableism that I intentionally chose the selfie that I thought looked the most autisticy for my profile pic on this account?
Is it ableism that I even have any notion of what autism looks like?
Back in the 90s (and I think in the 70s and 80s), the #Philippines had a plan and proposal to create a major (I think) semi-autonomous(?) #HongKong in the country. The objective was to give Hong Kong'ers a new place to call home and conduct their business after the transfer of the city back to mainland #China.
This plan and proposal did not push through because the Hong Kong government officials accepted the proposal of mainland China: 1 country, 2 systems.
Today, from what I've read the past few months, Hong Kong'ers are migrating to other countries, leaving Hong Kong behind. There were also reports of how many residences are practically a ghost town, or ghost buildings, today.
I wonder, if the Hong Kong government at that time chose the proposal of the Philippines to migrate Hong Kong in the Philippines, what would Hong Kong be today? It will also affect the Philippines greatly. Finally, the geopolitics in Asia-Pacific will be largely different. (Probably the Philippines will be in more danger from China. ^^;; )
Services which still blocks your account for supposedly “suspicious activity”, even though you have #TwoFactorAuthentication, is like saying “we don't trust our own #2FA system” and/or “we don't trust you, we think you shared your 2FA secret with someone”.
I don't know. If it is the latter, that's user-error and their problem. If we continue solving user-error issues, the end-user will never learn anything.
Is 2FA perfect? Of course not. But it is far less likely for an account to be compromised if 2FA is enabled (without user-error).
So, accounts with 2FA should not be included in the “we temporarily blocked your account because of suspicious activity”. If there was indeed a legitimate unauthorised account access, due to user-error, let the user deal with it and learn from it. Otherwise, what's the use of 2FA?
In the gaming industry, some companies actually do that. If your account has 2FA enabled, they automatically remove your account from IP address checks. This allows the account owner to freely use VPNs without getting banned because of IP jumps. They don't mention it officially, but you can test it. If you disable 2FA and use VPNs, you'll get banned sooner or later (and have to go through a lengthy verification process). If you have 2FA enabled, you're free to use VPNs all you want.
(We're not talking about [gaming] services where they have regional licensing deals. They will indeed ban your account if you use a VPN because it is a restriction due to the regional licensing deals in place.)
I dunno, just #RandomThoughts. It's a hassle to suddenly see you're temporarily blocked even though you have 2FA enabled anyway. (Some services will even disable your 2FA because they assumed you shared your 2FA secret.)
Sure, there are people who keep a copy of their 2FA secret in unsecure ways. That still falls under user-error. 2FA secrets should not be kept, at least that's how it was designed. If a user wants to keep it, then encrypt it and store it somewhere. For example, use #Cryptomator.
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Why do some people act like vaguely similar sounding words rhyme when they do not? Is that an NT thing that my #ActuallyAutistc brain refuses to accept? 🤔
"Kirt Berkeley Turkey" for example
(from Corner Gas)
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It seems arbitrary and chaotic to me that some abbreviations are just truncations and some are derived from seemingly random letter removals. Why is there no single universal rule or algorithm for abbreviation construction? 🤔
The #StarTrekVoyager#RandomThoughts story falls apart upon examination. There are so many unanswered questions such as: Why spend all this effort on purging one individual when you could just tell USS Voyager to go away and never return? Is performing the purge solely for the purpose of revenge an act of violence? Why are the authorities in such a hurry to start the procedure when the investigation is still active and there are still unanswered questions?
I was well into adulthood when I finally figured out why no bath towel ever seems absorbent enough.
I'm #ActuallyAutistic; so, any moisturev at all on my skin greatly bothers me.
Skin soaks up water like a sponge. Even if you remove all the surface moisture, some water absorbed by the skin still makes its way back out to the surface.
As I’m approaching Turing 40 next year I noticed I’ve started saying "as a kid" instead of "in high school." I’m not exactly sure when that started but it was sometime in the last year. It conflicts with the part of my brain that feels like I’m still barely out of my 20s. Not sure how I feel about that yet. #RandomThoughts#Aging