Autism has been announced!

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WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 211 pts · 333d (4 replies)

andMoonsValue@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 333d

floo@retrolemmy.com · 14 pts · 333d
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canajac@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 333d

LOLing Ya I'm laughing outlouding....

CentauriBeau@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

I hope you don’t mind, but I’m totally stealing this.

thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 135 pts · 334d (15 replies)

It’s been needing a refresh. Can’t wait for Autism 2.0 + DLC

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 334d (2 replies)

I bet they’re gonna lock all the cool fixations behind paywalls

Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Really want to update to a fitness fixation

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 333d
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Pondis@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 334d (6 replies)

It's not really DLC, no one would buy it, it's more like a forced software update you can't decline.

chisel@piefed.social · 12 pts · 334d

Wtf are you talking about? People buy Tylenol all the time.

forrgott@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 333d (2 replies)

Autism, now available in the Windows App Store.

Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 333d (1 reply)

But have you activated your autism licence?

You can then customize you autism with fun new colors and themes!

jqubed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d

“Please drink a verification can”

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 333d

So that's the Microsoft connection.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 333d

I heard it was cut content from Fallout 2.

pennomi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
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psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d

If anyone can deliver on that, it would be this administration.

Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 333d

Fuck i was thinking the same thing :P

Cheers on being on the same brainwave Lmao

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Hopefully it means more trains. The train autists seem to be less numerous than they once were

Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 333d

My view is that the train autists are laying in wait to be unleashed when the rizz autists convince someone to fund the trains.

Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 333d (1 reply)

pyre@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 333d

mein Lolli!

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 117 pts · 333d (1 reply)

This is an absolutely shocking announcement for me. I did not know these two were autistic. I suspected it, but I didn't know.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 333d

They're way too fucking stupid to be autistic.

PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 333d (7 replies)

FOX.IS.NOT.NEWS.

nickiwest@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 333d (5 replies)

If MAGA is going to insist that late-night comedy hosts be 100% factually accurate, then I think the least the next Democratic government should do is require partisan propaganda to be labeled as such.

This goes for both sides. MSNBC, NewsMax, HuffPost, Fox News, all need disclaimers for opinion and partisan content.

EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 333d (4 replies)

Actually, the left should demand equal time on Mark Levine, Glenn Beck, and all the other right wing talk shows. Tit for tat.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 333d (1 reply)

This is actually a hilariously amazing idea. Put all the young progressive upper commers on the roster and the old gaurd will probably assume they will crash and burn, when in reality these shit talking heads never are challenged.

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 333d

Nah, that's not how it will play out. These people have a very refined way of handling real time debates with things like Gish Gallops, or saying something so brazenly stupid that your opponent doesn't know how to handle it (O'Reilly's "the tides go out, you can't explain that" comes to mind). It takes a very good debater to get around that while still caring that truth is a thing that exists, and it's usually not worth the effort.

dan1101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Equal time rebuttals from people like John Oliver, Steven Colbert, and Jon Stewart.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 333d

John Oliver would wipe the floor with them. They'd have to cut all his talking to get anything the idiot right will want to see.

NoodlePoint@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

Down there with Der Sturmer.

MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 55 pts · 333d (1 reply)

If autism is so great why haven't they announced autism 2 yet?

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 333d

They should have saved whatever Rain Man actually was for the sequel tbh

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 48 pts · 334d
IHeartBadCode@fedia.io · 39 pts · 333d (1 reply)

The whole acetaminophen is bad thing isn't a new one. It's part of a crack pot theory of oxidative stress and autism. The only problem is that oxidative stress is one of those very broad terms. The air you breathe can cause oxidative stress because of various types of pollution. Eating bacon can cause oxidative stress. Particular fertilizers used to grow a wide variety of plants can cause oxidative stress. Literally not getting enough sleep can cause oxidative stress.

It's a really broad terms for random free radicals of oxygen in the body, which strip electrons, etc, etc, etc... It's also what brings about antioxidants. Chemicals that take the oxidative "blow" for your cells. And this is all sound science, but everyone experiences oxidative stress and not everyone is autistic, contrary to what apparently RFK believes by trying to pander this bullshit.

Also, just right out the gate. The whole thing doesn't make sense for how it's supposed to work when we have fraternal twins who one is autistic and the other isn't. Which gets into the whole "likely a genetic thing" seeing how identical twins where one is autistic, the other usually is as well. And the difference in rates between fraternal twins and identical twins suggests a strong genetic link rather than environmental. But that doesn't rule out environment.

But the thing is what RFK is pandering isn't new. There's been a ton of studies that associate oxidative stress to autism. But as the saying goes, association isn't causation.

Also at the other end is their recommendation of folinic acid. Which, I can't, it's just Vitamin B bullshit stuff. The various B Complex is important in development for a child. This is why folic acid is given out to pregnant mothers. But there's no evidence to support that any formulation of Vitamin B prevents, slows, reverses, or cures autism. I just don't understand that segment of medicine where they've gone deep end with Vitamin B. It's important, don't get me wrong, but eating quintuple dosing of it isn't "curing" cancer so much as causing irreversible liver damage and possibly sending you into a seizure.

It's whatever. Any form of legitimacy in the HHS disappeared with RFK. I think people are going to look at this as "oh yeah confirms my life long held bias" or "RFK is nut job." But as for moving the needle, this isn't going to move anything. Most doctors will not care that HHS made this announcement and will continue to act as if it didn't exist. Because there's a mountain of evidence that this is just crackpot theory shit.

Butterpaderp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 333d

They're pedalling folinic acid cause it's one of dr. Oz's products, leucovorin. The goal is always money.

elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 334d (7 replies)

It was the Tylenol the whole time! 🤦‍♀️

expatriado@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 334d

buy generic and you'll be fine

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 333d (2 replies)

and Space Lesbians

Mist101@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Where‽ ...ya know, so I can avoid them extra hard.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d

Duh. In space!

MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Moe: It was Tylenol the whole time, even when they said it was vaccines I knew it was Tylenol!

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 333d

So they no longer consider vaccines bad? /s

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 333d

Even those autism outdates Tylenol. So Tylenol makers are time travelers.

besselj@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 334d

It's autism, my favorite season 🎃

einlander@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 333d (1 reply)

I'm so proud that they are coming out. So brave of them to embrace the autists they are.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 333d
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HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Why is it in the borderlands font

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 333d
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ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 333d (2 replies)

Trump’s only interested because he thinks it’s about gold.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 333d

I find it hard to believe that Trump knows that other word for gold.

ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 333d

That’s a laugh. Ask Trump what Latin is and he’ll say it’s that language Antonio Banderas speaks.

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 18 pts · 333d (1 reply)

No, see I know autism when I see it, and those two are just stupid

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d

God, I wish they were autistic.

DrFistington@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 333d

At least we can be assured that whatever claim they are making, the exact opposite is true

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 333d

Someone must be getting kickbacks for leucovorin.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 333d

Wasn't that theory disproved a long time ago? If anything should be blamed for brain chemical imbalances, I'd tag micro plastics for that

taiyang@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 333d

Hehe, at least there's some good news for my students in my interventions class-- a new option for their open ended write up assignment just dropped.

It's a good teachable moment for psych students wanting to better understand just why RFK Jr is so full of shit, without it even being framed in a partisan thing; literally we teach correlation isn't causation, as well as the current literature on autism (genetic predispositions, etc).

Any chance to teach critical thinking to young people is a good thing.

Atropos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d (2 replies)

Why does RFK have such..... contrast?

merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 333d

The fires of hell tend to produce dramatic lighting effects

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 333d

The worms animating him can only stave off the decay for so long

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 333d

I finally know how to induce autism.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 333d

Jfc. The fucking right wing Hicks will lap this up. Can't wait to hear about it from every family member.

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Imagine trying to cure the superior human form.

18107@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 333d

I understand that this is a joke, but people believing themselves to be superior is what got us into this mess.

bucketofcandyfloss@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 333d

we got autism announcement before gta6

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 334d

If that’s Autism can I move to the ADHD house instead?

Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 334d
h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social · 5 pts · 333d

It's hilarious watching a specific stock (in this example, Kenvue) tank when these idiots open their mouths only to recover once the foreign market opens. It's blatant stock manipulation 100%.

lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 334d
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Imagine if someone found a cure for sociopath.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 333d

The French did

canajac@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 333d

I....I......I don't know what to say......I am completely dumbfounded, numb, am I in a fucking nightmare? Please someone kick me now.

yucandu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

Yet another thing Russia has exported to the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d (1 reply)

THIS IS SO SAD FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM BEING PROMISED ANOTHER LAWSUIT CURE FROM (Notice they call him Mehmet, not DR anymore? Hes been disbarred) Mehmet Oz. I am saddned to guess it will not cure autism.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 332d

I hadn't heard that about him, and yet he's a valued member of this administration. More virtuosic incompetence from the MAGA Nazis.