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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • This triggered my geoguessr addiction, so I had to put off eating breakfast until I had figured out this was:

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    Midtown Greenway between Harriet and Grand, Lyn-Lake

    I found the exact location but I guess that’s as exact as I can specify. The building on the left has bare brick on the older Google street view photo.

    I did use some googling though, which I wouldn’t if this was actual geoguessr. If not allowed to google, going on just this photo, I would say… uh… somewhere in the city that this community is about?

    (My point is that anyone who guessed even just the area did better than I did, if they were able to do so without additional research)


  • I feel like this pattern of people lying to doctors and doctors adjusting things to account for it really messes with rigorously honest people.

    A little while back I was reading how when they ask you how much pain you’re in, with 10 being the most pain imaginable, they pretty routinely have people calmly say “12”. So, if you’re actually using the scale where you’ve probably never experienced more than a 9 and would be sobbing at an 8, so you say 7, they automatically assume you’re in basically no pain because you said less than 10.

    Kind of wish we could just speak accurately and take each other literally instead of playing games where we try to figure out exactly what lie to tell to convey the truth, but I guess that’s not how most people are wired.


  • This has been pretty widely discussed under the name “the double empathy problem”, although as always it’s good to have more actual data. The general gist in the existing discussion is that autistic people and allistic people have trouble with each other’s communication styles, but this is treated as a communication deficit in autistic people rather than two different styles that have difficulty understanding each other. An analogy might be a minority that (poorly) speaks the language of the majority, and then is considered stupid despite the fact that they are bilingual and none of the people they’re speaking to have made an effort to learn the minority language.

    I wasn’t sure to what extent this was autistic community in-group jargon, so I spent time trying to loosely explain it, when it turns out that a quick Google to check whether I’m crazy indicates it’s pretty well established and I could probably have just linked the Wikipedia page.

    Tl;Dr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem