Agamemnon

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[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shows that those psych-whatever-ists knew drat about the (ancient) greek language, because 'word' would be 'logos' and 'alexi' is actually a greek surname of ancient decent, that would mean 'defender'. The ancient greeks would never have named the condition that way! My impression is that various Freudians and Anti-Freudians converged on the term in the early-mid-20th century as a means to make themselves sound smarter than any of them really were.

Source: As someone named Alexander, I just finally felt vaguely offended enough by the term to start digging a little deeper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005782/

And also, nothing about the condition as described by modern sources ever made any sense to me - which after reading the article I linked, wasn't even a surprise to me anymore. Sorry, rant over.

TL,DR: It's another piece of etymologic fallout from a historic shitslinging match between researchers and practitioners, but one that didn't get resolved conclusively. Because brains ...

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I am sure Wikipedia has a list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#Late_20th_century%E2%80%93Early_21st_century_uncrewed_crash_landings

Aaand right. I think I remember a couple spent rocket stages and debris hitting it that isn't listed, but there shouldn't be much more that would classify as a 'vehicle'.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha, in some parts of germany you can do that yourself. on foot. with a zipdisk.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's a mood.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

seeing it capitalized in the post title didn't help. 😆

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah... I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi. Thanks for the welcoming.

I'll be mostly hanging back, though. Only acting on reports and illegal content attacks. It's an emergency lifeline that is good to have set up before an emergency happens.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Long story that played out over months... Went to the doctors with depressive episode. Got diagnosed burnout. But from what??? So... I dug into researching psychology. Turns out, I inherited the family 'tism and could trace anecdotal evidence back 4 generations. Nobody ever bothered to investigate before. Presented my findings to my therapist and her reaction after listening to it all was (paraphrasing) "You didn't KNOW?".

So, yeah... No 'officially on paper' official diagnosis yet. I don't plan on getting one, because it turns out, the main cause of my problems isn't Autism, it's ADHD on top (that one got official a few months later), but now I am doing better with that under control and unlearning all the masking I did.

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

Neither namedropping nor virtue signalling nor spreading misinformation is okay.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Speculating:

Restricting posting from accounts that don't meet some adjustable criteria. Like account age, comment count, prior moderation action, average comment length (upvote quota maybe not, because not all instances use it)

Automatic hash comparison of uploaded images with database of registered illegal content.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be advised: I recognize this person joining and speedrunning Ban% in safespaces for several months now. This is at least my 4th sighting of them. They will antagonize the userbase in record time by blatant disregard of netiquette and basic human decency. They will cite any of their vast repertoire of mental conditions or minority membership cards as justification when called out on bad behavior - whatever is convenient at the time. Conversation to them is a game that must be won at all cost and people with even slightly differing opinions are seen as enemies that need to be defeated (and also humiliated) Their strategy is generally to single out one member and harass them with wall of text posts.

Do not engage. Do not educate - dozens have tried and failed. Just identify the pattern and ban permanently, before they can do any lasting damage to your community.

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

That is identical to my observations from a data science perspective.

 

I'm not sure if I would be honored or offended.

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