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On SNL, Elon Musk joked that Dogecoin was a hustle. This was followed a couple days later, as reported on Bloomberg, that Mr. Musk tweeted Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as payment for his cars. He cited green energy issues. This sent the prices of Bitcoin tumbling.

Following all this, the Economist had a piece on the idea of central banks issuing digital money and if banks could survive. The piece…

So, during this past August, my wife got a breakthrough case of COVID-19. She’s okay, but she lost her sense of taste and smell. It’s slowly coming back as of this writing.

Now I know there are lots of stories out there about autistics having empathy, and most of them are written by women autistics. A 2005 study noted women are more empathetic than men. This could explain why early ASD suffers were labeled as lacking empathy since many were males.

But there are two major kinds of empathy; cognitive empathy (“the capacity to understand another’s perspective or mental state”)…

This concerns me on lots of levels. And I wonder how long this need has been persistent. I bring this up because I wrote a response (here- https://sethunderwood56.medium.com/tl-dr-warning-ca86e05816a8 ) to another piece dealing the spectrum where I cite a study where a woman was being told they were not on the spectrum because she didn’t look like it despite she was. I know of another recent study done in German that shows clinicians have a bias toward the worse end of the spectrum vs. the higher more functional end with diagnosis and assignment of aide. Not to question the universe of psychology, but have new biases occurred since the "merger" resulting in a decline in access? It’s a fair question to ask.

I was diagnosed with Asperger’s (also known as HFA) via martial counselling during my early 40s. When I was 48 to 49, I started to suffer from chronic migraines. At the time I was an accountant at a non-profit organization working in a medium size office. They accommodated both my Asperger’s and migraine issues as per the American Disabilities Act. They allowed me to work from home and provided advance leave. They bent over backwards for me. But the migraines increased in frequency, and treatments were not working. My work gave me a choice of finding something else to do…

After the COVID-19 pandemic, human society embarked on efforts to deal with potential zoonotic viral sources. Out of panic, a few governments resorted to burning whole forests to wipe out potential zoonotic sources. This didn’t change the equation of how the viruses worked, and it created new niches. Niches that would cause economic disruptions in human society.

From Mice to Rabbits to Humans

One such niche was the migration of mice from a burn near the port city of Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From there they ended up in France via cargo containers. The mice were infected with a weakened strain of…

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(For the record, I'm not in the psychological profession but that doesn't necessarily disqualify me from making some observations)

Although, I can appreciate some of the social justice elements of this piece, the medical linking of two diagnoses into a spectrum theory doesn’t always promote better outcomes.

Current research is showing there have been some negative effects as a result which should be taken into long-term consideration.

For example, a five year follow up study showed a 20.8% decrease in ASD diagnosis overall. In comparing original subtypes, they found AD had a 10.1% reduction and Asperger’s had a…

Marian Butler was an administrative secretary in the Gliese 685-b Colony of 26 Draconis. A colony erected by the Binney Corporation specializing in large-scale industrial material processing. It was 46 light years away from Earth and servicing the outer sectors. Marian worked under Phoebe Long, one of twelve Sub-Directors for the colony. As an administrative secretary, it filled her life with managing the day-to-day activities for Ind. Long.

Marian came from a non-corporate controlled station less than one light year away called GI 685. The station was nothing more than a heavy grav-line node and storage lot orbiting a red…

In my Rosella Tolfree world, I have one of my “Future Human Follies” shorts (to be featured in the upcoming JSD #5) where a group of human scientists figure out that the world may freeze up. So, a few oil-rich nations begin burning off some additional fossil fuels to add more CO2. Later it’s discovered that original paper’s data was flawed.

The point behind this isn’t to doubt humanity’s impact on global warming. The short is more to show the state of how science works, and the impact of social/political decisions based on science.

The Problem as I See It

I don’t doubt that humanity with…