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5mo ago

Let the man enjoy his boats

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6d ago

Let the man enjoy his boats

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Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.

Damn, and they even pathologized it. I guess some things never change.
- Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals' tendencies to pathologize anything they can't relate to.
  
  It's certainly xenophobia at the very least

Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get "cured" instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.
- Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.
  
  "You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean." sweeping gesture toward the window
- Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.
- An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.
  Sometimes people just don't think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.

One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.
- Shamans.
  "Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don't know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move."
  
  This feels spot on.
  Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.
  
  This feels so true. Modern day version maybe. It's been a journey to understand and accept.
- probably witnessing mammoths or other animals return to their nest.
  However I don't think the happiness would last long

What did that doctor do to him?
- probably leeches
- Small procedure involving a ball peen hammer and metal spike applied to the back of the eye socket we would recognize today as a lobotomy.
  Maybe. I don't know shit about it.
  
  I don’t think they had lobotomies yet at the time. But might have been something in that vein.
- gave him a mask

Where's the part where he suffers?
- It came after "the cure" when he never felt as happy again

Boatspotting

mfw normies existed in ancient Greece reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I have to fight the urge to start a debate if trains or ships are cooler
- Ships, trains and planes are all cool.
  Trucks though...
  
  Trucks used for transportation of goods are cool
- The nuance could start a rhetorical war

Sports nerds vibes

Neurotypicals at what they can do the best pathologizing what makes others happy and joyful!

welp, allistics seem to think happyness needs to be cured sometimes

What's the derogatory term for boat foamers?

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