@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-14 04:18:00
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-07-14 16:39:18
About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-07-14 06:02:44
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Go where?
VILA: [O.O.V.] Somewhere a long way away.
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Why do you say that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/83
@weddingweiser@berlin.social2025-08-15 05:35:37
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-07-15 06:17:26
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…
@weddingweiser@berlin.social2025-08-15 05:30:02
Vegan trifft türkisch bei Berlin Çiğköfte https://weddingweiser.de/vegan-trifft-tuerkisch-bei-berlin-cigkoefte/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-08-15 06:06:11
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: Cally is dead.
TARRANT: Are you sure?
AVON: [Pause] Yes, I'm sure.
DAYNA: He went back in.
TARRANT: You wanted to be a hero too?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-15 06:10:29
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: [Restrains Blake] Blake.
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: Easy, easy!
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: [To Cally] Tranquilizer pack!
BLAKE: Renounce! [Cally administers the tranquilizer pack. Blake subsides]
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-14 18:26:19
Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
VILA: Killing them?
ORAC: Correct. And replacing the energy thus expended by eating them.
JENNA: There's still forty-five minutes before that homing beacon activates.
AVON: Blake hasn't got that long.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/359
