Being ASD definitely makes it harder to enjoy April Fools pranks that are harmless and clever.

My ASD friends and family will frequently perceive the omission of information as an offensive lie, when the reality is us not on the spectrum didn’t consider it information worth sharing. Extend this to April Fools Day jokes, which should be intentional, harmless, clever pranks, and they just can’t.

Really good ones stick in my mind forever. Guild Wars once turned all the players into stick figures. I still laugh at that. Prior to enshitification Reddit had some great ones, like Orange Red vs Periwinkle. RuneScape always released upcoming features at the beginning of the month, and April Fools Day was always a fake one that sounded almost believable. I had friends swap clothes and classes for an entire day in college. I had a physics professor teach biology to each of his classes - a different lecture in each period. I had two friends announce they were ending their friendship on Facebook but intended to remain roommates, and continue to hang out with the rest of us.

It’s a social norm. Just like how sarcasm is difficult for some ASD to pick up. But, a lot of us non-ASD do need to choose our audience more carefully. I don’t play pranks on my family and those friends. I also refrain from sarcasm and exaggerating too.

The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.

It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

The only thing I can respond with is:

wut

It’s some new mental illness? Is it just sociopathy?

Is it fried ketamine brain?

You can download Wikipedia.

Anyone can actually.

You get to actually work on your code?

Instead of 6 hours of meetings it’ll just be 8 hours of meetings

Well, now I know what will be my daily driver. Thanks!

Anything to reduce the advertising revenue of these jackasses

Hmmm.

That’s… Actually something I haven’t thought about. That’s a good point

Open world fatigue?

Phishing. Phishing can’t be beaten by software. Only education.

I’m unsure if you realize how significant 34,000 people in one state capitol is.

All major protests and organizing in the past century took a decade of this work. This is 3 months into Trump’s term.

He’s high, stupid, AND suffering from dementia.

Good lord, this is a strange timeline.

Not exactly how I expected the AI wars to go, but I guess since we’re in a cyberpunk world, we take what we get

If it was anyone but the current administration, I would almost believe it.

I was struck by lightning. And bitten by a Cobra. And blacked out

I haven’t seen this but the quality and attention to detail prevented me from stopping i truly lived today

So I know eggs are used in a lot of products.

But I don’t eat eggs by themselves. I get my protein from tons of other things. I get that like, you can’t make pancakes or cake without an egg. But like I don’t enjoy egg-based sauces for whatever reason.

Are eggs really that vital that the price gouging can’t just be boycotted?

Yeah, that all checks out.

But their way of living is dying because that’s what happens with industrialization. It’s not exactly something people can fight. It’s been happening for a loooooong time.

Like there aren’t many, if any, ways to prevent it from happening either.

Well

Everything else that happened in those 90 years, AND racism because a whole bunch of lazy buttholes couldn’t have slaves anymore.

Man I’m getting a lot of use out of this llama

After begging and pleading to stay on the station, NASA said they would ultimately cut off supplies and they needed to rejoin the rest of the earthlings in suffering caused by late-stage-capitalism