MattiCat

They'll probably also be charged with theft of all the packages in their car that they stole before they failed with the last one.

No. Unless your meatballs are made of ground bacon instead of beef. Pineapple goes well with bacon, and fish, because the sweetness balances the saltiness of the meat. But beef isnt salty like that.

Me too, actually. My late brother was autisic, and obviously so; enough that he got diagnosed in early childhood in the mid 1970s. He was a classic savant autist and a gifted musician. But given that ND tends to run in families, I wonder about myself too. I think maybe a little but not significantly. Same for my father. I've done a few self-tests and they usually come out a bit borderline.

Tap water in the UK is all safe to drink without boiling, but it may need filtering, especially if you live in the south and east, because its rather chalky (not like visible chalk, but it leaves limescale in your kettle and washing machine over a prolonged amount of time). I live in the north-west, the water here is absolutely perfect, no limescale and it tastes really good.

No, I don't think it will disappear altogether. There will always be artists and hobbyists who like to draw or write or paint on paper just because they can.

And when society finally collapses, there'll be no internet anyway, so everyone will have to go back to using it eventually.

How long it keeps. But as long as it's not meat or dairy produce, it'll be a "best before" not a "use by" date, and most stuff is usable long after its best before date. Those crumpets will be fine for at least a week, if you keep them in an airtight container or ziplock bag after opening. After that, they might be a bit stale, but still edible; warm them up nd put a bit of butter on, that'll soften them up nicely.

I'm NT (I think) but I resonate with this. I have an online friend that I've known since about 2005; he's autistic, though neither of us knew that at the time (late diagnosis). Anyway, around 2014 or so, he just... disappeared. He was going through some nasty relatioship issues so I figured he needed time to get things sorted, or was maybe depressed (I have experience of that and I know the last thing I want to do when I'm depressed is talk to people). Anyway... in 2021, he messaged me again out of the blue, and we literaly did just pick up right where we left off, and its great. We immediately went back to chatting nearly every day, and still do. And he's now happily divorced.

I agree; fortunately it was fixed fairly quickly, but an emergency system like this really needs to be more robust.

I have both; all the main rituals are hand written, but everything is digital as well. There's a phrase passed down that says the Book should be "in your own hand of write", but years back, the joke was "in your own hand of write, or that of your own dot-matrix printer". I guess that has been upgraded since then (it was before inkjets and laser printers existed).

I have a daily diary, I write evening pages, sort of stream-of-consciousness. I don't do it in the morning because (a) I am very much a night owl and (b) if I wait until morning I won't remember what I did yesterday. First thing in the morning though, I pull a tarot card and set it aside, and at the end of the day I reflect on how it applied to the day's events.

I don't bullet journal for tasks and productivity, all that goes in the calendar app on my phone.

And I have a Book of Shadows (cos I am a pagan) and that seems to qualify as being a very specific type of Commonplace book. In there I record monthly rituals, sabbats, as well as reference information pertaining to things like tarot, astrology, herbalism etc. In practise, this takes up more than one book; one for rituals, one for tarot and one for everything else.

I haven't heard of this concept before but it makes me think... would a Wiccan/Pagan "Book of Shadows" count as a type of commonplace book?

I don't think Reddit will go extinct (at lest, not for many more years), but I don't think it will federate either, because theyll find it even harder to make bank than they already do, espeially when most of the rest of the fediverse will likely immediately de-federate them as soon as they get a foot in the door.

It will dwindle to insignificance with a few die-hard users, like Yahoo, and eventually fizzle out through lack of funding. Or it will be re-purposed and used for something different, like Myspace, and be quietly successful in its new but much smaller role.