There's also this:

When [Chinese-Australian cartoonist] Badiucao learned he and Wang would appear in the same investigative TV program, he expressed his doubts to producers, but to no avail.

Badiucao says NPR's investigation helped keep the Chinese human rights movement honest.

"It's a relief that – basically – journalism proves itself: it has the capacity for self-correction," Badiucao says. "I think it restores my confidence in this line of work."

According to Wikipedia, they used the trident, which dates back to the Kievan Rus, "to demonstrate the continuity and interrelatedness of Russian and Ukrainian tradition". They made a big deal of presenting an inclusive image in regards to ethnic minorities.

There's also this:

William Blum has claimed in "Killing Hope" that the CIA worked with the Russian exile anti-communist group National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) in covert operations inside the Soviet Union. Blum claims the CIA covertly trained, equipped, armed and financed the NTS out of West Germany and secretly dropped their operatives as paratroopers into Soviet territory. From there, Blum claims these groups engaged in actions such as assassinations, stealing documents, derailing trains, wrecking bridges and sabotaging power plants and weapons factories. The Soviet Union claimed it caught about two dozen of these operatives, including a former Nazi collaborator, and subsequently had them executed.

On the other end you have YIMBYs who bootlick real estate developers and reduce everything to restrictive zoning and "build, build, build", dismissing concerns about gentrification, new housing just being bought up by speculators or it just being too expensive anyway. The urbanist Youtube channel "Oh the Urbanity!" is like this from my experience, though it was a long time ago since I last watched them.

For me housing supply and housing affordability are two related, but separate issues, because there are other factors than supply and demand that affect housing affordability.

The character in my profile pic and which I relate to a lot is also called Subaru (in Japan)

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I am lucky enough that I'm not that interested in high-specs AAA titles to begin with: of the 100+ games I've put on a DIY wishlist, I'd say less than 10 of them fall in this category. It's mostly indie/retro titles, older titles or mid-budget.

it would mandate user authentication (for example, via the state’s “Gosuslugi” online portal)

Go sus Luigi

The Times, not Daily Mail this time: https://web.archive.org/web/20240810182627/https://www.thetimes.com/article/marr-is-snubbed-for-a-day-at-church-9ds5783n35h

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• "Crucial [Anti-]Communism Teaching Act"
• "VOC Foundation" ("Victims of Communism", but was also the acronym of the Dutch East India Company)
• "Rep. María Elvira Salazar"
• "lessons about the dangers of fascism [...] rejected"

Can you tell me why that is?

I'll be honest, I'm not sure it isn't myself. My reasoning was that I can function normally most of the time and that the "buffering" isn't that severe.

Your description of catatonia sounds familiar, I've definitely experienced it a few times, usually lasting a day or two. I had a severe case almost two years ago halfway in my first year at university: I couldn't push myself to do things for school anymore and felt doomed to be incapable to manage adult life.

Oh boy, that's a lot to read... I will just type out whatever comes to mind.

So, first off: what is "autistic catatonia"? I have never heard of this or even just "plain catatonia".

there's enough in what you've said that would make me want to look at whether undiagnosed ADHD is at play here and to go through an actual diagnostic process to either rule it in or to rule it out.

That's basically where I'm already at regarding possible ADHD. I started the process at looking at counsel or whatever means of support available, so I want to get into that too. If only the municipality will get back to me...

If you literally feel like there's some sort of physiological or psychological "block" that makes you sort of freeze up or buffer

I must say that I took your examples of crossing physical boundaries metaphorically: making that first step towards doing something is often scary to me, because it means I've committed to it and have to walk the path with uncertainty. I don't experience it in the literal sense, except when it's tied to such a moment, like leaving bed.

Other people here suggested timers and such. My mind worries that I'll eventually start ignoring them anyway, but I should at least have tried it.

As for my "sensory diet", I argue I have not enough stimulation, leading me to get lost in my own head in search of something to do.

Lastly, I want to say that I've grown up to be scared of negative reactions / criticism, in particular from my mom: she has quite unfiltered reactions and when I complain successfully places the blame on me. I think her + my autistic perfectionism has contributed the most to a fear of trying or not doing things perfectly.

• I have never really tried work timers yet, maybe I should genuinely try it tomorrow.

• I joined a study group at my university for people with procrastination problems, with the same rationale as you put forward. But they all study something different, so it isn't super effective. I do want to avoid working at home in my room, it seems to emit an anti-work aura. So far I've found my local library to be the most pleasant work environment.

• Perhaps I could listen to music more often, but audio books or podcasts are no-go's: I can't multitask anyway and I also have a harder time than average understanding spoken words (I always turn on subtitles for Youtube videos).

I can confidently say it's not burnout, at least. I have indeed considered if I might also have ADHD, but I haven't looked into that yet. But what is "autistic catatonia"?

I already am familiar with what PDA is and I almost certainly have it. But this general sluggishness is affecting most things in life for me, including things with few expectations placed on them. At that point it might be perfectionism instead.

• It has been especially persistent since secondary school, when I could no longer ace every test without effort and homework loads increased dramatically.

• With stuff like school assignments, it's almost certainly pathological demand avoidance (PDA) being at play, sometimes not even deadlines are enough and I turn in things late. BeamBrain brought it up but I knew of the concept beforehand. It however affects me most of the time, when I have to decide for myself on what to do.

• I indeed have trouble with delaying things to the last moment. It sucks: I'm either too passive and not doing anything or rushing and wearing myself out.

• Yes, yes, yes. Lots of buffering/lagging, also while I am doing something.

• I actually don't get around to them often, aside from working out. When I am doing them, what often happens is that I am neglecting schoolwork, it piles up over 2-3 weeks and I then collapse in on myself. Instead i instinctively watch the one Discord server I'm in or play around on Google Maps, it's like stimming behaviour.

• I hate how I will feel determined to do things when I go to bed and then have trouble getting up the morning after, regardless of how much I've slept. One thing I've noticed is how I often become tired when I get home from school, when I didn't feel the need for rest earlier. Part of me suspects that I simply am not eating enough for all the walking to/from school and working out that I do.

• The order of things is very consistent, but when these things happen is not.

I also want to add that I often feel like I'm running on auto-pilot and that the sluggishness can be overcome with bursts of confidence and determination, but those happen irregularly. I also have a tendency for perfectionism.

Most pins in Germany are for streets or buildings named after Ferdinand Porsche or Wernher von Braun, along with similar figures ("they contributed lots aside from the Nazi collaboration, okay?")

Bruh

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It's the loooong table

I heard once that it gets so bad in November in large part due to farmers in Punjab and such clearing their fields by burning the dead crops on it, something like that. Is that true?