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Am I German or Autistic?

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Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by Markoff »

WA wrote: post #129

Question 9 imho is the most German one ("When someone says 'we should get coffee sometime,' you understand this to mean:"). It depends on context a bit obviously, but most Germans are sincere about it. You either propose coffee or you don't. However, there's a subset of Germans who seem to propose coffee and then don't follow up themselves, but it's not just a phrase. If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you.…

Where I come from it's almost always considered sincere and I would think it would apply for mos of the Europe where we don't greet each other "how are you" without being interested in the actual answer like certain orange crazies voting nation.

Personally I thought the 6th question about the rules was the most German one, sticking to the rules no matter what (that would be actually the least Chinese one, where rules are made up just to exist, but not to enforce).

Struggled most with last two questions, too many correct options to answer.

German -33% Autistic -36%

Apparently: "You probably ended up here through social media, which means someone you follow scored either Both or German. They sent it to you as a question or a joke. You are their control group."

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by Markoff »

sersi wrote: post #50

Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German.

same goes with car quality, long gone are the times when German engineering was synonym of quality, if I had to choose something German or Japanese in the last at least 15-20 years the choice would be easy...

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by Markoff »

nickvec wrote: post #184
arkensaw wrote: post #73

I am German, not autistic. This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German. But rules are rules.

So you’re not German?

not necessarily, my kids have citizenship of my home country while daughter never lived there and son only for a year, and for none of them it's their mother tongue

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

This site is Neo-nazi propaganda. Dude's trying to sell his "courses" (read: podcast) where he espouses a... concerning list of philosophers.

Plato (like every philosophy discussion in the western world, nothing too bad yet...)

Nietzsche (thanks to his sister, very associated with the Nazis)

Heidegger (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party)

Strauss (close ties to the Nazi party, acting as their head of the Reich Music Chamber)

Schmitt (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party, and part of the government at the time)

Dugin (Nazi sympathizer, extreme far right asshole, in bed with Putin)

That's the entire list. If it was 1 or 2 of those, mixed in with a bunch of other philosophers who weren't Nazis, I wouldn't be so confident in calling it fascist. But it's not. The list of philosophers that Millerman espouses are basically a complete list of literal Nazi-aligned philosophers.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by ahofmann »

pwdisswordfishy wrote: post #126
arkensaw wrote: post #73

I am German, not autistic. This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German. But rules are rules.

So ist der Geist!

It's always funny to see people try speaking/writing german and screw it up in four words/14 characters :-)

I got 38% german, 58% autistic btw.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by kykat »

unkeen wrote: post #72
kykat wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's obvious Claude slop, a stupid meme for people who want to think they are special

Yeah, we all know that. Could it be that you're German or autistic?

According to the test, I'm completely normal, are you perhaps the autistic one? Or is the test bullshit?

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by periodjet »

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #194

This site is Neo-nazi propaganda. Dude's trying to sell his "courses" (read: podcast) where he espouses a... concerning list of philosophers. Plato (like every philosophy discussion in the western world, nothing too bad yet...) Nietzsche (thanks to his sister, very associated with the Nazis) Heidegger (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party) Strauss (close ties to the Nazi party, acting as th…

Found the autist.

Re: Am I German or Autistic?

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Post by AnnikaL »

rawgabbit wrote: post #189
injidup wrote: post #55

The test doesn't follow the correct procedures for diagnosing autism and after a thorough reading of the DSM-5-TR I could find no mention of German a mental illness being and I challenge anyone to me wrong prove.

I looked at the source code and asked Gemini to interpret. This is what it said. What is "German"? According to the website, being German is characterized by cultural patterns rather than neurological ones. It involves internalizing a specific set of values derived from the German philosophical tradition, including: Precision and Order: A deep-seated need for systematic thought and structured environments. Directness…

Is Kantian morality popular in Germany? I admittedly know few Germans but they do not seem to be especially deontological in morality.
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