mfed1122

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But to the Christians, misgendering is defined as calling someone by the pronouns they "actually aren't", so they would consider he/him pronouns to be misgendering Page. Their notion of misgendering has nothing to do with what the person wants to be called, it has to do with what they fundamentally are. So from that point of view, there's no contradiction in their reasoning. It's internally consistent, and so there's no "revelation" (ha ha) where they're trapped into looking like a fool as this imaginary Twitter post scenario implies. So this whole hypothetical demonstration of calling God a girl still goes nowhere. Go back to my initial dialogue. See how there's no next response for the atheist, how it ends with the atheist having nothing to say? That's why the Le Epic Win in the original post is not what it's presented to be. Its a bad argument. The argument is implicit, but it's there. It's the entire content of the post.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's implying that there's some sort of hypocrisy or logical contradiction with Christians suddenly caring about pronouns being correct when it applies to God. But that entire premise is wrong, because as someone else eloquently stated, they never claimed not to care about pronouns, in fact they care about them probably more than most transgender people. They just care about them being their version of "right". The post is very clearly meant to be some sort of gotcha or serve to Christianity. But there is no gotcha, so the whole post is stupid. Really picture the exchange:

A: "I love God, I'm so thankful for how she's blessed me."

C: "She? God is a man. He blessed you."

A: "Ohhh, so now you care about getting pronouns right, but not for someone like Elliot Page, huh?"

C: "No, I always care about getting pronouns right. That's why God is a He and Page is a she, and it pisses me off if you say either of those differently"

???

So with that in mind, we can see this post is just someone owning an imaginary strawman.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago

Idk, "🥺👉👈" was pretty wild

That isn't the part that's supposed to be funny, though. The joke is fundamentally about the linguistic ambiguity of "would you like to dance" typically implying "with me". It's something most people take for granted. So like, presented in a standup format the joke would be something like:

"Have you ever noticed that if someone asks you if you'd like to dance.... They're not saying anything about dancing together? (Audience chuckles)"

You could even structure the joke in such a way that it doesn't involve someone being a jerk, maybe you'd find that more palatable. E.g:

"So anyways, one time at the club this gorgeous lady asks me if I'd like to dance. And I'm thinking, well, sure I guess. So I went up to the floor and started... (Comedian dances ridiculously, audience laughs). And when I look back at her she looks at me like I just killed her dog or something! (Audience in shambles) and that's when I realized... Oh! You meant like... (Comedian points back and forth between himself and audience)...together? Well why didn't you just say so?! (Audience collectively dies from laughter)"

If you couldn't tell I don't really like standup, lol. But the point is that the joke isn't about misleading someone or being a jerk. Its fundamentally a language joke.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Look I think religion is stupid but so is this strawman feelgoodsy argument. So disappointing.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idk he can just make a new account using a private frontend that does all the same blocking

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

I think it's also worth noting that it's calibrated to the person's individual notion of justice. It's not like all ADHD people have the same idea of what's just or not.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

is asked for sources

begs the question instead

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably the same sort of reasons as why most American men get circumcised at birth, except for a lot less stupid. I know this is "no stupid questions", but surely this isn't the first tradition you've questioned? Why do you think this particular tradition would be any different? Hair is not so big of a deal by comparison. So maybe hair loss isn't that big of a deal to them, and it's more seen as something where you style it a cool way for awhile and then eventually it goes away. Pretty much every form of hair styling is bad for your hair really. Even blow drying and curling it, but people from all cultures pass down those techniques too.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fascinating post. So rare to see something on the internet written in the heat of a moment like this.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Really? I see a decent amount of six figure global remote frontend job postings

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It matters because tesseract was/is used by some large instances, so the tesseract dev was secretly censoring content from thousands of users without their knowledge and even without the knowledge of the instance admins. It's a pretty big deal because this means that a lot of people on Lemmy have been getting a highly censored view of the community without realizing it. A lot of those people, probably even most of them, came to Lemmy specifically to get away from that kind of thing. So its really shady, a huge breach of trust, and this single dev has been covertly influencing thousands of people's political exposure.

 

I had a strange mood today and started and finished this in one 10 hour sitting. It was excellent, but simultaneously not as excellent as I had hoped. I enjoyed lots of the short stories in Dubliners more, I think. The "avant garde" structure often felt superfluous - although not always. The color symbolism was interesting, but I felt it fell away in the second half of the book. In fact, the entire middle portion (those gigantic sermons, my god!) was a bit rough to get through. But I do appreciate that it really evoked the sensation of being in a washed out, weary, hypnosis sort of state - and it did leave a psychological impression in the following sections, like you really "remembered" that part of Stephen's life. The discussion on Stephen's philosophy of art was the highlight for me, along with a bunch of tiny little fragments of test that felt like beautiful lucid clear thoughts. It did evoke the feeling of going through life in a largely automatic blur, with a few powerful moments sticking out. I especially enjoyed that the powerful moments were often completely mundane events made powerful only via Stephen's feelings in the moment. His struggles with expressing and capturing this elusive sensation were beautifully portrayed. And the switch to first-person at the end felt delightful in its regressive irony (according to Stephen's point of view), as it represented the "lyrical form" in some rough sense.

Anyways, curious if anyone else has thoughts on it to share. I couldn't find any discussion online about the red/white color symbolism. I interpreted it as a representation of cold lifeless religiosity vs hot vivacious "mundanity". But I'm not sure if the York/Lancaster origination of the symbols is meant to lend more to it, etc., or if maybe I've missed that entirely. The green and maroon were clearly political and I found lots of discussion on that. I'd love to hear what anyone else's favorite/least favorite aspects were.

 

I was reading this post https://lemmy.world/post/3049732 and it seems like there are lots of different desires and uses for people to want to hide certain types of content.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this: sometimes I do want to hide memes, sometimes I want to hide politics, etc. But sometimes I want to hide different things. That is, some days I come to Lemmy for comica and memes, other days for news, other days for discussion or technology, etc.

It might be a cool feature to let people create different "viewing modes" or "content filter profiles" or something like that. So I could have a "sports profile" that only shows certain communities of my choice, a "politics profile" etc. Not entirely sure if it would make more sense for these lists to be inclusive or exclusive or what. But the idea would be that I could edit and save these profiles and select between them in my user settings.

I don't want to post this as an enhancement suggestion in the Lemmy git repo so willy-nilly though, figured I'd ask on Lemmy first if anyone else thinks this is desirable? Personally I think it could have a huge payoff while not being too technically challenging or taxing from an instance data management standpoint. It may allow people to engage with Lemmy in a much more healthy and enjoyable way, using it sometimes for comfort, sometimes for information, etc. depending on their mood and needs. Basically, blocking is a great and powerful feature to improve a user's experience, but I hardly ever block any communities because I often will want to see that sort of content sometimes without needing to go directly to the community.

If others think this sounds nice, I would be happy to post it on the Lemmy repo as well as try to contribute code for the feature. But I'd really like input first, especially on whether it should be inclusive or exclusive lists, or something expose UI to choose (seems to risk bloat imo), or any other suggestions.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

With all the dismal news about America lately, my home, I'm starting to seriously look at where else to move.

Putting aside for now the difficulty of actually immigrating to some countries, I'm curious on the opinions of others (especially people living outside the U.S) on this.

What I'm looking for in a country is, I imagine, similar to many people. I'm trying to find somewhere that will exhibit:

  • Low racism
  • Low sexism
  • Low LGBTQ-phobia
  • Strong laws around food quality and safety
  • Strong laws about environmental protection
  • Strong laws against unethical corporate practices (monopoly, corruption, lobbying, etc)
  • Strong laws for privacy
  • Good treatment of mentally ill, homeless, and impoverished people

Those are the real important things. Of course the nice-to-haves are almost too obvious to be worth listing, low cost of living, strong art and cultural scene, nice environment, and so on.

My actual constraints that might really matter are that I only speak English (and maybe like A1-2 level German). It seems incredibly intimidating to try to find employment somewhere when I can hardly speak the language.

I know nowhere on Earth is perfect, just curious what people may have to suggest. I hope this question isn't too selfish to ask here.

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