Skydancer @ Skydancer @pawb.social

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Florida.

At the nation-state level with an ex-president target, pumping heated liquid through the arteries of a dead body isn't much of an obstacle.

Probably not actually what they did, but seriously people - a single biometric security factor is not going to secure anything when a government has the body and actually cares about getting in.

No need to - "gay bashing" is unambiguous and hasn't been used for decades to describe criticism of gay gangs that go around clubbing trans people to death.

Acknowledging that Zionists have robbed the word "antisemitic" of its meaning is the first step in reclaiming the word. The second step is to use other words to describe actual antisemitism so that people understand it still exists. The third is to refuse to allow Zionists to continue conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

You asked how to describe it, and I engaged with you in good faith to provide an answer. You responded with a second rhetorical device, and I engaged for the benefit of other readers. I won't bother a third time.

[Edit: I removed the last paragraph after initially posting, being unsure I was responding to the same user in both cases. When I re-added it after confirming, I used slightly different language. Their quote of "rhetorical trick" below matches the original wording, and is a legitimate quote of my response]

A hate crime.

Nobody has ever done anything until they did. You're not really saying much there.

While we're at it though, no previous president has ever won reelection with an approval rating below 48% either. Biden's hasn't polled that high in over a year and a half.

Because we don't. The old name was "Sex Reassignment Surgery" (SRS), but the new names are "Gender Affirming Surgery" and "Gender Confirmation Surgery".

Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don't wanna see you ...

So basically Biden with a less shitty stance on Palestine. I'll take it!

We expect biden to.

No we don't. Some of us believe there's a shadow of a prayer he might be pushed into it by Democrat party leaders and his own advisors, but even the politicos calling for his withdrawal have been clear that they expect him to lurch his way to an electoral disaster.

I see the down votes, but I took this as a Wag the Dog reference. They're pointing out just how terrible an idea it is for Biden and the democrats to keep trying to sleepwalk through this election while Trump and the republicans pull out all the rhetorical stops.

Which is honestly a better ratio than I would have expected.

Same as it ever was.

The context is that the original version of the keyboard didn't have the q a and z keys on the right side at all. QMK and similar keyboard firmwares have features that let a key send one code when tapped and a different code when held or pressed, and even another when double tapped.

The keyboard designer made themself a keyboard where ESC, Tab, and Shift keys were set up to send q, a, and z on a quick tap, and got so many comments on multiple videos asking how they could possibly use a keyboard missing three letters that they made another keyboard with the three cockeyed keys added on the right as a joke.

There are two sides to the equation though - depopulation and repopulation. Hate and discrimination may not be causing (most of) the exodus, but inclusion and acceptance could be part of the solution. I've known more than a few people who have wanted to move to rural areas but have avoided them for exactly that reason. The braver ones have made the move, but only as a group able to support and protect each other.

Favorite would be a highly customized zsh.

fizsh (not fish) is what I actually end up using, as I can't be bothered to copy that config around and retune it for each machine. Gives me the syntactic sugar of zsh with common default options on by default, an OK default prompt, and doesn't break POSIX assumptions like fish. Also Installs quickly from the package manager without needing to run through the zsh setup each time - unlike oh-my-zsh. And if I still need customization, all the zsh options are still there.

Here you go, but it appears to be down at the moment.

No - it was the language that I said was transphobic, not the author. Given that there were two different word choices ("transsexual" and "perceived gender") that reinforced each other, it seems more likely than not that they reflected the mindset of the author, but not having looked further for their other writings I was not sure. That's why I said " transphobic language" and not "transphobic author".

More, but there's an even simpler solution. In the context, the author is distinguishing between "sex assigned at birth" and "perceived gender." The equivocating word " perceived" could simply be dropped with no loss of clarity.

There's nothing wrong with the example in and of itself, but the word "transsexual" in place of "transgender" is not generally random. It is explicitly chosen by Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) as well as by right-wing transphobes as a dog whistle to conflate gender dysphoria with drag queens and cross-dess fetishists so as to delegitimise transpeople and suggest some sort of sexual deviance. Coupled with the equivocation of "perceived" gender, motive doesn't even have to come into it. The words themselves and the concepts they reinforce are transphobic and harmful.

A witch hunt would have been for me to say that the author is a transphobic asshole whose writings need to be wiped from the internet - which is very far from what I actually posted, which was regret for the way the language they chose distracted from the flow of their argument by reinforcing the social stigmatization of trans people. (Edit: That was a deliberate choice on my part. Not knowing enough about the author to be sure of motives and having no desire to deep dive into their history, I decided that it was only appropriate to point out the hurtful nature of the language and not imply motive.)

A well argued point. Could have done without the random transphobic comments about "transsexuals" and "perceived gender".