OneMeaningManyNames @ whydudothatdrcrane @lemmy.ml

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Anti-authoritarian is a word, so there's that.

In all good faith, I am an anarchist who found ml randomly from some Privacy/Open Source searches. I signed up because I thought it was cool to be admitted in the flagship instance and I liked the anti-bigotry guidelines. Then I found out about all the drama, and I have zero fucks to give about inter-instance beefs. ML let's me be, and I had no serious issues so far, I mostly like the crowd there, coming from Reddit even more so.

What is the real joke is categorizing people by which Lemmy instance they sign up to, and justifying it with a weak truism that "people self select for communities". I believe it is utterly stupid, and t can also be motivated. In Lemmy.ml I have met some of the brighter minds of our generation.

This "instance tribalism" is beneath me. You can't ignore this comment, it will live rent free in your head.

Say what you want about psychoanalysis, but if this isn't a defense mechanism against owning their own tendencies, then I don't know what it is.

Wow, that's good to know. Did you know the blocking feature in Activity Pub also ended up there because of queer and feminist people?

Also reminds me of Party Block, a discontinued Twitter blocking app developed by a feminist tech-startup. And Shinigami Eyes of course. The blocking system of BlueSky seems to have best of both worlds. This is exciting!

Probably they mean server as in Discord server. Whether that's accurate for Rocket chat they based it off, I don't know.

Well, pro-trans and pro-gay hacks both I guess.

This is interesting. Why build on the backs? Did trans people contribute to it a lot, or are we talking about the early user base?

Wait what happened here? Did the GPT understand what the hooman did not? R O F L

Right? There is so much more juice in the article. Plus a honorary mention to the gay furry hacking of Heritage Foundation some time ago.

It gives hope, innit?

they dont know how to tell when someone is trans even though they’re convinced they do

The word you are looking for is "entitled" to know when someone is trans. The sight of a passing trans person causes them existential terror.

Fellas is it gay to have sex with a woman?

This is not the first time that this paradox pops up. Couple years ago I heard the same thing for people who want assertive women, sexually speaking. So, any divergence from heteronormative roles in the most rigid sense is considered "gay".

Man dial it down a bit, I am combating transphobic ignorance on Lemmy almost full time. I am just worried that the only ones seeing our good arguments are you and me. Otherwise, I won't respond to that tone.

Exactly. I said it is so good that more people should see it.

Let's do our part people and stop downvoting each other...

The borrow checker checks literally that you don't take foreign things, so there is that.

Nice, but what have you done today so that more people see this info, so that we have less next door ignorance like what is manifested all over Lemmy?

the consequences like rental cars costing three times as much because 19-year-olds are fucking stupid

This is a slippery slope fallacy. People are arguing in favor of a careful, suitable, medical treatment, not in favor of utter relentlessness. Unless gender is that important to your worldview, that society is at risk of immediate collapse because of gender affirming care??

People over 25 can do whatever the fuck they want. It varies for 18, 21 etc

Exactly. And other things people can do at 16, that they can't do at 12. Do you have specific arguments[^1] about the age range of gender affirming care?

A trans person in their 25-30's having undergone puberty will have to undergo expensive and painful procedures that could not undo all of the unwanted effects of puberty. Do you think this is a better outcome? Experts don't!

And most importantly: What do you think gender-affirming care is?

[^1]: Logic dictates that if you suggest a range like >25yo, you should back it up with arguments, other than "gender transition sounds scary so I should restrict it for anyone looking for it"

Oh, I got one of my own: The notion that Linux is for enthusiasts that spend most of the time tweaking their computer, and therefore Linux can't be used by an end user who just want to get things done.

Close to this is the classic adage: "Linux is only free if you don't value your time" which is an extension that assumes that extensive tweaking is necessary to get to work, not an option available to the power user.

(But they still complain when Microsoft fucks over their workflow on every update. It is a double standard because Microsoft is "a brand", so yes, I will say it is a Linux-specific bias.)

disdain for C programmers, from LISP programmers, in the Unix Hater’s Handbook (1994)

I'm definitely looking that up.