bss03
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I’m also on Mastodon as hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 days ago:
Yes, it turns out if you want to use the mechanisms of the legal system to try to counter the marginalization of any group by the whole system, it has to recognize them in law and provide a method for distinguishing them in practice.
But, once you have some method of distinguishing them, the people that want to strengthen hierarchical structures will use that to identify them and (further) marginalize them.
This is true whether you are talking about chromosomal properties, internal anatomy, external anatomy (not limited to genital shape, but also melanin quantity and distribution), gender-assigned-at-birth, current gendered behavior, religious practices or associations, etc.
Still legal recognition might be the best way to reduce harm until we can achieve a future where the category or distinguishing characteristics no longer make one a target of (extra-judicial) marginalization.
- Comment on 10 reasons why we should move Israel to Utah 1 week ago:
I was misremembering the location, he wanted it a bit further south: the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/quote/1422/
- Comment on 10 reasons why we should move Israel to Utah 1 week ago:
Didn’t Sheldon propose this in an episode of TBBT?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t sure, so I checked the comments. My suspicions where raised because it seemed like a lot of image editing effort for the joke and also the glass looked wrong-ish.
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you’re-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
“embarrassed” is not “embarazo”
- Comment on Legos. 2 weeks ago:
At the very least, they’ll be shitting bricks.
- Comment on Anon was a cub scout 2 weeks ago:
!ThatHappened@your.instance
- Comment on tag yourself 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, while the individual 8 tones are the same. Once you start chording, A minor still sounds different from C major. On the grasping hand, there are some chords that are effectively shared so a complex piece can “disguise” one as the other.
- Comment on tag yourself 5 weeks ago:
My improvisations on a keyboard are always somewhere between A minor and C minor. I only use the 2 minor keys in between for key changes.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
own up to some egregious offense
Well, I’m not coping to it here, but I’d say it is worse than “hurt feelings”.
you are probably over estimating your ability to impact the world
Definitely this, too. Thinking I’m more impactful than I am is a source of some of my own suffering.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
Complete disagree. I’ve been accused of intentions I didn’t have and ascribed intentions to others that didn’t have them. Even in face-to-face communications, we are really just guessing at intent and it is often quite opaque.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
You’re leaving out some details.
Well, yes, I usually am, but I thought I included sufficient, relevant detail. If not, please educate me or let me know where I can educate myself; I would like to do better in the future.
Mr mountain top
My inference here is that you are implying I find myself morally, ethically, or spiritually superior. I do not. I’ve made bad decisions that have hurt people in the past. I don’t have any particular insight. And, I have been very lucky, so my experience being marginalized or exploited is limited.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
Men* shouldn’t act like hungry bears. Society at large shouldn’t have to assume there’s a significant risk that an an unrestrained man will act like a hungry bear. That includes in mixed saunas.
The fear of being a trapped seal is, currently, fairly well-justified. It would be nice to change that.
*: No persons should, but the problems are mostly cis men, like myself.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure there are also circles where less-clothed social events do happen where not everyone at the event is already mutually acquainted. While I’ve never been to those event myself and haven’t be told the social protocols explicitly, I would assume that if you aren’t crashing the event, you are allowed to speak to less-clothed persons you’ve not met before, to introduce yourself at least.
(I’m not a pretty person, so I think I’d be even more uncomfortable that such events than I am at other social events.)
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 5 weeks ago:
Here’s the “rule”: The first time you speak to someone they should be fully clothed, unless there is a clothing malfunction you are attempting to resolve and that requires spoken communication.
It’s fine to make friends at the gym, tho that’s not what I’m ever there for. It’s fine to talk in the sauna, to people you are already on speaking terms with. It’s not okay to see someone in the sauna, appreciate their body, and use that as motivation to talk to them for the first time.
- Comment on Lil fella 1 month ago:
I know! He needs the World’s Smallest Violin.
- Comment on Love 1 month ago:
I feel like that’s a relevant Eleanor Shellstrop (character from “The Good Place”) quote here, but I couldn’t find it in my Internet searching.
- Comment on Love 1 month ago:
West is left
Only when you are facing north. If you are facing south, it is to your right.
I’m assuming your post was missing a “/s”, intentionally or not. But, replying as if your post was not sarcastic.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 month ago:
The colonizers that founded America (the puritans) were the people from Europe that hated sex and nudity.
The love of violence came later, but was the American will ever since manifest destiny and the Monroe Doctrine.
As an American born in 1980, we’ve always been the crazy ones.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 month ago:
My passion is full-stack but high-level programming.
In the apocalypse, I’ll be okay at lifting and carrying things.
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 1 month ago:
I think it’s Zac from Earth two, where his “Knight’s Concerning Oath” in started with rooster instead of goose.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 1 month ago:
Having worked on POS software, I can guarantee you we do not have “metadata for products on lock”.
Manufacturers will sometimes reuse the same UPC even though the packaging is fairly different. The UPC doesn’t contain the price, size, or any size – it is just a convenient look up for whatever POS the retailer uses, and for systems targeting independent retailers, that might be maintained mostly manually, though some warehousing associations might provide and importable list.
In large retailers sometimes the smart tags are controlled using a system that doesn’t even deal with UPCs, just images / webpages, shelf locations, and schedules.
Buyer beware, indeed.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 month ago:
It’s not clear that photo has anything to do with the headline. Several others in the thread have found that photo attached to other, similar events.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 month ago:
What’s the cut-off for “nature”? I mean, it’s not like DNA tests grow wild on the PCR plains, and it seems to me that the DNA test was the “tattle tale”.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 month ago:
Ask for Jenny.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
No.
That is a separate and still valid point. Even if you are visiting a food bank, you still have all your same allergies, sensitivities, and preferences. The food bank itself will have a better idea of what they need to hand out.
I’m saying that even if the food bank needs 20 cans of cranberry sauce, instead of you buying for $$$ and donating them, it is better for you to donate $$$. The food bank can then buy the cranberry sauce for $$, and also buy some green beans for the leftover $. Your dollars buy more of everything when you give them to the book bank instead of buying the products yourself.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
Came here to say this. Everyone I’ve ever talked to that worked at a food pantry has guaranteed me that they can get more food from $$$ than you can donate for the same $$$.
I’m sure that the economics could change, so if you can engage with you local food pantry and confirm their preference, that would be best. But, if you just want to drive-by donate $$$ > food >>> nothing.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 months ago:
Firefox.
I think the instance (infosec.pub) re-wrote the URL, but either did it wrong, or didn’t also successfully mirror the image.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 months ago:
I guess it’s just my instance, but your post doesn’t show an inline image to me.