Transtronaut

@Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the responses you’re getting stem from the original phrasing:

  what’s the point, evolutionarily, to self destruct after reproducing

  The question has an implicit claim that there IS a point, which people are rightly pointing out is not necessarily the case (as you have acknowledged). It certainly is an interesting question to wonder if there could be some benefit anyway, so it would probably have helped to frame it that way.

  Not saying anyone is required to meet any kind of bar in the level of discourse in a casual online forum, just an observation of cause and effect, for what it’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution doesn’t make deliberate, strategic choices. Random mutations result in new behaviors/properties that may or may not be beneficial, and selection removes those mutations that prevent reproduction from the gene pool. Not every mutation will be beneficial, but as long as it’s not harmful enough to stop reproduction, it can persist.

  If there were two groups of octopuses, one with the self-destructive behavior and one without, then there would be pressure from competition. In that situation, your point would have more of an impact. But without that pressure, there’s nothing to drive the selection. And the mutation won’t occur just because it would be helpful for it to do so - it’s random.

  At least, that’s how I understand it. I’m not a biologist or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how things are going in America today...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it’s just basic competence in governance. It’s an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the trolls?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive Had Enough in my ass

  (The Who)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨after 40 all meals are horror⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you only need to clean your spoon

  Don’t you need to clean the rice cooker?

  I’m not trying to be a smartass, I’m just that desperate that I’m hoping to find out you don’t need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pretends to be a girl online⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna leave this here in case it changes somebody’s life: medium.com/…/plight-of-the-transbian-4ab1a048b09b

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all a little crazy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trigger warning: explaining jokes in way too much detail.

  The phrasing is a reference to the “Is this a pigeon meme?” (see: knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-a-pigeon ). This is meant to indicate that this is clearly not egg_irl, but the topic of the original post seemed like something repressed trans people can relate to in hindsight. It reminded me of a common pattern among eggs where there’s a vague but insistent internal voice (not literally a voice, more like an occasional impulse) telling you to do things that you associate with your actual gender, rather than your assigned gender, with varying effects depending on the person. For example, it generally made me feel uncomfortable without understanding why, leading me to assume I simply didn’t like those things, when in fact that was more or less the opposite of the truth.

  Anyway, these sorts of things can make the idea of an unknown, voiceless, internal personality separate from your surface-level persona resonate with trans people. Add the fact that when you’re deeply involved in gender issues and transitioning, it’s so much on your mind that there’s a tendency to interpret everything as being somehow related to gender even when it isn’t, and it seemed like a good fit for the pigeon meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all a little crazy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this egg_irl?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's always gets sloppy after the bars close⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically meat sauce between burger buns. I haven’t had one in ages, but would make frequent appearances in grade school cafeterias and other events involving large amounts of children needing to be fed with low effort. I remember quite liking them; it’s basic, but great comfort food, and easy to eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with Epic Games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and I don’t remember Half-life being the game that introduced the world to horse armor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guys!!! It gets good around chapter 1176.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely a one-piece swimsuit.