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- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 4 days ago:
Your full name should be [FirstName] Mc[FirstNameFace]
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 6 days ago:
(if i pay for it i might as well use it + more privacy)
I think you’d be paying for, but not using, your Internet bandwidth/speeds at that point
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 week ago:
At a certain level of wealth, we should be taxing wealth quarterly.
Grant an exception for a single place of residence (sure, let it be magnificent, whatever, but only 1).
Wealth taxes can have brackets like income taxes do.
Also, more luxury taxes etc!
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 1 week ago:
Did you actually read my comment […]?
Yes, which is how I know that your logic didn’t make sense.
Your faulty logic didn’t upset me nearly as much as it upset you. You interpreted someone saying “it’s not common” as telling you that it never happened, and seemed to feel entitled to an explanation.
Seriously though, I don’t know why you think I’d be upset, lol
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 1 week ago:
It’s the norm
It’s not the norm
Why are you saying it’s never?
Your comment doesn’t make logical sense
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
Thank you for the correction!
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 1 week ago:
How about “hang up the phone”? “Roll down the window”?
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
People can block to “get the last word in” to make it seem like the blockee had no counter-argument and the blocker decisively won.
To me, that’s the annoying bit.
It also sometimes makes Lemmy seem “broken”, if there are missing replies or discussions you can’t see or things you can’t reply to
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 2 weeks ago:
If you wrap all your questions in that kind of stuff, I can see why you don’t always get favourable responses.
The short answer is because it’s healthcare to treat a recognized medical condition. I believe that’s predominantly or solely gender dysphoria.
Wikipedia is generally a good place to get an understanding of you are genuinely interested in learning the answers to those questions. Wikipedia isn’t a trans-rights site or anything, and is probably the closest we can get to neutral without going into peer-reviewed scientific papers (and needing to have the academic background to understand what we’re reading there).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_health_care
- en.wikipedia.org/…/Transgender_health_care_misinf…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
I’m not trans, and I haven’t researched this stuff, so I’m not the best source for this information. But I’m happy to discuss with anyone who has questions that are in good faith. There are a lot of difficult questions, and understanding it requires shifting paradigms we’ve had since we were children. It’s not easy.
- [Canada] Parliamentary petition calls for federal employees to work remotely 3 days a weekwww.ctvnews.ca ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 2 weeks ago:
OP is saying they can buy these products, but they can’t receive it for medical purposes.
The answer is that these products don’t actually have testosterone, I think
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t say that I’ve observed the same thing as you, but regardless, I don’t think that’s attributable to either president in either case.
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
There’s an edit icon on that post…
And pointing out edits is good internet etiquette. Since edits don’t change replies, someone could edit their comment and make all the replies seem unrelated etc.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Is that different since Trump’s presidency?
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
There’s definitely a lot more to it, but research tends to show that hate is learned, not innate. Making the spreading of this kind of bigotry illegal won’t make it disappear, but it will make it harder to platform. And without a platform, it becomes harder to spread. Not impossible. But harder.
- Comment on My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this? 2 weeks ago:
he quit all hard alcohol and wine and not just drinks about an 8 pack a night
…is that not borderline alcoholic? And also a ton of calories?
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a bit cherry-picked. I can’t even remember tone-policing being a defining part of Obama’s presidency…
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t base a law on “The current government is okay”
The definition of hate speech doesn’t change each time we get a new prime minister.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Without a platform, he would likely have had a much smaller impact, and likely also not even be as extreme in his views.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
as anything you don’t like can be labeled as hate speech
That’s not actually how it happens. Countries can define what is and isn’t allowed, and I don’t think “hurt feelings” are the definition for hate speech anywhere in the world.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Ban on hate speech would be like puting on a blind and thinking that you made the sun dissapear.
This isn’t true.
Think about how much more common certain kinds of rhetoric have become since Trump became president.
People (especially those with power or influence) saying things not only increases the likelihood that others will believe it, but makes it easier that these people will find validation and reinforce their beliefs.
You can be okay with that, but it’s wrong to deny that it happens.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Nah. It’s better when it’s not.
I think speech that a reasonable person would know to cause danger to others should be illegal.
Like trying to start a human stampede by yelling “fire” in a crowded stadium should be illegal. Having a club where you talk about how great it’d be if a certain group of people would be murdered, and here are some ways to get away with murder? Should be illegal.
And even if you do think that freedom of speech should include objectively harmful and dangerous speech, Americans need to understand that limits on speech can be placed in more places than not. Private places and businesses can exclude people for things people say. This is much more true on the internet, which is a global space.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to build a PC last year, but there were no sales. I considered delaying a year as RAM prices went up, but it’s looking like prices won’t even go down after 2 years. I might do it in 2027, but only if my finances are doing good.
It’d be more financially prudent to just upgrade my current (DDR4) machine.
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 3 weeks ago:
if (self.think(idea) == good) { do(idea) } else { // don’t }
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t say no other games came out. They just said that they haven’t played them.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 4 weeks ago:
Oh, the picture is an old controller? What’s different about the new one?
- Comment on Is there a split ergonomic keyboard that has dedicated arrow keys and a full row of function keys? 5 weeks ago:
Macs definitely have a way to take screenshots/snips. I know they do, because before Windows had the snipping tool, this was one thing I was jealous about Mac’s having! Haha
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 month ago:
For me, it was having a water filter and drinking out of glasses, not cups. I don’t like the way water tastes coming out of plastic or steel as much.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 month ago:
Step two, drink cup.
I think you’re supposed to drink the water, not the cup itself
- Comment on Is there a split ergonomic keyboard that has dedicated arrow keys and a full row of function keys? 1 month ago:
Huh. My Windows one has one, but I always use WindowsKey+Shift+S these days