exocrinous
@exocrinous@startrek.website
- Comment on Autism 15 hours ago:
The world of matter is an illusion created by the mind. The true reality of the world is a network of conscious agents. Everything really is alive.
- Comment on Beans 1 day ago:
Hey, we still laugh at scientists who propose good ideas
- Comment on Anon hates his neighbors 1 day ago:
But he doesn’t want different neighbours. He loves Sponge and Pat.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 day ago:
If you like the tactics soulism adds to the leftist arsenal, you should read the soulist manifesto at soulism.net. There’s only a few dozen of us, but after reading the manifesto, I saw some pretty huge failures in the mainstream leftist worldview. Most leftists want to win a material victory against Capital, but they categorically refuse to deconstruct the social reality created by Capital to control us. Socially, they’re reactive. They take the way their opponent describes the world at face value and only disagree when the scientific method disagrees. But most of our reality is social, not scientific, and the scientific method doesn’t help you with that. The mainstream right is much better at crafting realities - a process we soulists call magic - than the mainstream left is. Escaping the body prison doesn’t really help if you can’t even begin to challenge the mind prison.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
I thought so. As a soulist, I’m interested in deconstructing and remixing social constructs into forms that benefit social justice. I noticed the hypocrisy of transphobes crying wolf about kids going through irreversible changes, and figured out it takes next to zero effort to use their own language. In appropriating the forms of our enemies’ arguments, we reduce their disagreement with us down to its fundamental form - in this case, a religious belief in genetic destiny. That’s the only thing setting their arguments of “for the children” apart from my arguments of “for the children”. And this is a much harder thing for a bystander to accept unquestioningly than “for the children”. I like showing bystanders what’s really setting our enemies apart from us.
Think of it like rhetorical kung fu. Using the opponent’s force against them
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
It’ll start right back up again completely naturally as soon as you stop taking the pills. The pills are hormone blockers. The gonads still produce sex hormones, but the blockers react with the hormones and render them inert. The inert hormones are passed as urine like any other waste product in the blood. A few days after you stop taking the blockers, they’ll run out and the sex hormones will start expressing themselves just like they would in someone who never took the blockers. Puberty will begin (or resume) just as nature planned.
The only side effect is that you won’t go through puberty. Unfortunately, this does mean you’ll have a child’s amount of bone density, which is not good for a lifetime. But there’s absolutely 0 risk in delaying puberty until age 18. You’ll just grow up slower, the same as any late bloomer.
Hormone blockers are actually a component in an adult trans person’s hormone replacement therapy. To take me as an example, I have a pair of testes which produce testosterone. So I take an antiandrogen; a testosterone blocker, to suppress the effects. And I take estrogen pills so that I have a female blood chemistry. When I started taking hormone pills, my body reacted just like any teenage girl’s body. I got softer skin, mood swings, and better hair. I tell you what, having the emotions of a teenage girl as an adult is an absolute trip. I’m glad they’ve settled down since then. Some trans women I know even got period cramps, despite not having a uterus. I don’t envy them.
The body is genetically programmed to respond to sex hormones in a certain way. It doesn’t matter what you were born as, everyone’s organs, muscles, bones, and brain have a genetic programming that responds to estrogen one way, and testosterone another way. The potential is already inside every living human. That potential remains there for your entire life. Puberty blockers can’t do anything to take it away.
If I ever stopped taking my testosterone blocker, I’d start growing bigger muscles and hair in strange places. My body would resume functioning like a male body. One day I’ll get my testes removed, and I’ll never have to worry about that again. But that surgery is only available to adults, and it requires a psychiatric assessment. I’ve been openly trans for years and years and I’m still not allowed to do it yet. There’s absolutely no risk of a child going through the procedure without the absolute greatest caution, and a very urgent, life-saving need. And even if a horrible one in a billion mistake was made, they could just give the kid hormone pills the same as I take in order to restore their original sexual chemistry.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
That’s not true, but I wish it was. I wish everyone who tried to argue against saving children’s lives was pressured out of it by being called a murderer. Instead, murderers like Robert Galbraith are freely appearing in parliament to argue in favour of this legislation.
And I know you can’t tell from the headline, but this new rule against sex ed in schools also prohibits telling children what parts of their body are not okay for an adult to touch. Thanks to this new law, we will have a generation of children who are unable to report sexual abuse. Anyone who is in favour of this law is aiding and abetting pedophiles and getting children raped.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
No, that’s not true at all. I was pretty clearly nonbinary growing up, but every adult told me that natural puberty was a good thing and there was no way to avoid it. They didn’t tell me that puberty blockers were an option. They should have. It would only be 2 years after reaching natural puberty that I realised I was trans. 2 years of puberty blockers might have made a huge difference to my life. I was sure as shit rushed by every adult I knew into transitioning into a man, just because I was born with a penis.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 3 days ago:
You’re a murderer of children.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 3 days ago:
Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn’t 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn’t. I don’t care whether those hormones come from a pill or from a gonad. They can make an informed decision whether to continue with puberty when they’re 16-18
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 3 days ago:
Trans people know they should be the other gender and that puberty causes massive permanent changes to their body they are horrified by. They often do not know that everyone else around them’s deepest fantasy isn’t to wake up one day as the other sex.
Can confirm. As a kid, I saw a lot of jokes about how horrible puberty is. I thought everyone felt the same way as me, since they all acted like it.
- Comment on Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? 3 days ago:
It’s a good thing we have you around to sarcastically lecture victims of genocide on why doing anything about the genocide is a bad thing and we should actually just blame a politician while doing absolutely nothing. Why, if brave heroes like you weren’t around to speak truth to power and advocate apathy, then people might actually get it into their heads to do something to lessen the impacts of genocide
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 6 days ago:
Using my sense of affective empathy, I see that you’re scared of me because I’m disabled. Using my sense of cognitive empathy, I make an educated guess that you’ve accepted a bunch of stereotypes about disabled people as true without seriously checking them. Putting myself in your shoes, I can only imagine I would take such a confrontational stance with someone just for how they were born, if I was scared absolutely shitless. Drawing on my own experience as a person living with NPD, and factoring in your lack of experience, I don’t believe at all what you’re saying about neurotypicals having empathy for people with NPD by default and making a conscious choice to turn it off. I’ve been in thousands of situations where a neurotypical interacted with a person living with NPD, involving thousands of neurotypicals. I only know of one time you’ve been in such a situation.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 6 days ago:
Sorry, but my empathy is very deeply impaired and there’s almost nothing I can do about it. The empathy I feel for others is very finely tuned, I have plenty of it, I always know and understand what other people are feeling. But the empathy I GET from others is nearly nothing. I receive an impaired sense of empathy from neurotypicals. Other people with NPD have been very kind to me, but neurotypicals make a choice not to put in the 10% extra effort it takes to feel empathy for a person with NPD. That’s why you think I’m toxic. You’re choosing not to feel empathy for me. You’re choosing not to understand the position I’m in, and so when I complain about a problem or try to fix it, you think I’m complaining about nothing.
The only thing I can do to resolve my problems with empathy is to campaign for greater recognition of the fact that we disabled people ARE people. Whether you choose to listen is something entirely out of my control.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
I’ve never been toxic on Lemmy, and I’ve never violated the rules of an instance or community I was commenting on.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
I’m quite open about being Drone Rights. I’ve never hidden it. Some people have tried to gotcha with “you’re drone rights”, and I said “yes… That’s obvious. I even moderate the community from this account.” But there’s another person who is closeted about their gender and has been accused of being me by an instance admin who claims to have access to secret logs that say we’re the same person. Given that I have faced massive amounts of harassment, abuse, and transphobia for being openly dronegender, and they are not open about their gender, you can see how I would not want them to be exposed to people like you.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
I told you they did a bad job doxxing me. You didn’t fact check shit. You just tried to take a peak at someone else’s private information. There are privacy-respecting methods of fact checking that would actually work in this situation, and you didn’t use them.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
Also, if I’m understanding the situation correctly, you heard that I got doxxed, went to go look for my private information, got upset when you couldn’t find it, and yelled at me about it? Why’s it so precious for you to want my private information? What’s with this harassment?
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
Hey, so is abuse of the modlog by admins and mods on remote instances going to lead to defederation?
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t have made a public comment about the issue if the db0 admin had done a good enough job at it that you’d be able to look it up. Then I’d be the one doing the doxxing, what with the Streisand effect. I told you the db0 admin did a bad job. But jumping straight to accusations of lying just because you didn’t pay attention? What’s your grudge against me?
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 1 week ago:
Yeah, it really is. Because modlog actions are federated and irreversible, mod logs are a form of speech that cannot be suppressed in any way. If you search up a user, you see what every mod on the whole fediverse has to say about them, and there’s no way to argue back. It’s the perfect tool for harassment and doxxing. One of the db0 admins even tried (and did a bad job) to dox me using the modlog.
- Comment on bugs 1 week ago:
Taxonomy is a conspiracy invented by neckbeards so they could “um ackshually” us when we call a bug a bug.
- Comment on Stop right there 1 week ago:
“Wow,” says a puddle in a ditch. “This ditch is shaped exactly like me. If it weren’t for the ditch’s precise shape, I couldn’t have formed here. I’m really lucky.” The puddle, of course, has never seen a puddle in a different ditch and never realised that puddles come in many shapes.
- Comment on Stop right there 1 week ago:
Watch Don’t Look Up. It’s about an asteroid heading for earth in our current political climate
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
If I built a robot pigeon that can fly, scavenge for crumbs, sing matings calls, and approximate sex with other pigeons, is that an AGI? It can’t read or write or talk or compose music or draw or paint or do math or use the scientific method or debate philosophy. But it can do everything a pigeon can. Is it general or not? And if it’s not, what makes human intelligence general in a way that pigeon intelligence isn’t?
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
I still think AI has its place as a useful term in video games development
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Humans are easier to indoctrinate than sapient robots, because human biases are predictable.
Fascist politician: the Jews are stealing your money to cause the downfall of your race! They’re even breeding your children with black people to destroy you!
Human reaction: yeah, that makes sense
Robot reaction: …why tho?
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
And who decides what a true bug is, huh? Bullshit pseudoscientific taxonomists?
- Comment on What a fun gi 1 week ago:
I don’t see any funny letters here
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
Constant Nobles.