Tiresia
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- Comment on Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights 3 hours ago:
They don’t want women’s toilets to be safe, they just want trans people to die. Trans men going to women’s toilets and making people uncomfortable as they are legally required to will inevitably be spun into trans people being dangerous and unavoidably incompatible with the rest of society.
This will allow them to argue for the necessity of queer ghettoes, as people in general use public toilets can not realistically give informed consent about having scary trans people in their spaces.
There may be an intermediate/parallel step where they’ll require trans people to give people the opportunity for informed consent. Legally require them announce themselves at the door, to wait for people who don’t consent to leave, and to hang up a sign notifying people that a trans person is using this toilet right now. Trans people that want their privacy back are free to move to a ghetto and use the unisex toilets there.
I give it until 2028 before trans people have to identify themselves in public spaces, until 2030 before children are forcefully removed from trans parents, and 2032 before life expectancy in trans concentration camps drops to under 10 years. Unless people left of labor take power electorally or otherwise.
- Comment on Trans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It? 1 day ago:
In the UK, a car bomb is more traditional.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 days ago:
God forbid a woman doesn’t want to hang out with you.
(repeat for all women until no woman wants to hang out with you)
- Comment on It's about the *option* 4 days ago:
Base rate’s a bitch.
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 5 days ago:
On the plus side, this isn’t a problem with AI, this is a problem with AI companies having more investment money than they know what to do with. The moment the hype fades and they don’t want to hemmorage money scraping every wiki on the internet thousands of times per day, this traffic will go back to a far more sane amount.
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
How fast space expands is described by general relativity. For the space between atoms to expand faster than the speed of light, you need a shitload of energy crammed together very densely, like a galaxy worth of stuff in every atom. This is called cosmic inflation, and it’s what happened during (and possibly before) the first part of the big bang.
We don’t know exactly how there can be this much energy in this little space, or where it all went, but we do know it was there because there are waves imprinted on the density of the universe.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
This is actually the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. It was built by the Nazis in the 1930s.
- Comment on Immigrants don't take our jobs 1 week ago:
Imagine doing useful work because there is work to be done. Now imagine having more people to do that useful work with so more work gets done.
Capitalism is fucking stupid.
- Comment on Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public 2 weeks ago:
The system is behaving as intended, and as it always has. The suffragettes were treated just as harshly.
- Comment on British Steel to Be Nationalised, Saving Thousands of Jobs 2 weeks ago:
How about instead we force taxpayers to pay the shareholders of a failing company a hundred thousand pounds per worker whose job is being saved?
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 5 weeks ago:
Things will get more expensive as the consequences of US foreign and domestic policy pile up. If your family can’t afford you to take a pay cut, understand that your family will be under water within the next few years regardless of what you do, and prepare accordingly. Given you will not be able to get what you need with money, how can you increase your chances of getting it through other means?
For me, at least, the easiest option is to join solidarity networks. Unionizing, sharing appliances, dumpster diving, learning trades and skills from each other, cooking communally to reduce waste and save time, squatting, etc.
And if you can’t afford to live given that, you’ll be far from the only one. So maybe join the others that are trying to change the system.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 5 weeks ago:
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over* the hardware I fucking purchased*.
Open source android forks exist. Open source operating systems exist. Phones that natively run both exist. Do you mean that you specifically enjoy having maginal control, no more, no less?
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 5 weeks ago:
It would be a big deal for someone to only come out as nonbinary when they’re old enough to be an ensign on a starship. How many times in high school did they say “No, I’m not nonbinary, I’m just a girl”? How many times did they insist to their parents on getting a girly thing because they wanted to fit in with a feminine friend group?
Social anxiety is always a valid emotion, even if you know the society is progressive enough that it isn’t really a big deal.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t intepret it as multi-layered so much as generating a new “layer” when the previous one ended. It’s like how false awakening doesn’t actually require multiple layers of dreams, it’s just you dreaming about waking up in the same way you might dream about going to the beach.
- Comment on Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland 5 weeks ago:
For saving him from his
antizioni*cough* pardon me, from his internalized antisemitism?I mean, he can certainly try.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 5 weeks ago:
On the other hand, they actually get to talk to the people they make food for which is a nice human moment, the restaurant doesn’t lose money to some shitty app company, you might be more likely to give a good tip to somoene you speak to, and the workers get paid by the hour. As long as there’s at least one worker who enjoys taking calls as a way to get a break from the kitchen, everybody benefits.
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 1 month ago:
The chlorination of a public swimming pool is deadly to sperm, so I imagine the chances on a spaceship are a lot higher.
Also “easily seeing and avoiding” is just not realistic. You don’t have eyes on your vulva that are focused on checking for stray sperm globs 24/7.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
I’m saying to check theory when and only when you have a problem you don’t have a satisfying answer to. That will happen a lot, but each time you will be motivated by the problem, and eventually you may learn to trust a theory enough to appreciate reading about problems you haven’t faced yet.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
Boredom isn’t a lack of entertainment, it’s a lack of interest. Learning something challenging feels frustrating, captivating, even maddening, but never boring.
I can’t really argue with you about this because I’m just pulling from my own personal experiences here.
In the business, that’s called “anecdotal evidence”. The reason you can’t argue with me is because anecdotal evidence is kind of irrelevant compared to the statistical observation that children spend decades reaching a median fifth grade reading level.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
I assume you’re talking about
No, I’m talking about you, dear liberal hippie, having a community that can survive a transition away from capitalism. Once you have that you can talk about the finer details like what to do once you’ve survived or what to do with the labor left over after you’ve done what is necessary to survive.
Unlike the USSR, we now live in a world where food production is highly commercialized, globalized, and industrialized. What if John Deere used Starlink to brick every tractor in your revolutionary polity with a malicious software update? What if the same happened with every food processing factory and food warehouse?
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
If they are interested in it, then why is it boring to them? Genuine question.
There is value in learning things that at first glance seem boring or dry.
Is there? If the school system is any indication, people can spend literal years studying things they find boring without retaining them. Plus they can develop a hatred for the subject. Plus all sorts of bad intellectual habits like pretending they know the answer so they’re allowed to move on.
I agree that things that feel boring to someone can turn out to be important to them, but that’s a contextualization issue, not a nose-to-the-grindstone one. As the game design adage goes; you have to show the lock before having them hunt for the key.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
Things seeming boring and dry is your mind telling you that you’re trying to learn something that isn’t interesting to you. Fancy tricks to hide that core truth won’t undo it.
Why do you think you want to learn Marxist theory? To have status among leftists? Go punch a Nazi. To understand modern or historical leftists? Their actions aren’t guided by Marxist theory. To have status among political theorists, economists, and liberals? Lol. Lmao even.
To gleam a better way to have a succesful revolution that results in a better society? Okay, cool, do you have a community of people that won’t starve to death within days of trade being cut off? If no, congratulations, now you know all Marxist theory that you need to know until you do have such a community.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
Almost as if this one guy is just a figurehead for a larger political movement.
- Comment on The End of an Era 1 month ago:
The last time everybody was touching a solid object connected to the Earth by touching other solid objects is probably around 15,000 years ago, when humans crossed over into the Americas. Before then, it would probably occur regularly that nearly all humans are asleep and the handful that are awake happen to all be touching the ground.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
But perception is for a large part embedded in memory, which differs individually. For me steel foundries smell amazing because I used to play on the beach near a steel foundry, to the point I need to put effort into understanding that it’s actually kind of acrid. So am I still “having the same perception” as someone who doesn’t have the lived experience?
This can happen at a society-wide level too. Liminal beige and seafoam green were not intended to create a feeling of disquiet, but of calm neutrality. Modern audiences perceive them as disquieting because they have been systematically used in our society to impose a sense of calm on un-calm situations, such as operating rooms or hallways in sketchy buildings.
I honestly don’t know how much of the commonality of associations across cultures comes from instinct and how much comes from the fact that all children learn to live on the same planet with the same physical laws. I would bet that for 99.9% of children, their first experience with a strong sulphur smell is going to be from rotten eggs (or similar rotten goods) that others act disgusted by. So the fact that sulphur smells disgusting to the vast majority of adults is not evidence for instinct over memory. The same goes for green plants, red blood, blue skies, etc.
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 1 month ago:
The goal isn’t what you assume it is. You’re projecting your own goals and concerns onto those men.
My guess would be exhibitionism. They get sexual gratification from acting sexually towards women regardless of how those women feel about it. As for women talking to each other, that’s less of a risk on dating apps, and even irl it has never been decent at preventing sexual offenders from having plenty of victims.
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 1 month ago:
Please block this subreddit, it’s meant for questions like this.
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 1 month ago:
So you hate Valve for creating gambling infrastructure, for taking a massive slice out of developers’ paychecks on every purchase, and using sales to get people to make FOMO purchases, right? Right?
