SaraTonin
@SaraTonin@lemmy.world
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 1 hour ago:
Maybe wait a few decades. Maybe Trump really has fucked It forever
- Comment on John - it's a trap! 4 days ago:
Dye left months ago
- Comment on What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs? 1 week ago:
Ckarky Cat
- Comment on Are there any good protest songs from the past few years? 1 week ago:
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 week ago:
A for Horses B for Mutton C for Yourself D for Dumb E for Brick F for Vessence G for H for I for One J for Oranges K for L for Leather M for N for O for God’s Sake P for Q for Ages R for Mo S for T for Baghdad U for Mism V for W for X for Breakfast Y for Z for
Can’t remember the rest. I feel like Y should be really obvious, but I’ve not even thought about this since I was a kid
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 week ago:
What I’m saying is that record sales have been unprofitable for artists for a long time, so Spotify hasn’t really moved the needle on that point
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 1 week ago:
Metaprogression is the same, in many cases. You don’t advance because your skill is increasing or because you’ve accomplished anything, it’s essentially “you’ve played for x amount of time, we’re going to create the illusion of progression by allowing you to upgrade your stats”
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 week ago:
Live shows and merch have been the way artists make money since before streaming was a thing
- Comment on It's also 3 AM 1 week ago:
I’m being the dude after 4 months
- Comment on It's also 3 AM 1 week ago:
Hey
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
Again, the question is can you demonstrate that this is actually something that is increasing?
The relevance of the second tweet is that it’s from the same person. They’re trying to get an angry reaction from people to help fuel culture war bullshit. And you provided exactly the reaction they were after
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
I mean, if you can provide data which shows that anthropomorphisation - specifically the unwarranted attribution of gender to things which are genderless - is on the rise and can demonstrate, or even articulate what the real-world harm of this is, then maybe I will agree that ranting about it in response to a tweet from an anti-woke twitter user lying about it in order to stir up tired “culture war” arguments isn’t silly
Perhaps we should also rant about the erosion of male-dominated spaces into spaces which are “lame and gay”, given that there are now women who play Warhammer?
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
Since Mozilla actually didn’t and the post is based on a lie, I’ll say congratulations, your reaction is almost certainly what they were hoping for
- Comment on I used to be a fan 🤦♂️ 2 weeks ago:
A few years ago James Acaster did a bit in his stand-up about Gervaise: youtu.be/UHqma3rx-xI
If you want just the Gervaise bit without the lead-up, go to around 2:30
- Comment on Sunglasses suggestions 2 weeks ago:
There was a reddit thread a few years ago where insiders from industries were asked what was true about their industry that the moneymakers wouldn’t want the public to know. A sunglasses guy said that the build quality of all sunglasses above something like $10 was identical. Above that price you’re literally just paying for the logo
Make sure they’re UV safe, make sure the lenses don’t distort your vision, and buy something cheap
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 weeks ago:
That was Hegseth, i think
- Comment on How did carrier pigeons know who to deliver letters to? 3 weeks ago:
It could grip it by the husk
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 4 weeks ago:
Vance is smarter than Trump, less driven by his own impulses, and more directly under the control of Thiel
He doesn’t have the cult of personality Trump does, but if/when you’ve rigged the elections so you’ll always win, what does that matter?
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 4 weeks ago:
Or, you know, Harry Potter
- Comment on Nvidia Answers my DLSS 5 Questions - Daniel Owen 5 weeks ago:
JDVance-ifier
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 5 weeks ago:
Text your full resume to ThisIsDefinitelyNotAScam@gmail.com
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 5 weeks ago:
That painting doesn’t look anything the same, and nor do those pictures. In the bride she’s a natural blonde. In the after she’s a bleach blonde
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 5 weeks ago:
It’s definitely changing more than the lighting. In the picture above the before picture shows a natural blonde and the after has brown roots
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 5 weeks ago:
WRT the image and not the text - don’t do that. Goods are replaceable, humans are not
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 1 month ago:
This is what I was responding to:
I’m arguing it should be done sparingly and only when it serves a more interesting narrative. To make a topical American culture war issue the defining characteristic of a Klingon is easily one of the laziest writing mechanics I’ve seen in Star Trek, ever.
If my interpretation is incorrect, please clarify what you meant
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 1 month ago:
Yes, you bashed out the tired old trope that if gay people are to exist in fiction then there must be a narrative reason. That’s nonsense. The fact that gay people exist IRL is all the reason that’s needed for them to exist in fiction
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 1 month ago:
Klingons are very definitely one of the species who have always been heavily anthropomorphised
As for “American culture war issue”…dude, gay people exist. It’s okay for gay people to exist in fiction, too
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 month ago:
The fact that we’re talking about this seemed to suggest to me that you felt at least some pressure to conform to what everybody else is saying.
No, not at all. There is no pressure I’ve encountered to use the term “autist”, and if I did feel pressure to conform on this subject I wouldn’t have continued to discuss it after my initial post was downvoted
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 month ago:
The wheelchair folks are still disabled, they need the help of physically capable beings or things to exist in and maintain society
…what? You think it’s literally impossible for wheelchair users to function to the point that a society created by and for wheelchair users would collapse without non-wheelchair users to look after them?
As for the rest of it, while I certainly believe that self-diagnosis is valid (and, indeed, there is a phrase “all diagnosis is self-diagnosis”), it’s also the case that even people with diagnoses often suffer from imposter syndrome. So what I will say is that if you keep encountering people who find your views on disability and terminology to be wrong-headed, as it seems you do, then it may be to your benefit to approach such conversations with a little more openness and a little more listening to what the rest of us have to say
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 month ago:
Allow me to provide a thought-experiment illustration of what I mean by disability being a product of society.
There are three workspaces.
The first is on the 14th floor. There are no ramps and no lifts. All doors are operated via keycard above head height. All areas, work and rest, have rows of desks and chairs, all as one unit like in a fast food place or a picnic table.
The second is on the ground floor. All doors are operated by keycard at waist height. All areas, work and rest, have large adjustable desks, movable chairs, and plenty of space.
The third is a multi-storey office. All stories are connected only by ramps which are designed to allow fast descent of wheeled appliances and have an in-built braking mechanism at the bottom. The up ramps have a “stair-lift”-type mechanism designed for the smooth movement of wheeled appliances. All ceilings are at shoulder-height. There are no chairs at all.
I think it’s trivial to see how wheelchair uses would be at a disadvantage in the first environment, wheelchair users and non-wheelchair users would be equal in the second, and non-wheelchair users would be at a disadvantage in the third
In each scenario, wheelchair users and non-wheelchair users have different abilities and needs, but which one of them would be “disabled” is a product of that environment
I would consider a person with dyslexia to have a mental disability, because there are basically only detrimental effects to one’s ability to perform a common mental task.
The irony here is that dyslexia advocates use the exact same “superpower” language as you. In fact, there is an emerging school of thought in psychiatry and psychology that autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and OCD may all be differing presentations of the same underlying condition, in the same way that autism and Asperger’s used to be considered different conditions
But let’s look at a different disability, for the sake of clarity. You yourself have spoken about deaf pride. Ask yourself this - would the kind of deaf person who would shun someone for getting a cochlear implant take kindly to you characterising deafness as only having a downside?
I think a lot of disability advocates would take issue with your characterisation of disability
It’s regressive, stigmatising, and potentially harmful given that it can discourage those who need help from asking for help, and often the only way to get help is through disability services - and legislation. The reason why it’s illegal for employers in the UK not to provide accommodations for autistic people is because of its classification as a disability under the Equalities Act of 2010
Besides, you seem to be doing something that’s depressingly common amongst autistic people - of treating autism as if it’s just level 1 autism, while dismissing and ignoring those who have greater needs. Some people need 24/7 care because of the way their autism manifests. These people count. They are just as much “one of us” as you or me
Also, BTW, tetrachromats exist