LadyAutumn

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What a… grating comment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sex in the sense that we have been talking about it here is in reference to mammals. The moment you wander outside of the mammalian class of vertebrates these concepts of sex start to become far less applicable.

There are many birds that have more than 2 sexes. Reptiles and invertebrates as well. Asexual reproduction would be classed as it’s own sex apart from any male/female system.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You are vastly underestimating the prevalence of chromosomal abnormalities. They are common, especially among cis women.

I like the way you phrased that at the end. Sexes are categories that relate exclusively to the concept of progeny. If you’re not able to reproduce, you’re already kind of excluded from the sex binary. If we break the human concept of sex down to its constituent parts, it is just “can procreate”. The categories are useful in some contexts, but to state them as universal or to try and extrapolate them so widely is significantly disruptive and unhelpful. Humans are and always have been more than our reproductive anatomy. Your doctor and anyone you want to reproduce with are really the only people who need to know whether you fit into either category.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, there are many species that have more than 2 sexes. Those are decided by scientific consensus.

But sex is ultimately a category to describe the process of reproduction. By definition, this is exclusionary. It’s why conservatives fumble so much when trying to describe sex in terms of actual definitions. Inherently, it is not possible to fit every person into a table of 2 columns in that way. Sex is not a binary because human beings are not binary. There is an incredible amount of variation in our bodies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Note how they always enshrine gender in biology, but then make all kinds of non-biological statements about what gender is.

“XX is woman”/“Large gametes is woman”/“can conceive is woman”

And then they’ll say

“Women aren’t as aggressive”, “women are more emotional”, “women like being in the home more”, “those are women’s clothes”, etc.

The only reason it’s so important for it to be biological is because of how it punishes gender non-conformity and makes the lives of trans people hell. Like it isn’t ideologically consistent and they know that. They just don’t care. If it was just about genitals or chromosomes, then why is it that gender dictates all these social things about us? The only reason to root it in how you were born is to ensure gender roles are as rigid and immutable as possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is correct. Current estimates place a possible impact event at an energy release of ~7.8 Megatons of TNT. Approximately 500 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Comparable to the Tunguska Event. This is accounting for current size estimates under 100m in diameter.

It is a very serious asteroid. The Tunguska Event could have killed millions of people. The primary reason it didn’t was because it happened in the middle of Siberia. The primary witnesses to the devastation were local native groups who still lived that for out, of which there were few. It wasn’t properly investigated for nearly 2 decades because of the remoteness of where it happened and the low priority as it didn’t affect very many people. If that happened over a major city the consequences would be utterly devastating.

It’s not K-T Extinction event level, but it is probably the most serious possible impactor since we started monitoring those.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are loads of great contemporary writers. Some of the best books I’ve ever read have come out in the past 4 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think you fully understand what anarchism is. Lack of hierarchy does not mean no organizational framework. It means there are no hierarchies.

Nukes have no purpose existing to begin with. The best thing to do with them would be to dismantle them and use their resources for other things. I don’t know why you have immediately decided to imagine an anarchist freed territory as requiring nuclear armaments. Or why you think the litmus test of whether a political ideology is valid or not depends on the answer to “can it allow for nuclear holocaust at the push of a button”.

You seemingly have imagined that an anarchist revolution would intend to preserve the functioning of modern geopolitical superpowers. Needless to say, no. Anarchism in practical implantation results in societies that look dramatically different (including extent anarchist free territories). Ones that don’t partake in overproduction and vast environmental destruction. Ones that are concerned principally with the well-being of the people who live within them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Cool. Fuck off then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Youre the one who said that this has been being done to Republicans for 4 years. Prove it or admit you can’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Male and Female are still normative exclusionary categories that describe trends within physiology and not hard rules or limits. Sex is not a golden rule. It is a human created category in the same way gender is.

If you want to talk about specific anatomy there is no reason why you can’t talk about the anatomy you’re referring to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The burden of being different⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
… okay but driving trucks is kind of fun
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, the statement “those young women, or many of them” is already pretty objectifying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s basically like. Someone drawing a picture. Then watching the buttons you’re pressing on a controller. And then drawing a new picture. And based on the game that they think you’re playing in their head trying to guess what the next picture ought to look like. With no error correction and no conceptualization other than what the next picture should look like.

The… many limitations of this is the inability of image generators to rationalize 3 dimensional space. It can only approximate it based on what it thinks should appear on the screen. It lacks any ability to keep track of variable information. It really is more like a Doom-style hallucination than anything else. Some of the videos on that article are truly bizarre looking. I’d imagine after a few minutes every single one of them would devolve into an endless loop of being trapped in non-sensical geometry or killing the same enemy over and over again as the AI has no way of remembering the enemy existed to begin with, let alone that you killed it.

I’ll be honest I don’t think there is much use in this at all. It suffers from the same limits as any other model AI. Believability at a glance is not believability under scrutiny and if it’s only believable at a glance then there’s not much practical use in it. The advance in computational power and model sophistication required to stand up under scrutiny is massive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Ping⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the reason ethernet is generally faster compared with wifi is mainly due to dropped packets due to interference from physical objects between the device and the transmitter. Not as much an issue when you’re issuing commands into the vacuum of space from large, high-powered antennas.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Or just like buy a toy meant for that
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No this is not normal… it’s not sanitary for one and nobody wants yeast infections. It also doesn’t really have a suitable structure for that, and the outside rind… I mean I cannot imagine that feels nice. It’s a meme more than anything like I know people are out there with food fetish and it definitely has been done by someone before but no this is very uncommon lol.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We’re around.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children is bugs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Idk it’s not the worst name ever. Definitely sounds like a “kooky millennial parents wanted an interesting name” name. But there’s worse. Much worse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I definitely think they can and are often overdone. Where I’m from civilian fireworks use is very uncommon unless you’re out in the sticks. So we get at most 2 municipal fireworks display per year, New year’s eve and Canada day. New year’s eve fireworks happen some years and don’t others.

I personally love fireworks. The awe of the display is never lost upon me. I can see it becoming old if it’s something you deal with all the time. That isn’t an issue here though and I always step outside to watch them when a display is done locally.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think the scale of image believability is logarithmic. Going from “believable at a glance” to “believable under scrutiny” requires an exponential increase in performance compared with going from “not believable at a glance” to “believable at a glance”. The same principle applies to text generation, facial recognition, sound generation, image enhancement, etc. One of the many reasons AI should not be being integrated in many of the ways world governments and corporations are trying to integrate it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You’ll note I discussed the context subtext and use of the word in my comments. 🙃 that’s what this whole thing has been about… sigh

Can you also stop trying to insinuate that I’m not an anglophone person? It’s fucking weird
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m reacting to the comment made by the commenter. Those are not semantically the same statement, though. They literally aren’t. It expresses an expectation for others’ bodies to be a certain way and a dissappointment when they aren’t. The word dissapponted is not interchangeable with preference. “I dislike nipple piercings” is not the same thing as “I am disappointed in women who get them.” You intuitively know this too because someone being angry with you implies a direct response to something you’ve done. Someone being disappointed in you implies they had an expectation for you that you failed to meet. It also takes literally nothing from the speaker to clarify this, which the commenter did not.

I have no feelings whatsoever on the subject of whether the commenter likes nipple piercings or not. I do not have nipple piercings and am entirely uninterested in what the commenter thinks about them. I object to men using language that enforces ownership over women’s bodies. As I said in my prior comment, this is an everyday occurrence for us. This happens to us all the time. My body is not your business, and the bodies of random women are not the business of the commenter.

As I said before, how would he materially know how many women have nipple piercings? It’s possible to have them and them not be visible in public. If his gripe was with how many women he’s hooked up with that have them, he would’ve said that not that he’s disappointed in women who get them.

This entire thing stemmed from a simple call out on something the commenter said. A way that his language implied that women’s bodies should be a certain way. It was never a big deal until several men immediately mischaracterized what I said and tried to imply that I am stupid, that I dont know what I’m talking about, that I’m weird, that I don’t speak English lol. One commenter rambled on about his dick. I would’ve left the comment and moved on, that was always my intent. It was the visceral response at the mere suggestion that something he said may have had a misogynistic implication that prolonged this conversation into what it became.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not just based on the dictionary it’s literally what the word fucking means. Jesus christ. Re-read my comments. I have absolutely no desire to continue this. I’ve made my fucking point. Leave me alone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, I’m not. If you don’t know what the word disappointed means, you should look it up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
One minute your rambling about your engorged member and the next you’re demonstrating again that you still don’t understand what I was saying. Fuck off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That would be true, but for one, the percentage of women with nipple piercings is statistically insignificant. For two, you don’t actually have any measurable way of telling with certainty how popular those piercings are. So it’s not really as comparable to hair color, which you can ascertain at a glance. And even then, I would expect some kind of clarification that this has been obtrusive or obstructive to the speaker. “I’ve been disappointed so many times to find out that my date had their nipples pierced” or something to that effect. Just saying “some women are doing this aesthetic thing to their bodies, and it disappoints me” is not really saying the same thing.

There may be a fundamental disagreement here over whether or not it is valid to feel a sense of ownership over other people’s appearances. “Oh no, that guy would’ve been so cute if he hadn’t grown out a mullet I wish he hadn’t” would be a strange thing to think, let alone verbalize, about a stranger. It implies that by virtue of that man changing some aspect of appearance the speaker has lost something tangible. It might give the speaker pause in that situation to realize that their language kinda makes it seem like they’re entitled to “mullet-less” men. We also have to consider the emphasis that puts on men who do have mullets. The speaker in this case is collectively denigrating all of them for failing to meet their expectation of non-mullet hairstyles, despite those men not knowing the speaker and having nothing to do with them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Cool. You’re so brave.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, here I am, not making any arguments about his preferences. 🙄
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not upset with the concept of disappointment. I’m calling out the fact that saying he’s disappointed with women for having piercings is a statement about how women’s bodies should be. It’s saying that women are beholden to an expectation of how their bodies should be, and that when they have nipple piercings they are failing to meet his expectations of them.