dandelion (she/her)

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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Trump’s transgender mice 🤭

+1 for Posteo

this would probably just lead to the corporation taking more and more of a role until they take over development of the FOSS projects they care about, which is a particular nightmare I would prefer to avoid

was upset enough when Microsoft bought Github

cannabis finally helped me grok the Kline bottle, took a lot of visualizing and mental exploration but I got there

edit: I wanted to pass along the insight I had that helped me, basically to not hold the whole Kline bottle in your mind at once, but to instead look at it from a subjective and temporalized perspective, for example imagine being an ant walking along the surface of the Kline bottle (or if you are an American, driving along the surface). Parsing individual moments on the surface is what helped me inch along and traverse the whole thing, and that spatial intuition helped me finally understand the whole much better … 4-dimensional objects can be really hard to reason about.

huh, scrolling through the comments I mostly see comments calling them out for being TERFs, I’m not really seeing any defense of the games themselves.

Excuse me if I’m a bit sensitive, though - I’m both gay and trans, so this group in particular is dangerous to me and I don’t really care if the broken clock is right twice a day, I think it’s best to call the clock broken.

We don’t have any argument here, though - we agree that vile games are vile and it’s good they’re gone.

not sure anyone thinks the problem here is that these particular games are getting taken down, the larger context and efforts of this group are concerning as it etablishes precedent for them to take the next step in their anti-trans and anti-gay agenda …

yeah, that’s not passive income

it’s really stretching the meaning of “passive”, if you’re the one running the scam it’s not passive … by definition passive means you didn’t lift a finger, passive income is like dividends on investments.

this is the correct answer

it’s probably so much worse

when this happens, just hit “reconnect” on the VPN and refresh - usually after one or two reconnects Reddit won’t have blocked that IP yet, IME

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trust in government and politicians is pretty low rn

why don’t we start with Puerto Rico …

that is a good point that I should have thought of sooner, lol

It would be nice if someone could fly a plane with that as a banner, or maybe wrap a car with it? Or maybe a billboard?

yeah, having a hard time believing that truck is good quality … people can be weird, though - I don’t know

yeah, I think that was maybe my point, it would be a mistake to conclude “human nature is determined by material conditions” and better to say “human nature does not exist, instead human behavior is driven primarily by material conditions” - but I understand if for the sake of brevity a meme might not want to be so verbose

hm, there is nothing that is not “nature” - that’s kinda the premise of naturalism … but that’s not the same as the meme’s point about “human nature” - which is not about whether something is natural or not, but rather about whether humans are innately or essentially something or not (in the meme whether they are selfish or altruistic).

I tend to think altruism and selfishness are probably related to environment and material conditions, but we can’t completely deny the role genetics play in behavior (even as environment helps shape those genetics).

This reminds me a bit of the Chomsky Foucault debate, where Chomsky took the position that there is such a thing as a “human nature” - using the example of human’s innate capacity to learn language. Foucault takes the position that there is nothing but social influence and environment (though he was less focused on the material and more focused on the structural / social). At least that was my understanding of the positions.

I tend to agree with Chomsky that our biology results in some “innate” capacities, though I do think we should reject essentialist views that humans are all X or Y, since the biology is so varied and what we get is not necessarily a monolith of human nature as much as a variety of human beings many or even most with some similarities. Maybe most humans are capable of learning a language, but some probably are not for various reasons (and those reasons may be innate as well, such as a genetic condition, or they may be environment such as due to abuse like social isolation during early development, etc.).