Transparency on Lemmy has some problems. Bans aren’t attached to any message, so if you ban someone for the reason “This user is a Nazi pedophile who likes Coldplay”, most users will just believe that. Comment removals work well, but bans can go against transparency by platforming lies from authority figures.
You’re not a southerner, quit lying. You’re from the northern hemisphere. Poser.
Praying for someone to beat the shit out of Trump with a mech suit
Trans women were allowed to compete in the Olympics in 2004. That’s 21 years ago. Six olympics.
The Paris Olympics had 11,040 athletes. The Athens Olympics had 10,600. Let’s average those for 10,800 and say 64,8000 athletes competed in the Summer Olympics since trans women were allowed.
Only one transgender athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. Their name is Quinn, they’re a soccer player from Canada. And they were born female. They won two medals.
So the percentage of trans people in the general population is 1%, the percentage of Olympic athletes who are trans and won a medal is 0.0015%, and the percentage of Olympic athletes who were born male and won a medal in the women’s league is 0.0000%.
What you should be understanding from these figures is that trans women will never dominate sporting events of any kind. We suck at sports because we’re all big nerds. Any trans person who is good at sports is a freak.
I just don’t think it’s fair to women to compete against women who are stronger than them
That is not what I am saying.
No, it is what you said. It’s just not what you mean. It’s not my fault the two are separate. It’s your responsibility to speak clearly if you don’t want the silly things you say to be mocked.
You’re right, it’s completely unfair for women to compete against women who are stronger than them. For the weightlifting they should test every woman’s strength, and only the weakest woman competes. That’s fair.
We definitely shouldn’t let trans women compete in women’s chess, because of the biological advantage/s
I was arguing with someone who was telling me it’s okay to use slurs
I was arguing with a tankie who was defending the use of an ableist slur. I told them fine, whatever, call me a f-----. I was making a point about how they would call mentally ill people slurs, but wouldn’t do the same to me. Implying I thought they were a bigot, and they’d attack me too if there were as few consequences. They weren’t a good person, they were just being civil according to social norms. I don’t care about civility, I care about meaning what you say. Practicing what you preach. F----- is how I feel tankies see me, on a certain level. Stalin said being gay is bourgeois decadence. He put us in gulags. I don’t feel safe around Stalin worshippers, and when they attack other minorities, I feel aware of that. I see how their respect is an act.
I’d rather be called a f----- than have them insist they’re my allies. And it took a lot of self control just now to delete those five letters and turn them into dashes. I want to talk openly about how I feel seen by those people. This pretense, not using the words that match how I feel I’m seen, it feels like the same thing. Having to practice civility around people who would lynch me if Dear Leader told them to. I’d prefer slurs.
https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/
The fascists already went for the communists and won, and took out the unions too. Now they’re going for the trans people. You have to put a strong effort on defence if you want to get to a position where people can afford to go on offence. You won’t gain ground by giving it up.
The Nazis came after the communists and trade unionists before they came for the Jews. At least according to the original version of “first they came”.
There’s a specific order to how rights can be established. Workers’ rights are dismantled before minority rights, and minority rights are to be protected before workers’ rights can be protected.
Free Guy
Generic video game movie stuffed with trendy references and fanservice is actually a really good singularity story
Don’t drink and take Gabapentin. They work on different receptors on the same channel. That means they have unpredictable effects together. The effects aren’t additive, they’re more like multiplicative. And more random than either alone.
Sounds like the pain is coming from one of the systems inhibited by the GABAergic system.
So LLMs are like a human with anterograde amnesia. They’re like Dory.
Plex never worked outside my network so I’m not worried about that on Jellyfin
Just deleted my account.
Hey, you reading this? You should too.
Boy am I glad I just switched to Jellyfin
Psychology has revealed that the ability to direct attention to and process stimulus is limited, and that it’s more limited in the most vulnerable members of society, including those with autism and those with too much stress.
Stimulus engineered to capture attention must therefore be treated by the law as a form of violence.