🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@BetaCuck4Lyfe Thank god! Couldnt handle much more of that level of stupid...

@BetaCuck4Lyfe

Yes I am a native american. Penobscot tribe.

> Did you know that feom 2019 to 2021, the life expectancy for native Americans fell from 71.8 years to 65.2, with Covid largely to blame?

Sure did.

> No real cost though, right, Tech guy?

Huh, I never uttered those words... you are arguing with ghosts of things I never said.... YOU are the one who claimed all of our efforts were for nothing because COVID levels are exactly where they were... YOU.

I find it hilarious you are offended and fighting against your own words parroted back to you.

@BetaCuck4Lyfe

I'm literally just repeating what you said as fact.. so if that seems like ignorance and offends you, imagine how I feel reading it when you said it?

@BetaCuck4Lyfe

"No effect, yep. Perfectly sane thing to say. Tell me, where'd you get your virology diploma?"

I didnt say it had no effect... YOU are the one sitting here claiming that despite all that effort the levels are exactly the same... YOU said it had no effect... im just responding to what you are telling us.

So there real question is where did YOU get your degree?

@BetaCuck4Lyfe Ahh good, you forgot to throw in the personal insult to show your opinions are meaningless... glad you remembered to add that!

@BetaCuck4Lyfe

Why would you say nonsense like that? I care deeply about them, which is why after you pointing out all those deaths would be exactly the same with or without the quarintines in the end, since eventually quarintines end and as you point out they changed and would change nothing...

The real question is why dont YOU care about all those dead people who have now died for absolutely nothing other than to be leveraged to bankrupt everyone? That sounds like a huge disgrace to those lives, to let them die for less than nothing.

@thatguyoverthere

The pronouns i fill in on the form at work

"Jeff gets a 10% raise, this is a verbal contract"... now every time my boss addresses me he has to give me a raise :)

@georgetakei hahahah... she would.

Curious, i notice your posting almost exclusively from this site lately... Anything special about this site that interested you?

@midway

You seem to be confusing the term "natural human rights" witht he term "right"... all natural human rights are rights, not all rights are natural human rights (some come from law).

Here we are talking about legal rights, not natural rights.

That said I would say that yes, it absolutely is a natural right as well.

> No one has the right to demand any such thing. You can want that, and others may want to accommodate you for a variety of reasons. But calling this a right has real implications.

I am not demanding anything of anyone... By default I'd have every right to walk around with metal formed into any shape I want. The idea that when metal is in certain shapes it should be illegal seems quite the violation of natural rights.

Now you have the ability to take away that right, and demand that the population restrict what shapes of metal I can have, sure... but to say its your right to tell me I cant own certain lumps of metal and cant even cut certain lumps of metal into certain shapes.... now that is something you do not have the right to do.

@kroner What if i am dead there too?

@georgetakei Lets just hope we get through this election with some hope on the other side :)

Thanks for the response, hope you have a wonderful day.

@thor That is very promising... I do hope it works out it sounds great!

I have always tried to respect peoples choice on pronouns. I never really had any objections to it as long as it was one of the standard language pronouns (he, she, they).

But as I sit here reflecting I keep coming to the conclusion that it shouldnt exactly work that way. We should of course have the right to pick whatever gender we want (including non-binary). Likewise we have the right to demand of people they use the language that matches our gender (which may be different from our sex). What we dont have a right to do is dictate to them what language they use, or what pronouns for that matter.

If a woman is addressed by a person it is my right as the speaker addressing them to decide if i want to use "She, ma'am, lady, hey you" whatever I want to express what i want to express. ma'am showing more respect than she, etc. No one has a right to dictate to me how I address anyone, but you do have a right to demand I treat you like the person you are, and the gender you are.

For the most part that wont be a problem. I think most people who are not CIS-gender would be ok so long as they are addressed according to their gender. I think the times this might get offensive to some are 1) when people want to use exotic pronouns like Xir, they wont get what they want and probably be mad about it 2) when addressing non-binary people there are two gender-neutral pronouns considered acceptable in english "they" and "he" (yes he is gender-neutral in some contexts, and masculin in others)... the non-binary case could be problematic when a gender-neutral "he" is used because some people dont know its gender neutral and may erroneously assume it was used to represent male gendering. That said, thats a matter of education.

@sdgathman

Right, their personality matches how the drug makes you feel.

@thor

@thor It very well may be... i am not suggesting what your experience is or isnt.. just relaying my own experiences in the hopes it may be useful

@strawd Yea I kinda expected the extremely orthodox religious types to hold this view... but 1//3 of the population is shocking.

@thor Wouldnt be the first time :)

@georgetakei

As the saying goes.... what you dont say speaks volumes.

@thor Well what i mean is ... i dont think id know even when i wasnt around them if the feeling was still active and the connection fresh... It isnt the act of being away that would let me distinguish, but rather just time. If the feeling is still there in full force in a month, in 6 months, then yea its gonna last and is real.