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

@trinsec Me and my friends like to shoot at eachother for fun while the other person tries to hide. We call it american hide and seek.

@trinsec I get to play with my toys every week :)

@trinsec 911? We dont do that here, we have guns :)

@darth I bought this primarily for reading books, and that is where they shine. That said its a full android 12 device and good for anything a regular android device is good for. The two main advantages (which arent limited to reading books):

1) works great when there is light around without any backlit. Using it in bright sunlight is a far superior expiernce than a traditional screen.

2) Significantly reduced battery usage

@trinsec I **wish** someone would steal it now :)

Updated the power off screen of my color epaper tablet. Perfect.

It is **always** ok to ask a woman if she is pregnant. The reasoning is simple, if your wrong there is nothing to be ashamed of, there is nothing wrong with being overweight and looking pregnant.

@lonelyowl13 You didnt start anything, your comments are welcome, appreciated, and encouraged in the future.

Also I agree, while the fediis more volatile than most I generally find most LGBT people are quite easy and agreeable to deal with. Sadly the toxic ones on this network are not representative of the community.

@ics

@lonelyowl13

> I'm more care not only "the feelings" directly but about how those feelings will affect my ability to get my (or your) point across, convince people to believe in the things i think are facts.

This is where we differ. Each person engaged in a conversation has a personal obligation to ensure that they keep their emotions in check and engage with good-faith. If someone fails to do that it isnt the speakers responsibility to manage the readers emotions, it is their. If those emotions make them unable to engage faithfully then thats on them. While we should have compassion and let them know we care and show our good intent accurately it is not a speakers responsibility to bear the burden of an entire communities potential emotional responses and to refine their speech to "walk on eggshells" as the saying goes.

> For example, if you show this thread to normie lgbtq people or allies, 90% of them will say we both are disconnected from reality edgelord lunatics, they won't even think about arguments in a good faith which make them useless.

While is a perfect example of how **they** are acting improperly and in bad faith without bothering to understand the reality. That is on them, and while I hope they will reflect and act in a more mature way, if they dont i am more than happy to have them block me and disapear as I have little interest in engaging with anyone who lacks emotional maturity.

@ics

How many scruples do you have?

@lonelyowl13

Sure, I am not claiming their feelings shouldnt be acknowledged. only that one shouldnt modify the facts to appease those feelings. You address it by reassuring them you dont have evil intent, that you care about them... but you dont placate it by changing the facts to avoid their emotional response

@ics

@realcaseyrollins

> I suppose they funded bots on #Twitter / #X and specifically #FaceBook via #CambridgeAnalytica (for which #FaceBook was punished as revenge IMHO), but that’s not anything outside what the #USA does to other countries, not is that entirely illegal.

Ok so you agree that russia did, in fact, manipulate the election... so what is it you are disagreeing with. Your saying its not illegal, but I never said anything about if what they did was legal or not.

@lindyli

@lonelyowl13

> I always was a bit confused about this "feelings vs reality" narrative. The thoughts and state of other people's minds are also a facts of reality, they're is connected to it, they're is affecting it and they could be predicted, hence it's better not to ignore them as well as any other facts of reality. Especially if you are trying to figure out why people are rejecting your ideas and how to overcome this issue.

No one is saying their feelings arent true, only that feelings dont trump facts. If someone says "The sky is blue" and someone gets upset at you because its against their culture where they were taught the sky is yellow. Like sure it may be a fact that you are upset, but doesnt change the color of the sky either.

> Honestly, i have no strong opinion in this regard, never talked to a person thinking that the term "queer" is offensive 😀
I am also fully okay with it, but okay, i got it.

You and me both are ok with it. But it started as a derogatory term and many people still feel that is the case. If you lookup advocacy groups (such as the definition i provided you from one earlier) they state this explicitly.

@ics

@lonelyowl13

> I replied to this thing, i personally think putting drags/crossdressers in the same subcategory with trans and nonbinary is ok.

Yea the consensus, which I agreed with, is crossdresser belongs but intersex might not.

> I feel i know exactly why but also i feel i won't be able to explain it correctly, it's more about emotional reactions than the raw logic.

Trying to account for an emotional reaction, particularly if it is counter to the reality/facts is not a direction I have any desire to go down. No matter what you pick some people will be upset others wont. For example many feel Queer is an offensive term and as such LGBTQ would be a derogatory term by extension if we used emotional pleas.

@ics

@lonelyowl13

What sex you are attracted to has **nothing** to do with gender, conforming or otherwise.

> Like i predicted - people feel not very comfy with your brand new typesystem 😀

Yes we both predicted that, and as I said before I care very little for if someone doesnt like it, I do care about WHY and will consider that for any changes that might apply.

> I really don't understand what was the point of reinventing the terminology except purely technical curiosity like "how to categorize queer folks more effectively".

Because the current one is uselessly broad and doesnt even have a common theme let alone utility. In almost every case that it is used it is a poor term for the intended meaning as people rarely talk about gender ans sexual orientation as if they were one thing (since they arent, they are barely related).

@ics

@raimoncoding happy to help, any time.

@realcaseyrollins

Wait you doubt the fact that he performed massive efforts to lean the election?

While you may argue Trump wasnt aware, and that is fair. Its quite obvious fromt he evidence putin made an effort to lean the election towards Trump.

@lindyli

@freepeoplesfreepress Well I'm just glad he made me after his image and gave me this handsome ass face :)

@badken So you found out you were wrong, and instead of using the proper normalized rate you decided to win the argument by using dishonest unnormalized numbers? Yea dont do that.

The non normalized numbers include things like people fleeing the USA due to economic refugee status or even just because they want to. These numbers have no place. Similarly new babies born would be included in such a figure and likewise a reason we dont use it.