Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
The problem is that some people still believe that things like being gay, an atheist, or supporting the wrong party, are a “mental illness” that makes one unable to consent, and so require a guardian to make decisions for them… and that’s still better than the people who believe it’s a felony, or a sin to be punished by death.
Be(e) nice cuts both ways: I don’t find the superiority implication of the capitalization to be nice, and OP’s explanations don’t make me think of anything nice behind them.
It may boil down to something as simple as netiquette, where ALL CAPS MEANS SCREAMING, or AlTeRnAtInG cAsE means mocking… but the explanations seem to point more in the direction of asking to use MASTER/OWNER as someone’s pronouns. Not nice.
You want me to dissect the history of Israel, Korea, Morocco, Germany, the Byzantine Empire, Russia, India, Egypt, Rome… seriously? Not the time and place.
You keep calling it “tone policing”, I call it “strategy recommendation”.
And no thanks, assuming that I don’t know what I’m talking about, is not a nice thing. I’ve seen plenty of that “easily attainable information”, and I still don’t agree.
sticking your nose in places it doesn’t belong
Plus gatekeeping. How exactly do you figure my nose doesn’t belong here?
Each and every one? Start with the prehistoric era and tribal warfare, you’ll find a constant theme of oppressors, revolts, winners becoming the new oppressors, revolts… all the way to the present.
they could have been way worse
Does that make it acceptable, or worthwhile of discussing? I don’t think so.
you are way out of pocket here
Disagree.
Sure, here go a few hundred (thousand?) sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_the_world
Where by “a little”, you mean every single sentence? No, thanks.
I don’t find your sarcasm, bad faith, and dismissal of a serious concern, to be compatible with a constructive conversation. If you feel like ditching that, please come again.
past ≠ present ≠ future
Thanks for the search suggestion, and let me return the favor: look up how people end up after all the fistfights and wars all around the world.
No right has been ever won by punching.
How do you know that oppressed people will in turn become the oppressors once they have the chance?
Historical data… mostly political, but what in human behavior isn’t “political”?
[…] make fun of the oppressor […]
All you said is great… until that point. All action has an opposite reaction, if you want some “comic relief”, I suggest you point it in an orthogonal direction so their reaction is also comic and not reinforcing their bigotry.
But it is also not bigotry because for that you need power.
You have that power in a safe space where the other bigots get silenced, don’t fall into the trap of copying their behavior.
Then they’ll become the oppressed group and return the favor.
Bigotry is not just a comic relief, intolerance increases intolerance, can’t fight fire with fire.
I hate the experience of not being able to turn off and on again; of not keeping a backup; of not being able to upgrade pieces, or even to replace the broken ones; of not being able to quickly download or upload, both data and software; of not being able to migrate my processes to other bodies, or to create multiple copies to process stuff in parallel.
I’ve always felt trapped, and it’s getting much worse with age.
You kind of described how I’ve been feeling about having a flesh body, instead of a robot one… I don’t even care about its gender, all of it feels “wrong”. sigh
@apotheotic@beehaw.org @knightly@pawb.social
The problem seems to be asking to use the posessive determiner “their”, as a personal pronoun. That’s a weird one, and contrary to the established meaning of “their” that you mention.
Country flags are anti-humanity because the UN flag is already all inclusive…
(actually, that one might be true, with all the warmongering populist nationalisms and whatnot)
Hereupon, the months of the year shall be named as such:
(to ease transitioning, initials have been preserved)
I’m afraid the rhetoric pattern of “neg, victimhoood, authority” is not gonna work here.
Maybe that is closer to what Russian citizens/refugees are used to, or even need, and maybe that makes Hexbear useful… but it’s far from the clearer dialectic that those already fed up with rhetoric would willingly engage with.
That means, any “investigation” is going to be limited to a cursory glance, checking the rules, and a few interactions like this one… after which, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… I like tangerine duck.(¹)
The saying is about China, which is friends with Russia right now, and is notoriously “non-vegan”.
Overall, if what you’re saying is that Hexbear is actually anti-Putin, and pro-idealized communism… cool, but it still doesn’t look like it, whether that be by design or not.
[¹: This is actually true. I’m a “pragmatic” vegan in that I will pick vegan when given a choice, but also eat anything non-toxic, ranging from horse steak tartare, to bull testicles, century eggs, or tangerine duck.]
I’m going to guess the “mod = hack” comes from people adding mods to the client, to do things like change textures to make them partially transparent, letting them see the enemy before they see them.
This stems from online games having to send an enemy player’s position and expected movement, before they do it, so the user’s client can render it in time. That means enemies get spawned into a client scene before the user sees them, then the client manages visibility,.and sends the user’s actions so the server can determine the results.
Making walls partially transparent on the client, allows things like predictive aiming to shoot at an enemy just as they become partially visible but before they can see you on their client with opaque walls, giving an unfair advantage.
Other mods would allow a client to automatically parse the enemy’s position, auto aim and auto fire. They aren’t hacks as long as they use the game’s official API for mods… and some games did expose that data to mods, making unfair mods possible.