No Gods, No Donkey Sauce.

I forgot about the Sam mafia, you’re right…

Lilly, Zoey, Chloe, Alex… Trans girls love their 4-5 letter names, and there’s just not all that many of them to choose from

It’s a special municipal barbecue. Putin’s throwing it to show the troops how much he appreciates them. Jeeze how could this be questioned.

It’s very possible we are! In this case I went with Latinx specifically because it’s a term generally used to describe people who aren’t white - and I know quite a few people who would argue that while spanish originates in europe in modern usage it’s primarily a hispanophone american language - a population that are largely considered “brown” and need far less american interference in their lives already… So while I very much see & largely agree with your point here, I think there’s just a slightly different perspective on when “helping” becomes “interfering”

Fighting for it isn’t imperialism, no; interposing myself into the discussion around how it should be done would be, which was what I was getting at. More white (ish) people telling them what they should be doing with their language isn’t what anyone needs right now, especially when the problem is the result of a thousand years of white people doing exactly that. I did use “latinix” specifically as it’s an extremely complicated subject and many people to whom the label would apply prefer alternatives but I’ll keep on happily doing what I can to support the fight… Assuming we don’t all get herded up for thought crimes in the next few weeks.

During the positioning of an airstair, the truck collided against the right, front part of the fuselage, peeling off the Dreamliner’s door number 2. No people was hurt neither on the ground or in the aircraft.

Drives truck into plane damaging it

“Well gang, looks like we’ve got a mystery on our hands!”

Probably less after all the legal fees.

Only people who were around 150 years ago have the context to understand this joke. I propose we describe this genre as tomber humor…

If musk gets off on limitless clean energy that’s actually okay.

(I feel the need to point out that it’s been 30 years since people started saying this…)

Oh man though this one is cool - I have a dear dear friend working on this project, and it’s absolutely wild. Nothing they’re doing is new, exactly but modern magnet designs have enabled SPARC to simultaneously hit a bunch of metrics that were previously entirely reliant on purpose-built machines.

Excerpt from them when I asked them about this yesterday:

While no existing tokamak has reached the same parameters that SPARC will simultaneously, there is empirical evidence in part for all of the major parameters it seeks to reach. the purple dot is ARC, the power plant design, and the red X is ITER, the gigantic international tokamak being built which doesn’t take advantage of newer and more powerful magnets (which is what allowed SPARC/ARC to have much smaller volume)

so like yeah, we’ve built a ton of reactors that could do all this individually and then CFS have managed a system that has combined those results into a single machine and that has been the big goal for years (beyond stopping the plasma from fizzling out). There’s still challenges to solve, but this system has cleared all the previous hurdles (barring some of the noncritical ones). It’s so damn cool. It’s not fusion happening now, the headline is sensationalist, but it’s the biggest step forward we’ve had probably since research into plasma fusion started.

In order to save the ecosystem, you must be willing to kill the ecosystem!

And a group never told you anything. People tell you things, and they belong to groups.

Doesn’t this philosophy preclude the idea of any sort of united movement? As a highly relevant example here, advocacy groups; it’s in no small part their purpose to tell people things on behalf of their members. Unions, too. Etc.

Stepping back slightly, I don’t particularly disagree with you here nor are you telling me anything I’m not already aware of - but I think it’s important to note that you’re demonstrating my original point rather well. You’re familiar with this topic, and you’re rejecting my position as an outsider on the basis of your own cultural relevance with it makes you much more qualified to discuss it (even though you aren’t trans - which I’ll confess, does make me less inclined to listen to you rather than to trans hispanic people/groups)

Now I could insist that you’re wrong in the pointless particulars, and go off on how ‘white’ is a term whose definition is almost entirely contextually fluid and so it fundamentally lacks any usefulness in judging across cultures, but that would similarly be me imposing my own cultural values on a context where you clearly consider yourself more capable of commenting with authority on the subject than I am. And rightly so! Hence not wanting to do a cultural imperialism by, you know, my doing exactly that. You’re welcome to continue talking about this, I am genuinely interested in your perspective, but do keep in mind that you’re preaching to the choir here. I just haven’t gone on about it because it was never expressly relevant to the topic, and I just… honestly, don’t have the capacity to make this a priority. Other people I trust and who this is relevant towards, like yourself, are more than capable of handling this and I have many other issues of equal importance I’m better positioned to address.

This is fascinating - and you’re a trans hispanic person? Because this is at complete odds with what I’ve been repeatedly told by said group previously…

You will never hear someone calling a man a “fangirl” unless the person saying it is a misogynist trying to insult that man’s masculinity.

This is simply not true - hence providing the genderless definition. If we aren’t caring about pedantic aspects like definitions, I also see it used constantly to describe men without insulting their masculinity, often as a self descriptor. For example since it carries far fewer negative connotations than, say, Otaku (a term that has fallen out of favor due to it’s original Japanese meaning…) it is commonly being used in place of former phrases like “going otaku” Perhaps you and I simply have wildly different cultural experiences, and you have not seen this?

and still reaching false conclusions

Alright, and while you have told me this is false repeatedly, I can point to where the standard non-academic authority for english definitions shows it’s sometimes a genderless term. I have seen no actual evidence that I’m wrong beyond you coming in to assert that I am. And while that may be pedantic, it’s not terribly pedantic nor hostile since my entire point has been that both users were using the term correctly, and that use of a gendered term is not in itself inherently misogynistic.

I’m not sure what about those you’ve got an issue with but I am genuinely curious about your thoughts there.

No argument there.

So I should be telling people to use latinx?

The fact that they specifically added “girl” to it while having no indication of the actual gender of the person they were referring to is not just some innocent “oh hey let’s be equitable this might be someone who has feminine gender expression.”

It’s already widely used as a genderless term though - that was the whole point of my initial comment. Both interpretations were correct - it is a gendered noun, and it is a term that describes behavior regardless of gender.

debate pervert

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the term - isn’t this exactly what you’re doing right now?

I simply didn’t want to force my cultural interpretations of gender onto the language of an entirely separate culture. That’s a discussion that they should have without my interference - I have no place to comment on, for example, the push for the adoption of the term “latinx” (doubly so as this discussion is entirely about the use of a gendered term in english and interpretations drawn from one culture aren’t universally applicable)

One must imagine sisyphus trigger-happy…