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fracture [he/him]

@ fracture @beehaw.org

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  • things of that natrule

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  • my good person, you need to take a break from the right wing alarm machines

    you are the only one here who is uneducated enough to think that "weight and body hair" are the only signs of post-puberty maturity in men

    a lot of men don't put on weight well into their 20s, for reasons which are completely explainable without "second puberty", something you entirely brought into this conversation as a strawman to knock down by yourself

    a lot of men also have trouble growing body hair. not every man is a big hairy fuck (affectionate, as i am a big hairy fuck). also, plenty of men shave their body hair, and it's still fine to be attracted to them. are you going to start calling straight men pedophiles for being attracted to shaved women???

    you may also note that twinks are famously attractive for being quite muscular, which is very difficult to achieve without the heightened testosterone levels post-puberty

    please stop posting these deliberate false exaggerated takes. it's really ruining the vibe, tbh

    (ps: second puberty is a thing, but it's a trans person thing, so it's not part of this argument)

  • AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to 'Shape Reality'

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  • beyond the obvious ways this is fucked up, imagining this happening with AI gen text is insane. trying to craft a post to both empathize with another poster, kindly demonstrate flaws in thinking or logic about a point they usually care a lot about, and trying to explain how the different point of view better supports the things they care about it such a monumental effort already that AI just cannot do. no actual persuasion will come out of this (not that a ton happens on the internet to begin with, but even less than that)

    and honestly if you're firehosing people like that, AI is just going to absolutely drown out any actual communication from happening. at some point, we'll just have bots going to war for us about our points, and no one will be reading it

  • NSFW

    noita rule

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  • you might want to spoiler tag this but congrats!!!

  • Rule

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  • they don't see BOO hiding in the trees 😈

  • Low Tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse

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  • i would have liked it if this had offered a COVID perspective on communal baths. i'm inclined to think that a hot moist environment is a likely place for it to flourish, and it seems odd to neglect to mention that three years of a pandemic probably had an outsize impact on the number of bathhouses still open in 2022

    obviously we probably don't have a ton of data on how to circulate air and filter COVID out of bathhouses, but i also bet there's a way to do it in a relatively energy efficient way

    anyways, it feels like a major spot that's lacking in an otherwise informative and well thought out read

  • After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting

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  • really good thoughts and write up that you linked, thanks

  • Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register

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  • that's YOUR union, go get involved and fix it!

    even unions are gonna eventually fall to corruption and laziness if ppl think they'll solve your problems for you

    the union IS you (and your coworkers)

  • PSRule

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  • there's been a recent meme of responding to people making any remarks related to the ps5/ps5 pro by saying "notice how they're X instead of playing games on the ps5", with the implication that the ps5 has no games

    e.g. notice how they're arguing online about the ps5 instead of playing games on the ps5

    it's not a very serious bit (since obv people can do more than one thing) but it's also funny because it's purposely being obtuse about the situation

  • Are passing photos allowed?

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  • thanks for taking my words into consideration. i don't think your post in isolation is really harmful, but it's more of like, what sort of culture do we want to create? i've been online for a long time and in a decent number of trans spaces, so i've thought about it a lot, and it can be easy to slip into these sort of nefarious and unhealthy thought patterns

    always easier to think about these things upfront, rather than trying to wrangle them when they've taken root and people have become accustomed to them

  • The Apalachee High School shooter reportedly complained that trans people are accepted in society. Right-wing media claimed the shooter was trans.

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  • that's so crazy they're really double dipping in that the shooter hates queer ppl and then the media calls him queer to slander queer ppl

    STOP, pick one ffs

  • What duration of time do you connect to intellectual property?

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  • these are not totally serious thoughts, altho they reflect my kind of feelings about it

    but IP should be periodically put to a vote, maybe a year or two after a major release, in which the public decides if they should retain ownership of the IP

    if not? it's released into public domain. obviously the original company / creator can still do something with it, but others can, as well. but if they do a good job keeping people happy with it, they can keep it

    obviously this has some problems, mostly about constantly polling people and probably only dealing with IP that's popular enough

    but the idea gives me some deep satisfaction after seeing some companies ruin their IP, and i like the idea of consumers having some power to punish them for being shitty lol

  • Watrule tension

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  • water in noita be like:

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    How to detransition

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  • hard to provide any advice with the limited info you've given. are you detransitioning just based on that feeling? are there other factors? who have you come out to? how long have you been out to them? how accepting is your culture? how accepting are your family / friends?

    but also, given you haven't done much in your transition, and assuming you haven't been out that long, you should be able to just pretty much go "actually i changed my mind / was experimenting" and that's that

  • Kandi RAVER rules

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  • what a blast from the past

  • Are passing photos allowed?

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  • i know you already posted so this is kind of late, but i think it would be good to post why you're asking people on the internet if you pass. i think any particular reason is fine; to just do it for validation, or to help you troubleshoot something in particular, if you're gauging how safe you are, or actually just plain curiousity, whatever

    but i also sort of worry about the effects it has on a community for people to be posting pictures and asking if they pass, at least without context. passing is already a rather subjective process, and there's kind of an implied "passing = good" idea, which can be reinforced by these types of posts

    it's important to acknowledge that there are trans people (trans masc people too!) who either are unable to pass or don't desire to pass

    i think that adding the context of why you want other people's opinion helps lessen the implicit idea of "passing = good", which i believe generally leads to a more positive and welcoming space for all trans people (e.g. "i'd like to know if i pass as (gender) for the validation" highlights that this is addressing a specific feeling for you, rather than something general that everyone should desire)

    also, i want to clarify that i do not think wanting to pass is a bad thing. it is completely fine for you, individual trans person, to want to pass and appear as your desired gender. what i oppose is the idea that, to be valid, one needs to pass

    @cowboycrustation@lemmy.blahaj.zone tagging you because i think you run this place and i'd appreciate it if you gave my post some thought

  • Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology)

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  • it's an interesting article, but i think the authors are conflating friction for wanting genuine human interaction; its easier than ever for me to make friends because i can instantly connect with and message back and forth, quickly and in real time, over various platforms e.g. discord, the depth of which is only limited by our interactions and how we treat them. forcing us back to sms/email/paper mail doesn't make our interactions deeper, even though it adds friction. it means we can easily choose what the depth of connection we want is

    that isn't to say that there aren't examples where less friction leads to less interaction. dating apps are a great example. but i think the authors are conflating the friction for the interaction. yes, you could add friction that would encourage interaction, but you could also add friction that doesn't. i think the more salient point would be, encouraging interaction often includes friction, but one shouldn't shy away from that, as a UI/UX developer

    which, granted, isn't as catchy of a title. but they could have gone into greater detail for that in the article, too

    regardless of this critique, i enjoyed reading it and the perspective it offered, even if i don't strictly agree

  • Deutsche Herrschaft

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  • nein

  • Stone me into passivity

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  • not that we should be equivocating meth and adhd meds in the adhd community 😭

    but otherwise yea, very good point being made. i didn't realize that was a criteria

  • An Interview With Jack Dorsey

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  • hate speech (of which nazi speech is a subset of) isn't political either. it definitely should be banned because it demonstrably causes people to get hurt

    insane stance to be advocating that nazis should have free speech in 2024