ShellMonkey

joined 3 months ago

Just based on the Kindle my kid had that you had to pay to stop it being an ad platform, I can't fathom the incentive to buy anything hardware wise in the Amazon space. You buy a thing and it's still sitting there being a portable billboard because 'fuck you we can'.

It looks like a whole mastodon instance full of such people. Front page trending tag is 'fakenews'.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FFS, 7 month old account with 0 comments or posts as it shows to me and a meme about how the parasite class need to be taxed/removed sends you off in a tizzy. You have to build some history before jumping in whole hog to be a believable troll you know?

Remote controlled rather than radio controlled. If one wanted to get particular a lot of cheap RC where/are done by IR control, which makes them pretty well useless outdoors, same with TV remotes, but it's still remote controlled.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And when it was written militaries where standing in lines firing round shot out of inaccurate tubes en-masse hoping that they might hit something. A single person with a modern SAW could have taken out an entire company unaided. You're suggesting that there should be no adjustment based on changes to society and technology because it's written on a specific piece of paper.

Explicit isn't so much a problem, but nuance.

Example: the right to free speech is explicit a good and pretty well irrevocable thing, however some constraints such as using a public space to promote hate, speech meant to cause mass panic or harm or similar abuses are not protected as an exception to the broad basic right.

A part of the issue with the second is the population is so fiercely militaristic (we make such a monument of our military as being the greatest of heros) and individualistic that people will twist the wording any way they like to claim they should have the right to a tank rather than to thin what is reasonable for the general population.

Then there are the folks thinking they can revolt against a tyrannical government armed with globe covering drones because they have 100 rifles in their basement, but those are more especially deluded exceptions.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's marked on the poster as a happy hour event. The old 'lampshade on head drunk' character is what I'd guess the intention was, nothing more. It's a bit at odds with a formal dress since it's normally associated with a more raucous frat party type image, so not the best thought out particularly in a business presentation, but I doubt it was anything more sinister than that.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What the centrist so reviled here dislikes is being told we're no better than fascists for taking a small or piecemeal win rather than stomping our feet and going home if we don't get a full Marxist revolution today.

Dammit, I was stuck thinking of the stuff in a petri dish.

Same machine have water fo $1 by chance? I've heard of some places doing that as a health promotion, they offer the junk food but make you pay big for it vs something more healthy.

Which works out to around $29,200,000.00 / DAY in profits, not even total revenue but actual in the pocket profits, for selling sugar water with some flavor additives...

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
 

Hey all,

So I'm looking to take an active step here to understand better some things that my straight/white/cis/middle-aged male brain has had a tough time wrapping itself around, particularly in the gender identity front.

I'm working from the understanding of physical sex as the bio-bits and the expressed identity as being separate things, so that part is easy enough.

What's confusing to me though is like this. If we take gender as being an expression of your persona, a set of traits that define one as male, female, or some combination of both then what function does a title/pronoun serve? To assume that some things are masculine or feminine traits seems to put unneeded rigidity to things.

We've had men or women who enjoy things traditionally associated with the other gender for as long as there have been people I expect. If that's the case then what purpose does the need for a gender title serve?

I'll admit personally questioning some things like fairness in cis/trans integrated sports, but that's outside what I'm asking here. Some things like bathroom laws are just society needing to get over itself in thinking our personal parts are all that special.

Certainly not trying to stir up any fights, just trying to get some input from people that have a different life experience than myself. Is it really as simple as a preferred title?

Edit: Just wanted to take a second to thank all the people here who took the time to write some truly extensive thoughts and explanations, even getting into some full on citation-laden studies into neurology that'll give me plenty to digest. You all have shown a great deal of patience with me updating some thinking from the bio/social teachings of 20+ years back. 🙂

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