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  • calcopiritustolinuxmemesBlame qt
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    1 day ago

    My comment explicitly avoids the “standard” problem.

    A user could have many "theming system"s installed at once, while only having 1 DE. The user ideally would configure only one, and some program should try to translate that system into the other ones.

    Then each app will fetch the list of theming systems the user has installed, and choose whichever the app prefers. And if there’s no match, fall back to a default hard coded theme.




  • First of all. We probably don’t agree on what gender is. You’re treating it as a matter of fact and that you’re right and I’m wrong. And then you’re using that definition to base most of the rest of the arguments.

    So if you want to convince me with those arguments, you have to first give a definition of man/woman that satisfies me.

    You claim that those demands don’t affect me, but they do. Every financial help that the government offers affects everyone, since everyone is paying for it. In general changing any rule/law affects everyone in one way or another.

    The gay movement was different, they mostly demanded societal change. The only rule/law I can think of that was changed for them is about marriage. Which we mostly all accepted since we as a society were more accepting because of the previous societal change.

    With trans, however, they are demanding changes to rules/laws without previous societal change. They haven’t yet come up with a definition of gender that most people agree to, you can’t change rules/laws for things that most people don’t even agree if it exists or not.




  • calcopiritustoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon asks out a girl
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    3 days ago

    He wasn’t listening to the conversation for 3 hours. He was seated there for 3 hours, and then he overheard a part of a conversation.

    Overhearing is not the same as actively listening. Talking in public is public. They are at a bar, which is an extremely social place, it is normal for strangers to join conversations.

    And what place and context is more appropriate than a bar for asking someone out? It has been the de facto place exactly for that purpose for millenia.



  • Ah. I see you completely ignored one of the 2 examples. You’re also assuming I’m in the US (which I’m not, I’m a Spaniard). You only mentioned the photo thing, but completely ignored the entrepreneurship program.

    I only mentioned the photo thing because for years I’ve been hearing that we live in a sexist society because some films don’t pass the bechdel test (idk if it’s spelled like that, I hope you know what I mean). Yet when men are completely erased from media then it’s because they are neck bearded fat guys. Again, this is not the US, this is Spain, the boys are fit good looking young men. Of course, my girlfriend is way prettier, but the boys are not ugly.

    I didn’t give examples for the trans thing because I thought it to be self-evident and writing these posts take quite a bit of time. But here you go:

    (Below when I say trans I mean “some trans and allies”, of course not all of them think 100% the same)

    1. Trans demand the rules of sports be changed so they can participate in their preferred league.
    2. Trans demand they change laws so they are based around their belief of how gender works.
    3. If there are gender-specific subsidies (which again, I don’t think they should be), trans demand it is given to them.
    4. Trans demand official documents reflect their view of gender.
    5. Some trans even demand their cosmetic surgeries be paid by the government.

    Also, the order of the issues neither in this comment nor in the previous one is in any way related to importance, IDK why you assumed that in the first place. And again, IDK why you assume US, most of the 7th paragraph only applies to the US. If trans were just saying “we exist, let us exist, don’t hate us just for existing” like the rest of LGB, I don’t think it would be an issue. Instead they say “we exist, and even if we are the 0.001% (made up number), we demand 50% of society’s focus, and if you don’t treat us exactly the way we want, then you’re a nazi”.

    EDIT: sure, just ignore the concerns and read only the “weak” ones. And young men turning right will be as surprising to you as people not liking AI is surprising to Microsoft execs.





  • Elaboration:

    By women privilege I don’t mean anything to do with rape or sexual assault. Although laws that say “doing X to a woman is sexual assault” could easily say “doing X to a human is sexual assault” and nobody would complain, but that doesn’t score as much political points for leftist politicians.

    I mean things like scholarships, entrepreneurship subsidies, gender-bas hiring quotas.

    And many other things that used to be “micro-sexism” when it was done against women, now it’s done against men.

    As an example, here’s some anecdotal evidence: my girlfriend studies mechanical manufacturing in a public school, they are about 10 people in class, 2 of them women. Every year they take photos/videos of students working to advertise their school. 2/2 times they “chose” the 2 women to appear in the mechanical manufacturing adds, 0 men.

    Later on, each group made a project and submitted it for a government program for entrepreneurs. They only chose 1 group from her class (guess which one, the one with 2 women). When they attended the gathering of the awarded ones, they asked the organizers and they admitted that no group for their class was good enough, they only got in because they were 2 women in a mechanical manufacturing class.

    Every time I say cases like this there is one of 2 responses from the left:

    1. Of course! We have to compensate since men have it easier!
    2. That’s just anecdotal evidence. The thing you describe never happens

    I never hear this reaction: 3. Yeah that’s fucked up, the men in that class are 2nd class citizens in the presence of women.