zecg

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VULFPECK /// Can You Tell (www.youtube.com)
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[–] zecg 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.

it’s also not everyone’s responsibility

I'm not talking about moral duty or responsibility, I'm just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.

you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.

If it's an old friend, then you especially need to make some effort, for your own sake if not theirs. People are using "nazi" and "bigot" as thought-terminating cliches, but in many cases you can have a normal conversation with the person you'd call a nazi for their online output about things not related to your or their identity or politics. You can learn woodworking from a nazi and go on to make furniture decorated with a hammer&sickle instead of a swastika. It's an extreme example, perhaps, but in my view it's also really extreme to peddle this extreme misanthropy as advice to people on the internet you don't know about their friends you also don't know. "Engage with them and try" seems to me like less of an error these days if we're talking generalizations then "cut them off".

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[–] zecg 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

cutting contact will help your mental health

I keep seeing this as self-help advice and it's completely wrong in my opinion, both for a person in question and for all trans people around them. On societal level, if nobody engages one another things will just slide even worse. And on a personal level, you don't always get to choose open-minded friends. If you just push everyone away waiting for more compatible people, you'll be alone. Poptimism really oversells a strong individual standing alone in a world of bigots.

it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.

A better way is to not cut the person out but explain it to them, over and over. You cut them out, the lesson they'll probably learn is that they lost a friend to a biblical plague of gayness or something. Engaging is hard, but unless you try, you're doing nothing.

[–] zecg 2 points 1 day ago

Many such cases

[–] zecg 13 points 1 day ago

Fool me thrice...

[–] zecg 1 points 1 day ago
[–] zecg 4 points 1 day ago

I like your optimism, but: "A double-click opens the Essential Space. This is where all the little snippets you record during the day end up, and the AI uses them to create reminders, recommendations and the like. Essential requires an internet connection. According to Nothing, the data remains within the EU on a server in Paris." Here.

[–] zecg 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To make sure Essential Space is always a click away, Nothing created the Essential Key.

The only thing I love more than cloud-backed note-taking crapware is when it has a dedicated hardware key. I hope they haven't gone full Bixby and it can be remapped without jumping through hoops.

[–] zecg 1 points 2 days ago

I quite like Lemmy, it's a good reddit and being federated it never goes down completely. It's also much more open, if one is getting bullied away from one's hobby-niche by moderators one can just make an alternative on another instance, or make their own instance.

[–] zecg 5 points 2 days ago

Don't non-binary people have a right to moderate their own space as they like?

Sure, though it seems as if their right extends to not being satirized in other communities for being power-tripping bastards. Don't they have a right to not be criticized for stifling any discussion and banning people based on vibes and posting history, using thought-terminating cliches in place of arguments? Well, it seems they do.

[–] zecg 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's banished from polite editorialising for being rude to drivers, cars kill so many we'd ban them from all cities already if the press hasn't been inventing euphemisms for a century. It sometimes leaks into reporting about this new mode of vehicular terrorism. They're so objective they can't yet tell whether it's a deliberate henious act or just normal car insanity which is treated as a sad but unavoidable fact of life where the car just swerves due to conditions and stuff. Interesting to see in the wild.

P.s. though, with self-driving systems, that title will probably be technically correct again at some point

[–] zecg 43 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA, but they are collecting it and sharing it with select partners in order to "stay comercially viable".

[–] zecg 10 points 3 days ago

What do you mean "work with", it's a different-ass client? Do you mean if it's possible to import settings?

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