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by damnyou 7y ago
There are already all sorts of controls over what people can and can't say in professional settings. You can't use the N-word or keep asking someone out after they've said no in a workplace environment. These controls exist f
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, if Bob asks you to use they/them pronouns then you should use they/them pronouns for Bob, just like if they ask you to use the name Robert. Intentionally using the wrong name or pronouns for someone is disrespectful, and woul
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by damnyou 7y ago
If a community destroys itself over showing basic respect to a marginalized group, it probably shouldn't have existed at all.
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by damnyou 7y ago
They were forced out because they put hetero/cisnormative society's interests over their patients'. Their main goal always was to fit their patients into society rather than advocate for society to accept greater gender diver
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by damnyou 7y ago
Your premise is wrong. A pronoun is not "silly" to a trans person! If your mother was misgendering a dog that would be one thing, but it's a person we're taking about here. A human being. Your mother does not simply ge
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by damnyou 7y ago
I understand what you're saying but it's seriously not a huge problem — usually there's context to figure out what a sentence means.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The goal should be to shift the overton window towards greater justice, not simply broaden it. Yes, a view that all Christians are mentally ill has no place in workplaces either. This does not mean that you cannot privately hold such view
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, and at that point the only way out is to: 1. keep the door open for anyone who wishes to change their mind 2. wrest power from everyone else -- workplace by workplace, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, culture by culture. The pro-trans sid
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by damnyou 7y ago
Do any of your friends use they/them pronouns? Most people get used to them with a tiny bit of practice. I've seen Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Hindi native speakers use them fluently.
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by damnyou 7y ago
This is not a both sides issue. The medical fields moved to complete affirmation of trans identities a while ago because the scientific evidence for trans affirmation is overwhelming -- literally everything from mental health outcomes to su
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by damnyou 7y ago
It is completely appropriate to enforce a trans-affirming policy. A view that considers a group of people -- other people that participate on the site -- mentally ill, has no place in workplaces, large-scale online forums and polite society
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yeah, VC is cancer.
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by damnyou 7y ago
How can I sync to iCloud on my Android phone and Linux desktop?
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yeah, you've accurately explained how Silicon Valley culture can ruin companies that would be completely sustainable otherwise. Thanks!
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Maybe "products" are actually bad when they lock you into an ecosystem like the company Steve Jobs headed does.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Moderators, as community leaders, need to go out of their way to signal inclusion for trans people. If they are unwilling to they should resign or be fired.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Of course sex has a biological meaning. Trans people are more aware of that than anyone else. That is why many trans people change their primary and secondary sex characteristics through hormones and surgery. You can change your sex but n
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by damnyou 7y ago
The line is when you treat trans and nonbinary people differently from cis people.
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Driving transphobia out of society is a good and noble goal.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Every single person I know who uses Signal has complained about this. I'm glad Signal is reliable for you but that is not our experience.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Telegram group chats are not e2e encrypted, while Signal is notorious for being unreliable at actually delivering messages. Also, if you change your phone number the official Signal recommendation is to manually tell all your friends about
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by damnyou 7y ago
Sometimes you want to do things that the OS maker does not want you to do, like run dtrace on system binaries. If you had no recourse to bypass the OS maker, the world would be a much worse place.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I don't know what GP has in mind, but you normally can't do basic developer stuff like run dtrace on system binaries or use TotalSpaces. The only way to do that is to disable SIP by holding down a bunch of keys at startup, and tha
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by damnyou 7y ago
Because people invest big chunks of their lives in communities . I realize that many tech workers in SF are normally ignorant of the lives of the people around them though.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The legal definition of antitrust has changed over time and can change again, especially if Warren becomes president.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Of course it's relevant. A definition of monopoly that only relies on raw unit numbers is obviously incomplete. Antitrust is about power , and Apple has a lot of it.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I'm sure you've seen endless comments on this website about how Apple has an outsized amount of "profit share", and that it matters a lot more than market share for app developers.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Good job answering your own question! Mobile platforms deserve more scrutiny precisely for the reasons you mentioned — the utility, the power, the importance.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Microsoft should be broken up too, yes. But a phone OS is much more powerful than a console platform. Elizabeth Warren certainly cares about this, thankfully.
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Average users are not the only people that matter, despite what Robert Bork wants you to think. What is wrong is the concentration of power within a company answerable only to shareholders. Even democratically elected governments need to be

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