sverona

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by sverona 4y ago
I am, in fact, polyamorous. Do you find that funny?
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by sverona 4y ago
This gets into some philosophy-of-mind weeds that I may not be well equipped to navigate, but my contention is that identities aren't objectively real at all. They are constructions. They're as real as the real line.
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by sverona 4y ago
You bristle at "being forced to play along with a fantasy" because you prefer a different and equally fantastic fantasy. And who's forcing you into anything? Who's trying to make misgendering a crime? It's impolite
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by sverona 4y ago
You can perceive what you will. Your identity is no more or less objectively real than mine.
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by sverona 4y ago
There are at least three basic formats that the One Joke comes in: 1. "I identify as X." Okay, how should I address you? 2. "X (nonsentient) identifies as Y." Nonsentient objects don't have identities. 3. "X (s
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by sverona 4y ago
What I think doesn't matter. Personal identity is constructed by definition. Your identity is no more or less real than mine. That's all.
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by sverona 4y ago
Nonbinary genders have as much do to with karyotypes as a grape has to do with grapefruit. Alternatively, go read that short story by Isabel Fall.
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by sverona 4y ago
One joke.
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by sverona 4y ago
I think the connection between your mind and body is stronger than you realize.
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by sverona 4y ago
True. I have in mind situations in which I am physically there. I should have said, "If you don't want to refer to someone properly, then don't refer to them at all."
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by sverona 4y ago
Semantics aside, if you don't want to refer to someone the way they want to be referred to, then kindly consider not speaking to them.
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by sverona 4y ago
I don't want certain pronouns to be used, I am demanding their usage. I have a right to do this because those pronouns address me. This is the same as any other boundary set by anyone. You can call me by the wrong pronouns if you w
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by sverona 4y ago
It's very simple. My body doesn't match my brain. I've been interested in nulloplasty/glamorplasty for forever. It doesn't make me physically or sexually any less capable. There are surgeons willing to do it now, wh
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by sverona 4y ago
Hi. I am a person who wants to have one of the things mentioned in GP done to their body. I have since I was a child. Calling me insane is hurtful. I doubt you know what body dysmorphia is like.
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by sverona 4y ago
12yos who know who RMS is inspire my cold, dead heart. Try sr.ht or savannah.gnu.org, and keep fighting the good fight. I remember being your age and I'm sorry the Internet is the way it is.
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by sverona 4y ago
(2020)
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by sverona 4y ago
Hi. I'm nonbinary. I do, in fact, honestly and genuinely think that Newspeaking the rest of you into believing that I'm not someone with some kind of horrible mental illness or whatever it is you want to believe these days is a Go
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by sverona 4y ago
It's not new at all, but Cosmic Encounter blew my mind wide open. It's far and away the most chaotic board game I've ever played. I love it. The object of the game is to occupy ten planets (you start with five) via combat, ne
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by sverona 4y ago
That's at least two mistakes and a shocking number of inferences which are all but impossible without prior knowledge.
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by sverona 4y ago
That's a high horse you've gotten on. "Proper definitions" are subjective. Marx's definitions of proletariat and bourgeoisie --- colloquially, working-class and owning-class --- survive today more or less un
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by sverona 4y ago
You and GP are conflating libre and gratis. The Internet is probably the most ambitious infrastructure project ever conceived. Of course it's not free the way sunlight is free. I dream of a world in which things like YouTube outrig
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by sverona 4y ago
I get jumpy around Scott but he is a working psychiatrist and good about citing his sources.
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by sverona 4y ago
I thought coffee suppressed appetite too.
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by sverona 4y ago
Given what the US did to the socialist South American states in Operation Condor, this is equivalent to "might makes right," which is no good basis for a political system.
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by sverona 4y ago
> Butler saw the push to the stars as something that could give humans a common purpose and save us from the terminal infighting that happens when we lack one. This will only happen after we do something about capitalism, if we ever do
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by sverona 4y ago
> For moral reasons, I don't want to hire someone who worked at Facebook. No ethical consumption, etc.
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by sverona 4y ago
I was very bullish on tech for a long time. What turned me off was the bad patterns that crop up all over social networks (see Twitter/Facebook culture in re: performative activism) and, more than anything, actually writing code in the
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by sverona 4y ago
> Even with marriage equality and other progress, I do not think the modern transgender rights movement would have been at all possible without the internet. This is what kills me, because it's absolutely right. I'm trans and
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by sverona 4y ago
She's right and I hate it. I used to love programming and now all I can think whenever I see 99% of software is, you don't need this. It exists to prop up capital. I can't even think of anything useful to code. All the us
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by sverona 4y ago
The GP kind of implied functions R->R, but yes.

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