I tried Pop!_OS alpha1 with Cosmic Desktop and I even if the general software quality is still what you might expect from the first alpha release, I was impressed on the high-level design decisions they made with Cosmic. As a sway user who would like a bit more structure and hand-holding in my desktop, I think I’m gonna like Cosmic in a year’s time.

I don’t think it does? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto

I don’t know. Rust seems like a better C++ to me rather than a better C. Plain C is a very simple language.

Yeah, the Rust guys’ proposition is roughly this:

Hey you guys with 20-30 years of experience doing a single thing very well. Let’s nullify most of that skillset and replace it with a thing we’re good at.

Don’t worry, we will teach you.

They’re not technically wrong about Rust being a better choice for a kernel, of course. They’re just incredibly misinformed about the social hurdles they need to climb over for it to happen.

I thought it might’ve been due to Hawkeye.

Andrew Tate and all that shit.

I thought the level of discourse has increased sharply since lemmy.world got along, and the effect of lemmy.ml’s somewhat extremist stance has lessened. It’s now possible to mostly actually talk here without blocking half of the whole network.

So I would be perfectly ok with dropping lemmy.ml from the rest of the network. But I’m guessing that goes somewhat against the overall philosophy of the whole thing? I don’t suppose the idea of federation was to create even stronger bubbles.

I’m not angry. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU IMPLY THAT I’M ANGRY

I’m here mostly because the implementation is superior. If Reddit was accessible directly from here, it’d be a total win-win imho.

It would also be a lose-lose for them, as it would open up their data to free-of-charge use via API without any benefit for them – so it’s not going to happen.

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Generally speaking, you shouldn’t do anything on the internet that you absolutely don’t want to become public. If you don’t want people to know your votes, don’t vote.

Getting banned sucks but it’s not great form to complain about it publically. You can just block the sub and move on.

Jiu Jitsu, a rather traditional method. I’ve practiced lots of things over the last 3 decades, and have now landed on this because there’s a lot of good people practicing it.

What I like:

• it has a bit of everything
• judo throws are fun

What I don’t like:

• wrestling / grappling, never liked or been good at that
• kicks are pretty practical, no fancy acrobatic stuff
• no traditional weapon (staff, sword, nunchaku, etc) techniques

I suck at martial arts, but I’ve done it for so long that I’m sometimes able to fool people into thinking I’m not bad.

Aren’t they already practically public, given the federation?

The financial system would collapse, leading to unimaginable suffering until it is rebuilt again. Tens of millions of deaths in a few years in USA alone.

Almost is absolutely \s

Probably mostly because almost nobody uses it.

Oh right, I made the mistake of conflating “healthcare as a human right” with “public sector healthcare” because of the context. You and DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social are right of course.

What do you mean by “doing something special” if not treating the trans man as a man and trans woman as a woman? If you are more specific maybe I can try to clarify why people might have thought it was transphobic.

I mean pretty much just that in the general sense. I’m not sure where the confusion about this rose from. Perhaps from the context of some sports, where drawing the line is not this easy?

And for the record I tend to agree with flyingsquid from the linked thread- definitions should be rigorous and accurately/comprehensively describe reality.

Agreed. Difference is that I think the biological definition describes reality very well, even if not perfectly. It doesn’t seem to me that any competing definition is doing a better job.

But it’s perfectly fine not to 100% agree about this. It’s the insinuation (that I might be imagining) of being evil that’s disturbing.

Great article, thanks for that.

Quote from its 4th section:

then I ought to accept an unexpected man or two deep inside the conceptual boundaries of what would normally be considered female if it’ll save someone’s life.

I think the confusion (in my case) is that even though I think male and female are well-defined concepts based on biology, this fact does not preclude doing something special for the benefit of the remaining 1% who don’t fit the definition. And it also doesn’t preclude having a sexual identity that differs from the biological ones.

So I don’t understand the leap from what I’m saying to accusing me of being transphobic, and by extension, evil in a somewhat religious sense. This is where it seems to me that the discussion is fucked.

And the accusation of being anti-scientific I thought was just wrong, but that’s fine.