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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • I think Ada already said it better than I will, but yeah there’s a few too many simplifications and short-circuits (in reasoning/logic) in what you have written. If society stopped claiming people “should” be this or that just because of some physical characteristics they were born with, the “conflict” you outline ceases to exist. Trans people (and “non-conforming” people in general) could fulfill whatever roles and stereotypes they resonate with, and still fit in just fine.

    Plus, the stereotypes some of us resonate with simply do not neatly map onto society’s stereotypes of men and women. Some people who have outwardly transitioned may seem to be moulding themselves into society’s “traditional” gender norms, sure. Putting aside those who do so out of self preservation or fear of persecution, I would argue it’s just happenstance (in other words, pure luck) that who they want to be in life lines up so neatly with these existing delineations. It doesn’t conflict with the push to stop expecting and demanding people fit other people’s schemas.

    I don’t know that stereotypes are necessarily harmful, not do I think that the point of equality is to get rid of them. Rather, they should have no bearing on our worth, and we should not be reducing people to the various stereotypes we know of. We are infinitely more complex and varied beings than any stereotypes that anyone has ever conceived.

    Myself, I prefer to think of stereotypes as archetypes, like in storytelling. They are shortcuts that evoke certain character traits. They cannot describe the totality of a person, only facets. Thus, we should be careful to not expect people to fit “inside” them; therein lies the/a root of a lot of harm. If that is too difficult, better to do away with thinking in terms of stereotypes than demean those who don’t fit them.


  • I get random friend requests from accounts in discord servers that I haven’t even viewed, let alone interacted in, for years - most have some sort of “live/laugh/love” bio blurb. Maybe I’m just an antisocial hermit at this point, but I ignore every single one.

    In comparison, Steam seems a lot more genuine. You can always try suggesting discord for voice chat if you’re leery of installing an unknown program just for talking to that user.



  • I’m surprised that’s what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.

    I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don’t exactly know which parts.











  • Nitpick:

    For instance, the terms ‘a community with a shared future for mankind’ and ‘Xi Jinping thought on ecological civilisation’ have been repeatedly found in different texts.

    Just “appearing” in different texts is almost meaningless - the context could very well have been “Xi Jinping thought on ecological civilisation found lacking when confronted with local context of such-and-such impoverished community”. If you’re going to accuse something of being propaganda you really need to be more precise than that, else you’re mostly providing the CCP (in this case) with further reason to claim this is just US-leaning, anti-China propaganda.



  • Exploring Satisfactory’s map has given me many more moments of wonder than in Factorio, even though I much prefer the latter’s gameplay. Definitely a strong suit of handcrafted vs procedural. It’s just a shame that Satisfactory’s gameplay somewhat incentivizes you to wait until you have trivialized the exploration, through Zipline+hover pack+radar.