captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Country music 1 day ago:
Antarctica, international waters, and space. Some people argue whether it should be made in rojava or Zapatista held territory
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 2 days ago:
I’m sure it’ll be helpful for some people who just want an os that does what they’re used to, but I’ve been using libre for like a decade for a reason
- Comment on Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor 2 days ago:
Yeah, and like it’s kinda weird to me because in part a lot of my higher ideas and art and shit comes from my struggle as a proletariat and as some who’s sat at the do or die stage of life while trying to sleep in a car in temperatures my area doesn’t reach anymore.
Like yeah, I’d love a break, but I need us to have a break, not me
- Comment on Overweight people more likely to take sick leave, European study finds 3 days ago:
Also encouraging fat folks to improve their health where they can is far better than chanting cico and attempting to shame them. Shame is bad at motivating people. Except to eat, shame is great at getting people attempting to lose weight to eat an entire pizza in a sitting. But instead by encouraging a healthier diet and to increase movement you help them lose weight, and more than that you help them keep it off.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 4 days ago:
I wouldn’t say hipster, I’d say nerd. Hipster implies that they think it’s cool
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 5 days ago:
Everything about it sounds awful, but especially thr people. Like, LinkedIn for unemployed douchebags
Fediverse follows the goals better
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
Yeah, you can build it up, but it’s unpleasant and slow and idk if it can get all the way.
Basically (from what I remember/understand) your body loves “use it or lose it” on anything resource intensive, and nothing uses resources like brain. So if you aren’t getting sound you let other stuff butt in on that area and you never build up auditory processing. Add in the fact that CIs don’t work the same as biological cochleas (seriously there’s videos with sound replicating various CIs) and you basically have to relearn how to hear.
Another connection is actually autistic people with issues with verbal communication often don’t have those issues with sign language. It’s processed differently but not in a way that makes it super hard to learn, it’s honestly easier to pick up than most languages.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 5 days ago:
They said what they said. You’re the dollar store version of a man who without money would be an insensitive stereotype of the hill folk round here
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 5 days ago:
What in the misogyny fried hell are you on about?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
There’s a variety of opinions. Born deaf often don’t like it. The later deafened you are the more you tend to want hearing back.
It’s not even about the communication per se, it’s also about the physical act of hearing which can be uncomfortable
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
The deaf argument is that there’s no need for assistance of assistive tools. An all deaf town would experience no undue hardships unlike an all blind town.
I’m personally on the fence about it, but trust me when I write that we’ve seen whatever your gut instinct on this is before. Your gut take is just a hearing person speaking against Deaf theory written by Deaf people and the people far more involved in it are probably not going to see it because the Deaf don’t deal with the hearing as much as other disabled groups do, for obvious reasons.
- Comment on Philosophy 6 days ago:
They ain’t wrong
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 days ago:
Because they kinda suck in a way wheelchairs don’t. Wheelchairs grant an alternative to ambulation. Cochlear implants give a new sense, one that those born without it literally don’t have the brain buildup to deal with. Like, look into those who got it and don’t use it. And often they’re forced on children by parents who will never learn sign language. I’m on board with children getting CIs as a teenager if a mental health professional with expertise in the deaf signs off that they weren’t unduly coerced, but it’s a major medical decision often forced or coerced on infants and young children by hearing parents and a hearing society to serve the interests of the hearing rather than the deaf child.
Fucking hell, hearing aids are uncomfortable. And not just because it’s something inside your ears. Like, it’s not the same as natural hearing (my loss is degenerative, I’ve had both). The sound filtration is worse and it overstimulates the brain. But hearing people get angry when you turn your ears off because you need a break because to many hearing people the point is to make you not deaf/hard of hearing. But the fact is we always are, it’s just that sometimes we’re using an assistive device that is often uncomfortable or outright painful.
Cochlear implants might be better seen as a lesbian having a platonic husband instead of a romantic wife. It’s uncomfortable assimilation and a worse solution in the absence of social pressure, and it gives the pressure ammunition. Absent the social pressures, it’s your choice. And to be upfront, I expect to get them once my hearing reaches the point they’re better than hearing aids. And also if I was a native signer they would have to earn a place in my skull and I’m angry that I’m not a native signer. As I implied, my hearing loss is genetic, and it fits pretty well to what your middle school taught you about a mono-allele dominant trait.
Wheelchairs are often seen as liberating to their users. Hearing aids and cochlear implants are often seen as burdens to their users. Nobody has to punish their child or nag their spouse into using their wheelchair, but for hearing devices, it’s common, it’s expected, it’s something you’re warned about beforehand. Please be understanding of the Deaf, we may not always be the nicest or easiest to understand, but nobody understands deafness better than us.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 days ago:
Yeah I feel like it’s an attempt to resolve the Deaf stance that deafness isn’t a disability. The general stance of the Deaf community is closer to that of the queer community than that of say the paraplegic community. It sees deafness as a disability constructed by a society unwilling to communicate visually and to teach signed languages to all people able to use them.
Mind you we’re the contentious portion of the disabled world. The Deaf are as bad as lesbians I tell ya.
But on point, “differently abled” feels like it washes away the struggle. I am disabled. I’m disabled by a society that taught my great grandparents, my grandparents, and my parents not to teach their hard of hearing children sign language because otherwise we won’t use English. I’m disabled by a society that doesn’t include visual signals in emergency sounds even when it’s easy to do. I’m disabled by a society where people, including cops, will speak to the back of my head and not even consider that I didn’t respond because I didn’t hear. And I’m disabled by the assumption my life has to be worse for having less sound as though I’m not extremely literate and completely capable of using a signed language. I’m not “differently abled” I’m completely able in most ways everyone else is.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 6 days ago:
Exactly, the reasons I’m an engineer are very tied to the reasons I helped a coworker with her kid’s math homework the other day. I just want to help, to understand things, and to help people understand things
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 week ago:
Oh yeah sales people always think bringing an engineer onto a call is a great idea until they try it a few times. We’re a blunt people who want a fair exchange
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
“There wouldn’t be a morale problem if our employees weren’t so stupid”
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Ah yes, employees are only mad because they don’t understand the finances. Like, no, we’re disgruntled by layoffs no matter what. Layoffs trade morale and productivity for cash
- Comment on ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment 1 week ago:
Full agreement. I seem to have biochemical and trauma based issues myself. I can’t medicate the pain away, but my adhd requires a holistic, chemicals included, response.
- Comment on ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment 1 week ago:
Isn’t this like the first thing psychology found out?
- Comment on Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men 1 week ago:
Yeah I bet if you searched desi it wouldn’t have this problem
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m probably more comfortable with strange men in a library than strange bears. The woods are where strange bears go. The library is where strange people go.
Now if I have them making advances towards me, bear in a library 100%. My local bears are black bears and they can be scared off easier than some men.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s where bears are supposed to be! Where else do you expect them to shit?
- Comment on Boy Scouts of America changes name after bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims 1 week ago:
Not far at all lol. Though since I’ve grown up I’ve slept with far more Eagle Scouts than most lesbians.
The only issues I really faced were the toxic masculinity that permeated a small portion of it and me having my ass kicked from time to time.
And yeah it was unrelated to my understanding of my queerness. Well except in certain ways. It impacted how I carry myself in the queer community. Especially giving me a tendency to lead when nobody else will.
He’ll back when I was in we were mad they were kicking out gay people and I had met the girls in other countries’ scouting orgs and was pissed at the fact that girls couldn’t join us.
- Comment on Boy Scouts of America changes name after bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims 1 week ago:
Yeah
- Comment on Boy Scouts of America changes name after bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims 1 week ago:
Yeah I really hope it can improve. It has a lot of bad shit, but the fundamental concept of getting kids outdoors and doing shit as well as teaching them to take responsibility for their part in their society is all really good
- Comment on Passions. 1 week ago:
Oh absolutely, though I never noticed the olfactory or aural ones. It’s that they aren’t coherent hallucinations. They’re more likely to be geometric. They can tap into the entheogenic properties but pop culture loves to treat it like it’s visual first and temporal last, when really any dose will give most people temporal hallucinations, and it’s usually a medium dose to make the ceiling go wavey. I’ve never done a large dose so I can’t speak on that.
Outside the time hallucinations, the hallucinations aren’t the main attraction, it’s the tapping into the feeling of connectedness.
- Comment on Passions. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I just wish both drugs existed. What people think lsd does sounds more casually fun than a drug that makes you horny then introspective and all the while tied to mystical feelings. LSD is the best time I’ve ever had confronting my behavior, but it does force me to confront shit
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 1 week ago:
This spent several decades as a conspiracy theory on par with ufos. Then some people stole some government records and it’s now stiff they admit to
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Yeah I drive a Honda fit. A vehicle with a cult following that’s no longer made