AlDente
@AlDente@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I personally shy away from the idea of binary labels. Whenever you have two opposing extremes, I find hard to believe that someone can be the 100% embodiment of one and 0% of the other. Whether it’s ‘authoritarian/libertarian’, ‘left/right’, ‘straight/gay’, ‘neurotypical/neurodivergent’, or dare I say, ‘male/female’, I see all of these as a spectrum. Whenever binary opposites exist, I believe we all fall somewhere in the middle.
To say that someone is 0% man or 0% woman seems to reinforce the idea that these labels are based on physical characteristics, concrete, and/or absolute. If you believe that personal identity is fluid, and that change is constant, then how can you reckon with the idea of someone being 100% either? It won’t be possible to swing upward passed 100%, so the only other option is down; into the gray area and constantly wavering over time.
As for myself, I might have been born with a penis, but have plenty of characteristics that I would not consider “manly.” I strongly prefer to sit on a toilet to rather than use a urinal, I’ve worn a skirt around my home and fantasized about having breasts and beautiful hair, and my Spotify wrapped from last year classified me as a “pink Pilates princess”. I’m absolutely not presenting these to declare myself a woman, but I suspect each of these admissions would diminish my standing as “man”, especially in a non-anonymous environment.
If anyone was ever unsure about their gender identity, experimenting, or just non-committal to a binary gender assignment, I can see how a having another individual assign this black/white classification on them (and banning them as a consequence) would be incredibly stressful and harmful to their wellbeing. With how gray gender identity can be, it is no surprise if someone in this mindset doesn’t push back with a claim of the opposite binary choice; the sex on their birth certificate. I believe this kind of moderation serves to reinforce conservative societal norms and discourage empathy across the gender spectrum.
- Comment on think before you eat 3 weeks ago:
Good question. I’m honestly not sure. You have a good point about screen readers, so I think the way you have it would be preferred by those who need the text. Alternatively, I’ve seen “[sic]” used to indicate that text is reproduced exactly as it originally appeared, including errors. However, I’m not sure if that would help screen readers in any way.
I was only pointing it out because it seemed fun to claim “worht” was in any way correct. Also, I always wondered if the alt text was manually entered or if some AI/ML generated it from the submitted photo. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
- Comment on think before you eat 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, looks like there’s a typo in the alt text. It’s supposed to be worht.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
They would always start buzzing before my phone started ringing.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 months ago:
No brake calipers or power steering onboard?
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 months ago:
Regarding the edit:
The mobile link might be better than the usual link, but I’d still prefer the one-stop-shop of this current method. Comic, hover text, and comments are all viewable in one place without the additional wait of switching to a browser app and loading the page. I wish the desktop experience mimicked this.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 months ago:
I guess this is going to come down to desktop vs mobile preference. On mobile this shows everything on one page with no additional loading. Alternatively, using the source page requires multiple steps and page loads for mobile users, who may also need to amend the link to see the hover text.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 months ago:
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I never knew about the hover text. I just viewed the source page on my desktop browser and now I see it. However, is this text even viewable on mobile, when you don’t have a cursor to hover?
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 months ago:
I actually like it better this way because the full comic can be viewed and zoomed in on in app (Voyager in my case). I’ve seen these posted with the source page as the post link and I can’t click on the image to zoom in without being pulled out of app with a wait for the web page to load. Also, when entering the post to see the comments, the thumbnail is so small when the source page is linked, making the comic unreadable. With an image alone, the full comic is viewable beside the comments. Is it different for you?
- Comment on ABSOLUTE MADNESS 2 months ago:
I’m glad I found this. So true! Thank you for spreading awareness.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 months ago:
Up about 16% today. During yesterday’s earnings report, the board announced that they approved the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies with their $4.7-billion of cash on hand.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 months ago:
S&P500 closed at an all-time high yesterday. It’s not just up relative to a downturn.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I have auto update disabled and only selectively update individual apps. However, I still found this installed and promptly uninstalled it.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 5 months ago:
Nice glizzy guide!
- Comment on The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries 6 months ago:
I think they were making a pitch for piracy.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 8 months ago:
You mean scrambled porn, right?
- Comment on The Amazon Echo graveyard 8 months ago:
I also have the TimeStack and it’s great. However, my one complaint is that there’s no external power switch, and therefore, seems to use up batteries quicker than it should.
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 9 months ago:
I must say I don’t like the idea of a social-credit-score bot.
Regarding your implementation, I saw the summary of your own comments elsewhere in this post and I noticed all the annotations were on upvoted/blue segments. Other summaries you posted focused more on negative/red segments. Would it be possible to enforce a minimum of 1 or 2 from both categories?
Also, would you be kind enough to read my tea leaves? Am I an acceptable citizen of the Lemmy community?
