lyth

@lyth@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do De-Transitioners validate some right wing talking points?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to specify which talking points you’re looking to verify/falsify. A nonzero amount of people surgically transitioning and then regretting it doesn’t do much good for the verifiably made-up points or eliminationist points that “right wing talking points surrounding Trans issues as a whole” often contain.

  Anyway, here’s Some More News talking about detransitioners. His content tends to be a bit on the ranty side but I hope you’ll consider giving it a watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Six-year-olds have very little agency over their minds and so little understanding of the world that IMO it’s not really worth it to view them as “guilty” of things.
  • I don’t know whether this is a useful way of thinking about things for you, but most of the matter in your body has been replaced with new matter since you were six years old. I expect most of the way you think and the things you know have been replaced since then, and how your cognition works on a very basic level has changed. Like, if you’re over age 27 you have a developed prefrontal cortex that wasn’t all there before. You’ve changed enough that you could safely regard yourself as a different person in a material sense, and a much better person. Sometimes when I remember something terrible I’ve done ages ago, the way I’ll think of it is that I can destroy that other version of me by becoming a different, better person.
  • You could see life-changing benefits by seeking therapy resources like DBT and CBT. Web searching these can lead you to free video resources that you could listen to while doing whatever else you do with your day.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. I found a website that has TNG episode transcripts and I did a web search within it by putting “site:chakoteya.net/NextGen/ snoring” into duckduckgo. It only reports Wesley snoring in “Evolution” and Worf snoring in “Redemption: Part 2”. Searching for the keyword “snore” gave no useful results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ex-Catholic here, standard response where I’m from would be “No, our God is the only god and trying to contact any spirits beside the Holy Spirit just opens you up to all the evil out there”.

  My understanding is that Abrahamic religions are universally monotheistic and have been since the Babylonian Exile got rid of the henotheistic aspect of Yahwism. Expect to get a lot of pretty convoluted reasoning if you ask a Catholic whether having three persons in the trinity is the same thing as polytheism.

• How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who’s very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can’t easily explain.