SaltSong
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- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 days ago:
Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.
They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can’t apply it to me until then.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 days ago:
They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 6 days ago:
No European law applies outside Europe. That’s kind of the nature of laws.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 1 week ago:
Provide anything to back your shit up or shut up.
This puts me in mind of the landlord skiing of a photo of the water not being hot. What would you expect “proof we were not noisy” to look like?
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 1 week ago:
I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 2 weeks ago:
Context is as important to language as syntax.
Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 2 weeks ago:
Yea. Not helpful.
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.
- Comment on Martin Quinn On How His Scotty Isn’t A Miracle Worker Yet On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 2 weeks ago:
Right, that’s “speaking figuratively.” There are rules for that.
But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.
I’d hate to find a box in my lab marked “inflammable.”
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 5 weeks ago:
Also, that whole thing is nonsense of the highest order.
- Comment on 29% of adults couldn't go hour without internet - survey 1 month ago:
Because we don’t want them doing surge pricing.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
Some of this makes a bit of sense, but it still leans heavily on perception by others, rather than respecting what people know about themselves. This does not seem to be what many transgender persons want.
I’ll think about it.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.
What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?
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“Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.
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I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.
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It seems that using the prefix for both makes them equal.
What do you think world be more appropriate?
it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.
But they would suggest that as soon as we discover a way to change that characteristic, transrace world be valid.
Further, while gender identity may not be based on appearance, the way one is treated is very much based on appearance. If I look male, I get treated as male. If I look female, I get treated as female. If I look like one, but insist I am the other, people tend to have disagreements between their deliberate and automatic behaviors. (Well, the same people do, anyway.)
I can’t think of a good way to prove it, but I am legitimately curious about this topic. I’m never happy with the answer “because this one is right, and that one is wrong.” There needs to be reasons why.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
maybe stop comparing race and gender then.
Isn’t the entire premise of the post that someone is seeing parallels here, and would like to understand why the similarities are not meaningful? As I said, I agree that transracial people are being silly, but I haven’t seen an argument here that can’t be used against transgender people.
trans women only pass because we’re women.
But there are plenty of transwomen who don’t “pass” despite being women. But they should still be treated as women. Hell, there have been at least a few reports of ciswomen who couldn’t pass as women, at least to sufficiently assholish observers. On that basis, I don’t think we can use “passing” as a factor to determine people’s identity.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”
All of them seem to be social constructs.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
So, as a white person, I cannot pass as black, so I can never expect people to treat me like I’m black?
Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea is silly, but all the arguments I’ve seen in this thread are a word-swap away from being a bad argument against transgender people.
What’s the essential difference?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality
But surely how you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “gender” and subsequently it will shape your life reality?
Everything you described up there sounds exactly like “cultural.”
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 1 month ago:
Oh, infuriating, certainly.
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 1 month ago:
That’s amazing is it? That they (grudgingly) take care of us while we are doing what they want, and hurt us until we fall in line when we don’t?
Seems a bar has been lowered while I wasn’t looking.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
I’ll make an exception for uploaders.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
That’s because they banned the accounts.
Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 month ago:
It actually comes from artillery, but it’s the same idea.
I question the accuracy of this statement. Archers existed long before black-powder artillery. At the same time, though, I don’t know if anyone would have been concerned with that measurement, way back when.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 month ago:
I’m sure that applies for some combination of bow, arrow, and archer. I’ll add it to the list of things 5e has done to irritate me.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 month ago:
The technical term comes from archery. In archery, the arrow rises when fired, so when shooting at very close targets, you actualy aim lower than the point you want to hit. At distant targets, of course, you aim higher, because the arrow will start to fall.
“Point Blank” is the distance at which you aim directly at the target. Last time I did any shooting, it was about 22 feet, with my bow and my arrows.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 month ago:
I’m curious to know what you think “point blank” means.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Yea, that’s part of why I don’t know for sure if they make cars the way the guy at the top of this thread is describing.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Can’t speak to “required.” But I know it used to be done.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
I think what he wants is the front turn signal to wrap around the front, so I can see the left signal from the right quarter.
I’m not aware that this is not the case, but I don’t know that I would have noticed if it was not.