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- Comment on Success is built through GAMBA 11 months ago:
Except if you have enough money, it's not even gambling anymore. The only way you'd lose is if everybody loses.
And that's completely ignoring the fact that enough money lets you influence the rules of the game to tilt the odds in your favour.
- Comment on Discussion on 'Missing women on Lemmy and decentralised networks' 1 year ago:
Brainworms.
- Comment on Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane? 1 year ago:
Ah okay, I figured that made more sense.
- Comment on Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane? 1 year ago:
Did you mean to respond to someone else?
- Comment on Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane? 1 year ago:
Meanwhile, most everyone I’ve known who is leftist wants the government to disarm them, claims to be pro-LGBT but blindly supports any Muslim country and blindly hates Israel, and thinks Joe Biden is the “greatest president EVAR”.
I don't think you know many leftists...
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
And society does, very much judge outsider demographics on the worst actions of individuals.
Yes that's the point I'm making, sweetheart. That we don't judge most people by the actions of individuals but for minorities, it's fair game.
Unless you are saying that it is right for people to do that?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
Not all trans are like this...
Then why even bring it up?
We don't judge demographics by the actions of individuals. If we did, both cis men and cis women would be banned from every aspect of society.
But for trans women, it seems to be fair game to dig for crimes and then make this sort of two-faced statement where you are definitely saying that we should view trans women with suspicion, but won't come out and just be transphobic openly.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
No. It isn't on the table. This is another in the long line of scenarios that only exist in TERFs imaginations.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? 1 year ago:
If you are allowing a company that Elon Musk of all people is involved in to operate on your head, maybe the damage has already been done.
I'm all for transhumanism, and I sincerely hope that the people who are hopeful for Neuralink to be therapeutic for their condition find some relief. But nobody should trust anything Elon Musk touches with their brain.
- Comment on LGBTQIA++ 1 year ago:
Most people just use LGBTQ+. Give or take the Q and the +.
I do find mocking the acronym to be rather overdone considering it seems to be a non-issue within the community.
And I mean... LGBTQ+ folks can bicker about pointless stuff. Have you seen flag discourse? Bi lesbian discourse? The fact that we don't argue about the acronym makes the cishets' obsession with it kinda funny actually.
- Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand 1 year ago:
日本語土手
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Alright I'm going to admit I chose my words a bit poorly in that quote. Sorry. Because it was not my intention to judge the "effectiveness" of individuals, but rather comment on how populations of people navigate the world.
Which is what the post was originally about. That huge swaths of US folks are reading at a below-par level. This isn't about differences in ability or intelligence. If at the population level, literacy is low, that's about education, or some other influence.
And if large numbers of people are less able to access information, that's a problem. That limits those populations.
People are able to process information and the world around them in a variety of ways, you not seeing it as effective, or it not being for you, doesn't mean it isn't.
While one of my statements was badly worded, now you're starting to put words in my mouth.
And those who still struggle should be supported where they are, not expected to fit in to the abled (and capitalist) "box"
I did not say otherwise, and I would not say otherwise, because I agree.
people struggle because society is designed to exclude them, not because these arbitrary skills are necessary for survival, except for in a capitalist system which only values "productivity"
Yes. Two frameworks of disability. The ableist framework locates the "issue" in the disabled person's body. But that's arbitrary, and we can easily think of the issue being located in the societal constructs that don't take into account different people's abilities, and are thus not fit for purpose.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Looking at the current state of the US... That's not the point that you might think it is.
Yes, I think if the average US citizen had better access to information, they might be able to make more positive change to the world around them.
I think people are capable of more than just existing and being "productive" as defined by today's capitalist world. So consider that what you call "functioning", I think people have the potential for more than that, if given the tools. That's the opposite of elitism.
That really sounds like elitism to me.
If you are not even going to try and entertain a conflicting perspective, and just sit there and throw accusations, then you are wasting my time.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
I'm not talking about intelligence or IQ. I didn't even say "intelligence".
I'm talking about access to information.
Not every single individual needs to be a skilled reader. But people, in general, do need to be able to access information. If significant parts of the population are struggling to read, that's not a condemnation on them as individuals, but can mean that they are vulnerable to being cut off from information they need to live their best lives, or to impact the world in the way they might desire to.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Many countries have myriad languages in them, often because they contain myriad cultures. That's not a failing at any level, it's just diversity.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Maybe you should try reading what people are writing instead of falling back on strawmen.
I do not believe people who cannot read at an adult level are able to access and understand the information and knowledge they need to navigate the world effectively. And that makes them vulnerable.
That's not elitism.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
It would be interesting to see the same data, restricted to participants whose first language is English.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Clearly reading above a 6th-grade level isn't a fundamental skill in the modern world, or 54% of American adults wouldn't be able to function in it.
No. I don't consider those adults to be "functioning" at an appropriate level.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
It feels like a low-blow but... Yeah.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Poorly educated people are more susceptible to manipulation, misinformation, and propaganda. And a low reading level is both an indication of a poor educational level, and an impediment to a person educating themselves further.
Reading is a fundamental skill in the modern world.
- Comment on Now that we're finally out of reddit, can we finally get different tag for NSFW and NSFL? 1 year ago:
Eyyy
- Comment on Now that we're finally out of reddit, can we finally get different tag for NSFW and NSFL? 1 year ago:
I would have thought that such a feature would be completely uncontroversial. Really weird that some people seem resistant to it.
- Comment on Weaknesses of agile and Scrum 1 year ago:
I have my complaints about Agile, but a bit different from this list. Teams I've worked in have generally tried to spec in quality control measures into story points, to prevent some of the issues mentioned, for example.
My issue is almost always just that the top half of the organisation does not, and will never, conceptualise a software project like agile demands. Business will always want X scope within Y time. And Agile demands that at least one of those to be variable. The backlog represents scope organised by time. Want X features complete? Check the backlog to see when they'll be done. Want to deliver after Y time? Check the backlog to see what features will likely be ready by that time.
But business will not accept that. They have scope requirements and deadlines to deliver within.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If it's conspiracy theories in general, and not just the soy thing, then I think you might be taking the wrong approach. Just trying to debunk the soy thing might prove impossible because there is some underlying cause that is making him want to believe it.
Your friend might be being radicalised. By a person he trusts, a community he is a part of, or simply by the algorithm of a website he is spending his time on. In which case, getting him to let go of the conspiracies is going to be extremely difficult, because to do so would lose him those connections.
It doesn't sound like he's too far gone though. Maybe reasserting healthy connections will help, and if you can try breaking his media habits.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
The idea would be that the badge would be worn by everyone. Which is why I said it isn't really feasible.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
I can think of a few differences between a universally voluntarily chosen pronoun badge, and a pink triangle forced on queer people to mark them as other.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Yes. I wasn't disagreeing with you or anything. Just saying what I thought would be most likely.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
It might also just be that the person asking you just always asks. Because as you mentioned, only asking when someone "looks" trans or non-binary can be rather invalidating. So to avoid that, they just don't assume.
For your last paragraph, I'm personally of the opinion that, short of de-gendering the language entirely, a good solution would basically just be a gender/pronoun badge, but stylised to be more easily readable from a distance. Like a bracelet or a necklace or something of that nature. That would eliminate the need to ask in the vast majority of cases, because the person would be wearing something that unambiguously signals the answer. And it would be completely detached from the presentation of their body, which might not match their gender, or their clothing, which probably shouldn't be gendered anyway. Changing pronouns, for whatever reason like coming out or just being fluid, would just be a matter of swapping out the single symbol.
It's not really feasible, of course, but even as a queer person I find asking and being asked quite clunky. But whenever I go into LGBT+ or geek spaces, I find that wearing a badge just sidesteps the whole issue.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Because they don't actually care about pronouns. What they are angry about is transgender and non-binary people being accepted as normal.
Everything else, the pronouns, the bathrooms, the medication, the sports, everything, is just pos-hoc justification for their real belief, which is that transgender and non-binary people should not be accepted as normal.
- Comment on Unity apologises. 1 year ago:
Oh it did make everything crystal clear. If one isn't stupid.