myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on Texas has one of the highest LGBTQ+ populations in the nation in ~lgbt
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
myrrh Link Parent...funny, i always ask healthcare providers what my total cost would be without insurance, if i just pay cash, and it's always been substantially cheaper than my out-of-pocket cost with insurance......funny, i always ask healthcare providers what my total cost would be without insurance, if i just pay cash, and it's always been substantially cheaper than my out-of-pocket cost with insurance...
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...moderation was entirely hierarchy-dependent; i moderated a couple of rec.* groups......moderation was entirely hierarchy-dependent; i moderated a couple of rec.* groups...
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...i saw places like this before 1994, but even mighty usenet was ultimately overrun with commercial interests, bots, + noise until the signal just wasn't worth the effort......i saw places like this before 1994, but even mighty usenet was ultimately overrun with commercial interests, bots, + noise until the signal just wasn't worth the effort...
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Comment on What lesser-known sci-fi reads do you recommend? in ~books
myrrh Link Parent...you remind me that i need to get around to reading the blabber and joan vinge's zones of thought short stories, too; supposedly she also has a full novel in the works......you remind me that i need to get around to reading the blabber and joan vinge's zones of thought short stories, too; supposedly she also has a full novel in the works...
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Comment on How often are you eating plant based meals? in ~food
myrrh Link Parent...i'm also among the older tildes demographic (saw folks walk on the moon last time around) and i quit eating meat about fourty years ago, in an era when vegetarianism was absolutely not......i'm also among the older tildes demographic (saw folks walk on the moon last time around) and i quit eating meat about fourty years ago, in an era when vegetarianism was absolutely not accommodated and in fact many people were certain i'd be dead within a year...
...so anecdotally, i mostly subsist on whole grains supplemented by occasional vegetables when i can afford them (my wife says i'm the worst vegetarian she's ever met), and when i had my first colonoscopy at fifty years of age, the doctor told me three things: i had the best bowel preparation he'd ever seen, i had the colon of someone half my age, and he didn't want to see me again for ten years...
(for what it's worth, on my diet my entire digestive tract pretty much purges itself every morning and has done so for decades, so i expected the worst from my colonoscopy, but funny enough that bowel-preparation medication wasn't significantly different from a typical morning for me)
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...i concur; while there are abrasive personalities i'd rather not have to read around, that the option's not presented is i think a strength of the community rather than a liability, presenting a......i concur; while there are abrasive personalities i'd rather not have to read around, that the option's not presented is i think a strength of the community rather than a liability, presenting a tamping effect upon combative discourse...
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Comment on What lesser-known sci-fi reads do you recommend? in ~books
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i adore diaspora but as much as i appreciate a fire upon the deep, i think its prequel a deepness in the sky is an even stronger novel, certainly more literary......i adore diaspora but as much as i appreciate a fire upon the deep, i think its prequel a deepness in the sky is an even stronger novel, certainly more literary...
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Comment on Is Flowers for Algernon sci-fi? in ~books
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Comment on Seedless blackberries and cherries that grow on bushes vie to be the future of food in ~food
myrrh Link...while i acknowledge that they carry some risk of unintended characteristics, i'm not opposed to GMOs on principle, just the predatory business practices they enable: intellectual property is a......while i acknowledge that they carry some risk of unintended characteristics, i'm not opposed to GMOs on principle, just the predatory business practices they enable: intellectual property is a sketchy-enough social paradigm on its own, but ownership claims to all progeny of a self-reproducing organism cross an untenable line...
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Comment on Supersonic trebuchet in ~engineering
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Comment on Gualliguaica - The drowning town in ~enviro
myrrh Link Parent...i did my divemaster training in lake travis; there are interesting artifacts down in that flooded valley......i did my divemaster training in lake travis; there are interesting artifacts down in that flooded valley...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...indeed, yours are one of the few positions i identified with a specific personality long ago......indeed, yours are one of the few positions i identified with a specific personality long ago...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent(consensus inherently disenfranchises those who do not consent) ...i'm not proposing anything; merely noting that your presumed consensus is not as broadly-accepted as you might imply... ...feel...(consensus inherently disenfranchises those who do not consent)
...i'm not proposing anything; merely noting that your presumed consensus is not as broadly-accepted as you might imply...
...feel free to use my name(s) if it matters, or choose whichever gender feels appropriate otherwise?..i've alternately identified as male or female across various periods of my life and been performatively misgendered both ways; honestly it's never bothered me in either case and feels pretty sexist to react otherwise...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...i generally don't parse identities too closely in the depths of discourse, either: it's the message that matters more than whoever's saying it, and i'm a firm believer that offense is taken......i generally don't parse identities too closely in the depths of discourse, either: it's the message that matters more than whoever's saying it, and i'm a firm believer that offense is taken rather than given, absent ill intent...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...so, for what it's worth, i read 'they' as third-person plural; i'm not compelling anyone else to adopt my cultural interpretation but that's how i read it and always will... from a really......so, for what it's worth, i read 'they' as third-person plural; i'm not compelling anyone else to adopt my cultural interpretation but that's how i read it and always will...
from a really stupid movie:
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
(individuals have agency; collectives are beholden to emergent traits and antithesis to free will)...besides the fundamental grammatical ambiguity, to call an individual 'they' implies less-than-sovereign agency to my ears; it's insultingly dehumanising and inherently sexist in its presumption that gender matters other than as a trivial tool of specificity...i recognise that other people read it differently, but it's never going to sound any less offensive to my ears, as collectives are anathema to human worth in my esteem...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...well at least two of us haven't; do what you feels right to you but 'we' presumes at minimum two fewer than consensus...for what it's worth, my own linguistic tradition was based upon......well at least two of us haven't; do what you feels right to you but 'we' presumes at minimum two fewer than consensus...for what it's worth, my own linguistic tradition was based upon abritrarily choosing 'she' or 'he' devoid of judgement...
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
myrrh Link Parent...i'm not a tildes-hound but i must confess that i visit lemmy only when i'm craving trashy engagement; i appreciate the more selective tone cultivated here......i'm not a tildes-hound but i must confess that i visit lemmy only when i'm craving trashy engagement; i appreciate the more selective tone cultivated here...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...i'm comfortable answering to either gender but i'll never answer to "they"; given the choice, i always leave gender fields empty......i'm comfortable answering to either gender but i'll never answer to "they"; given the choice, i always leave gender fields empty...
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
myrrh Link Parent...english encompasses much more varied linguistic traditions than you presume...When engaging with people on the internet, you engage with people of all cultures and in English the gender neutral is they/them.
...english encompasses much more varied linguistic traditions than you presume...
..."state" as personification is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement: fourty years ago, texas was trending progressive by comparison to its established demographics, and that population mostly stuck around; cruelty just became the brand for the group who've since siezed power and attracted a lot of bad actors from out-of-state...
...political oppression and voter suppression are writ large in texas so i'm not convinced that its political narrative reflects popular temperament...