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Comment on These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. in ~science
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentI don’t know what 3 reply limit means but it sounded like you were suggesting that your experience of sexism against women is as legitimate as a woman who actually experiences sexism, which is...I don’t know what 3 reply limit means but it sounded like you were suggesting that your experience of sexism against women is as legitimate as a woman who actually experiences sexism, which is impossible.
Thinking that you know how sexism against women looks and works more than a woman who actually experiences it is the issue that women are having. You do not experience sexism against women. When interacting with that topic, you’re expected to just accept what they are telling you as truth, and support them.
You’re making this harder on yourself trying to argue against an expert, you’ll always lose when you try to tell someone that what they experience isn’t what they think it is. Thats called gaslighting, every woman knows what it looks like, and it makes you look very silly.
It’s easier just to swallow your pride and accept what they tell you about what they experience. I know thats really hard to do, but it gets easier as you practice.
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Comment on How Wikipedia’s editors keep the online encyclopedia human-written in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentMaybe they’re doing what accounts on reddit do, posting believable posts to legitimize their account so that later on they can make a sneaky update to their company’s wikiMaybe they’re doing what accounts on reddit do, posting believable posts to legitimize their account so that later on they can make a sneaky update to their company’s wiki
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentAre you suggesting women aren’t really experiencing the oppression they’re telling you about because they’re biased by… being women?Are you suggesting women aren’t really experiencing the oppression they’re telling you about because they’re biased by… being women?
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Comment on How Wikipedia’s editors keep the online encyclopedia human-written in ~tech
snake_case LinkWikipedia is a very near and dear project to me, I've donated to them for many years now even though they might not need it cause when you donate to them you get routed to a cool page with tshirts...Wikipedia is a very near and dear project to me, I've donated to them for many years now even though they might not need it cause when you donate to them you get routed to a cool page with tshirts and swag you can buy and I enjoy that a lot, plus, donating is good for the soul.
Being a place that I can rely on to not be AI generated is super important to me, and I'm glad it's important to them, because it's not important anywhere else in my life, except maybe, here.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentI also have this problem! But I want friends, I want to be fair, and I want to be liked by people, so this is what drives me. I actually spend a good amount of my brain power to this end....I also have this problem!
But I want friends, I want to be fair, and I want to be liked by people, so this is what drives me. I actually spend a good amount of my brain power to this end. Sometimes I imagine what I could accomplish if I just ignored it all, but, what sort of life would that be.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentThe thing that I've learned when talking to minorities, is that it's always about being a minority. It doesn't have to make sense to you, not a minority, you just have to accept it, listen to what...The thing that I've learned when talking to minorities, is that it's always about being a minority. It doesn't have to make sense to you, not a minority, you just have to accept it, listen to what they say, and move on. This is because you can't experience what they're experiencing.
I used to try and fight it, try and bring logic to it, but there is none, they have their experiences, which they interpret, and you're not allow to tell them what they are and are not experiencing. You can only tell them what you experience, which, isn't what they're experiencing.
Imagine you're sitting in a cave, strapped to a wall, and the only thing you can see is the shadows of what's going on behind you. You're able to have a conversation with someone not strapped to the wall who can see the whole thing, and they're telling you how it is, but what they're saying doesn't make sense from what you've interpreted the shadows to be. Do you believe them? The people who can actually see?
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentYeah I mean I'd ban the whole lot of them if I could but you know we'd never get that to pass. We can't get anything at all to pass right now. We'd have to be sneaky and propose something that...Yeah I mean I'd ban the whole lot of them if I could but you know we'd never get that to pass. We can't get anything at all to pass right now. We'd have to be sneaky and propose something that looks like it's good for them and hope they're dumb enough to fund votes for it. Which is what they've been doing to us, and succeeding in doing to us, for very many years now.
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Comment on The cost of a civil service under attack: how people pay the price in ~society
snake_case Link ParentI think it's failing because there's not enough resources such that they can continue to become more wealthy at the rate that they had been previously. Their growth is starting to plateau, and...I think it's failing because there's not enough resources such that they can continue to become more wealthy at the rate that they had been previously. Their growth is starting to plateau, and that means it's become more and more obvious that they're sucking the world dry.
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How Wikipedia’s editors keep the online encyclopedia human-written
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentThe algorithm is their product though. You’d be regulating innovation at that point and thats a weird thing to do in a society running entirely on tech innovation.The algorithm is their product though. You’d be regulating innovation at that point and thats a weird thing to do in a society running entirely on tech innovation.
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Comment on The cost of a civil service under attack: how people pay the price in ~society
snake_case LinkI found this podcast about catabolic collapse and what it looks like as societies collapse and its such a weird context to put this all in Cause, in that context, our dear leader is not the cause,...I found this podcast about catabolic collapse and what it looks like as societies collapse and its such a weird context to put this all in
Cause, in that context, our dear leader is not the cause, but a symptom, and the things he’s doing aren’t political, but things that must happen for those in charge to maintain their own status quo, and the politics is actually an excuse they hide behind to trick people into thinking they voted for this.
It’s hard to talk about the idea that already failing states turn to fascism and that then speeds up the decline, cause it’s hard to view it that way when you’re in it. Fascism was always there. There was no specific turning point. As if we were always going to fail.
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI don’t even know how to legislate “alright guys stop profiting off the fact that people engage with ragebait willingly”I don’t even know how to legislate “alright guys stop profiting off the fact that people engage with ragebait willingly”
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentYes, because it usually is. Theres all kinds of statistics to back it up. In fact, diversity hiring exists because of the systematic oppression that exists. People, not just men, all people...When it happens to women, should we assume that it is the result of systematic oppression?
Yes, because it usually is. Theres all kinds of statistics to back it up. In fact, diversity hiring exists because of the systematic oppression that exists.
People, not just men, all people routinely assume that women/minorities do not deserve to be where they’re at. When I train men, I don’t assume they were diversity hires, or nepotism hires, or here just because they’re men, I don’t assume that some more deserving woman didn’t get the job because this man was here and took her spot just because he’s a man. People assume that of women. The purposeful inclusion of women and minorities in the workplace is used against them.
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Comment on PHP warns it plans to release two emergency patches imminently in ~comp
snake_case Link ParentThats fair, Ive only ever worked at US companies, and thats how it is here. It got to the point where last time I was job hunting I avoided any company that asked for php skills. Not that I don’t...Thats fair, Ive only ever worked at US companies, and thats how it is here.
It got to the point where last time I was job hunting I avoided any company that asked for php skills. Not that I don’t like php, it’s that the companies that use it here suck
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentKinda reminds me of gambling, like you know how it’s all legal now and theres apps and stuff being marketed to kids even? Like we know it’s an issue. We’ve always known. Theres just so much short...Kinda reminds me of gambling, like you know how it’s all legal now and theres apps and stuff being marketed to kids even?
Like we know it’s an issue. We’ve always known. Theres just so much short term profit to be made we cant help ourselves.
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI forgot that this always worked though cause I haven’t seen it happen naturally in like, probably over 15 years. Like I remember 1. Rule on some forums was literally “don’t feed the trolls” cause...I forgot that this always worked though cause I haven’t seen it happen naturally in like, probably over 15 years.
Like I remember 1. Rule on some forums was literally “don’t feed the trolls” cause it used to be when that kind of engagement happened it would explode the whole forum and make it such that something thats normally ~100 posts a day and modded by 5 college kids is suddenly 1000 and half of it is actual flaming.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentIt is really hard to see when you’re not the one it’s happening to. What helped me a lot is in my later 20s when I finally had the social skills to see the hierarchy within groups of men, I then...It is really hard to see when you’re not the one it’s happening to.
What helped me a lot is in my later 20s when I finally had the social skills to see the hierarchy within groups of men, I then noticed that in that hierarchy, most women are at the bottom.
Something I now see all the time: theres a special high risk feature/project and only one or two people on the team can work on it. On paper, all skills are equal, so the manager just gets to pick. They pick two guy devs because those two seem to have skills more related to the special project. If this happens once, its not a big deal for the woman, but consider that the woman may never be selected for such projects because shes low on the social hierarchy because she doesn’t understand male culture enough to move up on that hierarchy, and also you get relevant experience by actually doing the special project.
Then, if you, a man, speak up about it, you get iced out and now you’re low on the hierarchy just like she is. This is what they call the patriarchy.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
snake_case Link ParentRight that was sort of what I was getting at, once it’s on youtube it can be posted anywhere, for any audience to engage in. The rage bait title and opening line are really unfortunate choices for...Right that was sort of what I was getting at, once it’s on youtube it can be posted anywhere, for any audience to engage in.
The rage bait title and opening line are really unfortunate choices for something on a platform like that. It straw-mans the argument without anyone having to try. Anyone who disagrees just has to point at those two things and go “look, see! They’re demonizing the lot of us”
It sucks that social media is like this, but it is what it is.
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Comment on I can kinda see why social media sites use divisive topics to solicit engagement in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentOh yeah, Ive been reading this stuff for a decade too, that movie about how bad Facebook is came out in what like 2016? I watched that, and all the reactions to it. It was just really wild to see...Oh yeah, Ive been reading this stuff for a decade too, that movie about how bad Facebook is came out in what like 2016? I watched that, and all the reactions to it.
It was just really wild to see it first hand in a small forum, not driven by bots, but entirely by humans. Kinda freaky to see it happen naturally for once.
I love reptiles dude. Just when I think I know everything I discover one that's even more absurd