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9hr ago
the days before easily accessible information was everywhere
"Girls become women" isn't hidden knowledge that autistic people are expected to infer from inexplicable social cues. It's not something arbitrary like code-switching how one should greet their betters vs their equals and how to discern which is which. Every child can see a world of little girls and little boys, and adult men and adult women, and the distinguishing factor between those groups is their age. QED.
Maybe it happens sooner than you were expecting, or would have preferred, and maybe it's attended by seemingly arbitrary and unfamiliar social expectations being placed on you, but a notion that you could escape the discomfort by becoming the opposite sex ought to be less plausible and less preferable than an alternative notion that you could somehow remain a child indefinitely.
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1d ago
The thing I don't understand about the autism/trans link is that in my mind autism is partly characterised by the kind of rigid psychological orthodoxy that gets agitated by things like having different kinds food on their plate touching, or a familiar TV show getting a new theme tune. But, somehow, they can overlook the incredibly simple, intuitive and natural definition of man vs woman. If anything I'd expect autists to be stubbornly sceptical of transgenderism's manipulation of the categories.
Funny, there's lots of people on that Twitter thread saying things like "how am I supposed to know x book is 1000+ pages" or "but I don't read poetry". I don't read poetry either but I could recognise at least 3 of them as poets. The reason I know War & Peace is 1000+ pages despite never reading it is because I've seen it on a bookshelf and been forever put off picking it up and reading it because until I saw it I didn't know people could write books that wide. I've never used make-up but I know the Maybelline jingle. I don't read a lot of history but I remember that Mexico has pyramids from reading stuff like Tintin or watching the Simpsons episode where Homer gets launched into the mushroom dimension by Chief Wiggum's chilli. I hate restaurants but I reckon I could pick 4/5 classic French dishes if that was a question. Meanwhile I've got more than a dozen art history books and I read classics for fun but aesthetics/literary was my lowest score.
It makes me wonder if some people, particularly younger people and Twitter users, are in an information environment where not only do they not often see how physically big certain books can be, or have to skim past the poetry section to find the graphic novels, or sit through a television advert that isn't algorithmically tuned to their specific micro-demographic, but also the dependence on apps means for example instead of seeing http error codes in a browser when they visit a badly configured website all they know is the endless and mutely spinning circle icon they see when any one part of the entire chain isn't working perfectly. Why would you know about SATA cables if everything is cloud storage for phone apps?
I'm sure if there was a Gen Z section with questions like "which of these are Instagram features" or "which of these people are famous streamers" I'd be down in the 5th percentile.
5434a
1d ago
I'm glad somebody here has a higher score than me, I'm a total retard.
Looks like a lot of people got stung by not reading the instructions or getting hung up on typos.
5434a
2d ago
301/320
99th percentile for all demographics apart from "this site" (98th).
Worst: Literary (25/30)
Best: Cultural and technical (78/80 and 39/40 respectively)
I played it fairly conservatively by not blindly guessing just to use up all 5 chances.
5434a
9d ago
How much quality control do you do on the items that the POD platforms are selling? Have there been any that you rejected for being too poorly made regardless of how good the rest of their platform might be?
5434a
10d ago
Have a look at f.lux (Windows), Redshift (Linux), or Twilight (Android). I assume there are similar for Apple devices too. I think Windows has incorporated the feature into the OS settings now but I prefer f.lux.
It's always illuminating (pun not intended) to briefly switch f.lux off at night and see the difference.
The only issue I've had is that Twilight is an overlay. Android considers that a security issue and can be a total shit about not actually telling you why it won't let you enter a login to Google Play.
5434a
12d ago
Just because nobody else has mentioned it yet, LLMs are very useful for this kind of tech troubleshooting. It can be a bit frustrating dialling it in to the appropriate level and angle of investigation but the shear speed and detail of the replies can make it much more effective than waiting for replies on forums (speaking as a reluctant and unenthusiastic Linux user). Look up the motherboard model and ask it to help troubleshoot why it's getting stuck in a boot loop.
For my part, assuming it's a Windows PC and/or you're a Windows user, Hiren's Boot CD can be a handy tool if you have a spare USB stick. Skim through some YouTube videos if you need to know any more about it, they'll explain it better than I can (or again you could ask an LLM).
5434a
19d ago
Perhaps, but at any offline event the attendees are physically present and unmediated by anything other than the immediate social standards. You're not limited to one introduction a day, or waiting around for a six word reply that never comes, or seeing only what they looked like five years ago in their best photos, and so on. And while there might be thirty other people at the class there isn't a thousand other people (a number of whom aren't even real) vying for attention as they rotate past on an endless carousel.
Besides that a lot of people can enjoy music and dancing for their own sake. Dating apps not so much. Figuring out a tactful way of assessing whether someone is single seems like a small trade off.
5434a
21d ago
I scored 100% but I have noticed independent of the test that the vision in my left eye is slightly less "warm" toned, presumably it's something to do with the cells that respond to red.
5434a
21d ago
If a major terrorist attack happened in your country, and Americans were all "Haha that's what you get for importing infinity Muslims, face meet leopards!" (and I have no doubt you'd see Americans saying that), I suspect you would take it very personally and would not be convinced by arguments that it was an abstraction, that Americans didn't really wish death to Europeans.
I see that all the time, but I don't take it personally because it's default-sub Reddit equivalent posters saying it. What I don't see is international student activism chanting "Anglicise the intifada" and wearing Irish tricolour balaclavas as fashion statements, or at least not outside of Kneecap gigs.
The question is how much of it is organic, if it's organic how much is sincere, and if it's sincere how much is truly earnest.
The fact that you can find people supporting Palestine offline and without any effort looking for them indicates that it's at least meaningfully organic and somewhat sincere, even if they wouldn't do more than make cost-less gestures of support. On the other hand it's rare to hear (non-British) people shitting on Britain outside of social media, so what I see online can be chalked up to low effort trolling and banter.
5434a
25d ago
No individual connection has value at that point.
One of the problems with internet dating is that people end up trying to force/enforce a connection before they'll meet IRL. There are all kinds of understandable reasons for why that is the way it is, but dating might be a little bit less onerous if people could dial their expectations down to the level where they could go out for a coffee without having to convince themselves that this one definitely might be The One.
With lowered expectations and the prospect of a raft of more low stakes dates there would less incentive for people to get overly invested in the outcome of any particular date before that connection has developed.
It's hard to solve a stopping problem if you constantly resist, or encounter resistance, starting.
5434a
27d ago
Ironically I think Flanderisation is what made the Fast & Furious franchise succeed. The story was only ever an excuse for over the top stunts and car fighting, and each sequel progressively shrinks the story and inflates the stunts to increasingly absurd proportions (including cars in space).
5434a
27d ago
Only ~100 pages in but I've seen the film before and know the story. So far my only complaint is that it can read like the gears in the narrative are slipping and making the story jerk forward unexpectedly. It's probably intended as a clever literary device to create intrigue but it feels like I've stroked out and missed a chapter.
I don't mind a little liberty with realism, it wouldn't be much of story if he just got thrown in prison and died of dysentery.
5434a
1mo ago
If the pedophiles aren't going to be exposed and punished
many upper class elites being pedophiles was suspected or known even before Epstein's fall exposed it
Like Bill Cosby, Huw Edwards, and Kevin Spacey? Afrika frikkin Bambaata? Okay they're not upper class elites, but neither was Jimmy Saville. They're all public figures though, which is its own type of status. They've also been exposed and they've been punished. Epstein himself was in prison. Maxwell is in prison.
Upper class elites certainly have a lot more resources available to evade detection, but that doesn't explain the Rotherham rape gangs. Immigrant minicab drivers and takeaway owners are not elites in any sense and they got away with it for years.
I'm tired of seeing the "everyone knew" narrative when it's such obvious confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. People only remember the famous ones and people only focus on the ones that suit their agenda, but because dodgy sex abusers exist in all strata of society (immigrants, Hollywood, establishment figures, pop stars, priests, Jewish financiers, teachers, gay adoption parents, straight adoption parents, young old rich poor left right up down and 100x as many unremarkable nobodies) people can always find an example to grind their axe that "everyone knew x is evil", neglecting all the other non-deviant or baselessly-suspected members of those demographics. The true commonality is that they're ~99% men (when women abuse children it tends to be the non-sexual type of abuse, and thus less scandalous and correspondingly less discussed).
5434a
1mo ago
The funny thing about puberty is that it's presented as a phase that you go through when really, in physical terms at least, childhood is the phase and so-called "puberty" is the enduring stable state.
5434a
1mo ago
There's a lot of gay tops that really like the idea of breeding someone, but actual ramifications of a working reproductive system squick them the fuck out
Are those ramifications like "if you think about it that's not really a man, because by virtue of breeding it's evidently a woman, and women are squicky", or more like "the sex part sounds hot but the last thing I want is an actual baby, babies are squicky".
5434a
1mo ago
No doubt, just trying to tease apart the alignments, misalignments and re-alignments. The potential combinations multiply rapidly.
no shortage of “discrete” tops who love twinks and femboys, and not enough supply to meet the demand.
Fair play, I was under the impression it was the other way around. Maybe that's a function of their discretion. But then why the discretion?
5434a
1mo ago
The complexity of inter-homo-binary-transitional relationship terminology makes it difficult both to track and to discuss [the man-who-liked-men-before-becoming-a-woman-who-likes-men, vs the 2/5/17 other combinations]. Maybe German style additive word construction would be better than the standard Greek derived combinations.
The major difference of AGP would appear to be the A. Auto.
The weird bit is firstly that, while I can't speak for them, it's a fairly uncontroversial idea that heterosexual women can be as aroused by being an object of desire as they are by direct observation of what they desire. Apparently this is a very common theme in popular women's erotica.
Secondly there's the complication of what gay men want versus what they can offer. Like your example of the camp, openly gay queens who don't have sex with each other. Why not? Because they don't want a faggy queen, they want the kind of highly masculine man who... has gay sex with faggy queens. I believe the phenomenon persists in the preponderance of bottoms vs tops, and their ideal fantasy partner being a straight man. If masculinity is what gay men are attracted to then logically they should masc-maxx, but if femininity is what masculine men want then it would make more sense to trans-max, so that they can "go straight" to fulfill their gay fantasy of straight sex. I've never looked at gay porn but I have a hunch it focuses a lot more on blue collar bodybuilder types than on lisping waifs with frilly cuffs.
And then we have the AGP, who fetishises women to such an extent (a very male hetero mindset) that they become maximally feminine (a homosexual characteristic in men) so that they can embody themselves as their own object of desire (a female hetero mindset, maybe?) in their own eyes, the eyes of a heterosexual man. It's a muddle.
5434a
1mo ago
It's not just the state and church, those are just one aspect of marriage. The Queer Theory interpretation is asking us to believe in revolutionary conformity.
The changed element is the institutional homophobia that disallowed gay marriage. That's a change, granted. But it can be described as an expansion, not a reduction. Marriage becomes an option for more people. The various and diverse structures that support the established norms that make up the cultural institution called marriage have gained additional clients, while Queer Theorists and their non-conformist norms have lost clients, hence why they have to contort themselves to present it as a good thing for their cause. I don't doubt that they can offer complicated and counterintuitive explanations for how it aids their cause, I just don't find those explanations convincing.
Sure, but autistic people being sympathetic to transgenderism is like if autistic people were the ones supporting fake smiles, or for replacing fake smiles with faker snarls. In comparison a non-binary or gender eliminationist stance would make sense.
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