@Mr_NutterButter I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually. Keep at it!
@LukeAlmighty @irie @ChristiJunior
I've been noticing this too. There used to be a point where liberals/progressives would argue in favor of widening how we view men and women, widening the roles and behavior that is considered normal for the sexes. Women wearing pants is a consequence of that, for example. And I was all in for that. And still am. I don't have that much of an issue with a man wearing a dress... up until they start lying about what they're doing and what they are (but I'm getting ahead of myself).
But today I feel that this approach has been eliminated. Instead, as you observe too, we're back to 2 narrow "gender" roles, with a benefit of a magic button. And as soon as you deviate even a little bit from the narrow "gender" role, you're gonna be pressured to press the magic button (and I argue that the "gender" roles are even more restrictive than they used to be, because there is something that is pressuring more and more people to press the button). It started with pressure from Tumblr, but now it's everywhere in the online sphere, it's in entertainment, it's in news media, it's in schools, it's in hospitals and mental care. I'm not sure if there's any aspect of society where you don't find this pressure to press the magic button so that your physical appearance better fits the "gender" role your personality leads you into.
If I were to meet a Hulk Hogan in his prime looking guy, in a sexy red dress, I'd obviously ask him "what's with the dress?". If he answered, in a normal male voice, "I just felt like trying this out", I wouldn't give two shits about it. I'd go "huh. ok. Have a good one." and go on with my day. That's the framework I live my life in, that allows men and women to be flexible.
But I see so many "progressives" who just at hearing such a scenario would go "well clearly this Hulk Hogan looking guy is an egg that needs cracking" (if you don't know the terminology, and "egg" is a person that needs to be "enlightened" or rather convinced that they're actually trans). And I find such an approach evil. Because these people ultimately can't help themselves but want to manipulate and change other people to fit their mental image of the world, instead of just accepting them as they are.
And then there's the people who wear the red dress who will lie to me about why they wear the dress. Liberals of old would have agreed that something as simple as a dress isn't what makes someone a woman. But today, that's what the trans movement pretends happens.
You have people who put on a long wig, some red lipstick and a dress, and then claim they're a woman because of it. No, you're not. You felt like wearing those things, because your atypical personality leads you to liking those things, and that's fine with me. If you could only be honest with me, and more importantly, with yourself, nobody would care. I don't care if you're a male that wants to live his life as a woman, as long as you're honest that this is what you're doing. But people are not honest. They lie. They start claiming that they ARE women.
Be honest with people, and be honest with yourself. If you're a feminine man, that's fine. We had reached the point where that was acceptable. We had reached the point where doubting the manliness of a feminine man was an insult. But now somehow people are back to rejecting the possibility of feminine men existing. "No, they're trans-women" says the progressive. And the insulting part is trying to affirm the manliness of a feminine man.
This has made me HATE the trans ideology with a burning passion.
@Aldo2 @LukeAlmighty
I came to the conclusion some time ago that "gender" simply doesn't exist. People are instead describing "personality" with a new word "gender". And indeed, your personality can be completely opposite of what you'd expect of someone based on their sex. You can have an extremely feminine personality while you look like the manliest of men. And your personality and various mental disorders can make dislike and feel uncomfortable with how your body looks. But nobody would sign off on dangerous and expensive medical procedures based on someone's personality. So "gender" came into the picture instead, to try to legitimize everything.
@matrix Read an article last week, and some guys were claiming we're maybe 2 years away from AGI.
On one hand I doubt we're THAT close, on another it shouldn't take a genius to realize that the pattern seeking approach that LLMs use is what human brains do too, so maybe we're closer than people realize. I wouldn't be surprised if it took years to realize we have an AGI on our hands after the AGI was created.
@coolboymew Probably the only smartwatch in existence that could be worth it.
Fun conspiracy theory: New York is not real. It is a fictional city that doesn't actually exist. Have you actually been to NY? No you haven't. No one has. Because it doesn't exist. You just see it on TV and think it's real because the news man told you so. They make it sound just important enough so that the world thinks US is so badass to have a city as successful as New York, but still isn't named as the capital, so imagine how grand the actual capital must be. But at the same time, they also make it sound bad enough that you don't want to go to NY. The most rich city imaginable, and the subway system sucks? How much clearer could they be that this is one big psy-op to make enemy countries jealous.
Wake up sheeple!
P.S. And of course 9/11 never happened, duh! Twin towers collapsing in an non-existing city, yeah right. Clearly they put another psy-op within the psy-op just so they could start a war. Quite brilliant actually. They didn't even have to plant explosives to demolish a real building. Inside job? More like job inside the green screen movie studios at Hollywood!
@rayslava
>offline C compiler
>Mac
The world is so fucked up that I can't even tell if this is a joke, or if the moron is serious.
@LukeAlmighty The neon colors are for visibility, so you stand out and people don't bump into you when you do sports outdoors. Not appealing in the slightest, I know. But it's function over fashion.
@weeble
1. Ouch.
2. Why wouldn't you do that with something that is closer to a finger analogue, like a sausage?
3. This makes me wonder, how do cars even detect fingers in these situations? What kind of sensors do you even need to do this?
@a1ba If you need to track down a download link on some obscure testing site, or side platform, or anywhere else that isn't the main, public facing, website, then it isn't released. It does look like it will be released very soon. But right at this very moment, it is not released.
@a1ba My point seems to be flying over your head in a Boeing 747 Max. The average user won't be using the links you posted. The average user will go to gimp.org and will see that Gimp 3 hasn't been released yet.
@WhitestTemplar Sure, they don't look particularly interesting as men either. But most of them actually can pass as men much better than as women. Except Abby. Somehow Abby doesn't look convincing as a man or woman.
This is so fucked up. Thought not surprising. I've been saying since Zero Dawn's release that the new Aloy model looks like my male cousin. Also, the chick from the Star Wars game (forgot her name and I refuse to search it up) reminds me of Orlando Bloom from Pirates of the Caribbean. Surprisingly handsome as a man.
Western Female Characters Look Awesome With A Beard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUkS93Ed2DE
@a1ba
There's not even a clear sign of Gimp 3's release in the News section.
I had to search around to find that there's a testing.gimp.org. And if you release a program on a page that starts with "testing", I'm gonna assume this is not the final release yet, and it's still some convoluted testing phase.
@a1ba Did Gimp 3 actually get released?
@matrix America didn't start this war, but hopefully they'll finish it.
@grey @PinochetsCommieCopter
Most of those make sense, but why is the queen a war criminal, and why is the knight a troon? War crimes is the last thing I associate the wife of a king with.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...