Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@lottev DO THE DEW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMvspS7uGbg

@BasedLunatic Fucking clankers...

Here's a thought: what if the current queer/trans obsession with identify, self-ID, your chosen identity being recognized and respected, also has something to do with internet naming culture.

At some point, we've started seeing trans people being a lot more violent about their pronouns being respected and all of that. So I wonder if the way how they interacted with online culture, and how they transitioned while participating in online communities, influenced things.

Ever since early internet days, we're all used to assuming an online ID, an online name, an online persona, that often has nothing to do with your IRL name, with who you actually are. It's something considered normal and people generally respect these names people chose for themselves (aside from the occasional doxxing). That's how you get someone with a boring name like Carl Benjamin to be called after an historical figure like Sargon of Akkad.

Now mix this internet culture with the trans movement. They're essentially doing the same thing when they transition. They assume new names, new personas. And they get used from how this is treated in the online space, that their personas get recognized and respected as who they are. But somewhere along the way, they forget that when we normal people go IRL, we don't use our online names. They expect their chosen names to continue being respected IRL... which doesn't really go as planned, because you can't hide behind an avatar IRL.

Normal people usually segregate their online selves from their real life selves. But maybe the modern batch of internet raised trans people didn't get the memo. My theory is that a lot of people formed their trans persona while on Tumblr. Then they started emigrating their new trans persona, first in other online spaces (Twitter, Reddit), and finally in real life. So at every step of the way, they expect to be treated like when they first formed their trans identity on Tumblr.

Since Twitter, Reddit, mostly function by the same internet culture regarding naming, they probably didn't get much opposition. After all, you wouldn't know that behind the anime avatar named Sally, is a fat Matt Dillahunty looking guy. So the "respect my pronouns!" mostly works. They got validation in most internet spaces, because the culture simply allows anyone to assume any name they want.

So when they meet real life... of course they'll act like spoiled brats, because the internet essentially did spoil them regarding their self-ID. Of course they react violently to even the smallest accidental misgendering. In their minds, they simply do not even comprehend that their appearance simply doesn't match a "Sally". Internet gave them a skewed view of reality, that they are indeed a "Sally". After all, all the online spaces they participated in called them Sally.

So what do you think? Is my idea a "yay" or a "nay"?

Don't know what's up with me lately, but I keep getting new ideas trying to explain the current cultural/political zeitgeist. It's like randomly being hit with inspiration. And it's really not like me. Whatever...

@graf @Aether
I never had contact with one of these. I'm a millennial that had a computer kinda late. So you're welcomed to correct me. It's just what I understood from videos explaining old PCs. My understanding was that at the time a new CPU came out that had higher clock speed, but old software/games was locked to the old CPU clock speed. So the Turbo button downclocked the newer CPU to old clock speeds for that software.

@graf @Aether Wasn't it kinda the other way around? You needed the "turbo" function to downclock the CPU for backwards compatibility reasons?

@unabomber
And people wonder why so many people on the right wing call trans people insane. When someone tries to chop their hands off by themselves, we send them to the psychiatry hospital. I bet nobody gave a crap about this.

I am quite tolerant and accepting of trans people. I don't care if adults seek medical professionals for whatever hormone treatment or cosmetic surgery. But this?! For his own good, this person needs to be locked up in a mental asylum.

@beardalaxy I mean... the people who created BLM used the money donated to them to buy a million dollar mansion. I'm not that surprised that people tried to scam and profit from a guy's death. Honestly, it's amazing that things like this don't happen more often (or they do, and we don't notice).

@beardalaxy What was the campaign for? If it was for medical expenses, and he died, maybe it wouldn't be valid to keep the campaign going.
Also... who set up the campaign? Cause if it wasn't the victim, or the family of the victim, if it was a third party, it might very well be the family that is threatening to sue cause they don't want attention being drawn to them.

At least it looks like the future AI overlord will have a sense of humor.

@irie
I'm not surprised they arrested him. I'm surprised that they arrested only one journalist for possession of CP.

@lottev There are few things in the world more cringe than Anakin's rizz game.

@mushroom_soup
This might be the craziest version so far.

Have you ever thought why Muslims are forbidden to eat pork? It's probably because a goat fucker got tape worms. Those fuckers supposedly give you crazy stomach aches and cramps.
So Muslims go violent over not eating pork because someone wasn't smart enough to cook their food.

@beardalaxy Yeah, I haven't used it since way back. I knew about the ad program, and their own crypto wallet. I even remember something about a system they advertised, that they'd share the ad money with sites/creators you whitelisted. But I have no idea if that ever actually worked, as in, if they actually ever payed any creators for you viewing ads on their stuff.
Didn't know about premium features though. I might have another look at modern Brave out of curiosity. Last time I used it, I ultimately left because it had a slow start-up time, and I didn't really find it justified to be that slow. Vivaldi feels pretty slow too tbh, but again, this thing is ridiculous in what it includes. It has a mail, calendar, and RSS client included in it for some reason.

@beardalaxy You mean the Brave browser? Haven't used that thing since it first popped up. I have no idea what it's doing these days. Is this it?

@beardalaxy Oh no, I wasn't calling the guy antisemite because of Iran shit. He was just spouting the usual "muh Jews, muh white race" and whatnot.