A plural friend told me I'm probably plural, so I'm doing a lot of thinking and reflection.
My vote is not an endorsement, it's a tactical action. Optimizing for as good of a future as I can means not doing "principled" votes sometimes.
It's sooooo easy to find counter examples to that, like me. But I guess lying is a good strategy for them.
I bet they have a copy of every native library they use except like libc, and probably don't do any dead code elimination on those. And maybe they also have copies of the app for different ARM versions. And then an additional 20MB of JavaScript because everyone does these days.
Why does saying genocide bad = Putin's pet? One can acknowledge that we cannot let Trump win and that Harris has some major issues.
Yeah, I always gave myself a reason to not call one of those mental health hotlines because I didn't have it that bad. As long as I'm not currently attempting to follow through on... plans... then surely it's merely a bad day and I can just ignore it and let it solve itself.
Nowadays if I feel even half as bad I'll be concerned enough to call.
Race is an overloaded term like sex/gender used to be. Are they talking about phenotypes? Genetic ancestry? Family ancestry (including adoption and found family)? Culture? Nationality?
If people are arguing they're culturally one thing, but people respond "but genetics", that sounds incredibly similar to " you're not that gender because genetics!". I can't claim to be genotypically female, but I am a woman, so perhaps there's room for something similar regarding race. I'd have to ask people who identify as transracial though.
It feels uncomfortable constantly hearing people justify your value based on your relation to men. I know it doesn't specify men, but let's be honest, that's what everyone thinks of. If you have good intentions, that's good, but that doesn't stop the implication that women are only valuable as they relate to men. Intentions do not factor into someone's frustration hearing it for the millionth damn time! Until that phrase gets reclaimed, it's gonna have that patriarchal association to most people.
The internal component is probably the most important, but yes, there is a social element. We tend to use the internal component to justify changes in the social component (like telling people to use the right pronouns).
Racial identity seems to be heavily tied to culture from what I gather from people, so I assume transracial means changing what culture you identify with.
Immigrants that culturally assimilate are an interesting case to look at. Suppose I, a white American, moved to China and assimilated there. Would you call me white? American? Chinese? If "race" means phenotypical characteristics, then we shouldn't care about race and "transracial" is stupid, but if it means like your culture, then it is worth caring about and "transracial" seems more understandable. I don't know what definition people use in practice though, probably a mix of both (because things can never be simple). A difference from gender is that culture isn't a purely internal thing, you kind of have to be a part of it IRL.
I don't have good language for this, all the terms are overloaded and confusing. It feels kinda like talking about gender/sex without having distinct words for them. Without distinction, we blend conceptually different things and then get confused when we mix the concepts in edge cases.
Your bedroom role and masculinity/femininity are orthogonal to gender. You can change those without changing your gender, you can change your gender without changing those, and you can change both.
Pick the gender for the gender, not other things. In case that sounds intimidating, note that this is all fuzzy human stuff and there's no rules (except some stupid social rules) and you can experiment and do whatever you want. I also don't like traditional femininity, but I figured out I'm still a woman, so now I'm an androgynous woman. Choice!
I'll just send a hurricane to his house.
I did, and this bitch (who's in a position of power over me) took my joking remark as an opportunity to say climate change is a hoax. He lives in Florida.
I was gonna joke that they must not have friends then, but that's actually a pretty common problem.
Don't make perfection the enemy of progress
https://xkcd.com/661/
I've seen many people take absolutists stances and throw accusations or insults at others who don't. While I applaud that they recognized serious problems, I want everyone to understand why I might take actions that seem to ignore or even worsen those problems: I only have so much power and so many options, none of which are ideal, so I do the best I can with what I have. I might prioritize stopping one bad thing over stopping another; that's not me excusing the other bad thing, that's me playing the cards I have to get the least bad outcome.
Personally, I base my moral decisions on expected outcomes. I would pull the lever in the trolley problem. I understand some people think me a monster for that, and I certainly wouldn't feel good pulling it, but I see it as me net saving people. I disagree with people that wouldn't pull it, but I see where they're coming from and I'm not mad at them (disappointed, maybe). Of course, as well as pulling the lever, there may be options to try helping the one person on the tracks, and we should definitely attempt such a rescue.
This whole topic can be applied to the do-i-vote-for-biden thing that this community seems divided over, but it's much more broadly applicable too.
Anyway, this is just me saying that I don't think the absolutist all-or-nothing approach some people take is a good idea, and I also don't like when some of them call me a bad person for not doing the same.
Double bottom rule
A diagram of a "bottom meson" (composed of an unknown quark "q" and an antibottom quark) with an arrow labeled ":3" pointing to a "double bottom Baryon" (composed of an unknown quark "q" and 2 bottom quarks).
Image taken from figure 1 of this article
Both rule
Two (presumably) girls lying in bed holding hands and looking at each other. The one on the left, labeled "Me" has shoulder-length hair, an uncomfortable :| expression, and is wearing a black hoodie, grey jeans, and sneakers. The one on the right, labeled "Also me" has longer hair, a subtle smile, a blush, and is wearing a dress and high heels.
Edited from this post, on which I commented "I wanna be both".