I mean it's why I hate people who self apply the term "ally" because a lot of "allies" do more harm than help.
Allyship is to be determined by those who need allies, not the people who talk big and claim to be allies while doing fuck-all.
If someone from a minority community decides I am an ally to their cause and calls me an "ally" then I am an ally, not because I self applied a bullshit label to make myself feel better about cisgender white guilt or something.
Yeah I agree on that, the doubles make it way more confusing, and its confusing enough to people since the prefix is an acronym while people are scanning dictionaries trying to figure out a root word that doesn't exist.
The "fin" prefix means "feminine in nature" and so the opposite where you're attracted to people "masculine in nature" is minsexual. This confuses a lot of people because normally a prefix isn't also an acronym, it's usually from a root word.
So, I think it's a good replacement for gynesexual/androsexual, despite the slightly confusing nature of its origin.
Hijacking top comment to also add that there are words for men who are attracted to femininity outside of the bounds of cisgender women: gynesexual (older term, less inclusive due to implication of a vagina) and finsexual (newer term, more inclusive and drops implication of a vagina).
It is quite likely that many of those men actually fall into these categories even if they have not accepted that about themselves as of yet. Others are bisexual, and even others are pansexual, and haven't "come out" as it were.
Especially if this is relying on self-reporting and how often men want to appear straight, the number of men who are wrestling with such feelings but still put down "straight" is probably quite high.
When you add an image, the alt-text box pops up near the bottom of the page (it is not visible before you add an image). If you're not looking for it/aware of it, it's easy to miss. I don't post a ton of image posts for example, so if I did one it stands to reason I might forget if I was too quick to post.
The alt-text box should really pop up right below the image, above where you input the body of the post, not farther down the page. In fact it could always be there but just be greyed out until an image is added.
I did the math when this happened, they were absolutely banking on losing customers, but they misplayed their hand. They figured they would still be making money with the price increases even if they lost nearly third of their US gaming audience. By my back of the napkin numbers, as long as they lost less than 30%, they would be making more profit.
They must have lost more than they planned if they pulled a reversal or the price increase was a trial balloon to gauge response and whether people would come back for reduced prices.
These companies are of course happy to treat their customers like one big psychological experiment.
The vast majority of the ethernet, cable, and fiber that connects people is owned by a corporation.
I hate this argument because it misses the bigger point that the infrastructure of the internet is not publicly owned but is privately owned by corporations.
Build community LANs that aren't connected to the internet. Use sneakernets to share information via USB. Use encrypted LoRa for messaging among community members.
It's not supposed to be an image, it's supposed to be a link? Weird. But I also like that it shows failed to load, that works too! I am so used to putting image links I accidentally made it an image link first before I made it a normal link, maybe the edit hasn't propagated to your instance yet.
When people say that the American electorate has the memory of a goldfish they aren't lying.
But also it's just an aspect of passage of time and new people being born.
Someone newly 18 and voted for Trump for the first time in 2024 arguably probably didn't know all that about Trump.
In 2018 I worked at a Mexican restaurant and my boss was a younger latino man whose first election was 2016 and he voted for Trump... Because he didn't know the history. He regretted his vote deeply.
So it's also that new, young voters have to go digging into forty years of history to find out and most don't do that.
Like, young people don't question the TSA breaking the fourth amendment because it's been there their whole lives. Why would they question a system that's been in place their whole life?
I am basically a script kiddie and Anthropic Claude helped me design a small app for myself that was way beyond my own capabilities and it even went as far as documenting in comments what each bit of the program did for me, to help me understand the logic.
I only have access because I got a free year of Perplexity.ai because I had a paypal account (barf, had to have it to get paid for gig work).
I see it as very useful for anything technical, it helped me through some troubleshooting a hardware issue with my monitor I was having trouble pinning down by browsing forums.
I would never purposely divulge personal info to an LLM, anything that's shared has had personal info stripped.
Remember this the next time some right wing chowderhead starts ranting about Democrats and insider trading.
Sure, Democrats totally do it, too. Democrats aren't being pardoned for it by the same party that's simultaneously acting like it's a huge deal when Democrats do it, and also arguing that they need to be able to insider trade because they're not paid enough to live comfortably and that it's actually not a bad thing at all when they're doing it.
I mean it's why I hate people who self apply the term "ally" because a lot of "allies" do more harm than help.
Allyship is to be determined by those who need allies, not the people who talk big and claim to be allies while doing fuck-all.
If someone from a minority community decides I am an ally to their cause and calls me an "ally" then I am an ally, not because I self applied a bullshit label to make myself feel better about cisgender white guilt or something.