You even threw the word "wait" in there independently because of your preconceptions of customer support calls

Out of curiosity

As long as it is legal, it can be defined as a car/truck/bike. Illegal vehicles get more complex, because as you mentioned the frame can be modified.

Such a definition could not theoretically exist

With infinite time, perhaps it could. I'll give you that one for free, I did exaggerate by saying it was entirely impossible. But for the vast majority of people it is impossible within their lifetime to create such a definition.

Should it really define whether they can or can't use a word?

Anyone can use any word, just not necessarily correctly. For example, "fish" are not real. There is no defining feature-set for a fish. However, when I say "fish" you think of a little, wet, scaley fella with silly eyes. And that's fine because communication happens and meaning is understood, but there is no way to define a fish in a way that includes all of the little scaley fellas, jellyfish, sunfish, etc.. The same logic is true for the argument about "women", there is no defining feature-set which includes all AFAB people and zero AMAB people because the lines are too blurry in genetics. An androgen-insensitive XY person with a vagina would still be AFAB, for example.

No hate, but I love a good debate if you're up for it.

Scenario 1:

Great points, honestly. However, even in this scenario where someone manages to cover all of the bases and managed to create an exact list of what it means to be a woman, it would be impossible to disqualify trans women.

Scenario 2:

I'll get deeper into this one since it's more realistic.

I bet you can't define a car

Vehicles are defined by their frames, and the regulations that revolve around those. I can tell you with absolute certainty whether a vehicle is a car or a truck based off the frame. But this isn't the point.

Does that mean we all just get to [define words ourselves]

Actually yes. Words gain their definition by how they are most commonly used. You learn a word based off its definition, but the word gains its definition from use. This is how Shakespeare managed to invent so many words in English. He just started using them, and when people asked what they meant he told them and they started using them. This is also why "literally" is defined as "not literally" by Webster dictionary, or at least it was around 2016 (may have changed).

As a matter of fact, entire languages have been built around this concept of redefining words. Most of German is just portmanteaus that were understandable enough to be considered a word.

In this particular case, the words "man" and "woman" is slowly being redefined by society to be more inclusive of trans people. Fighting against the progress of language, in this scenario, is nearly identical to fighting against the progress of trans people.

Only if the people allow them to. Don't.

The fuck he is. He was some overpayed dickwad with more ego than brains. Corporations should not hold any political significance, much less their executives

someone who looks just like him immediately assassinates murders another CEO

It's only an assassination if you kill someone of high importance, usually political importance

Have you considered being born to a wealthy white family in the West? I hear it's much easier

I feel like as long as you're running nvim in Linux you could take a screenshot of the whole desktop with nvim open to pass it off as ricing

I would imagine that "wet" has more to do with the sexual degradation of women, viewing them only as the "wetness" of their vaginal cavity and not as people. Considering the source, of course

But isn't this argument exactly what the book above is saying is false in their findings? Rescuers tended to have better relationships with their parents and given less traumatic punishments.

I suppose you could be referring to non-familial or non-violent traumas. In any case though, this would be sympathy rather than empathy. Those people are less likely to traumatize or otherwise harm a creature because they sympathize due to their personal trauma

I prefer that my kids know that face tattoos are a terrible idea...

Ever heard of a cyclical issue? Basically, you believe that people will think less of them for having face tattoos because you think less of people with face tattoos. You're perpetuating the intolerance that you fear your kids would face.

Tattoos don't mean that you're stupid, especially not in today's world where tattoo removal is increasingly available to the laymen. What do you gain by judging people in that way? Just more reason to feel better than them?

And you feel like you portrayed that ideology by belittling me for not being interested in Pixelfed?

it'll be demonized monetized by Media.

Agreed.

I do believe men also sweat

Wow. Not even an ad hominem, literally just blind judgement. You have no idea what interests me, and no way to tell how I have interacted with Pixelfed. You have no concept of the idea that some people are just not into the things you enjoy.

Do you have any idea just how much content is out there in the world? You could browse through a petabyte of data and it could all be boring drivel to you because there are zettabytes of data out there in the internet. Some of it is bound to bore any random individual. That doesn't preclude me from enjoying the entire rest of the internet.

You remind me of people in red hats.

Yeah and none of those are my niche. Not to mention, content discovery is still difficult even if you personally see things you're interested in lol

One of the big issues that I personally had with Pixelfed is that content discovery is kind of difficult on the platform. Sure, there's probably some pictures out there of the obscure shit I'm into. However, all I ever found on pixelfed was like landscape/nature photography and a little bit of porn

That looks like it's probably a great game for someone like 5 years older than me tbh. I think I just missed the nostalgia train necessary for that kind of game

Yeah I'll be buying this. This is the game I've had in my head for the last 5 years

@remindme@mstdn.social 2 years