[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Somehow even this position is giving the dude too much credit.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reasonable people can have disagreements about trans rights.

For instance, the complexities of solving trans issues in sports, does the age of HRT matter for gendered leagues and title IX? Rule changes occur in sports leagues every year, how will acknowledging trans people change the ways we revise rules for safety, competition, entertainment, and sportsmanship? Should certain sports start to franchise into coed/nonbinary leagues?

For instance the best approach for teach children acceptance and tolerance towards peers who may come to identify with a different gender thsn assigned. There can be conservative and liberal approaches to teaching tolerance.

For instance the difference between the Human Rights campaign that wants LGBTQ civil rights to mimic POC civil rights (the capitalist conservative path, btw) versus groups that advocate liberation politics and taking civil rights in a more left wing direction.

Those are political disagreements. QAnon-fake-news trans lobby conspiracy is not a political disagreement - it's just trolling.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We are all happy to engage with competing worldviews

What you call "far right" and "extremist" is actually normal, conservative, and Christian. What you call "hateful" is actually just truth telling.

This isn't a competing worldview, or rather, it's a competing worldview in the same way that phrenology and alchemy are competing ways to view anatomy and chemistry. Like, it's possible to genuinely believe in these things if your conditions of childhood existence are so constrained, isolated, or manipulated that you are happier living life in your own personal 'Truman show.' But the rest of us don't have an obligation to play along with your fantasy.

Most of us here on the internet have at some point met someone we've had a reasonable political disagreement with but could walk away understanding each other better due to those disagreements. Most of us would even say thise diagreements have gone in both political directions. The same cannot honestly be said for folks with your version of a 'world view.' It's like a method actor but worse because it lacks any goal, it's like a person suffering mental but worse because the cause (Patriarchal models of religion) is external, intentional, and had been prosthlytizing delusion as a worldview for millenia.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The observed drift since humans have been able to make these observations is that our natural tilt fluctuates 2⁰ over 40,000 or so years. Which comes out to about 576 inches a year (I didnt do the maths, im basing this off the speed that the polar circle is currently drifting, not sure if thats the best way to approximate earths tilt vs. orbital plane). So comparing that to 31 inches of drift per year due to water, this seems to account for roughly 5% of the observed axial drift of the earth.

It's dawning on me that our most current astronomical measurements and this study are drawing on the same time period of observations, and that most of the water humans have moved around on earth likely occurred before and/or after the decades this model accounts for. So yeah, it's troubling.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Light Simulator 40th Anniversary- The classic particle / wave physics simulator now allows you accurately model everything from radio arrays and lasers up to particle accelerators and tokamak reactors.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

The beauty is it doesn't matter too much. I'm seeing and replying to this from a kbin instance of this post, you see.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whever anyone asks what the internet used to be like I send them to a little old site called www.homestarrunner.com It's still up after all these years. Truly beautiful.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/r/gifs currently is following suit! If you still have a reddit account go vote ASAP! (Also unsubscribe from all your "business as usual" subs as possible, immediately, if you can't delete your account immediately for whatever reason)

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Can't be done, admins have it all backed up.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I love this! Agitation and frustration while following the terms and conditions and reddiquette

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Lol, I can't believe what I'm reading. Reddit admitting to the mod community that they have a duty to keep spaces "accessible to users." They've had 20 years to keep their spaces accessible to people who require screen readers and so on. It's been crickets until this week.

[-] geoffervescent@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I agree. I also think that beehaw's defederation with Lemmy.world and Sh.itjust is a positive thing! If communities want to self censor, let them. If you want to interact with content from both, join both, or join an instance that maintains federation with both.

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