i’ve kind of been wondering this whole time, what power does the supreme court have to enforce its orders? if the president is the enforcer of the laws of congress and the judiciary, then who enforces on the enforcer? apologies if this answer is obvious and i’m just not recalling my government studies well

i kinda wish this was… more? like, this isn’t not a part of the process, but it’s a pretty limited analysis of why men would be reticent to approach women. there’s a lot of (very real and good) consideration for women’s safety and consent, which situations are OK to approach in and which aren’t, etc

i guess the article is focused on how men feel, which is cool, but i think omitting this point means also missing how those worries feed back into creating those feelings of insecurity of men, too

i think that they probably had some sort of choice, but i imagine they also needed to work to live, right? very few places in the world let you have food and shelter for free, so i think there’s at least some of an argument that doing this stuff is forced in some way or another. plus, it might (have been sold as) paying better or being safer than the conditions they had previously

they’re hardly the only ones to work in unethical (or downright criminal, depending on how you view it) fields. and i’m not sure holding them in crowded, filthy conditions like this, where they’re spreading disease among each other and sharing something like one toilet to 80 people, makes amends for what they’ve done, or even makes the world a better place

i just think we can wish for justice while still acknowledging that people are deserving of some basic amenities for being people

… can a brother get a source on this??

i guess it’s a good motivation to go actually read the paper. i can’t stand not knowing if the summary i just read was accurate or not (and i’m assuming that you didn’t go double check yourself, either. not hating, but it is a known downside to using AI summaries)

… oh, do you (the reader) want to know if it was accurate? guess you’ll also have to read the study to find out :p

seems especially relevant when talking about a study related to discerning truth from false

no recommendations but i just hopped back on HotS and share your sentiment haha

what are you disagreeing with here exactly? it’s transphobic and i left a respectful comment stating that as a warning for others and a request for better labeling going forward. do i need to justify my reaction to request that hatred be labeled? i don’t appreciate being told i should just brush it off

i left the comment saying such because i think that hateful content should be marked as such, so that people can make informed decisions about if and when they interact with it. any given person may be able to handle such content on a good day or prefer to avoid it on another day. do you disagree that people should be given that choice?

like, i could talk about my individual reaction, but it’s not really relevant to my making the post. i think that labeling content is fundamentally inclusive for everyone, because it’s not just trans people who might be triggered by it. maybe a cis guy didn’t feel like reading about how his fellow men are transphobic at that point in time, especially because he knows how bad society is and being reminded of it fucking sucks for him, too

this is not a controversial take, i genuinely don’t understand why you’re meeting it with such dismissiveness. this community literally has a rule against bigotry, i don’t think asking it to be labeled is such a big deal

this is so obvious to me, i’m hesitant to believe you’re engaging in good faith, but i will answer like that’s true behind the below spoiler. i hope you can appreciate the fact that i have had to go re-expose myself to this transphobia to explain this to you

i wish this article or the OP had given this a cw for transphobia, but we’re here now, so i’m just being the change i want to see

yeah i’ve decided to leave this community based on essentially the same thing you’ve described. i mean i know people are shitters on the wider fediverse, but i figured the places beehaw federated with were at least decent

i guess not

also, the whole thing of “bot is obviously a drag alt” smacks of the same prejudiced “only one person could have a weird gender identity, it must be the same person”

could y’all please stick to talking about how someone behaves, not how they identify? it’s not that fucking hard

oh my fucking god i’m so pissed on your behalf, that’s such bullshit!!!

(also a rant, on a related but separate topic) holy FUCK along the same lines, i really hate it when people lurk in the parking lot waiting for someone to leave so they can park there! like wow, yeah, impede the flow of traffic and pressure the person leaving to hurry so YOU can have that space

i hate it so much, it makes navigating an already-packed grocery store even worse. the ppl at costco are SO bad about this 💀💀💀 just go park further away, you already have a minute long walk to the store, another minute won’t kill you!!!

this is my personal bar for whether someone is a good person or not :)

(exception for anyone who legitimately needs the closer parking spots but cannot get the disability parking spots for whatever reason. but they are a TINY minority of people)

not to discourage you or your boyfriend, but from what i know about voice training, pitch is only one piece of the overall puzzle among resonance, emphasis in parts of words, general cadence of speech, etc. the other things are, ofc, much harder to build tools about, so it’s nice to build something to help with pitch, at least

i guess what i’m hoping to come out of this comment is just acknowledging that in this program, so that you don’t get people early on in their transition going “i pass on your voice meter and not to any actual people wtf!!!” but i understand if that’s also out of the scope of this project

What he found was much more complicated. The leftist Parties—both Social Democrats and Communists—were unable to halt the spread of what he came to term the brown plague. He documents the sectarian and ideological operations of the respective parties, showing how the Communists acquiesced to the rise of the Nazi Party because they foolishly imagined that Nazi repression would mobilize the working class toward proletarian revolution. Many considered a Nazi regime a necessary step toward a socialist state, itself allegedly a step toward a stateless society.

ah,

can we at least get a content warning on this shit

actually yk fuck it the mods here suck anyways, come join us at onehundrednintysix instead, i should have unsubbed here already

i don’t want to volunteer rn, but i think i’ll spin up an account on lbz. then maybe down the line i can help out if the workload increases

felt that brother

i’m (probably) not as old as you are (>5 years on T/in my thirties) but i cannot imagine stopping testosterone would help you at this point

the target is on, essentially, “people who look trans” (so, including non-passing trans people, as well as gnc cis folks or folks who tend towards androgeny in genetics or hormones). we have always existed, and there have always been, passing trans people. part of our survival has just been… passing, and only engaging in intimate relationships with trusted people

you would, in my opinion (without seeing you), more likely “fail to pass” as a woman instead of as a man. you didn’t really talk about this much in your post, beyond implying you’ve been on testosterone a long time, but if you pass consistently as it is…

holy fuck, NO, DON’T DE-TRANSITION!

presumably, you have facial hair, you might have top surgery, you probably have the muscular and fat distribution of a man! why would you spend probably two years, endangering yourself as you detransition, for something that will (hopefully) at least be tempered in four years?

if anything, my bigger concern is just staying supplied with testosterone until the end of the term. if i run out and start detransitioning, not only am i going to be depressed as fuck, but also i’ll likely be in much more danger that way, especially 6/12 months in

(and i don’t want to downplay the trouble that chenical dysphoria invites either, good mental state is absolutely a boon in surviving dangerous situations)

if anything, now is the time to figure out how to secure your testosterone supply. if your papers all have your updated gender, and your current supplier is on your side, see if they can adjust your diagnosis from gender dysphoria to hormone imbalance. at least on paper. otherwise, see about securing local sources of testosterone from your supportive community, or do some reading into crypto and finding an online source for it (which will always be around, albeit expensive)

i’ve also lived a hard life and i also would detransition if i had to, to survive. however, my assessment is that, given that i already pass completely, it would be a huge mistake to try to preemptively detransition. and honestly, i’m grateful for that. those of us who are earlier in their transition, or whose presentations lean more non-binary, have a much harder assessment to make

and, as fucked up as it is, we can use our powers as cis-passing men to speak up for those of us in more vulnerable positions. it does everyone good to have more of us in those positions of power

i think you might have some decent thoughts surrounding what happened with ellen, OP, but good lord did you pick a terrible short to present them

cause hey, yeah. it turns out that you should be nice to people. EVEN IF YOU’RE A GAY ICON. i don’t think that’s an incorrect thing to worry about, and portraying people who do as “babies” reeks of what’s possibly the same insensitivity that got ellen here in the first place

i also don’t see why you think this is smart or funny, you’re going to bat for a tremendously powerful person on the basis of… comedians shouldn’t have to be nice? that doing one good thing for the world means you shouldn’t be subject to scrutiny about your actions going forward? he honestly makes terrible points and his humor is painting moral standards as immaturity, like, idk what you see in him

anyways, there are a lot of intelligent, interesting discussions we could have about ellen. we could talk about how maybe she was subject to higher standards or increased scrutiny because she’s a woman / gay / a gay woman. there’s a lot to look at with regard to the allegations surrounding her show. it speaks highly of her that she took responsibility for those things when they happened, and that none of them implicated her

but, i mean, she also helped a handful of celebrities clean up their image when maybe she shouldn’t have. there were a handful of things that showed, not that she’s necessarily a bad person, but she’s a rich person. hiring a non union crew for her show, getting buddy buddy with bush… like, i don’t want to go to bat for her. you can be kind to people without being friendly, and the company you keep says a lot about you

and again, she’s ungodly wealthy, and that has some known effects on the psyche. from someone who didn’t really have a horse in this race, that’s what it kind of seems like to me. she’s not really a bad person, but needs to be liked really desperately. maybe that came about after the money, not before, idk. but at the end of the day, idk if i can say you can be rich and be kind. even if you give a lot to charity. at some point, it just becomes unethical to have more than a certain amount of money

but no, we can’t have those discussions bc your “comedian” here made it all about how people criticizing ellen are babies for being concerned for being nice 🙄

sourcing mostly https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/ellen-degeneres-show-ending-allegations-b1846389.html, this seemed like a reasonably fair take on the situation

it’s good to have that additional context. it’s interesting to see how federation affects moderation and the issues that can present and how it aggravated the differences in moderation approaches

that said, even rescinding my argument about whether they were moderating, we’re still left with obvious ideological differences that would be bad to disastrous for the community in a place as active and ideologically unaligned as lemmy.world, nevermind the clear contempt that the mod team has shown for the community’s own preferences and safety

as an aside, thank you for the moderation work you do on this instance. while my interpretation that the c/196 mods were doing nothing was incorrect, it seems plain to me that your moderation style was still a good influence on the community (albeit at the cost of extra workload for you). it’s always good to see you around and i appreciate your presence and effort