All that text and it’s all about sexual things and male privilege. If this is real, it shows you have no real life experience and you need wait until you do to understand what life is actually like as an adult.

Too much centralization of the Lemmy network happened. A big default choice instance, some others that are medium sized, and several hundreds of tiny instances nobody cares about.

It does make more sense to have a community for an interest too, rather than an entire instance devoted to one area.

I guess it works for porn instances but haven’t seen it work for any others. Porn is good for having alt accounts.

Where are the good guys in non-religious (scientific) leaders?

They are all scheming to gain more power and control.

Humans are just not emotionally ready to recognize where all this leads.

Who are you talking about that is insisting there can be no deviation from the norm? And maybe you don’t realize how teaching works… You need someone willing to learn to be able to be able to have a teacher. Banning words and discussions is absolutely the wrong way to go. History has shown this many times.

And my point is very simple. Don’t ban words. Have open discussions. Don’t support censorship of opinions or words. Don’t be afraid of what people are actually thinking of things. Stop trying to control what people should think, and stop trying to teach them what you think is right.

People will not read something online and change their minds. Just like you are currently reading my words here, and you will not agree or change your mind. Neither will I. That’s how it works.

I can’t be your teacher unless you want to be my student.

Well, you were talking about the positive aspects of autistic people only. Maybe it’s hard to notice that, but it sounds almost like you think they are a better version of non-autistic people. From my perspective, that’s not really how it is… :) Autism or not, people can have a lot of negative personality traits that make them a pain to be around.

Those websites will simply register alternate domains… It’s really not a big deal.

Thank you, but is it really fair to say they all autistic people are like you describe? Just like non-autistic people, there should be a a variety of behaviors in autistic people as well?

I was talking about Elon Musk here, not all autistic people.

I don’t see it. Elon is a sociopath and doesn’t care about people at all. He is autistic as well. The man would easily sacrifice others in a crisis, not fight for them.

I hope they aren’t. Diversity is the opposite of chemistry. It may be great for companies but it’s quite bad for finding similar-minded people you can connect with.

Cartman is that you?

Tall women are attractive. So feel better. :)

We have excellent online stores like Zalando that have changed my life. I order, clothes are usually delivered the next day, and returning is as easy as putting it back into the same box and driving to the postal office again. Money back within a few days.

They have perfected the clothes shopping experience for men. No more going to awkward physical shops.

My size is known by the shop, and I can order lots of variations of the same clothes, different sizes, just to find the perfect one that really fits me.

Ok this is officially the strangest thread I’ve been in since Lemmy started. :)

You are acting a bit strange, honestly…

It could be a good idea to meet some actual people outside of this computer thing, just saying…

Devops, working with aws infrastructure and networking, terraform, ansible etc. A lot of Linux!

It’s fun and pays well. Recommend it for anyone who gets excited about new open source things and Linux features. I’ve been known to change terminals and editors a lot, and constantly change my neovim plugins and themes, even switching to tiling window managers occasionally.

I’m just having fun and getting paid for it.

No I’m generally happy :)

It feels like underneath all this, it’s actually about people refusing to be marginalized and they want to be accepted as everyone else. But I think instead of trying to change words and ban conversations, maybe it’s better to teach people to accept and even enjoy more variations?

Because right now it’s a bit ridiculous. We are told to ignore obvious differences between people so nobody feels marginalized. That’s likely to make it very difficult to even have a conversation.

It’s like when you can’t describe someone as black or white, or fat or thin, and it just becomes really humorous in the end, as you are struggling to find other words that are identifying the person.

I think it’s fine that everyone gets to say what their gender is, as long as the archetypal roles stay the same - man or female.

Gender can be a word for how people define themselves, as long as we instead use “archetypal roles” to define what our physical body looks like.

I think what is frustrating is when people start to say that we shouldn’t include our physical body type at all in discussions. That’s taking it too far in my opinion. Going to the doctor and not telling what body type you are makes diagnosis impossible in same cases. And for what reason? That part doesn’t make any sense to me. Race, body type, and other things are important to know in many cases.

But otherwise, sure, people can define their gender how they like.

If it’s one thing I learned from the thread, it’s that the word gender can be anything at all.

From the person I talked to above, they are using gender to describe how they feel about who they are. So maybe it’s just a word difference.

I’m very downvoted for being in this thread though and so are you. It’s a bit funny.

A mod deleted my comment it seems.

Anyway, guess I leave this strange thread and leave people here with their beliefs.

It was a genuine question, and I listened to your opinion. My own opinion differs from your own. This happens sometimes in conversations. To me, that doesn’t mean that we need to leave the discussion or downvote eachother. :)

The thing is, these conversations usually go the same way. People like yourself try to step in and guide people who ask questions. And if they don’t 100% share your own opinion, then you feel it’s a waste of time. And also you think you know me. I must be a troll. Right?

It’s a bit funny, you have to admit. Online discussions are not sniper battles. Or they shouldn’t be.

Maybe I have a different point of view on this because of my own upbringing and my own experiences. Seems pretty likely, no? And maybe one comment online will not change all of that in an instant. Also makes sense, no?

So just relax… We don’t have to fight online. I promise.