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@fluffy@queer.party I was mostly amused that that was the only bucket into which I didn't fall. =n.n=

@fluffy@queer.party I'm not a gamedev! =>.>=

@KawaSeadrake It's totally a fair comment! As part of my background, as @emanate​ said, I have some history running cons. I'd love to talk about it if you're curious.

@noelle While our safety is secure, we should look for ways to communicate that abandoning their ideology is worthwhile, while ensuring that we prepare ourselves for double agents. We must show people a path out, so as to ensure that any people condemned forever to their ranks are there purely by their own refusal to get well.

At least, that's my fantasy. I've never succeeded in it yet.

@mawr Also I think you're good at it. 💙​

@mawr That's an apt term for it.

If I were to actually run a <insert mumbling, rustling of paper, glitchwhistle, gearcrank, typewriter bell> con, would anybody attend? Knowing that it would have to be con-shaped and con-aspected, would anybody actually think it'd be worth doing?

If I were to actually try to codify the bulldada in my head, would anybody actually read it? Knowing that I can only transmit post-encoding glyphstreams and not qualia, would anybody care about my third-hand reality?

@neonNeptunian It's totally allowed.

@chosafine@instance.business Certainly biological facticities can lead to common lived experiences, and the commonality of lived experience makes for common culture, but people can possess biological traits and not have those lived experiences, or have the lived experiences and not share the same trait. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how those ideas interplay, if you have interest in sharing.

@chosafine@instance.business I suppose my question is at what point differences between individuals who share traits in common become differences between _cultures_ to which those individuals belong. The ways in which we treat individual differences and cultural differences are quite different, and I question whether biological facticities ever make good bases on which to pattern culture given our relative lack of control over them.

Is it too early in the day to call a mulligan and decide it's time to wake-and-bake?

... and today I've learned that rebooting my HTC10 into Safe Mode clears my home screen of all non-OS icons.

Rebooting out of Safe Mode does not restore them.

@Phorm I'm glad to do so, but happier that it's helping. =n.n=

As for how to counter the "just speech" claim, Sartre laid the groundwork for that in the 30s, calling out anti-Semitic language among the proto-Nazis as verbal violence that should be treated as such. I don't have the link handy but it should be easily searchable online.

@Phorm Unfortunately, it's also inspired a bunch of folks on "our side" -- inasmuch as there are sides and we have only one -- to see the lack of punishment for such speech as license to do the same, to lash out preemptively and cite the admittedly long history of violence as a justification. "They did it first" is no excuse.

@Phorm All the permissiveness towards exclusionary and dehumanizing speech has created a culture, or at least a subculture, that's so steeped in such concepts that some members are acting on the ideas contained within their words, while the rest continue to hide behind the smokescreen of "just words." In response, a lot of people are now saying, "no, it's not just words, and we will defend ourselves if you keep going."

@Phorm I think that speech which advocates for the suffering of others is a form of violence that we as a society have been trained to think of as harmless because it's "just words," and we're now seeing the consequences of that. As a result, there's a lot of "ambient background violence" to which people are now responding as one would threats of violence: declarations of boundaries and promises to respond in kind.

@Phorm I think that it's entirely possible for people to have mutually incompatible goals or needs without anyone being morally flawed. It's very hard to deal with, but sometimes it's unavoidable. I don't have any pat answers for those situations, but I do think that coming to terms with those possibilities is critical for self-care. It's the starting point for deciding when to accede to others and when to assert the self.

@candleglow See, I have a "professional" account for my moneysona, but I've scrubbed a lot of the interesting bits off of it.