Steve Schmidt. He has a long history as a conservative strategist which is a huge red flag for me, but I think it would actually make him more palatable to right-wingers. I watch his show ‘The Warning’ and he makes a lot of sense with his positions. He is extremely clear in his criticisms of Trump, but he also doesn’t focus on culture war nonsense. I’m willing to compromise as long as the person can think straight and face reality, which is seemingly an extremely high bar now.
I’m trying to think of questions that have a similar vibe. these may be way off (I’m not trans) so take with a grain of salt -
a religious person meets someone in their congregation and asks if they are a convert or were born in.
a person on a date asks their date, a single person, if they are divorced or never married.
I think I would struggle to define the category being asked about in these questions too. It’s something about history and expectations.
You might call the category lived experience. Does your gender identity match your lived experience and upbringing, or does it not? Sometimes you see trans people use the phrase ‘man of trans experience’ or ‘woman of trans experience’ to highlight that the word trans applies to history and experience. So the question might be, “what is your gender experience?” or “what is the nature of your gender socialization?”
Also it’s not that it makes you a pre-cog, it’s more that it makes you unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim style. She was perceiving her life nonlinearly.
I love Arrival, it’s one of my favorites. The scene where she meets with the Chinese general at the gala was chilling, I love how she herself is confused for most of the movie and formulates her plan in that moment, in collaboration with him. I also love that the reason for first contact is that the aliens will need help centuries in the future, that’s a pretty unique spin on the usual story.
The piece about her daughter is interesting I think but it’s not the strongest part of the movie. I was disappointed that they shoehorn the romance at the end and have her and Ian fall in love. Honestly I would have been fine never knowing who her husband was, because the poignancy of the story was her own personal choices about having a child.
One of the best games ever made, (you won’t) change my mind. Some battles are super difficult though, you really need to be strategic. I hope you have a good time!
Should there be a word for ‘white’ or ‘straight’ or ‘monogamous’? Should there be a word for ‘able-bodied’, or ‘hearing’, or ‘sighted’?
TERFs brazenly use their own slurs, TIF (trans-identified female, aka a trans man) and TIM (trans-identified male, aka a trans woman). They don’t care at all about respecting each person’s chosen terms, they only care about ideology and enforcing their viewpoint.
I’m very frustrated by the apologists saying, “well, cis people don’t necessarily identify with that term and we should respect that”. It’s not so simple, what term would they like us to use instead? They never offer one. They want the absence of any term, because they want to enforce an ideology where only they are normal. So they can make up any mean words against trans people that they want, but we can’t even factually describe them with a neutral term?
It’s there, but sites often place the alt text in the title tag as well, so that it shows up when you hover your mouse over it. Here it’s in the alt tag only so it seems broken if you’re used to checking with a mouse.
the ‘4D Chess defense’. we can’t keep saying that mistakes are actually intentional when there are so many examples of the mistakes, being made for the same reasons, by the same types of people (out of touch CEOs with terrible judgment)
if other fedi projects are any indication, likely a unified API will develop. Mastodon’s API is supported by most other fedi projects, so you can use mobile apps interchangeably. If Lemmy becomes dominant then kbin would have to implement an API to match.
Missing replies has been a problem across fediverse for a while. There are some ways to mitigate it but they can be resource intensive. For example Akkoma fetches the missing replies when you open up a thread. It contacts the originating server’s API (not ActivityPub) and requests the details for the thread. It works pretty well but I’m not sure it would scale for Lemmy/kbin which is going to be designed for huge threads.
I hope a good solution is figured out and maybe even can be implemented by other software projects across fedi.
I would probably call them ‘boards’. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it’s not universal.