🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@BenLubar@mastodon.social You'd always be welcome here on #QOTO, but let me say, there isnt an instance in existance that doesnt get blocked by some number of other instances. Particualrly if its an instance that doesnt block other instances they are likely to be blocked just for that stance alone by some instances. Its inevitable.

@hendrikboom3 Math isnt really about truth. It is about making useful tools. those tools just are less useful when there are inconsistencies and more useful when everything works according to simple rules without needing long lists of exceptions. I dont see it about reaching an absolute truth, just trying to build a useful tool for analysis.

@Christian Yea i was about half was about half way through when I commented. Its a bit painful to get through with all the inaccurate facts (most of these have been pretty extensively debunked in the past). But in between the misinformation there were a few points worth considering.

I just didnt want to be too critical of the video itself. since i find most people hold onto "alternative facts" almost religiously, particularly around guns and violence and sex issues.

@Christian Because they are physically stronger. Women in all likelihood have the same tendency but due to physical disparity they are less able to act on it successfully.

@hendrikboom3 So after reading that it seems it was little more thn a hard drive platter but the magnetic bit imprinted on it didnt last very long. So it needed to be constantly read and rewritten. Making it a delay line yes, though a very strange one as delay lines go I suppose.

@hendrikboom3 well yes, id say a paradox is just a more formal way of saying "nonsense"

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
Ok, nice chatting.

@Surasanji @USBloveDog

@Surasanji I'm not sure I agree that absolute truth exists of anykind. It may, it may not.

The closest we have are things that behave as if they are well enough that we can treat it as such. Beyond that all there is is subjective truth.

But thats another topic entierly

@masterofthetiger@theres.life @USBloveDog

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
The one that makes the most functional, logical, and historical sense while also causing the least suffering.

We already established what that is here...

@Surasanji @USBloveDog

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
There is the moral aspect and the logic aspect, and just what is functional and workable.

In this case all three of those aspects are in alignment.

@Surasanji @USBloveDog @Elizafox

@masterofthetiger@theres.life

What makes them bigots is that there is literally hundreds, even thousands of years of english precedence that defines gender int he way I described it.

A few people come along who all of a sudden want to change this definition to some arbitrary standard they just made up and is already the established standard of a totally different word (the word sex). So one has to ask, why would they go through all the effort to make such an absurd linguistic change. For the most part the answer to that is bigotry. In some cases its just group-think repeating like parrots when they heard other bigots say even if they themselves arent a bigot.

So while I wouldnt say all of them are just bigots for the most part it has its roots in bigotry at the very least. I certainly cant think of any other underlying motivation for it.

Moreover the issues with how to apply the standard. The established standard for the past few hundred/thousand years was always "if it looks like a woman you treat it like a woman".. but to switch to a standard of "I must know what genitals are sitting in someones pants and once I am aware of what that is I will treat the person according to that" functionally can never work anyway, so its just pretty stupid a way of doing things "Hi, I know you look like a woman but before I refer to you as she can you please verify you have a vagina, and can you reassure me you were born with it, thanks"

@USBloveDog @Surasanji @Elizafox

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
Well not just what you want it to be but what you put effort into expressing. You would have to take the leap to express that want by changing your outward appearance.

Id also say gender is a bipolar spectrum. So most people who claim there are 1000+ genders each with their own name would be wrong. But as far as spectrums go yur free to fall anywere on it youd like.

@USBloveDog @Surasanji @Elizafox

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
The standard for ones gender is the same as what it has been for hundreds of years. Your outward presentation. If you dress, speak, and behave feminine then that is your gender. It isnt a new concept.

@USBloveDog @Surasanji @Elizafox

@USBloveDog
Yup thats my thinking.

More important that is the definition of gender (and has been for hundreds of years). Gender is and always has meant ones presentation of femininity or masculinity. Sex is something different from gender, its your chromosomes and your genitalia.

For trans their sex and their gender are different, but all we should be interacting with, thus what counts, is the gender.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life @Surasanji @Elizafox

@Surasanji @tjemni At the next #QOTO reunion ill make sure to seat you two int he table out in the hallway.

@tjemni You are now officially a horrible human being. Congratulations.