I agree for the most part. It depends a lot on what distro youre using, what DE, so on. But you can easily get by on gnome without having to use the terminal much if at all.

You dont have to. But honestly its worth the time to get over the fear of the terminal. Understanding how they work and being comfortable using them has many advantages. So many things do not require a bloated GUI application. Like again its not necessary but its a bandaid that I think is worth it to rip off.

Eye contact with strangers is legitimately almost impossible for me. I look at peoples nose or eyebrows usually if that lol. I actually go out of my way not to look at service workers’ faces when I can manage it. I’ll look at my phone, look at stuff for sale, look at signs, sometimes literally turn the other way lmao or like fuss with my purse or something 😂 even just the thought of it makes me shudder.

With like long time friends and family, I wouldnt say i struggle at all. If I know you well then it doesnt bug me at all.

One thing to bear in mind is that the boundaries between adhd and asd are not super well defined and there is lots of overlap between the two. I am both autistic and have adhd, which isnt uncommon at all.

Ive been to a few before tbh. 10 is gigantic but Ive been in a clothes store that was 5 floors, 4 of which were women’s and 1 of which was half men’s half kids.

The post isn’t about a man, its about a woman. This is her experience with allowing herself to explore her gender presentation.

Yes men are allowed to shop in the women’s section. Men can present however they want to, and in a fair and just world would be allowed to do so without repercussions. This post is in the transfeminine community however and really does not concern men.

How is this a rehash of women be shopping? I’m a woman, I enjoy shopping, am I not allowed to rejoice in that? Or are you saying that transfeminine people must avoid any kind of behavior or preference associated with western feminine gender roles?

They’re a paramilitary force beholden only to the Donald Trump. They are very literally akin to the SA. No they are not beholden to any laws. They are only beholden to Trump.

Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

I’m guessing this will lead to more things being locked behind their subscription model. Ransoming core features for cash is the standard template of this process.

Kinda. But like, a compression algorithm that isnt all that good at exact decompression. It’s really good at outputting text that makes you think “wow that sounds pretty similar to what a person might write”. So even if it’s entirely wrong about something thats fine, as long as youd look at it and be satisfied its answer sounded right.

Xcancel is an alternative frontend for twitter to specifically avoid having to create an account to use Twitter. Again you could’ve gotten this information with a simple google search lmao “what is xcancel” 😂 there, I even typed it for you.

I also wasnt the person you responded to initially.

I also think that you’re a startlingly uncurious person if doing even a cursory glance at a google search is too much for you. Maybe these kinds of discussions just arent for you to begin with. If you really couldnt care less whether someone is a fascist or not, certainly not to the point of wanting to actually find out for yourself, then yeah maybe dont partake in the conversation.

You’re more interested in defending being lazy than you are in discussing the subject. I’m sure you’ll say something like “its the principle that matters”, which is the most boring possible answer you could give. I’m more than willing to see if someone hates trans people and/or is a white supremacist. I would absolutely prefer to know that so I can avoid them. It took me very minimal effort to find that information for myself. Less than 2 minutes.

I feel like its usually not with the intent to harass but a misapplication of the term born of genuine ignorance about what makes someone or something fascist, which is itself subjective in certain contexts.

A cursory glance at his Twitter profile shows him using the R slur, defending the fascist paramilitary group ICE, sharing an image that appears to depict Canada and Mexico being entirely conquered and subsumed by America, here’s an interesting little post of him glorifying literally fascist art, being a general transphobe (unsurprising), and im sure there’s lots of other heinous stuff i missed.

Really it was very clear from one single glance at his Twitter page. Come on now, you can manage that much on your own surely.

Oh, not just them. The fascists want to invade all North America and South America. We could very depressingly actually find ourselves on opposite sides of an armed conflict sometime soon. I mean, I’m a disabled trans woman and I am somewhat doubtful that anyone will be depending on me to shoot a gun, but you know. Maybe more like we could find ourselves being shot at by each country’s respective combat drones.

I am saying there should not be any other socioeconomic class other than the working class. The ruling class should be dissolved, the landowner class should be dissolved, the capitalist class should be dissolved, so and so forth until there is only the working class and all people are members of the working class.

If all members of society have the same relative power and access then there can be no monopoly of violence.

As to your second paragraph I cant tell what youre trying to get at? Are you saying that in order to criticize something I must entirely seperate myself from it? I am not a representative of the state which claims authority over me. I do not support or endorse the actions of the state i am subjected to. I would gladly accept the systemic changes necessary to give all workers the same power.

I don’t see a reality that is entirely free from violence of any kind as conceivable. I do however see a future wherein there is no monpoly of violence as possible, and that such a future would result in far less violence as a whole.

I also completely agree that we need to solve the root causes of fascism. Fascism is very much a consequence of capitalism and inequalities as well.

There is no contradiction there. I’m an anarchist and fundamentally anti-capitalist.

The working class or the proletariat is by far the largest class in society. It encompasses all those who labor to survive, and all those who cannot profit by exploitation of labor.

All other classes should be dissolved and all people should hold the same relative power. Whenever anyone comes along and proposes giving all the guns to another specific group of people who will use violence on behalf of the working class, the working class should respond with collective violence to prevent a monopoly of violence from forming.

I fundamentally disagree. No one should be trusted to wield violence on behalf of the working class. The working class should use collective violence to prevent a monopoly of violence from ever forming in the first place.

This is all fine and well, but ultimately in my opinion doomed to failure. The state and the ruling class do not just have a monopoly on violence because of the social attitudes protecting them, but also because of the conditions they have created for the working class and the rewards they give to class traitors.

You will never convince the ruling class to give up their monopoly on violence. And they will never willingly change the conditions that allow them to maintain that monopoly.

Violence is also something of a law of the natural world. The relative freedom from violence that we experience in our lives is just an illusion. In actuality the state is able to maintain this illusion, which benefits them, by shifting violence out of our field of view towards impoverished communities who cannot defend or advocate for themselves. For those communities violence is a direct constant in their lives, it only appears to be otherwise from our ignorant perspective.

There is also the problem posed by fascism. Fascism is very specifically an ideology that exploits the attitudes of liberal democracy, one of those being a refusal to respond violently to extreme bigotry and mass manipulation. Fascists do not gain power by debate and reasoned argument, they do so by appealing to supremacist sentiment and bigotry. They are aware that liberal democracy will protect them so long as they present an air of legitimacy. The appropriate response to fascists, like any other kind of decay, is to remove them from society. No matter how you seek to do that it will be violence. Fascism must be met with a violent response. Fascism exploits the way people view this violence as distasteful, and it seeks to portray anyone who would violently remove them as morally evil. It positions itself as the victim of this violence by insisting that all violence must be judged only on immediate circumstances stripped of context. That changes nothing however. If fascists are allowed to exist and spread their ideology freely, then you already exist in a proto-fascist state.

Its insane realizing how much ableist abuse I endured as a child. It even came from adults who knew i had adhd. No one ever told me what executive dysfunction was or all the ways adhd affected me. It was just “youre bad at focusing in class” and even that was always my fault too. No one ever sought to actually help me, just tell me to try harder and punish me when I failed. I didnt know any different. I believed them that it was all my fault. It utterly destroyed any semblance of confidence or self esteem I had for the longest time.

Trump is actually now saying that the US will install a puppet state and have the American military take over their oil industry.