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Sasha [They/Them]

@ Sasha @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • I'm on the fence.

    I would like a celebration of the sort and already use jewellery as a signifier of a relationship, but as an institution, marriage is not something I want to be included in. It's a patriarchal and hierarchical structure which demands compliance to a narrow range of relationships and historically exists to make women and children into property; children are still treated as property such as in custody battles and women are trapped in toxic relationships unable to escape DV and the like.

    The fact that there are so many benefits, such as tax breaks, access to welfare and healthcare (depending on your location) is despicable. There are forms of relationship that are entirely excluded (poly for one example), and many people don't want a relationship in the first place, why should they be treated as second class citizens? These benefits should be given to people regardless of marital status, otherwise this is a vector for the state to regulate your life.

    Oh, and no I don't have a problem with anyone who likes marriage, I hate oppression not individuals.

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    What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?

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  • Oh I wholeheartedly agree with this.

    Veganism should be based around the fact that there's no reasonable or meaningful distinction between animals and humans. We should reject animal suffering for exactly the same reasons we seek to end human suffering.

  • Do you have any tattoos, piercings, or scars that you regret?

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  • I regret my snake bites, only because I want a slightly different piercing in the same place instead lol

    Having jewellery in your mouth gets annoying when you can't stop unconsciously messing with it. I've swallowed so many of them at this point...

  • How do I meet law-abiding hacktivists?

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  • Fuck law abiding activism, stonewall was a riot and the law will not make us silent.

    I'm no hacktivist but I'm a pretty experienced back end dev/sre and an activist. I won't tell your secrets if you wanted to run your idea past someone or need advice.

  • If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • Lancaster Pennsylvania, lots of folk punk stuff going on over there and LNL is throwing another folk punk flea market in late June.

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    where are we putting these?

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  • I once spent an entire evening removing nazi homophobic posters from my uni campus, wheat paste fucking sucks to get off even with water. I had a spray bottle with me and for most of them I had to just scratch off the worst parts and leave them up.

  • Do people who don't know how to (deliberately) think of ideas exist?

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  • I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've been trying to learn to write lyrics for the last year or so, and the one thing I know for sure about creativity is that it's not a switch.

    Ideas come to me walking down the street and I have to jot them down for later. If I want to come up with something new on the spot, I just start singing without thinking about it and usually something good eventually falls out of my mouth.

    Zack Freedman has a great video on training yourself to be creative: https://youtu.be/6r8-o2WpoCA

  • What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?

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  • The phrase "we aren't free until we're all free" applies to animals as much as humans, and thinking otherwise is straight up bigotry. That so few extend leftist thought to the rest of the living world is a travesty, if you've managed to come around to leftist thinking then you've absolutely been capable of challenging your pre-conceived biases and this is just another step in that process.

    All that said, I'm not one to judge people for not agreeing with this. It took me an exceptionally long time and the right circumstances to finally reassess my reasoning and to realise it was absurdly flawed, hypocritical and informed by propaganda.

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  • I'm just another shitty guitarist with bigger dreams than sense, but it's very fun. Thanks for the encouragement!

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  • Get good enough to play a show, honestly it would be equally as satisfying just to play my songs for friends in a park or something.

  • What's the weirdest defense you've seen used to justify belief in God?

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  • Well I'm being a little deceptive for the joke of course, but he just felt like Jesus was sitting in the chair and then talked to the invisible Jesus.

    The guy ended up doing a bunch of stuff at my highschool and which really bugged me because he only ever had surface level religious phrases to say (motivational speaker kinda stuff but with more Jesus) that glossed over some really big issues we were all facing at the time.

  • What's the weirdest defense you've seen used to justify belief in God?

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  • Ah yeah "all atheists just hate god," I forgot that was a thing. Could be the case, it was a long time ago

  • What's the weirdest defense you've seen used to justify belief in God?

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  • I once met a guy who became a priest because he had a religious experience while talking to a chair.

    The weirdest one I ever got was in highschool, someone said "how can you not believe in god, god is love" and I still don't understand how that's meant to be an argument.

  • How close are we to "manually tuning" LLMs?

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  • It would be easier and faster to just train it on the stuff you want it to output. There are hundreds of billions of weights in models like gpt, and no one really knows what any individual one does.

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • My accoustic guitar, I desperately hope, I love it way too much to ever be without it.

  • Trans rule

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  • We're both at the same time

  • Has anyone here felt hopelessly disenfranchised with life and turned that around?

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  • I'm probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I went from considering suicide after I was diagnosed with an incurable disability that turned my life into an existence of pain, with next to no medical support or advice beyond "do yoga about it" to doing suprisingly well in life. I was also depressed before all of that, a shitty person and still trying to escape a really awful person in my life.

    I turned it around gradually, but the two biggest things were getting the right meds (and being absurdly lucky to be one of the rare few who respond to it at all) and starting with a psychologist. Years of dealing with trauma and learning to accept and change the bad parts of myself eventually led to reading leftist theory, becoming an anarchist and meeting some incredible people. At some point in that journey I got on HRT and that did wonders for the worst of my depression too.

    I'm at a point where I don't think I resemble the person I was two or three years ago one bit. I used to deal with all the bad shit going on in the world by just trying to ignore it and only caring about myself and those close to me, but actively trying to improve the world is infinitely better.

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    Would you consider this acceptance...?

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  • Trans inclusive radical misogyny

    Personally I don't, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it's funny, in which case I guess it would be.

  • What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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