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Sasha [They/Them]

@ Sasha @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Gender is not a 1D spectrum

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  • I'm just being silly, but the translation here is something like:

    We all understand gender in our own unique way, based on a shared understanding of some broader concept

    Changing our understanding and relationship to gender as a concept is possible, and may lead to you realising your own gender was something other than what you'd previously assumed.

    The gender binary is ass.

  • Gender is not a 1D spectrum

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  • Gender is expressed as an N dimensional vector in the tangent space at a point on a larger N dimensional pseudo-Riemannian gender manifold.

    Travelling on a path through this manifold can act to rotate your gender identity once you arrive at a new point so be careful where you step, some paths are known to crack eggs.

    Mapping the manifold onto a 2D socially constructed gender Cartesian plane introduces singular points and so is considered a dangerous and largely useless construction.

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    WE ARE MOVING TO LEMMY.WORLD!!

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  • For the love of god, leave this community here and just create a new mod team instead. This community being on Blåhaj specifically is a big plus for a lot of us

  • What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?

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  • Aww, and you've made mine

  • What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?

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  • What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?

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  • I recently tried to return something, within warranty it's a fix/replacement. Within 6 months it's a full refund, but I've got no idea how much of that is law and how much was store policy

  • The depression sure is great

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  • If you steal them, avocados are free... or so I'm told

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • No I sent a message directly to the ceo on our internal version of Facebook (it's called workplace and it's somehow worse than facebook) in a thread about the report.

    He replied to me basically ignoring everything I said and pretending like they were innocent and nice people, despite the report going into detail about why they specifically had known about and profited from a lot of illegal activity. Every other employee then proceed to kiss his ass and pretend like he was the greatest man to have ever lived.

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • Oh, and a side point. When all the awful shit I mentioned at the top came out in a national probe, I publically told the CEO what a piece of shit he and the board were for knowing about it and doing nothing.

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • Time theft is the easiest form of protest lmao

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • You'd be surprised, I've written a long comment about it but I've been trying to get another job for around two years now and it's been completely impossible. Part of it is because I don't have any formal education in the field (despite years of experience), but a lot of it is that the developer job market went to absolute shit after COVID and all that's left now is nothing but evil companies.

    My options for applications are basically AI startups, crypto start ups, banks and tech companies that are too competitive to ever give me an interview even if they're somehow ethical.

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • I'll throw in my two cents because you're literally describing me.

    I'm a software developer working for a bank that has, among other things, stolen from the deceased, profited from environmental destruction and charged fees specifically to not provide a service to customers. On top of all of this I consider usury wholly immoral, so I'll never consider any bank any less than evil.

    Am I evil or guilty?

    To some extent perhaps, I've certainly helped write code that makes what I view as theft more efficient and "accessible." In order to mitigate this, I've moved into a different position that lets me get away with not working more often. I'm able to use a lot of the money I get to do a lot of good for people in my area. I'm no saint, but I'm trying my hardest to make things better.

    Not so long ago, I told a friend of mine how awful I felt about what I do, and about how much worse it makes me feel that I've failed to get out from it. He explained to me that since the day I was born, the capitalist state has been force feeding the propaganda down my throat. I was trained to not see the problems with the world and to accept what I was given, I've only broken free from this relatively recently. Blaming myself for being brainwashed and integrated into a system without my consent is victim blaming.

    I think you'll find workers generally aren't evil, they just haven't been kicked into a better framework that reveals the way the world really is.

    Why do I still work there?

    Because I can't fucking leave, I've been trying constantly for years now and I can't get an ethical job. Every single day I want to quit, but doing so means a lot of very bad things happen to me, this is the power that capitalists wield over us.

    I've finally given up on finding a new job as a software dev and have decided to pursue an old dream instead, which will involve me going to uni again for a long time, and then I'll spend the rest of my life making a material difference in people's lives every single day. I'm quite fortunate to be able to pursue this, and the fact I can makes me feel it's something of a duty.

  • I've actually done this tho

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  • 1: I've taken the metro to get groceries loads of times

    2: Trams

  • Pirates of Lemmy, how many torrents are in your queue that are just stuck?

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  • HAH NONE

    It used to be a couple dozen, but I cleaned it up a couple of months back and somehow haven't had any get stuck since

  • You'll never see it coming

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  • You know how the universe isn't broken? Well it's possible it could break and you can't predict or stop it.

    A slightly higher level explanation is that the universe might be in this state which is like a ball sitting in a little divot on the side of a hill, and if something bumps it out of that divot it could roll to the bottom. If that ball rolls to the bottom then it could cause particles to stop behaving the way we expect them to so things like chemistry and life stop being possible.

  • If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to?

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  • That makes sense, and I think it literally just is the Deustchian model at least according to this source. It's been a long time since I read the original paper so I guess I misremembered it as a slightly different thing, though further reading suggests this might be a flawed explanation of his own theory, so I'm just thoroughly confused now haha.

    I can think of a number of problems with how it would work, depending on the way you set it up it could result in something like "wormholes" to the future just randomly opening up constantly and everywhere just due to the way probability works. There are certainly a lot of interesting mathematical phenomena that arise from time travel like that.

  • If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to?

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  • What you described to me sounds exactly like what I'm referring to, so I'm not sure tbh. I'm referring to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

  • If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to?

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  • Travelling to the future is so easy that you can't not do it

  • If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to?

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  • Multiverse theory doesn't really allow jumping like that though, each term in the wave function is independent and that's kinda the point.

    At best a time machine can just allow for further splitting of those terms, but that doesn't actually mean anything special because we can do that without time travel by just measuring particle spins.