Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)T

TheAlbatross

@ TheAlbatross @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Posts
0
Comments
104
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?

    Jump

  • That'd really be great. I'd love making red bull cocktails without caffeine in them

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

    Jump

  • Often people who oppose illegal immigration do seem to also be racists.

    I think if someone says they oppose illegal immigration and also genuinely feels they have done serious introspection and feel they are not racist, they might benefit from asking themselves what they dislike about illegal immigration and see if those things actually have the negative impacts they fear or if the negative impacts they see are but drops in the bucket compared to other sources of similar impacts.

  • Removed

    YSK that designer psychedelics are a thing now apparently

    Jump

  • Iiiiiiii don't think that's gonna be as popular at the clubs as my thing

  • Removed

    YSK that designer psychedelics are a thing now apparently

    Jump

  • Yah I'll take a mescaline visuals with uhhhhh a molly body high oh and hold the shrooms next day gut rot, thank you!

  • Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

    Jump

  • Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

    Jump

  • Who could say? Not me. Maybe a theologian

  • Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

    Jump

  • There's some line in the New Testamant that absolves Christians of the obligation to observe the laws of Kashrut and whatnot, if I recall, but I couldn't tell you where it is or how exhaustive it is.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Let's say then, obviously, yes, a lot of the people who people who exclusively date particular ethnicities are doing so for bigoted reasons, demonstrating poor introspection, having their preferences dictated by bigotry and propaganda.

    Doesn't it stand to reason that a similar thing could be occurring with cis people who refuse to date trans people? That many of them are simply bigoted and influenced by propaganda, not having thoroughly examined their thought processes around this concept and instead allowed others to dictate their preferences?

    Those many people might benefit from the reframing of that concept to one othering cis people. That is who this post is about.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • No, actually, I find that's often not true.

    I've found that people who are willing to date some ethnicities but not others often exhibit some level of unexamined bigotry, even if they are not abhorrent racists. But I've also seen that if they do have romantic experiences with people of that race, this can change, showing that the attraction wasn't immutable, but rather based on something unexamined in their heads.

    I think it's good and healthy to examine what we find attractive and why.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Someone who says they want children so they don't want to date people who don't want children is someone I feel has done at least a bare minimum of introspection about their desires, goals and interests.

    Someone who says they only date blondes is not someone who I think has done any introspection about their interests.

    Asking people to examine the way they think and why isn't related to becoming an incel whatsoever. In fact, in my experience, incels are often people who have not really done a lot of introspection into what they find attractive and why, but rather have become obsessed with the idea that they should be having sex and aren't.

    Would you think someone who says they only date white people is exhibiting this "attraction preference" or are they exhibiting bigotry?

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Certainly, but being trans isn't a different sexuality.

    Plenty of cis people put trans people into the "not interested" category without thinking. Or they assume they are cis and lose attraction the moment they find out they are trans, some even acting like this is a deception or betrayal. So obviously they have something in their head about transness that they have actively decided is unattractive.

    There's the rub.

    And thinking on that, wondering why that is, asking if that is something they truly feel or something someone told them to feel, examining the way our own brains work, is often a useful practice to being kinder and more understanding to and of ourselves and to and of others.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • This is a good way to reframe all too common discussions. Hopefully it triggers some introspection in folks.

  • What are your thoughts on Smart Glasses?

    Jump

  • I think were I a man of stronger convictions, I'd rip off and smash any pair of camera equipped glasses I'd encounter.

  • Is English just badly pronounced French?

    Jump

  • Save ya a click, lmao no. English is a Germanic language.

    Weird to even suggest it

  • Removed

    this is what my date just served.....

    Jump

  • Posted within a minute of each other.

    Someone's making a joke.

    It does look pretty gnarly, but maybe it tastes good? Looks like a lazy weekday dinner.

  • Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part?

    Jump

  • To save y'all a click, the organ came first, sometime in the 14th century, as a mix of the words for womb and egg. It wasn't until the 16th century that we see the first recorded use of kidney bean, so the name of the bean references the shape of the organ.

  • best comment under a video about the new iphone 17

    Jump

  • Yeah this is a concern as well. That's the other thing keeping me from upgrading. The advantages of newer models are only slight compared to this phone which works perfectly fine. The longer I wait, the better the tech becomes. Eventually it'll reach a point where upgrading makes sense, but it doesn't seem like it's gonna be this year or even next.

  • best comment under a video about the new iphone 17

    Jump

  • I'm in this situation with my Note 20. I see no reason to upgrade just yet, though. Thought about a foldable, but the Samsung ones are too expensive and the Chinese ones look amazing but tricky to import and use in the US.

  • NSFW Deleted

    [deleted]

    Jump

  • The middle class is a fabrication. It's an income bracket created by capitalism, not a true analysis of one's association to the means of production and labor. It's "real" in the sense that many people identify themselves to it, but it's not real in a Marxist sense.

    A vast majority of people in the middle class are the proletariat. Some of the people in the middle class are petite bourgeois.

    Edit: I think your question is a good one, simply because so many people do see themselves as part of this Middle Class first before they think of themselves as workers or business owners, but I think that's a sign of effective capitalist propaganda meant to distract the workers from their relationship to labor. The Middle Class largely is made up of people who need to be reeducated to understand that they are part of the proletariat and the bourgeois have been robbing them for centuries.