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    [–] Killercat103@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

    Marxist/Leninist hardliners is funny to me because FOSS kind of set me on the path to become a socialist. (Although I'm a libertarian not a ML)

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Not pictured: elitist chuds that are really angry about the trans and furry community, and think Linux and other open source communities were ruined by code of conducts.

    [–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago

    They are unwelcome, and we troll and downvote them every time

    [–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    Does Linux cause some amount of autism or is it the other way around? Nah, nevermind. It works and most other things in my life don't.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    It's weird to think that Linux causes Autism, rather than to believe that Autism caused Linux.

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    [–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    on this subject.. I've been using linux for like..7ish years now?

    when do I get my choker and stockings? Do I have to fill out a form or..?

    [–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    You have to telnet in and add your name to the list

    [–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

    They don't want you to know, but you can actually buy that stuff without being invited to their secret club

    They should have been mailed by now... I'll check on it!

    [–] lmfamao@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    No form, just whisper 'sudo apt-get install femboy-starter-kit' into the void and they will arrive within 24 hours

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    Void? The distro?

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

    Weird corner of the userbase you submerged yourself in

    Most people I come across just wanted a phone that wasn’t made by Apple

    [–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    This is the meme I needed. Thank you!

    [–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

    People who think the idiom is "how x looks like" rather than "what x looks like", which is more correct.

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    I have yet to meet a furry or trans IT person IRL. Is there just a higher concentration of them across the pond? Or is bullying a bigger issue there maybe?

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    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    I have yet to meet a furry or trans IT person IRL.

    Visit any comic or anime convension and you'll find the former in spades.

    As to the later, idk. I've got three cousins who came out as Trans in the last five years or so.

    There's definitely been a thaw around sex and gender over the last twenty years, and I can't help notice a certain number of "butch lesbians" and "sis men" just saying "fuck it, I'm the other gender and straight" and going all the way.

    Or is bullying a bigger issue there maybe?

    Bullying certainly. But also there hasn't been a large and active transgender community until fairly recently. People coming to terms with what being transgender means and how to self-actualize it wasn't possible in the homophobic atmosphere of the 20th century.

    We'll see how long this revolution survives in the current century. Germany also had a boom/bust of transgenderism in the 1920s. Hopefully, Trumpism/Starmerism isn't a bell weather for that kind of reactionary reversal.

    [–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I can't help notice a certain number of "butch lesbians" and "sis men" just saying "fuck it, I'm the other gender and straight" and going all the way.

    That's either phrased poorly, or a frankly insane take on gender.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Friend's FtM dad transitioned in his late 60s, after it became more socially acceptable. Before that, he was just a very masculine presenting lesbian. Now he's a guy - a straight man in what is effectively a trans-het relationship.

    [–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    A personal journey that depends on far more than sexual orientation, and that obviously cannot be generalized.

    If you made that clueless comment to a trans person IRL, I wouldn't be surprised if they punched you in the face over it.

    [–] Awkwardparticle@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I work in tech and there are a lot of trans people in the industry, 10% of my company are trans. I do live in a country where it is safe to be trans person, so maybe people are more open about it.

    I know a single person in a nearly 2 decade career. But I've seen this stereotype posted repeatedly. I think it's just niche, loud, sections of the internet wearing blinders, being in echo chambers, and wishful/fantasizing thinking.

    [–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    What, do you ask your coworkers such questions? Unless it's their entire personality, it doesn't really get revealed in normal conversation...?

    I worked with a guy for over a year and I never would have guessed it, until I saw FurAffinity come up as a suggestion in his browser once.

    Of course I don't. Maybe I should've said "never met anybody obviously like this". Nobody knows about my political leanings or sexual preferences at work either.

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    [–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
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