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)
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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..?
You have to telnet in and add your name to the list
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!
No form, just whisper 'sudo apt-get install femboy-starter-kit' into the void and they will arrive within 24 hours
Void? The distro?
Weird corner of the userbase you submerged yourself in
Most people I come across just wanted a phone that wasnβt made by Apple
People who think the idiom is "how x looks like" rather than "what x looks like", which is more correct.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know where "π³οΈββ§οΈ" is, but all the girls from there are hot.
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Linux users: people think about us
People: I wonder what's for dinner
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I'll never forget dialling into a work meeting with the corporate infosec team who we needed some guidance from.
Their rep shows up and it's a fem-presenting person with pink cat-ear headphones.
I'm like oh fuck they sent the big guns, this is exactly who we needed to talk to. And I was right, we got exactly what we needed.
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I would argue that's the cool part. You also have the average hyper racist neo-reactionary Suckless fossid user who thinks daring to write in anything other than C is "gay" or smth.
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Software from the 80's? Get that new fangled garbage outta here. If it doesn't predate the first Alien movie it's probably full of bugs.
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No socks?
I think the abundance of trans women (β women who were raised as boys) is proof the social conditioning the only factor in why there aren't more women in STEM fields. Women love this shit just as much as men, but they're actively steered away from it.
(Yes, women face other challenges beyond lack of exposure, but I think all of them can be traced back to social factors as well, such as how men are conditioned to treat women.)
Broke my heart when my daughter at age 9 or 10 said one day that science was for boys. She went to a very progressive elementary school, I'm a software dev, and have no idea where that came from.
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