YexingTudou

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[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Railroading. Not the next day, but probs pretty quick. There's a reason Biden nipped the railroad strike in the bud, and my theory as to why he's trying to build up the "pro-union" image again before the election - he really screwed labor in that move.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I'm a trans woman and I recall this myth when I first learned abt trans stuff back in '06 or so. It was widely believed and shared in trans spaces that phytoestrogen could help marginally before getting access to human estrogen. Sites like Laura's Playground (one of the largest online trans resources at the time) were filled with junk like this, along with a bunch of heteronormative and gender-essentialist takes that were super damaging. I'm glad resources are better and more prevalent now.

That was a long winded way of saying that I'm pretty sure a chunk of the culture war bs regarding soy ("soyboys") came out of these pseudoscientific claims on trans forums, mixed with a dose of racism (wrt asian cultures that use soy in cooking).

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Traditional for everything that isn't a touchscreen. Partly bc it's what I was raised with, partly practical. It's easier for me to two-finger scroll traditionally on a trackpad since it's less finger/wrist movement. If I use natural my fingernails hit the trackpad making the input unreliable, or I end up having to p much move my whole forearm to scroll. So traditional works better for me personally.

I get the idea behind natural scrolling, but there's that level of disconnect for me since I'm not interacting with screen directly, so my brain thinks of it like a mouse instead of like touchscreen. I'm guessing my brain might think of it differently had I been a little younger; I've used computers to some extent all my life, but didn't own a touchscreen device until college.

Idk, natural scrolling on any pointing device trips me up.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I'm running Debian. Okular worked for smaller epubs just fine iirc, but was struggling with large textbooks which is what I was using it for (Deitel Java specifically). Took forever to load, and was sluggish to search.

Unfortunately it looks like sumatra is windows only, but I'll keep searching!

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Depends on device for me. For android I use Librera for books, Tachiyomi/Kotatsu for manga/comics, on the old Kindle I was gifted (Kindle Touch 2) I use KOReader so I can read epubs. For desktop I do use Calibre for reading, though I'm not a big fan of their reader. I mainly read textbooks on desktop and find the search features useful, which is the main reason for using it, it all works well enough. I had issues getting Okular to work well on my computer, but I've heard it's good? Here's hoping I can unify things a bit in the future.

Eta: I forgot I actually started using Seeneva for comics, since I like the speech-bubble zoom feature

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I know, I just like making jokes

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 129 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I mean, we are currently fighting nazis

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I've been using the bus to visit home for 6ish years now and there's no consistancy year to year on how it'll operate. I prefer the train, but there's only 1 train each way/day and it ends up being a shit deal time-wise for me since the train arrives into the small city in the late evening and leaves early morning. I dream for the day the midwest gets its shit together

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'm firmly in the fuckcars camp and agree with you, I was more wondering why they made that decision. Someone else answered that they don't want to pay to use the station, so I guess my question to you then is what local municipalities can do to prevent this/promote better intercity travel. Are they able to require the buses to use the station (and pay for it's use)? I'm worried this coach company would just shut the line down.

I should also note that this is a popular transit route, there is an amtrak train that connects the cities as well, but only one train a day. I take the bus bc the train schedule is a bad deal if you're visiting the small city (arrive in the evening, depart in the morning). The bus isn't as popular as the train, so it seems like they're cutting costs wherever they can.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That makes sense, as much as I hate it. It's odd though since the route used to be served by a local coach company in partnership with Greyhound and would stop both at the intermodal station in the college town as well as the bus depot in the main city. The new operater is FlixBus, who bought Greyhound and presumably could have used the station/depot if they wanted; they must have been trying to cut costs on the route.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Nope, it's ridiculous. This route used to be operated by a different company that stopped at both the station and the depot a few miles away in another part of the city, but the new operater stops at neither.

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