You're assuming that feminists have based their hatred on anything rational.
I can program. Programming is incomprehensible to them. Oh, look, I was legally male at some point. That has to be why, all that rapey male privilege I have! It couldn't possibly have anything to do with 20+ years experience.
Yep, I'll be living as a woman in 10 years, unless I die homeless in a gutter. There really is discrimination out there. It's just that it comes from management. But blame me! Sure, that's done a lot of good to fix the problem!
I will not be programming, at least not professionally. The gender insanity will continue in tech. I can't change the gender I was assigned at birth. That's a matter of public records. I can choose to run away from the insanity. I don't need to look forward to a future about arguing about whether I'm a "real" woman or just an invader with a woman-suit who's "really" just a cit het white male shitlord underneath, keeping "real" women from getting programming jobs in some vast, insane conspiracy.
Why can't I get the deal that Brianna Wu has? Oh, right. If I were to be accepted as a woman by feminists, it would completely undermine their entire misogynerd gaslighting effort.
On one side, there's the feminists screaming about how I'm an "incomplete being" and can never be whatever they see a woman as. Who am I to argue? On the other side, there's gaslighting asshole managers and other managers who are just apparently above understanding even the very, very basics. Just as long as my skills keep the cash flowing in, just as long as feminists can continue telling me about how my assigned gender at birth controls my every thought, feeling, and intention, who cares what I actually do or how anything actually works, right? Right.
If I continue as a hobby, it'll probably be a combination of gVim and maybe Netbeans. Good old C/C++ for me and maybe more Java.
This topic again. I wasn't sure where I wanted to reply, but I'll put it here.
Here are my grievances:
1. My genitals were mutilated at birth, leaving me with horrific physical pain from puberty until I decided to take matters into my own hands. My GP at the time couldn't find any evidence of anything being physically wrong and believe that it could be I was experiencing the pain because of my female mind. Later, when I saw a psychologist, he decided that there was really no way to sort out my feelings about my gender from the physical pain I experienced.
2. I was nearly prosecuted for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after having run a computer club for a year and a half solely because I was assigned the male gender and the school district wanted to claim that their first computer club was founded by somebody assigned the female gender at birth.
3. At college orientation, it was explained very clearly that I was a rapist who had merely not been caught yet, and that the best thing for me to do would be to avoid interaction with women. I'm not attracted to women anyhow, but it was distressing that solely because of my assigned gender at birth I would be considered a violent criminal with access to illegal drugs and that any unsupervised contact with women would cause me to be suspected of criminal intentions.
4. Later on, in the "real world," I was accused of being part of a conspiracy to prevent women from learning programming. That was before this "SJW" (or whatever) crap started being A Thing on the internet. It hurt me deeply that somebody would seriously believe that my intentions were sexist based solely on the gender I've been forced to present as all these years. (This will change, all though I've no idea whether I'll die homeless in a gutter after it does change.)
5. I mentor women programmers. Do you? I have done everything one could reasonably expect of somebody who has barely managed a lower-middle class income to help women programmers. Have you? In fact, if not for the outright gender discrimination I experienced while in school, I might be making significantly more.
6. I apparently no longer have access to a regular doctor because after my old doctor retired and by the time I sought out another doctor, a women's health initiative (I had essentially been forced to be a part of due to my employment and the failure of any cisfemale colleagues who actually were in customer-service roles to step up to the job) went under due to Obamacare. I believe what I'm facing is a combination of "religious objection!" and the idea that because I am forced to present as the male gender and currently program computers has sparked the conclusion that I want to control women's bodies and deny them healthcare.
So, AmiMoJo, how will feminism help me out here? I really want to know. I scrambled my old UID because a very bright young woman who had shown incredible talent with programming revealed to me that she was a feminist, hence giving me direct, first-hand evidence that my ideas of feminism had been tainted. This may lead to another grievance:
7. The increasing pressure on geeks like me, who aren't even heterosexual, who aren't even cisgendered, to do something! about the lack of cisfemale programmers, while I watch gaslighting asshole managers push women out of programming jobs. That feminist I mentioned was one woman who was chased out. Another was a personal friend. A third may be me, because when I begin living as the gender I was actually born as, I won't be in tech any more. Why is there no pressure on the gaslighting asshole misogynist managers.
I reported one for sexual harassment, and I encouraged one of those women to file a gender discrimination lawsuit that she may actually win. What have you done?
8. TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). They are also part of the reason I'm just going to leave tech. There are too many cisgendered women who will see me as an invader and metaphysical rapist and cause office drama when I do transition. I can't change what gender I was assigned at birth. I can change my line of work. So, I'm leaving.
Feminism is clearly many different things to many different people. Any help here?
Next up: Japanese Cities Destroyed by Nuclear Bombs
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But seriously. Maybe I've been playing too much Fallout, but now is the time to prepare. As Phoenix666 suggested, we should mostly be preparing to seal the Illuminati's luxury vaults with cement.
Then perhaps we can engage in a summit to discuss the shortcomings of the last Constitution (we did it before when the Articles of Confederation weren't good enough) and how to prevent this madness while honoring liberty.
I'd post the whole zalgo thing if the site supported Unicode.
Are you fucking serious. Causing more pain?! I've experienced plenty, to the point where I come back around to my original decision about a decade and a half ago that suicide is preferable to the pain of circumcision, at least what happened to me. I gather circumcisions generally go well. I'm just unlucky.
(I am about to lose access to my meds, and "religious objection!" may prevent me from getting a replacement, as much as I want to cooperate with the system. How does one cooperate with a system that is designed to kill you by excruciating pain instead of the natural way? I will try.)
Except, this time, I have these words of advice:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
So here's how it is, Slashdot and Soylent. I went off on Soylent, but I guess I'm feeling green today. Dox me, geek feminism wiki. Call me a rapist. Blame me for the lack of female programmers. Just do it. Insert relevant image macro.
Hiking boots would be recommended where there are hazards present that could puncture minimalist footwear. Pavement is an environment where there are few hazards present. I wouldn't go out into say swampy terrain with just moccasins or thin sandals. Flatfootedness also indicates that my advice would not apply to you. So, my apologies.
However, for those of us who have properly formed feet (call us cistarsaled instead of you defectives?/ducks, ok, feel free to mod flamebait), running with minimal footwear (not literally barefoot) is the way to go.
I'm sorry you won't know what that feels like. To call it a craze and just plain stupid belies your transtrasaled blindspot. It's ok. I used to have a transgender blindspot in that I could not understand how cisgendered people could be ok with their assigned genders, the same way a cisgender blindspot prevents one from being able to understand how another might be unhappy with their assigned gender.
I would like to be an ally to transtarsalists everywhere!
I would like to reiterate my position on Brendan Eich.
I stand with Voltaire. I defend Eich's right to speak against the GBT community (note the absence of the L) to the death.
What I will not do is help fund his speech in the form of political lobbying via a(i)ds in a browser. (Myself I am happy to report I do not suffer from AIDS/GRID despite the insistence by the religious that their god should have given me it by now.)
Then there was that whole fucking SJW* drama.
Now that the advertising has ended, I welcome Eich to step back up. He at least seemed to know WTF he was doing.
Yet, we cannot have nice things because of these misunderstandings of ideology vs. funding vs. free speech vs. political speech.
(Yes, I am aware there are things called paragraphs. Each of those are their own paragraph. Consider it a precis of the rant I might have written.)
* You know who I mean. I don't mean Harriet Tubman, who was an actual warrior.
That's the part that's dynamite on paper but doesn't work in the real world.
So ok, let's see how we got here. Kid gets sick? Send Uncle Henry up the road to fetch the doctor, he makes his diagnosis, take two of these and stop on by in the morning, give the doctor one of the chickens, oh and how has Mrs. McGruder been doing?
Let's move forward to the era of Progress! Now we have so many wonderful new kinds of medicine. I heard they've even figured out a machine so that will keep Ma alive even after her kidneys have fully failed!
Oh, gosh. That costs way more than a chicken. Good thing I bought insurance for the whole family.
This is the point in the tech tree where you unlock Big Negotiators. $insurer figures out that they can negotiate a lower price with the hospital because they have half a million subscribers by threatening the hospital and local docs they'll no longer cover patients at current prices.
So far so good, right? Well, something doesn't smell right, and this is where it goes completely rotten. $insurer also figures out that they can charge the man off the street an arm and a leg. At this point, we're still at parity with auto insurance.
No so fast! here comes $big_company who can also pack a wallop in negotiation. Lower the premiums for my employees or I'll switch to $competitor_insurer. Naturally, $big_company wants to use this as a negotiating tactic with employees as well, so $big_company now offers it as a benefit.
Win-win or are we racing to the bottom yet? As I've mentioned in other posts, since the patient no longer sees the bill, and insurance companies aren't competing for individuals, everybody can just start jacking up their prices. American pay three times what the rest of the developed world does for worse outcomes when taken as a whole. Tragedy of the commons.
The only legislation that was needed to fix the race-to-the-bottom, must-be-an-employee-to-have-affordable-insurance disease the healthcare system would have been to require insurers to make all of their plans available to the general public on an individual basis, like car insurance (probably exceptions, but I'm not aware of any employer that covers car insurance, nor am I aware of car insurance plans that cover routine maintenance).
Ah, the do-gooders, the bleeding hearts, and the weak-willed masses that don't understand TANSTAAFL!
I don't know what to tell you. I'd love to live in a libertarian paradise with you and every other libertarian here on these discussion sites! Honest, hard-working, would never do something like use money to buy votes, critical thinking paragon of virtue are we! (Actually not sure I'm being sarcastic or not.)
The libertarian paradise is a childish fantasy and utterly unworkable. I'm afraid I'm getting more liberal the older I get.
Here's my proposal. We need to stop the government from shitting all over the constitution and hold them to that document before we get to that last liberty box only to be used when the other three have failed.
I get tired of the bogeyman of oh noes! with single payer healthcare you need to wait weeks to see a specialist! Well, you know what, a friend of mine recently transitioned to live as a woman, and the endocrinologist (the one that didn't go "religious objection!" at least) was booked six weeks out. I've already posted my difficulties even finding a GP in another discussion because of "religious objection!" and also "this women's health initiative had to shut down and it's all your fault because you're a man in IT and want to control women's bodies!" The aggregate health outcomes of single payer speak for themselves, and single pay also correct re-aligns the interests of health care providers with the patients' interests.
Sorry this isn't a libertarian paradise. This is the real world, and that's how the real world works. I don't want you to pay for my sex change or meds, and you probably do something I disapprove of with medical consequences I don't want
so is it 'Obamacare' you are mad at or partisan asshats in congress
Yes.
Insurance companies are greedy, opportunistic, evil fucks who jump on a shift on the market to jack prices or worse, in an intentional effort to make ACA look bad? The devil you say. Did the ACA mandate that they charge you more, or did they just tell you that?
Ok, let me back up. Originally I was tentatively optimistic about Obamacare. It had caps on insurance company profits. It had a public option/medicaid extension. I was warming up more to single payer, but I figured that Obamacare would be a good compromise.
Well, as you noted, the PR arm of the One Party did their best to run propaganda piece after propaganda piece. Free Obamacare sex changes! Be afraid! Aaaaaaa! Be angry! The gay agenda! Women want to murder babies! Rarrrr!
So then it went to SCOTUS. I figured, ok, the whole thing is going to get "commerce claused." But nope, SCOTUS further fucked it up by striking down the public option and upholding the individual mandate!
Then we see overbudget IT project blow deadline after deadline and more rabble rabble rabble from the PR department of the One Party. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when Kentucky went live with little to no issues with their online exchange. Point out that it was entirely possible, with honest effort, to implement Obamacare because Kentucky of all places managed to make it happen? Nope, it got drowned out with this state's exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gaslighting asshole managers) is never going to work! That state's exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gassholes) is screwing up everybody paperwork! The federal exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gassholes) is a mess! Aaaaaaa! Tremble in terror! Look at the mess those librels caused! Be angry! Rarrrr!
(Meanwhile, Kentucky just quietly chugs along.)
It still gobsmacks me to this day that even as the ACA was coming into effect that so many people could welcome various provisions of it while completely losing their shit about this "Obamacare" demon that was going to destroy America and turn everyone's sons gay. (I just say Obamacare because hey, how the fuck am I supposed to get hundreds of millions of retards to realize that it's called the fucking A. C. A.? That Nixon and Romney should also get fair credit where credit is due?)
So, back to the part I quoted. Of course it's the fault of every. single. fucking. private interest in our profit-based health care system. Why should the (privately-owned) hospital lower prices? The consumer doesn't have a say and doesn't get the bill. Why should the insurance companies lower prices? The consumer doesn't have a say and has to pay that bill regardless, the out-of-pocket cost of which changes little based on actual usage, at least as long as it's less than the "tax" for not having insurance--which is where I'm sitting right now.
I'm paying for a near useless product because if I don't, the government will charge me even more.
I may be a libertarian, but like I said, I seem to be getting more liberal the older I get. At least for some things. Single payer healthcare (not fucking insurance--healthCARE!) is one of those things.
Maybe in a libertarian utopia, I'd pay for my meds and you (not you literally) could "religious objection!" all day long, but the pharmacy who's not "religious objection!"ing would be glad for the steady income I bring them. I wouldn't pay for your meds. I'd pay for my sex change. I don't want you to pay for my meds or plastic surgery. You'd pay for your whatever it is, maybe a complicated sports injury. It might work. I don't know. It's clear that's a fantasy world.
There are at least several examples right here in the real world of singly payer working out and keeping the price of that free lunch reasonable. I guess I need to read up more on bleeding heart libertarianism. I may still tend toward idealism, but I'm a practical person first and foremost.
Maybe I'm just unlucky (how's that go, if it weren't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all). My experiences with healthcare have been purely negative ever since Obamacare started kicking in.
Obamacare shut down a women's health initiative I had the unfortunate fate of having the duty of being the semi-official liaison for my employer dumped on me (because none of my co-workers, in what was at the time a female dominant workplace wanted anything to do with it because they were helping "those people!" [read as blacks, Hispanics, and illegal immigrants]). So now I'm a "man involved with matters of women's health" and I wouldn't doubt there are rumors going around that during its last year I was "denying women health care" and "wanting to control women's bodies" because there was no fucking budget! There has to be some reason that local hospitals sandbag me when I'm trying to find a doctor.
Then there's "religious objection!" which didn't exist as far as I could tell prior to Obamacare. Between those two things and my old doctor retiring, I now cannot get a regular doctor!
On top of that, my deductible has doubled and my premium has doubled. I know one person currently without income who has a better plan through Medicaid, for free! So why don't I just switch plans this year? Oh, that's right, merely because my employer offers me a plan, no subsidies for me! So I'm locked into whatever my employer chooses.
And now insurers want more of my money in the form of a bailout?!
I say shut it down. Shut it all down. Give most health insurers the corporate death penalty. Defund planned parenthood. Consolidate medicaid, medicare, and the rest of the jumbled bureaucracy, and just fucking get it over with and give me single payer.
I swear I get more liberal the older I get. It must be because reality has a well-known liberal bias.
I used the word "free" up there in conjunction with Medicaid, and then I expressed my desire for single payer. TANSTAAFL Redirect: TANSTAAFL the damned middlemen leeches that are health insurance companies out of business and stop giving them a free fucking lunch.
If Bernie Sanders somehow winds up in the general election, it will be the first time I haven't voted Libertarian for the oval office.
The thing about this that always gets me is that the Turing test was declared as passed based on a conversation with a chatbot who claimed to have poor English. That thing being that if a chatbot can pass the Turing test, what does that say about the human interviewer?
Kind of explains a lot of problems in the world...
(Sidenote: Turing expected the other conversationalist to be able to discuss high-falutin' topics like art, literature, science, and philosophy in a reasonable amount of depth for a learned man. Instead we get lolcats. [Sidenote for the sidenote: not that there's necessarily anything wrong with lolcat renderings themselves.])
It depends on the footwear. Wear minimalist footwear like sandals or moccasins. When running, it's the heel-first jarring strike that modern running shoes encourage that does the damage. The foot, ankle, and knee didn't evolve to work that way. When hiking and running, make sure you can feel the ground. If you can't, your footwear is too thick. While running, land with the front of the foot first. The heel should barely touch the ground if at all. Also observe how your tendons are storing and releasing mechanical energy, giving your muscles an easier time.
I could fully believe that was the plan and that yes, it backfired horribly.
Never forget that we're dealing with gaslighting asshole managers here. It would be entirely unsurprising to me that a gaslighting asshole manager (gasshole?) thought "Hey, I can do this thing, great PR, then act like a dope when it drives the company under while I screw over the co-founder and cash in my golden parachute. And even if it backfires, I still get to be the good guy."
I've been looking for something like Xpra for quite a while, mostly for torrenting. I used to use Deluge, but if I needed to restart X for whatever reason, it was a minor irritation to fire Deluge back up and wait for it to come back up to speed. I switched to rtorrent instead.
Well, come to think about it, this is even more of a problem for bit/doge/primecoin clients, but I lost interest before learning how to set up a wallet daemon.
I'll have to emerge Weston and compile this when I get home. Hopefully it'll compile without systemd as easily as E19 did. Bonus if there's already an ebuild available.
Cue endless bellyaching "oh noes, they'll take my X11 network transparency over my dead body!" comments and "damned kids don't know what they're doing," never mind Wayland exists because the damned kids maintaining Xorg got tired of the cruft.
Can anybody help me understand why rdesktop or similar schlepping bitmaps (I'm pretty sure it can do single window instead of whole desktop, which would work nicely with Wayland) or a GTK/QT specific network protocol is unacceptable and why we need to schlep bitmaps over X11 instead? What is the specific use-case that's impossible without X11 (hopefully the specific program that actually uses the X11 font capabilities and not cairo/freetype and X11 drawing primitives and not GTK/QT)?
I find this perplexing as well. I can get a loan from my credit union for about 2 and a half percent I think is what they were offering. Similar interest on my mortgage as well.
Yet, when it comes to student loans, 20%? 25%?! Are you fscking kidding me?!
Makes me want to see if I could do some loan sharking. Take out a 2% loan and relend it at 10%. That's assuming there's even much a point in getting a 4 or more year degree these days. Maybe lend it to some kid who wants to study HVAC or large/diesel engine repair.
If I get your drift, I really wonder how one is supposed to default on these things especially given your minimum wage server example. Back when I was doing fast food for a buck over minimum wage (actually it might have been a few bucks, I think minimum wage was around $5 then and I was making $8), if I had to take a 15% hit, working would have been pointless because I'd be homeless.
Definitely a lose-lose proposition. I see where they're coming from, but this is kind of like an Obamacare approach: give us something that's kinda like what we need, but make it the worst of both worlds.
I can confirm this is the case in the midwest as well. Nurses make twice what I make. Granted, I could make more, but my current job as security like you couldn't imagine. I'm talking about prescribing RNs who take down six figure incomes in a place where one can live reasonably on around $1,000 per month.
I cannot fathom why anybody would think that in today's job market with H-1B outsourcing and Everybody can Code! and Engineers are Terrorists! Misogynerds! that an engineering degree would be worth more a career on track to become a prescribing RN.
I'd probably become an RN myself, but I think it wouldn't be too long before I got into a knock-down drag-out fight with some asshole cocaine-snorting doctor. (Google it, folks. Doctors apparently are such assholes that they would rather use fisticuffs than reasoning to deal with their staff. I even have at least one outstanding death threat from a doctor's wife from up north due to my current job, and I'm not even a medical person! Just a programmer!)
When you are given an advantage 99 times, and a disadvantage once, that doesn't mean you are "treated worse" because of your gender.
Confirmed!
Ok, I'll report back after I've begun living as the female gender 100% of the time instead of just 50% of the time, when I get an advantage 99 times instead of just 49 times!
Actually, I was treated the best when I had my slim 130 lbs body. I need to get that thing back. Boys couldn't resist me. One lesson to look back on: boob size doesn't matter and no need to worry about being a little flat-chested. A handful really is just enough. 3rd wave feminists hated me. One weird old trick to pissing off 3rd wave feminists: be way more cute than they can muster!
I'll tell ya, working in man's world, being presumed a sexist because of the gender I'm forced to present as, is a real drag. So, to conclude, I'd better get in some DRAG!
That is, if I don't get too old too quick. How time flies. Now I just get "Religious Objection!" these days. Thanks, Obama!
Yeah, bruh. I wrote a makefile once that can do parallel init super quick. Just add this to your inittab: make -j10 runlevel5.
No, I'm happy with OpenRC. Give me a basic minimum income, and I'll be happy to evangelize my makefile solution to the larger community.
I like how I'm being flamed for not being a programmer. I'd probably mop the floor with most devs here. It's 'cause I know my shit. When I don't know my shit, I ask. Then there's usually an intelligent woman or somebody around who can show me how the shit is done in some new shit. Shit, bruh. You got it?
(It's funny, the millennial who's getting under my skin at the moment has an entire department of intelligent, experienced women to ask, and he comes to me, the misogynerd! I wonder if he thinks I'm a trans man who for whatever reason isn't taking testosterone. His head would 'splode if he knew I was going the other way!)
My mentat computer has come out with conclusive results. It's not tomorrow. Don't get me wrong; something evil happens tomorrow. There will come a day, growing sooner now, when there will be a flash, brighter than the sun, brighter than anything you've ever seen. Tomorrow will be its opening ritual.
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You're assuming that feminists have based their hatred on anything rational.
I can program. Programming is incomprehensible to them. Oh, look, I was legally male at some point. That has to be why, all that rapey male privilege I have! It couldn't possibly have anything to do with 20+ years experience.
Lol.
Yep, I'll be living as a woman in 10 years, unless I die homeless in a gutter. There really is discrimination out there. It's just that it comes from management. But blame me! Sure, that's done a lot of good to fix the problem!
I will not be programming, at least not professionally. The gender insanity will continue in tech. I can't change the gender I was assigned at birth. That's a matter of public records. I can choose to run away from the insanity. I don't need to look forward to a future about arguing about whether I'm a "real" woman or just an invader with a woman-suit who's "really" just a cit het white male shitlord underneath, keeping "real" women from getting programming jobs in some vast, insane conspiracy.
Why can't I get the deal that Brianna Wu has? Oh, right. If I were to be accepted as a woman by feminists, it would completely undermine their entire misogynerd gaslighting effort.
On one side, there's the feminists screaming about how I'm an "incomplete being" and can never be whatever they see a woman as. Who am I to argue? On the other side, there's gaslighting asshole managers and other managers who are just apparently above understanding even the very, very basics. Just as long as my skills keep the cash flowing in, just as long as feminists can continue telling me about how my assigned gender at birth controls my every thought, feeling, and intention, who cares what I actually do or how anything actually works, right? Right.
If I continue as a hobby, it'll probably be a combination of gVim and maybe Netbeans. Good old C/C++ for me and maybe more Java.
This topic again. I wasn't sure where I wanted to reply, but I'll put it here.
Here are my grievances:
1. My genitals were mutilated at birth, leaving me with horrific physical pain from puberty until I decided to take matters into my own hands. My GP at the time couldn't find any evidence of anything being physically wrong and believe that it could be I was experiencing the pain because of my female mind. Later, when I saw a psychologist, he decided that there was really no way to sort out my feelings about my gender from the physical pain I experienced.
2. I was nearly prosecuted for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after having run a computer club for a year and a half solely because I was assigned the male gender and the school district wanted to claim that their first computer club was founded by somebody assigned the female gender at birth.
3. At college orientation, it was explained very clearly that I was a rapist who had merely not been caught yet, and that the best thing for me to do would be to avoid interaction with women. I'm not attracted to women anyhow, but it was distressing that solely because of my assigned gender at birth I would be considered a violent criminal with access to illegal drugs and that any unsupervised contact with women would cause me to be suspected of criminal intentions.
4. Later on, in the "real world," I was accused of being part of a conspiracy to prevent women from learning programming. That was before this "SJW" (or whatever) crap started being A Thing on the internet. It hurt me deeply that somebody would seriously believe that my intentions were sexist based solely on the gender I've been forced to present as all these years. (This will change, all though I've no idea whether I'll die homeless in a gutter after it does change.)
5. I mentor women programmers. Do you? I have done everything one could reasonably expect of somebody who has barely managed a lower-middle class income to help women programmers. Have you? In fact, if not for the outright gender discrimination I experienced while in school, I might be making significantly more.
6. I apparently no longer have access to a regular doctor because after my old doctor retired and by the time I sought out another doctor, a women's health initiative (I had essentially been forced to be a part of due to my employment and the failure of any cisfemale colleagues who actually were in customer-service roles to step up to the job) went under due to Obamacare. I believe what I'm facing is a combination of "religious objection!" and the idea that because I am forced to present as the male gender and currently program computers has sparked the conclusion that I want to control women's bodies and deny them healthcare.
So, AmiMoJo, how will feminism help me out here? I really want to know. I scrambled my old UID because a very bright young woman who had shown incredible talent with programming revealed to me that she was a feminist, hence giving me direct, first-hand evidence that my ideas of feminism had been tainted. This may lead to another grievance:
7. The increasing pressure on geeks like me, who aren't even heterosexual, who aren't even cisgendered, to do something! about the lack of cisfemale programmers, while I watch gaslighting asshole managers push women out of programming jobs. That feminist I mentioned was one woman who was chased out. Another was a personal friend. A third may be me, because when I begin living as the gender I was actually born as, I won't be in tech any more. Why is there no pressure on the gaslighting asshole misogynist managers.
I reported one for sexual harassment, and I encouraged one of those women to file a gender discrimination lawsuit that she may actually win. What have you done?
8. TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). They are also part of the reason I'm just going to leave tech. There are too many cisgendered women who will see me as an invader and metaphysical rapist and cause office drama when I do transition. I can't change what gender I was assigned at birth. I can change my line of work. So, I'm leaving.
Feminism is clearly many different things to many different people. Any help here?
Next up: Japanese Cities Destroyed by Nuclear Bombs
Repost!
But seriously. Maybe I've been playing too much Fallout, but now is the time to prepare. As Phoenix666 suggested, we should mostly be preparing to seal the Illuminati's luxury vaults with cement.
Then perhaps we can engage in a summit to discuss the shortcomings of the last Constitution (we did it before when the Articles of Confederation weren't good enough) and how to prevent this madness while honoring liberty.
I'd post the whole zalgo thing if the site supported Unicode.
Are you fucking serious. Causing more pain?! I've experienced plenty, to the point where I come back around to my original decision about a decade and a half ago that suicide is preferable to the pain of circumcision, at least what happened to me. I gather circumcisions generally go well. I'm just unlucky.
(I am about to lose access to my meds, and "religious objection!" may prevent me from getting a replacement, as much as I want to cooperate with the system. How does one cooperate with a system that is designed to kill you by excruciating pain instead of the natural way? I will try.)
Except, this time, I have these words of advice:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
So here's how it is, Slashdot and Soylent. I went off on Soylent, but I guess I'm feeling green today. Dox me, geek feminism wiki. Call me a rapist. Blame me for the lack of female programmers. Just do it. Insert relevant image macro.
Hiking boots would be recommended where there are hazards present that could puncture minimalist footwear. Pavement is an environment where there are few hazards present. I wouldn't go out into say swampy terrain with just moccasins or thin sandals. Flatfootedness also indicates that my advice would not apply to you. So, my apologies.
However, for those of us who have properly formed feet (call us cistarsaled instead of you defectives? /ducks, ok, feel free to mod flamebait), running with minimal footwear (not literally barefoot) is the way to go.
I'm sorry you won't know what that feels like. To call it a craze and just plain stupid belies your transtrasaled blindspot. It's ok. I used to have a transgender blindspot in that I could not understand how cisgendered people could be ok with their assigned genders, the same way a cisgender blindspot prevents one from being able to understand how another might be unhappy with their assigned gender.
I would like to be an ally to transtarsalists everywhere!
What the actual fuck?
Please, help me to understand to which part of my comment I owe the honor of your response.
I would like to reiterate my position on Brendan Eich.
I stand with Voltaire. I defend Eich's right to speak against the GBT community (note the absence of the L) to the death.
What I will not do is help fund his speech in the form of political lobbying via a(i)ds in a browser. (Myself I am happy to report I do not suffer from AIDS/GRID despite the insistence by the religious that their god should have given me it by now.)
Then there was that whole fucking SJW* drama.
Now that the advertising has ended, I welcome Eich to step back up. He at least seemed to know WTF he was doing.
Yet, we cannot have nice things because of these misunderstandings of ideology vs. funding vs. free speech vs. political speech.
(Yes, I am aware there are things called paragraphs. Each of those are their own paragraph. Consider it a precis of the rant I might have written.)
* You know who I mean. I don't mean Harriet Tubman, who was an actual warrior.
(sudo-)Islamic terrorism
Oh god, they've got root?! Cut the hard line!
That's the part that's dynamite on paper but doesn't work in the real world.
So ok, let's see how we got here. Kid gets sick? Send Uncle Henry up the road to fetch the doctor, he makes his diagnosis, take two of these and stop on by in the morning, give the doctor one of the chickens, oh and how has Mrs. McGruder been doing?
Let's move forward to the era of Progress! Now we have so many wonderful new kinds of medicine. I heard they've even figured out a machine so that will keep Ma alive even after her kidneys have fully failed!
Oh, gosh. That costs way more than a chicken. Good thing I bought insurance for the whole family.
This is the point in the tech tree where you unlock Big Negotiators. $insurer figures out that they can negotiate a lower price with the hospital because they have half a million subscribers by threatening the hospital and local docs they'll no longer cover patients at current prices.
So far so good, right? Well, something doesn't smell right, and this is where it goes completely rotten. $insurer also figures out that they can charge the man off the street an arm and a leg. At this point, we're still at parity with auto insurance.
No so fast! here comes $big_company who can also pack a wallop in negotiation. Lower the premiums for my employees or I'll switch to $competitor_insurer. Naturally, $big_company wants to use this as a negotiating tactic with employees as well, so $big_company now offers it as a benefit.
Win-win or are we racing to the bottom yet? As I've mentioned in other posts, since the patient no longer sees the bill, and insurance companies aren't competing for individuals, everybody can just start jacking up their prices. American pay three times what the rest of the developed world does for worse outcomes when taken as a whole. Tragedy of the commons.
The only legislation that was needed to fix the race-to-the-bottom, must-be-an-employee-to-have-affordable-insurance disease the healthcare system would have been to require insurers to make all of their plans available to the general public on an individual basis, like car insurance (probably exceptions, but I'm not aware of any employer that covers car insurance, nor am I aware of car insurance plans that cover routine maintenance).
Ah, the do-gooders, the bleeding hearts, and the weak-willed masses that don't understand TANSTAAFL!
I don't know what to tell you. I'd love to live in a libertarian paradise with you and every other libertarian here on these discussion sites! Honest, hard-working, would never do something like use money to buy votes, critical thinking paragon of virtue are we! (Actually not sure I'm being sarcastic or not.)
The libertarian paradise is a childish fantasy and utterly unworkable. I'm afraid I'm getting more liberal the older I get.
Here's my proposal. We need to stop the government from shitting all over the constitution and hold them to that document before we get to that last liberty box only to be used when the other three have failed.
I get tired of the bogeyman of oh noes! with single payer healthcare you need to wait weeks to see a specialist! Well, you know what, a friend of mine recently transitioned to live as a woman, and the endocrinologist (the one that didn't go "religious objection!" at least) was booked six weeks out. I've already posted my difficulties even finding a GP in another discussion because of "religious objection!" and also "this women's health initiative had to shut down and it's all your fault because you're a man in IT and want to control women's bodies!" The aggregate health outcomes of single payer speak for themselves, and single pay also correct re-aligns the interests of health care providers with the patients' interests.
Sorry this isn't a libertarian paradise. This is the real world, and that's how the real world works. I don't want you to pay for my sex change or meds, and you probably do something I disapprove of with medical consequences I don't want
so is it 'Obamacare' you are mad at or partisan asshats in congress
Yes.
Insurance companies are greedy, opportunistic, evil fucks who jump on a shift on the market to jack prices or worse, in an intentional effort to make ACA look bad? The devil you say. Did the ACA mandate that they charge you more, or did they just tell you that?
Ok, let me back up. Originally I was tentatively optimistic about Obamacare. It had caps on insurance company profits. It had a public option/medicaid extension. I was warming up more to single payer, but I figured that Obamacare would be a good compromise.
Well, as you noted, the PR arm of the One Party did their best to run propaganda piece after propaganda piece. Free Obamacare sex changes! Be afraid! Aaaaaaa! Be angry! The gay agenda! Women want to murder babies! Rarrrr!
So then it went to SCOTUS. I figured, ok, the whole thing is going to get "commerce claused." But nope, SCOTUS further fucked it up by striking down the public option and upholding the individual mandate!
Then we see overbudget IT project blow deadline after deadline and more rabble rabble rabble from the PR department of the One Party. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when Kentucky went live with little to no issues with their online exchange. Point out that it was entirely possible, with honest effort, to implement Obamacare because Kentucky of all places managed to make it happen? Nope, it got drowned out with this state's exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gaslighting asshole managers) is never going to work! That state's exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gassholes) is screwing up everybody paperwork! The federal exchange (contracted out to a firm full of gassholes) is a mess! Aaaaaaa! Tremble in terror! Look at the mess those librels caused! Be angry! Rarrrr!
(Meanwhile, Kentucky just quietly chugs along.)
It still gobsmacks me to this day that even as the ACA was coming into effect that so many people could welcome various provisions of it while completely losing their shit about this "Obamacare" demon that was going to destroy America and turn everyone's sons gay. (I just say Obamacare because hey, how the fuck am I supposed to get hundreds of millions of retards to realize that it's called the fucking A. C. A.? That Nixon and Romney should also get fair credit where credit is due?)
So, back to the part I quoted. Of course it's the fault of every. single. fucking. private interest in our profit-based health care system. Why should the (privately-owned) hospital lower prices? The consumer doesn't have a say and doesn't get the bill. Why should the insurance companies lower prices? The consumer doesn't have a say and has to pay that bill regardless, the out-of-pocket cost of which changes little based on actual usage, at least as long as it's less than the "tax" for not having insurance--which is where I'm sitting right now.
I'm paying for a near useless product because if I don't, the government will charge me even more.
I may be a libertarian, but like I said, I seem to be getting more liberal the older I get. At least for some things. Single payer healthcare (not fucking insurance--healthCARE!) is one of those things.
Maybe in a libertarian utopia, I'd pay for my meds and you (not you literally) could "religious objection!" all day long, but the pharmacy who's not "religious objection!"ing would be glad for the steady income I bring them. I wouldn't pay for your meds. I'd pay for my sex change. I don't want you to pay for my meds or plastic surgery. You'd pay for your whatever it is, maybe a complicated sports injury. It might work. I don't know. It's clear that's a fantasy world.
There are at least several examples right here in the real world of singly payer working out and keeping the price of that free lunch reasonable. I guess I need to read up more on bleeding heart libertarianism. I may still tend toward idealism, but I'm a practical person first and foremost.
Maybe I'm just unlucky (how's that go, if it weren't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all). My experiences with healthcare have been purely negative ever since Obamacare started kicking in.
Obamacare shut down a women's health initiative I had the unfortunate fate of having the duty of being the semi-official liaison for my employer dumped on me (because none of my co-workers, in what was at the time a female dominant workplace wanted anything to do with it because they were helping "those people!" [read as blacks, Hispanics, and illegal immigrants]). So now I'm a "man involved with matters of women's health" and I wouldn't doubt there are rumors going around that during its last year I was "denying women health care" and "wanting to control women's bodies" because there was no fucking budget! There has to be some reason that local hospitals sandbag me when I'm trying to find a doctor.
Then there's "religious objection!" which didn't exist as far as I could tell prior to Obamacare. Between those two things and my old doctor retiring, I now cannot get a regular doctor!
On top of that, my deductible has doubled and my premium has doubled. I know one person currently without income who has a better plan through Medicaid, for free! So why don't I just switch plans this year? Oh, that's right, merely because my employer offers me a plan, no subsidies for me! So I'm locked into whatever my employer chooses.
And now insurers want more of my money in the form of a bailout?!
I say shut it down. Shut it all down. Give most health insurers the corporate death penalty. Defund planned parenthood. Consolidate medicaid, medicare, and the rest of the jumbled bureaucracy, and just fucking get it over with and give me single payer.
I swear I get more liberal the older I get. It must be because reality has a well-known liberal bias.
I used the word "free" up there in conjunction with Medicaid, and then I expressed my desire for single payer. TANSTAAFL Redirect: TANSTAAFL the damned middlemen leeches that are health insurance companies out of business and stop giving them a free fucking lunch.
If Bernie Sanders somehow winds up in the general election, it will be the first time I haven't voted Libertarian for the oval office.
The thing about this that always gets me is that the Turing test was declared as passed based on a conversation with a chatbot who claimed to have poor English. That thing being that if a chatbot can pass the Turing test, what does that say about the human interviewer?
Kind of explains a lot of problems in the world...
(Sidenote: Turing expected the other conversationalist to be able to discuss high-falutin' topics like art, literature, science, and philosophy in a reasonable amount of depth for a learned man. Instead we get lolcats. [Sidenote for the sidenote: not that there's necessarily anything wrong with lolcat renderings themselves.])
It depends on the footwear. Wear minimalist footwear like sandals or moccasins. When running, it's the heel-first jarring strike that modern running shoes encourage that does the damage. The foot, ankle, and knee didn't evolve to work that way. When hiking and running, make sure you can feel the ground. If you can't, your footwear is too thick. While running, land with the front of the foot first. The heel should barely touch the ground if at all. Also observe how your tendons are storing and releasing mechanical energy, giving your muscles an easier time.
I could fully believe that was the plan and that yes, it backfired horribly.
Never forget that we're dealing with gaslighting asshole managers here. It would be entirely unsurprising to me that a gaslighting asshole manager (gasshole?) thought "Hey, I can do this thing, great PR, then act like a dope when it drives the company under while I screw over the co-founder and cash in my golden parachute. And even if it backfires, I still get to be the good guy."
You seem to be profoundly confused, my friend.
A.) I speak to my doctor in a private space.
B.) Support group is a safe space.
C.) A public space is where pro-life activists get to scream at you and also where you're free to give them the bird.
I hope that helps. Next time you need to discuss a sensitive matter of personal health with your doctor, go for A instead of C.
Thanks, this helped. Please mod up.
I've been looking for something like Xpra for quite a while, mostly for torrenting. I used to use Deluge, but if I needed to restart X for whatever reason, it was a minor irritation to fire Deluge back up and wait for it to come back up to speed. I switched to rtorrent instead.
Well, come to think about it, this is even more of a problem for bit/doge/primecoin clients, but I lost interest before learning how to set up a wallet daemon.
I'll have to emerge Weston and compile this when I get home. Hopefully it'll compile without systemd as easily as E19 did. Bonus if there's already an ebuild available.
Cue endless bellyaching "oh noes, they'll take my X11 network transparency over my dead body!" comments and "damned kids don't know what they're doing," never mind Wayland exists because the damned kids maintaining Xorg got tired of the cruft.
Can anybody help me understand why rdesktop or similar schlepping bitmaps (I'm pretty sure it can do single window instead of whole desktop, which would work nicely with Wayland) or a GTK/QT specific network protocol is unacceptable and why we need to schlep bitmaps over X11 instead? What is the specific use-case that's impossible without X11 (hopefully the specific program that actually uses the X11 font capabilities and not cairo/freetype and X11 drawing primitives and not GTK/QT)?
Do you have a Geiger counter?
Do you have a working Geiger counter?
Most real loans out there are 1-3% right now.
I find this perplexing as well. I can get a loan from my credit union for about 2 and a half percent I think is what they were offering. Similar interest on my mortgage as well.
Yet, when it comes to student loans, 20%? 25%?! Are you fscking kidding me?!
Makes me want to see if I could do some loan sharking. Take out a 2% loan and relend it at 10%. That's assuming there's even much a point in getting a 4 or more year degree these days. Maybe lend it to some kid who wants to study HVAC or large/diesel engine repair.
If I get your drift, I really wonder how one is supposed to default on these things especially given your minimum wage server example. Back when I was doing fast food for a buck over minimum wage (actually it might have been a few bucks, I think minimum wage was around $5 then and I was making $8), if I had to take a 15% hit, working would have been pointless because I'd be homeless.
Definitely a lose-lose proposition. I see where they're coming from, but this is kind of like an Obamacare approach: give us something that's kinda like what we need, but make it the worst of both worlds.
I can confirm this is the case in the midwest as well. Nurses make twice what I make. Granted, I could make more, but my current job as security like you couldn't imagine. I'm talking about prescribing RNs who take down six figure incomes in a place where one can live reasonably on around $1,000 per month.
I cannot fathom why anybody would think that in today's job market with H-1B outsourcing and Everybody can Code! and Engineers are Terrorists! Misogynerds! that an engineering degree would be worth more a career on track to become a prescribing RN.
I'd probably become an RN myself, but I think it wouldn't be too long before I got into a knock-down drag-out fight with some asshole cocaine-snorting doctor. (Google it, folks. Doctors apparently are such assholes that they would rather use fisticuffs than reasoning to deal with their staff. I even have at least one outstanding death threat from a doctor's wife from up north due to my current job, and I'm not even a medical person! Just a programmer!)
When you are given an advantage 99 times, and a disadvantage once, that doesn't mean you are "treated worse" because of your gender.
Confirmed!
Ok, I'll report back after I've begun living as the female gender 100% of the time instead of just 50% of the time, when I get an advantage 99 times instead of just 49 times!
Actually, I was treated the best when I had my slim 130 lbs body. I need to get that thing back. Boys couldn't resist me. One lesson to look back on: boob size doesn't matter and no need to worry about being a little flat-chested. A handful really is just enough. 3rd wave feminists hated me. One weird old trick to pissing off 3rd wave feminists: be way more cute than they can muster!
I'll tell ya, working in man's world, being presumed a sexist because of the gender I'm forced to present as, is a real drag. So, to conclude, I'd better get in some DRAG!
That is, if I don't get too old too quick. How time flies. Now I just get "Religious Objection!" these days. Thanks, Obama!
Yeah, bruh. I wrote a makefile once that can do parallel init super quick. Just add this to your inittab: make -j10 runlevel5.
No, I'm happy with OpenRC. Give me a basic minimum income, and I'll be happy to evangelize my makefile solution to the larger community.
I like how I'm being flamed for not being a programmer. I'd probably mop the floor with most devs here. It's 'cause I know my shit. When I don't know my shit, I ask. Then there's usually an intelligent woman or somebody around who can show me how the shit is done in some new shit. Shit, bruh. You got it?
(It's funny, the millennial who's getting under my skin at the moment has an entire department of intelligent, experienced women to ask, and he comes to me, the misogynerd! I wonder if he thinks I'm a trans man who for whatever reason isn't taking testosterone. His head would 'splode if he knew I was going the other way!)
My mentat computer has come out with conclusive results. It's not tomorrow. Don't get me wrong; something evil happens tomorrow. There will come a day, growing sooner now, when there will be a flash, brighter than the sun, brighter than anything you've ever seen. Tomorrow will be its opening ritual.