Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous?
I'm getting tired of the progressive tendency to read offence, bigotry, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. into every little word & minutiae of nuance uttered by others. It's on the verge of induced pareidolia for outrage & victimhood.
Do you reside or hail from one of the aforementioned countries, or are you merely "signal boosting" and getting outraged on their behalf?
> Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous?
No, you're just being stupid.
This isn't a new issue. There's an episode of The West Wing about the evils of the Mercator projection. It aired 22 years ago.
When you write an essay doing nothing more than repeating a several-decades-old cliche, people are going to assume you don't have anything to say other than the content of the cliche they heard decades ago. And they will be right.
> However, does this claim not fly in the face of "identifying as" a particular gender, race, tribe, etc?
Yes, but it also implies people identifying as cis might be wrong about it, so it's a pretty equal if unpopular standpoint. Nevertheless.
There are a lot of real life self identification situations that aren't accepted by society - mostly ethnic groups. Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren[0], Europeans who get mad when Americans claim to be sixth-generation Irish, are different cases here.
[0] her situation is not that unique btw - it's actually very common for white people in Oklahoma to believe they're part Cherokee. Since they believe this because their parents told them so, I don't think they're doing anything wrong, but it's the kind of unpleasant surprise you get when your 23andme results come back.
Just for the sake of drawing ideas from far afield, I will make reference to the Hermetic axiom of "as above, so below; as below, so above" for the purposes of this entry.
Interpreted through a lens where the "above" corresponds to the mental, ideal, immaterial, the rational and the irrational, what can be very loosely referred to as "the psyche;" and the "below" corresponds to the physical world, governed by the laws of nature; this maxim can be understood to mean, "as exists in the psyche, so in the physical world; as exists in the physical world, so in the psyche."
Our psychological state influences our course of action in the physical world, and the response we get from the physical world in turn influences our psychological state in a mutually reciprocal relationship. What is more significant than just one or the other is the relationship between the psychological and the physical; how thoughts can precede actions, and how actions can cause reactions within the psyche (this is how I understand what Daniel M. Ingram refers to as "Cause and Effect" in his text, "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" [0]).
Reality exists between these two poles, in that we interpolate between the discrete, moment-to-moment perceptual data we receive from the five sensory organs, as well as the intellectual, intuitive, & psychological data we receive from the sixth "sense door" of mind, in order to construct a continuous view of the world. Thus, I would hazard to claim, if we wish to alter (at least our subjective, or "microcosmic" lens on) our reality, we have the option of either perturbing our psychological state (the way of the Jungian analyst, the mystic, the Yogi, the devotee, and so on), or our physical state (by altering our mundane life circumstance, diet, lifestyle, and so on).
I view psychedelics as instrumental in probing the boundary between these two poles of this mutually reciprocal relationship between mind and body, being chemical (physical) agents that induce immediately apparent effects within the psyche; they allow one to explore the ways in which perception and our internal, psychological reactions to that perceptual data are related. Psychedelics are a unique tool that allow one to alter (however crudely, imprecisely, and quantifiable only in the loosest of senses) their psychological parameters in such a way that allows for, at the very least, the base realization that:
there is more than one way to think about and perceive the world.
To the extent that our thoughts and perceptions about the world influence our actions within it, and the feedback we receive from it, it is at least interesting to temporarily inhabit different ways of apprehending it, to come to a more diverse view of reality that has appreciated it, if only briefly, from multiple different angles. The insights we may or may not arrive at, having contemplated our view of reality from a different vantage point, may reconfigure our internal psychological state in a way that influences future action.
The alchemical goal of the transmutation of base metal into gold was more than a physical pursuit; it was a spiritual one, whose object was the reconfiguration of the base psyche, victim to the whims and vicissitudes of the urges and desires of the animal self, into "enlightened" consciousness, continuously aware, present, and able to choose on a moment-to-moment basis the next course of action, however subtle. Through the reconfiguration of one's psyche in a permanent and lasting manner (the "magnum opus"), by the Hermetic axiom aforementioned, one is able to forever reconfigure their relationship to the physical world and (purportedly) act within it in a manner that more closely coheres with one's personal view of "what is right."
Safeguarding the privacy of a user's personal information is a technological problem that should be solved through the development and correct usage of cryptographic primitives that secure that data.
Wrong. It's a people problem. Any technological measure capable of reliably recovering information will be utilized or forced to be tapped by law enforcement. The problem is the law. The solution is not tech. The solution is changing the law. The cryptographic primitive approach is an elitist wet dream. The moment you employ it in enough sketchy contexts, then it itself will be seen as evidence of criminal doing. The UK/Europe has already been sniffing in that direction w.r.t possession of heavily encrypted phone handsets/telephony systems.
Other girls were disturbed by the effects of testosterone on their clitoris, which enlarges and grows into what looks like a microphallus, or a tiny penis. I counseled one patient whose enlarged clitoris now extended below her vulva, and it chafed and rubbed painfully in her jeans. I advised her to get the kind of compression undergarments worn by biological men who dress to pass as female. At the end of the call I thought to myself, “Wow, we hurt this kid.”
The overwhelming majority of our patients are white, but this girl was black. She was put on hormones at the center when she was around 16. When she was 18, she went in for a double mastectomy, what’s known as “top surgery.” Three months later she called the surgeon’s office to say she was going back to her birth name and that her pronouns were “she” and “her.” Heartbreakingly, she told the nurse, “I want my breasts back.” The surgeon’s office contacted our office because they didn’t know what to say to this girl.
"Filipinx" introduces non-gendered terminology in an already ungendered language, using letters not even in the Tagalog language. I don't know any Filipinos who use it.
Not only is it ignorant, it's literally racist white cultural and linguistic imperialism. Wasn't the enslavement, rape and murder of my ancestors over centuries enough for you all already?
No I'm pointing out that elevating this specific skill for weird intellectual/moral reasons is a mistake. There's value in learning it, but most of that value isn't unique to this particular skill.
You want multiple NS records containing hostnames of nameservers from two or more providers on independent infrastructure (i.e. not two providers that are both hosted on, for example, AWS' compute).
I would advise against running your own nameserver unless you have confidence in your ability to operate it correctly.
You can increase the TTLs if you don't anticipate record data changing frequently, or are able to tolerate delays in your DNS record changes being served (until the cached answers expire).
Choice of resolver (e.g. 1.1.1.1, 8.8.4.4) is out of your control (except of course, on your own devices and machines). Increasing the TTLs may improve robustness, assuming that your clients' resolvers are well-behaved and respect TTLs [0].
> To the contrary, "representation" is used by white people to obtain the support of minority groups without giving them anything. I see white people pressuring my daughter to look up to Kamala Harris (because Harris "looks like her"). This is just manipulation. Harris will not meaningfully advance the distinct interests of south asian people, nor is she a good model of south asian culture or values.
It's also not hard to receive this behavior as completely fucking racist. Do whites presuppose that just because we have the same skin color, ethnic background, or similar physical features, that we will be aligned on political or philosophical points?
How has it become acceptable to participate in such blatantly racist behavior, while still somehow being able to publicly label one's self as "liberal" or "anti-racist?"
I think it's time we conduct an audit of all self-identifying liberals or DEI advocates to determine which ones are actually free from unconscious bias and implicit associations, and which have merely co-opted the movement to weaponize minorities as part of a political power struggle.
> It's also not hard to receive this behavior as completely fucking racist. Do whites presuppose that just because we have the same skin color, ethnic background, or similar physical features, that we will be aligned on political or philosophical points?
Yes. There are many white people who align on skin color. That's how the US Antebellum South, SA Apartheid and WW2 persecution of Jews worked.
Why do you presuppose that others infer & arrive at the same interpretations you do? Isn't your own form of generalization from the subjective inferences made from your own individual mind, to the thoughts of others, presumptuous?
I'm getting tired of the progressive tendency to read offence, bigotry, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. into every little word & minutiae of nuance uttered by others. It's on the verge of induced pareidolia for outrage & victimhood.
Do you reside or hail from one of the aforementioned countries, or are you merely "signal boosting" and getting outraged on their behalf?