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[methylatedspirit]

Buddy, I don't consider myself number 1 in anything that isn't Pointless and Obscure Knowledge (Mostly) About Tech. And even then, someone's got me beat, I'm sure.

[Rolan7]

No acts of transition are required for someone to be trans.  People staying stealthy are valid.  People without proper health care are valid.  Assigned Female At Birth people are valid (they tend to get drowned out in some spaces, which is a shame).

Then what is universal within trans people, then? Gender dysphoria?

Definitely not!  Many transgender guys gals and enpals don't feel much dysphoria, certainly not as much as other trans people.  Ideally dysphoria is reduced with medical care!  The universal quality is being a gender different from that assigned at birth.

You're definitely trans, and I couldn't take that away from you if I wanted to.  My little hypothetical about an edge case wasn't meant to disqualify anyone.  It might even be wrong.  I don't have the authority to declare anyone cis (unless - this is the one exception - they're making The One Joke that anti-trans people have.  The one where they claim to identify as attack helicopters.)

[scriver]

Buddy, I don't consider myself number 1 in anything that isn't Pointless and Obscure Knowledge (Mostly) About Tech. And even then, someone's got me beat, I'm sure.

You need to work on your self-esteem! Be more like this guy!

[methylatedspirit]

(unless - this is the one exception - they're making The One Joke that anti-trans people have.  The one where they claim to identify as attack helicopters.)

Oh god, that's like the classical one. It's the canonical transphobe joke. It's a red flag if said unironically, and I know immediately, "Do not come out to this person" after that.

I think jokes like "My pronouns do not exist. Do not refer to me." or "I identify as Michael Jackson, my pronouns are he/hee" are funny, so I'm not against the idea of joking about gender as a whole, but the "attack helicopter" one... that ain't it, Chief. It was funny the first time, but it's been so overdone that it has no legs to stand on anymore.

[scriver]

"I identify as Michael Jackson, my pronouns are he/hee"

I liked this

[KittyTac]

This map is wrong. China isn't improving regarding climate change much at all and India is making coal power plants.

[dragdeler]

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[methylatedspirit]

(And in an episode of Pulling Stuff from my Archives...)

I'm fairly certain that Android versions 5 and later will be supported by apps for increasingly-long periods of time as the last version stops being supported, almost turning them into Windows XPs; characterized by impressively-long de facto support lifetimes. I think most could get away with 5, and I think most everything would run on 7. The latest version is 11.

There's just not that much reason for people to buy phones frequently anymore. Mobile hardware and software are maturing, and it's no longer this massive series of growth spurts like computers were back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sure, manufacturers can try to artificially stop support after 3 years/version updates, but it's not like any app worth its salt would only run on the latest version anyway. Market factors dictate that they have to go as far back as 5 or even 4.4.4 to broaden their audience as much as possible. Performance isn't that much of a concern anymore, either, since you don't really need a Snapdragon 875+ to watch Youtube or browse the web.

I'm not saying "buy an old-ass phone" if you can buy a new one. Just buy a low-end or mid-range new phone if that's all you need. Their processors are made on newer, smaller manufacturing processes, and they're more power-efficient because of that. Plus, you get at least 2 years of official support minimum, so that's nice, given that those include security updates.

I know that Apple's very similar; their iPhones are officially supported for, like, 6 years, IIRC. Only difference is that Apple support is official, while Android is de facto supported by apps for about that long or longer.

[methylatedspirit]

Don't try to gender-neutralize "Fell In Love With A Girl" by replacing "Girl" with "Kid".

[Kagus]

Don't try to gender-neutralize "Fell In Love With A Girl" by replacing "Girl" with "Kid".

You have an incoming call from someone named "Nambla"

[TamerVirus]

You have an incoming call from someone named "Nambla"

The North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?

[King Zultan]

You have an incoming call from someone named "Nambla"

I've heard that those people like to drive around in windowless vans and they like to invite people into said vans.

[methylatedspirit]

Playing the intro associated with a certain porn website in public is basically a version of The Game. The moment you react to it, you've lost.

[Kagus]

Code is like a genie; it possesses great power and is capable of fulfilling many wishes, but it will unfortunately do what you told it to do rather than what you wanted it to do.

[methylatedspirit]

I feel like there's a sort of spectrum of "intellectual heaviness" of media that you consume. You have "light" content, which is easy to digest (often because it contains things that you know and agree with/things you're very opposed to and can say "that's stupid"), then you have "heavy" content, which basically needs you to think real hard about what you're consuming to internalize it (often because it's things that you don't know, but you still agree with them).

Me, I go for light content, since I don't like to feel like I'm trying to update Gentoo all the time. I love stuff that's jokey and non-serious, and I revel in them. Is it necessarily bad, though, to prefer light stuff? Like, people don't exactly class me as stupid, they say that I'm actually quite smart in certain areas, so it's not precisely true that a preference for light content means that you're stupid. But it does leave me as a rather naive person outside of what I know and am interested in.