Yeah I’m trans and consider myself to be enby too, I just switched over from my birth sex to the opposite one, and intentionally got stuck a bit past the halfway - I’m typically assumed to be the other and just somehow weird lmao. So now I’m in the interesting position where I’m neither but I have lived as both. Gotta catch 'em all I suppose

I didn’t figure it out until I was an adult. I knew something was going on, but I thought it’s just something to do with me being ace. I knew transfolks existed, but I didn’t think I was one, since I didn’t see myself as a man nor a woman (which should have been a big hint in itself but hey). Then I found out that not having gender is a real possibility and immediately knew what I was, and transitioned after few years. Having words for things is incredibly important

Yeah you can indeed get by, but essentially the longer you stay, the more issues you will face. It’s easy if it’s just stuff like going to a restaurant or your work, but trying to make friends that are not other immigrants? Dealing with the official bureaucracy hell? Just always being the outsider in every situation with the natives? There’s plenty of stuff you might not notice in the beginning but can be trouble later on

Yeah, it would probably have to fit very tightly and/or the fur should be really short. I guess they could shave the area - but that goes deeply into cultural stuff around it, which clearly has not been thought by the designers of that thing. I doubt they actually thought about bone conduction either, really. Looks more like “ehh cool enough” -type of designing that’s pretty typical for games and movies (and which rightly deserves critique).

Anyway I like the ear hoops! That allows a lot of designs that wouldn’t work with human-like shapes. I guess a species with inhuman hearing wouldn’t necessary even need to have the speakers near their ears, though that’s inconvenient in different way because background noise etc. could interfere. It would allow interesting versions of how a speaker could be, something like in a necklace, or glasses - maybe even in ear piercings with small enough tech…

It’s also not clear how he’s getting sound output from the headset.

Not that it makes it much better, it could actually be one of those things that project sound through bone (you can buy headphones with the tech and all, so it’s not that futuristic even). Though I don’t know would it work positioned like that, since it needs certain place on the skull for it to work and who knows where that would be on a foxes head… I guess you could just claim they’ve made the tech better in the setting or something

Sorry for derailing! I’ve just seen a bit too many optimistic “oh you’ll do fine with only english” takes around (not just on lemmy) which I find misleading and in the need of a disclaimer

I’d be more about elections if you could give both a positive vote and a negative vote, right now it feels like just fighting against fascism and slowly losing (I’m not from USA so not talking about your oranges). I used to not vote when I was younger, because I was protesting against the system. I still am, but now I don’t have the luxury of not voting since if people like me won’t, the fascists will win.

Anyway, now terrible people get in power by being terrible, lying, and getting morons to vote for them; if they’d gain negative backlash votes that would nullify that shit, it would immediately make it harder for flashy candidates to get elected. Our political system here would support this especially well, since in Finland the votes pool for the whole party - if even one populist would get a huge number of negative votes, it could even tank the whole party .
Of course this would go both ways, but cutting most of the populists away wouldn’t be a bad thing. You wouldn’t get only boring candidates elected either, because nobody would know about them. So ideally the people who vote for local candidates that walk around and actually talk to people would win, and here a lot of the smaller parties would have more chances to get in power and things wouldn’t be stagnant like they are now (in a bad way).

Of course that wouldn’t be without flaws, but it would be nice to try somewhere to see what would happen. But it won’t, since it would cut the terrible people from power and they want the status quo everywhere

I just feel extra autistic since I don’t understand why’d you react emotionally to any of those. Who cares if some random moron insults you? Especially if it’s online

Even if you can work and get by in english, you should still learn the native language. At least here in Finland you can’t fully become part of the society unless you speak finnish or swedish. It doesn’t mean you need to be immediately proficient though, but if you don’t put any effort into it, you can ever only scratch the surface of the country.

As a personal anecdote, it is also incredibly rude to travel into places and expect them to cater to your culture at the expense of their own, just because yours spread wider. Doesn’t matter who or where - if you plan to stay permanently or even just long-time somewhere, be prepared to learn the local language(s)

Though if you do emigrate into a country where english is not the native language, still prepare to learn the local language(s), even if you can work in english. If you don’t, you’ll never be fully part of the society, and things are a lot harder

As an observer side note, this exchange is a great example of moral purity meeting harm reduction stances. A moral purist doesn’t want to compromise their moral integrity, but taking a harm reduction stance means seeing that there’s no achieving the goal without making compromises. A moral purist stance thus means accepting that the general result might be even worse because of the personal refusal to bend, but on the other hand harm reduction stance means you are essentially forced to stain yourself with acting against your own morals.

Both sides here thrive for a world where no animals needs to be eaten, but the way to get there is seen differently. Who is right depends entirely on do you see having absolute moral values or focusing on the practical results more important

This makes me uncontrollably angry. You just don’t kill trees without a good reason, and this is a horrible reason! Absolutely disgusting

Washing cold tends to leave traces of the detergents in the fabrics though, so beware of that if anyone has a tendency to get skin reactions

The theatres for music, plays, poetry readings etc. were a completely separate things; build usually in a crescent shape and focused on the acoustics and all that. So the circular roman amphitheaters were made specifically for the other entertainment, that was more about getting as many people as possible to be able to see the stuff instead of hearing. So the first use was most likely some form of gladiator battle or something similar

I agree it’s very cool, yet it almost triggered my migraine at the same time and now I’ll see everything blurry for few hours, so also not cool

It’s pointless, then they go on a tangent about how it’s the word of god etc. To them god is real and everything is about god and if they have to make leaps in logic it’s just because mere people can’t understand god’s will

Should have shat in the shower instead, would have saved time and made even more people angry

There’s multiple reasons for it. The smaller ones usually have been bred for their size, meaning the behavior aspect has been ignored at least in some point, which means more terrible traits have passed over. Being small in general makes them more anxious because world is scary, which then turns them more aggressive out of fear.
The fact is that it is very difficult to have a larger dog with aggression issues, since they will be genuinely dangerous, whereas the smaller ones can be just brushed aside, “haha that’s cute”. So the larger ones also get better training and you won’t see the badly behaving ones out in the public as often because it’s harder to take them there. The larger ones are also able to destroy your house way more effectively if they don’t get enough exercise and mental stimulation, so it’s harder to ignore their behavior issues and needs in general.

And then larger dogs are often taken for other purposes as well, like having a hunting or jogging buddy, whereas the smaller ones are usually just companion animals and might have been chosen just because they’re “cute” and in the worst case scenario even spontaneously, which means they might get less exercise just because of that and the people taking them might not be very well versed in dog behaviors or needs etc…

Edit// oh, and many of the smaller breeds have rat killing or small game hunting background, which means they don’t actually do well as just companion pets because of the activity and aggression

I’d imagine the fear is just because a lot of people are not tech savvy at all and tend to be scared of new things, “googling” and pushing colorful buttons is something most people are used to, but writing phrases you don’t fully understand into a mysterious text box is not. Though personally I have no fear towards terminal either, so maybe I’m wrong with that analysis

Oh no it’s not “pins and needles” it’s just disgust, I have hypersensitivity to touch in general and touching humans is basically just the worst of it for some reason. A bit like you’d step on dog shit or touch something rotting etc. I get the shivers and all that, it’s terrible. If I don’t get the unpleasant touch to stop quick enough, eventually I go crazy and will struggle like a rabid animal, since it’s so intolerable - I know because I’ve gotten to that point couple times by trying jeans on… I don’t know why or how my own limbs can trigger this shit as well, it’s just my stupid corpse being shitty I guess. I can’t do breathing exercises or mindfulness stuff either, because becoming even more aware of my body makes it so much worse