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With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

vatlark ,

This post was reported for transphobia. Specifics weren’t given. It seems like you use the term “female” to mean someone that was assigned female at birth. I’m not sure if language is changing in this area and I certainly don’t know technical definitions. Female does seemed to be used as a gender identity as well. For example the opening paragraph here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_woman

I think many cultures are learning how to be more welcoming to people from all walks of life, which is great, and conversations like this one are good for discussing some of the nuance.

Please keep things civil and assume the best of other’s intentions. We are all learning. We are all human.

Edit: spelling

vatlark ,

It sounds like you have a lot of experiences that others could learn from, but you will likely push people away if you attack them directly (calling them extremist) rather than only attacking their positions. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

One tactic that I like is asking them questions that lead them to point out the flaws in their own arguments. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

Would you be more or less likely to learn from someone that calls you an extremist?

vatlark ,

Does anyone else think the thumbnail looks like a llama with laser eyes?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/23cc73f4-ef73-417f-a506-b2f6a8671f81.jpeg

vatlark ,

OP wants FOSS BeReal, it’s all there in the title. There is no rule against having a body to the post. I agree that I would be disappointed if showerthoughts was only people’s product ideas.

If this type of post became commonplace we could make a rule trying to avoid spam. How would you word the rule? “No promotion of products or product concepts” that might work. Rules have side effects so I would want to look back through old posts to see if it would hurt quality posts.

This post did get two reports. Reports are not super down votes, things need to break rules for me to pull them, I try to be objective. As always I’m open to discussion.

I did giggle about commenter below that is sometimes old. Silver linings.

vatlark ,

Or maybe we could have a rule like “Any post that’s greater than 12hrs old and has less than 30% approval gets removed” I like this because it gives voting more power for shaping the community and it’s objective.

vatlark ,

You have a lot of great things to offer this conversation, I’m not sure why all the aggression was needed.

vatlark ,

Yeah, assuming the best intentions from everyone, you would still expect some adjustments would be necessary to any new policy as they see the affect of the policy.

vatlark ,

If Clear is an equity problem, then the toll lanes that are going in all over California certainly are.

Toll roads would be equal. The toll lanes feel really bad.

Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?

I want to know if the car I’m renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let’s ignore collision insurance for now....

vatlark ,

So you are saying that AI today is like Bluetooth today

vatlark ,

That’s very fair. I don’t like how unpredictable Bluetooth is when you have multiple peripherals and multiple hosts paired to eachother and all within range of eachother.

vatlark ,

You never have audio coming out of a device you didn’t expect?

Sunday with my Portable Mag Loop

I don’t know many hams nor do I chat with the same hams on a recurring basis, and my wife is only tangentially interested in radio inasmuch as it makes me happy, so I thought I’d be the life of the party and post about the best day on the air I’ve had yet. My aim is to share my enthusiasm with the world....

vatlark ,

That’s really cool, its a world I know very little about. What is an example of something you have listened to or communicated with?

vatlark ,

That really is an impressive accomplishment. Yeah learning more EE seams like a great reason. Aviation radios have all sorts of clever tricks to get a longer antenna. Some WWII era planes would trail their antennas behind the aircraft.

vatlark ,

Several of your comments/posts are being reported. You can find the code of conduct here: mastodon.world/about

There is nothing shocking in there just basic thing like no name calling. Which I suspect is why this comment was being reported. And is why I took down your other post.

Text is very poor at communicating a lot of subtleties that you get in other forms of communication. So it’s helpful to expect the best intentions of others and maybe ask clarifying questions.

If you look through other posts and comments you will find that people tend to be pretty chill, looking for a laugh or to make others laugh, and enjoying curious observations about life. People also get passionate about certain topics but I like how the code of conduct puts it “Criticize ideas, never people.”

vatlark ,

Were you browsing Wikipedia in the shower?

vatlark ,

Lol, beautiful edit

vatlark ,

Definitely frustrating, but I like the idea of the community shaping itself through votes and comments whenever possible.

vatlark ,

This post received one report pointing out that this post violates the rules 1 & 2; not being a shower thought and the entire shower thought not being in the title. The reporter is correct, at the same time I tend to error on the side of letting posters play with the showerthoughts format and letting the votes do the talking.

Happy to take feedback if you think my approach is bad.

vatlark ,

The Google play store says only 500+ downloads, we’ve got to pump up those numbers

vatlark ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4d3faaf1-57e5-42ae-ba6b-6db6a28b861e.png

vatlark ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6171a780-39ba-4645-9296-f23da01b70fb.png

vatlark ,

Odd, my phone is far from a flagship but it is only a year old.

vatlark ,

I think I’m the 11th comment. Not sure how real time the comments propagated to the other servers though.

vatlark ,

This post was reported for being offensive. Its hard to know what is offensive to all groups of people. “Colleague” is a pretty innocuous term and “twink” seems to be context dependent. It doesn’t seem obviously derogatory in this context, “you see some dude” feels similar. I won’t take action for now. I’m very open to feedback, being wrong, and learning. Thanks all.

vatlark ,

I’m a mod, so the latter. I want the reporters to know they are heard, but also I tend to be slow to take action.

vatlark , (edited )

This is my first time being a mod. For example early on I would just remove any post that got a single report, but obviously that’s not a good strategy.

There are also other mods including an automod.

If I’m reading your picture correctly it was only 6 days ago that your post got removed. I’m not even sure if I can undo a mod action but I’ll look into it. Thanks for bringing it up.

Edit: I am having trouble finding the original context of the comment that got removed, finding out how to reverse it, or finding who removed it. It’s possible it was me but I don’t remember it. I have reached out to other mods for help.

vatlark ,

This is an interesting perspective and could have resulted in interesting discussion. Aggression alone isn’t bad, but attacks on posters are bad.

vatlark ,

Per the community rules, try to keep the complete shower thought in the title.

If you forget the rule, its their in the sidebar ;)

vatlark ,

I’m sure it’s not a surprise that this post was reported. From what I saw, the conversation remained focused on society and anatomy and remained far less graphic than a basic anatomy textbook. Thanks everyone.

It was also reported for not having the whole thought in the title.

Great post.

vatlark ,

Reported for not being a shower thought, and spam/abuse. It’s certainly formatted differently than most, and I think the votes reflect that.

vatlark ,

Yeah, it’s good. If you have an idea you think fits the community, you should post it and people can vote and comment. I am excited to see how things, like formatting, evolve over time.

vatlark ,

This was reported for being hostile. Please keep your comments focused on the topic being discussed and do not attack the other people in the discussion.

vatlark ,

I think it would be the new Instagram Threads app. It looks like a great way for them to get a lot of free content for their new app.

I’m very interested in what thr Mastodon and Lemmy instance admins have planned. I think there are great arguments made in: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

I haven’t heard counter arguments that are equally well supported, but would love to hear them.

vatlark ,

Interesting, I didn’t think of this. I assume anyone does whatever data mining they want on Fediveres content, but maybe it won’t be worth as much because they have less identifying info about the users?

vatlark ,

Really good distinctions about Lemmy vs Mastedon.

To counter the ‘rounding error’ argument, I would argue that Meta is making the decision to federate because it makes business sense. Either they see that Mastedon is valuable today, or they see that it might become valuable in that future. Either way they are acting now to move that value to their company.

vatlark ,

A support channel? Not sure I understand.

@forkball just got added as a mod.

The posts in this community have certainly been a bit different from r/showerthoughts. I’m reluctant to be strict about curating the content but happy accept feedback on how you would like things enforced.

Only three posts have been reported as being off topic, this post being one of them.

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