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

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

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 , to technology in Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames

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 , to showerthoughts in "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!

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 , to showerthoughts in "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!

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 , to showerthoughts in NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

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

vatlark , to world in British Columbia abruptly drops drug decriminalization after backlash

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 , (edited ) to showerthoughts in Wouldn't it be funny if gay people referred to other gay people as their "colleagues"?

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 , to news in California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines

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.

vatlark , to showerthoughts in AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful

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

vatlark , to showerthoughts in AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful

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 , to showerthoughts in AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful

So you are saying that AI today is like Bluetooth today

vatlark , to amateur_radio in Sunday with my Portable Mag Loop

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 , to amateur_radio in Sunday with my Portable Mag Loop

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 , to showerthoughts in Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.

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.”

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