You’re not wrong, “I arrived” is the better translation, “I came” is just (to my knowledge) the more common one people recite in the context of “veni vidi vici” and what this joke was playing off of.

“I came, I saw, I came”

it’s great, instead of ?: bullshit we just use if/else like it always should have been:

let x = if y > 3 { 7 } else { 4 };

This is definitely part of it, parking is pretty hard to find in a lot of downtown. Depending on where you are, traffic can be really bad too, especially over some of the bridges. It’s a very hilly, coastal city limited by its geography in some ways. this video’s a cool explainer on it. The city only has flat land because it burnt down, was regraded, and built back up on top of the old city.

Seattle also just has a pretty good public light rail and bus system. It’s not perfect, but in places where coverage is good it’s great. The city should be leaning into it more, but it’s also very possible to move here and get by without a car. I also suspect (just from my own observation) more people move to Seattle who don’t own a car in the first place.

if it’s the guy I’m thinking of, last time I saw him I think he brought a literal soapbox.

Prick a liberal and a fascist bleeds. Prick a fascist and a liberal denounces violence.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

This, 100%. For some reason people imagine vegans as an ideologically aligned group rather than a bunch of people making their own varied decisions for their own varied reasons. Then when inconsistencies come up between vegans they’ll decry it all as performative. Meanwhile, vegans themselves tend to just be happy to see others making their own best effort and the hair-splitting over what is vegan matters a lot less than generally resisting animal product consumption in any capacity.

Setting a unifying standard for a broad group of people that they’ll never meet and then reacting to the shock of them failing to meet that standard is a common rhetorical tactic in other contexts, no surprises it turns up here too.

This tracks for how a lot of people use the app, but depending on where you are you can also have some fairly normal (for a dating site) conversations with people as well. I spent a couple months on Grindr despite not being interested in hookups, since it’s a decent way to meet other trans folk in my area. My inbox was mostly dick pics but I also met some amazing people I’m still with several years later!

Makes complete sense! Just like any other matter of identity, having to mask the true self(ves) in order to fit what the outside world expects is… draining and pointless. Not having to put up the front means so much more mental energy for everything else.

Appreciate your perspective in this thread, cheers!

I’ve known a few plural folks that seem to get on just fine. In all their cases it arose from trauma and was pretty disharmonious and confusing to begin with, but with time and awareness their alters work better together and by the time I met em I wouldn’t have known if they didn’t tell me. I don’t know if they’d say it never affects them negatively but they certainly didn’t need to be freed of it. If anything, plural identity seemed to be more of a solution than an active problem for them.

forreal, people have such low opinion of what kids can understand (because they think kids have all their own same biases automatically)

My partner teaches preschool, sometimes the kids ask her if she’s a boy. She says she used to be but she’s a girl now, the kids say “ohhh” and immediately move on. It only ever gets weird and confusing for the kids when the parents feel the need to argue that point.

Oh hey, it’s my area of expertise and I’ve got some strong feelings so pardon the wall of text! This discussion tends to immediately focus on professional athletes and I think that’s doing everyone a disservice. Exceedingly few people are professional athletes, especially trans folk. Elite athletes have fundamentally different reasons to pursue their sport, and are closer to the genetic limits of their performance. I can see some value in accounting for broad genetic differences at that level of competition, but sex is far from the only genetic factor and in many sports it isn’t the most relevant. It’s not even like men are favored over women in every sport. Muscle mass and cardiovascular capacity advantages tend to favor men in most sports, but women can be favored over men in ultra-endurance sports due to advantages in fat metabolism and pain tolerance.

In fencing, for instance, men and women tend to be pretty equally matched. Broad average differences in explosive acceleration, balance, etc exist between the sexes, but it’s possible to account for these things through bladework and strategy in all but the highest elite levels. Know what you can’t really do jack-shit about? Reach! If someone’s a head taller than you, has a lankier build, and longer arms, it is incredibly difficult to get in range before they can hit you. Practice tends to be co-ed, with men and women performing equally, but for some reason fencing tournaments are split between men and women. It’s clear in both divisions that the lankier, taller people have an inherent genetic advantage. Why is sex considered the “more important” primary category? Why is this assumed to be the case in every sport? The science really does not back this up.

But again, that’s all just about high-level competitive athletes, a tiny tiny tiny fraction of a fraction of people. What’s the real value of sports for the rest of us, especially kids? Community, recreation, exercise, developing motor skills. Among the general population, the variation in skill level far exceeds genetic differences to the point that gendered divisions outside the most elite level just doesn’t make much sense to begin with. With this in mind, and considering how seldom few of us are athletes in the first place, does it not make sense for trans women to just be able to play in the division we socially fit in better with?

I haven’t even gotten into the long-term outlook for trans athletes on HRT, that’s a much longer discussion. But do consider that sports science (and human movement more broadly) isn’t a solved field. We’re just now getting over the “functional training” craze, itself a reaction to origin-insertion anatomy which did not properly model how multi-joint movements work. We’re just now coming to a better understanding of fascia, which plays a much more important role in motion than we understood and is very responsive to sex hormones. A majority of the systems involved in motion are ones where trans women are more alike to cis women than cis men. I won’t say there’s no differences at all, but it’s more nuanced than you’d think.

The number of cis women athletes (Imane Khelif being a notable example) harassed because people suspect them of being transgender goes to show how insane this is getting. Cis bodies are incredibly varied, in that context trans bodies are really not that different.

I could see it, yeah. I like Lemmy for a lot of reasons but it’s still social media. Commenting here isn’t activism and it doesn’t represent the irl dynamics of leftist circles. Engagement via comments and votes are the only things shown here, there’s no way to track the number of people that see a comment and think “you’re maybe not wrong, but you’re definitely splitting hairs…” and then move on. IRL, though, the dead air in the room would be deafening. (and could be a learning experience!)

My impression is this is primarily an issue in online spaces, without a clear goal in communication. When you meet leftists involved in a specific project, bigger-picture disagreements tend to fade away into focus and concern around a shared goal. It’s a lot easier to stay focused on the things that are immediately relevant when the route to making a real impact is right in front of you.

One I haven’t seen in this thread yet: the last playable bit of Bastion, if you choose to take Zulf with you. An early example of Supergiant’s mastery of interactive storytelling, coming to a head with a recognition of humanity in the midst of apocalyptic war.

I won’t overhype it, as others are saying it changes up a lot and there’s a particular section near the end that a few people I know bounced off of. It will be a very different experience, built on the same bones, but trying to accomplish something different.

But holy shit, to me it’s an improvement on an already phenomenal game, and builds on its narrative and mechanics in ways I thought were really clever. It feels like the other side of the coin from the main game and bolsters its themes from another perspective. Can’t recommend it enough.

I gotta get around to the other games in the series sometime, To The Moon was incredible. It’s been so long and I don’t remember many specifics, but I do recall it being one of a few games that encouraged me to come to terms with mortality.

Same on both counts. TWD season 1 is absolutely masterful and got me to care for its cast incredibly quickly.

I genuinely can’t believe the renegade interrupt that can happen during that scene in ME3 is in the game. I haven’t gotten spoiler tags to work consistently across Lemmy so I won’t say it but you know the one. One of those times where being given a choice to kneecap an incredible story moment felt really weird. Maybe other players didn’t connect with him as much / had more desire to continue the genophage?

Outer Wilds got me too, for sure, and stayed in my thoughts long after I finished. The music from the slideshow at the end of the DLC still makes me well up a bit. Such an incredible game. I still think of “the universe is and we are” from one of Solanum’s logs all the time.