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Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by minimaul »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #19
bsaul wrote: post #13

« I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans » From a purely statistical POV, this is absurdly bizarre.

It's not a random pick from the population, or the 95% male ratio in engineering would also be somewhat weird. They have a small team: https://asahilinux.org/about/ People like to team up with others like them, so the fact that they're more likely to collaborate with other trans people is not weird at all.

I suspect it was actually a reference to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/.

> X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System.

Pretty neatly describes "I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics.".

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by eropple »

john004 wrote: post #59
api wrote: post #2

I think the right has seized on trans people because it's become socially unacceptable to go after gay people (at least directly), so going after trans people is a substitute. "Othering" some group and uniting people against them is powerful brain stem stuff, and elections these days are won or lost on turnout rather than changing anyone's mind. I'm not sure what they're going to do when there aren't any groups left…

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Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by antisthenes »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #69
antisthenes wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My opinion is just as reality-based as yours. Only assuming you can process information from the real world correctly, which isn't a given. Not a judgment on you personally. > We probably can't fix the organizational dynamics that lead to this accretion of power, but we can prevent it from being our basis of government by keeping the franchise broad. Is there any evidence that keeping the franchise broad is the mos…

> Only assuming you can process information from the real world correctly, which isn't a given. Not a judgment on you personally. You realize this claim can be made about you too, right? You might believe you process information correctly, but that's a very strong claim, without much supporting it.

I don't need external validation for that claim. My experience in being correct and good outcomes are the support that I need.

The fact that you don't have access to that empiric information is just unfortunate, but ultimately nothing that makes a difference.

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by dj_mc_merlin »

minimaul wrote: post #71
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a random pick from the population, or the 95% male ratio in engineering would also be somewhat weird. They have a small team: https://asahilinux.org/about/ People like to team up with others like them, so the fact that they're more likely to collaborate with other trans people is not weird at all.

I suspect it was actually a reference to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/ . > X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System. Pr…

This seems more likely than the Asahi Linux team, actually.

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by dj_mc_merlin »

antisthenes wrote: post #73
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only assuming you can process information from the real world correctly, which isn't a given. Not a judgment on you personally. You realize this claim can be made about you too, right? You might believe you process information correctly, but that's a very strong claim, without much supporting it.

I don't need external validation for that claim. My experience in being correct and good outcomes are the support that I need. The fact that you don't have access to that empiric information is just unfortunate, but ultimately nothing that makes a difference.

.. this is why you're online bragging about how much better you are to other people, right?

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by mrlonglong »

jawns wrote: post #46
_pjx9 wrote: post #33

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This is a bad moment to be playing the enlightened centrist. The main point is that one party in particular is pushing discriminatory legislation against a minority group and demonizing them. That counts as oppression to me. People who vote for said party are therefore voting for those things - voting for despite not supporting such policies is still enabling said discrimination. Your response seems victim blamey. Ye…

If you're familiar with the history of the Rwandan genocide, it was not simply a matter of the vulnerable Tutsis being massacred by the evil Hutus. The genocide was the culmination of a hundred-plus years of power shifting from one group to the other. When the Tutsis were in power, they made life hell for the Hutus, and when the Hutus were in power, they made life hell for the Tutsis. Each group came to see the other…

In Northern Ireland, there are two sides, the Irish Republicans and the Unionists. Twenty years ago peace was brought to this part of the world by bringing in power sharing. Had this happened in Rwanda, would the genocide have occurred?

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by slowmovintarget »

jfengel wrote: post #53
krapp wrote: post #37

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The Republican Party is moving in a very dark direction, and has been for years now. This isn't just red team/blue team partisan cheerleading. This isn't Trump Derangement syndrome. Both parties aren't equal in this regard. I think the author's fear is justified and maybe the onus should be on Republicans to finally smell the rot in their own house instead of on everyone else to be polite about it.

The Republican Party is moving in a very dark direction, and has been for years now. Decades. It's really hard to put a starting date on it. I think of it as beginning in the 1990s. But that's a follow-in from the late 60s, when civil rights caused the re-orientation of the parties. And before that, the anti-communist movement which upset the post-Civil War alignment. Regardless... I have memories of the 80s and earl…

It started with George Bush senior. He basically undid the optimistic conservatism of Reagan (small government, favor individual liberty, Constitutional originalism...), and reverted to his own just-play-to-win style that gave us Dick Cheney and Neoconservatism.

Trump's populist tribalism stuck the knife into the conservative movement. The heart's still beating, but it's faint.

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by Alekhine »

hersko wrote: post #27
uneekname wrote: post #23

c'mon HN, don't flag this. it's a perspective piece about being a trans developer in a harsh political landscape. we upvote and discuss this stuff quite often.

It's someones political manifesto. Not sure why it's relevant to HN.

Asking to not be oppressed is a manifesto?

Re: Growing Up Alyssa

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Post by howinteresting »

jawns wrote: post #14

> if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism As a registered independent who finds both major parties unconscionable, this line of argument worries me. Frankly, members of both parties can ascribe the worst possible motives to those who vote for the opposition, precisely because both parties are a massive tangle of complex social, economic, political, and administrative is…

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