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  • alyqzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•spicy rule
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    2 天前

    Green sauces are made with tomatillos/green peppers/etc. and has a more vegetal flavor, while red sauces are made with tomatoes/red peppers/etc. andtastes like tomatoes, roasted red peppers, and the like. Spice level is irrelevant. Put more simply, the green sauces taste “green” and the red sauces taste “red”; and are better on different things. The good ones are hot as hell regardless of color.

  • alyqztoCommunism@lemmygrad.ml•Gender Abolitionism is Inherently Transphobic
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    16 天前

    Edit to add: Thank you for posting this. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about a lot, but have struggled to find good material on.

    I both agree and disagree with different parts of this. I’ll break this in two parts.

    —=== On Judith Butler (not nesisarily anyone claiming to be Butlerian) ===—

    I believe Butler was pulling from performative language and not trying to imply that gender is a conscious act or performance in of itself. It is more along the lines of what society perceives as gender is the result of actions, culture, perceptions, and feelings. Additionally, something being a social construct does not mean that it isn’t real or inpactful, money is a social construct after all.

    Actions can convey meaning beyond what they imply in isolation. Just as a judge pronouncing a verdict in a trial carries different meaning and impact than a drunk dude at the bar saying the same words, a cis man dressing in women’s clothes is different than a trans woman doing the same.

    This is the type of performativity being referenced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity

    This is a good overview of Butler from Philosophy Tube (She is clear that she had previously misunderstood Butler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVilpxowsUQ

    —=== On feminism and trans people ===—

    I struggled with the purity tests, hatred, and general bad takes under the banner of feminism for years (I’ve unfortunately had personal experience with people who makevstraw feminists look like amatures). This probably added years to the time it took for me to come out to myself aa trans, and it wasn’t until I came to the understanding that “feminism” is more accurately thought as a collection of related ideologies/philosophies, or “feminisms”, that I became comfortable considering myself a feminist.

    Essentialism is something that has strong roots in many feminisms, including, sometimes especially, ones that claim to be gender abolitionist and the like. One would think that trans people would be sought after for their perspectives from both sides of the fence, but in my experience that is rarely the case. By their very existence, trans people make the nice neat boxes used in the us vs them arguments fall apart. I think this is why trans women are often expected to toe the party line if they want to be accepted as women and trans men are so often either infantalized or treated as defectors to the enemy.

    Gender also takes quite a bit of effort to understand, and cis people are far more often than not unwilling to put the effort in that understanding would require. Especially since it would require understanding and even empathy for the enemy.

    —=== Misc ===—

    I think gender is a social construct in so much as it loses all meaning without a concept of social interaction, but just like money or class can have a huge impact on one’s life. It is also rooted in one’s core sense of self and not a choice.

    People in power will use whatever is available to oppress, but it doesn’t mean that those things were invented for that purpose.

  • alyqztorpg@ttrpg.network•GMs - What are your methods to mitigate no-shows?
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    3 个月前

    These days we have been going by the rule:

    • If you are here you have always been here
    • If you are not here you have never existed

    The people I play with are far too inconsistent and we have to take what we can get. Complicating things too much is just another barrier that we don’t need. We do have a decent sized group with a couple of reliable players, so this is probably easier to do with this group than with a smaller one.

    Note: We are all pushing 50 and are pretty busy with work and family, which is a big contribution to the flakiness.

  • alyqztoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•How to make vivaldi as private and fast as Brave?
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    4 个月前

    Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the version of Opera that ran on the Presto engine, including some of the key people from back then. It has always run on Chromium with all of the baggage that comes with that. Manifest 3 and difficulty blicking autoplay videos without an extension for example.

    It is possible that OP needs Chromium for some reason like sites restricting access to other browsers either intentionally, or due to incompetence. I’ve personally never been able to get any Firefox derivative to have anywhere close to as good of a user experience as out of the box Vivaldi despite my trying, though I can’t speak to Brave’s UX.

    I might have to give Waterfox a try, though. Is there any word on how up to date they are with security updates, since derivative browsers tend to lack the resources to not lag behind?