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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

She's painful to listen to. Can't string a clear sentence together and laughs constantly. Not inspiring or particularly incisive. Which is a particularly disappointing combo when Biden is the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would probably call them 'boards'. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it's not universal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Steve Schmidt. He has a long history as a conservative strategist which is a huge red flag for me, but I think it would actually make him more palatable to right-wingers. I watch his show 'The Warning' and he makes a lot of sense with his positions. He is extremely clear in his criticisms of Trump, but he also doesn't focus on culture war nonsense. I'm willing to compromise as long as the person can think straight and face reality, which is seemingly an extremely high bar now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh interesting, so are downvote counts only reflective of what my individual server has received? I assumed they at least federated between kbin and Lemmy even if the rest of fedi didn't have a way to understand them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

But what are upvotes and downvotes? I would have assumed upvote is fave/star. Is downvote an emoji react?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm trying to think of questions that have a similar vibe. these may be way off (I'm not trans) so take with a grain of salt -

a religious person meets someone in their congregation and asks if they are a convert or were born in.
a person on a date asks their date, a single person, if they are divorced or never married.

I think I would struggle to define the category being asked about in these questions too. It's something about history and expectations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You might call the category lived experience. Does your gender identity match your lived experience and upbringing, or does it not? Sometimes you see trans people use the phrase 'man of trans experience' or 'woman of trans experience' to highlight that the word trans applies to history and experience. So the question might be, "what is your gender experience?" or "what is the nature of your gender socialization?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Also it's not that it makes you a pre-cog, it's more that it makes you unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim style. She was perceiving her life nonlinearly.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love Arrival, it's one of my favorites. The scene where she meets with the Chinese general at the gala was chilling, I love how she herself is confused for most of the movie and formulates her plan in that moment, in collaboration with him. I also love that the reason for first contact is that the aliens will need help centuries in the future, that's a pretty unique spin on the usual story.

The piece about her daughter is interesting I think but it's not the strongest part of the movie. I was disappointed that they shoehorn the romance at the end and have her and Ian fall in love. Honestly I would have been fine never knowing who her husband was, because the poignancy of the story was her own personal choices about having a child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As far as I know it's stored on both. Generally anything federated gets stored in multiple servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

One of the best games ever made, (you won't) change my mind. Some battles are super difficult though, you really need to be strategic. I hope you have a good time!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Should there be a word for 'white' or 'straight' or 'monogamous'? Should there be a word for 'able-bodied', or 'hearing', or 'sighted'?

 

I'm not new to fedi but I'm still trying to understand federation with these new projects.

I can sub to magazines/communities hosted elsewhere.

Can I also post there? I see them offered in the dropdown on this composition page so it seems like I can.

To be clear, I'm talking about posting to them with my current account, on kbin.social. Not going and making an account there.

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