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  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzGrowth
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    12 days ago

    I feel like placing identities into hierarchies always ends up controversial. Like non-binary is technically under transgender because transgender just means your transitioning from your assigned gender to something else; but a lot of non-binary people really don’t like being called transgender instead of non-binary.

    At the end of the day, the words meanings are a subjective experience that cannot be directly observed or compared. So functionally all self-identifying terms exist flat relative to each other because there will always be contradictory definitions that you can’t rigidly settle on without ignoring significant groups of people.





  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzMy eyes!
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    2 months ago

    It’s like a step above autopilot. It feels like the rational parts of your brain are locked off to you and the world is briefly as confusing to you as when you were a kid.

    Obviously you can shake out of it and think harder about your scenario, but usually you just want the thing over and done with and that leaves you fumbling about long enough to make a bad decision.


  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzMy eyes!
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    2 months ago

    When coming across an unfamiliar problem, does anyone else feel themselves be possessed by the “problem solver”? It’s like the rational part of your brain doesn’t think it needs to be there so it delegates to your lizard brain and your lizard brain decides to “solve” the problem itself.

    It’s so jarring how much can “seem like a good idea at the time”.