I dunno Drag always seemed sincere to me, and perhaps Drag was outed as a troll later on (I haven’t seen Drag in a long time, maybe that’s why), but really what it comes down to is having basic respect for people instead of instantly deciding they must be a troll because of their neopronouns. Ada isn’t about people making snap judgments with no evidence and Drags neopronouns were just as valid as anyone else’s.

Even now, not knowing if Drag is a troll or not, it’s still worth respecting on the off chance Drag’s not a troll and just a weirdo.

A post from Ada two years ago summing it up:

https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20091173

I’ve been waiting until after Christmas day to make this post, but some of our communities recently have had a lot of noise and upset over someone that uses neopronouns that most people are unfamiliar with.

So I want to make this clear. A persons pronouns are to be respected. This is true when the user is using neopronouns that you’re unfamiliar with. It’s true even if you think someone is trolling. Pronouns are not rewards for good behaviour. They aren’t only to be respected when you like the person you’re interacting with, or if their pronouns “make sense” to you. Trolls, spammers, twitter users, it doesn’t matter who they are, your options are to respect their pronouns, or to not engage with them.

I really want to re-iterate the importance of this. Gender diverse folk are undermined, invalidated and questioned at every step of our lives. As a community, we need to be working to undo that, not creating more of it, and that means there is no space for treating pronouns (including neopronouns) as a reward for good behaviour.

This isn’t a free reign for trolls and spammers. The rules still apply. Trolling, spamming, etc will continue to be dealt with, but it’s not an excuse to act as if respecting someones pronouns is optional.

Pug couldn’t handle this basic request for decency. *shrugs

He has a narrow definition of transness and harassed the community over a trans person ostensibly feeling “unwelcome” because of the existence of people like, Drag the dragon fucker, who wanted to be referred to by Drag’s name, Drag, only.

Essentially transphobic to certain subsets of the trans community.

Refused to respect it and caused a shitstorm and now says people lie about it.

lmao, that actually made me laugh

A tip of the hat ol’ Eugene Debs as per always. You’ve also always been a good egg, friend.

He will never admit that he is transphobic by dictating that transness has to fit his definition of it.

He’s not done acting with “dignity and grace” or whatever the fuck lmao

Also, it’s having the negative effective of a fracturing and lots of instances blocking each other. Which is crazy anyone can be on the side of a someone who literally set up a DDoS, which is a fucking crime in a lot of places.

I just think it’s hilarious that instead of “saving” the fediverse they fractured it. Whiney bitches love to break shit then whine about it being broken.

Couple of those kids are clearly adopted.

Yet my ex couldn’t adopt because of her bipolar. What the fuck. They give them to these dangerous fucks instead.

The adoption industry is run by Christian fascists.

Honestly a good use of it for once

Once again, this isn’t a bug thread, this is literally me, talking about an issue with the Linux community, which was ignored in favor of… all my complaints.

If you guys can’t wrap your mind around that I don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t need help, I know there’s not currently a solution for me. I need people to not be asshats and assuming I must be doing it wrong because I have a problem to begin with… because it couldn’t possibly be Linux that has an edge case! No, it’s the users who are wrong!

Fucking jackasses.

I always knew Stamets was a good egg.

Believe it or not, not banned by Tesseract.

But in the interview, she bemoaned how influential podcasters can spread misinformation."

She’s so close to getting that she’s one of them.

I mean not defending Altman, but… aging in general does that, yes.

He was in his mid thirties now he’s in his early 40’s and his hair is graying… shocker I know.

But anyway, this is really hurtful to people who are just letting themselves age gracefully because it implies that they too must be conmen like Altman.

Look, you have zero attempt at self reflection here, this conversation is over. You made an assumption that the user was at fault and were wrong. Eat it. We aren’t in a fucking bug thread with my logs.

Well being a bear doesn’t work either… and I was told women choose the bear!

I’m sorry you made an ass out of yourself for making an assumption.

The thing is, Grandma won’t know what the fuck is going on or what DCC/CI even is. Grandma is poor and using pieced together old systems and shitty old monitors.

I’m not looking for a solution, I’m looking for people like you to stop making ass assumptions and get off your high fucking horse assuming the user must be at fault only realizing you’re wrong and being an ass after you already did it.

I like to explain it as Windows and Mac spend their time babying the users and making things easy for them, it takes away your agency.

Linux demands your agency because you are in full control no one is there to hold your hand, no one to stop you from doing something stupid.

Windows demands very little, Linux demands a lot of attention and care and consideration.

I mean, not with that kind of attitude they don’t.

Hey look, it’s one of the folks I’m talking about:

I’m assuming you’re trying to turn your monitor off while there is still an active HDMI signal for some reason? Otherwise why wouldn’t you just let the monitor put itself to sleep when it detects no signal like everyone else I know?

Nah, I’m trying to let the monitors put themselves to sleep, genius. That’s what’s not working. There shouldn’t still be an active HDMI signal. Disabling DCC/CI doesn’t fix the problem, either, it just goes back to the monitors not actually ever shutting off, just turning off for a moment and then coming back on, with plasmashell crashing instead of the power monitor. I don’t care at all about controlling monitor brightness with DCC/CI but when the defaults cause crashes that’s an issue.

This is an out-of-the-box fresh install with no old dotfiles moved, complete refresh. These were the defaults I was given. Deciding to set your monitors to power down after 10 mins of inactivity shouldn’t be causing crashes. i shouldn’t have to manually turn my monitors off or do hacky shit with xscreensaver to get it working in fucking wayland just to not have monitor burn-in