immature techno-geek with moral autism

I am absently making a Tumblr light mode userstyle.

voxette-vk and I are both annoyed that websites won't let you sort by price per ounce, lowest to highest.

Some guys pretended a 4-story building would be a skyscraper, and investors fell for this despite seeing blueprints. Apparently part of the issue is that they were told it would be "480 high", and didn't realize this meant inches, or something? nuclearspaceheater comments with “480 what? Elephants?”, rules court in vindication of technical instructors of all stripes.

Radfem complains about cis girls told to change elsewhere if they dislike having trans girls in locker rooms. nuclearspaceheater asks why we even have shared locker rooms. cromulentenough asks why people aren't also flipping out over lesbians. I respond by stating

Changing clothes at school is a thing because nobody wants to be around teenagers who are wearing their gym clothes all day. The reason they want students to change in front of each other is probably because this requires dramatically less floor space, infrastructure, etc than making there be enough individual stalls for everyone in the same gym period to change at once.
Also maybe it allegedly promotes social bonding or assimilation or something, I don’t know.
Also I’d guess a lot of people do some of the following:

• don’t think lesbians really exist
• don’t think lesbians exist much in high school
• don’t think that lesbians are concerning because female sexuality is inherently unthreatening
• don’t think lesbians ogle people because female sexuality skews less visual
• do consider lesbians in locker rooms a problem, but don’t think it would be straightforward to solve because lesbians can just be closeted

I don't like it when people I follow reblog posts from what are very obviously pro-anorexia blogs, but this should be less of an issue on Dreamwidth, so whatever.

I like high-contrast themes because if something is too high in contrast, I can just dim my laptop monitor, whereas if everything is low-contrast it’s super annoying to read on low-brightness modes. (I’m specifically thinking of Discord here.) I often want to be on the minimum viable screen brightness for various reasons.

I'm making my own set of expanding brain images for use in HTML tables on Dreamwidth, like I used in this post. Obviously I have basically 0 claim to these images, as I am sure is true of basically everyone else posting expanding brain memes.

Prioritization is hard, especially for people with ADHD, which I may or may not have.

1. Other dysphoric women: What if Blanchard & company were essentially right?
2. Me: What if Simon Baron-Cohen was essentially right?

Edgy dysphoric teens should probably not hang around with the Jack Donovan fans. It will not solve their problems, at all. It is especially not a good thing for people who have problems with finding themselves keeping too much track of other people's terrible value systems to do.

It is entirely possible for a cisgender person without a Real Intersex Condition (tm) to experience dysphoria over other-gender-typical traits they have.

A ton of my unpleasant feelings about gender as a social thing stem not from ways people actually behave towards me IRL on a regular basis, but rather from broad theories of gender and sexuality (such as, for example, this blog), and from my models of how people might perceive me on various levels, and such.

It's really nice how welcoming many trans women are to cis women with androgen problems.

It's kind of convenient that I can do a lot of female-socialization politeness stuff when appropriate, at least for short periods of time, but it occasionally leads people to comment on how this ability is suggestive of me having been raised well. I don't really think this is true.

People with dysphoria often have trouble modeling why anyone would possibly want to be the gender that they don't want to be, myself included.

I am probably never going to be a radical feminist, but if I were, I would be a transhumanist one. If you somehow managed to end up somewhere preindustrial or preagricultural, it would only make things worse. I guess if you engineered humans to be oviparous and somehow arranged for them to have continued access to contraception then some weird reducing-tech-level-stuff might not lead to too much gendered oppression?

Relatedly, apparently anprims try to exclude TERFs from their events sometimes. This seems a little odd, since if anyone else went around saying "actually, we want people to only have access to castration and horse urine for transition", those people would seem transphobic.

Bofa, the henway, and cousins are just a broader form of a knock-knock joke, where the intent is that the listener only figures out near the end that the speaker is, in fact, telling a knock-knock joke.

People sharing photos of food a lot creates incentives towards photogenic yucky food is not a problem with a phone app, even if a clickbait site claims otherwise. If all of your friends were doing this with a film camera and posting the photos on a bulletin board in the town square with nicknames on it, the same thing would happen. The problem with Instagram is not that people don't realize that when they share photos on Instagram, they're public and contain images of the thing photographed.

Even if in real life there exist people who prefer to be referenced with alternating pronouns, creating fictional characters with this preference and subsequently respecting that even in the narration can be really annoying. This is especially true in very short fiction where the character is not even named or explicitly gendered -- this gives the reader no time to get used to the character, and the character's highly inconvenient gender is never relevant.

Given Fermat's skill at math, why did he spend so much time working as a lawyer?
Because the margins in math were too small.

Agri[photo]voltaics exist. If you consider the model where photovoltaic-generated electricity is an agricultural product, since sunlit land area is such an important input to it, this ought to not be too surprising, as various other synergies between agricultural product production exist. However, I at least tend to naively forget that solar power production depends on sunlit land area, so it did surprise me. Apparently in some regions adding solar panels to land even improves that land for the purpose of sheep grazing.

A video of a song Mozart probably pirated has been removed from YouTube, because The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement. h/t sonata_green for mentioning the song in the first place.

Usually, I follow webcomics through Dreamwidth RSS. (I'd recommend most of the ones I follow. Maybe not alethia_comic_feed, it's rather political and I don't actually like its politics, I just ended up sucked into the plotline.) However, Freefall predates RSS and never started using it. It is very good.

Firefox removed Live Bookmarks. Hopefully, the decline in RSS usage that this reflects doesn't mean Wordpress.com and the like will stop supporting it in the sites they produce.