Out of curiosity

As long as it is legal, it can be defined as a car/truck/bike. Illegal vehicles get more complex, because as you mentioned the frame can be modified.

Such a definition could not theoretically exist

With infinite time, perhaps it could. I’ll give you that one for free, I did exaggerate by saying it was entirely impossible. But for the vast majority of people it is impossible within their lifetime to create such a definition.

Should it really define whether they can or can’t use a word?

Anyone can use any word, just not necessarily correctly. For example, “fish” are not real. There is no defining feature-set for a fish. However, when I say “fish” you think of a little, wet, scaley fella with silly eyes. And that’s fine because communication happens and meaning is understood, but there is no way to define a fish in a way that includes all of the little scaley fellas, jellyfish, sunfish, etc… The same logic is true for the argument about “women”, there is no defining feature-set which includes all AFAB people and zero AMAB people because the lines are too blurry in genetics. An androgen-insensitive XY person with a vagina would still be AFAB, for example.

No hate, but I love a good debate if you’re up for it.

Scenario 1:

Great points, honestly. However, even in this scenario where someone manages to cover all of the bases and managed to create an exact list of what it means to be a woman, it would be impossible to disqualify trans women.

Scenario 2:

I’ll get deeper into this one since it’s more realistic.

I bet you can’t define a car

Vehicles are defined by their frames, and the regulations that revolve around those. I can tell you with absolute certainty whether a vehicle is a car or a truck based off the frame. But this isn’t the point.

Does that mean we all just get to [define words ourselves]

Actually yes. Words gain their definition by how they are most commonly used. You learn a word based off its definition, but the word gains its definition from use. This is how Shakespeare managed to invent so many words in English. He just started using them, and when people asked what they meant he told them and they started using them. This is also why “literally” is defined as “not literally” by Webster dictionary, or at least it was around 2016 (may have changed).

As a matter of fact, entire languages have been built around this concept of redefining words. Most of German is just portmanteaus that were understandable enough to be considered a word.

In this particular case, the words “man” and “woman” is slowly being redefined by society to be more inclusive of trans people. Fighting against the progress of language, in this scenario, is nearly identical to fighting against the progress of trans people.

Have you considered being born to a wealthy white family in the West? I hear it’s much easier

And you feel like you portrayed that ideology by belittling me for not being interested in Pixelfed?

Wow. Not even an ad hominem, literally just blind judgement. You have no idea what interests me, and no way to tell how I have interacted with Pixelfed. You have no concept of the idea that some people are just not into the things you enjoy.

Do you have any idea just how much content is out there in the world? You could browse through a petabyte of data and it could all be boring drivel to you because there are zettabytes of data out there in the internet. Some of it is bound to bore any random individual. That doesn’t preclude me from enjoying the entire rest of the internet.

You remind me of people in red hats.

Yeah and none of those are my niche. Not to mention, content discovery is still difficult even if you personally see things you’re interested in lol

One of the big issues that I personally had with Pixelfed is that content discovery is kind of difficult on the platform. Sure, there’s probably some pictures out there of the obscure shit I’m into. However, all I ever found on pixelfed was like landscape/nature photography and a little bit of porn

was dead

20k MAU can feel pretty dead, even 100k can if none of them are sharing things you’re interested in.

Yeah, that was my guess too. I never got around to looking into it properly before I ended up having to wipe it for sale anyways

Libreoffice does something weird to files. Not sure what it is, but I had to use it to fix my bash config at one point and then every time I launched my terminal after that I would get a “command not found:” line with no command, but the terminal still worked so I never bothered to figure it out lol

2MW also isn’t much

It’s a proof of concept, they’re not actually trying to power anything with this. They’re just checking their math on a small scale before doing the full scale lol

While I do agree with what you’re saying, I actually think a “by women for women” instance has a slightly different impact than a “by women for women” community. There are definitely pros and cons for both, though

I think they’re referring to the 8 down votes they got on the post where they told people they need to watch a YouTube video

I find the people that I disagree with have much better points

Yeah same. I’ve had many more educational moments on Lemmy, in both directions, than I ever did in 10 years on Reddit

What do I care what language the library is written in as long as it works for what I need it do?

Doesn’t matter what it implies. The entire purpose of programming is to make it so a human doesn’t have to go do something manually.

not x tells me I need to go manually check what type x is in Python.

len(x) == 0 tells me that it’s being type-checked automatically

Honestly most people use Python because it has fantastic libraries. They optimize it because the language is middling, but the libraries are gorgeous

ETA: This might double post because my Internet sucks right now, will fix when I have a chance

Do you consider using a meme format a rip off?

If I could get the adsp

Author Domain Signing Practices? Requires internet access by the looks of my quick search, so your race is between your Ethernet/wifi and the boot-up process. The only ways to fix it are to make the computer connect to the Internet faster, which is impossible for many. Most people substitute by adding a delay for getting into user space until after connection is establish

And more accessible to photosensitive epileptics!