Haha! Yeah, I do this with requirements creep:

• Can you also compete task C while you’re there?
• Sure! In this timeframe which features are you prepared to sacrifice to make it happen?
• …I’ll think about it

Works every time!

Had a bad experience with Nym. It’s not compatible with GrapheneOS. It runs, but there’s a data limit that in my experience kept getting artificially hit by the forming and breaking of connections that occurs when switching GOS profiles. Maybe this happens less on stock Android?

Regardless, I had to keep contacting their support for extensions. In 6 years, I haven’t yet had to contact Mullvad support. It just works!

I experienced DNS leaks when Nym claimed it was ‘fully’ connected. Mullvad.net could ‘see’ where I was located. That’s not considering that in general the connection with Nym was much slower than Mullvad. Nym offered me an extended free trial, but I haven’t claimed it yet. Reckon they’ll need another couple of years to iron out the obvious issues.

In summary, Nym felt like a very early prototype much more than a production-ready service.

Thank you!

Is there an introductory text you would recommend to learn more? I’ve looked on websites for nearby political parties and it seems things are under construction!

So what does a Marxist-Leninist do in the west? Is it possible to live life in accordance with whatever principles that represents without too many contradictions?

Thank you for this. Probably the first genuine attempt to answer my question without a single attack or ounce of vitriol :)

I do I see this argument, I really do! But this description does imply a sense of global altruism in Russia’s foreign policy. Even if Russia’s actions could be interpreted that way, how can outsiders trust Russia’s starting of wars and territorial expansion as anything other than selfish?

I ask this knowing full well that the west/north is guilty of atrocities over the same period. The issue is simply that I am in the west/north and I’d probably sooner see the world transition into anarchy than I would see it controlled by yet another powerful elite.

The kind of communism I want to see is one by the people for the people. I wouldn’t trust Putin or any of the current leaders to seize the world then give it back to us. Do you believe otherwise?

Depends what you do on Windows. As someone who never really got into gaming and who loved programming it was the obvious choice.

Windows singularly fails in some of the most basic operations you could want from an OS. It makes me so angry the way it takes so long to copy a bunch of files, for example. Or if it won’t delete some files because one ‘is still in use’ but it won’t tell me which one or which program is using it! Why? Its infuriating.

Linux has none of these issues. And with a enough time, native ports of some of the games I used to play became available. I would never go back to Windows now.

I’m genuinely asking for information here. You talk as though my lack of understanding is some kind of position I choose to maintain. There are very few cases in which I would choose to dehumanise anyone. Except for perhaps the most extreme incidents of violent crime.

I’m someone who wants to learn what you know. Tell me.

Downvoted for asking an open question. I’m sensing extremism is lurking… XD

This all sounds lovely, but I’m struggling to see Russia’s role in opposing imperialism following their repeated incursions into Ukrainian territory and the more recent full-blown military invasion and the subsequent war. I understand imperialism can be summarised by one nation ruling or attempting to rule over another. How do Russia’s actions with Ukraine represent a “progressive” role in opposing it?

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It’s very odd. I’m trying to work out if its pro-Russian activists hijacking a largely unregulated and slightly obscure social networking platform or if it’s just extremist lefties who’ve gone so far to left they’ve gone around the back and reappeared on the far right! Either way the absence of (or presence of shit) moderators is noticeable here…

It’s not your phone. That’s what Google wants you to believe. Enjoy your spy-phone :)

Is this really where we’re at? I’ve seen like five like this on here just today. Where are these wildly extreme views coming from? I need actual sources that are not simply other memes.

Get Graphene OS on it and I’ll be interested

Preordainment or not, I believe you’ve fulfilled that role beautifully. Thank you for taking the time to respond to me.

All good points. Thank you for your answers. I will hold on to this exchange. And I already know it will help inform how I move forwards. I hope you understand from this that not all those who ask questions or who carry doubts are against the trans community. All the best.

Thank you for your heartfelt response. I can see how broad sweeping rules against trans people would cause great pain, but similarly I see that broadsweeping rules in support of trans people in terms of access to female-only spaces and the right to compete in any and all sports in one’s preferred gender category at any point during transition would lead to issues for others.

I can see how the reality in any given case is far more complex and likely it would need to determined on a case-by-case basis if a trans woman offender should be placed in a women’s prison, for example, or if a trans woman athlete is sufficiently feminised to be a fair competitor for the women’s category. But there it is again… The unwanted interrogation.

The search for ‘femininity’ or ‘masculinity’ in the blood, in the cells, in the bone, in the mind. Is there any fair process here? Do we need one? Do we do away with all of them and put cis women at risk?

Honestly. I thank you for your candour, and I can totally see your point. This is why I’m only sharing opinions here that I’ve honestly never shared and am unlikely to share anywhere else. I appreciate you taking the time to respond to them.

There are a couple edge cases that I’m still struggling with. Firstly, I think there should be women’s-only spaces. A long time ago I did a couple of summer’s work for a ground’s maintenance company. One of the jobs was at a women’s refuge. I presume the people (women and children) there were mostly fleeing domestic abuse. I’ll never forget the look of fear in their collective eyes through the windows and doors as I worked with the two other men trimming hedges and mowing lawns on the property. Clearly their mistrust of men was such that they would be unlikely to accept a trans woman, and I would say asking people like that to make concessions for others would be a step too far. Maybe when they’re stronger, and happier? But not there, in that place.

You’ve outlined very well why there isn’t a reductionist, measurable unit of ‘womanhood’. Either in cells, chromosomes or in some other aspect of our biochemical makeup. I agree with you! I’ve made the case that a better measure of ‘womanhood’ can be found in a more holistic view of the life experiences associated with cis women. I pointed to female reproduction and reproductive health as a specific example. There is another example that I struggle with…

Trans women athletes competing as women in sports. The statistics show that regardless of the instantaneous measures of womanhood through measures of blood testosterone, trans women athletes clearly have a physical advantage over cis women for having a musculature and biomechanical development that likely took place during a period of elevated testosterone. To me this again shows how life history plays a significant part in the nature of the woman (see https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9331831/ ).

What you’ve outlined is a view that accepts a trans woman as a woman. What, from the moment she decides to take that path? Even before she’s applied the first hormone patch? What about the men who were abusive rapists and who decide to transition right before sentencing? Should they be put in an all-women’s prison? I don’t want people to suffer, regardless of sex, gender or orientation, but frankly, the complexities around issues like these make me see that classifications based on life histories are far simpler for other people with sensitivies and needs.

It almost feels like you’re saying the term trans wo/man is an insult. I’ve never considered that before. Is there no room for a trans wo/man to own that phrase and the full reality of their situation? Why are trans people not proud of who they are, what they’ve been through, and where they are, up to an including the things that medical science cannot give them?

Another life history experience that I didn’t know about or include on the list.