Notices by Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top), page 6
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:05:22 JST 
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@diceynes @Metamedia I have some firm convictions regarding certain philosophical and political camps and their need to infest absolutely everything and turn it into some greater self-serving narrative and IMO this is one of the spheres in which that has sadly been active.
As for the state of things now, I think it's a double-edged sword. The trans people I know who began their journey 10+ years ago didn't have as easy a time as those coming up now (for example, DIY was harder to acquire, as were legit scrips) but they also weren't thrown into communities that are as unhealthy as a lot of the ones that attract (young, especially) transitioners now. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:05:19 JST
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@diceynes @Metamedia I also hear veteran trans women complain a lot about how increased trans visibility compromise their ability to pass, because people are more sus and know what to look for more. Just look at the state of the internet (not that it represents “normie” physical reality directly) in which deranged people constantly scream “TRANNY!!” at each other over absolutely anything: having slightly bigger wrists in photos where they’re holding up objects, or even simply using discord.
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:05:15 JST
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@orangelantern @Metamedia Huh, I guess we came up in pretty different communities!
But yeah, I mean, accusing a cis woman of being trans just because she's muscular just displays ignorance. Analyzing jawlines, shoulders and hands? That's actually more robust, and people seem to know to do it now. Which sucks! -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:05:04 JST
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@Metamedia @orangelantern Even if you want to get into ANCIENT Scandinavia its social system, religion and culture bear no fucking resemblance at all to what Nazis advocate.
But the power of imagination and the need to cope is a powerful force. Consider Varg Vikernes - despite his personal convictions and his reputation, I actually think he's one of the people who best understands ancient Scandinavia, his book on sorcery in that civilization is absolutely seminal. He truly *gets* Seiðr. But then on the next page he argues that gay people were thrown into pits(????) -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:05:00 JST
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@Metamedia Also, no, pre-emptively, I'm not saying trans people aren't 💯valid💯, I'm not saying people don't transition for more legitimate reasons, etc. etc., and yes I'm aware that transitioning opens you to new avenues of prejudice, but in the social arenas these people existed in (e.g. FOSS) it was more possible to leverage for social capital. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:57 JST
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@diceynes @Metamedia I'd like to hope so but I see people fooled by obvious psychopaths all the time
That's not even a term I throw out willy-lilly, I'm using it in the literal sense of having a kind of inscrutable "inner hollowness" that not only manifests as a lack of empathy but also "something deeper." -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:56 JST
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@errante @Metamedia @orangelantern Let's not forget that it CLEARLY happened in a lesbian context too. Sappho gets memed and latched onto a lot by modern lesbians as a "literally me" but her situation actually wasn't atypical at all. Older women would frequently sexually instruct younger women and make love to them. Sappho had a husband, who knew what she was doing and was apparently fine with it, and who doubtless spent his life fucking breedable boys too. (Though I do definitely recognise that the name and account given of her husband is an imagined history of Roman origin. For fuck's sake, his name is a dick joke.) -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:54 JST
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@diceynes @Metamedia The main one I'm thinking of never displayed any emotional characteristics at all, ran a house full of security cameras in every room that he invited vulnerable people to live in (and then opened their mail and gaslit them,) and then suddenly became a theymab out of nowhere before finally apparently transitioning, still going about daily business being a bugperson and doxing people over irc disputes regarding foss project implementations etc.
There was no exagerrated behaviour, it was Patrick Bateman all the way down, except without any of the "literally me" cool antihero qualities -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:40 JST
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@orangelantern @Metamedia Well, their cognition of which groups are "degenerate" isn't just based on who's easy to prey on, but yes, it generally aligns, since they prefer to construct imagined history based on very recent societal periods. It's actually pretty interesting. They associate all this mid-20th century morality with, for example, ancient Vedic civilization. And protestantism. Truly the most Aryan religion. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:35 JST
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@Metamedia @orangelantern From what I can determine, their argument for haplogroup similarity between Scandinavians and "Aryans" isn't entirely baseless. I got curious since I got my genetics run years ago and wanted to interpret them. Ambiguities arise because "Aryan" has been used differently by the Vedic civilization (in which it seems to have been a signifier for nobility, not directly ethnicity) and Persia (in which it seems to have been used primarily as a cultural self-descriptor for the purposes of excluding foreign peoples.)
However, I do remain unconvinced that "ancient Aryans were White™" on the basis that low melanin concentrations are typically an adaptation to higher latitude biomes with less sunlight. On the other hand, though, there *is* evidence of blue eye prevalency among some of these historical groups and castes.
Sadly it's a topic I have found it exceedingly difficult to research properly because both sides (yes, both sides, I don't care if it's a meme, it's actually true) are so deeply invested in misinformation. It's easy to weed out the total fantasists ("Aryans were from Atlantis/Hyperborea" etc.) but the other side's misinformation (intended to firmly break ANY cognition of a Germanic-Vedic link) is more insidious and well-executed. Stuff like this really frustrates me because these lies didn't NEED to be told, and telling them just compromises the integrity of institutions which are supposed to stand for truth and lends credence to their opponents' fantastical arguments.
As a final note, I'm glad that this desperate need to control information on this topic seems to have pervaded only through the field of genetics, with linguistics (e.g. the study of Indo-European languages) and comparative religion/mythology (e.g. the "Odin is from Scythia" hypothesis) left, seemingly, largely to their own devices.
tl;dr Controversial topics are almost impossible to research properly, and I think it's only going to get worse, and I find that incredibly frustrating because I actually want to know the TRUTH, not just support a foregone conclusion in one direction or the other. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 00:57:02 JST
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>Haha so funny that chudbuds.lol got fucked
Fuck off. I wasn't the place's #1 fan either but doxing is the same as snitching. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:18 JST
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Pizza Tower clear!
An acceptable ranking (61%) for a first go I'd say. I beat the final boss and escape on my first try, too.
That was, without a single doubt, the best platform game I've ever played in my entire life. It's one of my favourite genres and I've played a lot of them. There are a lot that are significant to me for a range of reasons (Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Lapin, I Wanna Be The Guy to name a few) but this was a literal masterpiece. I don't have a single criticism, not even a nitpick.
There's a LOT of depth here to master, too. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:34:38 JST
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@mia @ec670 @netdoll They must have been trading surely? I don't know how much mutual intelligibility there was. Aegean languages seem primarily Indo-European and Canaanite seems to have been Semitic, so not much overlap on the surface I guess. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:22:55 JST
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@ec670 @mia @netdoll But seriously, I burned my notes from back then and I'm having trouble digging it out now, so I'm wondering if I somehow gaslit myself -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:22:40 JST
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:21:16 JST
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@netdoll @mia The Bible as History by Werner Keller focuses primarily on biblical archaeology with a particular emphasis on how 19th century archaeologists found Ur by retracing the steps in the story of Abraham. That's not necessarily an argument for the historicift of Abraham himself but I do find it suggestive.
What gets me most is the actual story of Abraham's life tho. It's not really in line with the rest of the material, is it? The guy is a very obvious magician described as performing a ritual that put him into contact with a god. No moral commandments are given to him, in fact, this god seems to be at his beck and call, with a vested interest in securing his family and lineage (consider that Sarah openly laughs when this god says it can restore her fertility, and nothing bad happens; it simply calls her out on having laughed and then makes good on its promise.) There's no apparent moral to the story of Abraham, it just describes a magician getting rich by scamming a pharaoh.
Why include that for the purposes of some kind of allegory? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:13:37 JST
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@mia @netdoll But doesn't Egypt have records where they flex about shitting all over Canaan? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:13:35 JST
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@mia @netdoll I WANT to contradict this but I can't call to mind the thing that I'm thinking of. 2021 was a blur of frenzied research for me and I burned all my notes like a true schizo. Oh well.
While you're both here: thoughts on the historicity of Abraham? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:08:28 JST
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@netdoll YOU JUST KNOW -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 10:07:52 JST
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@netdoll What a king. Shine on you crazy diamond.
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