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  • The terms hetero and homo refer to gender, not sex. So nothing has changed and whatever attracted you to him is what attracted you. If that’s gender-expression, and that gender expression has changed, and you’re no longer attracted, then hetero is the term for that. If it was, but you were attracted to his masculinity, then homo is appropriate. If you were attracted to his feminity, but also like his masculinity, then bi is appropriate and if his gender never played a part then pan is appropriate.

    That being said, the other person doesn’t really define your label. Just call yourself what you like. It’s completely okay to like someone for one set of reasons, and then stay with them because you grew closer and found a bunch of other reasons, and are now in love and have a life together.


  • Doubtful. The task of running an LLM and playing a video game is the same, so it just comes down to which has more customers. A lot of people spend many hours playing video games. There might be more LLM users, but they use the LLM for a few seconds a day, as opposed to an hour or more.

    That being said, they’re both non-issues compared to beef production, which involves torturing cows. This activism should be directed there, then you can move down the target list once factory farming is outlawed.



  • male only spaces could be a clutch until men get better at talking with women.

    You’re not really making a good case for the inclusion of women in those sessions.

    non-judgmental, but by women and men alike.

    But it’s understood that the men in these spaces are already non-judgemental, or they wouldn’t work. But your comment makes it very clear who you put the blame on. As long as men right now are able to feel safe among other men and not in mixed groups, men’s groups should be encouraged.

    Yes, the support group teaching masking is teaching a toxic culture, but if it’s necessary, it’s also teaching survival. It’s okay for any individual man or group of men to want to keep their head down and not be the driver of societal change.










  • Though he was named directly and is still just an economist.

    Well he’s a famous guy and knows a lot of important people, directly worked with the CIA and USA government before. And Davel wasn’t saying “The Lancet published this conspiracy” but that the guy that the Lancet - who is very trustworthy - trusts and says is qualified to weigh in, is independently pushing it. So Jeremy was borrowing his authority from having been associated with The Lancet, and he has some authority already from his celebrity-status and previous work, not necessarily from his hard skills (economics).

    That’s a far cry from “CIA bioweapon” like the OOP believes.

    Okay. I believe that. I haven’t read the article and don’t want to weigh in. I haven’t investigated the claim, anything I add can only be nonsense. I wasn’t pushing a Fort Detrick bioweapon conspiracy, I just wanted to clarify Davel’s comment because I didn’t feel your objection to it was fair, or if it was just a question with no position then I answered the question. Feel free to discuss the article with Davel since you have both read the article.



  • I’d think there’d be at least as much pro-China content on a Chinese platform.

    There is a lot of Chinese state-sponsored propaganda on TikTok, as well as pro-China speech by unaffiliated users. This is true of TikTok and of YouTube and Twitter. (The state-sponsored propaganda I’m highlighting isn’t particularly insidious, it’s things like student exchange or paid travel bloggers, Chinese news spending budget to create English language content). But you aren’t more likely to come across it on TikTok than western platforms, because China doesn’t control the algorithm. TikTok was forked off a Chinese product, but it’s controlled by Oracle and the USA in terms of tuning and moderation. The Chinese just collect rent.

    Now if your angle isn’t that TikTok pushes those things, but just that kids use it and kids are impressionable, then I don’t have any objections with what you’re saying. I haven’t seen any Chinese state-sponsored content that plays well with kids, but I wouldn’t expect to either since my recommendation feed looks different (and I don’t use TikTok).


  • Would it really be a shock to anyone if a global superpower spread propaganda to be viewed more positively by people around the world? Russia and the USA do it all the time. Why wouldn’t China?

    Completely reasonable.

    I’d say it’s quite likely.

    But this isn’t reasonable at all, and it’s what you’re trying to defend.

    Lemmy has no value. It’s a waste of resources. Your assertion wasn’t that China is has propaganda. I know they do, there are hundreds of officially disclosed initiatives. Your assertion is that Lemmy users aren’t genuine.

    You also implied that TikTok - A platform globally moderated by the the USA - is a hotbed for PR Chinese propaganda, which isn’t reasonable either.