Eyed

I was talking with my partner about this and other related nonsense. She brought up the idea that de facto what this sort of effort does is to create and reinforce the notion that women’s bodies are inherently sexual, and that these attempts to police how women are perceived (even against their own wishes) does not help women, but instead only further harms them and makes into a pseudo-protected, special and lesser class.

These policies are designed to treat women as “other.” For instance, you can shoot a man from camera angles that would not be permitted under the new guidelines. This creates a state of exception for a woman where she must be treated differently while doing the same activity.

You know what, we already tried “Separate but Equal.” That did not really work out. We should not be repeating that mistake and hoping for better results.

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Stated End

Something I am curious about: Where is the liberal and “feminist” war on attraction and people having bodies supposed to lead? What is the goal of all that?

I know, it probably doesn’t have one. It’s just fear, intrasexual competition and utter clownery. But does anyone ever think about what the end state of that would look like?

Moon Bearing

Hell naw

Got bad news for you, buddy: Nearly all populations everywhere aren’t the original inhabitants of anywhere. I know this is supposed to be some moronic anti-European anti-white post, (and it does in fact succeed in being moronic) but humans have been replacing each other and killing each other off for fucking ever. To paraphrase some other often-misattributed quote, “Only the dead have seen the end of population replacement.”

Clownish bullshit.

The only completely-verifiable indigenous population claim is that Americans are the only people indigenous to the Moon. So fuck all y’all.

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Tag Out

Why are so many clown-ass morons so obsessed with not allowing a folder structure, and instead relying on tagging in software?

This completely falls apart after a few hundred files. Partially, that’s because tags are never complete or accurate. I mean, I’ve literally never seen it once where they are always correct. And it’s just a bad organization system from a design perspective.

The thing is, folders and tags aren’t even competitors. A folder is just a tag that enforces itself. Every file (unless you have a really terrible system, which I’ve also seen) lives in exactly one place, and that place is a claim about what the thing is. That’s not a limitation, actually. That’s the whole goddamn point.

And tags only work if someone applies them, completely, forever. Nobody does because it’s ungodly boring. So the system degrades silently. A directory structure fails in an obvious way, i.e., you see the wrong file in the wrong place. Tags fail by negligence and quietly. By the time you notice half your library is mistagged, it’s too late. The “flexibility” everyone worships is an illusion that leads to more entropy, not less. That’s very similar to the “convenience” everyone claims about smartphones even though doing anything on them is vastly slower, with surveillance baked in guaranteed, and is always a worse experience.

The propagandistic promotion of tagging shows that allowing the user to control what they want to is something doofy devs and dipshit designers will do anything to avoid.