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Comment Re: Not only Hertz... (Score 2) 262

Herz decision was about resale value. When Elon dropped prices, they lost a lot of money. Seeing that he might do it again, they are abandoning evâ(TM)s altogether.

Understandable. But also short sighted.

Comment Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score 1) 145

But you don't go around assigning "normal" label to everything that is normal. The "normal" people didn't ask for this. And do not apply it in daily use.

Wrong.

If you describe someone as heterosexual, which statistically speaking, is the norm, it is not considered a slur, and is regularly used.

You're trying to turn a personal discomfort of yours into some kind of objective truth, and it's transparent and pathetic.

You will notice, that this is not something that was in use, even back in Latin Rome.

The prefix cis? Of course it was.

Do you mean just in the context of gender? If so, then you really are a fucking moron.

Knowledge that your brain was the source of your intelligence also wasn't known "back in Latin Rome". Doesn't make it less biologically true.

The reason being that in order to communicate fast and easily, the most used words are usually short, and superfluous words are excluded, and only the exceptions are mentioned. As in homosexual, which is the exception to normal sexuality.

And yet the word heterosexual exists, has been in use for quite some time, and nobody has labeled it a slur.

The premise of your argument is absurd.

See also Huffman codes and the Zip algorithm if any of that rings a bell. It is also how our brain stores information. By simply ignoring the things that are common.

I'm a BSCS. The idea that the brain stores information in a way anything like a Huffman code is fucking patently absurd.
You are desperately grasping for anything to justify your mislabeling a technical descriptor as a slur. It's fucking weak.

Well, why do you think you remember less and less of every day? Why does it take longer the first time you walk a route? Because the brain just stores reference to prior experiences. This is how the zip algorithm work basically. Implementations may wary.

Now I don't think people in Rome labelled themselves cisgender. In fact, I see no evidence of this ever occurring in history. Anywhere. Transgender people have existed since before we were humans. And yet, only now they have a need to label the rest of us. No thank you.

The rest of your post is.. well confusing I must say. I don't think you understood what I said.

Comment Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score 1) 145

All data suggest its not easy to be a transgender.

You are always born in the body you appear to be in. No need to make up names for it.
Sometimes you would wish you were not, but I think you have to suffer it until some kind of soul transfer is invented by Elon.

Now, everyone is free to claim they are in reality a woman. That is their right. However, the rest of us has the right to disagree. To say that, no, we do not believe you are a woman. We will not allow a person with a penis into a woman's prison.

As I wrote elsewhere, in language we assign labels mostly to the unusual. So adding a label here, where none is needed, is considered derogatory by many.

So it has to stop. It's a slur.

Comment Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score 0) 145

I don't think people change names just because someone else makes a mistake. At least not here in this country.

As for Twitter, I will take with me, that I can insult anything as long as I judge them not to have feelings.

Thank you. Made my day. So many people just don't understand that last part.

Comment Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score 1) 145

You're a fucking moron.

The prefix cis- comes from Latin and means "on the same side as" or "of". It is often used in contrast to the prefix trans-, which means "on the other side of" or "beyond".

It's as much a slur as "homosexual" is, which it isn't.

You're upset that a thing you consider "normal" has been assigned a label, nothing more.

But you don't go around assigning "normal" label to everything that is normal. The "normal" people didn't ask for this. And do not apply it in daily use.

You will notice, that this is not something that was in use, even back in Latin Rome.

The reason being that in order to communicate fast and easily, the most used words are usually short, and superfluous words are excluded, and only the exceptions are mentioned. As in homosexual, which is the exception to normal sexuality.

See also Huffman codes and the Zip algorithm if any of that rings a bell. It is also how our brain stores information. By simply ignoring the things that are common.

This moron has 5 degrees :)

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