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Syncthing is fucking awesome everyone should know about syncthing.

Okay, sex determination in humans.

This shit is COMPLICATED and this will probably be a longish thread. Sorry. But I've seen a lot of people claim that "biology says" that everyone is either male or female, full stop, and it's just not true. 1/22

I want to rescue this from my account on the birdsite but I once got into arguing with TERFs (it happens, try not to judge me too harshly) and as a biologist I just wanted to push back a little on the "it's just biology" line, so I wrote the following:
@tomorohhidari ah yes, the Survivor gambit: the I of the tiger
EvERY FUCKING INTERNET #MAGA CHUD: We are not neo-Nazis and how dare you call us that. Anyway, here is my very smart extra-Nazi take that is 100% curated from white supremacist canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_RWS4Pft2I
Tim Pool Joins Nikki Haley's Idiot Contest

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It tells us where the permission levels are right now for our national gang of genocidal bullies, by which I mean the Republican Party.

When I say things like this, I’m often admonished for being divisive or polarized.

By framing our current situation as a fight against fascism and supremacy, I'm told I’m passing up a real opportunity to persuade those who are engaged in these things—and persuasion is what’s necessary to drive real change.

So I've been thinking a lot about persuasion.

Imagine using a website or computer program that you were not in an actively adversarial relationship with the people who created it

Project 2025 is a "get out if you can" kind of moment. If you're a queer person in the US and you have the means, you should leave the country. It can happen here, it *is* happening here in fits and starts in various states, and it will only get more difficult to escape if any of this happens on a federal level which there are reasonable odds of.

In every genocide that has happened, the majority of victims were arrested in peaceful, orderly manners, even long after the genocide began. They were arrested in their homes more often than in hiding, arrested while trying to live their lives as normally as possible more often than they were caught being involved in underground resistance. Part of what makes fascist genocides so horribly successful is that people can scarcely comprehend the danger, it's nearly impossible to actually hold in your mind that things will get that bad, not in the abstract but in a direct, personal, immediate sense. People do not believe in gas chambers even when they can smell the crematoria, because the human mind buckles under the weight of that horror.

It *can* happen here. It has begun happening here. Powerful electoral political institutions that draft successful legislation have published public plans for it to happen here, in an orderly, legal, formal, dreadfully complete manner.

It can happen here. You, the person reading this, need to repeat that until you believe it. It needs to exist in your mind with the same sharp danger as walking into your living room and finding your curtains on fire, it needs to be real like a gun being pointed at you while your wallet is demanded. It can happen here.

So I'm trying to finally move out of my old storage and avoid losing my old tech collection. I'm nearly there (the new storage is ready!) but I need to pay the old storage before I'll be able to move out.
Any help would be great, thanks!

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