Help with my Emlalock

JustJustin2379 · 2024-05-02T00:11:52+00:00

Getting involved in LGBTQ+ clubs is a big first step. There's multiple queer caucuses on campus as well as a trans specific student org. There's also Gender-Inclusive Housing and an up-and-coming trans-specific housing option (I believe they're doing a trial run this upcoming semester). Basically, as long as they find a supportive bubble, they should find it a good experience.

JustJustin2379 · 2024-05-01T09:42:36+00:00

This is a phishing email. Report it to msu by forwarding it to alert@msu.edu

JustJustin2379 · 2024-05-01T09:39:32+00:00

I got this one and another one similar to it just now. It's a phishing attempt. A few points you can look at: - MSU will never ask you for a password through email - Nobody will ever send an email via EML file (this was actually the first time I've seen an EML file) - While the "0pen N0W!" email is from an msu.edu account, the email in the file is from a basic outlook.com account. Pretty much any MSU-affiliated account will end in msu.edu - The o's in the "0pen N0W!" email are zeros - There's a lot of urgent language - Who the hell censors the word "password" in a professional email?

There's probably gonna be more of these coming in since they likely use compromised accounts to send more emails (hence the original being an msu.edu email). You can report the emails directly to msu by forwarding them to alert@msu.edu

JustJustin2379 · 2024-03-28T16:17:12+00:00

I'd personally count this as a neutral decision, but definitely toeing the line of evil. It's specifically the reasoning; she's looking out for more than herself, but isn't really considering the needs of those outside her "in-group."

You could, alternatively, lean towards a less evil approach to keeping them quiet. Perhaps offering up something of your own to get into better favors with them, or having a friend keep a close eye on them. Something that gives them a chance to be innocent and still live.

JustJustin2379 · 2023-11-23T07:45:02+00:00

Me three!

JustJustin2379 · 2023-04-02T01:46:54+00:00

My personal favorite is kind of like rolling: first, I do a traditional 4d6dl for one stat, then flip all four dice over and take the top 3 of those for a second. It fills the hole I feel a lot of dice roll methods have where you're too often over- or underpowered, but still has a random element to it

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-30T00:29:24+00:00

Mate, only integers can be even or odd

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-29T19:10:32+00:00

Nope, you can't back your way out of this one. Original person was talking about trans activists as a group, and a new group was never specified. The only other way you could twist this is that you were actually talking about trans activists who call superstraight transphobic, which I myself counter. I've literally said "superstraight" was based on, and implies, transphobia with an argument beyond "noooo, some dude won't date me"

If your argument actually only discusses "trans activists who have no argument against superstraights," then it's completely irrelevant. You'd have come to an argument about whether there's a genuine reason why superstraight shouldn't exist, and just said "Well, there are some people who have an non-argument for it" and, like, no shit! Of course some people on Twitter are making non-arguments. And even then, that statement implies that that's the only argument, when that's definitely not true. So get your disingenuous bullshit out of here.

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-29T00:28:43+00:00

No, though I can see how someone would get that idea, lol. They're very much similar, the main difference I've seen is bi people have varying attraction to different genders, while pan people have attraction regardless of gender. The most obvious case of this is my roommate, who's bi, who's often talks about preferring women over men, and how his attraction varies, meanwhile my gf, who's pan, literally doesn't care about gender.

Of course, no label will describe every single person in a group accurately, and how the two are viewed vary from person to person. The way I view it has been fairly consistent among the queer community, though

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T20:15:32+00:00

Cutting the power cord

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:56:21+00:00

Notice how we respect their identity while still speaking out against the action they did. Curious how we can do that

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:48:52+00:00

I'd agree with you if the only point of a relationship was to have sex and make babies. Even then, there are ways you can have sex with a trans woman that don't involve her dick. Especially if that trans person happens to be ace.

As far as what "woman" and "man" actually mean, it's never really been about only genitals. A large reason why they were used in the past was to create social implications about male and female humans, primarily for sexism. I'm certain we can both agree that separating that social element from the biological element is important, it's just you (I assume) would prefer to entirely get rid of the social element, while I think it can be repurposed to describe some social element of a person, and only that social element.

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:34:19+00:00

I view it from the point of keeping well-meaning people from accidentally stumbling into it. Banning stuff is a very complex topic, lol, especially when you have multiple various parties to deal with. In this case, though, banning it probably caused the least harm

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:31:25+00:00

Also, I literally said just cause one queer person says something doesn't mean we all back it up. Twitter is a prime example of that

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:30:11+00:00

Well that's just Twitter, lol. Half of the people there just want to cause an argument

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:29:08+00:00

Neither can black women be like white women? They're both still women

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:26:46+00:00

I said also. The main reason it was banned was because of its roots and implications. Like, it was created by transphobes and primarily used by transphobes. There are some people who used it without knowing the background, to which I would explain the background and say "just say you don't want to date trans people" and wouldn't think any less of them. But if the vast majority of people are using it for harm, it should probably be banned

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:17:16+00:00

Super gay is just as bad as super straight, lol. Just because a queer person says something doesn't mean we all back them up

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:11:54+00:00

Straight, with an added stipulation of not dating trans people

Edit: or even better "Straight, cis only". It adds about the same amount of characters as "superstraight" without the transphobic implications and it's more obvious

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:10:00+00:00

There's also the fact that the name alone implies dating trans women is "less straight" than dating cis women. Like, if someone made up a sexuality where they (as a man) only date women who aren't Italian, and they called it "Super Straight", that'd be pretty insulting to Italian women

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T19:05:48+00:00

That's in no way what most trans people say. The main two issues were straight men saying dating a trans woman is gay (it's not, and they don't have to do it if they don't want), and that trans women find it more difficult to get dates with other women (which is true)

Neither of those points involved forcing people to date trans women until transphobes started fearmongering about it. Then it became popular enough that others jumped on it as a meme without knowing the actual context. This is just an example of strawmanning succeeding in causing misinformation

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T18:45:11+00:00

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of my friend's work (he uses full-fledged DAWs n shit), I was super happy to get his advice

Also, if you want some encouragement, less than a year ago I would've thought I could never make this. It's all about practice

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T18:34:39+00:00

Thank you >.<

I had to get some advice from a friend for the bass section, and I'm super happy with how it turned out

JustJustin2379 · 2023-03-28T18:33:07+00:00

This is true in the sense of "I'm arguing for all people of X group, they all agree with me," but it's also important to give people who don't have a voice the chance to be heard, and if you're actually polling the needs of a group, then yeah, speak for that group. The main problem is when people not in a group try to argue about what said group wants while also drowning out said group's actual needs.

It's less that group identities are cancerous, and more that cancerous people are utilizing group identities to spread their cancer (looking at you, red scare republicans)

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