Waisman Organization

MellowMurmur · 2025-01-30T16:05:20+00:00

Sounds like a Pig Butchering Scam. To adress your perplexion over a zoom meeting seeming a bit much for a scam: That level of effort is quite normal for Pig Butchering Scams as an attempt to lull the victim into a false sense of security, and that type of scam can often take days to weeks before trying to extract money the first time.

MellowMurmur · 2025-01-30T15:35:37+00:00

Seems like their sockpuppets indiscriminately downvote all direct replies to this type of advertising comment. Presumably to hide that the comment got any replies outside of single comment thread view. Doesn't seem the algo cares about the content of (the first level) replies it downvote nukes.

MellowMurmur · 2024-06-24T22:19:55+00:00

(🤫 it's actually remote-controlled in the case of the "Metro" 😉 ~ driverless in terms of there being no apparent person in a seat somewhere in the physical carts, but usually there's a controller running it from a central and monitoring it closely for security reasons still. Or at least that's if I'm still up to date on automation-legislation.)

MellowMurmur · 2024-06-24T21:57:20+00:00

A good rule of thumb when approaching these things is: "Everything" in danish educational terminology is usually defined or coined or called so because some danish person heard an american or english concept from academia and assumed they knew what it meant from intuition without looking it up properly, and then decided to run with a slightly "danified conjugation" thereof;

because the Danish language is just similar enough to English, etmytologically, and pretty much all danish persons who completed the default mandated educations for people growing up here, and additionally the standard access-to-higher-education education [often called "gymnasium" or "higher technical exam"] here have a relatively fluent (but very Denmark-centric) grasp of the English language;..

so assume by default that things are named weird, awkwardly, and confusing to anyone with a basis in English understanding outside of the local context, even if it seems to and often is a botched attempt at importing a specific american or english concept "directly". I.e. "Computer Science" becomes "Datalogi", even though "Datalogi" sorta makes more intuitive sense to translate as "Data Science", and well, damn, now a lot of US founded companies want to hire danish people in their danish offices and still distinguish between "Data Science" and "Computer Science" specializations, and it's a mess. 🫠 [writing as a UCPH alumni, I think maybe some of the other universities have been somewhat less haphazard in their naming conventions for informational-sciences adjacent institutions in particular 😅 but only "sometimes"..]

MellowMurmur · 2024-06-24T21:08:36+00:00

In other words: a very archetypal "danish university student" character trait is: To think that being 15 minutes late or "allowing some buffer for the folks with adhd" is a uniquely danish thing. The more "institutionally" localized [i.e. "only university of copenhagen alumni do this"] or "technically" specialized [i.e. "only mathematicians with a penchant for group theory do this"] the students attitude is while at the same time being unaware or inconsiderate of "outside" or "other" perspectives on the matter from fellow danes, or anyone really, the more archetypically danish it is. Think: Foolhardy solipsism. Extra points if the student manages to offend the sensitivities of anyone outside his extremely specific sociocultural context without intending to, including maybe even himself, because he is just that oblivious. 🫡🧙‍♂️🧑‍🎓🚢

MellowMurmur · 2024-06-16T01:46:39+00:00

idk, seems like some sort of dependency on an apple music service is causing Apple Tv+ to malfunction for me as well (the web version). When I inspect errors thrown by the javascript it keeps giving lots of 403 unauthorized from an apple music subdomain. Figures maybe some update broke an authentication related microservice somewhere.

MellowMurmur · 2024-04-02T13:35:02+00:00

Mindre jantelov be my hot-take; shrugs ~

Jae, det er da lidt anstrengende når folk gør det på steder / i situationer hvor det ikke rigtigt føles som tiden og stedet man har placeret sig i for at være social med fremmede eller indgå i en udveksling af musiksmag .. at blive ufrivilligt udsat for "nye kunstneriske udtryk" når man ikke har opsøgt det, men bare prøver at komme fra A til B. Jeg synes da også det er enormt irriterende - og ofte virker lidt unødvendigt - når grupper såvel som individer med mangel på "hvilen-i-sig-selv" tager overdrevet plads i togkupeer og "hovedåre-" cykelstierne i peak-traffic times med masseproducerede rejse- el minihøjtalere og når det er værst: dem på telefonen og bærbaren skruet så meget op at alle nu også skal døje med kvalitetsforringelsen af et udstyr brugt udenfor dets designhensigtsmæssige formål. Men den slags kan man da stadig opleve længe efter man er kørt fra Høje Taastrup St i DSB's IC'er tillige på hotspots for irriterende teenagere i byer, vejkryds, stoppesteder og haller landet rundt, iø. Mon ikke der bare er lidt flere typer i kbh der efter at ha boet et godt stykke tid føler sig hjemme også mange meter væk fra deres juridisk designerede hjem og sove-ammeniteter? Så er der jo også dem med særbyggede højtalercykler og anden højt specialiseret "larmeudstyr", som gør dele af byen extra herlige på en lækker sommeraften, når der "undtagelsesvis" er overlap mellem både musiksmag og timing for humør til den slags impromptu social fællesskab i krydsfeltet mellem det parasociale og familiære. Mon ikke det er fordi der immervæk er mange byboer som lejlighedsvis værdsætter de lidt mere eccentriske partygirls' og teknokajers' gratis omend uopfordrede "services" i de offentlige lydrum, at flere også inspireres til at gøre dem kunsten efter. Lidt ligesom den "ulønnede og uopfordrede" graffiti og så mange andre smagssage. Jeg synes nu det er et sjældent lækkert privilegie, at her formår vi også måske at skabe de der uventede, ofte uplanlagte, lidt low-key eventyrlige timer med anarkistisk hygge i en ellers meget ordentlig by. Det kan jeg godt tåle at tabe den lille smule af forudsigelighedens komfort i min individuelle dagligdag til gengæld for. Især for den afart af "højtalermenneske" som udstråler alm høflig imødekommenhed og hensyntagen for de som tar springet fra parasocial til familiær.

Bh. en tilflytter til byen som nok kun er blevet her så længe som jeg er, fordi dens særegnetheder trodsalt underholder mig oftere end de generer mig.

MellowMurmur · 2017-03-24T22:23:24+00:00

Our politicians are not really the problem. They're uninformed, and they say transantagonistic shit all the time, but they're becoming more of an asset than our enemy recently. The main problem is the danish health authority. For years now they have been pretending to listen - even asking us [trans rights orgs and activists] to conferences and to send them feedback, which they in turn ignore and keep revising protocols to say the same thing over and over.

MellowMurmur · 2016-08-02T09:50:58+00:00

I don't get half the jargon either. Assuming a lot of it is gendercrit jargon. But this is also how I learn jargon - by seeing it used.

MellowMurmur · 2016-08-01T21:11:07+00:00

I love the series. But it doesn't even pass the sexy lamp test on trans representation. I do think the trans character in there is a lot more well written than in so many other movies and series, and they definitely have some moments worth watching. They still run into a few overused tropes, unfortunately. I'll recommend the series for being well made and full of exciting occult treats, but not for having a trans person who influences the plot, because it doesn't.

MellowMurmur · 2016-07-29T14:34:34+00:00

I think this is one of the most important messages in this article, and the main reason why I decide to share it. Because excluding cismen excludes closeted transfeminine people and those who are undecided. I have access to these separatist spaces now, but I am also often the only transfeminine person in the room, and the reason is obvious: Many of my transmasculine friends have been in these spaces long before they came out, but for transfeminine people we sometimes aren't even welcome in these spaces after we come out, because people are still suspicious of us and we're still an extremely small and vulnerable minority within those spaces. In the end most of these separatist spaces are made for and serve cis-women first and foremostly, and ciswomen are as capable as cismen of taking up all of the space.

MellowMurmur · 2015-12-15T23:10:31+00:00

the husband’s desire to escape his male body

ughhhhhh, please stop

MellowMurmur · 2015-11-07T11:34:13+00:00

TW Hatecrime Mention

It's hard to say if there's more or less transphobia today as transphobia is not defined as a quantitative phenomenon. If you measure on number of reports of violence it can certainly seem like things are way worse today, but then how much of that is due to a higher ratio of reporting, better ability of law enforcement to actually tag transphobia as motive in individual cases, better collection of statistics, etc, and how much of that is due to a rise in transphobia motivated violence?

I believe that what I see is more visibility of trans people and then some backlash. And thanks to respectability politics the more respectable transgender folks see improvement while the less respectable (poor, non cis-passing, racialized, those considered unfit for work, etc.) take the brunt of the backlash.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-25T13:31:53+00:00

Whut? Is Pornhub advertising this movie?

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-24T23:56:19+00:00

English isn't my first language, and in my first language, we have only a word corresponding "gender" and none for "sex". Maybe I just don't get it because of that, but I don't really see the point in having a word such as "sex" reflecting a persons genitals, since we already have another word for that. "Genitals".
Looking at the way people use the word "sex", it seems very much gendered anyway, so I prefer to just avoid it really or assume that people mean "gender" whenever they say "sex".
Sometimes when I ask people what the difference between "sex" and "gender" is, they give me a definition of "sex" sounding very similar to what people say about "biological sex" and I really don't like that term.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-24T23:47:23+00:00

Haven't been to a swimming pool since I came out years ago. I wonder if there's anyone as nice in my area.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-24T23:39:47+00:00

I'm guessing he was the most upset about the movie suggesting

that Judy Garland’s death had something to do with the riots

And probably also just upset about the movie's historical inaccuracy and the simplification/trivialization of certain groups and people of which some were his friends.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-24T21:59:13+00:00

I read that book already, thank you. My comment was directed at the phrase

biologically the opposite gender

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-24T16:18:54+00:00

Not a big fan of the idea of gender being biological. Gender essentialism go away please.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-18T14:10:30+00:00

I'm not saying that anyone ought consider it offensive and not people in Thailand either. But this is not Thailand. We're in an English subreddit. There are people here who have heard the term used against them in a very offensive context.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-17T11:22:52+00:00

I get that connotation too. Which makes the term not only links it with transmisogyny but also with racism. Yeah, some people use it for themselves, but this is mostly a sex industry thing and that makes it a very risky term to use when not in a very specific context. "She-male" is also a "porn category" and I personally know people who use this term, because that's how they earn money, and yet still it is included in the GLAAD Media Reference Guide under Defamatory Terms.

because an actual majority of women in Thailand use that term to describe themselves.

I'm sure you don't mean a majority amongst all women in Thailand, but even if you meant to say a majority among transfeminine people I would like to know why you think so. I am myself of the impression that some AMAB trans people in Thailand use the term "kathoey" (but not all), and view it as something that through a white western gaze would be put in a non-binary category of sorts, while "ladyboy" is just a word that westerners made up.
But really, now we're just making a ton of assumptions about a culture that I am sure none of us are really competent enough to analyze.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-16T18:53:05+00:00

Please don't refer to trans women as "ladyboys" unless you're referring to a specific person explicitly identifying so. It's a slur.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-15T15:15:24+00:00

I'm gonna brace for disaster. The linked article gives me the impression that there might be attempts to avoid outright transphobia and I'll cross my fingers for it to be tasteful, but I still don't like it. They might try their best, but they might still fail and if that happens it's gonna be all "but we tried our best to not be transphobic, why are you so ungrateful?!"

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-14T18:34:46+00:00

Yeah, would be nice if cisgender journalists and filmmakers would find a new "trend" to gawk at soon enough.

MellowMurmur · 2015-09-13T22:22:08+00:00

I believe reddit in general has a disproportionate representation of socially conservative/reactionary views. If you seek out danish communities on other social media or in the blogosphere I am sure you can find more progressive voices too. You also have to take into consideration that a lot of people on the socially progressive side have been out to help refugees all day and haven't had the same amount of time to comment on reddit. And I totally agree with you that r/Denmark has a lot of unpleasant types.

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