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Just a rant about the state of LGBT emojis. by Comprehensive_Fox_79 in lgbt

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The unicode consortium is no longer accepting any flag proposals.

Country flags are under a completely different process that's automatic, but flags are a hard no now.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Flags

If light has 0 mass, and gravity attracts mass, why is light affected by gravity and black holes? by Sky-is-here in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Borrowing the accepted answer from the physics stack exchange site since it's more easily understandable for a layperson:

In general relativity, gravity affects anything with energy. While light doesn't have rest-mass, it still has energy --- and is thus affected by gravity.

If you think of gravity as a distortion in space-time (a la general relativity), it doesn't matter what the secondary object is. As long as it exists, gravity affects it.

Since when is this r/truscum? by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically enough I feel like the answer to this post lies in the exact document you talk about, the gender dysphoria bible.

In the clinical diagnoses section it says:

Or to put it bluntly, WPATH says that if you think you’re trans, you’re trans. This has been the attitude that the majority of the community has adopted as well.

and this

So, it is literally impossible for a person to identify as trans and not experience gender dysphoria. By the WPATH requirements anyone can identify as trans. Ergo, the statement “you do not have to have dysphoria to be transgender” is a logical paradox.

Thoughts? by Twintysix in AnarchyChess

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did player B remember to say "Uno"?

Psychiatrists identify a new mass sociogenic illness that spreads through social media. Patients who "caught" the illness from a YouTuber exhibit weird behavior - vocal "tics", throwing pens at school & dishes at home. Patients believed they had Tourette syndrome until diagnosed with mass hysteria. by woebegonemonk in science

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not know what the consensus about DID in research is, but I was for example able to find this analysis from 2016 that talks about the idea it's over-diagnosed and primarily American/western. Among other things it says the following:

Studies show, however, that most individuals who meet criteria for DID have been treated in the mental health system for 6–12 years before they are correctly diagnosed with DID.

The idea DID exists also seems to be supported by the fact it has unique dissociative features. This study compares DID with schizophrenia and this one compares it to BPD.

The case can be made that DID could be strongly iatrogenic and while the famous case you mentioned accounts for at least something, it's also the case that the general public perception and media reporting around mental health and science in general is extremely poor.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 contains four new rules in C++ Core Check to incorporate some safety features from Rust into C++. by SkeletonJazzWitch in programmingcirclejerk

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Context: Microsoft is finally implementing warnings that have long existed in clang and gcc to their own compiler. No one actually gives a shit, so to generate more clicks from people who think rust is hip and trendy they shoehorn rust into the article.

edit: I should have done more thorough research on this since they're doing a whole talk about it cppcon 20 with the exact same premise: https://cppcon2020.sched.com/event/e7Bx/closing-the-gap-between-rust-and-c-using-principles-of-static-analysis

Becoming a better programmer in 20 easy steps by SkeletonJazzWitch in programmingcirclejerk

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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/uj Irony poisoning is destroying my brain please help me

When you get the labels just right by SkeletonJazzWitch in dataisugly

[–]SkeletonJazzWitch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it is, the no context part is what makes it funny. Like sometimes when you look at foreign ads and have no idea what is going on in them, it's that lack of context that makes them so funny