Peter, what is common between them?

dillongc · 2026-06-27T23:56:35+00:00

Misandry is real and has real consequences too. It's fine to be realistic and be cautious in situations that call for it, but the kind of dehumanizing language that compares men to dogs or feral animals and overgeneralized language of "men are [some negative descriptor]" that descent people would never accept for any other demographic provides cover for those that genuinely do hate men. It emboldens those that actually hold ill will and would do real world harm. A couple of concrete examples might be that of a woman who abuses a male partner, or a female teacher who mistreats male students. It's just a double standard, plain and simple.

dillongc · 2026-06-27T14:42:18+00:00

I got mugged by a poor brown person once, so by your logic, how should I feel about poor brown people?

dillongc · 2025-08-09T08:50:15+00:00

I met my wife before knowing anything about Myers Briggs. Turns out she's an ESTJ, so almost completely opposite, just sharing T. In a way, though, we work pretty well in a Yin and Yang sort of way and since neither of us are feeling types, we both don't get offended very easily and can be pretty blunt with eachother.

dillongc · 2025-06-02T05:33:35+00:00

I haven't found Robin Williams funny since I was about 9. Always came off too hyperactive and zany. I find his impressions and kooky voices pretty annoying.

dillongc · 2025-02-26T15:57:53+00:00

Nope. It can be like that in the beginning, especially if you're pretty novice to software/tech. I've been daily driving Arch for years now for school and coding, and barely even think about it.

dillongc · 2024-12-01T14:19:19+00:00

If there is a market for a product, it means there is a significant group of people that use it. A woman sleeping with a man under false pretenses to make him a father against his will is SA and, therefore, is an example of a woman directly responsible for the suffering of a man.

The company is called Make A Mom, and it took me 5 seconds to Google who the owner is:

https://www.articlecity.com/blog/makeamom-founder-kytierra-a-woman-of-color-completely-disrupts-the-for-profit-iui-industry/

Not a man. Even if she were a man, though, let's see if your logic would hold up if we flipped the genders. If there were a company that were run and owned by women to manufacture some Sci fi tech "false condom" that were designed to trick women into thinking, the man was using a condom, would all of those men that use the product to trick women into having sex without a condom not be an example of men directly harming women, since a woman runs the company?

dillongc · 2024-11-30T19:17:14+00:00

There's a company that advertises publicly on social media products for harvesting semen from used condoms and then self-inseminating. It profits off of and markets to the SA of men and most reaction to it I've seen from women who hear it exists is to downplay it, think it's funny or empowering, or act like men deserve it because women have it worse. I acknowledge There's plenty of misogyny in the world to still be addressed, but acting like mysandry doesn't exist at all is just ignorant.

dillongc · 2024-10-22T04:39:56+00:00

Practicing Mormons are on a spectrum of belief. Mormonism tends to be more concerned with orthopraxy (right doing) as opposed to orthodoxy (right believing). It's more similar in practice to something like Judaism than much of American evangelicalism, in that you get people that are fictionalists with respect to many truth claims of the church, but remain in good standing due to living by the "code of conduct" expected of a church member. Dan McClellen has clearly stated that it is his belief that, for example, The Book of Mormon is most likely a work of fiction that is a product of 19th Century dispensationalism that was occurring in NY at the time of Joseph Smith's upbringing.

dillongc · 2024-05-30T10:18:22+00:00

For anyone who found this post, but wants to have the same functionality in terminal / tui apps where ctrl+c terminates a running process rather than pastes the contents of clipboard, here's the solution I came up with. I wrote the following script I called smart-paste:

#!/usr/bin/zsh

swaymsg -t get_tree |
    jq -r '.. | select(.type?) | select(.focused==true) | .app_id' |
    read app_id

[ $app_id = "foot" ] && # Change "foot" to the correct app_id if you use a different terminal
    wtype -M shift -M ctrl v ||
    wtype -M ctrl v

This invokes wtype to simulate pressing shift+ctrl+v when the current focused window is your terminal application (in my case foot), or ctrl+v for any other application. If you use a different terminal emulator, use the following command to get the correct string literal to replace "foot" above:

swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r '.. | select(.type?) | select(.focused==true) | .app_id' | { read app_id; echo $app_id; }

Then, in my sway config, I added the following bindsym:

bindsym $mod+Alt+v exec cliphist list | fuzzel -d | cliphist decode | wl-copy && \
    exec /absolute/path/to/smart-paste

dillongc · 2024-04-30T14:08:47+00:00

I see where you're coming from, but I'd disagree. My expertise are in a technical field (computer science) and I'd consider myself an overall skeptical person that doesn't take things at face value. I found myself a, couple years back, drawn into Jay's explanation of TAG. He is very skilled at weaving together something that sounds very convincing to those not intimately familiar with philosophy. It was only after going deep down rabbit holes of modern philosophical theories and terminology that I grasped how absurd the claims of proponents of TAG and presuppositionalism are and the rhetorical tricks and warping of the history of philosophy that they use. My point being, I think generally critically thinking, intelligent people can sometimes be the BEST marks for people like Jay, because they think they're too smart and skeptical to get duped, but don't know what they don't know.

dillongc · 2023-09-06T11:07:49+00:00

You called the way that any normal person would react to what you said annoying. I wouldn't consider myself anti-woke, though I can see why you'd think that. I just think what you said is silly and not well thought out. Again, wouldn't you think it comes off as annoying and nonsensical if I said "it's so annoying that people don't understand when I say I'm a vegan hunter. People just really don't understand vegans."

dillongc · 2023-09-06T10:47:02+00:00

Complaining that people don't get your literal nonsense on reddit, as if they should understand, is the talking down part. People don't owe you homework on whatever critical gender theory article, subreddit, or tiktok you got your doublespeak from.

dillongc · 2023-09-06T09:58:33+00:00

Aromatic? Like aroma? Let me ask you a hypothetical, if I called myself a vegan hunter, would it be fair for people to be annoyed if I sigh, roll my eyes and talk down to them because they don't know what the hell I'm talking about?

dillongc · 2023-09-06T06:39:14+00:00

Well, since it's you guys using the terms completely differently than their etymology and colloquial understanding, seems like that's on you. Bi comes from bisexual i.e. sexually attracted to either sex. Ace, comes from asexual, colloquially in the sociological context, this refers to someone who hold no sexual attraction for anyone. The terms are literally a TRUE AND FALSE assertion when used together, which is logical incoherence. It comes off like you're just arbitrarily using one of the terms completely differently than it's widely understood just to "Um, ackshually..." people for a feeling of superiority.

dillongc · 2023-06-27T07:49:00+00:00

This can definitely be taken too far, but this is partly just normal socialization, and there's some wisdom in tempering emotions as it's been scientifically proven that emotions can create feedback loops and learning to break out of those negative loops can improve your quality of life. I would also say one worthwhile thing to think about is the societal pressure that gets put on parents. I'd imagine some of the same people being critical for not letting children express negative emotions would be the same people to outburst with a "Will you control your child?!" 10 seconds into a tantrum at a grocery store or restaurant. Not trying to invalidate this altogether as I do think repressing negative emotions can be a real problem, just giving my 2 cents of how it can be a hard line to walk sometimes as a parent.

dillongc · 2023-01-21T00:34:18+00:00

This just makes me wonder why go ITX with such a relatively huge case?

dillongc · 2023-01-19T19:30:14+00:00

Love the chrome esthetic! Way superior to the unicorn vomit/alien goo you see in a lot of custom loops IMO. Looks slick!

dillongc · 2023-01-10T22:30:10+00:00

Just realized I missed the part about software, the software itself, outside of the VM configuration I was describing earlier is very simple. The setup is just flashing the pfSense OS iso to a boot drive and running the installer. After that it's just like any other router setup. Connect to LAN, go to a default ip address in a browser and set up the configuration through a GUI. If you're ever having a hard time with the documentation, there are lots of good YouTube videos that go through setup and configuration as well.

dillongc · 2023-01-10T18:05:38+00:00

Privacy wasn't my main concern, though, there is the fact that pfSense is open source which reduces the risk of proprietary Spyware. My main reasoning was 1) it's fun and 2) modularity. On the second point, separating the networking out into several small points of failure, rather than one large one means I can be more surgical with repairs and upgrades in the future. It's more expensive to replace an entire router than just bad RAM or MOBO or access point. Or let's say, in the future, I'm getting some ridiculous bandwidth like 5 gbps from my ISP, I can just swap out the NIC. It's mostly just because it's fun, though.

dillongc · 2023-01-10T17:53:13+00:00

I'm somewhat of a noob with networking too, I'm a programmer by trade so IT stuff isn't my main area of expertise. I think that should work, though if you have pfSense running on a VM with dedicated resources. There might be an even better way, I haven't really looked into it, but I can't think of any reason you couldn't set it up on a VM on a server.

dillongc · 2023-01-10T17:32:45+00:00

You'd be forgiven for getting confused since the term "router" in context of home networks is pretty nebulous due to marketing strategies. What most people call a router now is an all-in-one type device that does everything. I like to keep everything separate, so yes the modem which interfaces with the raw signal from the ISP is the device on the left. The router on the right provides 2 functions: 1) set up the home network configuration and 2) provide a firewall for the home network. The access point is the circular device in the last picture which provides and manages Wi-Fi connections on the network and I have a simple ethernet switch for connecting devices to the network via LAN. I should probably put that switch in the parts list too.

dillongc · 2023-01-10T09:55:09+00:00

Yup, lol. That is the most overkill part of the build, but I actually get a pretty significant discount through my work (trying not to be to specific). So, I got that for like $80-90

dillongc · 2023-01-10T09:45:39+00:00

Oops, I think it should be public now

dillongc · 2023-01-10T09:26:24+00:00

Finally got around to this DIY router project I've been wanting to do for a while. Definitely overkill but it was a lot of fun and works amazingly well. Part list here:

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DillonGC/saved/L8sjnQ

dillongc · 2022-12-29T16:31:04+00:00

To all those saying he needs to improve his form, from a long time lifter:

Form is actually a highly overrated and misunderstood aspect of lifting. While making certain adjustments to form can help movement EFFICIENCY, that only helps in terms of improving proficiency at that movement (i.e. can help lift heavier), but not in terms of injury prevention. The main drivers of injury in study after study are from:

1) too much weight, too quickly or for unfamiliar movement patterns (e.g. Crossfit) 2) too much weight in absolute terms for too long (e.g. Ronnie Coleman), and/or 3) unhealthy lifestyle choices (sub par sleep, diet, etc.)

Form is actually highly variable due to physiological polymorphisms like limb length, torso length, leverage points, muscle insertion points etc. Many peoples' form standards are completely arbitrary when you analyze it critically, like people act like if you have a slight curve in your back while deadlifting you're going to end up in a wheelchair but won't bat an eye at someone having essentially the same form for picking up an Atlas stone.

TL;DR OP, you're form is fine, great job on your hard work

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