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They gotta be too young to come out of the programming.

Does it look like one of those casts made of an anthill?

That’d be brutal.

Iron Maiden? Lol

Yeah, but it’s rarer and usually called a baby.

A disinformation campaign started by normies.

I choose to imagine this is Guinan’s nickname around the ship when she’s not giving Picard or another crew member advice.

That’s what I was trying to get at in the previous comment. I don’t have much else to relate it to. It’s hard to speak about it without referring to the only examples I know of.

And lacking any other vocabulary, I feel like I’m stuck in the Darmok episode of Next Generation in terms of that topic. Not sure how familiar you are with Star Trek to know if this makes sense to you. (The short version is speaking in historical metaphor due to a lack in language. Great episode tho, one of my favorites.)

Which is again using a media example, I guess, but for my own situation this time lol. Hope I didn’t offend. I’m not trying to imply they’re similar, I just don’t know another way to say it so I’m using the language I have to get as close as I can relative to my current understanding. Definitely not trying to attach everything else about the examples I use, but just the individual ideas.

I see. So it sounds like a much friendlier, more cooperative version of the guy in the movie Split.

Except for them being humans and at least a few of them being psychotic. At least I assume you’re not.

See now I’m imagining if I read that 10 years ago and how I would have interpreted (much less felt) differently, versus how I read this now.

I had heard of some of those communities before, but only vaguely referenced. Haven’t really heard much about it, but at the time I was hearing about it I still hated gay people, so did I know about people identifying as other species? I didn’t understand the phrase “identify as”.

So I am still playing catch up on stuff.

Now that that makes more sense, I need to go back. For being multiple entities, is it like, I don’t have the vocabulary for this so pardon the expression, is it like vessels commandeered by multiple observers, or more like a multiple personality thing, or what? I feel that sounds bad but I don’t know how else to phrase it. I’m not trying to call it a medical diagnosis, I’m just curious about it.

Fair enough. I’ve only really had much discussion about a lot of this stuff with a trans sibling. I’ve learned a lot from him. His coming out was one of the last big (sorry to use the word again but I’ve been using this metaphor already) cracks in the glass dome or sphere or snow globe or whatever in the ceiling of my old beliefs before it shattered, allowing me to become atheist, liberal/leftist, queer-friendly, you know, just a much better person overall.

So I heard it first from him and haven’t really discussed it (aka egg cracking) in any other context.

So now I have another phrase for it at my disposal.

In other news, after looking at the profile I both understand more and have more questions.

And given the request to ask instead of assume, I would like to do so.

First, from what I can gather the use of we seems to come from identifying with a group that identifies as a community.

So first question is, is that correct, and if so what community/communities?

Scratch that, the previous app I was using didn’t show the word plural as a link, and now that I’m trying another one I see it. Nvm

And secondly, I definitely gotta ask about what you mean about the not human thing.

You can roll your eyes at me and leave me on read if you want though lol. No pressure.

I’ve only heard it used for them. I guess I just assumed it was theirs lol.

Not sure what this is in reference to, honestly. I may have heard his name when the safe happened, but I never actually watched the clip of it’s something to do with that. I just heard mentions of it later.

Not exactly sure who “we” is exactly, but I’m proceeding with the assumption you meant it collectively for demis.

That describes me pretty well. I’ve never even come close to a dating app, but I thought it was a leftover legacy boomer trait of mine at the time (“the time” in this case meaning before I knew I was demi. Before I knew that was a thing. Also before I realized I wasn’t “normal” at all).

I just felt that that kinda communication couldn’t possibly be accomplished via what was basically just texting, or at least not to my satisfaction. I’ve always felt much more ability to fall in love via traditional (aka in person) means. But that ability has a lot more stipulations on it than I realized at the time.

I actually didn’t know or identify as such until this year. As I started seeing posts about pride coming up, I wondered about the (what I now know is called) inclusivity flags (with and without intersex). I was familiar with most of the main flags, but kept seeing more I didn’t even know about, and finally came across the demi flags. So since I was already learning about other identities and orientations, I read about that, and my spidey sense tingled.

I don’t know if there’s a demi version of the idea, but a trans would call it an egg cracking. I actually don’t know if any others have a version of it, but I really think so if them should. Either way, you know what I mean. I’m rambling now anyway lol.

Personally, that was the first I ever heard of him. Given my age and his complete irrelevance to anything I cared about (basically just computers and cartoons) at the time, I had no reason to.

Honestly I still don’t know much about him, mostly because I don’t care. But everyone loves an epic fail story.

But then we wouldn’t still be laughing at that twat.

There are dozens of us.

Recently I’m thinking I may be demisexual too. Kinda like a double-demi/ace hybrid. I like the idea of sex, but it would have to be a very special person. But I don’t have much drive to try for it, it’s just not that important to me. I mean we’re already in the ace spectrum anyway, so maybe that’s redundant.

Still trying to nail down what labels I’m comfortable with. Probably will always be a little wiggle room to change as time goes by.

Amateur.

1-Jan-69 was right there.

Haven’t really touched Mint myself, other than moving my dad’s computer to it. I don’t think it shows the user or device name over by the clock. Unless that XP skin adds it, I don’t think that’s it.

Given the “Overcast” bit, maybe it shows a zip code for the weather or something?

Again, I’m not settled on a particular distro yet for sure, but most of my experience is with PopOS so far, and there’s nothing identifying there, so I’m not positive.

I’ve installed Mint on 2 family member PCs, but I haven’t used it myself other than in passing.

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You know what, I don’t think I knew the distiction before. I was just making a drive-by “lol” type of offhand comment.

Never thought about it that specifically. I will try to be conscious of word choice now.

I’ve assumed the absolute worst of disposable ones since day zero. I will go back closer to neutral if I hear something convincing, but until then I think of them as literal poison.

My previous comment was thinking more about whatever the non disposable ones are called. But since as far as I know the juices are similar and since nobody seems to know much about them, I assume the absolute worst until hearing something really good indicating otherwise. Personally, I will always treat them as literally drinking cancer.

I mean I still judge smokers, and thereby vapers, but at the very least the vapers smell better. I had one roommate take it up to stop regular smoking (he never did it in our seemingly near) the house, and wasn’t a problem, but another roommate who didn’t smoke found out about the non nicotine version of it and thought it was cool for a bit, testing it as breathing flavored air. They both got a couple upgrades for their doodads, and the non smoker stopped later, but I haven’t talked to the other guy in a while to know if he ever stopped nicotine completely or continues to vape.