odnes_lex · HackerTrans

As a Greek, I feel the need to protest the corruption of the word cleistophobia (kleisto = closed) into claustrophobia. Claus- sounds like the root of "to cry" (e.g. clausigelos = crying laughter), so a Greek reading claustrophobia thinks of people who are afraid of crying (though the proper rendering of a word composite with that meaning would be klauthmophobia).

odnes_lex

3년 전discuss

Everyone needs a framework to orient themselves in life. The difference being that, people with a higher degree of trait Openness (let's lump the "Leftists" along with them, whatever) are more driven to explore different possibilities of what their life might look like.

And they often feel threatened by the prejudice that less open people often harbor for people exhibiting behaviors that deviate from the norm.

This is an experience of threat that's less talked about, as opposed to the threat by the "other" that conservative people experience.

odnes_lex

3년 전discuss

Restfox works great for me. Might require installing a browser addon to circumvent CORS protection in order to run requests against localhost.

odnes_lex

4년 전discuss

Referring to furries as a "perfectly cromulent lifestyle" is such a probably unintentionally fraternal salute in terms of antinormativity/cultural openess. Good vibes.

odnes_lex

4년 전discuss

Like the OP, I owe much in my life trajectory to esr's How to Become a Hacker.

He's one of the people I've never met/barely interacted with who are dear to me.

He must be over 70 now, and it's been a few years he's neglected his- in past times- lively blog.

He used to be in financial straits, tried to launch a cultural initiative to draw support for Load Bearing Internet People like himself:

http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/

He's still got a subscriberstar if you're looking to lighten your pocket.

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