@zerocantaloupe: You'll note I didn't link to that one. Just a suggestion; someone might be hypothetically interested in a hypothetical way. It's possible. It's a thing that, hypothetically, you can do. If the site exists.
@cylee1180: The "riddle" seems to complicate a simple question and confuse an obvious concept. To me, anyway.
Hmm. If the red pill is transitioning and the blue pill is living as your assigned gender, then I guess the purple pill would be... being genderfluid, or bigender, or something like that.
Seems pretty cool to me.
@DaringSprinter While I'm amazed at just the existence of a site like twelve foot ladder, it didn't work for any of the pay walls I tried. Also, what is the legality of using Sci-Hub relative to one's ISP? Am I implicated by accessing copyright material? There is alot of research to be done here.
That sounds like a lawyer question.
@slowblink: Hopefully the 12-ft ladder will get you over some walls in the future, at least.
If, hypothetically, I were to use Sci-Hub, I wouldn't take any special precautions and I wouldn't have been bothered by anybody for the terrible, terrible crime of accessing knowledge without paying money to people who didn't create or compile it.
Of course, I might be... not lying, but implying something that isn't true. Could be I've never used Sci-Hub at all and am basing my info on equally hypothetical and possibly misleading info from other people around the web.
That is something I might do.
Probably best not to base any actions on this bit of urban legendry.
@zerocantaloupe
also all this serious argumentation about trans stuff is harshing my philosophical skepticism buzz, man
no worries. pretty sure that debate has gone as far as it can. The likelihood of me contacting 49 different researchers and requesting their material is slim. The likelihood of all of them getting back to me is slimmer and the likelihood of those who do get back to me doing so in a timely manner for the sake of that debate is even slimmer.
@slowblink: I'd hoped it would be less about winning a debate for you and more about learning. Personally, I like talking to researchers. Finding accurate contact information is usually the tricky part—once you actually get hold of them they're typically pleased to encounter someone who wants to learn from them in a way that doesn't require hours of their time. Scientists are cool, and learning is neat.
It's not super important, though. Like I said earlier, you don't have to believe anything but that people should be treated how they want to be treated in order to be a trans ally!
Just use the right names and pronouns for everybody, correct anyone who's rude enough to not do that, and just, you know, treat them like human people with bodily autonomy and everything. Do that, you can even argue that everyone with T levels above a certain line needs to compete separate from everyone with T levels below the line and you'll be fine.
I agree it'd be fairer.
@DaringSprinter Ahh yes, well I am seriously thankful for the 12 foot latter rec. That would surely come in handy. I do hope that at no point in this argument I was perceived as transphobic. I really do think all people should be able to do and say whatever they want but said liberties are rarely not in conflict with each other and that's where things get complicated. Its just not as simple as treating people who they wanted to be treated. Imagine if we did that for Nazis, Klu Klux Klan members, or Terrorist. Its a bit hyperbolic but it is the extremes that test the rule.
So allegedly using Sci-Hub would probably have zero unwanted consequences due to the complexity of enforcing said crime. How long might one allegedly use this site to make such a hypothetical determination lol.
@DaringSprinter Federal conspiracy laws are pretty slippery…if two or more people discuss the possibility of breaking a law and then one person in the conversation takes an action (even legal) toward breaking that law, everyone in the conversation can be charged for conspiracy.
For this reason I don’t discuss with people the best way to break laws. I don’t know how much the Prohibition-style “warning: doing these following specific things will make alcohol, and that’s illegal 😏” tactics would help in court.
@zerocantaloupe Really??? That is...concerning lol. I wondered if cuddle comfort is on their radar lol. Crazier things have happened. I personally think speech alone shouldn't be used to prosecute someone; only action and illegal action at that.
@slowblink If we didn’t do this, mafia bosses wouldn’t be prosecutable.
@zerocantaloupe: Ah, well, that's a fair point. I suspect the efficacy would depend on the population of whatever court you landed in. How they felt about poor people wanting to know things.
@slowblink: I think I covered the "I'd like to be treated as God Emperor—that's not how far this treating other people how they want to be treated thing stretches, I'm talking simple human decency here" thing earlier.
A couple times, I think!
@DaringSprinter I think Aaron Swartz’s story showed us the current Federal sentiment about poor people knowing things.
@zerocantaloupe: What a world we live in.