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New comment by beckon69 in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

beckon69 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:21:46 +0000

Not OP. But respectfully disagree. Reads appropriate to me.

"Related to or marked by Hysteria" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysterical

Hysteria being "behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess" which seems to be exactly what OP was trying to say.

New comment by beckon69 in "Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts"

beckon69 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:18:54 +0000

> limited form of general intelligence. this seems like a bit of a misnomer, no?

New comment by beckon69 in "It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness"

beckon69 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:55:23 +0000

I appreciated this thoughtful response (rebuttal) to OP. I agree with your concept of "back in the 00s you'd never have a teacher scold a child for using wrong-sex clothes/toys because we'd largely gotten rid of the concept". This dovetails into one of the paradox's of the trans-adjacent ideology that I haven't been able to square in my own head, which is that transitioning genders is predicated on strong gender norms existing in a society. In other words, it seems less accepting to be a male and exhibit feminine traits (and by the way, we are in fact acknowledging traditional societal ideas of gender roles now, rather than moving beyond them).