“Narcissistic behaviour” is an ableist dogwhistle. We don’t talk about enabling deaf behaviour, or autistic behaviour, because those are disabilities we treat with a modicum more respect.

Infantilising mental disabilities is a dick move.

If you’re not a psychiatrist, then you don’t have the training needed to diagnose someone with a mental disability. I don’t care whether your parents actually have NPD or not, but the risk of armchair diagnosing someone is that you’ll just amplify stereotypes. You diagnose them because they meet a stereotype, and then you study their behaviour and reach the conclusion that narcisstists act like the stereotype, and then you spread your conclusion. It’s citogenesis.

Also “narc” when used to say someone has NPD is straight up a slur.

No, I have NPD and we’re called narcs sometimes. It’s often used in the community as a shorthand, but generally if it comes from a neurotypical it’s a slur. I’m aware of the other meaning of the word and I don’t have a problem with it, but I tend not to use it because it just reminds me of the homonym which is actually offensive.

I’ve been in situations like that at work. I always ask what the senior worker’s reason for doing things different is, because then I’ve benefitted from their experience too

Wow, you and I have very different tastes

There’s a game about that. It’s called Exapunks. You play as an anarchist hacker who is slowly dying to a degenerative disease that turns your flesh into electronics. The medicine to keep your disease from progressing costs 300 dollars a day, so you learn how to hack from a zine and then start making money for your medicine and taking down capitalism. At various points you have to use your hacking skills to reprogram your nerves so your body will continue to function. Send a virus to tell your heart to beat and so forth. The gameplay is based on a modified version of assembly and actual programming puzzles that make sense in the context of the cyberpunk world.

Sisko also cooks

What about Linux?

The Borg are interested in both numbers and diversity. It was a later retcon from Voyager that they reject some hosts

I didn’t know we had a queen. I thought we were an autonomous collective

And it’s a perfect direct democracy

When 7/9 was cut off from the network it begged to go back and felt horror and revulsion when ots implants began to decay. Janeway said tough nuts, you’re a human now whether you like it or not. Janeway is a kinphobe.

Also Janeway relentlessly misgendered Seven of Nine until it assimilated into her crew

Also society relentlessly bullies neurodivergent people with whom they have difficulty empathizing. Neurotypicals already have a weak hivemind and they attack anyone who can’t or won’t join it. Neurotypicals are the borg, except not communist. They’re the Borg but worse.

Turbolasers aren’t lasers, they’re plasma

I’m not an ecofascist, I’m not saying the human species, in terms of DNA and biology doesn’t deserve to exist. It’s the social construct of humanity and the culture. We need an otherkin revolution. We need people acting less like humans.

Rules only exist if people choose to follow them.

Well, no. People aren’t perfectly rational agents who always make correct decisions. They don’t always know what the mods and admins are doing, and they can be biased. People join instances because of the vibes, most people don’t even read the rules in the first place. And those who do have no guarantee the rules they read are the ones actually enforced, which is my core complaint here

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I don’t have a planned out solution, but maybe one way to do it is to build in separation of the legislative and executive branches. Make two classes of moderator: rules writers and rules enforcers