As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of "trust me bro" when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.
Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.
I'm not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:
A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.
This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.
It's a common general education requirement for college in the US, yeah. Biology, physics, psychology, economics, English/writing, math, etc. are often all required, or at least a selection of most of the discipline-intro-level courses is.
Huh, that's weird. Isn't highschool sufficient for general education?
Thinking about it, it might not be. I've just checked and at least in Germany a US highschool diploma (including passing tests like SAT or ACT flawlessly) doesn't (generally) qualify you for entering university here. That is, you are literally prohibited by law from enrolling.
I'm genuinely glad this isn't part of university education here. I mean, I'm attending lectures because I have interest in a certain subject - not because I want even more general education after finishing secondary education.
It really isn't, it's the scientific term for a feature in a whole bunch of animals...
Like holy shit context matters, and I don't mean that in a "it's fine if it's not meant as an insult" way, because people have a right to ask to not be referred to a certain way regardless of intent.
But also the tumblr links ask me to log in so I can't tell if they would reveal this as sarcasm or they have an actually convincing argument.
It's been used as a slur against intersex people since medieval times, before someone decided to use it to talk about slugs and shit. You would know this if you actually listened to intersex people.
I assume you mean the "h" word I used. If that is a slur than I apologize, I did not know. It is a common industry term for genderless electrical connectors.
I appreciate your civil response. So, this word has been used as a slur against intersex people (people born with or who in puberty developed genitalia or sex charasteristics differing from the concepts of 'male' and 'female') since the middle ages and has had a long history of violence, such as forced genital mutilation and infanticide, behind it.
It often is conflated to mean someone or something possessing both a penis and a vagina, who is typically capable of both impregnanting and becoming pregnant. (it should be noted that this does not occur in humans without body modification!) Because of this, the h-word was later (19th or 20th century iirc) used by scientists to describe cosexual animals and plants because someone was too lazy to come up with a new term that didn't have truckloads of baggage attached to it. Thus leading to what we're talking about.
Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
I like parent/child. Add something? Parent adopts. Remove something? Parent abandons, leaving the process or component with trauma that will require years of therapy.
Eh, I think master is used (AFAIK) unproblematicly in other contexts like a master key, recording master, and master pattern. Converting it to "main" seems like a change or loss of meaning, but the problem may be that there is not really a consistent meaning across electronics usage to start with. I think "secondary" has some connotation of filling the same purpose or type as the primary, which doesn't really fit for m/s usage. Master/sheep is my most similar option that keeps the "m/s", but it feels awkward enough to draw attention to what it replaces. Could just do master (or main) and sub, where "sub" could mean substitute, subordinate, subscriber, [submissive,] etc. as needed.
I think it would be less of an issue if human slavery and all its attendant and resultant issues were actually firmly a thing of the past. It could become a "clinical", accurate way to describe technical constellations where one component is strictly subordinate to another, if it didn't have the connotation of ongoing human rights issues.
Not saying it's the best or the only option for the terminology, just wondering aloud whether the callback would be an issue if the topic wasn't still so raw and sore.
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn't know and I touched one end... I did fall off the ladder, but I'm still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP's.
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I've seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they're very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won't make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
they exist and my coworkers kept buying them from somewhere and I never trusted them not to kill themselves so I did the one underpaid above and beyond the boss didn't deserve by fixing the idiotic wiring
When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must've been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.
So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again...
I don't remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.
If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find a good shot of the docking adapters in nomal docking videos. Scott Manley has a bunch of good shots in this video, and I found this fantastic video showing the docking process in detail.
So it's just a fucky old school data connector? That actually makes some sense, given how old Ethernet cables are these fuckers probably date back to when ribbon cables were the standard for connections, like that bastard radio shack computer from 1979 that I have.
Actually, these token ring connectors were introduced in 1984. Twisted pair ethernet was introduced in 1986. Though, coaxial BNC was more popular until the mid 90s.
Yeah, in my case the building had originally been fitted for token ring, and eventually was retrofitted for Ethernet, but instead of swapping out all the hard wired wall ports, they just issued that socket to ethernet adapters. The rooms ALSO had BNC ports, which weren't live anymore.
That page is troublingly silent on how the phases are actually connected. I would assume each smaller outlet gets one of the phase legs plus neutral and ground, but why can't it just say that?
Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it's a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.
Contact gender
Plug
Receptacle
Female
Male
This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:
We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.
Shamefully, when I'm speaking to someone who starts spouting the usual nonsense about homosexuality or genders, I'll ask " What about bears? ". I know nothing at all about bears, but seemingly its a great question to flounder moronic confidence. If it isn't enough, I'll add that bears display LGBTQ+ varieties in the wild and in zoo's. Deapan / confused delivery is key!
I have read a bit about biology and the science is kinda clear cut on it. That is to say, sex is a false dichotomy. Not even the chromosomes are a deterministic 100% guarantee for other things like genitals, breasts and even "male/female normatieve brain patterns". So yeah, follow the science and discover biology is not binary.
Definitely going to try to add that to my "What about bears" question for future use. Much appreciated. I'm not certain that many recipients of my challenge will understand the words. I may be on a witchcraft charge in some places
snails are hermaphroditic, impale each other with sex arrows, and then proceed to twist around each other while hanging from a rope of slime and they impregnate each other.
Jellyfish spew their sperm and eggs into the water around them, hope for it to meet up and make an egg that hatches into a larva, which roots itself to the ocean floor and grows into a polyp where the adult jellyfish grow like a stack of plates and each one individually buds off.
It's the classic:
"It's grade school biology!"
"Okay, but when you get to middle school..."
It's middle school biology!
Okay, but when you get to high school...
It's high school biology
Okay, but when you get to college.
It’s collegiate biology.
Ah, someone failed biology in college.
As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of "trust me bro" when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.
Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.
I'll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.
Single cell what now?!
I'm not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:
A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.
This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.
Uh, I am listening to the experts, Dr. WolfenSturm1488 on YouTube.
bUt I dId mY oWn rEsEaRcH oN fAcEbOoK aNd oPeNaI!!!
I'd actually love a series of 1-hour lectures and a series of textbooks, but I'm a massive nerd.
Funny enough I didn't have to take biology in college
Most people don't?
I mean why would anyone not studying biology (or related fields) have to take biology in college? Or is that a US-American thing?
It's a common general education requirement for college in the US, yeah. Biology, physics, psychology, economics, English/writing, math, etc. are often all required, or at least a selection of most of the discipline-intro-level courses is.
Huh, that's weird. Isn't highschool sufficient for general education?
Thinking about it, it might not be. I've just checked and at least in Germany a US highschool diploma (including passing tests like SAT or ACT flawlessly) doesn't (generally) qualify you for entering university here. That is, you are literally prohibited by law from enrolling.
I'm genuinely glad this isn't part of university education here. I mean, I'm attending lectures because I have interest in a certain subject - not because I want even more general education after finishing secondary education.
ah, you failed biology
it's remedial school biology
Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :
Plug me, like one of your French outlets.
Not gonna lie.. my first reaction to that in this context is "two in the pink one in the stink". Now I feel dirty, thanks, Beryl.
<3
The electrician's 69.
Something something meatspin
Male and female who are both are into fingers in butts while penetrating.
Finger + hole + hole = female
Finger + dick + hole = male
Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds
like proving homosexuality isn't real because magnets
aren't we all hermaphrodites in that analogy?
Americans having a conversation about sexual orientation
It's simple. Humans aren't cables. Any questions?
They're more complex than cables. Not less.
Did you know under the right conditions you can urinate from your belly button?
I would call them the wrong conditions.
Excuse me WHAT THE FUCK
That would be an interesting party trick.
What conditions? Getting stabbed there?
Correct, they're a series of tubes.
they are a donut made out of littler tubes
How does a Kelvin bridge work?
4 wire connection? sure. Wheatstone bridge? no problems. Kelvin bridge? too many resistors, I just don't see it.
Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.
US has those too, theyre 480v usually
fucking yikes.
that things safety feature is "anyone with intrusive thoughts has long since been eliminated from consideration"
Without having looked it up yet, I would assume that the exposed contacts are neutral/ground
The outer contact is ground, the inner pin is for locating (unconnected) and the other three are X, Y, Z. It's a Nema SS22-50R.
Hi, that's a slur!
not in this context
It's a slur no matter what you're talking about: https://www.tumblr.com/status-quo-hater/793665456460447744
https://www.tumblr.com/status-quo-hater/788972407966859264
It really isn't, it's the scientific term for a feature in a whole bunch of animals...
Like holy shit context matters, and I don't mean that in a "it's fine if it's not meant as an insult" way, because people have a right to ask to not be referred to a certain way regardless of intent.
But also the tumblr links ask me to log in so I can't tell if they would reveal this as sarcasm or they have an actually convincing argument.
It's been used as a slur against intersex people since medieval times, before someone decided to use it to talk about slugs and shit. You would know this if you actually listened to intersex people.
It's not a slur when used in proper context, and also are you really trying provide a random tumblr post as source?
I assume you mean the "h" word I used. If that is a slur than I apologize, I did not know. It is a common industry term for genderless electrical connectors.
I appreciate your civil response. So, this word has been used as a slur against intersex people (people born with or who in puberty developed genitalia or sex charasteristics differing from the concepts of 'male' and 'female') since the middle ages and has had a long history of violence, such as forced genital mutilation and infanticide, behind it. It often is conflated to mean someone or something possessing both a penis and a vagina, who is typically capable of both impregnanting and becoming pregnant. (it should be noted that this does not occur in humans without body modification!) Because of this, the h-word was later (19th or 20th century iirc) used by scientists to describe cosexual animals and plants because someone was too lazy to come up with a new term that didn't have truckloads of baggage attached to it. Thus leading to what we're talking about.
Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
There are also gender benders... Turn male to female or female to male.
They included that already with MtF/FtM
Master/slave terminology needs to die off. What a blatant callback to slavery times.
Should be using Dom/Sub amirite?
Oh, surely you must've meant Kermit/Miss Piggy.
Yes.
I like parent/child. Add something? Parent adopts. Remove something? Parent abandons, leaving the process or component with trauma that will require years of therapy.
Then you get people asking how you kill abandoned child processes
-9
"All orphans will eventually become zombies" -My OS lecturer last year
I quite agree. Personally I use Main/Secondary, I find it does away with the problematic terminology while needing no changes in acronyms.
Eh, I think master is used (AFAIK) unproblematicly in other contexts like a master key, recording master, and master pattern. Converting it to "main" seems like a change or loss of meaning, but the problem may be that there is not really a consistent meaning across electronics usage to start with. I think "secondary" has some connotation of filling the same purpose or type as the primary, which doesn't really fit for m/s usage. Master/sheep is my most similar option that keeps the "m/s", but it feels awkward enough to draw attention to what it replaces. Could just do master (or main) and sub, where "sub" could mean substitute, subordinate, subscriber, [submissive,] etc. as needed.
I like sender/receiver
Pitcher/catcher?
No, no, perhaps not.
top/bottom
Noo! It just needs to become kinky instead.
leader/follower for things like Paxos and RAID arrays works okay.
I think it would be less of an issue if human slavery and all its attendant and resultant issues were actually firmly a thing of the past. It could become a "clinical", accurate way to describe technical constellations where one component is strictly subordinate to another, if it didn't have the connotation of ongoing human rights issues.
Not saying it's the best or the only option for the terminology, just wondering aloud whether the callback would be an issue if the topic wasn't still so raw and sore.
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn't know and I touched one end... I did fall off the ladder, but I'm still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP's.
Can I ask, what's the (ill-advised) use case for this?
I don't know anything about electronics but I readily believe this is a dangerous cable
But what I don't get is what people want it for. I've never been in a situation that calls for this
just in case you think your fuse box is bored
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I've seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they're very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won't make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
Smartphone chargers / smartphone to computer cables are technically male (USB-A) to male (USB-C).
they exist and my coworkers kept buying them from somewhere and I never trusted them not to kill themselves so I did the one underpaid above and beyond the boss didn't deserve by fixing the idiotic wiring
When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must've been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.
So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again...
I don't remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.
If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.
Challenge accepted!
Anyone know if female-to-female cords are a thing?
they are useless, they keep getting cut when scissoring
Yes and that's totally fine.
/s
(This is a joke about homophobia)
💦
Another example where this argument falls flat is spaceship docking connectors, which are genderless so they can all dock to every other one.
In space being heteronormative is less useful.
now I'm interested, any recommendations too learn how every work?
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find a good shot of the docking adapters in nomal docking videos. Scott Manley has a bunch of good shots in this video, and I found this fantastic video showing the docking process in detail.
Or read the wiki on the International Docking System (IDS), or spacecraft docking systems in general.
Unfortunately, the IDS isn't androgynous right now, the passive and active sides are slightly different. Androgyny is planned for a future version.
No idea how they actually work and I’d just be googling like you
My favorites are the ones where the plug is live and the socket draws power, and if you hold the plug wrong you die.
Beware the forbidden extension cable.
The perpetual power cord.
It'll power your stuff until the end of your life.
I’m going to live forever or die trying, so it’ll clearly thus last forever.
I see you are putting up the Christmas lights on your house before it gets too cold outside
Really useful for powering your house from your neighbors outlet but big electric doesn't want you to know that
what ones?
Plural? This happened to me once, and never again since.
Behold: RP-SMA
RP-SMA? More like DP-SMA!
. . .
I'll see myself out.
An amateur radio DIY antenna, just waiting to be connected
I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!
IBM is, was, and will be run by crackheads. Seriously why make this?!
Obviously to upset fragile beings in the future that believe biology is defined by electrical connectors.
I think that's for token ring. I remember using an adapter to plug Ethernet into a wall version of one of these. Massive things.
So it's just a fucky old school data connector? That actually makes some sense, given how old Ethernet cables are these fuckers probably date back to when ribbon cables were the standard for connections, like that bastard radio shack computer from 1979 that I have.
Actually, these token ring connectors were introduced in 1984. Twisted pair ethernet was introduced in 1986. Though, coaxial BNC was more popular until the mid 90s.
Yeah, in my case the building had originally been fitted for token ring, and eventually was retrofitted for Ethernet, but instead of swapping out all the hard wired wall ports, they just issued that socket to ethernet adapters. The rooms ALSO had BNC ports, which weren't live anymore.
No one tell the straights about generator pigtails
Suicide cords?
this was the first link i found that looks like the pigtail i've got hooked up to our generator.
https://www.championpowerequipment.com/product/48035-3-ft-30a-125-250v-generator-y-adapter-cord/
That page is troublingly silent on how the phases are actually connected. I would assume each smaller outlet gets one of the phase legs plus neutral and ground, but why can't it just say that?
I'm sure there's a page somewhere that explains how they're supposed to be wired. Probably a UL something something
it's simple, as long as you don't know or think about anything
Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it's a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.
This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:
We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.
i mean males have 2 of the 3 holes too.
The only universal truth is that there's a mate for everybody.
Putitin!
Tintin?
Shamefully, when I'm speaking to someone who starts spouting the usual nonsense about homosexuality or genders, I'll ask " What about bears? ". I know nothing at all about bears, but seemingly its a great question to flounder moronic confidence. If it isn't enough, I'll add that bears display LGBTQ+ varieties in the wild and in zoo's. Deapan / confused delivery is key!
I have read a bit about biology and the science is kinda clear cut on it. That is to say, sex is a false dichotomy. Not even the chromosomes are a deterministic 100% guarantee for other things like genitals, breasts and even "male/female normatieve brain patterns". So yeah, follow the science and discover biology is not binary.
Definitely going to try to add that to my "What about bears" question for future use. Much appreciated. I'm not certain that many recipients of my challenge will understand the words. I may be on a witchcraft charge in some places
Do you have penguins in your bears question? They can form monogamous same sex bonded pairs that can adopt an egg from another couple and raise it.
That's a fun one to fuck with 'phobes about
snails are hermaphroditic, impale each other with sex arrows, and then proceed to twist around each other while hanging from a rope of slime and they impregnate each other.
Jellyfish spew their sperm and eggs into the water around them, hope for it to meet up and make an egg that hatches into a larva, which roots itself to the ocean floor and grows into a polyp where the adult jellyfish grow like a stack of plates and each one individually buds off.
wait, like bears, or bear bears? are bear bears like bears?
Just so!
wow this would go hard if it had more than 32 pixels
I'm a three-phase gender kinda person myself.
Huh, this post has taught me that I really like plugs and outlet's, some of the ones posted look fun to plug in.
Guess plugs and outlets are my weird old man interest.
You wouldn't believe the pronouns
i agree with the master of electricity
but what’s the wall plug converter have to do with anything?
This is just brilliant and is now my go to response for the hateful people in society that are difficult to avoid.
It's simple and so am I