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  • I get furries (well, enough for the purposes of this conversation at least), but they are different than “therians” right? I’m not as familiar with the term but it seems that they are people who identify as an animal not with.

    The issue I have is that the wording here is pretty handwavy

    This is pretty clearly a social and psychological phenomenon, not a neurological trait having nothing to do with a system of neurological development (influenced by hormones, for example).

    I’m not so sure it’s quite so “clear” to anyone that doesn’t study these topics in detail. And I don’t know enough about what is or is not a neurological trait.

    To the best of our knowledge, hormones don’t influence the animals you like or identify with.

    That’s a good point. But the brain does and the brain is an organ as Steve points out. Is the difference of one being influenced by hormones sufficient?

    That’s the hair I’m trying to split.


  • I always like Steve’s writings - he’s about as fair as a person can get.

    Some people have a strong psychological identity with an animal archetype, just like some people think they are aliens, or that they were reincarnated. This has literally nothing to do with gender identity and is not the same kind of phenomenon

    This argument comes up a lot and I would like to know more about what the differences in these phenomenon are.







  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlFreeCAD 1.0 released
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    5 days ago

    As much as we’re delighted to present you this new version, we are also sad to announce that our friend and prolific FreeCAD developer bgbsww has passed away a few weeks before this release came out. He was one of the main architects of the topological naming fixing effort, wrote a lot of additional code and tests, and became FreeCAD’s TNP specialist. He also helped virtually all other developers out to adapt to the new algorithm. This release is dedicated to him.

    😥