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  • While I would like to think of myself as something rare and shiny, I’d like to admit that I don’t actually identify as “truly” ambidextrous.

    It’s perhaps more accurately “mixed-handedness”, and while I have quite a few of the benefits of what an truly ambidextrous person would, I also have some negatives that a person with one clear dominant side wouldn’t. I think the benefits outweigh the negatives for me, but I don’t think everyone would necessarily agree. And ofc it depends on your degree of mixedness, basically.

    It’s much more common, being reported in this study at a rate of 13.49% while left-handedness was 7.14%.

    For instance I used to do frisbee golf (disc golf?) quite a lot more, and long throws obviously with my right, although I could do them a bit with my left. But then my left wrist (what I mostly write with) is stronger so when I put the disc, left was often more reliable. So then if it was between a put and a medium range throw, I’d have problems choosing which hand to throw with.

    Then again writing on a blackboard, sorry, whiteboard is what they are nowadays, I start with my left but finish with my right.

    And when I cook for instance, which hand holds the product and which cuts is mostly a matter of how I’m facing or what hand the knife happens to be closer to. I can also shoot from both sides, although my right-eye does seem more dominant.

    Coincidentally my preferred gender is sort of slightly fluid as well and/or mixed but my presentation is 99% of the time mostly masculine. I don’t live in the most progressive society in terms of attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people.













  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSacrifice
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    5 days ago

    I could but I don’t want to

    "I totally have a girlfriend. No you wouldn’t know her, she’s Canadian. "

    (See this is a strawman, much like the one you used earlier itt.)

    Confidently idiotic people irk me.

    Me2 man. Perhaps stop being one?

    You’re the type who first of all sees these things as competitions, (“take the L, bro”), secondly, you think all you have to do to “win” a debate is to point out a fallacy.

    You’re probably in the camp of people who think insults mean ad hominem? :D

    You started this thread with a strawman you then claim isn’t a strawman, because of the intent you had while making it+

    Oh now I realise what you’re doing. You genuinely think I’m as intellectually lazy and ingenuine as you, so you think I too am trying to bullshit my way through this?

    I can refer back to any comment. Like the one which you try to assert that me pointing out your strawman… is a strawman?

    Okay then. What’s the weak version of the argument I made to attack, and oh yeah, what argument is it that I’m trying to attack in the first place?

    Oh you don’t have one, or have to come up with them, post hoc? It is somewhat amusing.


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    5 days ago

    See, now you’re in “the spiral”. You can’t address the actual thing you said anymore, have expressed that you feel like you’re “wasting time”, but for some reason, you feel like you have to keep replying, despite having to resort to spamming memes.

    It’s okay to just leave a thread, you know?




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    6 days ago

    Larp all you want, that won’t make your comment at the top of this thread be any less fallacious.

    Me pointing out that it was fallacious, which it is, doesn’t mean I’m engaging in the argument. It just means I’m tired of people like you larping they know philosophy when they can barely be bothered to skim the Wikipedia entries on the subject.

    I’m not wasting time. I’m enjoying my time on Lemmy. Aren’t you?


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    6 days ago

    First off, with all this philosophy larping, there’s a thing called “the fallacy fallacy”, which states it’ fallacious to imply someone is wrong simply because their logic was fallacious.

    Secondly, me reminding you of how these things work doesn’t mean I’m suddenly “defending a false claim”, especially not with strawmen.