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In defense of demiromanticism | The Asexual Agenda - 0 views

  • a word to describe how you experience the world
  • some people don’t understand the difference between labels imposed by outside sources and labels to help you understand yourself
  • labels imposed from the outside are not cool
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  • who are they to tell me what’s going on in my own head?
  • labels for yourself, new ways to describe your own experience, thoughts, and desires, are amazing
  • the power of labels lies in their ability to prove that you’re not alone
  • if someone else out there bothered to come up with a word for it, it means you’re not the only one experiencing it!
  • Sometimes I think people forget how powerful that can be for people who feel isolated (regardless of whether that isolation is real or perceived).
  • I just am.
  • if I didn’t have that label, it wouldn’t actually change how I feel or what I experience
  •  Words are good, even if they’re describing a majority experience.
  • a demiromantic person is one who does not experience romantic attraction until they have an emotional connection with the other party
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Gender schema theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • modeling equal roles for mothers and fathers in the household
  • individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from individuals
  • society should decrease the use of the gender dichotomy
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Gender neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other
  • eliminate gender distinctions
  • gender neutrality in the law has changed the nature of custody disputes
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  • public restrooms being available without distinguishing the gender of the person using them
  • Someone who identifies as gender blind takes the perspective of gender neutrality in every day life.
  • s/he, or they
  • in gender neutralism the emphasis is on transcending the perspective of gender altogether rather than focusing on the rights of specific genders
  • Gender neutrality emphasises the equal treatment of men and women legally with no discrimination whatsoever.
  • Gender neutrality or "gender transcendence" is part of the transhumanist concept of postgenderism
  • Advocates of postgenderism argue that the presence of gender roles, social stratification, and cogno-physical disparities and differences are generally to the detriment of individuals and society.
  • promoting gender neutrality within the classroom
  • not having gender-specific sports
  • gender-neutral bathrooms and on-campus housing
  • gender-inclusive dorm room and bathroom options
  • damage caused by gender stereotyping of children
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Pseudocode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • uses the structural conventions of a programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading.
  • augmented with natural language descriptions of the details, where convenient, or with compact mathematical notation.
  • The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier for humans to understand than conventional programming language code, and that it is a compact and environment-independent description of the key principles of an algorithm
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  • commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications that are documenting various algorithms, and also in planning of computer program development, for sketching out the structure of the program before the actual coding takes place.
  • No standard for pseudocode syntax exists, as a program in pseudocode is not an executable program. Pseudocode resembles, but should not be confused with, skeleton programs including dummy code, which can be compiled without errors.
  • Flowcharts can be thought of as a graphical alternative to pseudocode.
  • <variable> = <expression>
  • IF <condition> DO stuff; ELSE DO other stuff;
  • WHILE <condition> DO stuff;
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BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • high-level programming language
  • Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
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  • to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.
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C++ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • regarded as a "middle-level" language
  • developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • began as enhancements to C, first adding classes, then virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling among other features.
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Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. They are: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
  • once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award
  • The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".
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French verbs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Library science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • International Journal of Library Science
  • Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship
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Speculative fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more highly imaginative fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history
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J. R. R. Tolkien - 0 views

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