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To be fair, both of those were won with plenty of violence and took decades to accomplish.

The first Pride was a riot started most likely by a black trans woman who refused to be grabbed by the cops during one of their usual roundups of gay people and threw the first punch (brick to the face?) that set off a brawl across the whole area. IIRC, 100 cops were injured in the fight. But it still took nearly 50 years for gay marriage to be completely legal in the US. 1969 was when Stonewall happened, 2015 was the Supreme Court ruling (and that can be repealed at any time, like they did with abortion). Even the first state to officially write it into law, Massachusetts, only happened in 2004.

MLK Jr credited the Black Panthers being armed and willing to do what he couldn’t as a major part of why he had the success that he did. And his protests were already illegal, risking possible prison time for those involved if they weren’t done very carefully. And even after 10 years, Civil Rights laws were only written after a week of riots and billions of dollars in property damage sparked by his murder. 10 years of protests, but it took less than a week for the laws to be drafted and signed into law when entire city districts started to get burnt to the ground.

However, revolutions can be cultural as well. Gay marriage is a great example with actual polling numbers to present. By the time that the Supreme Court ruled on it, polls said that the country was equally split on the issue while as of 2021 a full 70% of the US apparently supports gay marriage.

I’m not from Scotland and I haven’t looked into the history of the sport, though I believe you’re right that it came from Scotland, but one thing I do know is that there is not a lot of wilderness left there and the Scottish absolutely hate Trump as one of the people destroying what natural landscape they have left with his golf course.

The reason that they stop so frequently is for the ads on television/streaming.

Are you kidding me? Scotland would be cheering if they could torch the golf courses. Especially Trump’s. During his last regime, somebody in the crowd of protesters threw a bag of Cheetos at him when he went to his golf course. Smacked him right in the face IIRC.

Many studies have been released recently about the rapid loss of cognitive abilities and skills due to the use of AI. It’s like how driving everywhere causes your muscles to atrophy, except it’s your critical thinking and reasoning skills, and it starts to happen within days or weeks of relying upon AI to do the work for you. Programmers who use AI and then stop have been found to write worse code after they stopped using AI than before they started, even for basic tasks. Reliance becomes dependence as you can no longer do the work yourself.

This meme is quite literally true.

Didn’t he also follow her to Twitter or something and harass her there as well after banning her?

It’s been a while since I saw this going on, but I swear that that was part of the outrage.

I checked, and the link is to a post from about 10 hours ago talking about how the person in the screenshot, liv, was banned for that post earlier today.

So, in short, they were banned for a post from 503 days ago - from back in December of 2024.

The context of the post that they were banned over is exactly what it says: the head of Trust and Safety got caught liking teen porn from a spam bot on his work account by a bot designed to post what posts his account likes (very similar to the Twitter account that used to track Musk’s airplane - both are publicly available information), and he panicked and banned the bot and the account of the creator, a (from what I understand) well liked trans woman back in late 2024. This caused major backlash for a number of reasons that included the large trans population of users on BlueSky and the general distrust and discontent with the staff and their actions, but also due to the staff reaction to the outrage, which was to ban more people. And, if I remember correctly, the head of Trust and Safety followed the trans woman onto another social media platform after banning her to harass her there.

Snow and ice are not conducive to wearing a head piece with similar sightlines as a medieval jousting helmet.

You can tell it’s real by the masculine head shape. We can always tell. 🧐

The employer will reconsider that attitude if the union decides to leverage their power and announce a work stoppage until demands are met. People tend to listen when the entire company freezes in its tracks and annual revenue is suddenly on the line.

What’d you think of all the antisemitic references to goblins being Jews?

Besides the obvious ones like the dates of various goblin rebellions lining up with attempted genocides and ethnic cleansings of Jews during the medieval period in Europe, there were some real deep cuts in there like the “goblin war horn” that looked like a Jewish ritual horn that was described as “being used for war and to annoy wizards” and stuffed full with one of the like 3 non-kosher cheeses in the world. Gorgonzola, IIRC.

The devs really did their research. At least, they did before the lead dev stepped down when it was discovered that they ran a white supremacist YouTube channel. But, as they said when they announced their resignation, they really felt like they were among like-minded people on the team, so, good for them.

LGBT people also seem to have a natural proclivity to forming friend groups with each other even before coming out/realizing that they’re gay, trans, etc.

Source: I’ve had it happen like 6 different times with different groups of friends in wildly different contexts. And that’s not even including the gay kid I knew in college whose dream for college was to turn a straight guy gay.

I have a friend who is right-handed because he was forced to write right-handed by his teacher. In the early 2000s. They’re still out there.

So you look for items in blank white cardboard boxes that only have a technical definition of the item contained inside?

Logos and packaging are advertising the product inside. Your friends recommending you a product is advertising that product. A company having a website is advertising. The grocery store advertising that an item is on sale is…advertising. It’s all advertising.

What we actually hate is intrusive and malicious advertising as well as false advertising. Like billboards. Fuck billboards.

The easiest solution IMO is to download Firefox for your phone and use that instead of the YouTube app. I don’t watch a lot on my phone, but that’s what I did. Just install the Ublock extension like you would on a desktop and you’re all set. Then you can also use that instead of Chrome and free of ads on the web at large as well.

The one unfortunate thing is that you can’t uninstall the YouTube app, only disable it, and every time you go to the site it will ask you if you want to open the app instead.

… That would be sex. Chromosomes are used to identify the sex of an animal. Male and female describe two possible variations of sexes. It’s how we know that there’s a species of lizard that are all genetically identical females - clones, if you will. Or how we’ve identified something like 417 different sexes in one mold species based on different chromosome combinations. We don’t phenotype babies at birth, usually.

Gender is a societal/cultural concept that has meant many things (sometimes even competing ideas) over the centuries. Historically, they’re connected to secondary sex characteristics in humans, but not always. One of the oldest known gods had a priesthood made up exclusively of trans women, for example. Old versions of the Torah use a pronoun specifically for trans men that recognizes them as men trapped in the bodies of women. Many cultures throughout history had 3 or more recognized genders before their culture was supplanted by the fairly recent Christian concept of the gender binary. And even that is hypocritical, as God is nonbinary and says in the Bible that nonbinary people are His favorite as they are the most like to Him.

I’ve never used it myself, I use UBO as well, but I’ve heard about it before and brought it up because it sounds like it does what the OP was talking about but for ads instead of social media.

That’s the one, thanks.

You guys are watching ads?