I was going to say that .. Twitter didn't even have images, so someone made Twitpic .. then they refused to tell Twitpic to Twitter, then they got sued by Twitter and became a read only archive as part of the settlement.
More factory work needs to come back as well. A huge issue of value for dumb people is the lack of meaningful work. Building furniture is certainly more rewarding than doing stock at a supermarket. But there's just so little we build in America anymore; and most of it is pretty demanding (corroborators, washing machines, cars and tractor parts)
wow, Drew's back. Glad to see you're still an asshole but at least self aware. BTW, why is Stallman problematic? I'm not saying it isn't, I'm just wondering what you see and problematic.
There are an insane number of LGBTMafia people in open source. Who cares? No one should. It shouldn't even matter one way or the other. It doesn't make software better or worse. It just turns into in the type of political warzone you love to add toxicity too.
Opalgate is a great example. A T contributor comes in out of no where and goes apeshit on a project he's never contributed to except for a CoC.
I'm not sure if that man has a soul. He's pure narcissism. He can only exist because of the social media that exists, and reinforces that he's a woman.
I think he is happy ... but the cameras and views and likes are his only source of happiness ... there is nothing that exists inside him except for the validation of the external
... happiness may be a stretch/the wrong word. The idea of happiness; what psychopaths imagine happiness to be. That thing.
yes, he can talk calmly now, but go back to the violence in the state capitol. He sided with the violent mob that had no interest in petition or peace. They stormed the TN capitol house and now he's acting all high and mighty like that didn't happen.
These fucking asshats brought a bullhorn to the house floor and joined people who acted like spoiled children:
Should they get expelled? Probably not, but neither should this childish shit be considered acceptable. They should face some consequences for not being adults. Everyone is raising the temperature.
As a Tennessean, I do not stand behind this mob. Three children and three educators are dead. This has nothing to do with the politics of guns or trans. This has to do with a monster who murdered six people, the nation that pumps kids and adults full of drugs and glorifies shooters.
Wait, so is the Mario movie actually good? ... I actually liked the first Sonic. I saw it with two friends and we were all high going in and both of my friends hated it and never understood why I liked it. :blobcatshrug:
second Sonic was kinda meh ... not great, but better than Spiderman No Way Home or Avatar.
@Adam_Cadmon1 I watched Black Lives Matter "peaceful protestors" set cars on fire, break the windows out of stores, steal tons of shit and cause actual real terrorism on the streets of Chicago right outside my building. The terrorism continued the entire weekend. I drove out to a Taco Bell and saw all the windows broken out and boxes scattered all over the streets from every store that had been looted. One owners was on the news, a Korean American who said $300k worth of merch had been stolen. None of these businesses had insurance that covered riots (riot insurance is insanely expensive). I had to get through police checkpoints on the way home and there had been several carjackings in the area. City dump trucks were blocking/protecting a Burger King ... interesting to see which businesses Lightfoot chose to protect and which ones were left to burn.
I wrote this article after it happened, documenting some of the riots and my opinions at the time:
according to that article, a 40 year monthly loan payment with the current interest rates are the same as my 15 year monthly payment from interest rates a little over a year ago.
Blackrock and Vanguard don't buy up stuff directly. Instead they invest heavily in companies like Invitation Homes, and Home Partners of America.
News and media outlets run propaganda saying Blackrock and Vanguard are not buying up homes, yet this is misleading slight of hand. They are the largest investors in those two home purchasing companies:
I ask again, how can one person's decision to end his or her life be blamed on anyone else?
You have libertarian leanings. Where does this go? Should a man be charged for manslaughter if his wife kills herself, rather than just leave him? Is "battered woman syndrome" really a justification for murder? Is the Nashville shooter justified in her actions of murdering three children?
You cannot control the world or what they say or do. But you can exert agency over your own mind. Ultimately everyone needs to be responsible for their own actions, and stop blaming everyone else.
But that’s not really what anyone here is talking about.
Then what are we talking about? What other possible perspective is there in a society where speech is protected?
That said, blaming intolerance as the sole factor also seems like a gross oversimplification
It’s not an oversimplification, it’s outright wrong and misleading. Trans people have the highest suicide rates of any supposed oppressed group: higher than US black slaves, higher that Jews in WW2 Germany, higher than Japanese in US internment camps in WW2 [1/2/3]… they are granted more freedoms and recognition and opportunities in western nations than ever before. They are praised by every major corporation and media outlet, while complaining about an entirely non-existent genocide .. a genocide that can only exist in the world where everyone is responsible for their high rates of suicide; which we are not.
People are free to live their lives however they want. However, blaming one of the most accepting societies (that society being the Western world of the US/UK/EU/AU/NZ/etc.) that allows biological men to compete and decimate professional women’s sports, and whose media defends transgenderism and gender ideology at every possible opportunity with zero push-back, for being the cause of their genocidal suicide, is nothing more than a misleading word game that seeks to distort reality for political and ideological gains and control.
Maybe it wasn’t clear, I’m using that phrase to show the logical problem with the trans argument of genocide. There’s isn’t a genocide. For there to be a trans-genocide, they have to claim it’s actually the fault of society somehow forcing them to suicide, which is illogical and irrational.
I think I’m fairly middle of the road here. Trans people are free to be trans people, but I also think their views are an ideological one that deal with the metaphysical self. Therefore, those views cannot and should not be applied to general society such as males entering sports as female. It’s incredibly unfair.
But the eventual culmination of transgender belief states that not only is the trans woman the same as a real woman, but that man was always a woman from the beginning. It’s directly adjacent to Orwell’s “We were always at war with Euraisa. We were never not at war with Eurasia. That’s the way it’s always been.”
And furthermore, the growth of trans people is accelerating; which is directly analogous to a religious system. Lisa Litman’s famous study on “Sudden Onset Gender Dysphoria,” a controversial paper which many discredit (I’ve read, and although I have some issues with it, overall I think it’s very good) deals with the fact that Transgenderism is spreading in high schools almost exactly like other social contagions (e.g. anorexia).
Her research and others suggest that the majority of people with gender dysphoria do eventually grow out of it. The great irony is the trans movement’s beliefs that people are causing harm to people for not affirming them. However, the chemical castration drugs (relabeled puberty blockers) given to children literally causes irreversible physical harm, as documented by Abigail Shrier’s research in her book Irreversible Damage.