In a properly functioning world, this could easily be coupled with particular education on power dynamics and a lesson on consent, giving proper attention to why this might be more harmful to get than to him.

Of course, – so long as we’re in this hypothetical world – you’d just have that kind of education be a part of sex ed. or the like for all students, to begin with, but, as we’re in this world and that’s Louisiana…

I don’t think he’d won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I’ll admit, I hadn’t been following his race very closely.

Besides your point but this is the aspect about Gorsuch that I can’t seem to make internally consistent. He almost always rules in terms of native rights – even when, I think, it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle – yet is more than happy to rule as a conservative on all other times and support “industry” and big business (even when it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle).

I know that nothing necessitates a person to act logically and most act from emotion, more than anything, but most people, I find, have a relative reason they think they’re being logically consistent but I can’t seem to suss even that out, with regards to him.

I can’t speak for how viable it is for success or whether it’s just a grift (as I haven’t had the time to really research into it) but feels like as good a time as any to mention that, out in Australia, The Pack Music Cooperative is fundraising for a cooperative music streaming service: https://www.thepackaustralia.com.au/

They haven’t raised a lot towards their goal, yet, and could probably use an the help they can get. As a cooperative, they’ll side step a lot of the probably problems a corporation like Spotify or Tidal will have and they already are dedicated to prioritizing artists and their rights.

I made a promise, Mr. garretble: a promise. “Don’t you make me use any other browser,” said my nan; and I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

She’s still using Windows XP.

FB is ostly AI, and right wing content.

Sure but it wasn’t always; it’s been nearly a decade (if not that) since I’ve stopped using it. A lot has changed.

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I’d joined).

And I’ve been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that’s probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I’d already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn’t a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they’re is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that’s where I’ll be sprinting to.

But, also, who thinks Photoshop is easier‽

As someone who’d learned Photoshop and, eventually, learned GIMP (just because it was easier to run after eventually switching to Linux), trying to argue that Photoshop has an industry stranglehold because it – apparently – is just so much more intuitive than GIMP is absolutely wild. No one I knew learning Photoshop was finding that the UI or layout just magically clicked (or even swiftly got less impenetrable, as time went on).

Oh, and I suppose you’ve figured out a more modern way to balance the humors‽

Same; I simply can’t use a laptop without mouse buttons.

I expect it’s just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).

For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can’t say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it’s just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water’s been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.

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But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn’t quite as important.

Is it really switching if that was the way it was traditionally done and they just kept doing it that way?

Honestly, I’m surprised they’re running this, at all, considering I assumed it was solely a means to divide Queer people and funnel them to vote against their issues.

I first noticed it’s advertisements on Twitter last year (maybe 2023? I can’t quite remember) and it signaling to right-wing dog-whistles and ideas was immediately obvious (to me); it felt like the type of stuff Peter Thiel would believe earnestly. Present itself as innovative explorers of new ideas and the real rebels (because the left is the group that’s the real authoritarians~ That type of nauseating BS).

I just assumed it was purposeful, meant to pipeline Queer people to those ideas and peel off support for actual progress (at the time, I probably would’ve assumed to help with the 2024 election).

Not sure what its purpose is, now; maybe speak to the harm the right always causes (but can’t be ignored, now) to keep its readership and hopefully influence the useful idiots (in the future) to keep supporting those who wish to obliterate them.

You don’t like Cox?

Periodic reminder that overpopulation (which is why, I’m assuming, you say we need to reduce the population; I apologize if that assumption is erroneous) is an ecofascist, classist, and racist myth. It’s convenient for systems such as capitalism and conveniently penalizes “Third World” countries but does not address the real causes of the ills that overpopulation purports to solve.

https://greenisthenewblack.com/opinion-the-overpopulation-myth-example-ecofascism/

Not even just exotic. They’re known for being germ vectors, in general.

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