A few weeks ago, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content.

Oh my god, he’s trying to make it Reddit.

This coming from the guy literally picking fights in the conservative community over this…

Non op here, so not an answer to your question, but I carried a couple pads/tampons in my bag for a long time just so I was able to help if/when needed.

Jesus, you people are everywhere

(and I love it, lol)

Haha. Yep!

Apparently it’s a thing on parts of TikTok that Mourning Doves went extinct in 2000ish and Gen Zs talk about feeling nostalgic hearing them.

Oof.

I don’t know if this counts, but I’d say the Enlightenment. It was a discovery in that we discovered a new way to interpret the world.

I think there is kind of a glass ceiling when you talk about fire, plumbing, electricity and so on. Each one was a necessary stepping stone to get us where we are, but without any one of them, we wouldn’t be here.

The Enlightenment gave us a brand new sense of autonomy as a species, which in turn has given us a greater amount of control over “Destiny.”

I don’t think so… They interviewed him on a podcast years ago and he seems to take it seriously

Thanks. It’s all so much clearer now =)

Genuinely asking out of ignorance: What does The Flash have to do with this comic?

Metroid fans

Tigeruppercut nailed it.

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Yeah, it felt wrong, lol

I just wanted to reply the same thing to both of them

I’m saying Erin’s post comes across as “panic” because to someone who might care, but is less informed, it seems to be missing some context

Trust me, I understand the play here. But Imagine you’re just an average cis person and your trans friend sends you that article.

You read it and you’re angry. “How can they treat human beings like this??”

So you go read the bill.

Kids can’t be taken across state lines for gender affirming medical procedures without the consent of their parents.

“Oh… Erin must not have read it thoroughly. This sounds reasonable to me.”

And I know this happens because a political podcaster, who is a very intelligent cis guy who I respect, did exactly this about Don’t Say Gay.

We need to tell people -why- these laws are dangerous without falling into our own panic.

We need to point out how they all seem to try to “solve” problems that don’t exist, or just scapegoat us.

Trust me, I understand the play here. But Imagine you’re just an average cis person and your trans friend sends you that article.

You read it and you’re angry. “How can they treat human beings like this??”

So you go read the bill.

Kids can’t be taken across state lines for gender affirming medical procedures without the consent of their parents.

“Oh… Erin must not have read it thoroughly. This sounds reasonable to me.”

And I know this happens because a political podcaster, who is a very intelligent cis guy who I respect, did exactly this about Don’t Say Gay.

We need to tell people -why- these laws are dangerous without falling into our own panic.

We need to point out how they all seem to try to “solve” problems that don’t exist, or just scapegoat us.

AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, provide that an adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured commits a Class C felony.

This amendment does not apply to: (i) a parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor; (ii) an adult who has permission from the unemancipated minor’s parent or legal guardian; or (iii) the provision of a medical diagnosis described in the law relevant to medical procedures for minors. Additionally, it is not a defense to prosecution under this amendment that the unemancipated minor consented to the actions.

While it’s still a bill to generate trans panic, and fuck them 100% for that, I still feel it’s important to be angry at the right things.

This bill only targets people who would do something like this to a child without a legal guardian’s permission.

I don’t really believe that it’s happening enough to make a fucking law about it, if at all. But fuck them still.

Holy crap, that’s such an awesome little subtle feature/detail… That’s why I love Sync.

Thanks!

Once they killed reader, I stopped using any google services that I didn’t have to for some other reason.

Reader was the GOAT, as the kids say.

Thankfully I don’t live there, so it’s only my problem once.