As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.

The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don’t like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it’s going to be okay. No need to break shit.

Chicken and egg situation.

Did Russia make them into this, or did Russia seek them out because of who they already were?

Sometimes (the freak lobster men like top right aren’t what most women are into lol), but Hollywood doesn’t give a shit about what women want. This is what men want. It’s all power fantasy.

It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

Actually it’s only sterile in the bladder, once it passes through the urethra it picks up bacteria.

Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?

As a hard materialist, I don’t see art as separate from materialism. What art does is materially express immaterial things - a good piece of art isn’t just an image or description of events, it’s an idea or concept that has been made into a material form.

Art isn’t just a description of the world. The point of art is to change it.

Art hadn’t been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn’t exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn’t appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.

This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable “art” without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.

There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.

I guess? But like, if the Independent State Legislature of California decided to go along with the decision and become the People’s Republic of California then the Court could just say “no but not like that tho” and then ban California from doing that. They must still care somewhat about credibility/legitimacy, but I guess they just couldn’t help themselves when the chance to attack The Gays was available.

Well there’s still 3 liberals that could be replaced by the next Republican.

Well it’s also useful feedback for training neural networks to make engaging posts.

Same thing, really.

I’m actually surprised, I thought the reason they were reluctant to endorse the so-called Independent State Legislature Theory because they didn’t want to erode their already fragile credibility in light of the seemingly endless corruption scandals. Then they go and basically ignore the entire concept of standing and make a ruling based on literally nothing! I think I need to reexamine how smart I think they are…

You don’t actually know that, though to be fair, an actually principled stance would be to refuse to serve all Republicans and not specifically Trump supporters. In some ways Trump is becoming the lesser evil of the Party when compared to some of the other monsters running against him.

Actually! There was no website. It was all made up.

Can you imagine having principles that are more important than profitability?

“‘…Proponents of this bill have tried to frame this as an innocuous way to give business owners more power…” why do business owners need more power?

Well workers outnumber business owners and that’s not fair! :V

NTA

They’re not children, they can handle it.

That said? Maybe talk to them about not giving her the cold shoulder? She shouldn’t have kept secrets and lied about shit, but from experience I can say they’ll regret cutting her out. You never know how long you have with people until they’re gone.

But then what does /c/ mean?

If we’re lemmings, then these are /c/liffs

I think it’s important to remember that these monsters are all too human.

It’s still good to shoot them into the Sun.

Love to “defederate” Nazis

:)