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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

This always makes me wonder why isn't the feminine that is all inclusive. It occurred to me it is because males would take offense to be called women, where (at least traditionally) this is not the case the other way round.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I am pretty sure gender norms, even strict ones, occur to grammatically genderless languages, like Hungarian IIRC. So if a Hungarian student used a '*' to be non-binary inclusive, this could not have meaning in this society, because their language is genderless? I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I share your sentiment. But from a technical point of view, I can't fathom interactive maps without javascript, which is typically blocked by hardened browsers. TBF I think their cause would be better served if they open sourced their data so that people could explore them with arbitrary clients.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I see. Probably most North-Americans would confuse "gender-neutral" with "non-binary inclusive".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

regularly writing regular expressions

The statement speaks for itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah Bavaria has right wing extremists? I miss the times when one could flee to the US under similar circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

I understand this is a fine point. What is the status report on gender legislation in Germany then? Is this isolated from broader anti-trans politics as a matter of language puritanism and aesthetics?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I laughed more when I did not get the joke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some US bank got in trouble for using it internally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't fathom any reluctance coming from the left with respect to unionizing and providing necessary health services to any worker. If people do need to resort to sex work to make a living, then what are they supposed to do when they get older? Do you have to do a "respectable" job just to have the right to ...retire? I feel some arguments come from a cruel place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Add universal heath care including addiction treatment. This might or might not include de-penalization of addiction, depending on the jurisdiction. Breakdown this more to make clear what I mean. Besides the obvious complementarity between UBI and universal health care, people get to do this because they are also addicted, not just poor. Some are also manipulated by means of being addicted. The current approach that punishes the addicted instead of treating them only makes this worse. Countries that have made addiction a healthcare issue rather than a criminal one have seen results.

 
 

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The group’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, made the comments in an interview on “The War Room,” the Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s show on the network Real America’s Voice.

Mr. Roberts was discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that presidents have substantial immunity from prosecution for what they do in office, a ruling that upended the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and that removes a potential barrier to the most radical elements of his second-term agenda if he is elected again.

“We ought to be really encouraged by what happened yesterday, and in spite of all of the injustice — which of course friends and audience of this show, of our friend Steve, know — we are going to prevail,” Mr. Roberts said, alluding to Mr. Bannon’s imprisonment.

He went on to say that “the radical left” was “apoplectic” because “our side is winning” and said, “And so I come full circle in this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

 

Mainstream platforms such as Meta and X have accumulated a near-universal audience that is the root of all their evil. From sentiment analysis mass experiments to propagandistic political advertising. Things are worse in third countries where they are even less moderated. So I was thinking that as long as FOSS/Privacy is just geeky and elitist they just keep doing business as usual, from enshitification to fascism. Additionally, people have moved their political posting, scheduling, discussion online, so this gives them more power. Like seeing anarchist groups on Facebook is cringe, but some insist that "that is where the mass is, perhaps we move to Instagram to get to more Zedders". Whaaaat? Questions: What tactics could be used to move people en masse away from mainstream platforms, and more generally, do you think there is a point in it?

 
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