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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure it's both, given that both uses are extremely common and that be how language works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Literally just button remapping support for my MX Ergo.

And for the fool who always comes into these threads to tell me again that I must not have tried in several years, I tried last month. Talked to the Solaar dev, tried to reach out to Logitech, literally nothing to be done.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Fuck that work ethic bullshit. Let's live like cats.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I've used qbittorrent, deluge, utorrent, and a number of other clients over the years. I greatly prefer transmission. I don't need my torrent client to do anything but download and seed.

I bet this person hates GIMP too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, but compare the effort to the results. People were bussing in from all over the country, but like what actually changed?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I don't think it's possible to have a significant impact on transphobia on the internet purely via debate and text. I do think it's very possible to have a substantial impact in real life just be being a visible trans person out in public life interacting with people.

A lot of people have never once in their life had a conversation with a trans person. It's a lot harder to weaponize someone's existence when they become a fixture in your life. It also gives you an opportunity to occasionally share some of your struggle with people and educate them in a more direct way, but I think the former is often more valuable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You feel like this because it's an incredibly unhealthy way to live and an utter waste of human potential. Stop doing it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I mean, I have no idea if she's Margot Robbie, but I figure I might as well treat her as if she is. Doesn't cost me anything. It's basically the solution to the solipsism problem with lower stakes.

Personally, I think doing a goofy impression of yourself and occasionally breaking character would be a good way to fly under the radar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huh? I mean buildings get condemned or rebuilt sometimes, but talk like that tells me you haven't been to Boston or New York.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You're literally asking for the 'average' of a country containing everything from desert to tundra to a variety of types of forest and just about every biome in between. We've got political situations ranging from state endorsed persecution and torture of minorities on the one hand to policies that are at times to the left of the European mainstream on the other.

You might as well compare Norway and Turkey as Massachusetts and Texas. In the latter case they share a federal government, but both also ignore that government when it suits them. Like, look at the confusing legal situation around marijuana in the US. It's legal in more and more states, but it's federally illegal. So like, technically it's federally illegal in states where it's legal, but we just ignore that for most purposes. It does mean that dispensaries largely have to operate with cash, though.

In Massachusetts it's even weirder. We have a ballot initiative process, so the people can make new laws by making a big enough petition and putting it on the next election ballot. That's how we passed decriminalization, then medical, then legalization. No Massachusetts politician really took up the issue and endorsed it, we just voted it in. Which forced our state law makers to basically ignore the federal prohibition.

You could also expect to see this happen in Massachusetts if, for example, abortion were federally criminalized. We already ignore other states' laws about things like family planning and immigration.

The US really isn't a monolith legally or culturally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Stop fighting your body and find a night job.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Source for that? Because all I'm seeing is footage of her striking with SAG and pro-union comments she's made online.

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a45138901/margot-robbie-sag-aftra-strike-picket-line-outfit/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishabassi/margot-robbie-sag-aftra-strike-support-actors-rights

The attitude toward celebrities on Lemmy versus on Mastodon is really weird. Same thing with reddit, a lot of the time. Like, okay, I have no idea if that's really Margot Robbie or not, but famous people do use the internet. Attention doesn't make them a different species that forgets how to use keyboards or something.

Might as well be nice?

 
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