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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is so strange to me that gender being a social construct remains a controversial take in society. It feels like we're backsliding.

I learned this 17 years ago in sociology class at a public school. I then made a portrait series I titled Gender Spectrum and presented it at my small town county fair for 4H. I got a blue ribbon. None of this was weird or even remotely political, it was just me applying a bit of scientific knowledge from school to an art piece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the info.

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

Cool, so I probably want mastodon and lemmy accounts, which I already have. But I'll try to avoid making new accounts if they aren't necessary. Are there any worthwhile sites that are compatible with lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I was frustrated when I found a community from lem.ee and couldn't log on to lem.ee with my current account. Now I see that I can search it up even though I am on lemmy.world.

 

I'm glad this community is here because I feel very stupid. I've seen videos likening the fediverse to email and phone networks. Some of what I've seen implies that not only are lemmy instances connected but lemmy instances can also be connected with mastodon, peertube, and others. Is this true? How to I connect to other instances or even other platforms?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Missouri did as well. In defense of MO voters, the ballot language was terrible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Or... or... hear me out... everyone comes to lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I am putting my small amount of hope in the inability of the federal government to get anything done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Good! There wont be as much flooding if we stop measuring it! /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Younger, healthier, charismatic, great on camera, focused in stressful situations. Also, she'll be great at dealing with congress because she is so experienced with dicks and assholes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'll be there in November!

Side note, maybe we can have Riley Reid for the candidate?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I'll pokemon go to the polls now. Harris would not be my first pick, but it would be dumb for me to demand that biden step down and still not vote when my demand is met.

Democrats have listened to their voters and they deserve to be rewarded for that.

 

It is freeing to recognize that I have never sinned and it pissed Christians off when I say this. To clarify, in Christianity sin is not simply "the bad things we do" it is specifically an offense against god. God does not exists so i have never sinned against him.

I've been an atheist for for 16 years but it was only recently that I realized this distinction. It short-circuits the guilt based evangelism. It forces the christian to first demonstrate that god exists before they can convince me I have sinned and need to be saved from that sin. And to say the least, they are ill equipped to demonstrate the existence of god.

 
 

Sov Cit - I'm not under your jurisdiction. driving is a commercial activity, I am traveling and that doesn't require a license.

Big Tech - We're not a taxi company, labor laws don't apply to us. We are an app company that allows independent contractors to find customers.

Sov Cit - I am not the legal person, I am the flesh and blood living person. I do not need any identification.

Big Tech - We're a hotel network. We're a website that enables peer to peer short term home sharing. Neither we, nor the people who rent on our website should be subject to any sort of existing regulations.

Just a thought.

 

What are the best zines for introducing beginners and libs. I have a couple of places I want to start distributing zines but I think my audience needs some real basic concepts like cops aren't your friends, profit isn't really what motivates most people, direct action can be effective. I like Bullshit Jobs and To Change Everything, but I need some more variety.

 

I'm a volunteer clinic defender at Planned Parenthood so i deal with street preachers a lot. This weekend a street preacher also started interfering with the crowd at the pride parade. In both cases, I primarily try to interfere, interrupt, and distract them to prevent them from harassing their targets.

I am consistently surprised by how they can just keep reciting their scripts with a thousand yard stare while crowds are shouting at them to shut up, or chanting go home, or blowing whistles in their ears. They just keep going nonstop. Admittedly a big part of why this bothers me is because of how ineffective our defense efforts often are, but it's also just really creepy. They don't react to anything. They aren't really there to have any kind of conversation. They jut space out and ramble loudly and constantly.

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