Yeah that’s well said.

While that’s gotta be a big part of it, I’m not sure that’s the true source of their hatred and bigotry, though it’s obviously not the same for every bigot. I think it boils down to an even simpler insecurity. Not necessarily an insecurity with their own gender, but more a feeling of jealous insecurity when they see people who genuinely know who they are and have put in the work to figure themselves out. Gender is just the easiest part of their identity to hate. I don’t think that insecurity is necessarily conscious, though the hatred certainly is, it’s more an enviousness of someone who is obviously secure with themselves and their body.

I had a similar reaction to the thumbnail. My first thought, before reading anything, was “huh, Meta found a lesbian who hates the rest of the LGBTQ community.”

Smotrich would be considered a terrorist pretty much anywhere else. He’s a huge bigoted piece of shit.

According to former Shin Bet deputy chief Yitzhak Ilan, who interrogated him at the time, during the protests against the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, Smotrich was arrested in 2005 while in possession of 700 litres of gasoline on suspicion of participating in an attempt to blow up Ayalon Highway, a major arterial road. He was held in jail for three weeks but not charged after refusing to speak. This account was corroborated by Dvir Kariv, who was an agent with Shin Bet at the time.

In 2006 he helped organize the “Beast Parade” as part of protests against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, although he later admitted regret at the incident.

He is co-founder of the NGO Regavim, which monitors and pursues legal action in the Israeli court system against constructions undertaken by Palestinians, Bedouins, and other Arabs in Israel and the West Bank without Israeli permits.

-from his Wikipedia

Undoubtedly. I can’t think of a reason they wouldn’t start doing this immediately if this ridiculous deal somehow went through.

She’s seriously awesome. This is the kind of protest we need more of. Her logic is perfectly sound too: by tying them up on the road, those particular agents aren’t terrorizing her community.

Also, I watched the sped up video from start to finish, and I don’t think the ICE car used their turn signal at all. That’s clearly the least of their crimes, but still, most of us have to follow traffic laws.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

I love the hot springs in Ghost of Tsushima.

Synthetic textiles are a major contributor to funky smells in my experience, and I wasn’t aware of it until a few years ago. Sheets especially (microfiber sheets are disgusting, I regret ever using them), but also window shades, couch pillows etc. They can smell nasty, and it’s a kind of lowkey rotting plastic smell. Gross. I’ve switched to as many natural textiles as possible (been on a huge linen kick lately) and my place seems much fresher.

I happens quite a lot in my experience, and it’s more than an annoyance to me, but I wouldn’t call it a fundamental problem. It does really bother me, especially when the discussion has just started getting good.

I don’t really mind if people delete their own individual comments, but deleting the whole thread while folks are interacting bugs the shit out of me.

No problem! The @ing does sound confusing, I think I’ll stop doing that.

“Gender war” might have been too strongly worded. But I, and clearly lots of other Lemmings, are especially sensitive to users who try to stir up unnecessary controversies about gender, or bring it into comments where it isn’t relevant. You might not have been trying to do that, so that’s my bad ratcheting up the rhetoric with “gender war.” But I read Arkouda’s comment and I didn’t even notice their use of “they” until reading your comment about it.

As others have said, I think you parsed the language a little too far. It’s perfectly acceptable, and sometimes preferred, to use generalities when offering advice. Re-reading it again, I frankly can’t see how it’s disingenuous at all.

I was responding to @Lev@europe.pub’s comment, and was trying to back you up (though it sounds like I failed). I agree with everything you said in your original comment, as well as the language you used to say it. The “wholesome comment” I was referring to was your comment.

The only thing I’ll take issue with is that I’ve been here for more than two years, I’m just on a new instance after lemm.ee’s shutdown.

I feel quite silly explaining this, because it seems like you probably don’t want a real answer, but “they” is used when referring to a general group of people. @Arkouda@lemmy.ca was answering in a way that could be applied to anyone, including OP’s son. Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive? Why try to turn a wholesome comment into a gender-war?

Yeah, even UNESCO knew he would pull out again, and they prepared for it this time.

From a different article:

“I deeply regret President Donald Trump’s decision to once again withdraw the United States of America from UNESCO,” Director-General Audrey Azoulay said, adding the move contradicted fundamental principles of multilateralism.

“However regrettable, this announcement was expected, and UNESCO has prepared for it,” she said.

In recent years, Azoulay said, UNESCO had “undertaken major structural reforms and diversified our funding sources”, including with private and voluntary governmental contributions.

I hope everyone can see now, that higher ed in the US is only concerned with profits and maintaining its connections to those in power. It has been this way for decades, maybe always, but Trump’s terrorism against immigrants and anyone with a moral compass who can see what Israel is doing, has exposed it to the point that it has never been more obvious.

Harvard and Columbia, at the very least, have laughed in the face of academic freedom, shat in the face of morally justified outrage, and have made it perfectly clear that they have no business being in positions of academic, moral, or cultural authority.

Truly shameful.

I loved coming across the various hot springs in Ghost of Tshushima, especially the ones that are really well hidden.

As I was reading this, I was thinking to myself, “Huh, this is written really badly. Huh, I’m pretty sure they repeated the same point a bunch of times. Huh, this sure sounds like bullshit LLM slop.”

Lo and behold, when I got to the end:

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

So yeah, you should skip this story, it’s not worth your time.

Agreed.

This is super helpful, thanks for the explanation.

Much of the camp was built in a high risk flood zone, a zone where building is strictly illegal in many states with responsible safety measures. Since Texas doesn’t give a shit about human life, they not only allow building in dangerous flood zones, but they clearly don’t have the infrastructure to make it even remotely safe.

The camp never should have been built there. This tragedy is exactly why planning for future risk when building something (especially something for kids, but that’s pretty much irrelevant) is not optional.