Yes, thank you! I’d extend it to more than just being stupid. That sentiment applies equally to just about every fictional work. Using atlas shrugged to cheer whatever the fuck rand was trying to push is just as foolish as using a separate peace for examples of codependence.

Fiction can highlight things, but when any author can make gay space communism and super-straight ™ capitalism equally viable and good for the individuals operating under their systems by simply writing a sentence like, “The super-straight capitalismo empire had citizens every bit as happy and fulfilled as the gay space communitarians across the river,” then maybe all the english language arts teachers should take a deep breath and step back from their fart sniffing on the soap box.

Penn recently came out as regretful of his time as a libertarian, didn’t he?

Oh, damn. Are you trying to tell me that the reason I’ve been slowly getting happier over the last few years is because of COVID/5G-brain-chips/spoon-in-brain-plastic destroying my ability to reason?!?!

I know that it’s probably a sign of impending ecological doom, but where I live used to have scorpions coming in all the time. I don’t think I’ve even seen evidence of them outside for close to a decade. I guess I can appreciate the silver lining of the giant mushroom cloud.

It’s been long enough since I’ve heard ‘patriots’ and such types talk about waco and ruby ridge that I’m growing mildly concerned… It’s almost like they’re okay with it as long as it’s a dickhead in power.

It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s somewhat the case. There have been articles about chinese police ‘investigating’ their citizenry living abroad in both canada and the us.

Something, something, biology.

Yeah, but I think I saw some trivia about the attack that made it seem like it was a personal thing due to relationship issues.

The worst part is, the media DID cover it. The big lads may not have, but there were plenty of articles, photos, videos, blogs, and people talking about all of those to have woken up anyone with a conscience. It just turns out that it may be easier than anyone thought to have people turn off their conscience.

Here’s the actual text of the bill. The area of the law that is being changed is here (hosted by lexis nexis, a vomit inducing act in itself… so you might need to start at this link).

I’m not familiar enough with colorado law to say whether it bans any ‘average joe blow’ person from deadnaming, or just in official acts by a business or government entity. The short summary posted by demifriend seems to make it mostly just organizational level entities, like courts considering children’s placement in custody, or school related matters.

Hopefully if that ever happens, people will start remember that when you are observing cops act in the wild, you don’t film with your phone, you shoot.

I’m mildly amused that you think there are any gamers on lemmy that still use microsoft. Isn’t it mandatory to use linux to access the fediverse? ;)

For ubisoft, I have no idea. Everything I seem to read around here indicates most are dissatisfied ever since one of the assassin’s creed games a decade ago or something.

Jesus, that’s the answer, isn’t it? We’ve got to stage a hostile takeover of mcdonalds and then make all locations deny service to him.

Also, the worst bears can do is maul you to death on the spot. The worst men can do is rape, torture, and maim you for weeks before killing you.

Damn, all that fanfiction I read from brother bear is just crumbling…

Just like we have a zeroth century, aye guys?

I just want to see that truck get hit by a dump truck. Please, if there are any gods out there, make it happen.

That’s a good one. I still prefer the two ladybugs going at it inside the bug. Windows all steamy and bug was a rocking, you never would of thought of a ladybug cocking.

WAS female. Coulda/whoulda/shoulda that sexy thing and its morphin’ genes.

Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.

the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.

Isn’t that because the attachments are placed on the cable side, purposefully, because changing cables is easier than replacing parts of the phone/device? I think that’s one of the more noticeable issues with the iIdiot lightning chargers: Once the grabbing parts of the port are borked in the device, no cable ever stays in.