This is really awesome and huge progress! My sister lived in Thailand for over 3 years, she loved it there. But she also got taught a trans slur about trans women and would routinely use it to refer to me while she was living there. That’s mainly a problem with my sister, but she was taught it by the culture over there. Hopefully, with this progress happening, there’s more progress with trans acceptance and not using slurs.

Don’t forget that the Simpsons play a huge part as well. Even citing two episodes in his blog post.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a shitty thing to do. But there are two important facts to keep in mind. First, that this has been something they’ve been working on for months so it’s not like biden and his administration went from telling bibi that he needs to protect civilians and try to come to a deal with hamas and have a ceasefire to selling him these jets in the same talk. Second, these jets have to be built. It’ll take at least 5 years for them to be built and anyone who is aware of how slow our government builds jets knows that that could be extended. If anything this isn’t shitty because it’s giving Israel jets, its shitty because it looks like a fucking bribe from the Israelis to try and make sure the US continues to support them.

Important note for those who dont want to read the actual article: the ban is essentially saying only some flags can be bought with federal funds and then hung up officially, and the pride flag isn’t one of them. It also doesn’t prohibit personal displays, so while they can’t be on flag poles or bought with federal funds, they can still be displayed. Interestingly, the bill also bans the confederate flag. It’s still just bigotry being forced by the GOP but there’s always more context than a headline can provide.

The writers of this terrible terrible article are Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson. I have looked up both of them.

Matt Cole is Ceo of Strive. A company specifically created to work against diversity in the tech industry. Here’s Strives site where it talks about the history. It was created with Vivek Ramaswamy (Vivek rhymes with cake for pronunciation). Which if you know him, then you know how crazy this article really is.

Chris Nicholson has a lot of people sharing his name. One is, as of 2018 at least, the ceo of skymind, an ai company that doesn’t even have offices in the US. Another is the ceo of mpulse mobile, a sub company of mpulse. It’s a Healthcare company that seems to do a lot of software development for that industry. Another is a partner at Russel Reynolds Associates, a pretty standard looking UK lawfirm. Yet another is an Australian Sailor who’s competed in multiple summer Olympics. I’m unsure which this Chris Nicholson is. Probably not the Olympian.

I know this was an opinion piece but I’m rather surprised to see this from the hill. I don’t really care for them but this seems to be a step in a much worse direction. It’s possible it’s been heading that direction for a while and I just haven’t noticed it since I don’t really pay attention to their clickbait.

As a survivor of the titanic once said in a review, Fuck you Rick Berman.

She was attacked and defended herself so she got arrested and her attackers got off completely free. That’s some peak school zero tolerance policy bullshit. It’s also completely insane she has a 500k bail but Trump, who tried to overturn and destroy our democracy so that he could establish a dictatorship only has 200k. This singular case should be provided when people disagree that Trans people are being attacked and persecuted all across the country.

There’s tons of dispensaries in Ohio, over 100 at least. And new ones are opening every month. They just moved the medical program to the department of commerce now so it’s more likely to have even more dispensaries in the future. The prices are also slowly becoming more reasonable. Rec is coming whether the legislature wants it or not. They might do the same thing they did with medical sometime soon. There’s supposed to be a ballot measure for rec here in November alongside the abortion amendment. Hopefully it passes.