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"Nothing Is More Powerful Than an Idea Whose Time Has Come"
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Fox News significantly boosts coverage of trans athletes in the weeks before the election
(www.mediamatters.org)
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Lots of strange nerds around here
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Description: A picture with two lines of text against the background of the transgender flag.
The upper line says "Strange Nerd", the lower line says "Transgender". Arrows in between them connect the letters of one with the other, thus pointing out that one is an anagram of the other.
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egg😵irl [Gender non-specific]
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Description: A meme in two pictures and two text boxes.
The upper image shows an anime-style character, joyous and smiling, surrounded by twinkling stars. The text next to them says: "You realize you're trans."
The lower image shows the same character, staring in despair, surrounded by darkness. The text next to them says: "You realize you're trans."
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Intersex Awareness Day 26 Oct
(sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27175905
ID: what is intersex?
The term "intersex" is used to describe an individual whose chromosomes, hormones, or sexual organs are not in line with the perceived male/female sex binary.
SEX is not binary.
SEX is a spectrum.
Sex is determined by a doctor upon birth using the following guidelines: (according to the infant's genitals):
Bellow is a graphic of a ruler, labelled "Phall-O-Meter", from left to right:
The first, slim section is pink and marked with a female symbol, to the left it says: "it's a girl! (under 3/8 inch)"
The second section, 3 times larger than the first, is purple and marked with an X, underneath it says: "unacceptable! Babies with "ambiguous genitals" often undergo inhumane, dangerous, and un- necessary surgeries to "normalize" their genitals, many times without parental consent!"
The final and largest section is 6 times larger than the first, is blue and marked with a male symbol, to the right it says: "it's a boy! (over 1 inch)"
Under the graphic the text continues:
INTERSEX PEOPLE...
are about as common as redheads!
can have any sexual orientation or gender identity.
should never be called "hermaphrodites."
should have their privacy respected.
should not have to be ashamed of their bodies.
deserve to be treated like anybody else.
Bellow is a row of 5 stick figures ranging from blue to pink and from wearing trousers to skirt, to represent the gender spectrum.
INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY // October 26
sources: isna.org, actuallyintersex.tumblr.com, sexandgender.net, apcdaily.wordpress.com
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My 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' T-shirt is raising question already answered by my 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' T-shirt.
This is incredibly funny for people who followed this. Everybody and their grandma told the European Commission that there was no way that breaking end-to-end encryption was compatible with the law. Yet they constantly pushed for it anyway and now look at this mess.
I am almost certain that the European Commission will claim that there are still ways to break end-to-end encryption, only to defeated in court yet again. Like they tried with data preservation for law enforcement purposes. They just can't stop themselves.
Lemmy not catching on and Reddit dying aren't mutually exclusive, unfortunately. I personally know quite many users who left Reddit, but never made the jump over to Lemmy, because they mostly stayed on Reddit due to particular communities. With those communities getting decimated during the APIcalypse and its fallout, they had little incentive to join Lemmy.
Ultimately my personal opinion is that Lemmy is going to persist, even if it doesn't cross certain thresholds, it is still a part of the larger Fediverse and due to its interoperability, Lemmy can benefit from the success of the Fediverse, even when not being all that successful by itself.
Clearly, the solution is more cops. /s
During the event Musk also promoted exTwitter, insisting that exTwitter could have prevented parts of the Holocaust. No, I am not kidding. The NY Times wrote about it. For his pitch he used faked tweets which are hard to surpass in obscenity.
TBH I read it more as a somewhat awkward attempt to acknowledge that some trans people may initially dismiss their transness as a fetish, before realizing there is more to.
Despite all that's happened, at least one source told the outlet they don't think Unity's moves were made out of complete malice. "They need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there."
And that's why every dev (who can) should run as far away from Unity as possible, because Unity will try to screw them some other way.
The answer is as simple as it is horrible: It's because for every burned-out, overworked and underpaid game dev, there are two starry-eyed kids who want to realize their dream and create games - and the C-suite knows this.They will replace any veteran dev with someone right out of college as soon as it is convenient
Mind, I am not blaming young people who want to create games. They lack the experience to know they are getting exploited. It's all the cynicism of managers who know no loyalty and only want profits.
And if anyone wonders why every new game somehow manages to be a buggy mess that needs fixing, you have the answer right there too: Because the devs who fixed it the last time got fired and replaced with rookies.
Additionally to what has already been mentioned: People are susceptible to politics that confirm their prejudices. Right-wing political thought is largely based on confirming that whatever prejudices people hold, they are morally good and justified. Thus elevating an in-group above out-groups. That is a powerful lure.