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The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.

Don’t worry, the next Alpha Males will get crowned soon:

The first sperm race

Not from the 800K+ fanfics , or in general from all the fanart.

The Death of the Author is a pre-Internet reflection on personal interpretation over an author’s views.

Nowadays, it’s way more than that: whole fandoms can tear an author’s work to shreds, run with only the parts they like, and not look back. Rowling is no longer in control, or much of an influence, she’s merely coasting on her previous fame for those unaware. Right now, most of the fandom is quite critical of her views, not only on trans people, but also some other troubling aspects of her work… and they make the overwhelming majority of works in the Harry Potter universe.

what do people use discord for exactly?

Too much.

It’s a chat platform geared towards gamers, with voice chat, screen sharing, and streaming options… that’s been coopted by vloggers… but most unsettlingly, it’s being used for customer support and documentation.

A lot of knowledge bases are buried in the walled garden of servers, and a labyrinth of chat rooms.

There is this:

Paramount Is Rolling Back DEI Initiatives to Align With Trump Mandates

…but guess that’s been normalized now?

Fortunately, one doesn’t necessarily need to purchase any of the media to enjoy it. When an author or publisher changes flags, so can people 🏴‍☠️

McCaffrey took a turn towards homophobia, adding to her books that only inferior dragons would pick LGB riders, that then were used as a sort of cannon fodder, and a gold dragon queen would only choose strictly hetero riders because they were supposed to be breeders.

Roddenberry was a sexist nuisance, both on set and in the themes he tried to constantly write into the scripts. While claiming tolerance, he chased away some of the actors with his antics. Sexual tolerance themes got written more despite of him, than thanks to him, and mostly appear after he passed away. It can be claimed that he was “a man of his time”, but still.

JK Rowling is a poster case of why it’s a good idea to disassociate an author from their work (Harry Potter), followed by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern), Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek), and some more.

The saddest part, are the nonsense arguments her kind are using. I’ve participated in some trans communities, and the largest issue I’ve seen, is that some are breeding grounds for gaslighting narcissists. That would be a much more concerning point to address, than all the BS these people are spewing.

The ecodesign requirements will include:

* resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water

* sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity

* rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market

* availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)

* non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement

Finally! 🎉

Customer replaceable batteries would be nice too — those 800 cycles are not all that much — but I guess it’s a tradeoff for dust and water resistance increases with wireless charging and possibly no ports.

most of today’s manufacturing done by people cannot be automated. If it could, it would have already been done so, by China

China 4 years ago: Xiaomi’s “dark” factory.

https://youtu.be/2qCJ7X2H1Qw

Rejoice, this lack of support for blind oppression, is why Hegseth didn’t get enough military backing to recommend Martial Law last week… and is to be replaced for that.

When train station announcements got automated, nobody batted an eye.

When a radio station’s in-between-tracks filler talk gets automated… I couldn’t care less.

I’d say this is a valid use for AI, they could even automate generating the filler talk scripts.

Following the 2nd Amendment and NRA recommendations, you can buy some ranged “pitchforks” at Walmart.

Call me a cynic, but my over/under list is:

1. When they come for you

• They come for a beloved member of your family (not the despised ones)
• Some of your friends disappear
• Mass deportation of “undesirables”
• Opposition members get killed
• Martial Law gets invoked
• Judges get arrested
• People sent to concentration camps
• People incarcerated without due process

…and the remaining dozens (hundreds?) of “red flags” for the last year-and-something.

Not that many generations far back. It takes several generations for changes to soak in, and that’s before taking into account globalization with conflicting world views.

Nonsense, it still refuses requests as usual:

Sometimes, it doesn’t even propose a viable alternative (like, evacuate the building first):

Target down 6.5% YoY for the month and Costco—beginning to see a pattern here?—up 7.5%

fellow DEI capitulators Walmart and McDonald’s both saw foot-traffic increases, up 2.7% and 4.5% respectively.

Hm… what is the pattern?

• Target - no DEI - down 6.5%
• Walmart - no DEI - up 2.7%
• McDonald’s - no DEI - up 4.5%
• Costco - DEI - up 7.5%

Were they all supposed to go up as much as Costco?

Squirrels sound like the stereotypical ADHD: bouts of frenetic activity, followed by a freeze, frenetic, freeze, etc.

Beavers… I’d rather associate with mild autism: hear water, need to build dam to get rid of the sound, need to chew tree, everything else is secondary.

Not sure why it seems to be using them as opposites.

Some animals have stereotyped behaviors that are easier to understand as the bare behavior, than it is to explain a behavior on the example of “someone who looks like you, but see, they don’t always behave or think like you do, you need to take into account personal differences, and not everyone’s differences are the same as someone else’s, so we will analyze particular behavior traits as…” …but you’ve lost your audience at the first comma.

In any case, what shorthand placeholders would you suggest?

The article sounds like it lifted the headline from some comment I’ve seen:

The first season had an inspirational theme, but so far the episodes in the second one seem more concerned with Star Wars lore, than with sending any particular message.

We shall wait and see (…which, coincidentally, is in line with the title of this article).