Posting to note that the article has since been updated and Mark Bray has successfully exited the country safely.

So what I’m hearing is that someone needs a head of lettuce ready once the next one’s in, huh?

(theyre why people say “unalive” - because they fucking censor “dead”)

Any source for that? I was always under the impression Tiktok was the original cause of this. Not that I have any love for Youtube, of course.

Yeah, I’d like to know what they plan to do if Trump ignores the lawsuit and/or the outcome of it. Which he almost certainly will.

I’ve used Shotcut and Kdenlive. The former felt pretty limited, but okay enough. Kdenlive felt a lot more developed while still working perfectly well. I should note though that I don’t edit very much at all, so I’ve little knowledge on how either program works for anything that isn’t a simple, short one-off thing.

I’m not ragging on this particular post - this one’s obviously important - but I’ll be honest, I really wish I could spend less time hearing about what Trump is doing and more time hearing about what’s being done about it.

Getting constant doom-o-grams about the current administration’s latest horror-show is particularly exhausting when you almost never hear about people working to fix it, and frankly I doubt I’m alone in that. It’s pretty counterproductive for us to be spending so much time fixating on what the fascists are doing. Helps them a lot more than us.

I just wish this site had a healthier evil-to-good-news mix, you know? Prevents doomerism.

If you want to not forget as a personal principle, it’d be easier for you to note the ones who aren’t rolling back their support. It’ll be a smaller list.

But doing this to show people that it’s not sincere is probably unnecessary at this point. Pinkwashing has been going on for over a decade by now at minimum. If you’re dealing with “convince people corporations shouldn’t be taken at their word regarding queer rights” as a goal and existing history/arguments don’t suffice, you’re probably dealing with someone who’s either one of the lucky 10,000 or someone who isn’t willing to be convinced at all.

Probably the same way as they do all the others: Not at all whatsoever. The only thing of value in this is that it’s spreading awareness of this guy’s transphobia.

Speaking of, I found this comment over on another Lemmy site if anyone wants the context for the image this petition is using, and unfortunately said context doesn’t shine positively on Nutomic.

Well that’s a non-sequitur if I’ve ever seen one.

The fundamental issue is and has always been that automation is being used to replace people, when it should be used to free up their time. Productivity increases could’ve meant shorter work weeks. But that didn’t generate as much money for the shareholders, so it didn’t get pursued. And now we’ve got LLMs and generative AI, which could’ve been a (admittedly rather shitty and niche) tool, but for the same reasons as before, companies would rather throw people under the bus instead.

Artists aren’t telling you that people washing dishes don’t matter. They’re telling you they might be getting fired just like those dishwashers were. If you care about either, I suggest standing up for the artists here. And once that’s done, they can stand up for everyone else right back. I think you’ll find they’d be happy to return the favor.

Seconding this, but worth noting that I’ve heard several times (and I vaguely recall witnessing examples) of the Guardian being pretty transphobic. Not too surprising with them being UK-based and all, but still a sad exception to their general reliability.

Like I said, social media. “It happened” in the kind of environment where people tend to get kinda deranged about politics.

For sure, most references to the phrase these days will get you leftists complaining about it, justifiably and otherwise. I checked and got the same results. But it was still a thing. I can’t tell you how much because I don’t have the time or energy to investigate that, but it wasn’t just leftists being sarcastic. It was real.

so we need to vote for a dead fish,

please dear god can we blame the metaphorical fish for committing suicide, please, this was a decision they consciously made. I’m so tired of infighting. I’m genuinely exhausted

This right here. I wish I’d thought of saying it like this before; you’ve made your understanding of your interlocutor’s position clear, while also explaining how withholding votes can be powerful and shouldn’t be thrown out as an option. Well said!

Important to remember that this kind of system can and will have problems of its own aplenty; unions can turn bad, too. Still, I agree it’d almost certainly be better than what we have now, low a bar as that is.

It happened a lot when Biden was the nominee, and again for Harris too. It’s probably not the kind of thing you’d hear from regular people though—most political sayings aren’t, because real people in real life touching grass together tend to be more normal than that. It’s more common on social media and the like, and can probably be traced back to political campaigns, honestly. Still important to push back against, because even if people don’t say it, that doesn’t mean they won’t believe it.

You were the only one here suggesting this required an explanation.

Alright, I think you’re being deliberately antagonistic now. Bye!

I was suggesting that no one else needs it explained to them either.

You’d hope so! But alas, some idiots exist. And when a title like this appears, it becomes difficult to tell if such an idiot wrote it at first glance, and more to point, a title like that tends to create more idiots (and it’s also just kinda offensive). That’s why it’s important not to write headlines like this.

Sidenote: If you want people to not take things personally, avoid personal pronouns. “Is that something that you need explained?” → “Is that something that people need explained?” It makes a world of difference and I’m confident I’ve avoided several arguments that could’ve spawned from my own posts thanks to making that kind of change. Not foolproof, sure – we are on the internet – but it helps.

In case anyone’s like me and was curious if such a claim might’ve had a conflict-of-interest in it, have a look at the site’s logo:

I’m gonna go with “yes.”

You didn’t stop reading? Then it’s a bit weird that you’d think I don’t know autistic people have empathy, unless you decided to arbitrarily take the most bad faith reading you could’ve done. If that’s the case, I recommend taking breathers before posting so that you don’t do that.