Sexual harrassment like this is a political tactic to prevent women and other marginalized folks from doing or saying things in public that might shift the balance of power or affect things. It is an attempt to punish and threaten people and deter others, so that wealthy white guys will be the only ones who are allowed to be active in public.

Maybe this is obvious and goes without saying, but I’m saying it because I think some people may not see the pattern or the intent behind it. This is so much more than one creepy comment and more than Taylor. See also Nina Jankowicz, gamergate, the several high profile woman politicians who have resigned. Smarter people than me have written and talked about this and how it has manifested in different forms. Online sexist harassment is an organized political force with a goal. It’s not just that this one guy sucks.

Heck yeahh

It’s not deranged. There are degrees and nuances to all human relationships and situations but this was and is a pretty public one. These are hard choices for anyone but they do still matter. I don’t think smiling and nodding is acting like an adult, I think it’s cowardly. There is no maturity in avoiding things.

I really hope that it does.

Some folks here really seem to think that her fans don’t have any political opinions without her. This is actually as much about her politically engaged fan base wanting her to use her platform for good, than it is about swaying people who might be very young or unsure about voting.

Lots of swifties are millenials who lean left and liberal and some have criticized her in the past for not speaking up or for leaving her views ambiguous in a way that left room for the right to coopt her image. This is not about silly pop fans needing to be told what to think. People aren’t ignorant. It’s exactly because she’s powerful and very wealthy, that it’s important for her to use her power to be very clear about where she stands. Especially in light of the ai thing and the Brittany Mahomes weirdness.

This is a clear troll. You have a good day now.

I ‘downgraded’ this year and realized what an upgrade having one of those was. We cannot cede those things.

Too large! Came with bloatware. No other complaints though, I only use my phone for a few things.

I think you’re missing my point. Being upset, disturbed, uncomfortable or moved emotionally by something is not what a trigger means. The word has been watered down significantly. I am explicitly referring to its original usage - mental health symptoms which could throw off a person’s wellbeing. That is what trigger warnings are for.

Edit for typos.

“You f–k with the president and the government, your security is not the same, and neither is your family’s”

See, this isn’t good. I hate living in a society where embarrassing or contradicting those in power can change someone’s life for the worse. Quiet part out loud though.

Ideally, but usually ratings don’t tell you much about what is inside. The ratings systems that existed in the US in the 90s and 2000s when Sopranos was on were still pretty entwined with a culture of shame and moral panic about CORRUPTING THE CHILDREN. It was definitely still related to religion and ideas like “you can’t put that on tv!!” or “that song is bad and listening to it makes you bad.” HBO was not on regular tv partly for that reason. For Edie Falco’s generation, I suspect that kind of thing was much worse and more entrenched. So I think older people equate any warnings about the content art with movements to limit what can or should be depicted be in art.

Good point. Ironically there have been a lot of smaller than usual, efficient vehicles that have been banned or not sold in my country. I don’t think they were weird looking, but it does go to show how the factors that go into what cars show up on roads are not always logical. I wonder if we had a more competitive market with more manufacturers if we’d have more exciting shapes or colors. Prices would probably have to come down for people to buy them though. I saw a video a while back about car paint colors having a moment with matte paint and I thought, this is cool but also stunningly boring as far as trends go.

I think people who complain about content warnings fail to understand what they are for lol. They’re so people can make decisions about what media engage with on any given day to manage their own health. No one is saying that any type of content shouldn’t be depicted or is bad or needs to be watered down. It’s not the same as other rating systems or anti obscenity movements. It’s about viewers being able to enjoy their favorite gory bleak violent reality bending upsetting content when they’re completely sure they are in a good headspace to watch it.

It’s unfortunate because I think we need way more weird looking cars. Creative, just out there shaped vehicles of all kinds. It sucks that the company to do it was an unethical garbage fire led by a fascist. We deserve more ugly and weird heterogeneous consumer items.

Resounding YES. Gender liberation is for all people. It is impossible to liberate women without also liberating men and people with other genders from the ideologies that harm everyone but most visibly manifest as misogyny. If you act in good faith and don’t recreate sexist dynamics (or stop if you accidentally do) you’re good. Activisty spaces can be cliquey, have messy dynamics or sometimes (unfortunately) be gender essentialist but don’t let that discourage you. This is everyone’s fight.

Mine is not, it has two shelves which would each fit a 9*5 loaf pan with a little room on each end. Or like four cereal bowls of cookies. They do make bigger ones, but I imagine a microwave probably works just as well for something that gets eaten quickly.

I have one! I love it, it’s got a magnetic door my cat can’t open is one of my best purchases ever. I use it for baked goods, though, not bread. It’s too humid where I am to keep bread fresh at room temperature.

Heck yeah. I really enoyed this show.

Disagree. These companies are exploiting an unfair power dynamic they created that people can’t say no to, to make an ungodly amount of money for themselves without compensating people whose data they took without telling them. They are not creating a cool creative project that collaboratively comments on or remixes what other people have made, they are seeking to gobble up and render irrelevant everything that they can, for short term greed. That’s not the scenario these laws were made for. AI hurts people who have already been exploited and industries that have already been decimated. Copyright laws were not written with this kind of thing in mind. There are potentially cool and ethical uses for AI models, but open ai and google are just greed machines.

Edited * THRICE because spelling. oof.

This is a good one.