Its kinda bullshit that to get proper treatment people need to know a bunch of little phrases to throw out like a secret password. Fuck cops for real

Mastodon is pretty great for queer people. Better than lemmy I would say (and obviously better than the mainstream apps) ...

Some of us have 2 boobs and 2 testicals :)

It should be magnitude plus orientation, not velocity. Velocity itself is a vector quantity

Conservative doesn't mean they don't want to change things, that's an intentional misconception. Its obvious if you see how much settled precedent they are willing to overturn. Conservatives just believe they deserve power, they think they have the divine right to rule over others and that other people do not have that right.

Maybe Oklahoma schools should focus less on porn and focus more on preventing 16 yo trans kids from being brutally attacked and getting their head smashed into the ground repeatedly until they physically could not walk. Maybe they should have called an ambulance instead of waiting for the kid's grandmother to take them to the hospital. Maybe instead of worrying about porn Oklahoma schools should be held responsible for the death of Nex Benedict who died the next day from brain trauma.

Fascists need to be locked up for life

That's an oddly transphobic/intersexphobic way to express a criticism of semicolons...

My 2c is that if the majority of people are confused about the purpose of a punctuation mark or language feature in general, then that feature is not actually fulfilling a useful function. If it was actually useful then people wouldn't be confused, they would just be using it. People would learn it organically and not need it to be explained.

That example sentence would function exactly the same if it was separated by a period, nothing is gained by using a semicolon. No new information is added, you are just going to make people wonder why there is a semicolon there making the sentence less comprehensible.

Its sorta related to the prescriptivism vs descriptivism distinction.

Political compass memes are unironically the dumbest fucken shit ever, I really hate them.

Any attempt to plot all of politics onto a two dimensional image is just pure concentrated idiocy mixed with huge helpings of stereotyping and propaganda. Stop taking these things seriously, they are not serious, they are actually the opposite of serious and are actively misleading you and making you dumber just looking at them.

Companies can no longer continue to grow through innovating their products or services. Companies are no longer competing in that domain because they have already conquered it completely.

Companies can no longer grow through marketing and branding. Branding is everything and everywhere now, even normal people have personal brands, they have already conquered that domain and most people have grown to disdain marketing and branding so its less effective than ever.

Companies can no longer grow through data collection and advertising. All data is collected, ads are everywhere and they are always listening to everything we say and do. They have already conquered that domain.

Now all that's left is competition through exploitation. It's the only way companies can continue to grow. That is the stage of capitalism we are entering.

Literally it's just wealth peacocking and classism, that's it... people who are proud of owning an iphone are gross

Please just give us good public transport, busses, trains, please...

we dont and never have needed flying cars its a fucking dumb idea and always has been.