After he[r] reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because “the Blacks like to copulate a lot”. She later tried to amend her remarks, saying Africans had a lot of sex due to the continent’s hot climate.
Wow!
Thanks for linking to that! Interesting. I refreshed their page and they have more to say now that it’s happened.
I can’t say I’ve ever really liked a controller, so I never experimented with fancy ones. The one that was the most fine was the ps controller. the joycon was ok until drift kicked in. The xbox controller made my hands hurt after too long. I think if I’d had more xbox games back then I would have gotten more into controllers to find one for my tiny hands. I mostly prefer a keyboard.
An old lady I worked for with dementia got scammed on facebook by people who sound like this. I was inclined to hate the scammers for targeting the disabled, but, holy shit. Those poor people.
People should do what they think is best, based on their own situation (region, district, needs, etc) and beliefs(what they think should happen, what they can ethically stand, etc). In this election, I think Trump is a dangerous (personally and politically) and incompetent enough figure that conservative people should deliberately throw the election to force their party in a different direction.
My personal belief is that government is a tool, and my vote will go to the person who seems most likely to enact policy that aligns with my values.
I think everyone who was going to vote for trump but is feeling doubt should pick a third party candidate to vote for instead.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/19/biden-dnc-speech-harris I read the article and the linked axios article, and I’m still not sure there was any value to them. Maybe he is still pissed, and he’s talking about it with his pals, but if he doesn’t do anything with them, he’s entitled to feel what he wants. He laughed when he heard a friend defended him. Cool!
That looks fantastic!!
The “enemy,” to people like him, are always both pathetic jokes and a horrific threat that needs to be eliminated.
edit: oops someone already said what i did
I had a fun time playing in early access, even with the bugs. I should check it out again when it hits 1.0. I recall generating a new location and immediately falling through the ground to my death and deciding i would wait a bit to play more.
Is it lemmy.world? There’s a typo that threw me off in the link.
aesthetically, it reminds me of ‘going under,’ but the corporate visuals were the point in that one.
I believe they’re saying it’s impossible to not have a bias. The center of left and right isn’t unbiased - it’s a bunch of biased positions, as well. And you can figure out the position of a site like this by what they think is neutral.
One purpose of someone personally reclaiming a slur is to reduce the sting of something used to hurt them. This is different than how it is being used in this quote, where it is being used against a cis woman the speaker considers masculine. It is being used to cause harm, here.
I appreciate your looking into this
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383#issuecomment-1999046
The guy in charge was having medical and personal issues. And doesn’t seem to have access to everything at the moment. It’s a bummer, and I hope things get better for him, but that’s how projects like this go sometimes.
How I personally feel about people who aren’t careful about spreading hiv is different than what I think policy should be. Policy should be what works to prevent the spread of illness. Sometimes that means doing “nice” things for people whose choices we despise.
Michelle Anderson, a Memphis resident who is one of the plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit, said in court records that since being convicted of aggravated prostitution, the sex offender label has made it so difficult to find a home and a job that she was “unhoused for about a year” and has at times “felt she had no option but to continue to engage in sex work to survive.”
This is an obvious consequence, and the fact that people were put on the sex offender registry anyway makes me wonder if anyone involved gave a shit about prevention. It’s like laws targeting sexual grooming of kids that pick on the conservative target of the week instead of figuring out policies that have been statistically proven to prevent sexual abuse.
How do you propose we go about changing this? How do we effectively encourage it?
I think that purely logical thought is impossible, and believing we are a logical person can lead us to assume all our opinions are logical, inherently. Which leads to using after the fact logic to justify initial gut reactions. Is that what you mean by wisdom? The ability to understand your own emotional reaction and decide if it’s based on anything useful? Or is it something else?
I think, at this point in time, celebrity culture is important to be aware of. Trump was a reality tv star, after all. I think a better world could be made if society didn’t care about celebrities, but that is not where we live, and observing reality seems an important step to understanding it. And understanding it can help us determine if there is a way to alter this. If that’s the goal. Is that the purpose to your questions?