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@JohnByram11 @tbonier It's not impossible to vote in 51 elections at her age. It's easy. There are presidential elections, midterms, and primary elections for each of those. That's at least 1 election per year she could have voted in, before any special elections

You missed the main point didn't you? You need someone to break it down for you don't you? The "registered as a 126 year old" is entertaining trivia, poking fun at the system that has her filed as that age. The actual point of interest is whether she voted in 51 elections. She says "No not me". It'd also be impossible to vote in that many elections as an 86 year old, so there's something fishy there isn't there? I didn't see anything hostile or rude about his little interview here, she seems to find the error as funny as anyone, and after a minute he goes about his way. I'm curious why you call it harassment. Could it just be because you dislike Nick Shirley, and want to use any word that has a negative connotation?

This dipshit discovered that SQL server at one point replaced blank date of birth fields with a default of 01/01/1900, so he harassed an 86 year old woman.

@JeremiahDJohns @ComArbatax While I don't agree with them (just like with GLP1s for obesity), the Deaf communities' reaction is a lot more understandable because they typically are native speakers of a different language and have their own culture

@ComArbatax That was my sense as well, but I can't claim to have any detailed knowledge and assumed others would know better than I would.

It is so, so fascinating to me how GLP-1s are colliding with something that, for lack of a better term, I'll call 'fat identity'. It's one thing to argue that fat people shouldn't be discriminated against. But a lot of fat people seem to have constructed an entire identity out of being fat. They took the moralizing lectures they faced from others and turned it around into moralizing about bigotry, with a new label of fatphobia. It's treated similarly to gender or race bigotry. And while there are surely a lot of people being jerks to the obese, a lot of fatphobia sure looks like "my doctor told me I should lose weight" from the outside. People seem to have forgotten that while nobody should be a jerk to fat people for no reason, being fat is in fact a medical issue. It is, in an objective sense, a problem to be fixed. Now we have a drug that (erasing some nuance) just solves the problem. And there are instances of fat-identity influencers basically shamed by their communities/fans for losing weight. People lose the weight but still somehow cling to the idea that parts of the process were fatphobic. It feels like watching identity deconstruction in real time. It makes me wonder - are there similar cultural recriminations for deaf people who get cochlear implants? If we developed a pill to cure blindness, would some blind people still cling to blind identity, or call a doctor bigoted for suggesting the pill?

@alexanderrX_ My issue is I have yet to see people say the same thing about RDLs, but they should be the same. I obviously believe plenty of people have injured themselves deadlifting, but it seems to be primarily from people ego-lifting (like you mention) rather than the movement itself

my biggest regret in life is deadlifting. i herniated a disc pulling 200kg. i had done it before, but that day felt off and i still went for it like an idiot. by 21, i was basically crippled. 8 years of rehab later and i’m maybe back to 40% of the back strength i had before. if you deadlift, leave your ego at the door. low weight, more volume, clean reps. once you mess your back up, there is no glory. just regret.

@obesedian @CryptoCyberia You gave a hypothetical example of the issue, a man in revealing clothing talking about makeup. I pointed out that I imagined it and there's no obvious problem with that. And then indicated that even if there was a problem, one can entirely bypass it by not watching

@TurnedToast @CryptoCyberia Maybe it's due to a language barrier, but I was talking about the issue in general, and you came with "I don't watch such content" - good for you I guess?

There is a strange subset of YouTube videos I see recommend to me when I use the platform that is essentially women in tech wearing racy outfits, often discussing vintage tech for whatever reason. LaurieWired is the only one I have seen who doesn't overtly target simps with revealing outfits. (Inb4 someone finds a video where Laurie does this too 😢) Is this just a money printer, and that's why it happens? I find it strange that videos that seek to be educational about tech are spliced with this softcore porn stuff. Chuds have been warning of this for a decade+, but I am just now seeing it maybe the last ~2 years. Now that I think of it, is it just the optimal strategy to dress in skimpy clothes as a female content creator, regardless of what your content is about? Is this what my beloved chud friends are complaining about for well over a decade now? I feel like I never saw stuff this this even just 2 years ago. Humanity + video technology + monetization creates the incentive structure that rewards this stuff, but it just feels bad.

@obesedian @CryptoCyberia Is this a bot reply? I don't see how this is remotely a response to what I said. The only person making everyone else's business about them seems to be you

@TurnedToast @CryptoCyberia Good job! But not everything has to be about you

@obesedian @CryptoCyberia I imagined said man in revealing clothing making content about makeup and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be outraged about? I would just not watch that content as I am uninterested

@CryptoCyberia Her target audience is grown men and young boys who are into tech. Now imagine if an adult man wearing a revealing or suggestive outfit made content about tiktok AI filters or makeup brands. This is harmful in many ways and should be condemned.

@LinkofSunshine I mean I agree I don't mind the activity itself, but I do mind my ability to live being contingent on the job market

FIRE made sense until I started a 9-5 and then I’m like wait this is fine

@escitalodocious @jwilcox79 My skepticism is because my experience is typical. So far, the only people saying that urban Americans constantly deal with this has been people who don't really live or work in cities. Is there a link to some data showing a massive increase in urban, mentally-ill criminals?

@TurnedToast @jwilcox79 If true then you should be (1) grateful for your highly atypical experience and (2) aware that the city residents who have encountered such behavior—who vastly outnumber you—are not just parroting an alarmist Facebook rumor when they talk about it

One thing I have learned over the last 5 years is how many of the more left-leaning people I know IRL genuinely do not grasp what a global outlier blue US cities are when it comes to tolerating this type of stuff.

@escitalodocious @jwilcox79 ...I do know that. That's why I explicitly distinguished it as different from what you we're talking about. I've seen routine criminals in bad areas, but I haven't seen any areas with crazy people running around threatening folks

@TurnedToast @jwilcox79 You know we’re not talking about routine hood violence here and your attempt to conflate it with the phenomenon we’re discussing isn’t fooling anyone

@NTRakoncza @jwilcox79 I would feel pretty unsafe for my kid if those types of people were often running around and would want the issue addressed by the police. I really have no reason to lie, I just have the bias of routinely being in a large, blue city and seeing what it's actually like

@TurnedToast @jwilcox79 I mean, you’re lying lmao

@escitalodocious @jwilcox79 Or we just go outside more often? There are pockets of dangerous areas, but that's from garden-variety criminals and not random mentally ill people

@TurnedToast @jwilcox79 One of the reasons blue US cities are outliers about this stuff is that so many of their liberal inhabitants are more interested in sounding smugly sophisticated than they are in acknowledging reality.

@ernietedeschi Absolutely true, but it never helps with anxiety since maintaining full employment could still happen with 90% of people pushed into low paying work

The most basic rebuttal against this worry is that, if technology displaced jobs **in the long-run**, employment rates would be at record lows rather than the near-record *highs* they actually are. 1/2

@Birdyword But even for those who love their job, your boss can snap their fingers tomorrow in a down economy and then you lose everything

These people clearly have unusual tastes and prioritities but their decision, however unusual, is downstream of seeing work as an endless drudge. Never forget that many, indeed probably people see their jobs as an endless drudge!

If you're in a field you love it's really important to read some FIRE content occasionally to benchmark yourself and how fortunate you are.

@AaronBergman18 I workout, read books, play video games, and do physical chores to take care of my house. It's hard to imagine what I would be paying $20 for, whereas my mortgage pays for my house. What do I get for $20 besides even more anxiety about our livelihoods?

Upper middle class normies will really spend $3.5k/mo on rent or $7k/mo on imputed rent before spending $20/mo on something slightly unfamiliar that their friends mostly aren’t using

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @danmeifreak First of all it's "bicchi", not "biichi" Secondly, "bicchi" means slut. It doesn't mean bitch. You admit that you don't know Japanese, so I'm confused about why you'd try and lecture someone on this

@danmeifreak Ano Ona literally just means "That woman." Like, there's a word for bitch in Japanese. It's Biichi. If they meant that, they'd say that.

yall really just want literal translations with 0 cultural context huh

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If you're citing Connectix/Bleem then you're already missing what's at stake with Nintendo suing Yuzu. Connectix only touches reverse engineering. This lawsuit is about the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA. Nintendo might lose, but I certainly wouldn't bet money on it

While I don't love U.S. copyright law, the reality is (relative to other industries) game companies are very lax about enforcement. Most arguments people make on social media are myths (hell, people still think most Weird Al songs count as parody).

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