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[halondrus]

Has i woke up with a boner boner reached this website yet

[bluesturngold]

stream HARDLY KNOW 'ER by colon3

[incognitopolls]

Hypothetical scenario: You are talking with a friend. Your friend says, "I know this guy, she works at the grocery store."

Assume your friend is not the type to misgender anyone. This is not asking about the use of "guys" to address a group (e.g. 'hey guys'), this is talking about referring to one specific person as "a guy."

How surprised would you be to hear someone referred to both as a guy and with she/her pronouns?

Not surprised at all; "guy" used this way is gender neutral to me

Not surprised at all; I'd assume it's that person's gender expression

A little surprised; I'd assume it was a gender-neutral use of "guy"

A little surprised; I'd assume it was that person's gender expression

Surprised; I'd assume it was a gender-neutral use of "guy"

Surprised; I'd assume it was that person's gender expression

I'd find this jarring; I'd assume it was an attempt at gender neutral usage

I'd find this jarring; I'd assume it was that person's gender expression

I think it's flat out unacceptable to combine singular "guy" and she/her in this

Other specific opinion

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[vee1021]

[my-dailydreams]

[unofficial-autism-post]

Unofficial Autism Post

[catsmocha]

We need you to roll me the fattest shit imaginable.

[catchymemes]

[memory-of-stargazing]

“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[cosmikazie]

due to recent (and frankly ongoing as far as this website is concerned) events

[fallout-lou-begas]

wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1"

wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting

wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.

wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.

wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.

wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.

wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[56kilobits]

people treat it like a blackpill - younger people especially - but it's a sign of maturity that sometimes things that seem "worse" are better because they are not mortgaging short term frictionlessness for the cost of long term stability

Thomas Midgley Jr invented a lot of fantastic products that solved a lot of problems and unfortunately those inventions were dangerous. the alternative to chemicals like Freon are a little bit shittier for the end user but are better in the long run

Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc were dirt cheap for the first couple of years of their existence because the companies were actively losing money on the service. they were being kept alive by constant infusion of venture capital during zero interest rate periods because the idea was if they obtained total market domination, they could then safely raise prices. which is, indeed, what happened.

TVs have become so stupid cheap because all your user data is being sold by the manufacturer, which allows them to sell the TV to you at or even below cost. a TV that does not sell user data will necessarily be more expensive than one that does, because you will not be benefiting from the subsidy.

apps are free because you are not a customer, you are the product: the customer is advertising platforms and data brokers. if you want an app that is free, where you are the customer, your options are 1) paid service where the costs of building and running the app are funded directly by you, the user, or 2) completely free software run by unpaid volunteers in their spare time where new features are limited to how much free time Anders or Lunameow0 have that month. you can complain about how much those alternatives suck compared to Profit-Driven Platform but hosting 4k video for all of your friends gets really expensive fast. part of the cause of the data center explosion is due to the significant storage+delivery demands of 4k video lol

part of the reason modern society is so [gestures] is because frictionlessness is like the One Ring and humans will absolutely sell out their privacy, safety, health, and the environment to have as little friction in their lives as possible

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

It would do all of us a lot of good to actually ask the question, "How can they afford to do this?"

Because as we're seeing now with, say, Youtube and its onslaught of ads, it's exactly as above. And the moment they no longer can afford it, the moment they need to actually start making money, everyone else gets it in the shorts.

[hal-monitor]

✨⚾️ BASEBALL YURI ⚾️✨

[februarytrash]

being sad and horny is a privilege

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[prismatic-bell]

I love that even city council is like "we're not fucking narcs, we have no idea who that guy beating the shit out of him is." Extremely hobbified behavior.

[pompompompeii]

[proteusolm]

investigation

[random-jot]

[geosie]