Gonna get a lot of hate for this but if it’s just a laptop then you’ll have a lot more benefit to journalists/activists if you do a tor exit node. Or tor relay node. Or just an i2p node.

Have conservatives explained the nuclear weapon secrets in his bathroom yet? Or is the defense “It wasn’t decided in a court of law so it’s just hearsay”

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TLDR: One is identifying as a different gender, one is identifying with a different animal.

It’s in the same paragraph you quoted:

First, reports of this phenomenon (called therians) is greatly exaggerated. They are often conflated with other groups (like furries). This is pretty clearly a social and psychological phenomenon, not a neurological trait, and having nothing to do with a system of neurological development (influenced by hormones, for example).

To the best of our knowledge, hormones don’t influence the animals you like or identify with.

From another source: https://theconversation.com/what-are-furries-debunking-myths-about-kids-identifying-as-animals-and-litter-boxes-in-schools-193908

Furries don’t identify as animals; they identify with animals. In the same way that cosplayers typically don’t believe they are actually Spiderman, furries don’t think they are their fursonas.

Is furry an orientation? It’s not. It’s a fandom. However, it’s worth noting there are many marginalized statuses within the furry community. Depending on the study, we find more than 70 per cent of furries identify as LGBTQ+ and more than 25 per cent are gender-identity diverse.

troyunrau@lemmy.ca Take a visit to privacyguides.org. The first rule of all the algorithms is that they need your data to work.

Thanks for the alt text. Catbox is blocked for me.

TLDW?

Gilberto Hinojosa is under fire for comments he made implying transgender Texans bear responsibility for disappointing losses by Democrats in Texas.

“You have a choice as a party,” he told KUT in Austin. “…you can support transgender rights up and down…or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support.”

BITCH, clarify which rights you think are too far for other humans please.

Edit: He already apologized.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18370067

“I extend my sincerest apologies to those I hurt with my comments today,” he wrote. “In frustration over the GOP’s lies to incite hate for trans communities, I failed to communicate my thoughts with care and clarity.”

He added: “You deserve to feel seen, valued and safe in our state and our party. My unequivocal and unwavering support for LGBTQ+ Texans remains steadfast, and I am committed to ensuring our party never abandons you, especially when you need us most.”

Edit 02: Also resigning https://www.kut.org/politics/2024-11-08/texas-democrats-chairman-resigns-transgender-immigration-election

Brian Delen, 48, of Bel Air, was convicted in Harford County Circuit Court of the lesser charges he faced, second-degree assault and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, following a trial during which his attorneys argued he acted out of fear and in self-defense when he shot Meghan Lewis last year.

Healey said in a press release that she intends to seek a sentence of 30 years, the maximum penalties allowed by law. Five of those years will be required to be without the possibility of parole, she said. A sentencing date has not been scheduled yet.

Five years, then his gofundme lawyer will get him out and he’ll write a book for all the transphobes to gobble up. Ready to be proven wrong.

Stop weather data collection in one part of the planet. That’ll stop the global warming believers. /s

Crops grow faster if you decree the weather is perfect. The best weather.

No longer letting my family member rants about [insert today’s Russian propaganda] go unchallenged.

• Crime is going up. Oh no, can you show me a chart with a source? Can’t be just something you find on the internet (they’re always ranting that you can’t trust the internet).
• You can’t trust the weather reports. They’re just using the internet to make all that stuff up. Explain how the internet allows for a 100 fold increase in sensors that can report back to a centralized meteorology facility for number crunching
• Ukraine shot first Explain a timeline of the Ukraine war
• Moon landing was faked. (I actually like this argument the best because it’s been so thoroughly debunked)

The religious fruitcakes will never get the hint that their god is trying to tell them something.

No legislation being able to pass because every side is arguing that their bill version is what god wants. Economy remains stable because it’s all Biden-Harris recovery policies. Trump wins again because “look how good the economy is!”.

Maybe Europe will be able to pick up some of the slack. I’m hoping in 20 years we get to wonder why there’s a four year blip where America stopped winning awards for research that helps humanity.

This is a news article which summarizes a summary of project 2025.

The original summary:

https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Project-2025s-Sweeping-Anti-LGBTQ-Policies-Would-Roll-Back-The-Clock-On-LGBTQ-Equity-Advancements.pdf

No market for it. Printers have already become so fucking cheap to make that the manufacturers can’t survive unless they overprice their ink.

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TLDR

• Acknowledge your anxiety
• Log off
• Spend time with loved ones, but…
• …set boundaries with them
• Take care of your physical health
• Repurpose moments of anxiety
• Remember what you can control, but…
• …also remember your power
• Expand your community
• Remember there’s hope, even in a “worst case scenario”

Family Guy Skin Color Chart or Family Guy Race Card refers to a series of memes using an exploitable screenshot from Family Guy showing a toll booth worker holding a “skin tone chart” up to Peter Griffin, who is wearing a fez hat, to determine if he’s white enough to pass through to the United States. The episode aired in March 2013 and the scene became the subject of memes as early as 2014, typically with users photoshopping the words on the skin tone card to change the context. The meme is often used as a reaction image on sites like Twitter to criticize perceived forms of racism.

It’s not idiocy if none of their voters won’t fact check, and if the ad was against a political opponent not the athlete specifically. Bonus points if it’s a Republican judge evaluating the defamation claim.

They’re not idiots. They’re making the reasonable gamble that no matter what happens, they and their families will end up on top. They’ve had a lot of practice saying shit like this. They only lost the Dominion case once Trump started altering the decision tree into explicit lies.