also I never noticed til now how much it equates "wife" with "cattle".

uhh thanks for further radicalizing me against the bible IG, religious fundamentalist Louisiana politicians

with the armband as well it seems like kind of a dogwhistle

*are still having a pandemic

mm, delicious bait! 😋 go on then, which proxy war does the US have "actual moral footing" to get behind?

if only Facebook had started in 2004 and not 2024 we might have some historical evidence about how the company handles moderation or community safety or protecting user data or..

if only threads wasn't launching literally today and we knew if they'd enthusiastically welcome hate accounts like Libs of Tiktok https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians

feminists as witches, somewhere Silvia Federici is saying "I told you so"

terrifying to me that someone could look at the world around us and think a big change would be a bad thing...

good news!

also another sad example of how arbitrary the word "natural" is. LSD derives from the (very "natural") ergot fungus, MDMA from sassafras - but I guess they're not included because [mumbles something about test tubes]

Yes, we can see he did that. Yes, she said that afterwards. She showed no signs of it at that moment.

1. please explain what kind of "sign" you are thinking of.

2. please then make an earnest attempt to empathise: you are in a public situation, your boss, who has an immense amount of control over your future career, makes an unwanted sexual advance. how confident do you feel enacting the "sign" in point #1

3. please then rate, on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is "not at all convincing" and 10 is "completely convincing", the "sign" in point #1, and the public statement after the fact that the kiss was not consensual, in terms of you believing that Hermoso did not consent. in rating the public statement after the fact, please bear in mind the risks of the public statement to Hermoso (including the lawsuit mentioned in this article, the potential career damage in point #2, and the potential harm that thhe player is likely to cause to people who have experienced sexual assault, were she to be discovered to have been lying about not consenting)

most semi decent Lemmy instances filter out slurs

"customer" instead of "passenger" on public transit. implies the kind of ludicrous thinking that public services "lose money"

90-and-counting downvoters just can't get enough of the taste of boot