Ruka is probably my favorite trans character in media for the fact she tried to alter time to "become a girl". Someone just needed to let her know about the magic of estrogen

When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.”

The police are equally if not more deserving of blame for continually harassing this woman even after forcing her to expose herself to them.

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

poor guy /s. he only has the one joke

Anti-homeless infrastructure is canon in the Pokémon universe now I guess

Every single comment thread on anything that reaches r/all quickly devolving into the most unfunny and unoriginal jokes and/or references. Regardless of how grim/serious the original post was.

From the way it's written, she did it voluntarily expecting it to then end.

This doesn't change the fact they cornered her in a women's bathroom and made her feel like she needed to expose herself to them in order to stay safe. We have no way of knowing what they might have done to her if she hadn't.

The fact he brought up his pardon umprompted as if he thought it would be his get out of jail free card makes it hard for me to feel empathetic. Especially since there's a real possibility some cops have let him off scott-free in the past just because of his involvement in J6.

I hate how even the most "neutral" articles about the heinous shit being done to the US government right now still manage to have a headline that makes it sound like it's the outrage that's the issue and not the active attempts by government officials to erase any trace of non-white American history

Funniest way to get permabanned

Am I the only one here who's pretty much okay with this? I do wish they'd clarify exactly what they mean by "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you (in the way that most people think about 'selling data')," but having my anonymized data sold so that Mozilla can continue to operate (combined with Firefox being the best browser I've used in terms of both performance and flexibility - ability to install add-ons from sources outside of the Mozilla store, for example) - seems like a worthy tradeoff to me.

They also have an option to opt-out of data collection, which I do wish was opt-in instead, but with the way every other mainstream browser operates I'm just happy the option is there at all. Let me know if there's something I'm missing here though.

The most scathing article he could find to reply with was one that says "its selling well but not as well as these two other games"?

People see others doing something that makes them uncomfortable and goes against what people have been telling them their whole lives (that there are 2 genders, traditional gender roles and all that) and then encounter people who not only validate that discomfort, but try to justify it. To weaponize it into anger.

I think that in a society that still teaches children there are 2 genders/sexes, raises men who refuse to express negative emotions other than anger for fear of being seen as feminine, and raises women who are insecure in their femininity because of beauty standards and social norms that are being reinforced on every form of media at every term, mass transphobia and the subsequent politicization of being trans was inevitable. If it wasn't trans people being targeted it would be anyone deviating "too far" from gender norms. They will continue to move the goalposts and weaponize that discomfort thats been purposefully instilled in us from birth to turn us against each other.

Thank you for the support and empathy during a time where we're all feeling like we're going to wake up one day with no rights anymore

Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway

fuck nazism and especially fuck corporations like alphabet inc that force content creators to censor words like Hitler and holocaust because they're not "advertiser friendly" enough

Maybe, it just seemed to me that she didn't consider or know about the possibility of transitioning

I saw someone in a reddit thread about Lemmy earlier complaining that it wasn't "user friendly" enough because someone posted an infograph on how the Fediverse works. Even though all the infograph was explaining was that you log into one instance and can freely interact with the rest from there...

I've always thought the internet should be more decentralized and being able to log in without seeing tons of bots, reposts and propaganda is literally the best aspect of Lemmy for me. This feels like what social media was meant to be. I wish there was an easier way to get people to understand that.

I don't think it's as much of an unpopular opinion as it is just a thing that happens. If the Sims community has taught me anything, diehard fans of a franchise will keep shelling out hundreds of dollars for new content even if it's overpriced dogshit

You mean the LLMs with "personality" programmed into them for no other reason than to foster a parasocial relationship that increases user retention are causing people to become lonely? No fucking way

I think it is just a Voyager thing, on Thunder I see a pink name & cake if a user joined today