How many trans people do you know? Has a trans person gotten mad at you for something?

Charitably, it seems like people who have never met trans people seem to think they’re balls of tinder, waiting to explode at any imagined slight. There is a lot of misinformation and propaganda out there and trans people are a punching bag.

Yes, words change a lot, and maybe someone might ask you to use a different word. That’s not an attack on you.

Yeah, you might meet someone on a bad day or there could be a misunderstanding, but, in general, treating people with kindness and respect works out pretty well.

Please send pricelist.

Maybe “engaging with someone’s physical presentation” was just always a bad idea and you’ve just recently realized that.

Treating people with kindness and respect mostly works out fine.

Target’s CEO pay ratio now stands at 753 to 1

That oughta teach him!

Tracking ROI from advertising is pretty sophisticated. Ad agencies will be tracking conversions in most cases. Especially on FB, where you have people’s real names and can track if someone who saw an ad bought through another platform.

I watch a lot of kids cartoons. MLP is a great show, but the people who got weirdly into it were weirdos completely unrelated to MLP, that was just how they manifested it.

I don’t understand how this would be grounds for them to be broken up as antitrust. But that is just a technical question about how this particular use of AI is relevant to antitrust law, Google and Meta definitely should be broken up as illegal monopolies.

sudo rm -rf / no-preserve-root :3

You didn’t need to explain that patent laws existed before 2020.

In May 2020, WHO, the Government of Costa Rica and other partners launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) to facilitate faster equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 health products for people in all countries. C-TAP, which is currently endorsed by 45 WHO Member States, was a response to the global Solidarity Call to Action. Its implementing partners include UNDP, the Medicines Patent Pool, the UN Technology Bank and Unitaid.

https://www.who.int/initiatives/covid-19-technology-access-pool

Medical patents do always cause death, of course. Artificial scarcity protects profits at the cost of lives. Bill Gates, and the Gates Foundation at first, opposed programs to allow poor countries to produce the vaccine themselves.

You’re asking me to cite a source for Gates’s donation to the “Not a Tax Dodge Foundation”? After I said "I’m sure it will be more elegant than that, but that’s the basic grift. ”

Please go look up the term “hypothetical”. You might want to investigate the Onion too.

2022…I wonder how many people died to protect corporation’s profits in two years of a global pandemic.

Your “nothing wrong” includes frequent trips to Epstein’s island. 😬

I guess I’m just a crazy online Leftist for not thinking a nice donation to NPR is enough to even out molesting kids. I guess you want to give him a tote bag?

Sure. The Gates Foundation gives the money to the Totally Not A Tax Dodge foundation which quietly pays the Gates kids as much as they want. I’m sure it will be more elegant than that, but that’s the basic grift.

Meanwhile, Gates uses his reputation as a philanthropist, and all the soft power from controlling billions to further his own interests and cement his personal philosophy as the only option.

The charity means that the American people have no control at all over how the money is spent, so the plebians have to beg at their door for money to be used in the way that Gates says it must be used.

Yes, but you misspelled “capitalism”.

Good ol’ Murphy. The Hammurabi of the internet.

I’m not sure how to explain the concept of walled gardens to people who grew up with four websites. In the 90s, most software was “shareware”, you could try it out for as long as you wanted, but businesses were expected to buy licenses.

MS used it’s dominant operating system to drive web browser competitors out of business. This is illegal. The whole concept of capitalism is built around competition, but MS used it’s power to stifle ’ innovation. The Clinton administration beat MS in court, then the Bush Administration dropped the case before the appeal was heard. If they hadn’t done that, instead had broken up Google, Meta, Apple, and the lot of them, the world would be a lot different now.

MS abused its monopoly in the 90s. The Clinton administration was too lenient, then the Bush admin kowtowed completely. Now, there’s largely no chance for another operating system to compete.

Boo! 🤮

It is so infuriating how capitalists can use their stolen money to make people think they’re saints. (All the while their “help” causes more damage than if we let experts fix problems rather than pirate kings.)

And it’s even harder to criticize this bastard now because liberals think he’s on their “side” and any criticism must be a “vaccine microchip” loon even when you talk about things he did openly.

I’m a noob, and I thought Bazzite would be simpler, but when I had an issue (monitor going black under heavy load), I couldn’t solve the problem because of the immutable OS. I went around in circles with Google and ChatGPT, and couldn’t get it to work.

Oh, so that was why my Dad would yell “I’m gonna canola you in the mouth” every night.