#we need legislation

[dancesingay]

Even though Amazon is talked bad about as an employer, they're the only viable full time entry level jobs available right now and part of the reason is because they put almost every industry out of business.

Another job viable for people, especially immigrants, disabled, and neurodivergent people that's being phased out is uber and taxi services. The self driving car is not only unsafe, it's actively taking jobs. I trust a human more than a self driving car (especially living in a coastal city with cliffs).

We need legislation to protect our jobs and automate industries that are dangerous for humans to do. I went to my local job center, do you know what they were hiring for? Coal miner. What century are we living in? Humans deserve safe and clean jobs. Have the robots mine the coal.

Look at this little guy, he yearns for the mines.

[antarctite]

also why are perisex trans people so comfortable saying they plan on lying to doctors about being intersex because its “easier/safer than saying youre trans!!!” no it isnt. more doctors know what trans identities are than they do the existence of intersex people At All. and if they know we exist, theyre not gonna call us intersex, theyre going to call us Disordered and try to fix us by prescribing medications we dont need and abusing our bodies. even trans doctors do this to us!

please, if you actually care about the oppression that ‘medical professionals’ perpetuate, cant you just fight for better legislation of both trans and intersex people? (a lot of intersex people are trans, btw. not that it should be a determining factor for you.) dont make it worse for each of us.

[mangled-by-disuse]

re: suicidality

So I have now had... a couple of people come to me personally in crisis today, and seen a lot of others speak about it publicly. And I just want to say to all of you what I've been trying to say to the people who've spoken to me directly:

You are in shock. You are grieving. You are in a heightened emotional state, and there is nothing wrong with that, but now is not the time to make decisions you can't take back.

My mother was telling me on Sunday, when I was having a much more banal crisis about regretting my move, that when she moved to the North she gave herself six months, and she wasn't allowed to give up on it until then. Not because it would definitely be okay, but because until you've got your footing, until you're no longer reeling from the immediate change, you don't know. You can't see the challenge clearly.

So, please. Give yourself six months. Decide if this is really a world you can't live in.

You haven't closed the door if it turns out that you really, truly can't live like this. You don't have to close the door. Just don't go barrelling through it yet.

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[werewolfetone]

It's so fun how studying history you don't realise how ridiculous some of the terms you've read so many times that they don't register to you as anything but what they mean are until you say the words whiteboy act aloud in your most serious voice to someone and they lose it

[creepyscritches]

Man it is worth pointing out that the ACA is a living piece of legislation. Like every year updated protocols and guidelines release to the whole industry from CMS (gov oversight) and I educate professionals in my field on the changes each time. It was built intentionally to be an evolving and improving system that can handle more and more people each year. The ACA is not a stone tablet; it's an arm of federally protected benefits like Medicare that is inherited and maintained and built up by sequential administrations. It is WORKING, it's so reassuring to see it become so intertwined with our American health care model that an entire wing of the industry is now dedicated to the ACA.

Yeah, we want a better health care system, of course we do!! That's why so many people dedicate their careers to supporting the ACA!!! THIS is the fish crawling onto land that can eventually become a health care system that treats us with dignity. We just have to keep evolving it into a more equitable and accessible option. I vote with my head mostly tuned into future health care + research policies and it makes my goals much clearer. Biden has spent 2 separate administrations leading the Cancer Moonshot research funding initiative that has contributed significantly to the boom in cancer breakthroughs. Trump suggested we drink bleach for covid. I trust one significantly more than the other to continue funding ACA and NIH initiatives and interests 🤷

[sexynetra]

Anetra’s reaction is so pure 😭 the “WHAT” and immediate look of oh shit sorry is sending me

[bameme]

Conservative memes are like "I'm just gonna claim teachers are turning children into cannibals and it's on you now to prove that they don't".

[c-h-stevens]

A couple of months ago radfems on Xitter were making some noise about readers of Booktok smut being "porn addicted". Tumblr didn't take them seriously, which is as it should be. However, I don't think many people know the real issue with this "porn addiction" thing: namely, that it's a fake disorder invented by religious conservatives to shame people.

See, the people who take porn addiction seriously don't mean it in a metaphorical way, as in "I'm addicted to potato chips" or whatever. They literally claim that watching too much internet porn will rewire your brain chemistry just like shooting heroin. If you think that sounds unlikely, scientists generally agree with you. There's no solid evidence for porn addiction. The Wikipedia page calls it "scientifically controversial" and "hotly contested". It's also peppered up with [citation needed]s from both sides. On the other hand, there's papers such as this one (paywalled) that link "religiosity and moral disapproval" with "perceived addiction to pornography". Unsurprisingly, the promoters of porn addiction tend to scaremonger about masturbation, first and foremost among them the NoFap movement, which is a hotbed of alt-right bullshit and all sorts of bigotries. (Want another paper?)

You might wonder, if a belief in porn addiction comes from the religious right instead of credible evidence, and one of its loudest proponents is a very anti-feminist group, why would radical feminists accuse anybody of being porn addicted? Well, that's because radfems are dumb as bricks. They've been holding hands with the religious right for decades on the anti-porn issue. This is a short and concise article on the "lesbian sex wars", where radfems burned lesbian BDSM books to defeat the patriarchy. (I meant it when I said they're dumb as bricks.)

In my own personal observation, radfems seem to have ramped up their anti-porn side lately, probably because blatant, in-your-face transphobia is less popular in progressive circles lately. On the other hand, the internet has gotten more puritanical lately, so it makes sense they'd emphasize their anti-porn side instead. With USAMerican Republicans trying to fuck the internet up even more, I wouldn't be surprised if radfems continued to support the Leopards Eating People's Faces with this nonsense. Hence why I wrote this whole essay.

Radfems have admitted to toning down their views to try and "recruit" people they see as women/more mainstream feminists, so if you get a comment mentioning porn addiction, especially anonymously, it's likely a radfem peddling nonsense. If I thought they were clever enough, I'd say they were pushing the whole "Booktok porn addicts" angle to make other takes on the idea seem more credible. Sure, it's silly to call a reader of romance novels porn addicted, but what about a fratboy who's always in PornHub? Surely he's porn addicted, right? Well, no. Because porn addiction isn't a thing, and the people taking it seriously are trying to make you buy into censorship and an overly strict control of the internet. Things that are going to harm marginalized people first, as anybody who isn't dumb as bricks can tell.

[mueritos]

need to get off twitter because all of the “transmascs dont experience violence and oppression” discourse is rotting my brain....

[thornheartfelt]

Save me f/os, save me (<- has an animal welfare and ethics exam that is 3 hours long tomorrow)

[regulationlistener]

its really so absurd to me that even among people that believe climate change is real the popular belief seems to be "and anyone that tries to do anything to mitigate it is annoying and an idiot" like what are you talking about

[toytulini]

"why are people mad about AI being pushed on them when they SHOULD be mad about all the privacy erosion??"

1) plenty of us bitches are mad and annoyed about both, actually.

2) the privacy erosion has become the normalized state of existence for the average person for the last 10 fucking years at least, its snuck in, they disguise it as Convenient Features to Help You Shop Better, and thats IF they bother telling you theyre doing it, instead of just opting all your shit in without asking, its so fucking normalized that yeah, a lot of people do not bother to question it, they just sigh in resignation and go, yeah, i guess, do i even have other options? and they do, but theyre an investment of learning and time you dont have capacity for at the moment, or maybe you do but you feel like you dont bc it feels like a bigger hurdle than it is, and computer stuff is already kind of intimidating, cos man, what if you hit the wrong thing and brick your expensive ass machine? easier to just let it data harvest, you guess, it cant be THAT bad, can it? plenty of people live like this, put up with this, seek this out, its easier not to resist the privacy erosion. fucking whatever, i guess. yeah, i guess twitter i mean X, or walmart, or facebook, can just have all of my contact info and my phone number and my birthday and phone contacts and bank information and fuck it, give them my ssn while im at it. less effort later. this is just how tech has been for the last 10 yrs. no one can effectively get rage clicks on this topic anymore bc we all fucking know. it sucks and we know. what do you want me to fucking do about it? i have other shit to deal with more urgently. etc

3)

you cant turn anything on or log onto anything or go anywhere without hearing about whatever new shit theyre throwing AI at for no real reason, no one will fucking Shut Up about AI, and its Annoying, man

[thealogie]

is there any group of lawyers building an effort to protect jobs in the arts from ai layoffs?

That’s not really something that can or should be handled by a group of lawyers. Well, at least not in the sense people are thinking. Many law makers (ie members of Congress and senators) are lawyers and they should be doing something. It’s also something that unions have and will continue to fight to put in contracts (and they’re aided by lawyers but the primary activists are actually not lawyers).

Lawyers are however very much working to deal with the effects of AI on existing legal issues like copyright, privacy/sexual harassment, right of publicity etc.

[nando161mando]

We Need Legislation Against Ghost Jobs and Data Scumming

[critterchitters-closedcaptions]

oopsie, the bootlickers who love sucking off guns got their hands on my post about local government wanting gun control but not in a way that works <3