I looked it up and apparently this company installs these lockers that have different balls in them. So if you go to a park with a court and didn’t bring a ball you can still play if you get the app and check one out. It seems like people just stole the balls.

I know that no group is a monolith, but I’d be interested to see how others in their community feel. It seems like other indigenous performers declined, and these were only asked a week ago after several cancellations.

I would not personally be interested in sharing my culture with people who are hostile to it. Especially since it’s basically a birthday performance for Trump and he initially wasn’t interested in having them there. Indigenous people do deserve to be represented in what is ostensibly an event about the nation’s history though.

I hope it goes well and garners a greater appreciation for their culture.

It sucks that the world we live in is the way it is because in theory this would be an ideal model for so many people. Older adults I know really just need a Facebook terminal but are required to buy a whole computer. If anything at all goes wrong with it they freak out and buy a brand new one. So much tech waste and so much hardware not being used for the majority of the time. If they had lightweight terminals there’d be less issues on their end but even if they replaced it at the first issue, it wouldn’t be an entire computer getting trashed. Since all they use is the occasional facebook the mandatory internet thing wouldn’t even be an issue. Plenty of younger people might also be good candidates for this since they basically exclusively use online features too.

Obviously I would never trust this kind of service for a variety of reasons, but in theory the world could really benefit from that model.

I don’t think it requires being bought off to understand that a research paper should rely on primary sources and original thought where possible. Obviously incorporating analysis of those sources and potential biases is important, but you want to be able to form your own conclusions based on unfiltered information. Otherwise it’s not really a research paper, more just a summary or review of other people’s research.

This is in part because a key message behind it — that being gay is not a choice — is being undermined by those who argue that same-sex orientation is better thought of as a part of a wider rebellion against social norms.

I cannot recommend anyone waste their time reading this separatist log cabin republican drivel.

Plenty of people are using the term queer, but that doesn’t mean their identity is a rebellion and not an inherent part of their being.

He has done work with an org that attempts to normalize gay relationships within the church and has the gall to act like queer people are the ones ruining it for him. As if he is not privy to the fact he was never really wanted there in the first place. He sees them turning on him and blames everyone but the ones doing the turning. He openly talks like being gay is the only respectable non cishet identity, and that’s exactly the problem. It’s not. He says he has trans friends. I hope they find this article because he is not on their side.

I have said elsewhere on Lemmy that I don’t publicly use the term queer to refer to the LGBT community because not all LGBT people identify with it, so having a preference of being called gay vs queer is not an issue for me. What is an issue is acting like the actual queer community is the problem and not the people you so desperately want acceptance from.

Not sure why you think “supergirl” is any more stupid than “Superman”. Less original, sure, but nothing would indicate that a Superman movie would be inherently better/less stupid than a supergirl movie. The supergirl movie also made a point of showing how distinct it was from the Superman movie by not even taking place on the same planet. There was even a clip of her in the Superman movie showing her in direct contrast to him.

It’s fine to say the movie sucks, but if an audience is turned away by just her name, I do think there’s an element of misogyny there. Makes me wonder if “superboy” would do better instead. The character was imagined at a time when things centered men and so her name is defined by that, but her actions are not just Superman redux. She has her own story, but it’s possible her name keeps her in his shadow for general audiences.

It seems like you didn’t read the article. The first sentence explains they were already ordered to pay her legal fees, this is just her submitting them. Considering this is her legal fees for his counter suit, I’m not sure how you think he’d countersue for this.

Baldoni is the one who hired a PR company with an established anti female hate/smear campaign framework to ruin Lively. The involvement of Swift in the whole thing is so stupid, but there are no perfect victims. Livelys suits were mostly dismissed on procedural grounds, so she really didn’t lose and they ended up settling confidentiality out of court.

Not sure what public you’re referring to, but I think people can spend what they want on their legal defense. Also not sure why you’re suggesting this is an insult to “real victims”, but if what she alleges occurred then it’s real sexual harassment.

I don’t really care for her as an actress and she seems like someone I wouldn’t personally like, but pretty sure based on the content of the article she is able to recoup her expenses, though the actual amount is still to be determined.

There’s obviously variation, but I’ve noticed even within relatively solitary hobbies women tend to be more inviting. If a female friend enjoys thread crafting or painting they are more likely to invite me to join than a male friend. I have a few friends that paint and generally the men will show off their work and accept a compliment, but if you were to compliment a female they will offer to teach you or show you a trick they learned or something. I’m not sure if that’s related to gendered socialization, what they are seeking from the hobby, interest in hanging out with me in particular, or something else entirely, but it is something I’ve personally picked up on.

I agree regarding the soft focus. It was a weird choice and things look much crispier now. I’m still not a fan of the Liquid Glass aesthetic and I think it makes things unnecessarily busy like the refractive aspect of the Freeform icon, but overall it’s an improvement.

It seems like an AI written article about a Reddit post that they did not link. The site loads wonky for me so maybe the link was stripped, but I don’t know if I believe any of that.

Nah, you’re wrong.

Aren’t you Canadian? I didn’t say no Americans hold that opinion, I said I don’t know any. You may know a lot of Americans who feel that way, but the vast majority (81-92%) tip for sit down service. That sentiment may be more common on Lemmy than IRL, but even on Lemmy people seem to be against exploiting the worker. Lemmy is not a very accurate representation of anything, not even of the Lemmy user base.

https://www.pewresearch.org/2023/11/09/services-americans-do-and-dont-tip-for-and-how-much/

I don’t know any Americans that don’t tip. I know Americans that avoid eating out because they don’t like tipping culture, but I’m not sure if many Americans agree with the bottom panel even if they don’t like tipping.

Yea, the thing I don’t get about the “if I don’t tip the workers will unionize” crowd is that they can just not go to tipping establishments or just eat takeout. You don’t have to basically steal labor from the workers. If you think “them making less money is better for the market” then just don’t make them work for you and refuse to pay what is expected. Boycotting tipping establishments would help, but that doesn’t get people free/less expensive stuff so they don’t do that.

Even if I take them in the best faith possible, they’re just exploiting the workers themselves and blaming the workers for their exploitation. In that situation they basically take the place of the bosses saying “if you want a raise go work somewhere else”.

I also hate tipping culture, but it’s so rude to go to another country (during a rise in fascism no less!) and act like by not following their norms you’re having any effect on the culture other than making yourself look like bad.

There’s a decently done but horrific doc on Netflix about this. The cops in that town are definitely in on something, if not just trying to protect Mormonism in general. A single woman went and infiltrated and collected all the evidence and the cops didn’t give a damn. She eventually got the feds involved and that was slow, but the cops clearly were dragging their feet.

Generally artists have to put effort into drawing facial features smaller. Because as people we concentrate on the face it’s hard not to frame them with oversized proportions. I have to respect the “but that ass tho” approach to solving that problem.

Yes! I’m not on insta or TikTok, but people will share horrible things like “can you believe they said this?” And yes, quite frankly I can because here you are commenting on it and sharing it. It’s like people don’t understand the concept of engagement. If someone has a video abusing their child, just report the video and potentially send it to the authorities if needed. Don’t comment and share the video!

It’s completely possible wealthy people associated with Epstein had nothing to do with the sex trafficking. Maybe they kept it to normal insider trading and fraud stuff.

This guy has been separately accused of rape by multiple women, and though I don’t have his full statement, he seems to suggest the release of the Epstein files were bad and caused him to be improperly implicated. I’m gonna guess he didn’t just keep it to the fraud stuff.

Yea, that’s a good point. I guess in my head since I have no real use for an AI they all seem equally stupid, but the birthday thing does make it seem even worse.

I don’t think it’s that they’re out of touch. I think they really want your data. Imagine AI sending a screenshot of your screen every second back to whoever made it and whoever can be bothered to listen in. I think everything else, like the marketing and hype around it, is consensus building.

Windows 11 with 16 also runs like hot garbage, so I’m not sure if it’s a ram issue. I’m sure more ram helps, but I don’t think it’s the main problem. I’ve not used 8 GB in a while though, so maybe some updates really changed things.