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Pour one out for all the folks who tried to transition and ended up a transmission. Tough way to go.

Those look amazing, but how is it different in regards to sugar plantations? Aren’t they both effectively topped with glaze, either wet or pearled?

I upvoted this comment multiple times while reading.

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‘Car’ should have been painted over with white instead of black. The other text already has a white outline. This is hard to read.

I feel like people have known this since like the 1800s. But dividing people over race and gender doesn’t threaten the rich in the way wealth distribution does, so huge amounts of money and influence are poured into preventing society from advancing by exacerbating poverty and race/gender conflicts.

I use my GPU mostly for gaming and computer science. I will say that ROCm from AMD is seriously giving Cuda a run for its money, and it’s fully open source. AMD cards also tend to be better per dollar.

Same, I’ve been using Debian only for the last 15 or so years. I love the stability, and the old software isn’t hard to work around when newer versions are needed.

I hate the lack of support from Nvidia. I prefer AMD cards though, and they give zero trouble.

This one is particularly hard to look at too. The inconsistent style, the perspective problems, the weird postures, the unnatural motion, Gate’s weird three fingered hand.

You could make a better version of the same thing with Gimp.

I was going to say “Copyright is theft” but I see that’s basically OPs take, so I’ll settle for ‘same’.

I liked the magma energy as a metaphor for fossil fuels.

I guess if you’re just looking at one side. To me a close relationship requires mutual commitment, like we used to have with Canada. Our appeasement of Russia isn’t closeness, it’s obsequiousness.

Our era of close ties with Russia has been over for a damn hot minute. Trump thinks he’s friends with Putin, but Putin just wants to cripple the US.

Either Oakland has changed wildly in a very short time or you have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://youtu.be/Fo0sN872oH0

Link for the lazy

It was President’s Day in the US, but I don’t know why that would impact Lemmy.

If it wasn’t a sex act, then phone sex workers wouldn’t exist, erotica wouldn’t exist.

There are a lot of things that aren’t always a sex act but can be in the right circumstances, arguably most things.

Again, I assert it isn’t TABOO, but PRIVATE/PERSONAL. Just like my medical history isn’t taboo, it’s private and personal.

Do you think it’s important to get consent from people before sharing your medical history?

Regardless, it’s possible to discuss sex in ways that aren’t as private as medical history; it’s a common element in comedy, theater, and art.

What shields abusers, ironically, is not discussing consent and not putting consent first.

Multiple things can shield abusers. Consent and discussion of it is absolutely foremost, but if sex is taboo it makes conversation about sexual consent much rarer and less organic.

Any topic can make people uncomfortable, sex, religion, politics, death; all things to avoid in polite company, but they’re also a big part of life and should be discussed freely imo.

This makes sense to me. The idea that discussion of sex is itself a sexual act seems like it muddies the topic.

There’s certainly ways of discussing sex that require consent, like erotic roleplaying or something where you’re involving the other person directly, but that’s not what the original post is about.

If any discussion of sex is taboo in public situations it leads to exactly the sort of issues OP is trying to reduce, where the norms of silence act as a shield for abusers.

Both actually, as depressing as that is. The entire region started as the Oregon Territory just before the civil war, and ever since the beginning has had to grapple with far right nutjobs.

Over time the coastal west of each state became more and more blue and populous, while the east stayed rural and backwards.

Things are slowly changing though, Spokane county has voted blue for the past decade.