Ada

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It’s 222-2222. I got an answering machine that can talk to you

Otherwise, you can reach me on 867-5309. Ask for Jenny

But you surely agree that both of your statements to be are at odds with each other.

You can’t simultaneously claim that an increase in diversity leads to a “reduction in richness” of a work, whilst also claiming that the work itself is the problem if it lacks diversity.

First, you are claiming that good works are diminished by after the fact alterations, but then you also claim that after the fact alterations are a bad idea, because the work was never good in the first place if it lacked diversity.

It more looks like you are finding post hoc validation to support something you already believe, rather than explaining the actual reasons you believe it, because those reasons contradict each other

My phone number. She bought us both pre-paid phone numbers over 20 years ago, and it’s the simplest number to remember because it has two sets of 3 matching numbers.

We broke up long ago, but I still have that phone number!

You’ve just shifted the goal posts here.

First, you said it’s stealing richness from a story if you add more women to make up for the lack of representation in the original source material.

And when challenged on that, you’re now saying it wasn’t rich to begin with, and the story itself is broken if women are underrepresented.

It is disingenuously stealing from the richness of the story these films are supposedly depicting.

Strangely enough, as a woman, I see it generally adding to the richness…

Men doing all of the interesting stuff isn’t rich.

Hell, even I Robot, a movie that should have had a female lead, turned Calvin in to a supporting role to put a man in the lead.

If that were true, there wouldn’t be so much noise whenever an action movie with a female lead is released.

All I know is that I’d rather be here than not be here. It doesn’t get much deeper than that for me.

I’ve started to lose height as I get older instead of gaining it

How about if we mix up the original you posted?

“Why does the flu virus have no followers? Because it’s a bad influencer”

In my limited knowledge of Portuguese, it should still work, but the English version will sound better.

I’m sorry it played out that way for you, but even so, what you’re advocating for hurts people too. Even if that’s not your intention, it still does, and I think that’s something that should be part of your consideration when approaching this topic.

I’m sorry it hurt you, but I’m not going to ignore stuff that hurts my community

The first half of your post is you talking about trauma you’ve received from other people, telling you that you’re wrong/evil/broken/perverted etc.

The second half of your post is explaining how you think it’s ok for you to do the same thing to others, because you do it “for the right reasons”

When you confront a bigot with transphobia pushed to the extreme, what you do is add to the trauma that every trans person already has to deal with daily. You don’t magically convert someone from bigotry. Bigots aren’t bigots because they reasons their way in to bigotry, and so you can’t stop them from being bigots by reasoning them out of it.

Folks like you and the hundred other people also “just asking questions” or playing devils advocate" and expecting trans people to engage in a debate as to whether or not we actually deserve equal rights is exactly why this shit never works.

It’s interesting to you because it’s purely intellectual. To the person having to endlessly argue that they do in fact deserve equal rights, it’s a shit fucking experience that we actively seek to disengage from when possible, because it’s all around us, all the time.

You see, I’m an anarchist. I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police. I am philosophically opposed to whole instances making the call to defederate from another no matter how Nazi or capitalist that instance is.

That’s great, but it’s not for everyone. What you’re saying here is that when bigots appear, every member of the minorities they target needs to individually block the troll, which they can only do after they’ve been exposed to the bigotry, and which doesn’t help them at all in the future when the troll moves to a new throw away account.

Counter intuitively, what you’re asking for is exactly how you create spaces that actively discourage diversity.

Yep!

Gotosocial has a setting in development that is designed to baffle bots that don’t respect robots.txt. FediDB didn’t know about that feature and thought gotosocial was trying to inflate their stats.

In the arguments that went back and forth between the devs of the apps involved, it turns out that FediDB was ignoring robots.txt. ie, it was badly behaved

Point 8

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

Big uptick for us at bhzon recently, but a degree of magnitude less than this

I said paper currency, not currency! I’ve handled plenty of cash, it’s just not made of paper

Plenty of cash, it’s just not made of paper!