I think most people missed the point of my comment as an ironic statement mocking the hypocrisy of the democratic establishment in this race.

Vote blue no matter who.

In addition to what everyone else said, the terms just refer to completely different people. “single mother” obviously refers to the mother, while “children of absentee fathers” refers to… the children.

And it’s a strawman anyways - nobody’s out there using “single mother” as a pejorative. I’ve heard it used far more often in a good sense.

Welcome to Moe’s!

not with that attitude

All I was commenting on was the tax comment, and this still has no relevance to that

The USPS is mostly self-funding, receiving very little at all through taxes, so… yeah.

I’m thinking we might be in the clear. It says items marked as a “gift” with a value of less than $100 USD should still be exempt, and this is both of those. I’ve reached out to double check that they marked the “Gift” box on the customs form and find out what specific value they declared just to be safe.

Either way I’m still expecting chaos-related delays from this.

I had a friend ship me a package via Aus Post on Saturday. The tracking page last updated at 1:33am on the 26th local time to say it’d been processed at the (Australian) airport. I assume we got in just in time to avoid being inconvenienced by this? If the package fails to arrive in the US before Friday will I have to pay an additional fee to receive it?

Was AI actually being used in any mental health services? I know there’ve been a lot of articles lately about AI fucking people up when acting as their therapist but I’ve always assumed that was in the context of “person doesn’t have a real therapist, goes to chatgpt.com and vents to it on their own time”, not “person is receiving professional help, which then has them talk to ChatGPT”.

So in other words: Is this law actually doing anything? Or is it a pointless law targeting something that doesn’t happen, so politicians can say they’ve done something without actually having done so?

I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone bring up Dunning-Kruger to comfort someone rather than insult them

I made filters with uBlock Origin that block out from Lemmy (and some other sites) any post containing one of the words “Trump”, “Elon”, “Musk”, “RFK Jr”, “maga”, or “nazi”.

You still stay mostly up-to-date because that shit has a way of filtering through anyways, but you cut out 90% of the redundant fluff. I originally set the filters up in November when I was feeling very similar to how I imagine you felt when you made this post.

I can’t read the whole article because it’s paywalled, but the first two paragraphs confirm what everyone already knew: The author purposely led ChatGPT into weird occult topics, then acted scandalized when ChatGPT got weird and occult.

I thought 4chan shut down permanently like 2 months ago?

What’s your earliest dream you can still remember?

I think the screenshot is from their friend’s account, to show us what kinds of games they’ve already played? Wasn’t super clear to me either though

Using they/them by default is already a good start - I would be surprised to learn if neopronouns are a thing at all in languages that don’t have gendered pronouns to begin with. they/them is perfectly acceptable to 99+% of people - both cis and LGBT+.

You can just say LGBT or LGBT+. Lots of others are in use but very, very few people will legitimately get mad at you for picking one over any other.

If someone specifically tells you to call them a certain thing, you should call them that thing. Otherwise just stick to they/them.

If someone tells you their sexuality and it is not relevant to you, you have no obligation to ever bring it up again, just as with any form of oversharing.

And as for why some people share these things even though you may personally find it too revealing - that’s just down to personal preference. Different things are important to different people in different ways. Some people might go through their life never giving their gender a single thought. Others might base their life around affirming and fighting for it in various ways. Most people are somewhere in the middle. Everyone has a cause they believe in a lot - for some people, this is that cause. As an “Aero Ace” (a term I had to look up - “aromantic asexual” for those who also haven’t encountered it), you’re probably pretty predisposed to not care about any of this stuff on any significant level.

So… The NO WAI Act?

> Makes thread asking if you should go to the ER

> Literally everyone says to go to the ER

> Doesn’t go to the ER

ok

I use 160g spaghetti with an entire 14oz jar of sauce, personally.