That’s fair, I also fell for it originally. It was a pretty convincing prank, I really should be more suspicious on April 1st.

I’m not sure if you’re doing a bit, but that was an April Fools’ joke.

Caption from the artist’s tumblr post:

“government wants trans people to detransition so here’s them chasing me to hot glue my bazoinkers back on”

I did some digging and wanted to add context.

Although the Allies liberated concentration camps and freed the people there, there was still a German law (Paragraph 175) that criminalized homosexuality. That law put many gay men back in prison even after being freed from Nazi imprisonment.

Notably, East Germany quickly switched to a narrower definition of “criminal homosexuality”, which meant that it was less likely to be enforced. It also stopped enforcing the law in 1957 and abolished it entirely in 1968. On the other hand, West Germany used the Nazi’s version of the law and arrested 100,000 men and convicted 59,000. The punishments were not as harsh as they were under the Nazis, including shorter prison sentences or only fines, but the law stayed on the books even after the government “deemphasized enforcement” in 1969.

Paragraph 175 was fully removed in 1994 when East and West Germany reunited.

Sources: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paragraph-175-and-the-nazi-campaign-against-homosexuality#paragraph-after-the-nazi-era-6 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gay-men-under-the-nazi-regime https://www.thepinktriangle.com/history/symbol.html

Ironically, you misunderstood whataboutism. A few definitions for context:

• “the act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse” (Merriam-Webster
• “the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense of the original accusation.” Wikipedia
• “a conversational tactic in which a person responds to an argument or attack by changing the subject to focus on someone else’s misconduct, implying that all criticism is invalid because no one is completely blameless” Dictionary.com

The specifics of the definition change, but the broad idea is consistent. Your example of “but what about the USA” is a perfect example of whataboutism because not only does it not address or defend Russia’s “bad thing” but it also attempts to redirect the accusation to a different country.

But simply calling something “whataboutism” doesn’t mean the person bringing up someone or something else doesn’t have a point. It’s frustrating seeing someone say “oh you used a whataboutism, you have no argument” because it’s still good to note if the pot is calling the kettle black.

The official reason is that taxes would have been raised too much (from the linked Wikipedia article / accompanying source: https://www.salon.com/2014/12/18/vermont_abandons_plan_for_single_payer_health_care/)

I use AltStore for uYou+ and find it pretty easy & convenient. It requires some maintenance because you have to connect to iTunes and refresh AltStore + any side loaded apps every 7 days, but it’s easy to reinstall if you forget to do that. It does have you login using your Apple ID, but you can always create a separate account if that worries you.

GitHub: https://github.com/altstoreio/AltStore Website: https://altstore.io

I recognize Lulu, Corki, Veigar, Tristana, Yuumi (relatively new and I think she’s a cat rather than Yordle), Rumble, and Teemo. I’m not sure who is on the left middle.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67662/sound-running-water-puts-beavers-mood-build

Original by itsbyrosie: https://www.tumblr.com/itsbyrosie/130245611980/as-u-can-see-i-dont-actually-know-how-to-draw

One of the few sane people in this comment section.

I don’t want to want to judge OP too harshly but this is a common problem with women in STEM spaces where they’re treated as romantic interests rather than professional acquaintances. That alone is problematic, but it becomes a lot worse when the man expresses interest, puts his coworker in awkward position, and then treats her differently because she “rejected” him. Most men are not overtly hostile to coworkers who turn them down but it comes out in subtle ways that can disrupt a workplace. I’ve seen it myself, where a male coworker developed a crush on someone in the office that wasn’t reciprocated and the male coworker will not work with her because he’s offended or embarrassed about her not being interested. He hasn’t outright said that he refuses to work with her, but he suddenly becomes withdrawn and quiet when she’s in the same room as him.

It’s fine to be attracted to a coworker, but it’s best to keep those feelings to yourself. As a man in STEM, I have multiple female workers that I find attractive, funny, and interesting, but I recognize that they’re at the office to work, not to be hit on.

Aside from the creepiness factor of pursuing a coworker, it reinforces the idea that STEM is a boy’s club and that women are not welcome. That perception needs to be broken because we need strong engineers regardless of gender. To speak from personal experience again, the company I work at has a culture of making women uncomfortable in subtle ways, which has discouraged innovation and hurt our success.

uYouPlus on iPhone through AltStore has SponsorBlock (plus normal ad blocking). It’s a pain compared to Android but it’s still super nice to have.

It sounds like you’ve ping-ponged between two radical ideologies. Maybe you became so disillusioned with the lack of success from overworking yourself and now you’re angry at the state of the world, but lashing out at people trying to engage you in a discussion isn’t going to do any good.

The HR team at the company I work for absolutely advocates for me and my coworkers. Their job is to protect the company’s interests and the workers being empowered is in line with the company’s interests. A close friend and coworker had a PM try to deny her benefits (both PTO and insurance) and HR stepped in on her behalf and forced the company to give her what she was owed. The HR team is always available to answer questions about how insurance works and how to plan for retirement, plus they go out of their way to host a yearly Christmas party and other major events. The companies you worked at might have had bad HR teams, but that doesn’t mean every HR team is bad.

lemmy.world is a big instance and a lot of the Redditors from the initial migration landed here. But the great thing about Lemmy & the Fediverse is that you don’t have to stick with only one instance. I personally have accounts on lemmy.ml (where I landed after the migration) and beehaw.org (I joined in the early days and fell in love with their community & philosophies). I usually just browse “All” through the Voyager app though, so I can see posts from instances across Lemmy.

Using Lemmy / the Fediverse requires a different mindset than Reddit and other monolith websites: you’re given a lot more power to choose how to engage with the community at large and the Reddit hive mind isn’t nearly as effective. There’s still going to be circlejerks and brigades and all kinds of shenanigans that come with forums, but don’t take the voting system too seriously and you’ll have a much better time.

That list feels like a classic Reddit comment, packed with smugness. No one is going to convince their “aunt Karen in Missouri” that Trump is bad using a Facebook-tier list like that.

To answer your question, PoppinKREAM on Reddit often posted detailed comments with sources. Sort by “Top” on his Reddit profile and his fifth comment (as of today) has a much better list.

From https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.10/syntax_and_semantics/operators.html#index-accessors

“The nilable variant []? is supposed to return nil when the index is not found, while the non-nilable variant raises in that case.”

I’ve been using Deezer for a while and I like its variety. They have a “Flow” button where you can let it play random music with favorites mixed in, but you can also select a “mood” (like Focus, Party, Chill, and others) or genres (like R&B, Alternative, Rock, and others). You can also have Flow lean more towards new music or already favorited tracks, but that’s been inconsistent for me in the past where sometimes it’ll only play my favorited songs when I chose to listen to new music or vice versa.

I’ve discovered a lot of new songs and artists by letting Flow do its thing on my drive to and from work. Although, sometimes Flow gets stuck in a certain style of music, like playing back-to-back-to-back Golden Oldies, and it’s frustrating trying to get it to play anything else without manually selecting a genre or mood each time you launch the app. That’s a small gripe because the variety is typically good, with favorites mixed in.

VeggieTales is still relevant after all these years: https://youtu.be/j4Ph02gzqmY

I’ve seen the original post a few times but never the follow up, thank you for including that.