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    9 days ago

    this is very much true, but it is still ur choice whether u honk at them. u will find that many times people will notice 2 seconds later and give a lil thank/apology wave ur way.

    i think the best way of handling it if ur in a hurry is a super short honk, just enough to wake them up without making them feel attacked.



  • nobody reads the terms of service, ever.

    also, no modern game companies with any relevance use a FOSS license.

    so the way i see it, gamers have two options:

    • stop playing videogames or
    • only play supertuxkart and dwarf fortress

    neither of these would happen at a scale large enough to force game studios into making their games FOSS.

    the only way i can see of making this happen is by either:

    • a series of very popular, targeted boycotts at studios, or
    • making governments regulate the industry.

    and with the second option, history has shown that only small changes have a chance of passing. effectively abolishing copyright law for software is not something the EU will ever do, no matter how many signatures a petition gets.







  • i know this is an old comment, but i wanted to reply anyway. im sorry for my comment. i hadnt thought about post-op trans ppl at all.

    to clarify however, it wasnt the “first thing” i thought abt trans ppl, im trans myself actually.

    i guess ive had too much contact with pre-op or never-op trans ppl and too little with post-op ppl to have this on my radar.

    i will try to be better in the future!


    1. i never claimed whether u double-checked or not.

    2. i know, but still i think its important not to make it seem like posting chatgpt responses without oversight is okay.

    if u normalize listening to ai hallucinations in any situation, people (especially tech-illiterate people) are going to replicate that behaviour in more important situations.



  • well sometimes u need to refer to ppl who have a vagina, because having a vagina is somehow relevant to the topic of conversation. which in my experience comes up very rarely, so i dont have to use it very often.

    some people who have vaginas arent women, and so if the topic includes those ppl, then “people with vaginas” is the perfect phrase to use. and if talking about ppl with vaginas who all identify as women, cis women is more fitting.

    “female” is a very vague way of referring to something. some ppl use it to describe gender identity, others use it to talk about ppl with vaginas, others again use it to refer to ppl with estrogen-dominant hormonal systems, etc. etc.





  • i mean, thats great! but the moneys gotta come from somewhere, and in most cases someone else is being exploited.

    most non-profits actually suffer from this issue where getting funding is the number one priority.

    the organization has to bend its methods to what will look good on paper vs what would actually be best for their cause



  • theres companies making money off of prison labor, if u want a not very subtle example. in the US, prisons are also for-profit institutions, making it even more insidious.

    then ur typical capitalist labor situation ofc. ur boss makes more off of their workers labor than their workers get paid. this “surplus value” is how bosses get richer than the ppl who work for them; all without having to do any actual work of their own.

    ow also landlords who rent housing to ppl for a price, often providing very little or even no maintenance at all for that building. this exploits peoples need of shelter for the landlords personal gain, as landlords squeeze as much money out of ppl as they can get away with (also for example, keeping security deposits for no good reason).