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The whole "people shouldn't transition before age N because their brain isn't fully formed" thing is so catastrophically dumb.
Like, do you really think I wanted to be a fully formed man? Seriously. What's the upside?
For most trans people, the more of the wrong gender we get, the more pain it brings. Waiting until those changes are permanent only makes them worse. It's like if you have a gluten allergy and someone says they won't believe you until you've tried every loaf of bread in the bread aisle. More pain doesn't fix it. We don't get over gender dysphoria by exposure therapy. We just get more trauma that we have to live with the rest of our lives.
Instead, being able to transition BEFORE the brain and body are fully formed is the ideal. The earlier the better. The earlier you're able to get access to medical transition, the closer your fully formed body and mind will be to what they should be. That's a good thing! Waiting only causes harm.
The only reason why people think like this is because they refuse to believe trans people and trans experiences. They think that their default cis assumptions about people should override those people's own experiences. Sure, they'll grant some allowance in theory to adults who want to muck about with gender. But they don't actually believe we are who we say we are. Not if they think we have to have known since we were 4 but shouldn't transition until 25. The only way that makes sense is if they're either trying to be unbelievably cruel or if they simply don't believe we're real.
If you want to know if someone's an ally, look at how they treat trans kids. Because being an ally starts with believing us, that our experiences are real. And if they won't believe the kids, they're not going to believe you when you're 35 or 45 or 70.
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the same folks argue if you're you should essentially never be allowed to transition if you're neurodivergent and folks eat that up too
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@deilann Which again comes down to believing us, only where "us" here now includes all neurodivergant folks. They do the same things to autistic and ADHD kids. We tell our story and they tell us we're lying and then try to gaslight us with some alternative narrative in which we're the villains.
Of course they look at an autistic person and say their gender isn't real. They don't believe us about anything else. Why would they believe us about that?
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@deilann I've had a going mental model for a while that being trans is just another form of neurodivergance. Your brain got wired different and you ended up with a different gender. Woops! 🤷🏻♀️
There are problems with thinking about it that way, for sure. But it falls in the exact same bucket of "This should be no big deal. Just give the kid the right meds and don't treat them like trash."
@deilann I think of being trans as a form of NDness
@deilann "You're a member of a group known to be uncomfortable with lying therefore you must be lying" sure is a claim they make and expect to be taken seriously.
And are taken seriously. WTF.
i mean a lot of the narratives about trans men are we can't possibly be real because that's just our silly women brains becoming hysterical
bigots will literally find any reason trans people don't exist
but the real danger of these arguments is that they'll concede there are a few real trans people and they wouldn't deny that
they just deny that every person who tells them they're trans is and there's always a reason that'll work!
they just don't think trans people exist but need a motte for their bailey
@deilann Yup. I mean it's exactly the same thing my mom did when I came out. Every argument she made came down to some variation of, "But couldn't you just be less trans?" My transition made her uncomfortable and she was reaching for something to get me to bend to improve her comfort.
I thought about tossing in something about clocky trans women and something about trans men (though I wasn't sure what) at the end of that post because, really, what they're looking for is one narrow narrative they can feel comfortable supporting in theory while they deny the rest of us. I just didn't because I want keep it focused.
the wanting to keep it focused is also the problem with hot swap arguments like this, where you can always just throw in yet another exhausting "reason"
constantly being asked to prove your own existence is fucking exhausting no matter how ridiculous the "allegations" are or even obviously spurious
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@deilann That's fair. My intention was to focus on the "listen to people" part. But there are plenty of people who will "support" trans kids and then guide their own (possibly trans) child away from the clocky trans woman in the grocery store out of fear.
At the end of the day, it's all of us (including detransitioners and those in hiding) or none of us and we know which the bigots would prefer.
all these arguments honestly boil down to "listen to people" so it's a good take away in general
the reason "trans person X" can't possibly know who they are is (insert excuse here) which is rebutted by "have you considered listening to people?"
oh, i totally forgot how shrier is a really good example of how this is all really an extension of how people treat kids
in her horrible book, she goes on about how she knows trans people exist and will refer to trans adults by their correct pronouns (she then goes on to as far as anyone can know from the details she gives, misgender every child in the book)
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the definition of adult keeps getting stretched to the point that she's referring to adults in college in the way she pinky-promised she'd only refer to kids
our transness itself becomes proof of our immaturity
the only folks she genders correctly in the book are those who have some modicum of power/influence and folks can just look up to find out how laughable it would be to misgender them because like they have major YouTube channels and shit
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@deilann 1000%
It's entirely a power game.They'll properly gender those it costs them something to misgender. Maybe that something is just looking silly ("OMG! How could you think that person is a dude!") or it could be because that person has some amount of power. It's not because they're actually a decent human being who treats people with dignity.
See also every interaction with my parents. I intentionally came out to my siblings first to build a coalition so that by the time I came out to my parents the power dynamics in the family were in my favor. Worked a treat! They still don't believe or support me but they know better than to be total dipshits about it.
But part of why kids are such a canary is because they don't have that power.
Trans men often fall into that category, too. Sure, the dudes on instagram who've spent 3 years in the gym might get believed. But the young guy who's not even on T yet? Nope.
@deilann Not to add my cis stuff to this thread that isn’t about me, but they also do this to childfree women like me who would rather be dead than pregnant.
They refused to believe that someone with female parts wouldn’t want to grow and birth a baby more than anything else in life, so I was told my whole life that I just didn’t know what I wanted and that I would regret it later. And because of that I was unable to get sterilized until I was almost 40 years old, After birth control pills made me suicidal for years, and after a couple terminations.
Hey, i've got an idea! OK, so the brain isn't fully formed before age 25, huh? And that means people shouldn't be allowed to make major changes in their lives before then, huh? So.
- No getting married before age 25.
- No getting a job before age 25.
- No being in the military before age 25.
- No being confirmed in any church or religion before age 25.
What else should be forbidden in the interest of "protecting the children"?
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They are already doing that for minors (age of majority varying from country to country), at least for certain websites, so this isn't so unlikely.
They are already doing that for minors (age of majority varying from country to country), at least for certain websites, so this isn't so unlikely.
@moriel No playing tennis before age 25. After all, it leaves marks on your bones that archæologists will clearly be able to tell when they dig up the skeleton in a thousand years!
Inter-arm bone mass and size asymmetries in children tennis players are maturity status specific: a 9-month study on the effects of training time across pubertal change and somatic growth[...]
All bone asymmetries were substantial. Tennis-induced bone gains were higher at pre- to early puberty in girls and at early to mid/late puberty in boys. Training enhanced mostly bone mass and maturity status enhanced mostly bone size; sex was not bone-change modeling impactful. Implications are discussed considering certain limitations.
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My mom put me in gymnastics as a kid and it turned me trans.
@moriel this reveals the moving goal post because this entire concern trolling for the children is complete bullshit because the obvious answer is to make the medicine better, not ban it, and the biggest threat that they can identify is that they will punish trans people with catastrophic medical neglect and social abuse if it doesn’t work out perfectly. “don’t make us hurt you, you’ll regret it” is not an ethical argument to protect kids
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@moriel No Sex, not even with themselves before age 25
No Driving before 25
No seeing an 18 film until they are 25
No voting before age 25 (or standing for election)
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No seeing an 18 film until they are 25
No voting before age 25 (or standing for election)
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@moriel they passed some gross anti-trans bills in New Hampshire this year. They claim they’re saving children by prohibiting trans kids from having breast augmentation or puberty blockers, but if the kid is cis they can get some DD implants, and puberty blockers are safe if they have precocious puberty. So it’s obviously not about saving kids at all.
Furthermore, we were able to finally outlaw child marriage effective 1/1/25, but before the end of January a republican woman sponsored a bill to bring it back if a man wanted to marry a child & if that man was in the military.
It’s not about “saving kids”.
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If a 2-year-old cis boy loses his penis in a car accident, at what age is his brain developed enough to decide whether he wants the life-altering surgery of mutilating his body to create an artificial penis?
We all know most transphobes would say "immediately." 2-year-olds are definitely mature enough to make permanent life-altering decisions, just so long as those permanent life-altering decisions align with what transphobes think is normal.
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also a reminder that while ethical surgeons won't give a cis girl breast augmentation surgery against her consent at her parents' behest...
it is perfectly legal in most states for parents to force their 16-year-old daughter to get implants
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Ah yes, because teenagers are property of their parents...unless the teenagers are trans and their parents support them, in which case teenagers are the property of the government. Unless a government agency is supportive of trans rights, in which case teenagers are the property of someone else's parents.
The point is teenagers are property, and the politicians will continually shift who their "owners" are based on whatever causes the most harm.
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also they're not people yet. they're people futures we need to invest in.
also they're not people yet. they're people futures we need to invest in.
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Except they were people before birth.
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it's so much easier to talk for a clump of cells than a teenager. a teenager will not put up with that shit.
it's so much easier to talk for a clump of cells than a teenager. a teenager will not put up with that shit.
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honestly one of the best remedies for all the vile shit people go on about is just like
listening to the friends of trans kids
their teammates
the people who actually know the kid and had to take effort to learn that instead of assume who they were almost always support them in interviews and such
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why is that legal? why would anyone want that to be legal?
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because the "parent's rights" movement in the US boils down to "parents own their children so should be able to do anything they want to their child"
a lot of bills that ban gender affirming care for minors explicitly carve out that cis girls can still get breast augmentation surgery
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This wasn't about conservatives. I don't care about them. They're a lost cause and they can take their bigotry to hell with them.
This was about people who call themselves liberals.
Also, there are more groups that get regularly ignored than just kids. If anything, there's starting to be a cadre of good liberals who like supporting trans kids because kids are cute. You can see them in their girl scout uniforms and buy cookies from them. People love to play the hero and protect these cute, helpless kids.
That's infantilization, not dignity.
What about that really clocky trans woman in the grocery store who clearly hasn't had any sort of medical transition. Are you going to believe her? Are you going to treat her as a woman even if your years of gender detection training are screaming at you otherwise?
What about the teenage girl-shaped person who says they really wish they were a guy? Are you going to believe him? Or are you just going to do what every other person in this world already did and write off his desires as just a silly fantasy about how the world would be better "if only" and give him some "the grass isn't always greener" speech?
Being an ally isn't about playing the hero. It's about believing us and going to bat for us just because we deserve dignity, even when you don't understand.
We don't need spiritual leaders to "set us straight". We don't need heroes who fly the rainbow flag but are really in it for their "good liberal" reputation. We need to be believed. We need dignity.
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We don't need fair-weather allies! We need allies who'll defend the trenches with us!
@JessTheUnstill There aren't many genuine trolley problems in the world.
This is one of them, and the "popular" solution to it is ridiculously wrong.
your brain isn't considered fully developed until like 25, and the insinuation that people can't make decisions for themselves until 25 is absurd
so just as a premise, the entire idea is bad
@riley @JessTheUnstill except better transition care is also better for detransitioners. If it's really easy to take medical transition steps one way or another, someone can try it for a week and decide they don't like it. If we make it harder to take those steps, people who want to experiment will often jump through those hoops still and then it's harder for them to get back to where they were if they don't like it
@JessTheUnstill I'm confused. The rest of this conversation seemed like we were all building upon what each other said and valuing each other's input, but this post just reads as a "shut up" to me and I'm not sure what I said to warrant that
@JessTheUnstill The catch is, medicine with genuinely working medical substances is a ridiculously new thing, so a lot of things discovered since early 1900s were actually bleeding-edge medicine, as the frontiers of science went, at the time of discovery.
For one curious example, before HRT became available for transgender people, a crude form of testosterone replacement therapy was sold to old rich men. (Due to the different ethical standards of the time, experiments with medicines likely to have positive effects could only be done on rich people.)
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@JessTheUnstill Welctually, it's rare for a new medicine to perform this well in a study. It mostly only happens near the frontiers of new medicine, such as cancer research and neglected genetic disorders, which is to say, disorders that people believing in Standard Humans' supremacy tended to not care about because they would never suffer from one, or so they thought.
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@raeve I came here to praise the bread pun.
some of my observations:
- these people couldn't possibly know what it feels like biologically to be trans since their body produces sex hormones at levels compatible with their brain
- for the same reason anyone who mistakenly starts HRT would feel like total shit and likely stop after a few weeks
- the aversion to HRT for trans kids is part of the broader idea that anyone under 18 is completely incapable of self-responsibility, popular even in (right-)libertarian groups
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- it is extremely hard to persuade these people to reconsider their views at all even when presented with fairly solid scientific research and data on trans physiology, GAHT safety, rate of regret, effects on mental health, etc.
- religion is a huge influence, and i've lost count of how many times bible verses related to *homosexuality* have been extrapolated to trans people by the 'christian taliban'
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@crispycat There's a cognitive style strongly correlated with right-wing ... er, thinking: not thinking about connections of concepts and phenomena and facts, but instead repeating packets of dogma made up by other people. And when a mind just doesn't follow connections and has no mechanism to independently check the validity of a Knowledge Packet, it's pretty hard to convince that mind to discard a dogma merely because it doesn't fit with well-supported facts.
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I'm calling him "Child Killer Wes Streeting" now....
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I’m glad that people are seeing through Newsom’s performances. Newsom is nothing more than a conservative leaning democrat. He does not have the poor or working class interests at heart. He still thinks trickle down economics works as evidenced in his support of corporations. More people need to see this! Also, Newsom doesn’t really have the best interests of the #LGBTQ community. We know for a fact he could care less about the #homeless. He signed into law a bill that criminalized camping on public property.
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Thanks Richard, and hello Gary!
I've got some funding to work with a handful of Leeds-based heritage organisations (which I'm defining very loosely). I just need to find some organisations fitting that description that also have people interested in working with a freelancer (me) to discover mathematical themes in some of their stories & objects & develop some sort of educational activity around them. My fees are covered plus there's a small amount extra that can be applied for to cover some resource development costs.
I co-curated an exhibition with Leeds City Museum, and the British Library has a Leeds presence. The university libraries are great too. Can you say more about your idea or plans?
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I've got some funding to work with a handful of Leeds-based heritage organisations (which I'm defining very loosely). I just need to find some organisations fitting that description that also have people interested in working with a freelancer (me) to discover mathematical themes in some of their stories & objects & develop some sort of educational activity around them. My fees are covered plus there's a small amount extra that can be applied for to cover some resource development costs.
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Good call @mia. The Leeds Library folk are active in heritage stuff, they've been using their @museuminabox (that they got as part of the British Library Living Knowledge Network) for exhibitions beyond the LKN ones.
I can put you in touch, if @mia doesn't have a better route in.
Thanks very much, I'd appreciate that! It would be a shame for eligible sites to miss out on a funded project (especially when so many of them are strapped for cash), but contact tends to be ignored when it's cold (understandably).
Maybe @joshuatj, admin of glammr.us could boost for reach - in case they are hiding on his server. 🥷
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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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Expect it to be banned in the US, because we are ruled by fucking morons.
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Holy cow lencapavir just went generic?
Man, capsid inhibitors are such a good idea.
...then again, there's a 100% effective Hepatitis C cure, so I'm only cautiously optimistic. Rich people fucked that up by saying it's OK to execute innocents to protect patents, so if lencapavir is already generic that's a huge blow against those murderous fuckers.
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I hope there’s a generic manufacturer lined up in Australia. “It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.”
wow! Thanks for this very uplifting news. Much needed.
@lispi314 The $40 price tag just covers manufacturing costs and a 30% profit margin. The $28K is the price charged in the USA. The USA subsidizes the rest of the world's drug marketplace. We have for decades now. We in the USA pay 10x the cost outside the USA for most patented drugs.
Now, about price. Drug companies are a for profit business, they get one drug out of about 100 they investigate. Thus the true cost is far more than what this article quotes. @kcarruthers @derekarunge
Not much.
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I doubt that this is actually the case and more strongly suspect that manufacturers and drug companies charge that much in the USA because they can.
If the drugs are not patent-encumbered then selling them internationally /requires/ being reasonable with pricing because the USA does not have a monopoly on drug manufacture.
> Now, about price. Drug companies are a for profit business, they get one drug out of about 100 they investigate. Thus the true cost is far more than what this article quotes.
Which suggests that perhaps we shouldn't keep medical research in the private domain since it carries inherent perverse incentives.
@pluralistic Have you written on this more specifically? I was thinking of pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/uns… but it's not an exact match.
Yeesh, 28k$ is kind of a steep pricetag.
30$ is considerably more reasonable.
@Der_Kalle … wenn es denn nicht nur geschicktes Marketing ist.
Estaría bien obligar al pentágono a que se deje de experimentaciones extrañas...
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When I was around 8, I asked my father "what's a lesbian?"
He said, "you know how your mom and I love each other? It's like that, but two women."
It's really not that hard to explain things to kids.
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I don't remember asking the question, but we had Free To Be, You And Me in the house, so I probably had the answer before I ever conceived the question.
well, this requires two adults leading a household in LOVE.
Maybe that's the point...
Maybe that's the point...
My friend's 8-year-old asked me "What's a trans person?" & I said "It's someone who was born & people pointed at them & said 'That's a boy' & then they grew older & said 'I'm actually a girl' - or vice versa" & she was like "Oh, OK". Not hard.
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This.
Friend transitioned recently and our kid rolled with it just fine, using her new name and pronouns and asking when we'd see her again and go out to dinner.
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while it's a bit old now, my favorite example to prove this -- in video form
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If you haven't see it, may it be a bit of heartwarming cuteness for your day ❤️
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i thought it was from the island of Lesbos...
(All joking aside, it really is that easy to explain to kids)
It really isn’t! Kids are more open minded and smarter than adults, they can grasp a lot if one really wants them to learn
On the flip side, thats how brainwashed people are created, probably.
If I had asked my father, "What's a lesbian?" He'd have yeld at me to stay out of the bathroom cabinet.
It might be complicated, because with that answer, the child might end up thinking being lesbian is when a man loves two women 😮
I was born in a country where gay sex was illegal and I first learned the term 'homosexual' from a criminology textbook when I was 12. We had a lot of books. Yet, having sex with other boys felt like the most natural thing (bc it is), we just didn't apply the word to ourselves bc the word was illegal.
And most people actually agree with this.
But most people also don’t want to get politically involved when a brutal religious fundamentalist regime forces their views on everyone.
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It's only hard to explain to adults who insist on a simplistic worldview that rejects anything outside it or any shades of grey.
It's only hard to explain to adults who insist on a simplistic worldview that rejects anything outside it or any shades of grey.
I think it was during a presidential convention that I saw protesters on tv with signs about gay rights. I asked my dad what that was about and he said “they just want to be happy”. Good enough for an eight year old.
Our niece has a sticker book about weddings. I guess we all have been gender-neutral with her since she was very little so she didnʼt think twice about putting two bride stickers together at the altar on one page when she was 6. I asked if the two women were getting married and she said they were. She just figured it out! (It probably also helps that there is a famous married queer cricketer in the family.)
Yes. When the boy was smol we watched some TV documentary about gay families, and at one point he asked "Why does that child have two daddies?" and we explained and that was it. And still, he turned out heterosexual 😉
Mine from 22 years ago was "What's a threesome Dad?" I replied "It's when 2 girls kiss one boy or two boys kiss one girl" Obviously I would have to update it for today's modern age
With the worldwide surge in fascism, we are reminded that it is times like these that make future schoolchildren ask, "Why didn't anyone stop them?"
My hope is that, when future schoolchildren read about the abuse directed at gay and trans people today, they will ask, "Why did anyone even care?"
@Professor_Stevens That is where we are on so many other random human attributes.
How much do you hate "The Irish"?
How much do you support the Albigensian Crusade?
We need to get there on a whole lot of other factors.
It's only hard to explain when you're trying to get the 8 year old to agree on your hate.
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Still think that those laws to “protect the children” are about keeping kids from seeing hardcore porn? Let’s talk about the Christian conservatives who are stopping adults from playing video games like Grand Theft Auto skepchick.org/2025/08/maga-is-…
MAGA is Coming for Your Video Games
Last month, I posted a video about how online age verification laws are not protecting children from dangerous material, but instead are just a way for the Religious Right to censor content they don’tRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Americans are forgetting the lessons learned from Prohibition.
A religious minority used resentment against a government reliant on alcohol taxes to enact Prohibition for partisan gain.
America's response last time?
"THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SAYS, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME HOW TO LIVE?"
Corrupt billionaires resent paying taxes & are again weaponizing the Religious Right to enrich themselves.
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By the late 1920s, many Americans believe that Prohibition has failed.www.pbs.org
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MAGA are the poster children of not minding their own fucking business
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Something like half.my contact list is "porn" as far as those lunatics are concerned, because they're using a very different definitiion of the word.
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Huh. TIL I learned what kayfabe means!
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I want you, a tech-literate person, to internalize one deep fact: Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone. How to be sure? IABs:
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Apple facilitates mass surveillance through native apps from Facebook, both directly from in-app activity, but much more insidiously, through "in-app browsers" that FB tacks onto every link you tap. And these things are *rank*.
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IABs are, for FB's purposes, "ad-blocker blockers". Cheat codes for the enterprising panopticon proprietor. You installed a browser, then added an anti-tracking tool to it? And you tapped "do not track"?
Apple sold you up the river. And the mechanism is as simple as it is disgusting.
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Instead of taking you to your browser, FB's IABs load pages in a knock-off browser which doesn't respect your privacy preferences (nevermind a11y customisations, etc.).
Extensions? Gone. And because FB has code on every top site, that's enough.
FB's tracking is so pervasive in modern web pages that it doesn't need to exfiltrate data from the IAB to track you. It just needs to keep you away from your *real* browser, where it might not be able to join up clicks/taps.
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All of this is facilitated by Apple and Google. It's their SDKs and policies that make this not only possible, but wildly profitable for FB (and TikTok, etc. etc.). Denying you browser choice keeps the big app vendors in the app store, which helps Apple and Google corral others into app stores.
...and it's the proprietary APIs from app stores that make it so hard to escape one ecosystem for another. The entire point of the exercise is to subvert interoperability, and to do *that*, it's necessary to keep the anchor apps happy. Which is why Apple and Google let FB spy on you via the web.
Apple isn't defending your privacy, it's trying to retreat just far enough into the hedges that it hopes you don't notice it dangling FB and TikTok out to take the fall.
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The answer is bleedingly obvious: forbid IABs and/or force native apps to use the system-provided browser-overlay systems -- SFSafariViewController and Android Custom Tabs -- where your choice in browser and customisations will be respected. But they don't.
the Digital Fairness Act is accepting feedback until early October...
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If you got this far, there's now an expanded and cleaned up version of this thread at:
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Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook wantonly surveils iPhones owners. How can we be sure? Because Apple continues to allow wide-scale abuse of In-App Browsers.Alex Russell
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Huh. TIL I learned what kayfabe means!
this is a huge problem if you’re on Facebook already and clicking links. And this is clearly Apples fault, they should do something. We should protect Facebook users from themselves.
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There is nothing made by Meta on my computers, whatever OS they run.
And I assume bing-in-an-app is just as bad. Or chrome-in-an-app, for that matter. Am I wrong?
@burne OWA's explainer goes over the taxonomy, but the basic point is that in a tab or not, if it's your *real* browser, you're in better shape than if it's a knockoff IAB, no matter how that's implemented.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the #COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast. trib.al/WswBEQy
Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.Tom Latchem (The Daily Beast)
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so when the US people start rioting? what will they need to start fighting back?
@janantos Instead of fiddling he is golfing…
@SurrealSeal maybe better if he would be golfing only
@crcollins don’t ask me, I am European, we have quite a few vaccinations mandatory. I am vaccinated, my wife is and my son also.
@crcollins don’t take it wrong we have also antivax people here.
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I hope that won't happen 😔 My husband's a UK citizen and that had been our escape plan until recently. I hope you folks don't go full on insane like my country.
I hope that won't happen 😔 My husband's a UK citizen and that had been our escape plan until recently. I hope you folks don't go full on insane like my country.
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@crcollins @PaulNickson I remember how a lot of my British colleagues “enjoyed” Brexit and went through the hell suddenly not being EU citizens. It was hard for them to prolong long term residency, suddenly being “second class” expats not far away from any other 3rd country expats. I know stories from Spain, Germany and Estonia.
@PaulNickson @crcollins there is allways plan C, go to EU 😉
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The U.S. drug companies have already gotten approval in other countries, like Canada, for the newer vaccine variant. We might have to go to Canada to get our vaccines now.
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@MaksiSanctum I live in Canada, and have never been happier about our move.
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Bus loads come to Canada for less expensive prescription medicines…so get a vaccine while you wait.
Bus loads come to Canada for less expensive prescription medicines…so get a vaccine while you wait.
It's not just a death cult it's a God Damn Murder Cult.
What all of them? From all companies, and all variants? That's more than a dozen COVID-19 vaccines. It must be 10s or 100s of millions or thereabouts of individual doses.
Where the hell do they all go? They need to be kept in a verified cold chain if they're to be sent somewhere else to be administered in presumably other (ideally developing) countries. I can't imagine the Trump regime would bother or even would have the ability and expertise (given the many CDC sackings) if they wanted to organise such a large scale shipment of those vaccines across the globe.
Tech bros will get the vaccine. Everyone else… well, Trump is just finishing what China started.
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remember kids, when antivax nutters talk about how they just want "choice" and to "be informed" they don't mean it.
It'd sure be a shame if popular overseas tourist destinations started requiring proof of vaccination.
@fgbjr They very well may
But some of this just doesn't seem to focus on that. I guess I'm not able to get into that mindset at all.
So, we're going to need passports after all, so we can drive to Canada to get our damned vaccines. Fuck! 🤦🏻♀️
@mfennvt SO glad we moved to Canada. This is like arranging a mass murder of millions
That's their plan. No question.
@RegGuy Kill off those unable to stay well. You can be sure the rich will vaccinate.
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Flu shots next? Because after all, it's mostly those pesky infants and those useless old people who can't deal with the flu...
Laffy, I'm ready to be adopted now, just aaaannny minute here.
@Joe
I have no doubt a lot of big pharma rich assholes voted for and threw money at this admin. I wonder what they are thinking now
I'm mentally screaming, "GAWDDAMMIT!"
That sunnovabeech!
That sunnovabeech!
while I wouldn't put this idiocy past them I also question the reliability of this source. They lean toward sensational stories that don't always pan out.
Here’s a link to unpaywalled version: yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-…
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The billionaires that bought a presidency for Trump saw government bailouts & tax breaks that ballooned their wealth.
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Of course they want another pandemic for personal & partisan gain. It "only" killed over 1.7 million Americans.
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Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Vocal influencers such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the Heartland Institute are hitting back at a time when people’s trust in science is risingEmily Holden (The Guardian)
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @fgbjr Used to have to show vaccination records to visit Mexico in the 1960s, so yeah.
"small government"
maybe I’ll go ahead and get my shingles. I think pneumonia vaccines are ready but my pharm said Covid won’t be ready til next month.
Get it quick!
Get it quick!
@RiaResists Good idea
the shingles shot always kicks my ass for a few days.
Bette than having shingles for who knows how long!
I have a friend who’s had it, on top of chemo for a year!!
Bette than having shingles for who knows how long!
I have a friend who’s had it, on top of chemo for a year!!
@RiaResists Oh how awful.
Yes, the shingles vax knocked me out for a couple of days, worse than any other.
They're not pro-life, they're pro-birth. Once you're born, they don't actually care about you.
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@JasonStiff Pro-FORCED-birth
And they don't care about the fetus either.
If they did, they wouldn't cut funding for food, poverty, health programs that keep the fetus and the person carrying it thriving
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@NJWookie I agree with all of this but you're missing what I think is at the top of the list - millions of plebes will die.
Simple as that. You can't revolt if you're dead.
Because Trump didn't kill enough people the first time around.
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Those thugs are all social darwinists. And as for the origins, I don't think you need to look abroad. Social darwinism is so deeply enshrined in capitalism, evangelicalism/protestantism, libertarianism etc., i.e. the core of the "Western" ideology.
"...even if it is likely to cause “fear of chaos” and bring with it major legal ramifications."
They don't care about the lives they're jeopardizing. They only care about their ideological bent. They're so convinced they've found some nefarious plot (conspiracy theory) that no one else knows about, they'll commit murder to push that agenda.
Can't point to higher death counts among the unvaxxed if nobody is allowed to vaccinate. Taps forehead
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Well, there is a theory that chronic infection with certain viruses, by causing chronic inflammation, may increase the risk of Alzheimer's or vascular dementia.
It is gone today. Call a pharmacy… 💀
Prepare on what he says, act on what he does.
This is a crime against humanity.
@meltedcheese No shit. Hence my hashtag.
@cass_m Silver lining?
@meltedcheese We won't have a choice. The rich run everything. @RegGuy
Just called my local pharmacy and was told a new covid vax was approved 2 days ago and they should receive them within another week. Also said they were ordered to send back all remaining covid vax stock.
Color me worried.
Trip to Europe in two weeks
Color me worried.
Trip to Europe in two weeks
@GoodKing It it's coming within a week, why go to Europe?
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It is incredible, but not surprising, how fast white voters will sacrifice trans people if they think they can grab a piece of the pie.
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Ladies, look at your man.
Now, back to me.
Now, look at your man,
Now, back to me.
Sadly, he isn't me.
But if he stopped using testosterone and started taking estradiol, he could smell like me.
Look down, look up. Where are you?
You're snuggling a blåhaj with the woman your man could smell like.
What's in your hand, back to me, I have it:
It's an oyster with a syringe primed with estradiol valerate.
Look again, that syringe is now diamonds.
Anything is possible when your man smells like a lady and not a man.
I'm on a horsegirl.
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i mean, last time we had demos that size in germany they got ignored too 👍
Yes Dan Diversity Enriches Humanity.
In my city 50,000 turned up for
a Pride March & about a 100 white
people protested outside a
Refugee hotel.
These ‘concerned’ white citizens
seemed blissfully unaware that
in 2023 out of 115,000 child sex
abuse cases 106,000 (92.2%)
were by WHITE MEN!
Why aren’t the White Mobs
protesting against White Men?
Tragically abuse is in all social
classes & ethnic groups & is mainly
within the family or people known to
them.
In my city 50,000 turned up for
a Pride March & about a 100 white
people protested outside a
Refugee hotel.
These ‘concerned’ white citizens
seemed blissfully unaware that
in 2023 out of 115,000 child sex
abuse cases 106,000 (92.2%)
were by WHITE MEN!
Why aren’t the White Mobs
protesting against White Men?
Tragically abuse is in all social
classes & ethnic groups & is mainly
within the family or people known to
them.
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I found this article just now
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But I never heard a thing about it until your post.
London Trans+ Pride brings 100,000 people to the streets
Organisers say this year's edition was the highest attended, making it the largest such event ever.James McCarthy (BBC News)
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The far right are less than 2% of the UK population.
@mossyrua Very much the media's little darlings though
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Trans people have been erased from government records, are being openly discriminated against in the military and grants, are at risk of losing access to hormone treatments and the accurate passports needed to flee. Third Way types have responded by saying Dems use the word 'cisgender' too much.
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The US Government is pursuing an agenda of eliminating every single one of us. Their official position is that we never existed. And the Third Way types say the biggest problem facing Democrats is the public hearing from us too much.
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My community is in terrible danger. At a certain point you run out of words.
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Things people have done to stop biking in NYC:
1. Staged an accident with a dead bear in Central Park
2. Literal BRIBES (maybe not in chips bags, but this cannot be ruled out given other events)
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big bike's gotta fight back!
Wait wasn’t that RFK??
Yes. People were so gobsmacked he did such a boneheaded thing I think not many people noticed WHY he did it. He wanted to make bikes seem dangerous and get them banned on the loop or some nonsense.
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I’m no medical professional but that guy is seriously ill in the head
I’m no medical professional but that guy is seriously ill in the head
He thought that everyone would see that the poor bear was hit by a bike and hate bikes.
It didn't work. Because that makes no damn sense.
Don’t bears run faster than bikes??
Yes. And they don't live in Central park. Obviously the whole "why is there a bear??" thing overshadowed the bike he put there.
Seriously what is wrong with him?
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to me, the only part that doesn't make sense is that he tried to hoax it, rather than just waiting. Deaths in bike-person or bike-bear-sized animal collisions are vastly rarer than for cars, but they're not actually impossible, and now there's a smooth gradient from "ebike can do 20mph!" to "electric dirt bike can beat your mom's gasoline-powered kawasaki at the local drag",
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I keep wondering how many months the biking movement has before car industries decide electric bikes are eating into car profits, and the people who are riding too fast, not wearing helmets, not keeping proper lookout, or not following rules made for cars, are creating a golden opportunity to make ebikes look like the new heroin.
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Mamadani won the NYC Democratic primary & Jeffries, Schumer, & Gillibrand won’t endorse him.
Omar Fateh won the Democratic Party endorsement for Minneapolis mayor & Tim Walz won’t endorse him.
Bowman & Bush were the Democratic incumbents & the Dem Party let AIPAC take them out.
"Vote blue no matter who" always meant "vote blue as long as they're corporate centrists." Is it any wonder the party has a 26% approval rating?
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Those are actually backhanded endorsements.
This is why it's more important than ever to vote in the primaries.
When we vote in the primaries, we get candidates like Mamdani. When we don't, we get spineless, centrist, corporate-owned robots like Schumer and Jefferies.
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@troy_frizzell would like to boost this more than once! The string of these in fairly quick succession -should be- glaring proof to good hearted Dems who still buy the lines that mainstream Dem leadership is doing their rootin' tootin' best to represent us. They represent big capital first and the rest of us -if- and generally only if it doesn't interfere with the interests of big capital.
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#DemEXIT that rotten hole and build a real Left party.
I always took it to mean “defeating republicans is important enough to be worth accepting some candidates that are only less bad”, and the current state of our government is consistent with that.
I’d hoped that we would elect more Dems and they would continue to adopt better voting systems (like STAR and IRV) which would make it more viable to have more parties, and eventually Dem factions would separate. Electing republicans has made that harder
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it will go lower....just like UK Labour.
also vote mostly white.
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The Guardian is reporting that figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate that at least 83% of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians.
This is what happens when there is no international accountability, when there is no independent media reporting, and when politicians globally do nothing but fund more war.
Shame on all the enablers. My bet is they whitewash this horrific fact as well. History will remember them with disgust & disdain.
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That is assuming that history as a field of scholarship survives.
Link: theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000Emma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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please don't wake up the world for Gaza matter. They are sleeping for a more important work.
HOLOCAUST 2025
Screw Aipac, they are just a bunch of government mongrels who try to get other people to support actual genocide.
Its ironic given jews were victims of genocide themselves. But being a victim doesn't mean you get to commit genocide, themselves. Also to make matters worse they are committing it on people who had NOTHING to do with that painful experience. Palestinians are innocent of nazi crimes and yet here we are...
Remind me Again...WHO was it that said..he would like to turn the Gaza Strip into another..Mar a Lago ???
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The fascist "Free Press" just published a disgusting claim that kids in Gaza aren't dying by starvation, but because they were already sick with other diseases.
Anne Frank died of Typhus. The "Free Press" fascists would argue that it was a natural disease—not the concentration camp—that killed her.
A reminder that the Nuremberg Trials also held accountable journalists who whitewashed and excused genocide.
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I was just watching something and cannot bear it anymore. It's so bad. And STILL, a part of society, mostly elderly people who survived the war, are all in favour of Israel.
Still.
After all this.
What I can't stand either is the 'EU frowned upon' and 'expressed their disapproval' and so on. How about some solid consequences?
God, so sick of all this, the greed, the power, the economy, the arms industry, the discrimination, the superiority, sick about it all.
The schools should teach students that cause of death and manner of death are two different - both very important - things. (Which is why each has its own space on a death certificate.)
And cause is multifaceted, which is why it is a *list* on a death certificate.
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That's like 'lead poisoning from bullet holes'.
They tried this with COVID as well. Anyone remember the narrative of people dying of different things but if they had COVID hospitals put down COVID as cause of death? The fascist wackos said the government was telling hospitals to put COVID down to justify closing businesses and schools. These conspiracy nut jobs should be shut down for spreading dis/misinformation.
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my grandfather was a machine gunner in WWII. At times he would reflect on the war and go to a dark place. One thing I’ll never forget him saying was that only losers of war get held accountable for war crimes.
Unfortunately no matter the outcome western media will not be on the ‘losing side’ and will never be held to account.
Unfortunately no matter the outcome western media will not be on the ‘losing side’ and will never be held to account.
the US concentration camps have now tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-08-18…
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers
Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.Whitney Curry Wimbish (The American Prospect)
@nazokiyoubinbou I think there is a misunderstanding of what I wrote. I did edit it a little for clarification.
To be more clear. The same fascist people/press that is claiming that kids are not starving to death in Gaza currently, also said that the US should not have shutdown schools and businesses because of “fake/inflated COVID numbers. It is the same press lying about and spreading dis/misinformation about what is actually happening.
To be more clear. The same fascist people/press that is claiming that kids are not starving to death in Gaza currently, also said that the US should not have shutdown schools and businesses because of “fake/inflated COVID numbers. It is the same press lying about and spreading dis/misinformation about what is actually happening.
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Our kittens "help" so much that we have to close the bedroom door while making the bed.
Good luck with that. 😂
Alright, who snuck the spy cameras into my house?!?
OMG, #RipleyAndJonesy do this, too; though a little less “productively”. 🤦♂️
"ooo fun game we wanna play too"
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Good news: Health Canada has authorized updated Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines targeting the LP.8.1 variant for the upcoming respiratory virus season - cp24.com/news/canada/2025/08/2…
I'll keep an eye on availability in the next month or two and update young.me/vax/ accordingly.
Health Canada approves updated Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for fall
Health Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use this respiratory virus season.The Canadian Press (CP24)
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Trump Is Holding Immigrants at a Former Japanese Internment Camp
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Trump’s Largest ICE Detention Site Is Former Japanese Internment Camp
Trump’s largest ICE detention center is a former Japanese internment camp, drawing condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and more.Naomi LaChance (Rolling Stone)
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I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it.
"Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in purchasing an SUV."
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Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis
Author(s): Robb Willer, Christabel L. Rogalin, Bridget Conlon, and Michael T. Wojnowicz Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 4 (January 2013), pp. 980-1022
Author(s): Robb Willer, Christabel L. Rogalin, Bridget Conlon, and Michael T. Wojnowicz Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 4 (January 2013), pp. 980-1022
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Men are just not good leaders because they're too emotional and WHAT I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I HAVE FOUR SUVs SIR FOUR OF THEM
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"In this way, men may inadvertently reveal feelings of threat by behaving in a more extremely masculine way than they otherwise would. If true, the thesis implies that extreme, caricatured demonstrations of masculinity among men may in fact serve as tell-tale signs of underlying insecurity, not self-assured confidence. Those men who exhibit the most masculine traits may actually be seeking cover for lurking insecurities, their outsized masculine displays in fact strategic claims at ...
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masculine status, efforts to pass as something they fear they are not."
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Applied practically in everyday life:
Car salesman:
Can I interest you in this much more expensive SUV?
Man:
Nah, I'm okay with this hatchback.
Car salesman:
Does perhaps your wife make the purchasing decisions in the family and I should be talking with her?
Man:
I'll take 7.
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you would be surprised of how many "are you sure you want to get married?" in a joking tone a man gets when he buys something expensive and says he is engaged. Including wedding stuff. Even in front of his bride.
I get now it's a sales technique. Just a version of what you're saying.
@laguiri So, wait. Does it really goes something like:
MAN: I would like to buy this incredibly expensive diamond necklace for my fiancé to wear at our wedding.
SALESGUY: An excellent choice, sir. [while wrapping it up slowly] Boy, looking forward to a lifetime of wedded bliss. [winks] Are you quite sure you’re ready to take the plunge?
MAN: Say, do you have anything even more expensive? Or maybe something in a solid gold SUV?
MAN: I would like to buy this incredibly expensive diamond necklace for my fiancé to wear at our wedding.
SALESGUY: An excellent choice, sir. [while wrapping it up slowly] Boy, looking forward to a lifetime of wedded bliss. [winks] Are you quite sure you’re ready to take the plunge?
MAN: Say, do you have anything even more expensive? Or maybe something in a solid gold SUV?
@maggiejk @laguiri That's the trope.
In my own dating experience, I've found that nothing cures a guy's commitment-phobia like telling him I'm not sure I'd ever want to marry anyone. You could almost hear the snap from "ain't woman gonna tie me down" to "how dare you wound me so, by saying you might not want to grant me access to your legal, financial, and physical existence within a societal framework that generally favors the male partner."
In my own dating experience, I've found that nothing cures a guy's commitment-phobia like telling him I'm not sure I'd ever want to marry anyone. You could almost hear the snap from "ain't woman gonna tie me down" to "how dare you wound me so, by saying you might not want to grant me access to your legal, financial, and physical existence within a societal framework that generally favors the male partner."
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Honestly, this just sounds like "hey attacking people's egos makes them do dumb things", which seems obvious to me?
@neal except most women aren’t vulnerable to this tactic. When we go car shopping we are logically looking for something we have researched. We’re not out there just trying to buy the biggest baddest thing on the road to impress everyone else. The women I know who buy SUVs either have a whole bunch of kids they need to fit in there or they’re concerned about safety and think they are safer.
@maggiejk That makes sense. Something I've wondered for a while is if there's some kind of societal conditioning that promotes these behaviors. I find it hard to believe that this is some kind of biological predisposition.
I also think I'm not vulnerable to it. If someone walks up to me 'to help' in a shop I usually tell them 'no thanks'. I often know more about the product I want to buy than the sales persons. I more than once asked something after which the sales person hesitated and frantically looked at the descriptions on the product cards, then reading that 😂
I met salesman with such sales tactic in the wild, actually. the stupidity of the masculinity-sales-strategy completely removed any chance he could sell me anything. but it works I guess. there are these men that have a perceived understanding of masculinity that seems to be falling prey easily for this sales tactic
@vgoller the one time we bought a car, it was like:
"we want something that is not an SUV"
Salesman1: "have a look at this SUV!"
Salesman2: "That are the colour options"
"We don't care what colour it is, what's the cheapest?"
Salesman1: *empty stare*
We didn't buy from them 🤷♂️
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@kelvan @vgoller I was looking for a used Volvo S 60 (a sedan) and the Volvo dealership near me would claim they had one, but when I would go there they would try to put me in an SUV. I test drove one even though I wasn’t particularly interested. I’m only 5‘2” tall and I couldn’t see the blind spot or most of the rear so nah. They tried to get me to test drive a different SUV. NO. (I found my car at a ford dealership finally. That guy didn’t try to tell me what I wanted, he sold me what I came to buy.)
Yes.
I used to have a job selling mobile phones, and my area manager once said basically this - "if the customer says he needs to check with his wife first, then smirk and say "oh, right?" - he'll either buckle because you've questioned who wears the trousers, and if he doesn't, then hey, you've still made him look weak"
@neonsnake the other side of this is when I went with a female friend who was looking to buy a car and the sales guys (all of them) kept talking to me
i suppose it's the reason we have things like tactical belts, military grade underpants, or pro toothpicks. What kind of non manly man would hold up his trousers with a regular, non tactical belt?
@epicdemiologist @ronanmcd I've joked about tactical toilet paper but looks like it was already invented!
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@geoglyphentropy @epicdemiologist @ronanmcd whatever else you might say about Dude Wipes, you have to admit they have the best sponsorship spot in professional sports.
@epicdemiologist oh my god. Lost. For. Words
Well that first post took off, which I'd love to say had anything at all to do with me (😄} but is actually just really telling about the state of things. (😢).
Be kind to each other. (No, Joe Rogan bro, that doesn't make you less of a "man".)
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They faked test results for half the men/women that indicated they were just inside the "average range of traits of [the other sex]".
The challenged men said they liked war more, disliked homosexuality more, wanted an SUV, and would pay $8k more for one.
The challenged women were ... unfazed.
But, women can't lead because they are emotional, right?
- an emotional man unable to control his shaking rage (guilt?), probably
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This is all striking in a different way too. If the women are 'unfazed' this would imply that for both men and women, to be 'more masculine' (however masculine is defined and/or perceived) is something to strive for?
Years ago, I tried figuring men out by modeling them as scared little boys trying to hide their vulnerabilities under a facade of bravado and performed masculinity. That technique has yet to steer me wrong.
@Gorfram I’m a cishet man who has intimate, extensive and long term experience working and living with other men, and I can guarantee you this model will serve you well.
Paternalism sucks for everyone.
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@martinvermeer @Gorfram not an American, but as far as I can tell this is the problem in every western culture. Probably in every patriarchy.
I guess matriarchal societies would have very similar problems, but I admit I’m curious how those would play out.
@Gorfram OMG YES! Back in my 20s when I would date men and they would exhibit horrible behavior I would have to picture them as little boys to get over the ick and “forgive and forget”. Kind of like a “forgive them because they know not what they do, this little temper tantrum is how they express feelings!” Ew.
And it makes me mad that I thought I had to do that. But I am Gen X and a lot of us were told that if we weren’t married or pumping out babies there was something wrong with us. And also because rent became unaffordable after 9/11 so I was dating to find someone to split rent with.
Reminds me of how low-skill male gamers are more likely to be misogynists.
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Low-Skilled Gamers Are More Likely To Get Hostile Towards Female Gamers
Have a problem with female gamers? You probably have a skill issue.James Felton (IFLScience)
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Seriously, though, how many men take it out on the women in their lives?
@anne_twain Huge percentages, which we don't want to acknowledge.
What struck me about Trump winning the recent presidential election in the US was that the US electorate is even more misogynistic than it is racist.
The US electorate chose Obama twice as president but subsequently has on two occasions rejected extremely well qualified female candidates for the same job.
@the_wub @anne_twain So true. Lichtman missed two keys.
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@forbes@flipboard.com @business-forbes@flipboard.com Lichtman is probably right that the explosion of misinformation explains it. An alternative explanation would introduce two more keys: 'race' and 'gender'. Obama won in 2008 with 8 vs.FediScience.org
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So the attempt by Democrats and supporters to sway young male voters pointing out how important their female relatives had been during their formative years probably was the worst possible tack to take. Given that many young men will suffer from this "fragile masculinity" that the first post mentioned.
Why would you as a young man want to admit that you needed women to become a man? Why would you then vote for a female candidate?
@the_wub @anne_twain I have a friend down in Florida I recently realized is kind of racist. But she stopped being friends with a Puerto Rican friend of hers for saying that women can’t be president because men are the leaders. 🤢
@maggiejk men are ruthlessly non-emotionsl and make the best leade--FOURTEEN "MASSIVE GROUND PENETRATORS" COMPLETELY OBLITERATED THE NUCLEAR FACILITY IT WAS UTTERLY DESTROYED I AM SO POWERFUL THEY WILL NEVER FIGHT AGAIN PLEASE ADORE ME I'M DESPERATELY BEGGING FOR YOUR APPROVAL LOVE ME WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE ME
Or something like that anyway
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"...kind of racist."
Isn't that similar to being "a bit pregnant"?
Men need "the science" to tell them something they don't know. A woman who already knows could just tell them, but would they listen to her?
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There is a Roman comedy play in which the women have figured out what happened early on but the men don't listen because the women can't possibly have figured it out. It's 2000 years old but with some minor adjustments it would, sadly, run today just fine.
But we do need science, even for things that seem obvious, because sometimes you find out the obvious explanation was wrong or not entirely correct 🙂
I want to know the name of that play please pretty please 🥺
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IIRC it was Hecyra by Terence. It comes with a BIG content warning, though, because the plot revolves around sexual assault.
I sincerely hope that the last clause is satire; because if “buying an SUV” is a genuinely common response to the fear of femininity, then men, in general, are even more pathetic than I had expected.
I saw an ad this morning for some pavement princess truck that said “they’ll call you ‘legend’ and ‘hero’”!
It made me LOL. Sure other men may be impressed by your truck, and if men are out here trying to woo men I guess that would be a selling point.
But the ad screamed “daddy issues” to me.
Wait.
An SUV? As in, a mommy van softroader? A car like the one I bought because I got to squeeze the kids and their school bags in? A car that pretends to be a bulky rugged off-roader so that you'll feel safer on the roads?
THAT is what these dorks think is macho?!?
I think the funniest thing is that the right spent DECADES convincing men that buying an electric or hybrid car was tantamount to wearing a dress and having their balls cut off, and suddenly they're trying to convince them to buy Teslas.
Like... good luck with that
What in the world were you reading?
@KatS I’m a guy who spent a fair part of my career making other men mad at me because I was teaching according to Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
I’m not quite sure whether you would consider me to be part of the mechanism that makes men struggle with their masculinity. I doubt they will find anything meaningful behind the wheel of an SUV, though. Commodities only bring an illusion of self-worth.
I’m not quite sure whether you would consider me to be part of the mechanism that makes men struggle with their masculinity. I doubt they will find anything meaningful behind the wheel of an SUV, though. Commodities only bring an illusion of self-worth.
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@jmcrookston, it’s nearly always men and it’s infuriatingly obvious once one sees it.
I’d support us having no say in anything until we show, overall, that we can actually make important decisions. The exceptions are not worth keeping up the rule that behind most every drama, there is a man.
(Start by looking at who started all ongoing wars and genocides.)
A Moratorium on Men Making Major Decisions · Jens Oliver Meiert
On the many news you’ve read today about a woman or a non-binary person invading another country, driving into a crowd, firing workers to maximize profits, raising taxes for low-income people, denying help, cutting benefits, beating someone up, setti…meiert.com
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Many years ago, I worked door to door. I lost a few sales, or had to make the same sale twice, when talking first to woman of the house, who would then check with her husband/partner. I learned to start with "am I talking to the boss?". The answer was _always_ yes (and sometimes the husband would call out "YES"). And after I started doing that, I didn't have to make the sale more than once.
Masculinity is overrated. Why would anybody want to be "manly" if in order to be perveived as masculine in this society, you need to act like a maniac?
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I always feel those big gross cars are for the pampered and feeble. If you need to take up that much space on the road, there is probably something wrong with you.
All of this makes me think of something that baffled me since I was a child.
Big men with tiny dogs.
Tiny men with big dogs.
It's all about balancing out ones personality with fitting parafernalia, no matter the size.
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Thanks so much! I greatly appreciate that.
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Pritzker vows to defend trans rights against Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ at Los Angeles HRC dinner
On transgender issues, the governor said Democrats must not take the “soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular,” referencing the handful of Democratic leaders who have recently backtracked on their support for the trans community. This includes California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Pritzker vows to defend trans rights against Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ at Los Angeles HRC dinner
Gov. JB Pritzker emphasized the urgent need to defend transgender rights and fight authoritarianism while delivering a passionate speech March 24 at the Human Right Campaign’s Los Angeles Dinner.Jake Wittich (Windy City Times)
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No. I ordered a GAMING MOUSE.
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No. I ordered a GAMING MOUSE.
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You're lucky you didn't accidentally order a gaming moose!
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it's OK that's a hamster
Isn't that a gebril? 🤔
@suvidu @edithmair1 All wireless "mice" are hamsters. I've got a bluetooth hamster in my bag right now, next to my laptop.
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I like statements that can be both negative or positive depending on the context:
The more you do unbelievable things, the easier it gets.
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The one I've been hearing a lot lately is "I hope you get everything you voted for."
But one of my favorites is Pablo Picasso's "Everything you can imagine is real."
The possibilities of that one definitely keep me up at night.
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@mmiasma Oh the Picasso one is perfect
I hope you get the day you deserve.
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. . . there's no need to be cruel
"God's bodkins man, better. Use every man after his dessert, and who should 'scape whipping?" Shakie baby, from Hamlet.
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I feel like a subcategory is insults hidden in compliments.
Only you could wear that shirt.
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@LoganFive My uncle used to say “Happy Birthday!” to someone wearing something particularly awful.
When they inevitably replied “Uh, it’s not my birthday.” He’d shoot back…. “You actually BOUGHT that (jacket / shirt / tie / shoes)?”
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I hope I don't!
Not me!
mercy!
not justice.
I suck.
I am/did. I had a hangover because I drank too much alcohol last night. It was entirely my fault.
Another good one!
``The more you do unbelievable things, the easier it gets.''
Donald Trump is planning to get that tattooed on the insides of his eyelids.
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there's so much to learn about you . . .
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A purrito
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"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
@JBrianCoyle rechalk it weekly
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I feel like I'm going crazy. The news reporter says repainted, many people in the comments say they repainted the rainbow...
Every image I see is chalk. They chalked it over in rainbow, which as a form of protest is fine. In fact, if every time it fades or is washed, it gets rechalked I think would be more powerful in many respects as form of protest, but is the reporting just really bad or was there actual paint used?
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"Am I a joke to you, Karen?"
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an original format Karen joke in the wild! I feel priveleged.
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It’s publication day for the new edition of my first poetry collection, ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’.
It’s been unavailable for nine months, following the demise of its original publisher, Unbound. I’m so delighted that Picador stepped into the breach to bring out this shiny new edition.
Hopefully it’s now back on the shelves of most bookshops – and is available to order online from the usual places.
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I'm a fan of what he's doing at the moment, but not a fair amount of stuff he's done in the past or him as a person, but that's mostly okay because on the left we don't do cults of personality (ok we do but not as much)
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Isn’t that like the Soviet Union in WW2?
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Begging the Newsom fans to understand that the enemy of your enemy can in fact be your enemy too. He has not hidden that from you.
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"the enemy of my enemy is a useful idiot"
This is 100% a "Let them fight." moment, but we really need actual progressives to learn to fight and be mean.
We can NOT reach across the aisle to people who, among other things, are willing to defend a child rapist. Mainstream conservatives are not the political opposition, they are the enemy. Progressives need to act like it.
“Newsom is good enough to fight Trump’s fascist MAGA.
Sometimes flawed heroes are all that’s available. “- Nicole Parsons
Sometimes flawed heroes are all that’s available. “- Nicole Parsons
I don't think that there really are any Newsom fans: I think it's almost entirely an astroturf effort.
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The brunch crowd likes his hair.
The brunch crowd likes his hair.
What we need is actual direct democracy, and hero worship is opposed to that, even if the hero isn't an unprincipled opportunist like Newsom.
Ok. Just do not overlook that you have an enemy, though.They won't overlook it for sure.
@peteramthor nobody's forgetting that.
However, most people have perspective.
Most people can spot an enemy psyop when they see it.
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I'm a fan of what he's doing at the moment, but not a fair amount of stuff he's done in the past or him as a person, but that's mostly okay because on the left we don't do cults of personality (ok we do but not as much)
The last decade has been people failing to learn that "the enemy of my enemy is a tool, probably in both common senses of the word, to use and then discard."
Though Newsom has the advantage that he has drowned out the various Republican "don't worry, I'm nice now; let's go back to pretending that systemic oppression was just about budgets" comeback tours.
@aSweetGentleman I wouldn't discount his ability to win nationally, I just think we can do much better than a guy who caters to the far right
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Isn’t that like the Soviet Union in WW2?
@Amoshias Smart people don't get into them in the first place. Smart people let other people fight. 以夷制夷.
@Amoshias Care to expand?
No. Of course not. If you were the kind to actually voice thought you'd have voiced one.
@ZDL 1. you mouthed a platitude while literally doing the opposite of what the platitude said.
2. It's a platitude that shows enormous privilege and enormous lack of understanding of the world.
Therefore:
3. Ugh.
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Can anyone point me to an idiots guide to turning an old win 10 laptop into Linux? I know fedi can definitely help me here.
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@albertcardona Yep, the Ubuntu guide (though currently unreachable for me?) should serve you fine.
In case you haven’t done this before, a word of encouragement:
Don’t worry. You can’t break anything. You get as many attempts as you need (hopefully few).
Have fun!
@albertcardona also, from my experience, the hardest thing is to get the target laptop to boot from the bloody USB thumb drive.
This step is shrouded in mystery, and most mortals end up needing a few attempts.
After that, it’s probably mostly plain sailing
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If it doesn't boot from USB just like that, you need to go into the BIOS (method depends on make of computer, google "how to enter BIOS"). Then navigate to "boot settings" and select your USB drive as the first option to boot from. The Ubuntu setup is pretty self explanatory.
If it doesn't boot from USB just like that, you need to go into the BIOS (method depends on make of computer, google "how to enter BIOS"). Then navigate to "boot settings" and select your USB drive as the first option to boot from. The Ubuntu setup is pretty self explanatory.
@sibrosan @slothrop @albertcardona if the Windows installation still works, you can type in the run command:
Shutdown -fw -t 0
At least, if memory serves me right. The -fw switch basically instructs the reboot to go into the firmware settings (aka uefi / bios)
As always, check before running commands from someone on the internet 😀 Hope this helps!
@aprazeth @sibrosan @slothrop @albertcardona Once you have a boot USB made (I use Balena Etcher because it just works), hold down the shift key in Win 10/11 while clicking the usual options for a reboot. You'll get a recovery menu that allows selecting the USB to boot from.
technoresult.com/how-to-boot-i…
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How to Boot into Windows 11 advanced Recovery options? - Technoresult
Number of ways to boot into Advanced Recovery options, this article will guide you to Boot into Windows 11 advanced Recovery optionsPremkumar (TechnoResult)
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As a potential immortal, I would say boot the thing up, pressing F2 or F8 until it goes into the BIOS screen, find the bit where you change what it boots from, and in what order, and faff with that.
As a potential immortal, I would say boot the thing up, pressing F2 or F8 until it goes into the BIOS screen, find the bit where you change what it boots from, and in what order, and faff with that.
@Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona This is probably the most challenging part for a non techie who may never have visited a BIOS-UEFI in their lives! But there are probably lots of helpful videos on YouTube about how to do this and what to look for.
@alex_p_roe @slothrop @albertcardona
Trouble is, most of the YouTube videos that might have been helpful for anything people need help with are so terribly presented they aren't useful.
The ones that start with somebody screeching "Waaasssup my doodz" get stopped immediately here.
@Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona Ha! You are right about that but Linux people are not generally “Wasssup my doodz” types. Can take a bit of digging to find videos that are informative and not irritating, this is true. The article posted in this thread explains the process pretty well IMO.
@Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona At the moment I’m on iffy mobile internet otherwise I would have found something. Often the distribution people do pretty good videos - what is more irritating than the my doodz is the YouTube ad infestation which seems to be getting worse by the say even if Linux info ads don’t attract that many advertisers, thankfully 🙂
@alex_p_roe @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona yep, I tried many things before I could boot into bios.
Maybe look for "boot into bios" instructions that begin from windows "advanced startup options", first. Easier to start frombinside windows with a GUI if you can.
@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona True, actually getting to the BIOS screens can be fiddly. You need to be fairly quick to hit the right button while the PC starts up. As to what the right button is, search for make of computer and model (CPU model may help). Then be patient…you might end up in Windows a few times. When in BIOS remember to save the settings if you change them - you should be prompted to do this.
@alex_p_roe @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona tip: take photos of your screen as you go. I found it hard to remember steps and details of options (especially since I'd read so many of thise "try these 11 things" webpages).
@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona Taking photos is a good idea. But once you’ve set your PC to boot from USB, created a bootable installation file and popped it on a USB drive, #Linux installation is pretty easy. Most distributions come with detailed (perhaps too detailed?) instructions on what to do. And feel free to reach out on forums or here if you have problems. Someone will help you. Or ask around and find out if anyone you know has done it already 🙂
@alex_p_roe @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona agreed. Once you get to actually booting from a usb it becomes straight forward. Well, mostly, LOL.
@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona True - the install depends on the distribution you are using having all the right bits to match the hardware you are trying to install Linux on. Touchpads, touchscreens, webcams and facial recognition stuff can also lead to post installation issues - IOW - these features don’t work until you install something else - assuming you know what to install, where to find it and how to install it!
@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona Hmm, actually getting to the BIOS/UEFI can be done in a whole range of different ways! Many seem to be listed here: How to Enter BIOS in #Windows: 7 Methods That Work: maketecheasier.com/enter-bios-… #Linux
How to Enter BIOS in Windows: 7 Methods That Work - Make Tech Easier
Need to make some system changes or update your BIOS? Learn how to enter BIOS in Windows using seven different methods.Crystal Crowder (Make Tech Easier)
while this is true, and I have seen many such lists in my frustrating adventure to install ubuntu, one does not need MANY ways, but one that works.
I was sharing a simple way to get started for a non-techie windows user, from my recent experience.
Focus on the user, not the thrilling multiplicity of "what is true", please, Linux world!
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I think the onscreen installation instructions and warnings have come along way since I first installed SUSE Linux way back in the late 1990s! It has got easier and can be really simple if you hit no issues. Older hardware - more than 5 years (?) works best, newer tech can cause headaches - which is why I’ve held off from putting Linux on one of my older computers. It’s worth it! Extends the life of you computer for years!
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@Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona imo experience, this is exactly the way to go. And just start over as many times as necessary. I confess, as a 50+ linux newbie I went through ten usb sticks, convinced i was downloading them wrong. After I figured out what I was doing wrong, I then had 9 sticks ready to offer to friends 😁
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Go to that page, fill in some fields like username and your desired user password, maybe a list of packages you know you want... Click the button at the bottom and download the image. Write the image to a USB stick using diskimager.org/
Boot the windows 10 machine off the new USB stick, answer a couple questions and come back in 15 mins when your new Debian machine is ready.
Do NOT boot off that stick any machine unless you want it wiped and Debian installed.
@dlakelan Handy. Will check this out before upgrading my old Surface Pro 4 to Linux - and if Debian is OK for it.
Mint is an option for windows users. If it's different per se, it has similarities and it is recommended for the windows users habits who prefer to be in a familiar configuration. And you can go to another system later.
So here is a site explaining the process:
pureinfotech.com/switch-from-w…
How to upgrade from Windows 10 to Linux Mint - Pureinfotech
Complete guide to switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint: Creating USB installer, backing up files, install steps, file restore, and more.Mauro Huculak (Pureinfotech)
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I have found the videos on the explainingcomputers.com YouTube channel very helpful, for example youtu.be/n8vmXvoVjZw?feature=s…
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depending on what you want it to do, different distros will work better or worse. Ubuntu is great if you mostly use it for emails and office stuff, but it is a pain to get online games like Steam to work. If you are going to be gaming I recommend Pop!_OS. It has access to all the standard office packages like LibreOffice and Steam just works. You may have to fiddle with the bios settings though, definitely turn off secure boot first. itsfoss.com/install-pop-os/
Beginner's Guide to Installing Pop!_OS Linux
Learn to install Pop OS Linux distribution by replacing all other operating systems on your computer.Pratham Patel (It's FOSS)
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@Research_FTW this is what I'm installing today!
Oh, you are going to have some reading to do after that question!
tl;dr It's really easy once you figure out how to boot the USB drive 😂
@bytebro I feel like I at least knew what I was getting myself into when I asked the question! 🤣
@neil thank you! I've got a bunch of old work computers which we can't use there any more, but I'm hoping to save from landfill.
I recommend using the nixbooks project for this.
Makes it easy and great final product. Self updating, hard to break, easy to wipe if necessary in the future. Check it out.
GitHub - mkellyxp/nixbook
Contribute to mkellyxp/nixbook development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
the creator is still trying to make it better and is open to suggestions (I think). He’s on Mast if you want to reach out @codemonkeymike
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@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona Hmm. The hardest part is finding the best way to get out of windows to get to the BIOS stuff!
@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona Nope, but that is understandable. Gotta keep those shareholders happy with eternal 20% growth, after all! 😉
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I agree in spirit, but man... Its only 50% rentseeking... My elderly parents and computer illiterate siblings and coworkers would get in trouble fast if they weren't constrained by 3 software platforms: mint software manager, android play, and MS whatchamacallit. I have pounded it into their heads: never download software candy from strangers. (I live in an anti-apple pocket of the world)
But then, i guess all three of those do let you do your own thing to varying degrees.
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in reply to TrimTab 🇺🇦 • • •@TrimTab no one is saying you can't use an app store and must sideload. Just that there be a choice. It's reasonable to default sideloading to off, but the setting must be user-controlled.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Even the term "Side loading", makes it sound non-standard and risky. Which of course, it doesnt have to be.
#AOSP #OpenSource #GrapheneOS
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in reply to Chickerino • • •Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
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Denzil, nope. G****e demands you give them your private app signing keys, breaking any thrust chain this way.
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Giving away your private signing keys breaks any thrust chain. It is just the opposite.
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in reply to Billie • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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Except that, it doesn't prevent malware. Note that this news article is from today. I went to find the most recent example of this and it turns out that I didn't even have to go back as far as yesterday.
Proper safety is done by reducing kernel attack surface, reducing the size of the TCB, and making it easy for applications to respect the principle of least privilege so that ones that don't stand out as things that obviously request more permissions than they should have.
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Once you’ve bought the hardware, it’s yours, not a lease where the vendor still dictates your choices. Calling it sideloading makes it sound like something shady, when it’s just freedom to install what you want.
#freesoftware #digitalrights
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •But would this “security measure” also affect app stores that are already more secure than Google’s Play Store, like @fdroidorg ?
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Bold of you to assume that your phone is really "yours". I'm sure that by buying one Google owns your soul and that of your firstborn.
We need more competition in the Mobile OS market, and Google needs to be hit with a big enough antitrust suit to cripple them for a couple of decades.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •the whole case of why I've always had an Android phone: I'm a dev, if I want something I can write and install it.
I almost never do of course, but it's completely fucked up for Google to expect me to register an account with their service to receive their blessed key material in order to install my stupid side project on my own device
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •but Eugen, developers will continue to be free to distribute their apps off of Google Play and sideloading remains unaffected!
(as long as the apps are signed by Google shhhhhhhh don't tell the regulators, the whole walled garden thing has been going so well for Apple)
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Reading is a copyright violation.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •on one side, how different is what Google is proposing from what Mozilla has been doing with side-loaded extensions, which they have to certificate even if you host them yourself?
on the other side, why did I see no one complaining about the Mozilla stance on this?
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I'd argue there's a critical reason besides rent-seeking: security.
It's a genuine conflict between user rights and the need to protect the average person. Phones hold our banking apps, 2FA tokens, mics, cameras, and countless secrets.
When a sideloaded app steals data, the user doesn't say, "My sideloaded app failed." They say, "My Android/iPhone got hacked." The OS developer takes the blame.
Android's approach—allowing it, but behind a clear security warning—seems like a decent compromise in this difficult balancing act.
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in reply to Navi (not at GPN/XXc3/etc.) • • •@navi OK, now I get it.
In original comment I didn't saw info about this announcement from yesterday (android-developers.googleblog.…)
Seeing this proposition it seems more scary.
First for folks from Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, rest of the world is more complicated.
Interesting if in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand this will become legal requirement.
Here it is more than security, I would say that hampering user owners rights isn't biggest issue, but this seems as a way to limit free speech. Because Google may be informed by government of some country that they forbid app like Signal, so Google should not allow signing of Signal.
Still if there will be legal requirement they will need to do it. So it may be first step in killing cryptography.
A new layer of security for certified Android devices
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Amen! And then there's my cars infotainment center that I can't even sideload!
Edit: I'm sure there are some absurdly smart people here who could tear apart the dash board and hard wire into the computers pinout to do it. But that's a little beyond my capabilities.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I agree: if someone buys a "computer" or a general purpose device, your point certainly holds.
But on the other side of a fine line I imagine (perhaps older) game consoles: when the original Nintendo came out, that company was not expected to help you run Atari software on their hardware.
They'd not prevent it - if you could figure out it, good on you. But Nintendo shouldn't be expected to make that work.
Not-supporting versus actively-preventing is the key difference for me.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I did not know of this word. It sounds a bit like the word ”jaywalking” which was invented by car companies to shame pedestrians into getting out of the way.
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term used to criminalize a pedestrian crossing the road outside of the authorized passage and time limit
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •As someone who developed operating systems for 50 years I know that there are reasonable cases; but, as none are relevant to Google’s latest behavior, I will not elaborate.
Since a mobile device is mostly a general purpose system you should be able to run any software that doesn’t violate laws and it’s not the OS vendor’s responsibility to enforce laws except those regulating the radios in the device.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I like the term “rent seeker”.
Like Jaywalker is the rent seeker for car companies.
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Unknown parent • • •@OrionKidder Those aren’t the laws I am talking about. I mean things like the laws governing the use of radio frequency and radio power.
So no, I am not missing the point.
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in reply to Simon Lucy • • •That’s right!
All books should be burned before reading.
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in reply to Optimistic Moron • • •@OptimisticMoron @jakeyounglol @zeri
Then the flames need to be prosecuted as they lick the pages.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •It is known that sideloading is a real risk for most of Android users*
*The bad guy comes to your home, enable ADB debug, you let him connect your phone, you give him your pin, you let him few moment to load a naughty apk (bring coffees) and VOILÀ ! 🔥
BTW I had today to clean a fully stock up to date Android (you even can install bank app on) because of a "legit" Play Store bloatware setup'd lots of other adware apks 👍
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Debian is the friendliest system for civil society.
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Unknown parent • • •@OrionKidder Maybe you need to read my first post again. I specifically mentioned radio software in the last sentence.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •This list of replies is a hilarious string of people pretending that they’ve never looked at someone’s Windows machine *so completely fucked up with malware and viruses that the owner just blithely clicked on and installed* that the only solution was to nuke it from space and *buy a whole new computer*
For a good fifteen years the number one reason for tossing perfectly good hardware and buying a newer Win PC was virus/malware infestation. Might still be, I have no idea.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •at this point I just want a fucking slab that lets me call from Linux.
I want postmarketOS on an AMD Ryzen with only 64bits (dump the 32, make a bloody atom ryzen you cowards), and a pure-64 Steam build. I want a slab that lets me play anime games if I bloody want to. And deploy a Linux fleet management solution. AND JUST LET ME DO MY THING.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •yes, but...
Ma and Pa _need_ some form of sandbox. Sandboxing should be optional. But some form of sandboxing should exist when non-tech people will use computers.
It's a dangerous world.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Sideloading as a word was coined in 1990
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidelo…
Please stop spreading lies to make people angry
Transferring files between local devices
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Especially as this newest move of Google is redundant: play protect is already built in all Google play services using phones.
It already flashed and remains suspicious Appa and known malware from all sources.
So how exactly is locking down the signing keys for apps that are allowed to run at all and connecting them with government ID for developers helping security?
This purely an anticompetitive measure.
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Unknown parent • • •arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jacob
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •counter-point: run your software outside this rentseekers sandbox then. it’s absolutely a bad look for them if something happens to you while in their ecosystem (randsomware, malware, identity theft, etc.)
just because you own the physical memory registers doesn’t mean you’re ever making use of them without this rentseekers work and IP.
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Unknown parent • • •I only know how it works on GrapheneOS, currently.
It doesn't ask credentials for me upon install. It just wants me to allow alternative app stores or the Files app (for downloaded APK files) as an installation source for "unknown apps". It also asks that for the Play Store, given that that is a third-party optional app on GrapheneOS.
The "install unknown apps from source" permission doesn't have anything to do with who signed the app, just seems to have to do with the fact that it's not a bundled/default app installer like GrapheneOS App Store is on GrapheneOS.
Ron
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Daniel "DazzaJay" Fitzgerald🇦🇺
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •sideloading is a bullshit word made up to make doing what you want with what you own sound more scary. Let's call it what it has always been called on PC.
Installing Software.