Beehaw is really my only social media unless you count personal discord servers, so not a result of doom scrolling in my case. I have just seen what hyper capitalism does to new tech (looking at you, AI). But yeah, good point, in this case labor displacement is more of a concern. The article mentions requiring servers still, so that is what brought to mind the Amazon grocery stores.
Gods, I wish we lived in the kind of society where when I see something like robot servers I could simply say, "That is cool." Unfortunately thanks to the capitalist hellscape we are in, my reaction is "How are they going to exploit people to make this work." Like how the Amazon grab and go grocery stores turned out to be just people being paid super low wages
They are the same people most of the time. The freeze peach folks only believe in free speech for themselves
OK.
CW: lots of blood and photos of dead folks
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Nobody was angry. Also, words have multiple uses. Just because it was used in Pulp Fiction in the BDSM context does not mean it doesn't carry the ableist definition.
That is probably where they got it, but the word definitely had multiple uses at the time. It may not have been explicitly ableist, but it is and was an ableist word. It also invalidates their claim that they are trying to reclaim usage. Again, they named it that because they thought it was funny, not some grand scheme.
I think they are leaving out the part where they called it "The GIMP" in the 90s. They clearly chose the name to be edgy, and they are now trying to justify it after the fact. Complaining about the "sterilization" of language is just out of touch and leaves out the fact that if they stopped using the word, it might just completely fall out of use.
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Oh totally. The definition is strictly numbers based. I don't think that is useful when you are trying to dig deep into the cause.
the Columbine, Christchurch, and Uvalde shooters all fit this stereotype that I have, but apparently that doesn’t map to reality.
I think people don't realize how many mass shootings happen in the US. Mostly because they don't typically make the news outside the place they occur.
CW: List of mass shootings in the US for 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2024
TL;DR: There have been 372 this year alone. That is 372 in 218 days, so more than one a day on average
They call it out a little further down.
Half of all mass shootings are associated with no red flags—no diagnosed mental illness, no substance use, no history of criminality, nothing. They’re generally committed by middle-aged men who are responding to a severe and acute stressor, so they're not planned, which makes them very difficult to prevent.
So they are not necessarily in a good emotional state, but they do not have a mental illness.
No it is not. I am literally a non-binary person telling you it is not. I am also not a guy.
