They are showing kindness and understanding and openness and giving you the benefit of the doubt right now.
Meanwhile, you scramble and grasp for words that you imagine might somehow hurt.
You're the only one who looks unnerved. You're clearly bothered by the calm, compassionate, composure that none of your provocations can crack.
Ephemeral Sun hasn't stooped to your level once.
I am amazed they haven't run out of money already.
Were they all millionaires before this whole Trump thing started?
Someone else here mentioned that being an LGBTQ+ instance and allowing association with porn occasionally described as "childlike" isn't something Blahaj can afford in this political climate.
They're already being called child groomers. You don't want something that can be twisted into ammunition by bad actors.
Exactly this. Right wing propaganda already portrays the LGBTQ+ community as child groomers who are sexualizing minors.
Forget gasoline or lighter fluid: allowing federation with "barely 18!" content would throw a whole propane tank on that fire.
Gold fringes on the flag of the country "Donald Trump" was president of? Damn it! We've been bamboozled! We aren't even living in the real United States! We were the sheeple all along, just like they were trying to tell us!
Yeah! Was he Donald Trump -- the person -- president? Or was it "Donald Trump" the legal entity? Is his name capitalized on the documents? Was his presidency valid under maritime law?
To the people who watch these sources they believe its legitimate, real and true.
One year after leaving California, my mother was explaining to me -- based on some selfie video made by two Christians sitting in their car, claiming they had visited San Francisco -- that California was now a hotbed for crime and violent death.
It's not like they suddenly changed their story. For decades now, conservative vloggers and bloggers and "news" networks have been screaming about how California was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and millions of refugees were fleeing the state. She just... tuned it out while she was living in the proverbial horse's mouth, and then started trusting them the second the first-hand evidence was (I am not exaggerating here. She is now in the next state over.) two hours in her rear-view mirror.
Yeah, we already have government research funding a lot of medicine. Hell, the MRNA vaccine was DARPA'S doing.
Okay... I'm a bit confused... but I think you are saying the worker in the private company provides -- as his main product -- labor, even though he's still directly responsible for the creation of the sprocket that he poured. And that he is rewarded for his labor, which is his primary contribution, even though he receives no direct reward for the creation of the sprocket.
Am I understanding you? Please ignore everything below this if I'm not understanding you.
On the other hand, if I am understanding you correctly, please read on: the worker in the co-op performed the same task. And unlike the private worker, the co-op worker is given a reward for more than just his labor. He's given a vote in who the sprocket is sold to, a vote in the price set when the sprocket is sold, a vote in the exact mixture of ores going into the sprocket, and (without needing to ask for a raise, without needing to change jobs) the worker in the worker co-op gets a voice in how much he gets paid, what hours he gets scheduled, and how much vacation and sick leave he is allowed.
The worker in the worker co-op gets a voice in general. Agency.
I don't see how those two things just seem like different flavors of "company" to you. One strips the worker of everything but his labor. The other gives him a voice.
To me, that makes them opposites.
I can see that. Like how Hitler wrote Mein Kampf during his 264-day incarceration in Landsberg Prison for his Jan-6-style insurrection attempt.
Damn. Their $1.3 billion in profits was already stretched thin with these writers' demands. How will they afford this too? One of the execs might need to take out a second mortgage on his thirteenth mansion just to make ends meet.
This isn't so much a support request as a piece of advice. I just wanted to pass along a heads-up to save someone else some work.
The Bionic Reader Firefox extension breaks my ability to comment and reply on Lemmy.
As you can see, the reply button has been clicked. It's grayed out. But the page stays stuck there. And when I refresh, my attempted comment is nowhere to be found.
The Firefox error codes are also different between having this extension enabled and not having it enabled. I'll post those in the comments.
This commenter is weirdly passionate about what kinds of porn Blahaj federates with.