The open source Infinity app is going subscription-only after the change. IMHO that's a big deal.
regeya
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It was pretty quick from what I remember. They rolled out v4 and it was awful.
To be fair to them, they had massive problems before v4 and they were hoping to fix some of those problems. For one thing someone figured out that comment rating velocity mattered most so then the "Digg Patriots" would use bot armies to upvote right wing content and downvote anything they disagreed with, effectively moderating the site themselves.
Wasn't Spez a mod on Jailbait, or did someone just make that up to make him look worse?
We've got a local, competition winning barbecue place that's cheaper than McDonald's. It's gotten absurd really.
I feel like Storm's answer describes people whose disabilities might make life a little difficult, but mostly different and for them suggesting a cure might be offensive. I feel like Rogue's response describes people whose disability, whether visible or invisible, can make life miserable and would absolutely jump at the chance of a cure.
I get that X-Men started as a metaphor for civil rights, but I had to get that off my chest.
Y'know...it matters, but it doesn't. Technically they wouldn't have to let a neo-Nazi instance play with others if they didn't want to, and come to that they could take the same route as Truth Social and just close it off from the rest of the Fediverse.
Oh no, permabanned out of nowhere for interacting with a subreddit at some point in the past, that must suck.
I've totally had that happen in the last year, more than once. In one case it was a sub I never visit, for visiting a sub they consider dangerous, three years ago.
Missed opportunity for Spock to just point like Picard and say, "Make it go."
So that'd be me, only if Mariner is there to get the joke
I don't know that I fully agree. I think a lot of people who get upset about attempts to cure autism are people who are able to function in society independently, along with people who get upset on behalf of people with autism and/or are self diagnosed because they do things that fit the profile.
Contrast this with some people I know who have a now-adult child who is, to be clear, very intelligent, but he's nonverbal, will probably never drive, will probably have great difficulty holding down a job, all things that make life in current society difficult. Add the message of last night's SNW's episode in. Not everyone is an angelic, understanding soul. These folks I'm thinking of have had a lot of problems with prejudice. Add in that they're probably on board with having their child at home for life and having to worry about who takes over for them when they're not able to.
As far as I know I'm not on the spectrum even though honestly I should probably be checked. I do know about other, diagnosed problems that get in the way of what people would call "normal", and honestly if someone said I could get an mRNA injection to change that, I would. If they'd come to me 20 years ago and said, we can't cure you but we can make sure this ends with your generation, absolutely, no question.
I personally honestly think the line should be disease and disorders, full stop. Gattaca, in other words. I know we won't be able to stop rich people from ordering pretty and athletic kids eventually but the line should be drawn nonetheless.
Yeah I remember seeing an interview a few years before I Am Spock where he talked about coming to terms with how tied he was to Spock, and joked he'd name the book "Maybe I Am Spock After All". I get that he wanted to move on and do other things, though, it's totally reasonable.
Just going to tell the story that I broke one of the cardinal rules of PCMR by drunkenly pointing out the origin of "master race" when someone in a PCMR thread was going on about some other group being offensive and how PCMR was so much better.
It's always been tongue in cheek; it's meant to be a statement that PCs are superior to consoles. At a certain point it seems like PCMR just turned into talking about PCs. And that's fine. The sticky thing about it is, if it's not about jokingly talking about PCs being superior, does it need to be PCMR? On the other hand it's dang near a brand at this point. Can you move a PCMR audience over to something else entirely?
I don't want to be thought of as rude, but it's incredibly insulting to use the word "genocide" to describe, say, cochlear implants.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler and Stalin didn't force Jews, gay people, etc. to convert to Christianity; they were killed for being "wrong". An entire people were nearly wiped out via mass murder.
That's what genocide is. MASS MURDER.
You're comparing possible genetic therapy to allow people to blend in, to !!!MASS MURDER!!!
EDIT: I thought of a better analogy: people who are paraplegic due to spinal injury, and stem cell research. There's promising research into curing some spinal injuries previously untreatable, which would allow people to walk again. The argument many disabled communities make, is that doing so deprives that person, and the world, of a different life experience where they can live a meaningful life in a wheelchair, and that treating their injury is no different than throwing them into an oven at a Nazi mercy center. It leaves out entirely the wishes of the individual, suggesting it's more important to be a visible disabled person than their personal wishes.
Suggesting that, say, your child could avoid having to learn coping mechanisms to deal with ADHD by never having ADHD in the first place, isn't murder. Now, testing your fetus and aborting it because it's going to be disabled, on the other hand...