What they really mean is that they didn’t inherit their immense wealth, which means there was a time in their lives when they weren’t obscenely wealthy.

I mean, they are calling it a “Hetero Awesome” event. Which is fine, as straight people are awesome! But so are the gays.

If these folks are so triggered by someone singing a pro-LGBTQ+ song, though, it makes me think it was never about how awesome anyone is in the first place. It seems more to be about “Gays are not awesome like we are” than “We’re awesome”. See how the message is different?

I bet if a Straight Ally showed up at a Pride event singing a song about how awesome Straight People are, nobody would have a problem with that, as long as it wasn’t trying to dunk on some other group in the process.

(Now, that is leading me to wonder what the most “Hetero Awesome” song might be. What song would you pick as the Straight People Anthem?)

You’re not wrong, in general. But in this specific case, in Tennessee, it’s specifically about the nudity.

Any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library.

It’s “nudity” of any type, which puts the Venus de Milo in the same category as Brazzers.

These people are going after anything that might imply nudity at all. I seem to remember Calvin had an immense hatred of baths. So once his mom finally got him in, poof, that now has to go, because he’s naked under all that water.

I’m surprised they don’t just ban all visual art that depicts humans, since everyone is naked under their clothes.

The goodest boy in Washington today

Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can’t interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?

This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn’t really taken off here yet.

What’s RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working

DOGE replaced the entire hurricane relief budget with a box of Sharpies

Isn’t “English food” just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?

“Work for free to review” oversimplifies it. Peer Review is a key part of how Science operates. These smart folks are getting paid by their companies and academic institutions to conduct Science, and a key part of that is making sure that new advances get the proper vetting. So it’s all part of their normal job description as a Certified Smartypants. And then there is also a clear conflict of interest if these journals pay reviewers, because that might influence reviewers in how they judge the paper.

This is really an attack on peer review, because the kind of junk science the Right espouses these days can’t get past it. Get rid of that, and a lot of their ideas can start to gain more traction, even if they are incorrect and not backed by science. Because they will no longer have independent Scientists as Gatekeepers…

I hope so too lol. I do keep a spare quart of oil in the car just in case, I party like it’s 1979

I have an old Subaru that burns oil, and coincidentally the light comes on right around when I should be change the oil anyway

The buck stops… Over there… With some other guy, not me.

Ads? In my Lemmy?

It’s more likely than you think!

But if you know how much filament you have, it takes all the fun out of playing Filament Chicken…

That judge who is looking for people to hold in contempt should start with whoever authorized this post.

She’s fake, she can be whatever she wants to be.

But in the US (and I assume in Canada), many people identify based on where their ancestors came from, even if they came over several generations back, as long as their family still associated with that country’s culture. Because let’s face it, unless you have native heritage your ancestors came here from somewhere.