kescusay

kescusay , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Oklahoma bill would require 'furries' be picked up from school by parents, animal control

I’m temporarily unlocking this post again, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it. I don’t want to see it descend into vitriolic lashing out at one another again. Come on, people, keep it civil. This is supposed to be a fun and welcoming community for everyone, and I want it to stay that way.

kescusay , 7 months ago to technology in Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March

There are a few bots, mostly spammers. If you mod a community, you can see them. They’re typically caught by the spam filters before I even notice they’re there.

kescusay , 7 months ago to news in The Supreme Court declines to step into the fight over bathrooms for transgender students

Trans women aren’t men, and every time I see someone insist that their anecdotal reports of women terrified that the bathroom stall next to them might contain a trans woman, they invariably fail to cough up any actual statistics on it. Maybe you’ll be different.

In any event, this is someone born with a vagina:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2672ea94-bade-401e-bae7-496967923c8a.jpeg

Do you think that person should use the women’s restroom?

kescusay , 7 months ago to news in The Supreme Court declines to step into the fight over bathrooms for transgender students

I’m really sorry you’re going through that. It sucks, and I can only hope that as the future inevitably progresses, things improve.

My son is trans (FtM). We’re lucky to live in a sane state that doesn’t have this bathroom bill garbage. But my heart goes out to those that do.

kescusay , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Quebec man who blamed wildfires on government pleads guilty to setting 14 fires

Do they rant and rave against Canada’s universal health care system while using it?

kescusay , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Quebec man who blamed wildfires on government pleads guilty to setting 14 fires

If this guy was in the United States, he’d be a MAGA Republican and spouting similar U.S.-focused conspiracy theories.

kescusay , 7 months ago to news in The Supreme Court declines to step into the fight over bathrooms for transgender students

Ultimately, what it boils down to is that they want to force trans people to de-transition, go back into the closet, and hopefully kill themselves. The pain and aggravation caused by these stupid bathroom laws is quite literally the point.

kescusay , 7 months ago to technology in How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

They all got greedy. All of them. We wanted a streaming service to watch our shows and movies on, and they all decided to pretend that what we really wanted was a return to paying $100+ a month for a collection of channels with content that we mostly don’t watch on them, only this time with a bunch of additional apps you have to install for each one, most of them remarkably shitty. Like cable, but stupider.

Remember when the streaming setup was simple? There was basically just Netflix, it paid for licenses to content from Disney, Paramount, etc., and provided guaranteed income for those companies. Small income, sure, but steady.

Then each of them said, “Hey, why don’t we replace Netflix, only all we’ll stream is our own stuff! And sure, most of it’s trash, but people will stick around for the good shows!”

No. No, they won’t. They’ll go back to pirating it. No one is paying for Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, Max, Peacock, AppleTV, ESPN+, Prime, and whatever other shitty “exclusive” streaming service pops up.

kescusay , 7 months ago to news in Montana fire chief who had refused vaccine mandate in Washington state charged in Jan. 6 riot

Where’s that shocked Pikachu meme when you need it…

kescusay , 8 months ago to news in Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report

Oregonian, here. Kinda not surprised this happened in Medford. There are parts of the state that have a serious problem with fentanyl, almost as bad as in the rural south.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Hamas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Boy Approaching Humanitarian Aid Truck to Keep Others Away:

Hamas has genocide as its openly, publicly stated goal.

kescusay , 8 months ago to nottheonion in Hospital staff get baked potato as a 'Christmas bonus' from work (and got taxed on it)

It’s the Independent, not spam. Indy100 is part of the Independent.

kescusay , 8 months ago to news in A Proclamation on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana, Attempted Simple Possession of Marijuana, or Use of Marijuana | The White House

I live in a non-prohibition state, so haven’t thought about the fact that there are still prohibition states for years.

kescusay , 8 months ago to news in South dominates US population gains as deaths drop

It’s true, but I’m not sure how we do it.

Here’s the thing… Democrats could flip the House and increase their lead in the Senate easily. In fact, they could make their leads in both chambers practically insurmountable. All they’d have to do is have small numbers of Democratic voters in the large states move to states like Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, etc. Have a few million people migrate from California, New York, and Illinois, and those deeply red states would instantly become bright blue.

The problem, however, is obvious: How do you convince someone living in New York to move to North Dakota?

kescusay , 8 months ago to nottheonion in Trump Unable To Come Up With Own Material, Keeps Ripping Off Hitler

Not exactly. Wonkette is more like Stephen Colbert, using factual news as the basis for mockery and derision aimed at the right. This article, for example, accurately quotes Trump on the horrifying “poisoning the blood” rhetoric, and then rips into him for it.