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Headline: Exactly 49 days

First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change

To be clear, the blahaj one is for people to talk about the awful shit she’s doing and the impact it’s having on her victims. It’s not a community for people who support her or just want to have polite conversation about her that ignores the harm she is doing

What’s interesting about this, is you post it as if it’s a question, and despite getting an almost universal “Fuck no” as the answer to the question, you’re just arguing that we should do it.

If you want to do it, do it. But stop looking for validation for it. You’re asking for approval to celebrate and recognise someone who actively targets and harms trans people. You’re not going to get that approval. So either take that as the answer, or stop pretending it was ever a question.

Plus, it would help to bring in a ton of new users, to the Fediverse.

Yay, more folks who are happy to fund the erasure of trans people. Can’t wait! /s

Welcome!

To quote @supakaity in a conversation we just had “Thank fuck we’re getting out of here”

I do. We’re on it already. The whole system is slipping towards an age gated internet, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. That’s the slope. There’s nothing I can do to stop it, whether I’m I stay on or get off.

I don’t believe that dropping my whole OS over a database field will change anything. It won’t stop the devs who are concerned about their legal liability from being doing what they need to do to protect themselves. Some devs will comply, some will walk away from OSS, and some won’t comply. But the bigger the project, the more corporate sponorship it relies on, the more certain it is going to be in the “comply” category, and the truth of that won’t change because users push back.

Which is to say, I don’t believe standing up and rejecting a DB field as a matter of principle will change anything, except to make my life harder.

My line in in the sand isn’t about changing the course of the path we’re on, it’s about my own personal interactions with the system. And being forced to provide my age to interact with the internet is the bit I won’t do. So I will stay with the inevitable creep towards that state until the last possible moment, in the hopes that somehow, I’m wrong, and we avoid this privacy nightmare we’re heading towards. If and when it becomes impossible to interact without providing that data, then that’s where I step off, even if it costs me half the internet.

They’re not the same though. Your method will enable the system to interact meaningfully with an age gated internet. Blank will not. And I won’t be interacting with an age gated internet…

That’s still forcing a DOB, which is the line I won’t cross.

But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.

I agree. But the start of the slope isn’t my exit point. My exit point is just before the slope gets too steep to get off.

My line in the sand is when a distro/app starts enforcing entry of birth date data. Having a database field to store it, or even an optional prompt for it isn’t the point where I bin it.

don’t tell me what I want

You did that part when you said that trying to change the status quo is inequality…

Yeah, I’m sure I was imagining it. You don’t seem like someone to throw around insults and misogyny

Bigotry and spam doesn’t become ok based on where you say it

You have a 7 hour old account. You’ll have to excuse me if I have no idea who you are

You instance banned me without giving any justification.

The reason will be in the modlog

But generally, it’s spam, transphobia and other bigotry that gets you banned.

that’s literally why I bought up the topic of equality…

What you brought up is an appeal to maintain the current iniquitous status quo, by suggesting that the real problem with men being the aggressors in the vast majority of sexual assaults isn’t the sexual assaults, but that some men might be falsely accused. But hey, if women want to protect themselves from that, we should legalise excluding them and reducing their service options in other areas, because you know, that’s what equality looks like…

The thing is, you don’t give a shit about the real world manifestation of inequality. What you want is a platonic ideal of equality, which doesn’t exist in the real world, and using it as the measure, just ensures that real world inequality stays around and never gets challenged, because people like you can point to the rules and say “We already have equality” .

Different people can be equal in some areas and unequal in others

So what you’re saying is that women being sexually harassed is just how it is in a society with equality?

Because if that’s not what you’re saying, I’m curious why you think a movement to reduce the disparity is a problem? Well, I’m not curious, I know the answer…

Things aren’t equal now. You don’t want that to change.

Why can’t we just support equality for everyone? Why is that so hard?

At least part of it is because of people like you who get upset whenever someone challenges the grossly inequitous status quo.