Hi! So since we are getting a lot of folks asking: we arenβt taking VC money. This is not a moneymaking project. This is a non profit venture intended to give folks the privacy that capitalist internet companies have failed to provide.
@CrownCosmo I never really did. Like, we do a dinner and presents, maybe I invited a friend a couple of times (I actually can't remember atm), but it was never a whole party.
@Sarifel1 @animorphingtime So I'm the first one to say "fun things don't stop being fun just cause you got older", but this is specifically referencing the way fans of the wizard books have made them their whole personality, to the point that they actively defend the author's bigotry.
@StorySlug Honestly, its not funny enough. Trump being a predator is both something everybody kinda knew, and horrible, while the Vance fucking a couch thing has that, "wait, what the fuck? Lol", factor that is one of the most effective ways to spread things on the internet.
@MoistenedTart @hribar23@jonathanstea Lotta alt-health types believe in "vibrational energies", its a woo belief based on a combo of SciFi and bad understandings of physics. In that belief, higher is better, and the alt health practices "raise your vibrations". Basically he called you sheeple.
@adulthumanorbit@LaurakBuzz That's exactly what she thinks. A lot of them don't view us as people, but as some sort of political construct, where all of the people they're hurting are either predators or confused gay kids, and if they could just get the right bigotry accepted, we'd all disappear.
@ComradeEevee Yeah, that's literally that one DS9 ep with O'Brien, AND a voyager one with Paris. Not only is it the torment nexus, it's also its sequel the torture anomaly.
@Fine_Feels @KathleenLJoiner @lil_wiki1@nkulw Sure, we can talk about engagement optimization, ragebait, and the attention economy all day, but ADHD is neurodivergence. It's an intrinsic, structural difference in the brain, not something that can be acquired because you "lost your attention span to the tiktoks"
@a_welcome1@GrammarJedi01@eade_bengard@stefanoscalia I'm sorry, do you think billing paperwork is normal? Plus, most countries with functional healthcare also have centralized record keeping, so they just kinda, pull up your info. Hell, it works that way here as long as you're at the same doctor and don't live in east scumblefuck.
@Chican3ry and are in league with some sort of global cabal. It all tends to just be the same tired old antisemitic tropes wrapped up in a new coat of paint, and it's fairly likely a lot of these conspiracy theorists think we get our secret power from "Them".
@Chican3ry This results in a set of "standard templates" that conspiratorial thinking tends to follow, and "the secretly all powerful minority is coming for your kids" is one of the classics. I'd bet when you dig into it, they also think we're part of some "one world government" push,
@juliahosack @WulfenO @agirlcalledlina Shaun from Shaun_vids did a whole video going through the books with a critical eye and no nostalgia glasses (Shaun never read them as a kid). There's a lot of kinda screwed up stuff in there that wasn't as obvious.
@1200bps I think it's just kinda hacker coded. Like, it's too cute and too much of a purse for most guys, just about all of the fem hackers I know (including me!) would love it, and some of the masc ones would go "eh, it fits my gear". Course if you want it more fem, pins and patches help
@sithisctf @shireisasleep @exilestellaris@zayaway Oh yeah, to be 100% clear, yes it does. My kinda was just directed at how it actually works, in that what is actually causing the baldness is DHT, and estrogen therapies (including monotherapies) suppress T, which suppresses DHT.