In my state, police aren’t allowed to use your fingerprint against you, but they can use facial recognition. It’s backwards and doesn’t make a ton of sense, but that’s the state of affairs.

Part of that is only because any and all Instagram accounts are also considered Threads accounts. I have a feeling active users is probably in a similar ballpark

Only states with one political leaning are mandating changes to the course curriculum to try to stave off queer youth and rewrite history. To undermine the historical significance of their actions. Pearson and every other major textbook brand has had to alter their curriculum for states such as Texas and North Carolina.

You call people who view things from a different scope emotional, but I’m ultimately concerned about my safety, and the safety of everyone I care about.

Only one side is dogwhistling against minorities, and when it comes to trans people, advocating for outright “elimination of transgenderism”. They want us removed from the public eye, and will do everything they can to achieve it. Legislating access to healthcare away from us, jeopardizing our safety, and encouraging their base by trying to say it’s morally just. While the “live and let live” types such as yourself don’t see the insidious nature happening along party lines. Trans people simply don’t matter enough to the average Republican, so no matter what they say, as long as the taxes are lower for them, who cares if some minorities have to suffer for it?

A lot of it stems from sexist views, and revolves around beauty standards. Bad faith arguments like “women’s spaces”/sports, may seem reasonable upfront even.

The end result ends up with cis women also under threat due to a multitude of factors. Deep voice, gender nonconformity, hormonal disorders, intersex people, the list goes on.

Cis children are being harassed in Canada, cis women have been harassed in bathrooms. “Transvestigators” love to spend their time trying to clock people.

Absolutely, though there tends to be a lot more visibility, and potential for harm. Not to understate the harm done during the aids crisis. I could maybe be scared back into the closet jk death before detransition, but transphobia harms cis women too. I shouldn’t know several people who have had to flee their home states due to Republican led legislation, but I do. I shouldn’t know people who lost access to their medication, some people who need it post GRS, but I do.

There’s a LOT to be said about the subject. My existence shouldnt fall on party lines, but here we are.

Unfortunately trans people are in the early stages of being targeted with genocidal intent. Scary times for us.

I work and converse with people globally, as much as I love the idea of being able to use seasons as a marker of time like that, it’s just not possible.

Now let’s work on names for this 13th month…

The vibe can vary pretty drastically from instance to instance, regardless of federation. Ultimately in the bigger communities it doesn’t matter at all though

I may be biased buttttttt gonna have to agree

Seasons vary by hemisphere, and it’s counterintuitive to force half of the globe to accept summer as winter or winter as summer.

With every hit I’m that much closer to leaving 😭

As an organization admin, it’s great for business use. Don’t force it onto users alongside other bloatware slop.

Genuinely I’ll give Michaelsoft credit on skipping 9, they did that to avoid SEO poisoning windows 9x variants.

Windows 11 Pro is pretty good!

Windows 11 Home is pretty stinky!

I use 11 for work and 10 for my personal usage still.

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That is absolutely a false equivalence

It’s part of why masks becoming commonplace during covid was so cool, and the epitome of freedom from that bullshit. But there was a crowd of people who constantly speak against their own best interests in the name of freedumb who said otherwise.

Even if it is, “loss protection” departments now just track it until they have enough to make a charge stick. What a lot of corpos do is track theft though until they have enough incidents to exceed that threshold. This is tracked via loyalty cards, card numbers, facial recognition, and license plate readers.

Allegedly gait analysis could be used as well.

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