Ask them if they’d trade places with someone of another race and the same economic status. Even they know. 

When you discover the limit of your white privilege...

Yup nothing makes a white guy angry like them being treated like they treat a non white guy. It is instructive.

White boys mad they are being treated the way they demand not white people be treated and are somehow mad. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh God. Cue the conversation I had in 2001 when our first child was born: “Yes mom, my brother and I did survive our cribs in 1970. No mom I don’t want it for my son, because by today’s standards, it’s a death trap. No, you can’t set it up at your house and use it for sleepovers. I’ll just buy you a new one.”

Oh I can’t wait for all the “we road rear facing as kids in xyz old car, back in the ancient past and survived” survivor bias stuff in the comments.

You can get permits to harvest Christmas trees in any national forest, including Stanislaus.

I would question how the state is served by this prosecution. If someone commits murder, there is a state interest in locking that person up to protect the rest of the citizenry.

again, writers practicing their craft in earnest, for free, as a part of a gift culture is on the opposite end of the spectrum as having their work used by a chatbot who exploited that to create a for-profit product.

yup. genuinely, go for it. i would rather have hundreds of kids experiment with writing based on my fanfic than a single dataset have access to it for programming purposes. 

fic has ALWAYS been accessible. writing has been accessible for YEARS. people have been writing fanfiction since the 1800s and publishing it since the 1890s. Accessibility has never been an issue, as there is literally no gatekeeping happening and nothing stopping anyone from writing fic.

humans read and learn, but anything they produce is created through their particular lens informed by their own entire life, way of thinking, and their capabilities. What they read, they paid for (with money, time, personal investment), they appreciated, and it inspired them. If a human learned to write the same way…

writers practicing is very different than a chat based generator pulling the next most likely word out of a dataset

If you cannot see the difference!! in between a HUMAN BEING!! taking something they love and loving it EVEN HARDER and in public and within fandom culture and a machine outputting The Next Most Likely Word then i simply cannot explain it to you in simpler terms lmao

I mean personally I’m way more stoked for multiversal shenanigans, Kang, the whole MCU getting ripped apart and put back together, etc... than I was for Iron Man 2 or whatever you’re being nostalgic about.

You’re definitely being pedantic and when you realize that about what you’re saying, it’s a good sign to drop it or reconsider the point you’re trying to make. You’re projecting meaning onto “many” that doesn’t exist. “Many” just means a lot, it doesn’t mean that it was specifically popular with LGBTQ people. Hundreds…

Hundreds of millions of people read Harry Potter. It’s a statistical certainty that many of those people were LGBTQ 

Well, just finished reading the last account. If anyone needs me, I'll be under my desk in a fetal position for the rest of the day.

Oh. My. God. That last one just broke my heart.

I'd love to send these articles to everyone that says, "Oh what a dream job!"