We also must unflinchingly and unquestioningly support them if the party has done nothing to support them during their run. We should also somehow vote D even if the party runs no candidate in our district. Anything less and we’re just not properly devoted to the #Resistance.

That’s something that needs to be absolutely hammered on in every election. I keep seeing “Remember: GA law requires that your employer give you time off to vote!” with very little reminder that the required amount of time is two hours, your employer can decide exactly which two hours those will be and deny them to…

Slightly off-topic but funny: None of the stuff I said about the students we were getting was an exaggeration, not even the corporate embezzlement thing. Had a student in the MDAA program whose resume said she’d worked at a particularly large corporation and, while there, “found” and “reported” an executive…

Only one small quibble: National accreditation isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as the accrediting body is actually meaningful. The bodies that accredited the school I taught at were the organizations that also handled professional certification in the fields we taught, and were well-respected groups whose…

Um, if the school is closed, how is it unfair to the school?

My fiancee got an insulting Christmas card from her parents this year. There was nothing written in the card proper, but inside was a “family update” letter that was clearly written for people outside the family. It had language like “we’ve moved to be closer to (name), our eldest daughter” and other stuff that you…

Georgia voter here - I had literally never heard of my Democratic candidate for the House before I found his name on Ballotpedia. They didn’t even run anyone against my district’s Representative in a prior election. Yeah, they’ve forgotten about us in this “red state” because for all their bluster about “changing the…

If Altria’s weed business doesn’t take over the market, expect attempts at draconian regulation aimed at their competitors or smaller businesses (see: the US’ clove ban, which Altria helped draft at a time when, coincidentally, their clove brand was underperfoming in market share).

LGBTQ content gets flagged because readers flag them.

As well as artists who do work that can’t be posted on deviantArt, but whose work isn’t “furry” so they can’t post it on FurAffinity/Weasyl, and who only do commissions, so Patreon isn’t a proper venue for them either. This is going to severely impact a lot of livelihoods and drive a lot of users off the site out of…

So you’ve missed the years-long discussion about how many automated systems have filtered out LGBTQ+ content as inherently sexual, even when it’s not, while letting actual porn through? Or the talk right now from artists saying that the X-rated pics on their adults-only blog aren’t getting flagged, but the SFW crops…

The fact that you used “Agony in Pink”, literal torture-murder-porn, as your only example (and fan works as your only category) makes me think you understand less of what the impact is going to be here than you say you do.

dA nominally doesn’t allow porn either - sure, there’s porn on it, but if it gets reported it can lead to a whole gallery being locked. I’ve known a few artists who keep anything that might possibly get classified by the most Puritanical moderator as “porn” off the site so they don’t get their dA presence nuked - and…

Why not DeviantArt?

There’s so much we don’t know about child sexual abusers because nearly no one looks, such as how many offenders are exclusively or partially preferential (actually sexually attracted to their victim) versus opportunistic (victims are chosen due to access, not attraction). This even goes for the age aspect of child…

I just wish the the Democratic Party would run candidates consistently, even when they think they’re going to lose, for any contestable seat. My Congressman has run unopposed in some elections, and in 2018 the Democrats technically “ran” an opposing candidate, but gave him almost no support. In the months before the…

The GOP is stirring up fear of Socialists and Communists and throwing their weight behind a man named McCarthy. Time is a flat circle indeed.

All I could think of was the costume design from The Fifth Element, namely the tweaker that tries to mug Korben and the guy who screams “SMOKE YOU!” at the cops.

Even if full abolition of incarceration were the end goal, the desired result would be diversion and monitoring.

(Dangit, that was supposed to be “couldn’t say”. >.<)