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I would love some form of this for Mastodon

Approximately the same thing that was wrong with POC that led to BIPOC. Prefixing 2S centres the First Nations experience which has added intersectional layers, just as prefixing BI to POC centres the black and indigenous experiences which have added intersectional layers

In case you are wondering about I and A, that's intersex and asexual/aromantic

Arguably the (first) Q letter covers everyone, but also there are people who grew up with it as a slur used against them who aren't keep on taking the word back.

QUILTBAG was a cute rearrangement when I was in uni two decades ago. LGBTQ+ is not the oldest form either. G used to come before L, etc

It's a different cultural tradition

Are refurbished units not the result of a repair?

Canada has unions

Russian Deferation[sic], eh? You can only defer the dissolution so long

That's the same argument as arguing as Canada doesn't have to do anything about climate change because China and India can fix it on their own with their bigger population. We have to make some changes on the individual level to be good role models and to pressure those same corporations

Statute of limitations. Fleeing the country is a great trick if you can manage it. Roman Polanski had the same idea

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

He's so smart that he fled a country that doesn't extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)

A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction

From the typeface comparison page, the only ones that look acceptable are Fira Code (my favourite) and JetBrains Mono. I'm compelled by ligatures

Perhaps I should spend more time with JetBrains Mono. There's a lot of charm to the lowercase l in that one

"If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum." - Vegetius

Big bureaucracies do tend to have waste, but spending less reduces both useful spending and wasteful spending equally. Cutting a budget does not achieve virtue. US military spending keeps the world at peace