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A light-hearted Halloween comp? Have you MET the writers here? I expect gruesome buckets of blood and guts.

yeah, but light-hearted gruesome buckets of blood and guts, right?

can we just post shit that is related to the topic and not random comments, or is that too much to ask? thank you.

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This week. We'll do a fairly lighthearted one for Halloween time, then that should take us nicely into the festive season

can we have light hearted murder in it?

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I love the bluntness and directness of this. I hated the idea of lush coins from the start. I saw it would be used to buy things other than tip authors but lush management think that’s ok and use coins however you want.. it’s just another example of Jello Biafra’s song That’s Progress

remind me to send you coins for name-checking Jello Biafra. met him once, btw. REALLY nice guy. and smart. DKs still get played here at Casa de sprite. them and The Ramones. \m/

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pay no attention to the willfully ignorant for they are not interested in changing.

Quote by Chryses

I also expect AI to be disruptive.

People who make a living by producing text must deal with increasingly effective Large Language Models.

 

AI has also, by sifting tirelessly through in weeks amounts of data that would have taken years if done by hand, already facilitated the discovery of two new antibiotics (halicin, abaucin).

yeah, we really don't want to speed up the discovery of medicines and cures, do we.

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Yes, and information is very important in war and other applications.

as are economics.

i'm not sure what kind of abuse Ms Heil received on Twitter. if it was simply people complaining about her article, than that's fair. if it was death threats and people using vile and misogynistic language (which is what i expect is what happened) then no. no one deserves that kind of abuse and, if that's what happened, i'd have to side with Noll with calling you a sick dude. no one deserves that kind of abuse for any reason. sadly, it's become a common place tactic with MAGA and the far right - somehow they think it's acceptable. being a woman, i find it very uncomfortable, since it bleeds over into dealing with anyone, especially women, that they don't agree with on any issue. or women who stand up for themselves when confronted with such behavior. ever get abused for objecting to being talked to vulgarly or being groped? that is exactly the atmosphere being condoned here.

thanks, guys. i had a nice day and seeing this made me smile. always nice to get a little love.

fuck you. that is all.

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Wait! In Colorado, where smoking dope is legal, she was booted for vaping?

For once in your life, Felix, you might actually be correct.

vaping while in the audience during a show, yeah. not the same as vaping while hanging out in the parking lot.

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If you're thinking about it as graffiti, then the document being defaced is the Constitution of your country.

what are you going on about this time?

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Dude, Biden was pulling Dubya’s strings that whole time in the early 2000s.

Biden started WWI ya know - he had archduke Ferdinand assinated by the illuminati.

Quote by sthtxs

All of the illegals need to go back! They are bringing STDs, mumps, measles, and possibly untreatable TB. And don't forget Covid if that is a real thing still. Keep in mind they required you the citizen to be vaccinated.

Another issue is the millions spent on this human debris that is of zero use to society. Few of them have any job skills just like our existing ghetto populations of various ethnicities.

well, if you take a look at history, that means, unless you're native american, you should probably get the hell out of here too.

human debris, btw. wow. yes, they are garbage people. good to know that we have some compassionate members here. btw, those people without any job skills are also keeping the economy from tanking as well as putting food on your plate - i assume you eat produce in some form or another?

now, excuse me while i tend to my wife who's sick with imaginary covid. i'll let her know to just stop pretending and get back to work. thanks!

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GOP leaders like Mayor Adams?

Adams isn't a member of the GOP.

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I find crap like this extremely offensive. I've known gay men, lesbians and trans people, long before it became les causes des jours, when before HIV was grip. I vote conservative because the other choice is putting Government into the bedroom. It wasn't Trump who was spanked by the Circuit Court for suppression of speech.

As for the original question, I don't think there is a single answer to the question any more than I think that conservatives are the only phobic people in the country. Some fear themselves, some fear the retribution of God, some believe that because history evolved from libertine Rome and Greece at the same time Christianity arose there is a connection between social evolution and repression of sexuality. [removed by moderator due to being irrelevant to present discussion]

I was a young teen when Christine Jorgenson had her sex change operation. If I were inclined to believe the popular press at all, I'd blame the rise in phobic behavior on Obama prefering to hide in the closet. As far as I can tell, none of the rhetoric got really vehement until his ascendency. "Whatever floats your goat" was the watchword of my generation and the one after that. Things started getting wierd when Gore lost and kept bending after that.

pretty sure Mr Obama isn't gay, so that really makes no sense whatsoever. and, actually, things got REALLY vehement after Trump was elected and he made it okay for all the extremists to speak up and follow up their words with action.

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The amount of people from the lgbt community who have committed mass homicides far outnumber straight people who have killed someone for their sexual identity or orientation.

list them, please.

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Glad to see you're good with me voting for what I think is the right direction, even though I get the impression you think it's a bare minimum.

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What's the "ant-lgbtq agenda"?

I'll admit I don't follow LGBT stuff much, certainly not as closely as you seem to. But I haven't seen the anti-LGBT agenda you're talking about.

For example - there's more, not less, 'L', 'G', and 'B' legal protection now than there's been in the past, so that's not the issue. The Colorado wedding cake decision was decided on Free Speech grounds, so that isn't it.

As I've said, I don't follow LGBT stuff, so if there's LGB legislation you know about that I don't, I'm openly asking you to show them to me.

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As for the 'T', are you saying that trying to save women's sports for women is anti-transgender? If you are, then there are many people who don't agree with you. I think they've got a valid point - male bodies are physically bigger, faster, and stronger than female bodies. Follow the science.

The other big social push back I'm aware of is against the idea a child knows enough about being an adult to make a life changing decision to go from boy to girl or girl to boy. I think that's a pretty shaky idea. Even there, I think in California, there's pending legislation that'll permit a kid's teacher to not tell the kid's parents about the kid's wants and plans, so that's still being debated there.

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This is a long post for me, but I'm trying to be open about my questions about what you've said. I sure hope nobody removes it.

it is the bare minimum. doesn't mean i don't appreciate it, but yeah, bare minimum. as far as the anti-lgbtq agenda goes, you might be interested in this article: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/roundup-of-anti-lgbtq-legislation-advancing-in-states-across-the-country

A majority of the bills being introduced and passed are anti-trans. a majority, but not all. and yes, there are plenty of people who don't agree with me. i'm used to that. some people REALLY don't agree with me. lol

it is not legal for children to go through transitioning through surgery or estrogen/testosterone treatment. they can identify as whatever gender they wish, change their pronouns, look or dress how they wish, but that's the extent of it.

and think about it, if there is legislation pending about kids not wanting their parents being told about wants and plans, i think that says more about the atmosphere at home than anything else. if a kid is afraid of outing themselves to their parents, you gotta wonder what their home life is like.

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The New York City mayor said: "The city we knew we're about to lose."

Perhaps the White House will respond now. I hope it will.

new york is pretty big. not sure where it's going to get lost. i mean, i bet i could still find it.

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I think what is kind in the minds of some is not necessarily kind in the minds of others.

how about you stop trying to derail the thread and get back on topic, please.

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Not everyone agrees about what constitutes being kind to people.

i think kindness is pretty universally agreed on, but you do you.

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That is one of the reasons why we have elections.

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because of intolerant Christians.

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I am unsure that will be satisfactory.

why would it be unsatifactory - so much better than voting for people with an ant-lgbtq agenda. every step in the right direction is a... well, a step in the right direction.

here's the kind of things i'm looking for. ever contacted a politician and voiced your opinion on anti-lgbtq laws and voiced your support of gay rights? ever been with a group of people talking about 'the gays' or 'queers' or 'fags' and spoken up against that kind of talk? ever witnessed harassment or bullying of gays and stepped in? ever seen a pride flag outside a shop and told the owner 'right on'? do you display any kind of pro-lgbtq paraphanalia at your place or on your car? donate or volunteer to gay youth programs? and

, i am not demanding these things. i am simply putting them out there for people to think about. that is what support is. yes, voting for politicians supporting pro-lgbtq agendas is awesome. there's just so much more you can do.

i mean, seriously, i do a lot of things in support of other minorities that i am not a part of, simply because it's just the right thing to do. i even support straights and protect them from bullying, harassment, and other things. (it's literally part of my job).

really, the thing is, just look after each other despite all the labels - straighty, gay, male, female, young, old, asian, hispanic, black, middle eastern, jewish, what ever religion or non-religion... just be fucking kind go people. it's easy once you get in the habit and it actually makes you feet good.

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The title of the thread implies ALL. Own it.

btw, since i have your attention, when was the last time you stood up for someone in the LGBTQ community. i'm not talking about declaring yourself non-homophobic in an anonymous forum post on the internet. when was the last time you stepped out of your comfort zone and supported someone? not saying you haven't, but just giving you something to think about.

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The title of the thread implies ALL. Own it.

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The title of the thread implies ALL. Own it.

ok, fine. the question still stands. why do so many straight people care who i love or what i do in my bedroom or how i dress or how i see myself?

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When it comes to trans people and bisexuality, some gay people are also phobic. Why isn't the OP having a go at them, too?

because they are not creating anti-LGBTQ legislature or shooting people for flying pride flags, perhaps? i'm bi, btw. number of times i've been harassed/threated by gay folk for being bi, zero. number of times i've been harrassed/threatened by straight folk for being gay. lost count. not once did i say that ALL straight folk are homophobic. just asking why some of them are.

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Perhaps he, too, is unaware others imitate his behavior.

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so... you're concerned that people who have loved ones with covid might start wearing masks until they post negative? oh, the horror!

joined.

Quote by Ironic

Another organization moves to organize sports by sex. Alaska board of education votes to ban transgender girls from competing on high school girls teams

should tattoo them to identify them, too, right?