Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.
It’s also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein’s Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.
Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?
I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn’t be liberals. I do think that the “opportunity for education” approach is more effective than outright hostility.
I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and “dunking” trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.
Just FYI to people that you can get remanufactured ink cartridges for a fraction of the price (around half) of OEM. They are sometimes modified to contain more ink in the same body. The company I purchased from included a prepaid bag to send used cartridges back for reuse.
Also while I’m in PSA mode “REDUCE, REUSE, and then recycle”. Sometimes we skip over the first two steps since reducing is not marketable and reusing rarely is (although reusing printer cartridges appears to be a sustainable business).
I think that video was confirmed
Just giving the app the CBS news treatment
The entire concept of “for-profit news” is a conflict of interest.
Technically all of these responses are political. I think we know what OP meant though, and the discussion is all the better for it!
Tbf Gold_E_Lox was being snarky in the first place
Given that you’re underage, I’m going to lock this thread before it gets weird.
I hope you can find the community and support you need, especially if it is offline.
No offense (sounds like you questions were answered anyway), but I’m going to remove your post since c/asklemmy is not for support! Feel free to DM or use c/Lemmy if you need any more help!
tribal members have been citizens far longer than the United States has even existed
I understand the point you are making here, although I want to add that most American Indians were not United States citizens until 1924.
The United States is not their country, but a force that is occupying their land. It is more complicated than that, but it needs to be a part of the conversation, in my opinion.
If anyone is interested in the liberation of American Indians/First Nations I encourage you to get a copy and read “Custer Died for Your Sins” today!
Also, if you don’t want to be a colonizer, the first step is to actually study the history of the people in your local region. The history of indigenous people and settlers is not necessarily separate, but intertwined.
In order to stand together with tribes, most of whom gave been held in poverty and disrespected (and worse!) by the United States, it is important to thoroughly understand the topics at hand so we can bring about the proper restitution. Despite the efforts of settlers to erase these people and their history, we have the opportunity to stand with them and write a new chapter.
I don’t think you meant it that way, but there are many many lands that belong to American Indians, but are not federally recognized due to:
I’m also down to go with “all the land is theirs regardless as the treaties were signed under duress”.
Both of those countries took notes from the United States, particularly with respect to the success of the genocide of American Indians.
No you pretty much laid it out in you comment, I think it tracks.
Having a misleading UI and making not-unprobable assumptions about viewers feels less problematic though?
I don’t think I particularly matters where the situation lands on the “scale of problematicness”, but youre correct it does exist and it isn’t at the far end of the spectrum. Nonetheless, it is a symptom of a greater social issue (patriarchy), and it warrants discussion and criticism.
The porn industry is made up of corporations, which will tend to reproduce the same heiarchies that exist in society, since that’s what’s most profitable. It isn’t inherently problematic to objectify people in a sexual context, however it isn’t applied equally, and is reproduced in the user controls on most porn sites.
They just assume everyone is a straight male or a gay male, so the choice that gets presented is “gay stuff” or “everything else”. This is reflected in user stats, but it is also going to be self fulfilling. It would make more sense to be able to select one or more options of the broad “straight/gay/les/other” if pornhub existed in a relatively equal society. I don’t expect them to do this, but I do expect my online community to be able to discuss it and how it both reflects and reproduces harmful social constructs.
Idk if that clarifies anything, but I think you and I are in the same ballpark?
OK and they don’t have to cater in a misogynistic way, but they do, and I’m criticizing that decision.
We can leave it at the same volume. Its not “all men are bad” even, no need to make things up, its embedded misogyny, even perpetuated by women at times.
The question why is “lesbian” porn, in the “straight” section?
Why would a straight woman on a porn site expect to see lesbian porn when they select to see straight porn? It’s a double standard.
If men (or anyone else) wanted to watch lesbian porn, there’s nothing wrong with that, it just seems out of place in the straight section, cause that’s not what it is.
I didn’t actually see it myself, but I heard a lot of people thought it looked AI at first and that it was genuine (alternate angles and stuff like you said). It’s good to check up on it (sounds like you actually put the effort in) so we can try to keep our facts straight, as hard as that is these days.