Aielman15

A politician from one of the modern countries that still imprisons people for lese-majesty wants to end social media anonymity? Sounds like a great idea!

However, Tintin remains under copyright in the EU until 2054.

What the fuck, EU? Since when you’re shittier than the US?

Copyright shouldn’t last more than one hundred years, ffs.

Terminator was almost correct. The real terminator will be Arnie walking around in a fursuit.

I’ll be back. UwU

From the article:

“Conversion therapy,” also known as “reparative therapy,” is a debunked practice that attempts to forcefully change the gender identity or sexual orientation of the patient, which has often been compared to “torture” by its recipients and health care providers alike.

I’m writing this because I was also making the same mistake. I read “Kentucky bans conversion therapy” and I jumped to the conclusion that a republican was banning gender-affirming surgery or something like that (also because I’m not American and I’m not familiar with who Beshear is: he’s actually a Dem politician).

I’m Italian. School explains all there is to know about sex and stuff, so I never needed the “talk” with my parents. I also had a bigger brother that would tell me everything way before the time lol

About drugs, I think I already got everything from TV? I certainly didn’t need my parents explaining to me that drugs are bad.

EDIT: For those curious about how/when SexEd is taught in school in Italy: I had SexEd in my 5th year of elementary school (10yo), 3rd year of middle school (13 yo) and again in high school (I think it was the second year, so 15 yo, and then in my fourth year as well, when I was 17 yo). My parents were required to consent to the school teaching us SexEd only in elementary school; no consent form was required from middle school onwards, it was mandatory.

And I think that drugs were discussed in school as well. I think in middle and high school, around the same time as SexEd.

Never heard of it, but it sounds like it was a great place. Sad to see it fail against established giants of the internet. I would’ve been interested in trying it out before the end.

I think this is a problem that multiple small realities like this (including Lemmy) are facing. There are people interested in them, but they don’t know them, so they can’t join.

His performance may have drawn some gasps from the audience, but I doubt it had the same effect on his fan base. He was not there to speak to the US as a whole; he was there to speak to his die hard supporters - those who actually enjoy his racist, sexist, hateful remarks and voted for him in 2016 because of them; the same people who were willing to stage a coup in his favour in 2021, after four years of ignorance, pettiness and hatred.

His strategy against Biden was winning because it gathered him bipartisan support - even Democrats were dubious about Biden being able to do a good job - but now that that’s out of the question, Trump has fallen back to his usual script, because it’s too late to do anything else. After all, questioning Obama’s birth and throwing sexist remarks against Clinton won him an election; why wouldn’t it work again? Just stick to the fanbase that won you an election once and almost won you another the second time, and hope for the best.