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Azarova
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We have something like over a thousand custom emotes that can be posted with :emote-name-here:, which autofills to uploading an emote as an image.
Damn, I actually believed that was real with all the enshittification going around
wait, we could italicize them?? i never even thought to try that
it was a meme a lot of trans sex workers were doing in october a couple of years ago
plenty of tenure track positions in China but far fewer here.
Every singe one of my professors, regardless of how long they've been at the university, has been an adjunct professor, and therefore paid extremely poorly. The only exception was a US history professor who spent half the class time talking about how Trump was the greatest president or whatever.
And if a company has had an app that’s functioned for 5 years they’ll update it now every 8 months in a way that either breaks all functionality or puts in an awful redesign that has basically the same outcome
I'm still upset about this happening to the weatherunderground app years ago, it was perfect for my needs and then they fucked it all up for no reason.
oh damn, didn't know that. my bad. thought it just meant like spinning 180 on your heel or something :blob-no-thoughts:
STOP CALLING THEM THE STASI THE STASI HUNTED FASCISTS THESE ARE FASCISTS THEY’RE LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE
It goes so much further. The faceturn the GDR took in terms of policy on queer people was literally a recommendation from the Stasi.
In 1985 the Stasi finally produced a new set of guidelines on how to prevent what it termed “the political misuse of homosexuals.” Some of its recommendations were unsurprising, such as ramping up surveillance of gay activist leaders. But its final recommendation was entirely novel. It insisted that the government find “resolution[s] to homosexuals’ humanitarian problems.” That is, the Stasi decided to actually address activists’ demands. Their rationale for doing so was actually rather simple. If the government tackled gay men and lesbians’ concerns, then all those church-affiliated activist groups would have no reason to exist. No complaints to be made, Stasi officials reasoned, meant nothing to organize about.
Thus began a series of genuinely radical changes in East German society. The state-censored newspapers, which for decades had hardly ever mentioned homosexuality, suddenly started printing dozens of stories about gay men and lesbians. The government also freed periodicals to accept personal advertisements from gay men and lesbians looking for partners. The state tasked Berlin psychology professor Reiner Werner with writing a book titled Homosexuality: A Call to Knowledge and Tolerance, which appeared in 1987. Its initial run of 50,000 copies sold out in a matter of weeks. (It would also approve a gay film, Coming Out, that premiered on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell.) In addition, the state began granting official recognition to gay groups, such as the Sunday Club, a secular activist collective run by Sillge that had been meeting in East Berlin since the early 1980s. And it authorized East Germany’s first gay discos, such as Die Busche, a club that still exists today. The government even allowed gay chapters within the Free German Youth (FDJ), the state’s official youth scouting organization, and mandated that all FDJ members attend educational sessions dealing with homosexuality. All of a sudden, East German youth were required to attend meetings of gay groups such as the Sunday Club. Remembering this moment, Rausch told me, “The joke was that suddenly everyone was standing in line to get into the Sunday Club,” only a couple years after it had been a target of state repression. In 1987 the East German Supreme Court struck down the law that set a higher age of consent for gay men and lesbians. The following year, the military allowed gay soldiers, reversing a policy the government had instituted in the 1950s.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/gay-liberation-behind-iron-curtain/
Imagine a capitalist government doing anything remotely like this
the B column gives an idea as to what he's classifying each word as, and sorting by it makes it a bit more clear. i think violence is under the one named "pub_safety" but that has some weird ones like cia, dia, fbi, dhs, blm (lmao, really showing his ass here), pornhub (???) and a bunch of other weird words and phrases.
here's the newest one: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369649460_Frames_of_Misinformation_Extremism_and_Conspiracism_January_2023
figure 7 looks a lot different now lmao :hexbear-shining:
realism in games is getting out of hand