I don't remember there being transphobic jokes in The Golden Girls, so maybe that?
I just used the spoiler button in the lemmy interface. I don't think there is a standard way of formatting spoilers in markdown?
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I used to occasionally watch James Somerton's videos. Holy shit, what a fundamentally uncreative piece of shit. I can't believe he exploited such an important discourse and niche just for his own gain.
I look forward to the day these bigots are seen in the same light as segregationists. Assuming that day comes, that is.
Benefit of being a lightweight in Australia is I don't have to bankrupt myself to get drunk
It's Australia. We have a very heavy alcohol tax on everything except wine.
Companies are always going to make shitty changes, but that doesn't change the reality that industry leaders are usually in that position for a reason. You simply cannot replace After Effects without kneecapping yourself. GIMP is nowhere near as capable as Photoshop. It is impossible to develop iOS apps without Xcode, and difficult/unsupported to develop Android without Android Studio.
You can piss off your high horse as much as you want, but it is fantastical to claim that professions should hamstring their work and sacrifice reality and practicality for the sake of some ideology belief. Companies aren't choosing these standards because they love giving away money, they're doing it because they recognise that rejecting a $300 annual expense for $10,000 worth of greater productivity is financially irresponsible.
I just read Yellowface. Hated nearly every character but loved the book. Also read Our Wives Under the Sea and it instantly became one of my favourite books ever.
Ah, the James Damore archetype of an engineer. I bet they get wet dreams imagining themselves as the Howard Roark of programming (and just as delusional).
To put it in list form, my recomendations are:
- Nevada, Imogen Binnie
- Small Beauty, Jia Qing Wilson-Yang (a favourite of mine)
- Honeybee, Craig Silvey
- This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
The classic trans fiction book is "Nevada", by Imogen Binnie. That is more by trans women for trans women though. My personal favourite in the genre is "Small Beauty" Jia Qing Wilson-Yang. It's a very floaty book about a mixed race trans woman dealing with the death of her cousin, to whom she was close. It's really good, but again more for trans-women.
"Honeybee" by Craig Silvey is very good and is more written for a general audience. It follows the journey of a trans person coming to terms with their identity. Although it was written by a non-trans author, it is still well written, sympathetic, and decent representation. "This Is How It Always Is" by Laurie Frankel is another good one about parents of a trans child. Very sweet, and obviously written by the parent of a trans child.
It's difficult (as in you need massive market recognition of which the specific colour is a major component), but you are allowed to trademark specific shades of a colour. Even then, like regular trademarks, you can only make the trademark in the specific field in which it is used commercially. In this case "Cadbury Purple" is registered in class 30, which covers most kinds of chocolate packaging. You can see their registration here.