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So this is a horrific stereotype, and it has an even more sinister historical precedent.

Back in the era of slavery (that is specifically in the US, the slavery of Africans abducted from their home countries), there were specifically slave "breeding farms" where slavers would commit massive amounts of sexual assault of captive slaves in order to produce slaves they selected by their own arbitrary metric for specific physical qualities... and to save on what can, again horrifically, be referred to as "import costs."

I'm not saying this "worked" or produced the results that slavers wanted. What I am saying is that this specific way of subjugating and dehumanizing people has had lasting effects in both perception of black folks and in the ways that systemic racism works.

Everyone needs a union

Hell yeah. I love to hear that.

I can only hope they get the Nuremberg treatment.

This isn't actually a real issue. Your language preference isn't the same as someone pushing you to change your own pronouns.

Thanks for being receptive to treating people with decency (I mean that), but this conflict you are perceiving isn't actually a thing. Unisex and gender neutral in this context mean the same thing -- this is just the more commonly used term in this era, but that's just because patterns of language usage have changed.

Mowing lawns is killing pollinators.

People put so much energy into growing grass. Seeding, liming, fertilising, watering... so they can create endless, mindless busywork and destroy biodiversity.

Lawns were originally a status symbol. A "hey lol look at me I have enough land I don't have to grow food." Shameful that it took off as a defacto standard.

The moon landing happened. With technology available at that time, it would not have been possible to fake in that way.

You are getting downvoted because you're just wrong.

The fact that generative AI is being used as a means of large corporations consolidating even more wealth rather than attempting to free the working class from shitty, menial jobs shows that we're way the fuck off with how we conceptualize of "work".

This should be a good thing, but for lots of people this will suck.

America desperately needs to enact policies that put restrictions on wealth accumulation. There are lots of ways to do this.

Amelie