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   Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 01:15:59 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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   @mloxton
   I think that, as with other words, like "Christian" and "feminist", there is a "No True Scotsman" problem with "Capitalism".

   Most of the people hating it use a different definition than most of the people supporting it.

   So there is a great deal of mis- or dis-information due to equivocation.

   Unfortunately this pattern of moving goalposts by redefining words has become very popular on both Left and Right extremes.

   So it becomes hard to speak intelligibly about the subject.

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   sport of sacred spherical cows (beadsland@hcommons.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 11:40:14 JST sport of sacred spherical cows

   Court enjoins cut to funding.

   Only in states that challenged it.

   So many will still be hurt.

   Specifically in most radicalized places.

   Yeah, this is going well.

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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 05:45:10 JST Nowhere Girl

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   I grew up during HIV / AIDS and hearing politicians say people like me deserved to suffer and die.

   I've watched people egging trans kids into committing suicide and then bragging about it.

   So it's nice when Democrats say, "Maybe we shouldn't do that."

   But I don't expect it to last. Eventually, Democrats decide I'm not worth defending after all.

   "They cost us the election!"

   My parents used to say everything was my fault, too.

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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:01:12 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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   I realise that in the context of the current gender-binary-based legal systems of the world, many trans people have to fight to be recognised - as either a binary gender, as as non-binary. And many struggles have been fought over it.

   So like. Someone who got their F on their passport might not like simply removing all markers entirely. I have an F on my passport, and it bothers the hell out of me.

   But mentally I'm sometimes F! So X would be wrong. M felt more wrong; I usually feel more like X.

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   Shyra 🔜 Furality Umbra (shyra@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:10:17 JST Shyra 🔜 Furality Umbra

   I have an ... abnormal ... request.

   I'm in my 40s, have a decent job, and generally have survived to become what the baby gays think of as an "elder queer."

   But I've had it so much easier than these kids are going to have it, and that those who came before me had it.

   So I ask: are there some true "elder queers" out there who could proffer up some advice for the generation that's coming into their own in these dark times? I'd really appreciate it, and I think they would too.

   🏳️🌈

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   Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:13:15 JST Stu

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   @inthehands I wasn't sure where in this thread to reply, but I was told yesterday that the "secret sauce" bit to Proton (and Tuta) is that only you have the decryption key to read the contents of your email. For example, I read Tuta's security page yesterday and their email search index is on your machine, because they can't do it.

   So, it's slightly better than what is obviously a protocol never intended for private communication. Having said that, I did prefer that my email was sat outside of US jurisdiction (Cloud Act) vs having to go through an international warrant.

   Good thread, thanks for putting it together. Email is definitely one of those things that are old enough that people won't know this stuff. That everything is encrypted in transit is something I learned, actually.