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Canadian dad, husband and cat guy.
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What happened was that non-accepting parents of trans youth began to feel social pressure to get the standard treatments for their gender dysphoric kids so they burned down the field so even accepting parents can't treat their kids now.

My first job was updating point of sale software for Y2K. Tiny company but they had 6 of us in a literal basement reviewing and updating thousands of lines of code. Nothing broke because they spent probably a years worth of revenue preventing it. That was one small niche software company.

America's free thinking genius boys are screaming and crying about what the correct level of racism is and no compromise is possible, one side has to lose here

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

we have more than a month before inauguration so it would be really cool if everyone — press, posters, everyone — would stop reacting to shit trump says as if he has unilateral, unchecked power

every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written

America threatens Canada with a 25% tariff on all exports, and Alberta's government responds by....defending America?

I truly don't understand how people keep falling for this. It has never once worked. I get the appeal of saying a magic spell and getting a free house. But it has never worked. Yet people still think it'll work for them.