It's a different cultural tradition
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Are refurbished units not the result of a repair?
Canada has unions
Russian Deferation[sic], eh? You can only defer the dissolution so long
That's the same argument as arguing as Canada doesn't have to do anything about climate change because China and India can fix it on their own with their bigger population. We have to make some changes on the individual level to be good role models and to pressure those same corporations
Statute of limitations. Fleeing the country is a great trick if you can manage it. Roman Polanski had the same idea
Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light
He's so smart that he fled a country that doesn't extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)
It's a bland corporate thing for teaching employees to be nice to each other and to not discriminate
A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction
"If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum." - Vegetius
Big bureaucracies do tend to have waste, but spending less reduces both useful spending and wasteful spending equally. Cutting a budget does not achieve virtue. US military spending keeps the world at peace
I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was
Approximately the same thing that was wrong with POC that led to BIPOC. Prefixing 2S centres the First Nations experience which has added intersectional layers, just as prefixing BI to POC centres the black and indigenous experiences which have added intersectional layers
In case you are wondering about I and A, that's intersex and asexual/aromantic
Arguably the (first) Q letter covers everyone, but also there are people who grew up with it as a slur used against them who aren't keep on taking the word back.
QUILTBAG was a cute rearrangement when I was in uni two decades ago. LGBTQ+ is not the oldest form either. G used to come before L, etc