Let’s not make unfounded and harmful claims that being LGBTQ is some sort of toxin-related defect, unless you’re prepared to provide some sort of evidence to that effect. There is ample historical evidence of the existence of LGBT individuals dating back thousands of years.
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Ava@beehaw.orgto Entertainment@beehaw.org•‘A Minecraft Movie’ Shatters Box Office Expectations With Record-Breaking $157 Million Opening Weekend6·1 month agoThey’ll definitely find a way not to do that, they just made an extra $67m to spend on lawyers to do so.
Ava@beehaw.orgto AskBeehaw@beehaw.org•I want to make an archive drive, what should I add?3·7 months agoIn general, this is definitely an area where the best approach is to just find an existing tool for what you need and use that. Especially for text data, compression is a pretty well-studied field and there are plenty of public (and open-source, if that’s a requirement) tools that will do a fantastic job at reducing size. Rolling your own is likely to result in significantly worse compression rates, and if you make an error your data could be irreparably destroyed which you won’t know until you try to access it later.
If your data is incredibly specific you might be able to do better, but it’s usually best to ignore that sort of optimization until you actually need it.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales2·7 months agoThey died doing what they loved. Placing their very life into the hands of techbro con artists.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Canada@lemmy.ca•Woman who was denied a liver transplant, after review highlighted alcohol use, has died52·8 months agoLiver failure is terminal. She was invariably going to die without the transplant. She wanted to receive the donation, her donor wanted to donate. If the success rate for a living transplant is zero that’s one thing, but that’s not being claimed here since she wasn’t eligible for procedural reasons.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Canada@lemmy.ca•Woman who was denied a liver transplant, after review highlighted alcohol use, has died231·8 months agoI’d be inclined to agree, except that her partner wanted to donate HIS liver and was prohibited from doing so as a living donation due to the alcohol use determination.
Ava@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•University of Minnesota rejects calls to divest from Israel; will limit protests to 100 people4·9 months agoI’m sure that the protest size limits of 100 will be respected at a school with 55,000 students. This is definitely a realistic and effective strategy for them to take.
Ava@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•‘Legislators don’t see me as human’: Missouri trans youth fight to survive anti-LGBTQ+ bills9·9 months agoWell of course not. They don’t see cis children as people either, just as property. You’re a person in the womb, property until you turn 18, and a drag on society after that unless you’re a christian conservative.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Chat@beehaw.org•Why I think people should consider using different pronouns in different spacesEnglish4·9 months agoThe first word you submitted in this comment chain is literally “pronouns” and the topic of conversation is your stated choice of “it/its” pronouns and implication that you use them when not engaging with individuals, like on this board.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Black Lives Matter calls on the DNC to host a virtual snap primary8·9 months agoTo be somewhat contrarian, what advantage is there in BLM raising these concerns and making this demand? What does it do, in this election cycle, to advance their agenda?
Thank you for the kind words. Not updating is not a decision we have taken lightly. I can’t speak to the specifics because I’m not tech enough to fully understand them, but I believe a major part of the reason for not updating has to do with that migration off Lemmy - that it changes the way data is stored and organized and because of such the migration process (moving comments, threads, etc. to sublinks) would need to be entirely redesigned.
https://beehaw.org/comment/3796083The instance admins have indicated in the post linked above and in several others that there isn’t really any plan to upgrade to the newer Lemmy version given the desire to move to Sublinks.
Edit: There’s some more discussion about it in this thread posted earlier today. https://beehaw.org/post/15453474
Ava@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says11·10 months agoNot even, it’s just a case of “this role was one of many eliminated as part of a larger cost-cutting measure affecting 200 employees.”
Ava@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•A manipulated video shared by Elon Musk on X -viewed more than 123 million times- mimics U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics3·10 months agoOh for sure. Actually doing this is really unfair to her, and shouldn’t happen.
I also appreciate your reasoning for calling her Vivian. Well said.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•A manipulated video shared by Elon Musk on X -viewed more than 123 million times- mimics U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics29·10 months agoHarris should share a video that mimics Elon’s voice talking about how he loves and supports his trans daughter and accepts her unconditionally as a woman.
Edit: Several people seem to have taken this seriously. For clarity, it was a joke. It would be really unfair and inappropriate to weaponize her in this way without her consent. I regret the ambiguity.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•"Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission12·10 months agoSure, but the argument isn’t “should we ban work that is based on the study of past cultural creation” it’s “we should prevent computational/corporate exploitation of past cultural creation in order to protect the interests of humans.”
Ava@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•FOX News Host Calls Zeta Phi Beta A "Colored Sorority"2·10 months agoWell, for starters, “college” uses a soft g sound.
Ava@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•FOX News Host Calls Zeta Phi Beta A "Colored Sorority"5·10 months agoI hate Fox News. I think they are a joke masquerading as news and mostly serve to fuel misinformation, fear, and hate. I have no doubt that a significant number of their staff members are incredibly racist, overtly and covertly. I don’t know enough about Kilmeade to know for sure where he sits there, but I definitely think being a Fox host is already a pretty big red flag on the “are you a racist” test.
But… I have to be honest on this one, I hear him say “college.”
Unless the page has been edited, the term “troops” is one that Chris appears to have introduced. It is not present on the linked page.