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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Yea I thought of that name because that’s the phrasing used by the organization at my former university, which I know has done good work. In case you find any helpful resources, their website is here: https://www.amssasc.ca/

    I’m sure there are many other excellent organizations out there.

    Typically the type of content you can’t post on my communities

    Yea that’s my bad, I haven’t kept up with that community since subscribing to it a few years ago. It looks like the discussion in that community has gotten less focussed and shifted towards discussing areas of controversy. I agree it’s not the kind of stuff you’d want for your community.

    When I first subscribed to it, it was closer to what they still have in their sidebar:

    This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.

    All the more reason why your new communities will be helpful :)





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    There is also no proof that fear motivated Musk to delete the posts. He never publicly explained why he removed them. Instead, he joked about the election results on X, writing, “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time.” He also made comments about building data centers in space, which remained on his account.

    I’m not sure what the fear rumor is trying to get at. What would he be afraid of? This post makes it sound like he shared something incriminating and then deleted it


  • Hi @FiniteBanjo@feddit.online, would you mind editing this comment to point out that you are referring to African Americans? I think a chain of midunderstandings in this thread are causing people to think your comment was meant to be racist. Looking through your posting history, I don’t think that was your intent.

    For anyone else that is coming across this thread, here is my interpretation of what happened:

    • Some users are seeing this post as it was originally intended, which is that current laws are not necessarily a good reflection of a fair/just/ethical society. Others are speaking to the idealized side, where an ideal system can slowly align the legal system to what the community sees as ethical. I think those two different views led to the argument in this thread, where multiple people were arguing against a position that the other person was not actually putting forward.
    • I think BillyClark came at this post arguing for the first position, and misunderstood your comment to suggest that the current system is just (which you didn’t intend). Meanwhile, I see that FiniteBanjo was engaged with users that argued against voting in this weeks midterm election (or voting third party), and I think FiniteBanjo misunderstood BillyClark’s position thinking it was against voting, and thus grouped them in with “tankies”
    • With these two comments in particular, BillyClark was referring to how the enslaved population in the US couldn’t participate in the democratic process (and thus couldn’t influence the legal system), but they used present tense (“don’t get to vote” vs “didn’t get to vote”) while discussing slavery.
    • When FiniteBanjo then quoted that part of the comment and linked to the Obama’s, it looked like they were calling the Obama’s as “Africans” (rather than the intended rebuttal of “African Americans can indeed vote”). I don’t think FiniteBanjo meant it that way based on the posting history (source 1 source 2)



  • My province switched to permanent DST this year, so we’re experiencing it for the first time and it’s… not that bad 🤷

    I’m in Vancouver where it’s already cloudy, and some kids were already heading to school an hour early for various extracurriculars

    IMO if kids going to school in the dark is really a problem, then it should be fixed by adjusting when school starts and ends rather than changing the clock for every single person. I like having more sunlight in the afternoon when I can make use of it, compared to in the morning when it’s used up by transit / getting ready for work and school.

    However I wouldn’t mind it too much if we had switched to permanent standard time either. I’m just glad that we don’t have to change anymore.