Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange, defended Rowling in a 2022 interview with The Times, calling the backlash “horrendous” and adding, “You have to respect people’s views — if they’re not harming anyone.”

Which is a very important point. With great power comes great responsibility and all. She has a platform and chose to use it to spread hate. She’s way past expressing a simple opinion. She’s affecting people’s lives.

I mean, sure, complaining and while doing the same thing and expecting a different result is one strategy. AAA games are purely capitalistic endeavours.

The weird people still make tons of indie games.

*in the USA 🥱

Pass out from over heating probably.

How? In queer unfriendly environments I feel like I pass the idea that “it’s possible to be gay but look normal” and I hate it.

How does removing bus drivers help encourage public transport use?

Nothing in the article seems to explain how this is better than just adding more buses and bus lines to the fleet. Except this:

“It relieves our public transport system of one key constraint, which is manpower,” Mr Siow said. “And it will add to the range of options that people have in HDB estates.”

Singapore must be a very special place. Never heard of there being a lack of manpower. It’s more likely that they don’t want to deal with paying this manpower.

Nah we’re past this. Now it’s “The AI is reasoning”

I’m sorry bro. But I must ask. If he haunting your left ball now?

“I like you. You’re gay, but you’re normal”

🫠 I always feel like my non flamboyant ass is a betrayal to all gays everywhere.

Sexuality is a person’s decision? 🤨

Why start with heating, which is absolutely essential?? This is pure evil. Many people can barely afford to keep their homes warm over the winter.

Click bait. The report is really grasping at straws. It’s like saying any company that uses AWS servers is linked to the Israel government.

Zuck has explicitly said they are reducing moderation and relying more on user reports, so…

Most likely, anti-pride users kept reporting the page until a bored, or homophobic, moderator finally approved the reports. Another possibility is Meta are replacing all moderation with AI. In both cases, this is still on Meta since this directly comes from the degrarion of protection of DEI groups.

It’s 100% selfish interests and 0% user interests.

Stores can’t dictate what’s legal, so this is not illegal. It’s just not allowed under some store rules, but the most they can do is kick you out.

It’s called being in denial. You used to be in, and now you’re not. Some people’s personality was built around the concept of being in, so that crumbles when they can no longer keep up.

The nectar at home: a dirty flower.

Yup, I think passes would work, together with restrictions of where they park, and some system of effective enforcement.

I disagree with the ban of car ownership though. That’s just not the way. If you make it convenient enough to use alternatives, most people including the more vulnerable people will adopt it. Most people with families use cars because it’s just not practical to take the whole family in the bus. Not to mention people with disabilities that can’t use transit (e.g. Chronically I’ll or severe autism). Bans would affect these people disproportionately.