the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon

While Arizona Republicans pretend that they are really not anti-abortion extremists, the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature dissolved into chaos on Wednesday when an attempt was made to repeal the 1864 pre-statehood law banning almost all abortions in the state. Before the measure could be taken up, the House was gaveled into recess.

Arizona Democrats tried to repeal abortion ban, but Republicans blocked them

Republicans are trying to have it both ways: Restrict abortion as much as possible but make it appear to voters that they are "moderate" on the issue. What happened in the Arizona legislature on Wednesday reveals how MAGA Trump Republicans actually feel deep down inside.

Whether it be ironically or purposefully, Spock is the most romantic character in TOS

We all know this but every once in a while i just remember some romantic shit hes done and i just 😍🥰😘

New theory: at least one of Kotoko's parents is a police officer and she (and her brother most likely) were trained to become police officers themselves.

More than 400 people – patients, war-displaced and healthcare staff – have been killed during Israel’s 13-day attack on the al-Shifa Hospital.

#regimechange #ffs

i know that second chances are a big theme of these books and whatnot

BUT i also feel like andrew or neil should get to kill zane. as a treat.

Lucas. When I catch you Lucas.

if anyone is going to the Chicago Steampunk Vampire convention someone PLEASE ask Mister Jimothy Butcher for lore about the Jade Court I'm DYIN HERE

if it weren’t for the FANS Ana’s parents still wouldn’t be able to retrieve their daughter’s body. your fave didn’t even have the decency to send her condolences to the family. everything related to ana is not outright said because taylor doesn’t want it to stain her precious profitable tour. a 24h stories saying that she died before the concert (a lie), announcing she wouldn’t talk about it on stage because she’s hurt (seriously?), playing a song as if it’s an honor when NOTHING connects to ana just so we don’t have visual representation of what happened, and not even ONE phone call on the low to the family???? Ana’s parents went on national television and shared that they are not getting any support from anyone. this is the person that is so connected to her fans? what a joke! this is INDEFENSIBLE and who doesn’t realize that is in a CULT.

that’s a LOT of words for “i don’t know what the fuck i’m talking about.” next time save your breath and just say that

why would someone hoping that companies being able to take people's likeness and duplicate it via software becomes illegal be "dumb as fuck"?

actors already have some ownership of their own likeness which prevents studios from making CGI copies of them when they havent been signed up to a film, so why wouldnt voice actors get ownership of their likeness?

because first of all i do not believe that owning private property is ever a good thing at all and either way owning a likeness is very different from saying "all ai impressions of a voice should be illegal". actors owning their own likeness means, in an extremely simplified way, that companies cannot make money off of tricking people into thinking somebody is part of something when they're not. it's essentially the same thing as coca-cola having a trademark on their name and logo. and voice actors already DO own their voice's likeness. see bette midler's lawsuit against ford for using a voice impressionist to sing like her in a commercial. what YOU'RE suggesting should be illegal already is, and that's not even what kellen goff (and many other people in the notes of that post) seem to be suggesting, which is that using ai to make an impression of someone's voice at all should be illegal.

i'm not saying companies should be able to take actor's likenesses. i am saying that making it illegal to make ai text to speech of an actor's voice is dumb and will only help big companies and rich people and hurt the small timers that dont have the same legal team budget. back to the idea that owning a likeness is like owning a trademark, do you think trademarks are good? what about when monster energy tries to sue every single game developer that puts the word 'monster' in their game's title? what about when adidas tried to stop the black lives matter global network from using their logo for the crime of having three stripes? do any of these instances sound like strict "intellectual property" laws help anyone but large companies?

What’s your take on originalism?

i cant go on simblr after an update bc every 5 posts is someone having a glitch that’s so obviously a mod that needs to be updated and them being like “ 😱😱😱 does anyone know what this is???” we’ve been doing this for almost 10 years pls be serious

sometimes I truly genuinely forget nuance is dead on the internet and then I have to read people who should be on the same side argue about politics on the internet and I start wanting to bash my head into a wall.

Vile minds think alike...

“The Israeli army has been fighting since 1948 onwards in a relatively decentralised way. The ‘tactical aggression’ is very high. They devolve junior officers to take quick decisions on the battlefield without going back to the senior ones. Interestingly, they took this from the Wehrmacht, the German army, in World War II,..

Israelis, taking a page from the Nazis.

To anyone who might be curious as to how things are going gameplay-wise:

I am having a lot of fun =3