Why are strangers under any obligation to validate each other?

I know you're joking, but I don't get people who unironically think like this. Like whats preventing a woman from eating lots of meat and losing money on sports betting? Like what physical barrier prevents them from doing that? None.

So how could that define manhood?

Just waiting for the day when someone can explain to me what makes a man a man without describing skills, qualities, and actions that anyone can do regardless of gender.

And don't tell me it's "have a penis", because if that were true then effeminate men wouldn't be insulted all the time for not being "real" men, and there wouldn't be toxic masculinity.

Empowerment is when people make themselves subservient around you? If you need everyone around you do defer to your ego that's not empowerment.

Yeah because no one ever picks an online username that doesn't perfectly represent their irl personality 1:1

You have no idea how this person behaves offline, you're just reacting to their username

I think a lot of the attitude I saw on mastodon about this like a year ago was one of suspicion that they wanted an open network but didn't use the fediverse standard

https://youtu.be/vppzqloM_h8?si=mjQfSM-ioV3SW9je

that SNW clip didn't rub me the right way. This video gets into why...

depending on jurisdiction they can't just arbitrarily raise rates

I mean, they shouldn't be bricking each other's computers, then they can't continue to learn with them

Just gals being pals

I think that they want to go for a big, epic, nostalgia-heavy trio of specials to entice people back in before Ncuti comes into the full series next year. I saw the tower and it's the single part of the trailer that's sticking with me. I always loved the first RTD era for it's somewhat grittier, critical view of UNIT in the context of the rising surveillance state of the early 2000s, so this tower seems like an extension of that viewpoint, given how entrenched said anti-terrorist dogma has gotten.

"The force existing all around us" is something that comes from George Lucas himself, idk what this article is complaining about. It's a far more compelling universe if everyone exists on a spectrum of force sensitivity ranging from Sabine all the way up to Anakin. It like the idea and think it aligns with what George was trying to do with the PT era and showing how the jedi weren't ways right, didn't have a monopoly on the force, and that just because you couldn't leap from buildings and weird a Lightwave didn't mean you could open yourself to the force. It's meant to be a somewhat mystical, unknowable mechanic of the Star Wars universe.

Meanwhile casually ignoring the extradjudicial assassination of American citizens too. So much for our legal system and rights.

On isolated, super rural areas where you're the only person on a dirt road for miles, I think it might be unavoidable during parts of the year or if the road is really intensive to bike (steep, sharp curves for example) BUT that's where you should be able to drive to your village or town center and pick up the 15-30 minute regional train.

Likewise that would mean the people closer to town who might already be walking to the barber or liquor store would also be able to walk to the station if they needed to go farther.

Cowards

Neurodivergent people everywhere appreciated how it made them go to being 5 bucks at a gas station instead of 20 + shipping

I believe Kbin already fills that role either as a fork or at least as a similar platform

It's a pretty common joke for libright people

this would be cool, but I could see it causing issues for places like Memory Alpha, which have a really strict and well-defined manual of style and acceptable references. I frequently see things on other wikis that you'd never see on Wookiepedia, Tardis Data Core, and/or Memory Alpha, like fanart embedded in articles, links to YouTube videos, incomplete drafts without proper tagging, etc.

EDIT: Conversely I could really see it benefiting the smaller wikis, especially ones with lots of overlap with each other (all the various Marvel/DC wikis, the specific Clone Wars wiki separate from the main Star Wars one, etc)

I really hate how interwiki navigation sucks on Fandom. Like, they've done all this branding and centralizing of the Fandom platform, yet I'm pretty sure they only fairly recently started logging you in on all wikis whenever you signed in on one.

Its all just to try and be some hip pop culture thing for use to "consoom" without any effort to actually take advantage of being a central platform for the repository of lore from across culture.