I hauled more dirt than that in my 2010 sedan last weekend to fill a couple of new garden beds.

The thing is - there are millions of other things that you could find enjoyment in that don't actively harm other people.

How about, for example, the plethora of IP that JKR plagiarized to create the HP franchise? Or anything that doesn't have harmful stereotypes of various marginalized peoples? Or one that doesn't degrade women's roles in society by actively mocking main characters, or even passively by only having a grand total of 28 named women characters across over the one million words that make up the series?

Edit: apologies, I misremembered. There are 28 named women characters within the top 100 named character as listed by number of total mentions within the series.

Even if she weren't a bigot, and she didn't use her money to actively harm people using the money she makes, you would still be better off finding some other form of media to enjoy. You don't have to land on one thing and make it your personality for the rest of your life. It's okay to grow as a person especially if you're an adult.

While I don't disagree I think it's important to keep in mind that kids and teenagers aren't stupid - they are capable of understanding that you shouldn't allow a bad person to continue to be a bad person if you have a conversation about why what JKR is doing is bad. Most of the vocal pushback that I've experienced offline has actually come from teenagers.

The problem lies squarely with millennial parents who continue to buy books/movies/games/merch for themselves or their young children because of nostalgia. They are old enough to know better, and should be held responsible for their actions.

The reason is simple: she's a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.

This is exactly the reason I'm shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don't want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.

The record was broken and he's still going!

He is more coherent after 24 hours standing and speaking than Trump is on his best days.

Are we seriously back on this again?

RIP maxis. May you one day be reborn. 😔

Mmm, nah. I'm not giving money to EA for the sims. I will continue to get every new install of sims and sims 2 from the open seas and play them with WINE without issue like I have been.

I see you EA, trying to get an emergency cash injection via nostalgia after flopping with the veilguard. This won't keep you off the chopping block forever.

I will continue to not play any of my Sony games on PC until after I see this implemented. I didn't wait out origin on steam to be bamboozled into PSN on steam. They should've seen this coming and never tried it, the stupid assholes.

Good.

I am personally very disinterested in using bikes to collect data. That's one of the benefits of traveling via bike - that the manufacturer can't just track you and everyone around you!

If the problem is that cars aren't safe around bicycles, then the solution should be to not allow cars near bicycles.

Don't tempt me with a good time.

Currently cows are the main carrier of interest for one of the two strains of bird flu that are a concern in the US. The viral particles are being detected in their milk. Hence bird flu milk.

Perhaps, but that is what I was told by my doctor for my area. Seems like she would know.

That is really helpful to know. I don't recall there being any MinuteClinics around here, but I'll take a look for next time, thank you :)

I live in NYS. I had to pay $200+ out of pocket for the booster because my medical insurance would only cover vaccines administered by a doctor's office, and the booster was only distributed to pharmacies. My medical insurance does not cover ANY prescriptions because apparently it's an optional DLC now.

Only CVS and Walgreens were given the boosters too so they could set whatever price they wanted.

I don't know a single other adult other than my partner that paid out for the booster because it was so expensive. If my immune system worked I could play roulette with vaccines too, but it doesn't so I just continue to get my physical safety held hostage for more money.

Being allosexual sounds exhausting. You get some kind of feels for a person just by looking at them? I can't wrap my head around that. Or sex drives. I don't mind participating, but I could live the rest of my life not having sex just like I could live the rest of my life not eating a specific kind of cereal.

To me sex is optional. I don't usually even think about it unless our allo centered world forces me to.

Today someone threatened to murder me.

Our car battery died during a snow storm. We only have one car, but I have an e bike and the auto parts store is less than 10 minutes from me. The roads were shit, visibility was shit, but 80% of my ride was on a state designated bike path so I figured I'd be fine for a quick trip.

I came up to the intersection in question and there was so much snow piled up between the bike path and the street I had to hop off the bike to get through it. The light was red in my favor, all traffic was stopped with no traffic coming from where the light was green. I started to cross the street and a HUGE truck waited until I was directly in front of him to slam on the gas, travel several feet at me, and then slam on the brakes just to intimidate me.

I doubt I would have survived if he had decided to just keep driving. Even if the light had changed by the time I managed to get off the road, is one life really worth less than the 20 seconds it takes to wait for someone to cross??

Is there a word for when something looks like a vulva?

Y'know, like phallic, but... That.

Okay, sure. Maybe it's not from driving specifically, but it is just from sun exposure. Which I hear Aussies get a fair bit of, yeah?