That’s just it. It’s fetishism, really. Tankies ignore the modern revolution for the aesthetic trappings of a failed one.

Tough question.

I do doubt that the US would allow a foreign entity to buy it given the volume of domestic infrastructure/organizations that are reliant on Chrome. It would carry an inherent national security risk, as hypocritical as that is for the US to say.

The other problem for an independent Chrome company is that Chromium itself is an unprofitable FOSS project, and Chrome only derives value from integration with Google services (as Edge does with its Windows integration).

It’s not impossible, looking at Mozilla. But it would mean Chrome would have to become a very different kind of browser.

The Edge relationship also makes things interesting, as presumably without continued investment from Google, Microsoft would end up becoming the primary maintainers of the Chromium project.

I mean what I said. You can preserve content and make it as accessible as you want, and I don’t think there will be much resistance from the government in doing so. But that doesn’t solve the bigger issue of states having the authority to say “We don’t want to teach this content in our school systems.” How do you address that?

• Even if the content is free and accessible outside of the classroom, what makes a student want to pick up a book on their own? Fewer US students today read for fun than they used to. And if their classes do not provide the critical reading skills to sufficiently understand the content of a given text, how much can they appreciate it?

• One could suggest establishing a national curriculum that could realign these renegade states. But in the current political climate, that would be more likely used to make the problem worse, leading to bans on a national scale.

• Private schools are not beholden to government entities when it comes to content they do/do not include in their curriculum. But I can promise the solution is not to privatize school systems en masse, which would be disastrous for a number of reasons.

So instead of focusing on preserving the content that is being taken out of classrooms, which isn’t otherwise going anywhere, why not focus more on meeting students where they are? Ensure that LGBT+ representation continues to exist in other forms of media that they consume. Normalize being queer in all spaces, not just the classroom. Provide support and social services for queer youth. Eventually people will come to realize that these identity politics are a waste of time and leading to worse outcomes in conservative states. Reformed curricula will follow.

The only thing is that there’s not really a vehicle for the fed to implement those bans. For all the weaknesses in the US constitution, freedom of speech is a historically tough nut for the government to crack. Not that they haven’t tried, but they have almost no control over what media is and is not allowed to be published publicly.

What is working is when states get to decide what material to provide in schools. That includes required curriculum and what books they will buy and offer in classrooms and libraries. So the state can teach (or not teach) whatever they want within the confines of their own schools, but there’s nothing they could do if, say, someone was to set up shop on the sidewalk across the street and hand out free copies of Gender Queer to any students who walk by. Nor could the fed, as it stands.

So we’ve led our horses to water, but how do we make them drink? How do you convince the students to want to pick up that book and read it for fun, and how can you help them understand what it all means when the critical reading skills for queer literature are not being taught?

I’m not expecting much to be banned or censored, per se, but I can see more GOP-controlled states removing a lot of LGBT books and other media from schools.

In general, education in the US is left to the states, which means I’d mainly just expect a continuation of the trend we’ve been seeing for a few years now in places like Florida and Tennessee of removing queer books from schools.

From the federal perspective, I’d also anticipate the possibility of FAFSA being gutted and making higher ed inaccessible to more students. If this sort of content is not covered in public schools, there will be fewer opportunities to study queer literature later on. And even then, state universities in red states are subject to the same restrictions as their public schools, so those students may be SOL unless they have the means to study out of state.

The main problem is: even if the material remains pretty freely available outside of schools, how do you make the people who would benefit from it the most feel driven to seek it out independently?

I hope so. Less cost to the taxpayer, and the high calorie and sodium count will send Trump to an early grave.

Jerboa does not

There are valid uses for AI. It is much better at pattern recognition than people. Apply that to healthcare and it could be a paradigm shift in early diagnosis of conditions that doctors wouldn’t think to look for until more noticeable symptoms occur.

Since the economy/inflation are already on a rebound trajectory after the pandemic, he’ll likely have a better economy at the start of his presidency than Biden, which will be credited to Trump’s “day 1 dictator” policies.

If the economy declines further in the latter half of his presidency, once all of the tariffs are more widely felt and income inequality continues to worsen, that decline will be attributed to a probable loss of the Republicans’ Senate or House majorities (or both) come 2026.

And if you read that and come to the realization “Don’t you mean in 2027, when the newly-elected folks actually begin their terms?” Just consider how much of the US’ poorly-planned pandemic response in 2020 was attributed to Biden…before he took office in 2021.

Implement a keyword filter and I’m in.

I just have to continue reminding myself that people somehow continued to live happy, fulfilling lives during the fall of the Roman Empire.

Is your refrigerator running?

Yes?

Then you’d better go catch it!

Shit fuck there it goes.

It was good because the people making it were competent. That’s really the long and short of it.

The Fallout series released in the same year as the 2nd season of that awful Halo series, and Phil Spencer is basically saying they’d do it all over again if asked.

They don’t have a magic formula, they got lucky with their choice of showrunner is all.

Dragonball

Should we even act surprised that this sort of thing only seems to happen regularly to people of color?

I can’t watch the video that the department uploaded to Facebook since I don’t have a Meta account (ridiculous by the way that they use a closed, insecure platform as their way of “public disclosure”) but I’m willing to bet the other woman they just let leave with a ticket was white. I’ll reply with a surprised Pikachu face if someone is able to verify that.

A better question to start would be if there’s any creative commons or copyleft media in the modern zeitgeist.

Memes are made organically as small units of culture and gain popularity via an implicit understanding of meaning that doesn’t need to be explained.

For a meme template to have those attributes, it would need to derive from a work that was licensed as CC/copyleft from the get-go and gained popularity among the masses.

That being said, seems a moot point when fair use/derivative work standards allow unlicensed memes to legally exist regardless of the original licensing of the work they were derived from.

Having run out of my previous set of late night easy viewing media, I recently started watching The Next Generation. Was surprised to discover it is actually a fun show (even the supposedly terrible first season), provided you enjoy the veneer of mild campiness inherent to television of the 80’s-90’s.

The show is also giving me hope that societal progress can never be stopped, since people were able to imagine this sort of reality in much more restrictive times than we have today. I just hope they’re wrong about World War 3 beginning in 2026 🥲

But your normie friends and family would fit in a lot better if they simply read some T H E O R Y.

Conservative religious beliefs and ignorance often go hand-in-hand.

Yeah, I think the button is probably mislabeled.

The “permalink” label is also just a holdover from Reddit; with there being two separate link standards on Lemmy, I think it’d be nice if the app differentiated…but that’s a separate topic entirely!