Our reaction to such a scenario should be the same as if they were recording with their phone.

You wouldn’t turn into a blithering feral beast because someone was recording you with their phone. Why should it matter if they’re using glasses instead?

Go for the flowers, stay for the etymology of fictional country names

TIL the two countries in The Princess Bride are both named after a Dutch currency

That’s three felonies, counting the threat

SOOO let’s start some new companies to increase the supply… ? Obviously?

What, then, do you call taking and manipulating the creations of many others and passing them off as your own?

How are those of us taking a principled stance against theft the morons?

Harming the environment to warm your family or earn a living wage is one thing. Harming the environment to commit mass plagiarism is another.

Somebody ACTUALLY on the left wouldn’t use what energy they have trying to shatter any hope of an anti-fascist coalition we have by poo-flinging. Thus, someone who does that must be on the right. Right?

Yes agreed but if you read the whole thing…

There are people in online spaces that just slap the term on ANY opinion.

Want to form a coalition with moderates? Must be transphobic. Refuse to vote Dem because they’re not progressive enough? Must be transphobic.

Bluesky is overrun with them. I’d hoped to find a place here where simply existing wasn’t stigmatized, but these downvotes are telling me maybe Reddit is overrun too…

It has to do with a phenomenon that is censored in most online spaces, so I’ll spell it out in capitals, aSjUrIbCoIgDaEl, basically if a person being denied care would cause them to off themselves, then denying care is tantamount to manslaughter.

Post-transition people are reportedly much happier than they were pre-transition, but right-wingers find that icky, so they’d rather commit war crimes than allow medicine to go to those who need it.

If you read the rest you’ll discover that the reactionaries don’t care how you vote, they’ll call you that regardless.

I’m taking from the downvotes that there are a lot of people here who got caught up on those first few words and didn’t bother reading the rest or engaging their critical thinking skills…

There’s this huge movement in online spaces lately to bash any and all positions and opinions by calling them transphobic.

Vote right? Transphobic. Vote left? Transphobic. Abstain from voting? Transphobic. Support a company? Transphobic. Boycott a company? Transphobic. Indifferent about a company? Transphobic.

The simplest explanation is a bunch of right-wingers are trying to make the term meaningless. Anyway, nowadays when I hear someone is transphobic, I make sure to wait for solid evidence before changing my opinions.

It’s more like ejecting a trespasser.

Imagine if a person broke into your home and you kicked them out, then they died of pneumonia. Their family sues you for killing them. But you didn’t kill them, you just kicked them out.

The person at fault is the person who committed the trespass.

She wouldn’t have to abort if the dick-haver kept it in his pants, would she?

Computers that are too new for Windows 7 come with Windows 10 preinstalled on them though. Who would buy an extra copy? You can debloat Windows 10 with a debloater tool

Any apparent outrage over anything except fascism is inevitably fabricated in some way, whether by bots or paid shills

Because 100% of the population would never stoop to going unwiped?

Or because those who would already do so?

Correct, but I think what I said would be true in any country.

If their goal is to convince people to not wipe at all, this method will have some non-zero percent of success.

Why are you making it so easy for them to expel you?

Is it because you really don’t want to continue with the program, but you’re too cowardly to quit?

Nobody’s actually dumb enough to use AI to cheat… on the same device… right?

And Idaho

You could also just use a literal thesaurus. That way, you’re using your own mind to choose a synonym rather than plagiarizing an LLM’s word choice.