As it should. Google is factually responsible for the resulting slop and should be legally responsible for it.

He hates genocide?

He’s the purest representation of right-wing principles we have seen. That’s not the same thing as conservative. A conservative position opposes all change - including change to the right. So I’d say that Pence is right.

If anything, the Democrats are the more conservative party right now, and the MAGA Republicans are trying to move the country further to the right. I still don’t think that a conservative position is good, but it’s better than a fascist position.

I was five.

I think it’s because a poll showing that opinions are shifting that way gives people hope about things getting better, because the hope is that public opinion would drive politics.

It wouldn’t really be news to people who are struggling that things are bad. But it is news (and good news at that) if other people’s opinions are shifting to acknowledge that.

https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/

It’s the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.

I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.

Zoning and laws like parking minimums are part of it, but it’s also literally the government paying for car infrastructure because that is a routine and unquestioned part of government budgets while any spending on other forms of transit is heavily limited and it’s expected to turn a profit from fares, which roads never do. The spending on roads should be questioned, and spending on other forms of transit should be seen as an important public service.

Well, for context, I come from the Chicago area which does have commuter trains but is still a massive sprawling hellscape because everything - including the train stations - is designed for cars. So it’s true that everything is too far apart there, because the car-centric design itself makes it so.

I guess I should specify - everything in the US is too far apart to be a good environment for people, because we built it that way. It is not too far apart for public transport to be built, though. Building public transport (as well as walking and cycling infrastructure) and specifically building less car infrastructure is the way to make it less far apart and make it better for people.

Cities in the US are far apart because of car-centric design, not the other way around. If we just invested more in other forms of transit, then our cities would not be so sprawling.

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The thing about that is the main Democrat establishment hates that type of candidate and tolerates Republicans by comparison, so in such a race, the Democrat party actively sabotages the leftist candidates. That’s why Bernie runs as an independent - the Democrat party would not support him and actively sabotaged his attempt to run for president in 2016. The Democrat party also attempted to sabotage Mamdani’s run for mayor of NYC, but they were unable to stop him from winning anyways, despite their opposition. So, maybe the dam is starting to crack and we will see more cases like that. The party will fight it tooth and nail the whole way, though. They would much rather have Republicans in power than leftists.

They’re more afraid of leftists than they are of MAGA. They more or less threw the 2024 election on purpose rather than move an inch to the left, and then after losing, they figured they can just lie low and blame all the destruction on the Republicans, claiming that they were completely powerless.

All trans people secede from their various nations and invade TERF island to form a new nation flying the trans pride flag and honoring Blahaj as the national animal.

Trump: Dang, I can’t make the price of oil go down.

Also Trump: Hey, what if I intentionally make it go up some more so my buddies can do more insider trading?

If I remember correctly, the controversy was not over changing her model, but in changing a victory pose that highlighted that part of her model. So they nerfed how much she showed off her butt, basically.

Let me explain the angle that I am coming at this from:

I am trans. I am not specifically non-binary, but I appreciate all types of trans and non-binary representation in media, and want to support it. I appreciate it because it shows that the creator is willing to stand up for my people, and because it helps to normalize our existence to the audience of the media. Both of those reasons depend on how explicit the representation is, because both depend on the average viewer of the media being aware of the character being trans and/or non-binary.

To me, this does not seem like explicit non-binary representation at all. Kit could be considered to be whatever gender the user wants, maybe even subconsciously. I don’t think Mozilla’s intention is for it to be subtle non-binary representation, either, I think that their intention is for users to be able to view Kit however they want - which would be a binary gender in most cases. They leave the door open for non-binary users to see Kit as non-binary too, which is better than being openly hostile, but in the current environment trans and non-binary people need actual allies to push back against the rampant hostility they face. So I don’t see this as a reason to specifically support Firefox. They’re just doing the bare minimum by not being openly hostile.

To contrast with that, take the mascot of Honkai: Star Rail, Pom-Pom. The developer, MiHoYo, is located in China, so they are legally barred from showing explicit LGBTQ+ representation. However, they go right up to that line and even arguably over it on many occasions, going basically as far as they can without saying it explicitly. Pom-Pom is no exception. All of the characters in the game refer to Pom-Pom with they/them pronouns specifically, including characters who know Pom-Pom very well. That goes far beyond what Mozilla did with Kit, because the implication that Pom-Pom is enby is quite clear and consistent. Mozilla never once used they/them pronouns to refer to Kit from what I have seen, and Mozilla could say outright that Kit is non-binary if they wanted to, so them not doing so is a choice.

Ah, I had not found that page from my research. That seems to explicitly represent the intention that Kit can be whatever gender people want Kit to be.

A correction to make from the research I did:

Mozilla did not say that Kit is non-binary or uses they/them pronouns. Nor did they use they/them pronouns for Kit in official material. They pointedly avoided using pronouns for Kit at all, to keep it ambiguous. It seems like their intention is for the user to see Kit as whatever gender they want Kit to be.

I call them the Noughties