As long as nobody starts, not playing is the easiest way to avoid defeat. But if one player plays, the rest must follow or lose. And as long as either keeps playing, neither can stop. That is the tragedy of war: Easy to start, hard to end, until the fire runs out of fuel and only ruin is left.

I didn’t take your comment as rude, personally. To me, opening with Akshually indicated that joking intent to parody pedantry and I took no offense. I just felt like expressing my opinion on the term with no particular judgement of your joke because I think that the words we use are worth talking about.

I know I have a habit of replying seriously to jokes, which often comes across as me taking issue with them. I keep forgetting to clarify the tone of my message. If only there was a medical term for that communication deficit 😉

I suspect it’s somewhere in between: They don’t want to immediately throw all the revenue they get from him out the window, but they also need to preserve their image. There may be a concern that they’ll get shit for “cancelling” him if they completely ban him right away, so they want to go the “we’re warning you: get your act in line” route first.

Either way, like I said, going with a milder punishment for large cash cows is hardly surprising.

I do think they want him to stop doing things that threaten their PR, but they’re careful about being heavy handed when enough money is on the line. Mind, a temporary suspension keeps recurring subs automatically renewing, while an indefinite one automatically cancels them all and kills that revenue stream.

The only way to truly win in war is to never fight.

If you have a choice, that is.

Maybe even a cognitive

Half a month’s views, ad revenue, gift subs and bits may be enough for a warning shot, which isn’t super surprising for big cash cows.

I can’t speak for all of us, but I prefer “Autism” as a blanket term (that we hopefully all understand covers a wide spectrum anyway) over “Disorder”. Yes, I get that we deviate from the neurodevelopmental norm, but “Disorder” feels condescending to what I perceive as simply a different way of working.

I also understand that some with higher support needs may differ from that perception. My opinion is not universal.

On the other hand, I’m perfectly fine with calling my ADHD a Disorder. Shit’s chaotic as fuck.

If someone tells you they’re a Nazi, believe them and treat them accordingly.

I’m still in denial about him pulling such a terribly undignified marketing crap. I refuse to believe it. I just can’t accept a world where such satire actually happens.

I love þat you’re trying to bring ðe þ and ð (back) into English.

Only the pink-haired ones, the feminists, trans-women, those with terminally complicated pregnancies, the victims of abusive husbands beating them to death, those seeking medical treatment they can’t afford…

So long as you’re healthy or wealthy, submissive and breedable, mindful and demure and all the other misogynistic ideas we make fun of because they shouldn’t be real and serious, you’ll be fine.

Literally 1933

Signed, a scared-as-fuck German

My phone/fitness tracker reminds me to get up and move regularly and I’ve found that to be super helpful.

Fuck CDU
All my homies hate CDU

I never thought they’d eat my face

My grandma crashed really hard, really quickly after her husband died. I don’t know if it’s the norm, but it can happen.

Yeah, but so would other people he doesn’t like. Better we all suffer, but at least someone else suffers more.

I like the comment though. Even if it’s “mad ramblings”, I think it’s entertaining ramblings.

Signed, another understimulated and overworked person looking to get a few tokens of serotonin

I browse all a lot to look for interesting new communities. Every now and then I come across a new community from ani.social, the NSFW instance or something, and on Voyager I can’t seem to block entire instances. I also don’t know if there’s a way to filter only the communities without blocking the users too, but as it stands, I may have to look for another app to block the instances entirely.

Shouldn’t, definitely. But for a while, it will keep running, because that’s how a lot of speculative investment works.