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Sort of off topic but I wish I had a kotatsu in my apartment. And an apartment big enough to have space for a kotatsu.

I got some bootleg Airpods from Temu that my iPhone recognizes and treats as Airpods. I call them my Airpuds. LOL. But, tbh, the audio quality is on par with my wife’s actual Airpods. The construction isn’t as solid and I wouldn’t sweat on them much, but for 20 bucks, I’m happy with them.

I disagree with the use of “Christian Right” in the headline. This isn’t really about religion. These positions have been GOP positions for a long time.

Affirmative action itself was racist by definition, because it discriminated solely based on skin color. It needed to go. There are problems with certain minorities making it into higher education, but that can be solved by changing how taxes are distributed to schools, not by letting unqualified people into college programs.

Student loan forgiveness was a joke from the start. If you didn’t want to pay back the loans, you shouldn’t have taken them. If the issue is the cost of higher education, then we should focus on passing legislation restricting the amount that can be charged for college tuition.

Regarding the cake issue, you can’t compel speech, and last I checked, art was considered speech. So, decorating a cake in a specific way is speech that can’t be compelled. This isn’t 1850. There’s more than one baker in town. If you don’t like the policies of a particular bakery, go to the next one. The hyperbolic responses about “No Jews allowed” is ridiculous, because that would be religious discrimination, which is a separate issue. Also, it seems a little wild to accuse the Christian Right of not supporting Jews (Israel).

It’s more fun to publicly comment on, mock, shame, and laugh about a bunch of idiots that died doing something stupid than reflect on the driving forces behind a boat with 700 people on it capsizing in the Mediterranean.

Yes, and all of those links on those news areas put users on the news sites.

I work for the military. The only part of that community that regularly gets made fun of and shit on are the transformers. No one cares who’s packing who’s butt or tickling who’s bush. But dicks out in the female latrine is offensive.

This would have been better if they had created a Federated platform so we could subscribe to it from here. I’m tired of using a dozen apps to do basically the same thing.

This is all good info. I still use a VPN with my private tracker though. You never know.