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  • Yeah… I’m pretty freaking queer and straight people being in gay bars doesn’t bother me at all. If you have issues that make it scary to be around straight folks that’s your problem, and you need to deal with it yourself instead of trying to be exclusionary.

    You’ve apparently decided that every straight person will inherently ruin the queerness and safety of the space just by existing in it, even if they’re totally supportive. I disagree and will not be excluding my allies, thank you very much.

    The nice thing about explicitly gay bars is that if I see a cute guy, it’s ok for me to go offer to buy them a drink and if they say something hateful, I can go find an employee and tell them someone unwelcome is in our space.

    My straight friends are a part of my support network and if I want to bring them to a gay bar, I’m going to. Your issues are your own, go talk to a therapist.

    There will always be ignorant idiots who come to gay spaces and behave badly. If you want to keep them safe, be part of the overall system that makes those types of people feel unwelcome.

    There is work to be done to defend our explicitly gay spaces, but it’s in the trenches, excluding those who deserve it and welcoming our allies with open arms.


  • With the sheer amount of money that the rich are throwing at OpenAI via investment firms, they don’t need nor want to charge imo. The fact that they’re being built into Apple’s ecosystem and are getting name-dropped to people inside of iOS is kinda what their investors want.

    It’s the age old “walmart opens and operates at a loss for 2 years to force others out of business, then jacks the price” model.

    Investors want them to cement this as The AI company & brand so that once it gets giant and starts to be profitable just by being the biggest gorilla in the room, the shares they bought are worth more.

    So what I’m trying to say is that our version of capitalism is perfect and makes lots of sense and is in no way insane and degenerate.


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    6 months ago

    This was how I learned my SO’s dead name - i avoided it for like 9 months then she had to venmo me for something. 😭

    Oh well, mission accomplished by waiting as long as possible to learn it; I’ve only known her by her proper name for so long that her dead name is meaningless to me. 🙌