Really that's the closest we've come to an actual proper definition of the term "woke" by a conservative (and I'm like 90% confident that DeSantis' lawyers got that definition from the first few lines of the Wikipedia page on this term).
Yet, perhaps unsurprisingly, other conservatives give very different definitions, or none at all. VICE asked several conservatives at CPAC for a definition of the term and got a bunch of different answers (and vague non-answers). During an interview a conservative author who wrote an entire book about "wokeness" couldn't give a definition of the term. A few weeks ago Noah Samsen made a response to an anti-woke YouTuber by the name "Think Before You Sleep", who simply defined woke as "communism" (whatever he thinks that means).
For all intents and purposes, "woke" might as well just mean "anything vaguely progressive that I don't like".
I've never really cared much about graphics in video games, and a game can still be great with even the simplest of graphics - see the Faith series, for example. Interesting story and still has some good scares despite the 8-bit graphics.
To me many of these games with retro aesthetics (either because they're actually retro or the dev decided to go with a retro style) don't really feel dated, but rather nostalgic and charming in their own special way.
And many other people also don't seem to care much about graphics. Minecraft and Roblox are very popular despite having very simplistic graphics, and every now and then a new gameplay video about some horror game with a retro aesthetic will pop up on my recommended, and so far I've never seen anyone complain about the graphics, only compliments about them being interesting, nostalgic and charming.
Also I have a potato PC, and it can't run these modern 8K FPS games anyway, so having these games with simpler graphics that I can actually run is nice. But maybe that's just me.
I was a bit disappointed to learn that math-related Python packages don't seem to have an ln function. They all use log for the natural log and also have a log10.
If someone on Mastodon replies there it'll also show up here, and it pings the users they're replying to here by default.
Edit: I just realized that Mastodon redirects to Lemmy when you click that link. You can search for OP's username on https://mastodon.social and you'll find their profile if you want to see how it appears on Mastodon.
No but you see, there's a silent majority that totally agrees with me and hates has some respectful disagreements with the LGBT lifestyle, because they're shoving it in our faces by not hiding deep in the closet and "acting straight"! This is literally grooming 1969 Vuvuzela 100 billion dead!!!1!
'based' in this context usually means that something is commendable, admirable or cool. So yes, Baked Alaska is the only one arguing against pedophilia, while the others are praising Nick for defending it.
100%. There are plenty of studies showing that supposed "pro-life" sentiment explains little of the left-right difference in abortion support.
A 2014 study analyzed the data of more than 7400 people and found that “perceptions of preborn humanness explained very little of right–left differences in abortion support, and the association between preborn humanness perceptions and abortion opposition was no stronger for those on the political right (vs. left).”4 And a 2022 poll by Pew also found that a third of Americans simultaneously believe that a fetus is a person with rights and that the decision to abort should be up to the woman. This means that the majority of people who believe that life starts at conception (about 59%) still believe that women should have the right to an abortion.10
By contrast, a 2017 study found that sexism accounted for 30% to 70% of the left-right difference in abortion stance even after controlling for other relevant variables.5 An earlier study found that authoritarianism had a significant correlation with an anti-abortion position and aggression towards women,6 and a 2019 study found that right-wing authoritarianism had a significant correlation with anti-abortion stigma both before and after controlling for other variables.7
Also Republican states have consistently reported higher CSA rates over the past two decades, and a survey of tens of thousands people showed that conservatives are also just more likely to say they are pedophiles.
Well it's worth noting that teenage boys have started leaning a bit more to the right, likely in large part because of Andrew Tate and others in the manosphere, plus right-wing think-tanks like PragerU targeting schools and kids.
Though it's not like the gap between conservative and liberal boys is that big, plus it's not uncommon to hear from men on the left say that they had a phase of watching Ben Shapiro debate compilations only to grow out of it, so it's not like this is the end of the world.
I guess we can only hope that the latter is a stronger motivating factor than reactionary propaganda and efforts to curtail education that are coming from the right.
They don’t care about logic, they care about hurting women.
100%. There are plenty of studies showing that abortion bans lead to more unsafe abortions and worse health outcomes for women and children, besides "pro-life" sentiment explaining very little of the left-right difference in abortion stance.
I think a more apt description would be that one of the buses doesn't move while the other will drive you off a cliff. Neither are good, but one is clearly much worse.
Sadly seems to be a common problem in social media platforms. Twitter became way worse at dealing with CSAM under Musk, and Instagram looks like it's putting in no effort at all to combat it either.
I used to mod some fairly big communities on one of my Reddit alts and every now and then the spam filter would remove some post or comment linking to CP. Possibly the only compliment I have of Reddit at this point is that their spam filtering seems to work decently well (at least when it comes to posts and comments, not sure how it might be for DMs).
I've seen discount Kermit Peterson try to pivot to the idea that climate change actually saves lives because more people die during winter. I wonder if he'd be willing to say that to the face of people who have lost everything because of the recent Hilary storm.
Really that's the closest we've come to an actual proper definition of the term "woke" by a conservative (and I'm like 90% confident that DeSantis' lawyers got that definition from the first few lines of the Wikipedia page on this term).
Yet, perhaps unsurprisingly, other conservatives give very different definitions, or none at all. VICE asked several conservatives at CPAC for a definition of the term and got a bunch of different answers (and vague non-answers). During an interview a conservative author who wrote an entire book about "wokeness" couldn't give a definition of the term. A few weeks ago Noah Samsen made a response to an anti-woke YouTuber by the name "Think Before You Sleep", who simply defined woke as "communism" (whatever he thinks that means).
For all intents and purposes, "woke" might as well just mean "anything vaguely progressive that I don't like".