Lol I used to love those things too.

Tbh I’m not surprised, I do think that SOA was forced to be inclusive, but they have been for years now and so they’re probably used to it.

Conversely Girl Scouts not only were never pressured to be inclusive, they’re actively shielded from having to be inclusive. You think they’re sexist when a girl wants to join you should see how they treat boys who want to join!

Also worth noting, the whole reasoning behind forcing the Boy Scouts to allow girls was “because the girl scouts sucks.”

Personally I think the correct answer was either:

A) Boy/Girl scouts merge, they’re both now Scouting America and everyone can join. Could even expand it to adults that missed out as kids and want to learn survival skills or want to hike and camp with other adults (separate units of course from the kids lmao, but I’ll shoehorn in a healthy “third place” for adults any chance I get). And keep selling the Girl Scout cookies but call them Scouting America cookies now.

B) Nothing. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts remain limited to their respective genders, and if “girl scouts sucks” then it is their responsibility to improve and make it not suck instead of forcing their way into the Boy Scouts. Leaves NB out to dry though, and could get weird if someone wants to transition but their Scout Credits don’t transfer with them.

But we got neither, instead we got “the boys do not deserve their own space but the girls do” which is a little weird to me (though entirely too common.)

I am glad however that you were able to go with the less toxic option, and I do still love Thin Mints, I just wish they’d have taken option (A) instead of option (D)ouble Standard.

I like that these candy sticks commonly used to be sold as candy cigarettes, only for people to be outraged and so the companies changed them to generic “sticks,” just for you to go and dip the tip in red (they used to do the same, add more yellow to your red) reinventing candy cigarettes.

Ceci n’est pas une cigarette.

Edit: Hey they still make them!

Well personally, my feelings on this subject matter can be condensed down to a few words:

“I love kitties.”

“Well perfect! Get the new one just so you have a safety net, I’ll istall Linux on the old one and you can play around with it, and when you decide that Linux is actually the best, you can install it on your main machine! If Linux ends up not being for you, I’ll prob buy the old laptop for cheap if you want a few extra bucks.”

But my two kicker 12"s, kenwood head unit, and JL audio speakers are better than the broken tape deck that used to be in my 2002. And it wasn’t that hard to just install myself, bro.

And linux was better on my 2015 Toshiba Satellite with 8gb DDR(was it even 3?) that outright refused to run windows 10 because it was so bloated, because Linux ran. By the time I got to upgrading the PC, why would I have gone back to windows after tasting true freedom?

https://time.com/archive/6709832/organizations-not-for-men-only/

There’s also the Scouts formerly known as Boy (“Boy Scouts” no longer exists, it’s now “Girl Scouts” and “Scouting America” now.)

Male only spaces are often sued out of existence.

That’s not the weird part (beyond being by nature exclusionary so if you think that is weird then I guess there’s that) but rather the semi-public-but-not-really aspect, personally were I to have a woman exclusionary forum, it wouldn’t be out in the open but something more controllable like a discord server (preferably without the privacy nightmare but I have no will to create this space and prefer places where all are welcome so I haven’t done much research on where I’d create that.)

Just seems like inviting unnecessary conflict and work for the mods, unless that’s the goal I suppose.

I think your stats are a bit skewed, it’s likely more than 1% of the entire population (internet or otherwise) that are women, trans women, or NB. (I know you’re speaking entirely too hyperbolically rather than literally, but)

I mean, just in the US alone:

The total population of United States is estimated to be 332.39 million with 164.55 million males (49.50%) and 167.84 million females (50.50%). There are 3.3 million more females than males in United States.

I find it hard to say that 3.3mil more women than men is “99% men all the time,” sounds like it’s closer to 50.5%.

As for them having their own community, idgaf really, have fun, but also:

It’s definitely a double standard, and fraternal organizations are often met with just as much hostility and discrimination suits (ex: Boy Scouts were pressured to allow girls, while Girl Scouts not only never faced the same pressure, those leaning on Boy Scouts to br inclusive actively defend Girl Scouts as a male exclusionary space, and I cannot grasp the cognitive dissonance that takes). Personally I think we need to pick a lane as a whole either direction, it’s either fine or not to have exclusionary orgs and comms like that, no double standard, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Also I think it’s somewhat of an invitation for problems to have your exclusionary non-public community in public. Should prrooooobably just have something more secure that people won’t constantly stumble into, but if one has fun with constant moderation I suppose it’s a good way to feed one’s addiction. Seems like it’d get old, personally.

It’s especially ridiculous to me to make someone’s demographic the subject of a post, while barring that demographic from participation (at least on that post.) I guess I get it, it’s like talking shit behind someone’s back instead of to their face, which is a lot easier, but it is telling that if you replace the demographic in question with any other of your choosing, the problems with the practice would become glaringly obvious.

That said if they want to be exclusionary, reactionary, and complain about an entire demographic without them there to speak their side? Well I’m used to it, you should hear the shit my uncle says, so I say have fun, fuck it.

Can they still not tell the screen’s size if you never fullsize your window? I 'member that advice from back in the day using Tor.

Depends on the industry.

Restaurant worker: “I can’t until I see my guy after work, coffee will have to do for now.”

Oh then I must, because I can run those two at least. Still gonna check when I get home though, thanks!

Good to know, thanks!

Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?

Shit maybe, if so I don’t remember, gonna need to reread/watch something other than Young Frankenstein (which I watch yearly lol).

Still, then his name is Adam Frankenstein, he still inherits the surname (unless he chose one of those too and I forgot lol).

Wait, I’ve been on fedora for a few years now and never noticed any ffmpeg problems, am I missing something? Maybe I ran the command at install and forgot, but I don’t remember that being one of the things I did on set-up.

Read this as “Haley Hyperdickx” and now I think I legally have to make that band.

Been a long time gone, Catstantinople, now it’s Fancy delights on a moonlit night.

Every cat in Catstantinople Lives in Catstanbul, not Catstantinople. So if you’ve a pet in Catstantinople she’ll be waiting in Catstanbul.

I am confusion, I must have misinterpreted your last reply, my mistake!

I:

A) Try Wine. No? Ok…

B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…

C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.

Typically option B is enough lol.