Homosexuality was also considered a âoediseaseâ in the United States until 1973 when it was officially removed from the DSM. Definitions of âoedisease,â especially ones that have nothing to do with infectious agents, but are primarily based on behavior or beliefs, environment or genetics, change over time. Because these things are not diseases at all, and the labeling of them as a âoediseaseâ serves a socio-political purpose, and gives people cover to exercise superiority complexes, discriminate against, and persecute that which they fear and/or donâ(TM)t understand. (Even if you believe in the ahistorical nonsense that being trans is a âoedisease,â we donâ(TM)t persecute and discriminate against people with cancer.) The reason the âoeLGBâ stand up for the âoeTQ+â is that the LGB have been there, once labeled as âoediseasedâ for being who they are, persecuted for their identities, and recognize that no one should be stigmatized for identity characteristics they didnâ(TM)t choose and canâ(TM)t control. And they are right. There is no zero sum game, where the âoeTQ+â are somehow âoeweakeningâ the âoeLGBâ movement. They are the same movement: standing up for each otherâ(TM)s rights to exist as the creatures of God who we are.

100% this. That is exactly what is going on. Politicians will never learn.

CDA230 enables your exploitation at the hands of big tech. Free speech is not giving your asshole opinions to bigger assholes to exploit for profit. We went off the rails with all of this decades ago and we should burn it all to the ground. Got an opinion or some puppy photos to share? Host them from your home broadband connection with a feed and a URL you can share with your friends. Yes, we need legislation to force ISPs to comply, yes we need user friendly software built for this model, yes we need plug and play hardware. But there is no technical barrier to doing this in 2024. Bandwidth is nearly ubiquitous now. Chips are cheap. We know how to write great software. There is no fucking reason to enrich the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg just to express yourself. Let the nanny state police you individually, and suddenly it has far less power, because it canâ(TM)t just ask an unaccountable corporation for every detail about you. Please kill CDA230. And donâ(TM)t ask big tech what to replace it with. They are parasites! Burn technofeudalism to the ground. Return to the end-to-end principle. Stop being vassals to billionaire lords who donâ(TM)t deserve your fealty. CDA230 is not your friend.

Compute power gave us the derivatives that caused the 2008 crash by splitting up debts into untraceable atoms. What will AI bring to finance but more ways to obfuscate fraud and risk? The last thing society should want is for AI to play any sort of significant role in finance. This is not going to end well. Needs regulation ASAP.