Oh, man, I’m not even going to try to tackle everything that’s wrong with what you just wrote. But, seriously…”lesser men?” LOL.

Banning money lending has historically been about as effective as banning alcohol/drugs, gambling, prostitution, etc. People are going to do it, no matter what, so you might as well make it legal and regulate it well.

Maybe not quite what you were looking for, but my first year in college, some students held a “Love Your Body” parade, which involved students marching around campus completely nude. Of course, the only people who participated were those most people probably would have passed on seeing naked. Just a whole bunch of folks with body image issues (mostly women, but a few men too) and way too much courage. Bizarre.

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I work in mental health and I’ve definitely met patients who have low IQ scores. However, even without getting into clinically significant low IQ ranges, I can virtually guarantee you that you’ve met people who have sub-100 IQs. 100 is the average human IQ score. You haven’t gone through life this far without meeting people who fall a few points below it, just as you haven’t failed to meet people who score above it. A person with a 95 IQ is not going to be able to be distinguished from a person with a score of 105 by someone who doesn’t have substantial training in assessing IQ (and even then, most experts would have to formally test people to detect subtle differences like that).

I never put my seat back and consider it rude when other people do it. There was even one instance in which I made a stink I demanded the person in front of me put their seat back up (thankfully, they complied).

As others have pointed out, this is a situation created by the airlines and their shitty business models.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

It’s not that predatory entities don’t exist anymore, it’s that modern systems help make porn stars more independent if they want to be.

2013? Dude, I’m haunted by 1996.

I definitely watch some content meant for children, because much of that content works with multiple age ranges. For example, Ponyo. That shit makes me cry like a bitch. Fantastic film.

Maybe the porn industry? It was rife with abuse and financially yoked its porn stars. Then things like OnlyFans came along and now adult entertainers have full control of their content and careers.

The U.S. as a generalized complaint about the country. I understand complaints about the current government, but condemning the country makes about as much sense as condemning all Israelis for the actions of their current government, or all Russians for the actions of theirs, or all Chinese for the actions of the CCP. People are so eager to hate on Americans, and they don’t realize they’re as human as the rest of us, their society as complex as any. Lemmy is rife with anti-American commentary. It’s sad.

Trans status is about gender identity; gay/lesbian/bisexual is about sexual orientation.

So, a trans woman (MtF) who likes women is a lesbian, because she identifies as a woman who likes women. Her sex identified at birth is not considered a legitimate factor. Likewise, a trans woman (MtF) who likes men is not a gay man, she is a straight woman.

They mean using the police budget to hire social workers and other social services providers.

Yes. I don’t trust anyone to draw the line on what does or doesn’t count as hate speech.

Now, calls to violence are little more black-and-white. I can see a ban on that.

The Expanse.

Doing the things a particle can.

Not a bad suggestion. I’ll look into it.