Reminder that the phrase "may you live in interesting times" is a curse against the recipient. Lots of boring nothing happening for multiple generations is the best that anyone can hope for. How I yearn for boring...

I've used it for a long time, on desktop and mobile Firefox. Sometimes if, for instance, I find a person with a red name, like on reddit maybe, I might check through their post history and see some of the other things they've said, and I've often struggled to find anything related to their views on trans people, scrolling and scrolling through hundreds of comments and posts and never finding a thing. And other times it's immediately apparent. I imagine for a lot of just regular people on the internet, getting their name red can be as simple as sharing an ignorant opinion once, twice, a handful of times, but not appearing to actively espouse anti trans bigotry.

Since there is no, like, way to add a note to an account that is being marked, or to save a web address linking to the post or event or thing that made somebody flag them, there's never any way to be sure why an account is red or not unless you just happen to stumble upon the post that caused the flag, or if they frequently express their bigotry such that any of it would be easy to find.

Plus some people using the plugin might just not understand the rules, and mark people who just are trans as green, instead of people who do pro trans activism or strongly voice support for us, like the rules say. So, for red names, maybe someone has never shared an opinion on trans people but they just give off a "vibe" that makes a person mark them red. Or, one could even be a troll or anti trans person who downloaded the plugin to start flagging wrong on purpose just to screw with us, I don't think there's any protection against that scenario. So you just can't know for sure.

For my purposes, I'm always wary of red names/links as a rule, and generally more trusting of green names, but if the topic at hand isn't about trans people at all, I may overlook the colors entirely, though I tend to let that information guide my interactions with the marked. I have found, though, that whole websites, subreddits or notable internet personalities, like their twitters or YouTube accounts or something, which were marked one color or the other, tend to be more reliable than just a random individual's social media account. More eyes, more chance a person would see something sus and flag it again.

I would agree with the reviews that said they use it as a suggestion, it cannot be definitive with how it works, but that doesn't really take away from it I don't think, it's a good warning system for not wasting your time somewhere or with someone that doesn't respect trans people, as a trans person. Just sometimes you have to ask "why would this account be marked red/green?" and to consider that when doing your mental calculus about interacting with a certain person/site/etc or not.

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I'm so sorry. But on the one hand, if you haven't started anything yet, that'll be less of a paper trail for you. I've been on hrt for a year, and I can only imagine they'll try and ban the drugs entirely. I haven't changed my name, but I have changed my gender marker. You're losing time, time you'll sadly never get back, but in my case, I will lose time, my meds, all the progress I've made. I... don't know how to deal with this.

Me too. Although I'm not out yet. I'm thinking I'll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don't pass, don't have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don't have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.

I feel ill. I wish I could go back to sleep, but I'm too wound up on fear and trepidation.

An abusive partner accusing the other of cheating is very often a projection of the fact they themselves had been cheating. Since they know they would cheat, and were/are, they either assume the other person is the same way, or simply don't want to draw attention to their affair. It's an awful thing.

You're still making them do something they didn't consent to. They will still chew on bugs and small prey animals (when they get access to them, which isn't often for indoor cats), because it's etched into their behavior. They will take every opportunity they get. You can't make a cat vegan, you can only force a cat on a vegan diet. Can't you understand the qualitative difference there?

A person understands the reason they're eating only plants with no animal byproducts. An animal doesn't. An animal is just confused and irritated that their food was changed for the worse by their owner. If their diet and mountain of supplement pills/powders did not actually meet their dietary needs because it wasn't an exact match for their regular food or natural prey, they would still end up malnourished. And not every cat's dietary needs are the same or stay the same as they age.

Malnourished or not, you also wouldn't be able to stop your cat from finding a mouse or insect which snuck into your home and devouring them to enhance their compromised diet. You cannot make a carnivore vegan, you can only abuse them into living in a way they do not naturally live and do not want to live, until they find a way to avoid you for just long enough to go against your wishes and savage another animal, as is their instinctive nature.

Furthermore, do you really think animals have no joy in what they eat, that that's only a human quality? Nutrition doesn't matter to the animal, they just want to eat what they want to eat. Cats almost never turn down an offer of cream or milk despite 90% or more of them being lactose intolerant. It's not nutrients their body needs or can absorb, and actively makes them feel ill. But they want it anyway because it's tasty and they aren't able to consider the consequences of their actions as far in advance as humans can.

Edit: In fact, going off that same point but for humans, you could probably make a human live off some kind of tasteless nutrient bar that gives everything you could need, but it wouldn't mean they'd enjoy it. Oh wait, we did do that before, as a cruel punishment for prisoners in the US, fucking nutraloaf!

The greater of two evils will accelerate the exact same genocide in question (Gaza) and enable genocide in other areas, e.g. Ukraine, and possibly Taiwan in the future if and when that situation escalates. This is not the argument to make, unless you're intentionally arguing in bad faith.

No, it actually is The Onion. It's a Clickhole article. Clickhole is a side website The Onion runs.

It's gotta be a copypasta, the format seems very similar to that one about TES Oblivion, with the person asking for rumors at a bar and being told a guy went missing in the mountains or whatever. Been a while since I loaded up a stalker game, but the "it's encrypted so don't go snooping" bit I think is actual game dialog, no random person would say this.

Cheaper development budgets, no room for QA, rushed out the door; still sold for 70 bucks.