From Wikipedia:
"A bondage suit, also commonly called a gimp suit, is a form-fitting garment designed to cover the body completely [...] A bondage suit is sometimes used in BDSM to objectify the wearer, or gimp, and reduce them to the status of a sexual toy, rather than a sexual partner."
Indeed, Juicy Fuck did also write Entry of the Gladiators.
The word I use most often aside from American is Seppo, which is derogatory rhyming slang (sep + -o, from septic tank โ Yank โ Yankee)
Honestly, if Twitter suddenly cracking down on T&A ends up causing another X-odus to the fediverse, then it is mildly amusing that the "masto" in "Mastodon" is literally from the Ancient Greek word for "boobs".
A ramble
I'm replying to my own comment to add: I'm barely even joking about this. Which is to say, actually having personal experience of living in a country can be very useful in discussions of it, but we also need to be aware of the limitations of lived experience.
For instance, I live in Norway, and I've met people here who didn't know that they had suffrage in local elections, and who didn't know the difference between national and local elections. I've met autistic people who know nothing about local autistic advocacy, trans people who know nothing about local trans advocacy, and I've met more people here who sincerely believe in "plandemic" conspiracy theories than who are even remotely aware of what Norwegian state-owned corporations have done in the global south. These people will go on and on about how "Americans are all idiots!" while simultaneously demonstrating a complete obliviousness to the actual political issues in their own backyards.
So sometimes people just don't know what they're talking about, simple as that. Lived experience should be respected, obviously, but it is not absolute nor immune from criticism. There are plenty of things that I've learned about the country where I live from people who have never set a foot in it โ even things that feel so basic that I'm really embarrassed to admit that I didn't know them.
And we need to be particularly aware of this effect with regard to those who were children and adolescents in the USSR. Those who turned 18 when the USSR dissolved would be 50 years old now. Those who turned 18 when Stalin died would be 88 years old now. This obviously doesn't mean that you'll have no opportunities to chat with people who lived a significant portion of their adult lives in the USSR, I have done this myself... And that guy basically said that living in the USSR was the time of his life. I suspect that this might've had something to do with how he was a popular musician in his home republic, and how he was a comparatively young adult in the 1980s. Nevertheless, it was interesting to learn how one of his songs was actually a load of anti-evolutionist nonsense, which to me indicated that Soviet censorship was perhaps not as strict as a lot of people say it was... And again, seeing a grainy video cassette rip of this guy on Sukhumi's Red Bridge pointing to a giant monkey plush like a big ol' doofus, shows how not everybody in the USSR was the sharpest tool in the shed (sorry, Anzor!)
So if you find some 30-to-50-something year old who says that thon actually lived in the USSR and is therefore qualified to speak about it... Asking for thons lived experiences of the USSR is like asking a zoomer today for sy lived experiences of Dubya and Obama. Not to say that a child's perspective is worthless, just that it will be a child's perspective. Meanwhile, ask a 60-or-70-something year old, and chances are pretty good that you'll get nostalgia goggles of young adulthood. Ask an 80+ year old, and... Where the hell are you gonna find one of those? Especially if you can't speak Russian, your access to authentic Soviet perspectives is going to be severely limited.
On the other hand, if you ask someone who left the USSR for political reasons for thons experiences, then that's like asking someone who left the USA for political reasons for thons experiences: you're gonna hear an overtly negative perspective, and maybe some of that perspective will be useful, but that perspective is also not going to be representative of the majority experience, and it could've even been twisted by outside factors (obviously praising your new country is gonna increase your mobility in your new country!). Paul Robeson said of the USSR that being in that country was "the first time [he] felt like a human being".
So, the best way to be educated about the USSR is through scholarly analysis, which takes into account the lived experiences of a broad range of people as they recounted their lives at the time, and which also considers the factors that the individuals might not have been aware of. We should always be open to hearing people out, obviously, but we also always need to remember that nobody has all the answers โ and so sometimes the 14 year old white Yankee really does know her shit better than the guy who actually lived in the country.
got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
Surely you mean while he's "Still Alive", right?
Honestly? Based. I've always thought that the idea of building a car at home sounded kick-ass.
I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.
Also, their admin telling them not to participate in this thread seems to have worked, so maybe they have more of an ability to reign in their users than it seems? It might be best to wait a while to see the impact of their rule change before defederating.
"Oh, no, I just got this flag from my cousin, Chucky Arlaw."
Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I would allow "wishing death on the people of NATO". And I grew up with ol' Jens as my homeland's prime minister! I've got American soldiers in my backyard and Russia declaring my dear Norway to be "hostile" twice!
It's like, I just cannot really imagine what "wishing death on the people of NATO" even means. Who exactly would wish for the extermination of the citizenry of exactly 31-to-be-32 nations because of their membership in one specific organization? Are people out here wishing death on the people of the European Union as well? "Down with the people of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?" Or are the "people of NATO" supposed to be those who willingly chose to support this organization through personal involvement in it?
It's easier for me to imagine maybe that people from Hexbear were expressing loud contempt for the imperial core... But if the citizens of the richer part of the Walled World feel uncomfortable because of that, then even for an instance that "want[s its] community members to be guided by compassion and empathy for others.", I just could not bring myself to care if I were an instance admin. As a citizen of the imperial core, if people in the imperial periphery want to talk about how much they hate people like me, even if they go so far as to say "death to Norway", then let them. In fact I said "hell yeah!" when I saw the Mapuche graffiti reading "GUERRA A NORUEGA" when I learned about Statkraft's decades of violation of Indigenous rights in Chile.
As a gentile, Jews can tell me to drop dead; as a white person, BIPOC can tell me to drop dead; as a sedentary person, travelers can tell me to drop dead; as a sighted person, blind/visually impaired people can tell me to drop dead; as a hearing person, deaf/HOH people can tell me to drop dead; as someone who unfortunately still eats meat, vegans can talk serious trash about me for not kicking the habit already; and so forth. And contrariwise as an autistic trans person, I should be free to talk as much trash as I'd damned well please about neurotypicals and cis people. Part of reckoning with one's privilege should be understanding that those oppressed by systems that one personally benefits from shouldn't have to show you any respect. They should be allowed to get mad as hell and tell one to drop dead! Putting up with that is real respect. Putting up with that means that you understand the hierarchies at play in your life.
That is my opinion: That if we are not allowed to use even the harshest words towards our oppressors, that we will only be a community that preaches the aesthetics of empathy and compassion, rather than living it as fact. I have absolutely enjoyed my time as a Blรฅhaj Lemmy user, I wish for this instance to grow and flourish, and I wish for this to be my criticism of your administration.
Makes me think of The Boondocks: "[It's] n###a technology โ technology for n###as. Only don't start trippin' and shit, callin' me a racist, 'cause I don't mean n###a in a disrespectful way โ I mean it as a general term for ignorant motherfucker."