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Reminder: The Bill of Rights (where we get the 1st Amendment) applies to all persons living and residing in the United States. Not just citizens.

🤔 Maybe building a town around a single industry isn't a good idea.

BREAKING: Sadness and heartbreak as completely predictable and preventable situation slowly unfolds over decades.

It's how Republicans (not just Trump) consider someone qualified.

Patriarchy is the wrong word to describe it. It's no different than men taking risky jobs in order to make more money in an attempt to be more attractive.

Beauty and attraction have fads and at that time pasty white makeup was the trend for rich women. It had nothing to do with patriarchy.

That society as a whole was super sexist and awful but makeup wasn't part of it.

For now, America is still online 🤷

From the society that never wins!

After learning about the consorts’ plight, Maomao deduces that their makeup is poisoning them, highlighting both the lengths to which some women will go to meet patriarchal societal demands...

I'm pretty sure that the pasty white makeup had nothing to do with patriarchy. The men were not insisting that women wear such makeup. There was no rule or law that women make themselves pasty white.

That was a rich person thing. As in, the women in the higher classes used it as a tool to separate themselves from the riffraff/poor people who had to work in the sun all day (and thus, got tanned).

So not only was it limited to the rich it was something the women thrusted upon themselves. I'm sure there's endless genetic evidence that the rich/royalty/noble equivalent men had loads of children with working women who weren't wearing such makeup.

The society itself was super patriarchal but the pasty white makeup wasn't even tangentially related to that.

Since they don't have fingerprints they ID the pecker.

"I didn't vaccinate my kids and the one that lived turned out fine!"

Conservatives are concerned that the miniscule chance of fluoride reducing children's IQ is enough to cause children to grow up to be conservatives.

For a history of Dumb Restrictions on Media (aka DRM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

This fight goes way, way back. Microsoft worked with the media industry in the early 2000s to create a fully-encrypted media input/output pipeline for PCs in order to combat Linux adoption. Microsoft knew that it would be impossible for open source software to decrypt the media streams without making the encryption keys available so they went way out of their way to make sure things like HDCP would "protect" the media being played back on a PC from "illegal" copying.

It starts with the TPM module in your motherboard/processor and continues outward all the way though to your HDMI monitor (which has to have the hardware keys necessary to decrypt the content).

BTW: The keys for HDMI HDCP have long since been leaked so you can now cheaply and easily buy all sorts of HDMI capture devices on the cheap from places like AliExpress (they don't ask any questions). Get one of those and your PC won't even know that you're capturing screenshots.

Following the Nazi playbook: Using the government to constantly surveil minorities.

Up next: Transgender "tip" hotlines where people can call in the imaginary slights of their LGBTQ neighbors (or just women that look too masculine/don't fit with their ideas of what a woman should look like and behave).