Yo peeps, I am locking this sub and leaving .world permanently like I should have done months ago because .world moderation, administration, and the user base has proven to be one of the more particularly horrific nests of vipers I have encountered on the internet so far, and I am done putting up with it. =========================== SO WHY? =========================== I put up with .world refusing to defederate with Threads months back. I put up with the constant site-breaking and moderation-breaking bugs including blocking not working. I put up with the admins slowly showing themselves to be no different than Reddit ones by sanitizing the website to the point where people have difficulty saying #EatTheRich sentiments without problems. I put up with bootlickers on here telling me that mods can do whatever they want to anyone for any reason and if I don't like it I can go elsewhere. I've put up with a LOT on this sub. And I've dished out my fair share of harsh words too. But what happened on .world yesterday is absolutely unacceptable. This past day, I have found out the hard way that rape apologia and sexism are actually very rampant on this instance, and that is the straw that broke the camel's back. I have a few screenshots to show what I am talking about:   Yeah, I'm not down to hang out at an instance where "At least you're alive!1!!" is a meaningful defense for rape and rape victims are openly told to check their privilege compared to that of a rapist. Amongst the rest of the dumbassery I have borne witness to since yesterday. Whom others openly and flagrantly side with. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 Nah, I would sooner jab a needle through my eyeball than do that. Since rape is apparently A-OK on this instance, I will not participate on it anymore. It's that simple. .world is filled with truly horrific people and I will not help them by keeping this sub up. ==================================== SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE SUB? ==================================== It'll stay locked until either: 1) I find someone trustworthy to keep it running, 2) I delete it, 3) **Most likely:** The admins just take it and hand it to one of their cronies, probably one of the scumfucks from that thread I posted screenshots from, to assert dominance. I will seek out and find someone I feel would be a good mod on my own. All of the posts will stay up. Thank you all for participating and hanging out, and I wish all the best.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11612572 > I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

www.cnn.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9769214 > An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN. > > Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse, Trumbull County court records show. > > “Ms. Watts suffered a tragic and dangerous miscarriage that jeopardized her own life. Rather than focusing on healing physically and emotionally, she was arrested and charged with a felony,” her attorney, Traci Timko, told CNN in an email. > > … > > Though a coroner’s office report said the fetus was not viable and had died in the womb, Watts’ case highlights the extent to which prosecutors can charge a woman whose pregnancy has ended – whether by abortion or miscarriage.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11111745 > The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland. > > The doctor said that, while a fetal heartbeat was still present, Watts’ water had broken prematurely and the fetus she was carrying would not survive. He advised heading to the hospital to have her labor induced, so she could have what amounted to an abortion to deliver the nonviable fetus. Otherwise, she would face “significant risk” of death, according to records of her case. > > That was a Tuesday in September. What followed was a harrowing three days entailing: multiple trips to the hospital; Watts miscarrying into, and then flushing and plunging, a toilet at her home; a police investigation of those actions; and Watts, who is Black, being charged with abuse of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.

Fediverse pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 40%

I didn't come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn't care about its users. I think the admin of this instance might have been paid off to federate with Threads, it being one of the most popular. So, I am giving y'all 24 hours to defederate and if the Lemmy.world admins don't, I'm-a bounce and close down my subs behind me That is all

Real LGBTQ pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

www.theguardian.com

When the US evangelical preacher and anti-LGBTQ+ crusader Scott Lively landed in Uganda in 2009 to warn of the “gay agenda”, he was arriving after a series of culture-war defeats at home. More and more US states were recognizing same-sex marriage, and opinion polls were showing fewer and fewer Americans objected. Lively was there to offer Uganda’s lawmakers some advice on how to drum up outrage. “Emphasize the issue of the homosexual recruitment of children,” he advised. Five years later, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed a law that made same-sex relationships punishable by death, asserting that western groups and gay people were “coming into our schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality”.

Real LGBTQ pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

wcti12.com

Seven Republican state attorneys general are warning Target that its recently launched Pride campaign, which included "tuck-friendly" swimsuits, may be in violation of child-protection laws.

Ask Lemmy pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 82%

Okay, so today I am at the zoo getting drunk and ogling animals, and after a long chat with one of the zookeepers, I am now forced to ask this question. Like, climate collapse is a real thing that will render most species extinct, and most conservation efforts are focused on, well, conserving what we have. But I don't know of any effort to preserve samples of animal DNA, be it blood, gametes or whatever, so that if a species does go extinct, it could in the future, in principle, be revived. So are there any zookeepers, biologists or other knowledgeable people in the house who could explain this? It seems like a serious overlooked gap in species preservation that needs to be closed sooner rather than later.

Real LGBTQ pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

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More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June for the denomination’s regional bodies, known as annual conferences. The departures began with a trickle in 2019 — when the church created a four-year window of opportunity for U.S. congregations to depart over LGBTQ-related issues — and cascaded to its highest level this year. Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a growing defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches and conferences.

politics pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 93%

Republican senators are looking for a way to avoid the political hit they took on abortion rights in the 2022 midterm election, when they suffered a net loss of one seat, as Senate Democrats ramp up to make it a top issue in 2024. Republicans think they have a great opportunity to recapture the Senate next year, as Democrats must defend 23 seats, including vulnerable incumbents in Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Senate Republicans only have 10 seats up for reelection and no vulnerable incumbents to worry about. But Senate Republican strategists warn their hopes of winning back the majority in 2024 could be derailed by the abortion debate, as they believe happened last year.

Republican senators are looking for a way to avoid the political hit they took on abortion rights in the 2022 midterm election, when they suffered a net loss of one seat, as Senate Democrats ramp up to make it a top issue in 2024. Republicans think they have a great opportunity to recapture the Senate next year, as Democrats must defend 23 seats, including vulnerable incumbents in Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Senate Republicans only have 10 seats up for reelection and no vulnerable incumbents to worry about. But Senate Republican strategists warn their hopes of winning back the majority in 2024 could be derailed by the abortion debate, as they believe happened last year.

politics pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 91%

Major Republican donors to the Arizona and Michigan Republican Parties, who have each donated tens of thousands of dollars to the parties over the last six years, have ceased supplying funding because of Republican leaders' attempts to overturn 2020 election results, their support of losing candidates who tout Trump's election conspiracy theories and what they consider extreme views on issues like abortion, six benefactors told Reuters. "I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," real estate mogul Ron Weiser, one of the Michigan party's biggest donors and a former chair of the party, told the outlet. Despite Republicans' efforts to ramp up support in order to win back the battleground states that could determine whether they regain political power in the 2024 election, Arizona and Michigan's parties have been bleeding money in recent years, according to the outlet's review of financial filings and interviews with the donors and three election campaign experts. Arizona's Republican Party on March 31 had less than $50,000 in cash reserves in its state and federal bank accounts to spend on overhead expenses, compared to the $770,000 it had at the same point four years ago. And as of March 31, the total in the Michigan party's federal account amounted to $116,000, down from the nearly $867,000 it had two years ago. "They are effectively broke, and I don't see the clouds parting and the sun coming out on their fundraising abilities," Jason Roe, the former head of the Michigan GOP, told the outlet.

Major Republican donors to the Arizona and Michigan Republican Parties, who have each donated tens of thousands of dollars to the parties over the last six years, have ceased supplying funding because of Republican leaders' attempts to overturn 2020 election results, their support of losing candidates who tout Trump's election conspiracy theories and what they consider extreme views on issues like abortion, six benefactors told Reuters. "I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," real estate mogul Ron Weiser, one of the Michigan party's biggest donors and a former chair of the party, told the outlet. Despite Republicans' efforts to ramp up support in order to win back the battleground states that could determine whether they regain political power in the 2024 election, Arizona and Michigan's parties have been bleeding money in recent years, according to the outlet's review of financial filings and interviews with the donors and three election campaign experts. Arizona's Republican Party on March 31 had less than $50,000 in cash reserves in its state and federal bank accounts to spend on overhead expenses, compared to the $770,000 it had at the same point four years ago. And as of March 31, the total in the Michigan party's federal account amounted to $116,000, down from the nearly $867,000 it had two years ago. "They are effectively broke, and I don't see the clouds parting and the sun coming out on their fundraising abilities," Jason Roe, the former head of the Michigan GOP, told the outlet.

www.cbsnews.com

MIAMI - Florida's so-called "toughest in the nation" immigration law takes effect July 1st, and there's concern it could cause a major agriculture and construction labor shortage. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Florida already has 53 available workers for every 100 open jobs, landing the state in the "more severe" category of labor shortage.

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...The approval drew an outcry from members of the “First Wives Advocacy Group,” a coalition of mostly older women who receive permanent alimony and who assert that their lives will be upended without the payments. “On behalf of the thousands of women who our group represents, we are very disappointed in the governor’s decision to sign the alimony-reform bill. We believe by signing it, he has put older women in a situation which will cause financial devastation. The so-called party of ‘family values’ has just contributed to erosion of the institution of marriage in Florida,” Jan Killilea, a 63-year-old Boca Raton woman who founded the group a decade ago, told The News Service of Florida in a text message Friday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/963879 Bigoted fascist called out by slightly less bigoted fascists for bigoted behavior.

Real LGBTQ pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

theconversation.com

Shit's going south real fast 😰

Real LGBTQ pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 100%

finance.yahoo.com

Two news directors at a Michigan NBC affiliate were ousted on Thursday following the circulation of an internal memo calling for scaled-back coverage of Pride Month events and directing the station’s journalists to “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The email, sent earlier this month by Stanton Tang, news director of Grand Rapids-based WOOD-TV, and Amy Fox, the station’s assistant news director, said the “polarizing” nature of Pride events had upset some of its conservative viewers, CNN previously reported. “We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community,” the memo sent by Fox said. “While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions and they are our viewers.” “If we are covering Pride events we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue,” she added. The memo sparked fierce backlash from the newsroom’s staff, prompting the station’s owner, Texas-based Nexstar, to launch an investigation into the matter. In a statement to CNN earlier this month, Nexstar said the email was “not consistent with Nexstar’s values, the way we cover the news, or the respect we have for our viewers” and apologized for offending members of the LGBTQ community and WOOD-TV’s viewers. On Thursday, Gary Weitman, a Nexstar spokesperson, confirmed to CNN that the company had made changes to WOOD-TV’s newsroom leadership team to “ensure its ability to continue providing outstanding local news coverage and service to the Grand Rapids community and surrounding area.” “As these are internal personnel decisions involving matters of personal privacy, we will decline further comment,” Weitman said. Two of the station’s executive producers, Luke Stier and Madeline Odle — who had, among others, publicly voiced their concern over the directive — were fired, the pair announced Friday on Twitter. “We’ve had a front row seat to history for countless events in the city we love, working with the best journalists in the industry,” Stier and Odle wrote. “We are heartbroken to not be with our team today continuing the incredible legacy we have fought so hard for.”

Ask Lemmy pinkdrunkenelephants • 1 year ago • 92%

What game is it and how are you doing? BONUS QUESTION: He instead offers you $1 billion if you go to the Mortal Kombat universe, join the tournament and survive. He'll have Raiden train you for a year, then the blood splatters. Do you accept? BONUS BONUS QUESTION: He offers to send you to a video game world of your choosing, only you can never come back home or contact anyone here ever again, not even with in-universe abilities. Do you accept and, if so, which one?