Stop giving them ideas.

While I’m not entirely convinced that Trunky is the best choice of names, I do agree with your overall reasoning. Mastodon was always an awkward choice for a name and probably hurt adoption quite a bit, despite all the cute elephant cartoons people ended up making. Even Pleroma (an alternative server implementation compatible with ActivityPub) sounds cooler than Mastodon, despite also being three syllables long.

Is it a grift? Absolutely. But fascist? Come on now. Overusing that word accomplishes nothing except drain it of all meaning.

Zeiten ändern sich.

Indeed, firing someone seems like a much more drastic measure, and as far as we can tell from the OP, Rose still has her job.

Also, this page about Women at NASA, which contains literally hundreds of articles about female scientists’ achievements there has apparently not been deleted, so this doesn’t look like some sort of systemic erasure to me. Perhaps her profile was simply deleted by mistake?

I tried clicking a bunch of them just to make sure they’re not all dead links, and so far I haven’t hit any 404s.

Okay, so instead of focusing on making solid arguments, you been spending much of your time on name calling and insulting my intelligence instead. Is that what you consider common decency? Or should there be consequences for that?

Seems like a clear violation of rule 1 of this forum: “Don’t throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.”

I don’t think I follow that train of thought. What do you think cancel culture was except the systematic erasure of people with “undesirable” viewpoints?

I think you are misinformed about the nature of cancel culture — it was always a government program. Those mass account purges on Twitter over COVID “misinformation”, for instance, happened explicitly at the behest of the Biden administration. It was not at all the result of public outcry.

Also, many of the claims that were made (such as the lab leak theory) did, in fact, turn out to be true.

Cancel culture ain’t so much fun when it happens to you, is it.

I see you haven’t read the article either, because otherwise you’d know that it doesn’t even answer the question directly, but instead goes to great lengths theorizing about every possible outcome, no matter how unlikely it is.

The TL;DR was my own opinion, but if you actually make it through this piece, I’m fairly sure you’ll agree.

Beg your pardon, but the Gulf of America has officially transitioned and if you continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico, you’re deadnaming it.

Have you read the article?

TL;DR: I wouldn’t bet on it

This is the plot to Cyberpunk 2077, isn’t it…

Gulfstream Aerospace presents: Gulf of America powered by Gulf Oil

Buc-ee’s presents: Gulf of America powered by Exxon-Mobil

You should be concerned that someone might construe this as an advertisement

To be fair, I heard they were rather small. Perhaps you ought to look harder?

Sounds hella ableist if you ask me

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Ah, okay, I get it now.

Sorry, never played that game.