literally during a conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ben Shapiro brought up trans people because of course he did i mean he seems obsessed with them, and while Neil’s take on everything was generally a verbal shrug of the shoulders, paraphrasing: “Trans people exist and we should work to understand and accept them and we shouldn’t legislate to restrict people’s rights especially based on fear and made up nonsense” and Ben Shapiro smiled and said “Well if people want rights they should beat me in a debate” I’m sure he’d say he was joking but I’ll probably never forget it, like wow Ben tell us how you really feel

…is actually an understatement. What they’re actually doing is engaging in the equivalent of blood libel and trying to incite a pogrom.

thanks, i didn’t have sufficient vocabulary to describe before. But I mean the Tiktok creator was they were talking about in the video was Dylan Mulvaney, whose big transgression in the eyes of these people was getting sent a can of Bud Light from Bud Light officially that had her face on it. She was being sent tons of death threats and, iirc, it started to overflow into her real life where she was being harassed irl and she became afraid to leave her home for a while, which is what the video mainly focused on. It just blew my mind that someone could have so little empathy as to suggest she deserved to be treated that way (and potentially worse if she hadn’t taken steps to protect herself) over something so small.

and as for what to do, i agree with you generally. it’s just that when i navigated to Veritasium’s most recent video on Odysee and saw the homophobia in the comments (which, btw, they must be obsessed with gay people cuz the video is totally unrelated to the subject?) i didn’t feel completely right not mentioning how many nazis there seem to be around on these platforms in case it puts anyone else off as much as it puts me off. Louis Rossman made a video fairly recently where he talked a bit about PeerTube and Odysee and he said something like, “I keep seeing people in my comments talk about hating Google and Youtube and wanting to move to another platform, but when I recommend PeerTube or Odysee they say there’s not enough content on them, or they don’t like the people on them: well you should pick one.” he went on - “right now these are essentially the only alternatives to Youtube and if you want a platform that is more respectful of consumers, viewers, and their privacy and rights in general, they’re basically your only options and you may have to just put up with the downsides for now.” Essentially going on to argue that more content creators will start posting on them when they see them as worth posting on, which would be when they have substantial enough userbases, and the prevalence of moderate and mainstream views would push away the extremists as has sometimes happened on other platforms, and that’s generally how I lean right now too. Those also may not have been his exact words, it’s been a little bit since I watched his video.

I would love if a leftist instance was created on PeerTube, heck I’d be happy with a moderate instance, but I have struggled so far to find one that seems what I at least would describe as well moderated.

yep, sorry i did mean Odysee. I’m glad some creators you follow are on it. i follow Veritasium too, very cool that he’s on there!

edit: a big issue for me when it comes to peertube and odysee is that in my experience it has been way easier to stumble on conspiracy theories and far right weirdos on them than it is even on youtube. for example, a few of the comments on the most recent Veritasium video on Odysee contain homophobia. a while ago i watched a video from the Majority Report with Sam Seder on Odysee and the only comment on the video was someone saying a popular trans Tiktok creator deserved the abuse and negative attention she was getting by implying that all lgbtq+ people are p*dophiles, which is a completely fucked and cruel thing to say. idk i’m usually pretty hesitant to use Odysee or Peertube or recommend them to most people because of that stuff. ideally they’d become more mainstream so that the edge cases are less noticeable, i just don’t know how likely that is to happen any time soon because i think people are more likely to stick with what’s familiar and what has established platforms. but maybe this thread isn’t the most relevant place to ramble about this, i don’t want to derail into political stuff.

there’s peertube and odyssey but idk how viable either of them are long term. peertube at least is decentralized, not sure if odyssey is too or not

i know Louis Rossmann also posts on Odyssey

🙂 😡

but i tried my best :c

i think that’s Calckey, another microblogging software like Mastodon with an arguably prettier interface

it is my fav color :)

lol idk i guess “no cheese” is an option in their custom pizza creator thingy on doordash and my bf accidentally pressed it instead of “more cheese” or something

i remember the first time it happened we thought little ceasars accidentally gave us a lactose intolerant or allergy pizza so we tried refunding it and reordering the same thing again because neither of us are lactose intolerant or have food allergies and we like cheese and it came without cheese again and we were like “oh that’s wild what are the odds of it happening twice” and we just ate it that way. then a week or two later we wanted pizza again so we ordered again and it happened again, and we realized there was no way little ceasars was just accidentally giving us pizza without cheese more than twice in a row, and my bf checked the details of what he’d been ordering and saw that “no cheese” was selected and we laughed and he stopped ordering it without cheese

that’s all i really remember and know, my bf orders most of the food around here when we order out cuz he has more money than me

>:3

based possum i will name them Froggy

we’ve ordered pizza from little ceasars a couple times without cheese accidentally and we still ate it so as to not waste food and honestly i’d eat it again

i wouldn’t order it on purpose for the same price as pizza with cheese, but unironically pretty good 👍

(i mean it’s hot bread with sauce, i already like hot bread and sauce, i just don’t normally go out of my way to have hot bread with sauce)

i just learned that the other day too lol. i saw a clip from the episode where they parodied Scooby Doo and i thought he sounded really a lot like Shaggy so i was wondering if he did voice Shaggy and I googled Billy West and saw that he was in fact the voice of Shaggy for a while, and tons of other characters. he voiced at least 41 characters in Futurama alone according to the wiki (but this list looks like it might be incomplete)

lol i’m excited too! i hope they’ll continue the series after the finale when the professor said they could go back to before they pushed the time button

yep! new episodes will be releasing weekly on Hulu starting July 24

and here’s a trailer for the upcoming new season since im guessing you haven’t seen it x3

my new favorite exercise

i burned my hand but it was worth it

woa that’s flippin wild im literally drinking coffee right now what are the odsd