It’s not about bathrooms…

It’s about the segregation.

If they see someone who looks trans, they’ll harass them regardless of what bathroom they go in.

You’re immediately giving the excuse. A person who was trans would have to do that Everytime they went into the bathroom they don’t identify with, but legally have to use.

The goal isn’t for ing them in either bathroom, it’s a blank check to harass and I timidate people not confirming to the 1940s gender constructs.

They’ll keep going and eventually be yelling at women for wearing pants because that’s “men’s clothing”.

Meh the golden excuse still works…

But none of the others apply as broadly to private businesses as the Idaho bill, which covers any “place of public accommodation,” meaning any business or facility that serves the public. The legislation includes nine exceptions for situations like performing janitorial work, responding to emergencies, helping children or cases when someone has “dire need” of a restroom.

As long as you say “I really gotta poop” you can go into any bathroom you want.

They just dropped a whole album yesterday, before that it was just singles.

I haven’t listened tho, but I get the feeling each album is like a “set” where all the tracks blend into each other.

The start of every new track, is the end of the last one.

Which would explain why so many feel so similar.

The band is just a DJ and a vocalist after all. Kind of a Sophie Tucker type deal.

Fcukers have been putting out an astonishing amount of music in the last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyJat1RGPi4

Which is awesome, Nora wasn’t going to be able to keep Vengaboys vibe alive alone forever.

Shits too depressing these days to not have mindless party music.

As the researchers wrote in a summary of their findings, the “most common sycophantic code” they identified was the propensity for chatbots to rephrase and extrapolate “something the user said to validate and affirm them, while telling them they are unique and that their thoughts or actions have grand implications.”

There’s a certain irony in all the alright techbros really just wanting to be told they were “stunning and brave” this whole time.

but for me not every class every year was 100% straight out of the textbooks.

You may have been lucky enough to learn a few things not from the text or on a standardized test…

But the kids who do, what they learn isn’t always right, and when it is, no one else believes them.

Example:

The civil war was about states rights.

Most kids who learn that, learn it as the South was fighting for states rights.

A very very small subset learn that it was the North on the side of states rights, because the South wanted to force northern free states to deport all Black citizens to the South so they could be enslaved.

The northern states refused because they had outlawed slavery.

The southern states wanted Lincoln to do it with the Fed.

Lincoln said he would try to outlaw it in the South, or force Free states to comply.

And that refusal is why the South started the war.

But even when it type the whole thing out, someone will eventually chime in to say “it was slavery” which is reductionist and 200+ year old propaganda that still makes it into our text books to frame the Fed and North as the aggressors. When the South started it to force slavery on the whole country.

Just like trump is using ICE in blue states, we literally fought and won a civil war over if he could be doing this

Me:

There’s only 8% that are different

You:

That doesn’t mean they’re better!!!

Strong argument for public education…

Yep.

It’s like technically there is no federal drinking age.

A state could set it at 12 if they wanted.

But for decades the Fed have said if any state deviates from 21, they don’t get anymore interstate funding which would cripple a state within a few years, but not before voters would kick out every state level politician who caused the mess.

Especially in 2026, people need to get real about how shit works instead of just glancing at the surface.

Each state does their own thing

Kind of…

92% of American k-12 use the same textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, and they’ve always played to the lowest common denominator. Which is often Texas.

If Texas says they won’t buy a history/science/whatever textbook that says _____ then the rest of the 92% who learned from McGraw-Hill books also never learned it from their textbooks.

With the rise of standardized testing, nothing is taught except what’s on the text. If a student gets that done they’re “done” and the focus is on the kids who can’t pass it yet.

Shits fucked and it’s 100% an institutional problem.

And that’s not even getting into how involved Ghislene Maxwell’s dad was with it in the 80s, and his connection to all the spy work and child rape during the same time.

To think people haven’t been manipulating the American education system to get the result (idiots) that they want for generations would be woefully naive.

It’s not about teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them not to question authority.

That doesn’t mean we stop educating, it means we start actually educating instead of indoctrinating.

Quick edit:

This is why things like:

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Is ingrained in multiple US generations.

It was in all the same textbooks, all the same homework, all the same quizs, and tests, even the annual standardized tests.

We all got the same information presented in the same way with the same context/interpretations and exact phrasing.

The American education is incredibly homogeneous, even if states could technically do different things.

The real difference is private schools who usually make up the 8% not being served up the same slop.

Is it a municipal public meeting or a public event?

Nope, that’s just where most lemmy.ml users spend their days…

it would be a movement

No, it will always be a “push”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvrn8yPualg

The joke wasn’t on our friends, it was on any dude that followed a girl over when she’d ask how tall any of us were. Which happened at least once a night at bars when we’d go out as a team.

We all knew to give the “short height” and when she didn’t believe the first one, shed start asking everyone, getting heights that logically lined up until she’d ask anyone we didn’t know, who would tell her the real height, which sounded like an obvious lie.

It was very chaotic, but especially for college age guys (at least back then) it really really fucked with people. If someone hears a group of guys is lying about their heights, they come over expecting a bunch of people adding a couple inches and eager to prove them wrong.

But it was just some casual gaslighting for funsies.

He might be five inches taller than trump really is, but that would put him at 6’4"ish.

Not the unbelievable 6’7" that’s 5 inches taller than trump’s fake height.

There’s a very real chance trump doesn’t know he lies about his own height so in his orbit everyone adjust so his 6’2" height can be rationalized. It explains why he can’t believe celebrities/athletes whose real (or close) height is well known.

They dont play trumps adjustment game, so in his head it doesn’t make sense they’re so much bigger.

When I played sports in college did the opposite when out at bars. Every guy shaved 4-5 inches off our height because we were tall enough someone would ask. And any guy not in on the joke would lose their shit because it looked like they were lying.

No, any rational people that stumbled over there left immediately…

I know, I was one of them.

It wasn’t like that at Lemmy when I first joined, but with every passing day it feels more and more like a Voat,

That doesn’t make any logical sense, even with your caveat.

And no one seems to want to do anything about it.

What do you want someone to “do” about it?

Ban everyone you don’t like?

Make your own instance, do what you want. If people want that, they’ll join.

Voat

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The place that the first /maga reddit sub tried to go, but got ran off for not being racist enough?

That place was always a shit show and one of the worst places online.

Let’s not paint Lemmy as a whole based on .ml

Id argue anyone that doesn’t have that instance blocked are in an echo chamber and are fully aware of it.

It’s hard to argue anyone doesn’t immediately recognize what that is.

in the weeks after taking it

Compared to how long 18 years takes…

Could always go with the classic:

Littering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKIX6oaSLs

A draft would be a civil war, especially if they set it at 42.

Nobody would fucking go, and we’d see ICE agents used to round up anyone “military aged” starting in poverty striken neighborhoods and eventually expanding.

trump’s dumb enough to try it tho, so we’re probably gonna find out.