It’s Getting Worse... Ethan Klein vs Ticketmaster, Zendaya "Sex Debate", Columbia Threatens Students

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✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩-
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00:00 - Ethan Klein Slams Ticketmaster as Billie Eilish Tries to Limit Scalpers
03:11 - Critics Say “Challengers” Could Signal an End to Cinema’s Dry Spell
05:41 - 900+ Protesters Arrested on Campuses Across the Country
08:53 - Sponsored by Grifin
09:51 - Military Families Sue U.S. Over Health Problems From Jet Fuel Leaks
12:13 - Appeals Court Rules State Health Insurance Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care
14:24 - AI Blood Test Claims to Detect Postpartum Depression Before It Develops
16:09 - Australian PM Calls DV a “National Crisis” Amid Protests
18:16 - Sponsored by Nord
19:24 - Tech Companies Cut Corners To Collect Data for AI
25:48 - Comment Commentary
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Produced by: Cory Ray
Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks, Matthew Henry
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Lili Stenn, Maddie Crichton, Star Pralle, Chris Tolve, Jared Paolino
Associate Producer on AI Data Harvesting: Jared Paolino
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#DeFranco #EthanKlein #Zendaya
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[@idellekerensa]

As someone that did a senior project on the Kent State massacre... I'm so glad to hear some police departments are going "No, we aren't escalating this." but it is still terrifying knowing there are schools willing to put their own students' lives in danger because they care more about their corporate backers than the minds they are supposed to be shepherding.

[@thomasramsey1870]

This is a fair and balanced opinion. Lol

[@jomoore5286]

Aussie female watcher - we were sold the idea that the 'next generation' would be better, that the education and support would be there. We were lied too. We were told tell someone, go to the police - in every story - the police did nothing or couldn't do anything. Enough with the words. We want actual action and accountability for these scum. I'm mad, I'm scared and I'm so devastated for the family's and friends who have gone through domestic violence, some who haven't come out the other side.

[@GAZ-TRX]

That is why you do not vote for the left, the Labour Party is the worse thing that ever happened to this country.

[@lizablee]

Aussie female too. It's particularly aggressively bad in remote communities that are already suffering from poverty. We are never going to fix the problem of domestic violence if this poverty goes unaddressed, too. Women don't have the resources or the support to leave their towns, let alone their homes. And they shouldn't have to do either.

[@Fitz1993]

I don't know why people expected the next generation to be any better when they were being raised by people who taught them to behave like this...

[@lunova6165]

I'm in NY in US and we were told this stuff too. I think the police were called over 60 times in the span of a few months where I'm living and they've done absolutely nothing. They genuinely say they are getting sick of dealing with us. There is no where I can go. Every single Domestic Shelter is entirely full, and has lists, and lists of people waiting to get in. I'm so sorry to hear you are going through this as well. I can't go outside anymore without being catcalled, harassed, or literally followed. There needs to be serious help for everyone who's being abused. Passivity cannot be tolerated by any government on these issues.

[@GRABA85]

If you make a nation wide protests over group of 34 people killed a year, you do not have real problems.

[@ViolaTheFictionalAdult]

Another Australian woman here. About 9 years ago I was kidnapped by a man who had stolen a taxi and taken it on a joy ride. They picked me up, locked the doors, and told me they stole the car and took off. I managed to escape (the man was on substances) and when I called the police, they said that because I escaped it was fine and they would wait for the stolen vehicle report to come through. A car was more important than my safety or getting this guy off the street and preventing him from getting someone else who may not have been able to escape like I did. Australian police do not care about women. My state has the lowest DV conviction rate in the country.

[@Mono4692]

Aussie here as well. My mother, myself and sister were victims of physical violence from my brother and my brother was a victim of family violence from my Dad. Neither of them have ever face any consequences other than being locked up for a night or getting slapped with an intervention order, which lapses anyway. DV, family violence and violence against women and children is unfortunately everywhere in Australia.

[@matthewsmith2682]

Aussie here. My wife's friend was in a toxic, violent, relationship and went to the police for help. She was able to get an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) but the police rarely do anything to enforce them. She went to the police for help again after the AVO was breached repeatedly, and the next day the boyfriend ran her off the road and bashed her to death with a brick whilst she was trapped in the car. This was in 2015 and law enforcement actions regarding domestic violence haven't gotten any better or tougher. As much as we have a domestic violence problem here, we have a law enforcement and judicial problem - every perpetrator seems to walk free on bail. The system seems to think a victims right to safety isn't as important as a perpetrators right to walk free with only a slap on the wrist.

[@ruralmetalhead]

There's so much corruption in Australia that I'm almost not surprised anymore when I hear about more of it. And what's worse is I don't hear about any of it in the news; I had to learn everything from FriendlyJordies' deep dives here on KZbin. The mainstream outlets are completely paid off, too. Absolutely terrifying.

[@HappyLarry.]

God that's fucking horrific. I've said before that people talk far too much about strangers, when the most dangerous people are always people we know. The majority of deaths from relationships are from people who broke AVOs, you'd think people would be focusing on that and pointing out the lack of attention from the cops

[@LKMNOP]

​@@HappyLarry.Statistics show that with child molesters it's usually a family member or a very close family friend.

[@VikingNidhogg]

Have you tried not giving up your guns?

[@HappyLarry.]

@@VikingNidhogg what a stupid fucking take.

[@sean.mac16]

It is very scary that Ethan didn’t know that ticketmaster had raised his shows tickets. The fact that ticketmaster can do that without telling him, he clearly has zero control over his own show when it comes to ticket sales

[@Hanloss]

"Didn't know". Don't trust shit Ethan Klein says, man sold NFTs "as a joke"

[@jpecksdick7051]

@@Hanlossyeah cause Ticketmaster has never been shady any other time.

[@overestimatedforesight]

They did the same thing to Dropout for Dimension 20 - raising prices without telling them that's what they were doing.

[@hanaj]

He said their Ticketmaster rep didn’t explain it correctly

[@MommyOfMutants]

@@HanlossWhat’s the problem with him selling joke NFTs which he made clear were jokes and that NFTs in general are stupid and worthless. If fans still bought them, that was their choice. They weren’t scammed 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[@skunkrat01]

Aussie chick here, we all thought things would change after the horrific killing of Jill Meagher and the reclaim the night marches, but nothing did. And it's gotten worse. The statistic used to be one woman a week, now it's every four days.... It just feels like things won't ever really change 😥

[@HappyLarry.]

The population has also boomed, so I'm curious what that effect has had on numbers, since generally the numbers of most crimes increase purely by number. Housing is also a big issue, since so many people are forced to stay with violent people because they can't move anywhere else.

[@petrify4814]

One a week to one every four days? That's a change, just not for the better. That seems to be the trend these days.

[@kaizer-777]

So how many men get murdered in that same time period? Why do we need to handle women being murdered any differently? Are women less than men and need protection? Why the double-standard?

[@MizzzFizzz]

But it is still less than car accidents, i dont want this to keep women in fear and stop them living life, i have let that stop me from living for so long. Kept my entire existence in fear. 3 people die a day to car accidents. I drive safely, but i dont choose to not go anywhere because of that, I grew up being made to feel like the second i stepped outside i was going to be kidnapped, and im scared about other women that are feeling the same, and its all getting worse but i hope we find a balance between justified fear, protecting ourselves, and not overwhelming ourselves. It is good to be situationally aware, but it can go past that and start affecting your quality of life. I want laws to change, more protections, more education and more studies to find where the issues stem from and what can be done to make impactful change.

[@Hrafnsmerki1]

@@HappyLarry. If you actually go to the Australian Bureau of statistics and look at the data. You will find that violence against women in a wide range of different forms has actually been steadily dropping for the last 30 years. The horrible event at bondi is going to skew the statistics a bit. There are also people who will use a crisis like this to push their own ideas and agendas. Its possible the amount of immigration has affected other crimes, and definitely has affected housing costs, not really sure about violence against women though. One of the main things they have found through studies is that it is usually partners or friends of victims that were the perpetrators. They also found that the people doing so are usually struggling financially, in their relationships or with housing. So cost of living is a huge factor for a range of these issues. However the government is cleverly using issues like this to keep the public eye away from real issues and real actions taken by the government.

[@ErickMunoz-nk4zp]

I'm not from Australia, I'm from Chihuahua, México. And just... watching this gave me sad chills. Less than 30 women were killed in Australia and there's huge protests and they're calling it an epidemic. Hell yeah! Protest! Get angry! Do something! Meanwhile, here, literally thousands of women are killed (I think a few hundred in 2024 so far) and we're... so tired and scared of protesting. Our voiced aren't heard anymore. The government gets angry on March 8th because the protests get "violent," but nothing changes. It's so... disheartening.

[@Erinski]

Ticket Master: "We care about scalping." Also Ticket Master: "Resell your tickets here! We dgaf how high over face value you charge!"

[@emeraldoracle8706]

There really needs to be some anti-scalping legislation, that certain items can't be sold above face value/MSRP for X number of days after first becoming available from original seller.

[@jijitters]

From experience I can also attest that TM takes a huge chunk of the resale fee so you genuinely have to price your ticket for more than you paid if you want to make back what you paid. Just to get face-value return, you have to price your own ticket higher against your will because TM takes so much of it. It's absolutely disgusting and actively encourages people to price gouge. They do not care.

[@rettbull9100]

@@emeraldoracle8706 That's anti-capitalist talk. Shame on you. Think of the companies making their percentage off the sell and resell.

[@MagicManICT]

@@emeraldoracle8706 There are anti-scalping laws, varying by jurisdiction. Many say you can't sell the ticket for more than face value. Almost all say you CAN include extras like VIP services, hotel, vehicle rentals, airline prices, etc etc. And if Ticketmaster is just selling at a higher value up front? That's not scalping, that's just "fair market pricing."

[@CoryPchajek]

@@rettbull9100middlemen usually add zero value to the product or service. It’s a parasitical position. Scalpers are no better than car dealerships that are wholly supported by legislation. They shouldn’t be tolerated.

[@austinaustinaustin]

People analyzing these film trends and concluding "sexy scenes are popular, do more of that" is the same reductive reasoning that has made film so uninteresting over the last decade

[@Itsallanillusion30]

How?

[@qhu3878]

​@@Itsallanillusion30the film is more about the romance and chemistry than the sex, yes its horny but it has more than just ass

[@chest250]

​@@Itsallanillusion30 just doing something because it's popular without understanding why it is popular, not just sex scenes but other tropes as well

[@jamIam6548]

Majority of the time it adds nothing to a movie and often makes awkward tension with other viewers.

[@momsaid]

​@@Itsallanillusion30if you have to ask why your skills are not in understanding or being analytically critical

[@atella394]

I'm Australian. I live in a regional city, population 100,000. In 2023 there were no homicides at all - but in the last two months there have been three women violently murdered. I was driving to work on Monday and saw a woman jogging. My first thought was 'she's brave.' Before I moved here I spent years living in the more dangerous parts of Melbourne but I'm far more afraid for my safety now. Before I was just avoiding getting caught up in drug and gang violence, it's much scarier when the violence is targeting women specifically. Never had security cameras before, but I do now.

[@dukekemppy5409]

Assuming I know the area you are talking about, what happened was horrific and the fact there is still so much unknown is even worse.

[@yewknight]

That is wild. In almost every other country in the world men face much higher homicide rates. What is different in Australia? “According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women. “ Wikipedia

[@GinaLoubser01]

​@@yewknightwoman make up more than 50% of homicide victims in British Virgin Islands, Czechia, Latvia, new Zealand, china, Austria. Switzerland, Japan, Tsonga and Iceland

[@thierryfaquet7405]

@@yewknight that's not true at all, even if you like your own comment...

[@kennan6176]

​@GinaLoubser01 damn 10 out 190 country's so in almost every other country in the world men face higher murder rates. So what diffrent about Australia?

[@heckingwhat8446]

I’m a UT student, and I am disgusted with how the protests have been handled. Yesterday, around 30 people set up 5 tents on the South Mall. As soon as state troopers started arresting people and telling them to leave, a huge crowd of people gathered to protest both the police and the war in Gaza. As a result, people were pepper sprayed, thrown to the ground, and flash bangs were set off. As of right now, I believe there’s set to be more protests, faculty are calling for a vote of no confidence in our university president, and this situation has festered into something it never needed to be.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

I really need to get my hands on it, but apparently there's a manual put out by the US military on the right way to handle protests without having them flare up into wider confrontations. And one of the points, from my understanding from the secondhand source I learned about it from, is to not take direct action, which usually only serves to fan the flames. Seeing this happening leads me to think that we're being led by overpaid and frightened amateurs.

[@TheDudeSama]

Occupation is not protest.

[@CarlWeezer567]

@eldorados_lost_searcher that's because college admins are not faculty, they're corporate CEOs with no corporation to run, running colleges like corporations.

[@wartty]

@@TheDudeSamaeThNiC cLeAnSiNg Is NoT gEnOcIdE 🤡

[@khill8645]

​@@eldorados_lost_searcher If ineffective or counterproductive methods are used over what's known to be effective, they aren't "overpaid and frightened amateurs" -- they're malicious. Either they're maliciously intentionally ignoring those methods, or they're maliciously negligent in being so ununformed to the state of the art. When the most charitable explanation is that they don't know how to do their job, the problem is deeper than mere ignorance.

[@Somberghast]

There was a game growing up that I played called Final Fantasy Tactics. The first main antagonist is a freedom fighter that tell you "When the punishment for crime is a fine, that law exists for the poor." I was 11. This radicalized me.

[@benjiakre-hill5961]

We're gonna need you to scream this so the people at the top of the tower can hear you. I'll wait. :)

[@cuzthatshoweyroll]

It’s almost like fines should be based on how rich you are.

[@skullslace2426]

FFT was a great game. In more than one way.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

FF writing was really good back then.

[@1992SFA]

Australian here - I don't have a single female friend who hasn't faced some sort of abuse. It has been a huge problem for a long time. Police don't help enough. The justice system doesn't punish the perpetrators enough or at all. Governments drag their feet. And so many schools, especially private schools, have horrible cultures which don't discourage misogyny and violence. If you're in doubt just look at the number of domestic violence and physical violence cases involving NRL (National Rugby League) players. Albanese isn't the problem.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Show how all of their red pill and black pill are full shite and that feminism didn't do enough bacause too many men out their are garbage not most men but enough to that many women have been harm by them And i watched ryan baerd video on gender war trash like andrew tate made it worst

[@brookelynnwu8016]

Hello from US. 👋 if it’s bad there I can promise you it’s 100x worse here. Usually cops don’t even do anything besides blaming vîctims for being abûsed or graped. It’s awful. 9/10 people don’t report for these reasons, and those that do rarely make it to coûrt.

[@robbielast6118]

Another Aussie here. The limited abilities of both the Justice system and policing are making it so much worse. Even when a victim does everything by the book they have been murdered and that is stuffed. I agree Albo isn't the problem, but he needs to empower those who have solutions. Let us all agree that the cringe milk shake video from the last mob did bugger all. I work in schools and it landed like lead.

[@hinasakukimi]

what the fuck is going on with australia seriously

[@zeldeure1765]

Skill issue

[@dannymars]

Misogyny and male entitlement is a huge problem in Australia. Every female I know has either been abused, heckled in the street, felt-up at a bar/club or generally felt threatened just walking home. My own wife included, she was yelled at just this week and when she ignored it the man drove around the block so he could look at her and cat call her again. She was on a morning (6:30am) walk just 10 mins from our house. It just never ends.

[@Annie1962]

I remember that horrible video where at a publci swimming pool a young woman was literally surrounded by men. They were non Caucasian - apparently of Middle Eastern description. A person literally had to pull her out to safety

[@blakeholland2664]

@@Annie1962 the fact that they were men is the only important descriptor here. Race and Ethnicity has nothing to do with a shitty person, it's just ammunition to be racist

[@ziolp]

Sounds like a cultural problem. Europe wasn't sending their best and brightest when colonizing Australia 🫤

[@MrTdub16]

As an Australian no one woman i know has ever had any bad experiences of note with men

[@MizzzFizzz]

@@MrTdub16 As a human, this normally is ideal way of conversing with fellow species.

[@heatherjm11]

In Australia, late 20s woman living in Melbourne. In the last decade living on my own I’ve had men try to drag me off public transport, stalk me on the way home, threaten me and my family members, and spit on me in public, just as I’m going about my day to day life or trying to leave while they’re trying to harass me. The instances I reported ended up achieving nothing, then I just gave up on reporting it because it was demeaning to be ignored each time. Minor infractions face no consequences, and none of this has even touched on how poorly domestic violence is treated here by cops. Every year there is at LEAST one horrific case domestic violence murder case where breaches of restraining orders and court orders have been repeatedly ignored.

[@yuLikeRice]

"Official Platnium" pisses me off so much. I get so angry whenever I see those words on Ticketmaster.

[@deadlyshizzno]

The way they try to turn price gouging into something "premium" or "luxury" is just insanity. Such a great example of how companies will literally say anything to consumers so long as it convinces them to buy their product. They truly don't care if they're lying to your face so long as you believe it and make a purchase, and this behavior is incentivized by profit-seeking market forces

[@toddydog3]

Imagine having to choose between your right to protest and your ability to get an education at a place you spent thousands at.

[@godlymana]

Exercising your FREEDOM!!!!!

[@noway377]

Their parents most likely paid for it

[@wildwesley9328]

@@noway377not always. Especially given the current economic situation, it’s very ignorant to assume that even students getting help from parents/guardians aren’t also highly likely to take out a loan or work through school. Even if they have parents who can afford to pay for everything, it doesn’t negate how wrong having to choose between your 1st amendment right to protest and continuing an unnecessarily expensive education that has been paid for is.

[@noway377]

@wildwesley9328 never said it wasn't wrong to have to choose between those 2 things, but go ahead and call me ignorant when you don't even know what my stance is on the matter. You out here calling people names based on a single sentence that tells you nothing about what their beliefs are. I bet you feel so smart right now like you actually did something.

[@DeathClawz]

​@@noway377your so right, they don't get an opinion or right to protest since they have good parents who helped them get a higher education. Fyi, a very large portion of students have thousands in loans put in their own name every semester, even if their parents help pay other loans for them.

[@hpu_tyego]

Heya, I'm a college student from O'ahu. Back when the Red HIll leaks happened, several of my classmates had to rely on water provided at school, and apparently some had resorted to beach restroom showers for their actual showers. These are military guys who lived on Ford Island or Hickam. None of them have gotten any compensation from the government, so thank you so much for covering this issue 2 years later!

[@wildwesley9328]

As a young person who agrees that media should focus on more platonic relationships, I think the difference is that we don’t want unnecessary sex scenes and romance. It’s the shoehorned romance as well as the lack of platonic relationship representation that we want to be rid of, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want sex or romance in our media at all. I’m asexual and am fine with sex and romance in my media as long as it’s done well and serves the story. It’s the difference between Season 1 Euphoria and Season 2 euphoria. While season 1 euphoria isn’t perfect and arguably crosses the line occasionally, there are moments where the sex and romance are done well, while season 2 is all kinds of unnecessary with pointless shock factor, that doesn’t make sense for the characters that were written in season 1.

[@mukkaar]

Idk, I don't really get why you would need to chance focus either way, what I want are good movies. Romance is popular because it's intense and dramatic, and most people find it interesting. I have massive issues with current movie industry, chief being just things turning more corporate aka. safe. aka. tons of sequels, remakes, IP harvesting and just very formulaic safe/uninteresting movies. For my part, I have never watched movies because of the romance, and movies based on relationships are basically on bottom of my watch list just after horror. Not that I don't enjoy that stuff, like with Game of Thrones, but it's just not why I pick my media. But yeah, I don't really get why it matters what's focused on as long as it makes media more interesting.

[@wildwesley9328]

@@mukkaar I also don’t seek out relationship based stories. Horror-comedy movies are my favorite genre, for example Happy Death Day. That movie has a romantic relationship that feels earned and makes the story stronger and makes sense in the plot. I also love the Addams family and was excited to Watch Wednesday but was really disappointed by this unnecessary love triangle that they were forcing in that added nothing to the story and doesn’t even make sense for the character, especially since they had a much better story of her developing a platonic relationship with her roommate that they shoved to the side. My biggest issue is that they put in romance and sex in media that aren’t just romcoms and teen dramas and most of the time it’s unnecessary and bad. Horror movies are riddled with gratuitous sex and nudity that does nothing for the story and is just there for shock value and marketing.

[@lyspaere]

@@wildwesley9328 100% agree

[@msnyx823]

I’m an Aussie and I’ve worked with domestic violence victims. We keep having cycles of politicians saying that violence against women is wrong but there isn’t real assistance for victims who want to leave. We need to stop putting all the responsibility for managing the risks of leaving abusive relationships on to victims. We also need real changes to family law and the range of laws that work against victims. It’s time for the rhetoric to translate into action.

[@benjiakre-hill5961]

Here in the States, often times the 'support' offered is a women's shelter and a restraining order. Neither of these things are real support, even in emergencies. The shelters themselves offer a roof and a meal, to be sure, but a restraining order is made of paper; when dealing with a man who believes violence against women (thereby, ultimate control over women) is okay, simply the act of obtaining a restraining order turns it into a big, flimsy target. We need better protections and we also need to educate young boys and get rid of this 'manosphere ' culture that not only makes it 'okay' but celebrates and enforces it as the only way to be a true man.

[@brendo7363]

@@benjiakre-hill5961 The hell are you talking about? Do you literally want 24hr armed guards for all DV claiming women? OR just instant imprisonment for the accused? What "manosphere" celebrates this revolting sort of ..oh you mean rap music.

[@kingofhearts3185]

​@@brendo7363These sorts never understand what the reality of their nonsense looks like.

[@lauren.a]

@@brendo7363 huh? No. We want to be safe. Please help advocate for us and protect us from dangerous and abusive men. Please stand with us 🙏

[@brendo7363]

@@lauren.a *Literally* what do you expect me to do?

[@sleepyghxul]

Aussie girl here! My mother,me and my sister tried to get help from the police but my father rang them back and told the police "my wife is crazy she's on meds" and the meds were just anti depressants and they never came, it feels like the government only cares about abuse when the victim is dead or almost dead, it's a shame that we have to rally for basic care and rights

[@HelloThere-xx1ct]

So sorry to hear that. It is a problem all over the world because police officers are one of the most likely professions to abuse their partners. The data is clear that policing has the one of the highest rates of domestic violence. It's one of many professions where the people attracted to the role, in this case violent people, are the last people who should actually be in that role. So it is unsurprising that the police themselves seem reluctant around the world to enforce the laws the protect people from domestic violence. They are some of the people most likely to commit abuse or to be friends/work with police officers who are abusers.

[@absolutefocus2749]

​@@HelloThere-xx1ct could you please provide the data you cite? Ive looked at meta studies and other studies of domestic abuse in the US, and there doesnt seem to be a drastic difference between the mean for the population and the mean for police officers. Obviously I could be wrong, so could you please provide some names of the sources of data youre using.

[@Boomstck]

I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully everything turned out good in the end ❤

[@RayBarK1]

@@HelloThere-xx1ctsource: ass

[@darthlove7877]

I did a report in collage in Canada on almost this exact thing, quick summary, there are more law in place in Canada to help a women who has killed her abusive husband then there are to help get them out of an abusive relationship, sounds like AUS uses the same "we don't help people we just clean up the mess after" mentality

[@ambertheanxious]

As someone with PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder), I’m at least VERY happy to hear that the relationship of hormones and mood changes is being addressed more. Growing up constantly hearing jokes about how women are on their period when experiencing genuine emotions affected me deeply. I grew to think I was a bad person for feeling things the way I did until I was finally diagnosed. I’m just looking forward to this being taken more seriously.

[@MizzzFizzz]

Same here, I was only diagnosed in my early 20s and I think i had been going through it since i was a child, constantly blamed for my mood swings and made to feel like it was just being emotional, with no actual care or support to figure out why i was getting crippling suicidal thoughts, it was just "that time of the month" and my screams for help not taken seriously. I was never able to understand resonable amount of anger or upset because i was punished for every level of emotion, so now i just feel guilty anytime i feel anything. It really broke my brain.

[@DragonAoRazor]

Australian here. I work in an industry dominated by women and I have heard countless horror stories from them and have had a few colleagues completely disappear without notice any notice. Most of us have burnt through our annual leave attending protests and rallies. No one should have to live in fear of others.

[@beemo1313]

another aussie here, the legal system has failed me and I had to move to run from my abuser and my sister had to get a restraining order (AVO) against her ex but he just violated it and the cops were useless. The guy never got arrested then he dragged US through the courts for his appeal for the restraining order… the legal system doesn’t stop men, it helps them kill us.

[@theylied1776]

At Emory University, Georgia State Troopers arrested a philosophy professor because she walked out of her building on campus because she heard screaming. They charged her with assaulting a police officer. None of the body cams or surveillance video shows her doing anything to anyone.

[@kiteofdark]

They are basically torturing students that they detain as well.

[@Chris-lm1nx]

Kind of the truth... but what happened was she got very close to an officer who was arresting someone's, she was yelling at him almost in his face, another officer saw her do it and arrested her ... duh you should know better then to get close the polices when they are arresting someone. Disorderly conduct and impeding an arrest. So if you are going to tell a story... tell the whole picture.

[@midosabbagh]

Is it against the law to yell at the police ? ​@@Chris-lm1nx

[@theylied1776]

@@Chris-lm1nx if you say so? 11Alive still has the video up on their site.

[@KomoliRihyoh]

@@Chris-lm1nx Isn't it up to the public to stop police from making an unlawful arrest?

[@justuswaffles7032]

UNC student here- our encampment was largely peaceful until the police were called in. Pepper spray was used and there’s a video somewhere of them throwing the barricades onto a girl in a wheelchair. What was most shocking, however, was the mass email that went out this afternoon. The interim chancellor said he was “ disappointed that we had to take action this morning regarding protesters” when he was the one who sent the police in. Additionally he included pictures of the raided encampment at the end of the email with no context, almost implying that the camp was that messy and disruptive the entire time. We had an alert go out at around 3pm where our school went into “condition 2” where all non mandatory actions were suspended. No libraries no classes no more LDOC celebrations, but the announcement seemed like it was blaming protestors. I’m very disappointed in my university

[@dan4500]

We've seen the videos, the occupiers are not protesters. There is a clear cut video of how this is going down, the police have every right to remove occupiers since the University has called them in.

[@HeadGunter343GS]

where people in the encampment chanting "intifada" or "from the river to the sea"?

[@DumpTruck420]

Everyone of those protesters are nothing short of badass keep it up

[@defaultuser1024]

“Was largely peaceful” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@justuswaffles7032]

@@defaultuser1024 it was

[@Nomusicincluded]

"people are wondering if the only thing police are doing is escalating the situation" To those people I need to ask, "when has denying the people the right to peaceful protest ever de-escalated a situation? and "Would you become more or less angry if you were treated like a criminal for standing up against the mass murder of innocent people (including 13500 children, 200+ aid workers, and over 100 journalists)?"

[@Advisorblogger]

So basically we encourage people to go to school and boast in the history all the bs and how protesting works.....then when they do it "not like that" they need to be honest and stand in the fact they want a docile population.

[@PointlessPerspective]

When has protesting ever worked?! Genuinely curious

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

I remember how, in history class, we went over and over the protests leading up to the American Revolution and very clearly praising them and very clearly condemning the shooting at the Boston Massacre. It’s confusing to see politicians belittling people for protesting.

[@jefferybrown6473]

​@@PointlessPerspective Boston Tea Women's Suffrage Montgomery Bus Boycott Diner Sit-ins Greyhound Bus Protests Civil Rights Movement Pro-Gay Marriage Protests Ghandi's Independence Protests South Africa Anti-Apartied Protests Ceasar Chavez Starvation Protests Anti-war Vietnam Protests There's a few that every American student should have heard of at least once in school.

[@VSPoliFight]

Almost as if you should be in school to train to become productive members of society. Not worthless Virtue signalling trash attacking Jewish students.

[@wildwesley9328]

⁠@@PointlessPerspectivethe entire civil rights movement helped get rid of Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks wasn’t a random woman who decided to not get up for a white man. Her not getting up and the bus boycotts that followed were all pre planned, organized protests. She was specifically chosen for that role because the first woman to do it was darker skinned and pregnant out of wedlock and not an “ideal” face of the protest. The sit ins, marches, freedom rides, civil disobedience, no violent resistance were all forms of protest that got national attention and led to changed laws. The March on Washington is considered one of the most successful protests in the world. Are things perfect now? No, but way better than they were due to protesting. There’s the Suffragette Movement, the Boston Tea Party, the Stonewall Riots, the Occupation of Alcatraz. There are local protests to get rid of government officials all the time. Need modern examples, in my home state, Florida, the students from Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives after the shooting at their school in 2018, which led to stricter gun laws being passed not only in Florida, but in 16 other states and DC as a result. Jon Stewart has been leading successful protests to put pressure on Washington to help 9-11 first responders and veterans get their health care covered for the last few years. Even if you weren’t aware of all that despite it being basic US history/current events, Google is free and you can look up examples from all over the world.

[@PointB1ank]

Ticketmaster hates scalping....unless it's on their platform and they can make money from both sides of the transaction. I hate how it got to this.

[@supersayian193]

And yet ya sheep still flock to em when ya need em ya sheep did this to yaself 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@benjiakre-hill5961]

@@supersayian193 To be fair, they literally made themselves the only option for 95% of ticket sales. This includes sports and theatre.

[@bishop883i]

As an Australian I will heavy heartedly confirm that this is indeed a national problem, The statistics you have quoted are sadly the cold hard truth and a wake up call to us as a nation regardless of what side of the political divide you stand, regardless of religion or race. The reality to reduce this hideous trend will require a single national approach requiring all states and territories to come together and form a plan that will have to be so inclusive of all the elements of this issue it is daunting by its very scale. But we can not let this continue to happen. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy nothing easy is ever worthwhile.

[@rebelwithacause666]

I had prepartum depression so bad in my first trimester I actively went to get help and called the help center. I had a tiny glimmer of help when I got a call from the therapists office. They did my intake said someone would call me and they never did. I called back a few times and nothing. I'm very lucky I didn't have PPD after my son was born because I was genuinely disheartened and scared about what would happen if I had symptoms and got the same lack care when I desperately needed it.

[@maddy93282]

On the topic of the protests on college campuses, I saw something earlier today that really hit home for me, it was something along the lines of "The same cops who for 30+ years have told us they can't do anything to stop school shootings are coming out in full force attacking those same students and arresting them for peaceful protests." I can't speak for all protests, but I've been a part of the peaceful protests at UT Austin and there was no disruption to the campus until the police and troopers arrived. Remember kids, "Free speech for me, but not for thee"

[@PointlessPerspective]

University campus is not a public place. What protests were you apart of? What did your protest do to help the cause?

[@Joe_P]

I think you're thinking of the Democrat motto: rules for thee, not for me. A La Gavin Newsom at the french laundry, while his state is shut down and everyone not allowed to congregate or conduct business. I don't blame them for fucking your shit up, it would eventually devolve into unhinged bullshit like controlling buildings and student movement, like everywhere else. Forgive me for not having sympathy for people who side with literal terrorists.

[@medraut6599]

Look at what is happening in Columbia, why shouldn't there be any police presence to monitor the situation?

[@yuliaaguila8880]

I think this is the most impactful way I've heard the dystopian police response to these protests described. It truly shines a light on what those in power consider "keeping the peace" when police do next to nothing to stop school shooters (Uvalde especially comes to mind), but they go all in on college kids protesting war - something which is basically American tradition at this point, mind you.

[@christopherd9290]

@@TheRibottoStudios Sweetie, its defined by getting a majority of its funding from public not private sources. No matter how it gets it funding there are restrictions and guidelines on how to conduct yourself in those areas. By just saying the area is public thus they can be there, allows the argument of Jan 6 riotors to be at the capital and in the building just because its "public." Just because national parks are public places it doesn't mean there are no restrictions on what a person can do there. The protests are getting removed because camps are getting set up, not because of their speech. It would be no different if I started building an encampment on Bureau of Land Management or National Park Service public land and I was forcefully removed.

[@ndawn90]

As someone who works in healthcare, I have definitely seen how the system drops the ball when it comes to PPD. The last 5 years, I've been working in Peds, and we give those PPD screeners to all moms at their baby's 2 week checkup. The problem is that the mom isn't technically our patient, so all we can do is pass on the screener to her OB and hope that they do something with that information. I've seen moms who seem perfectly fine while I'm in the room with them, but when I look at their screener they are practically screaming for help. It kills me that our system is so fractured that I can't even guarantee that they are going to get that help, even when it's so obvious that they are really suffering. I'm hopeful for this new test, but at the end of the day what we really need to do is fix our healthcare system. It's fractured, it's inefficient, it's bloated, and it's failing the people who need it the most while bending over backwards to roll out the red carpet for people with money.

[@BirdMoose]

On the note of protests being turned violent by the police, at my University we've been getting updates through the school about the "situation on campus", and things will be fine when the cops aren't there, but then right before police show up the campus will start shutting down roads and alerting us of dangerous activity when nothing has changed out at the encampment. The site has been kept pretty clean and orderly, but then police will show up and trash the place (including emptying out the bins) and then pictures will surface on the destruction to campus these protests cause. Its frankly pretty annoying the hypocrisy on display where cops create the danger used to justify them being there.

[@auberginebear]

What bothers me most about the narrative that we need to “raise our boys better” is that no one understands how all-encompassing that would be, and would necessitate an overhaul of all society. It would mean everyone agreeing on how and when children are taught about things like consent, which honestly should be done as early as possible once children begin exhibiting their own boundaries like not wanting hugs or holding hands. But people, by and large, don’t want to put the work in to make those changes, because it means accepting there are wrong ways to parent or support one another.

[@bridgetkrusec4047]

Australian here, in Melbourne specifically - working retail in the city. The outright abuse and sexual harassment myself and my staff have faced over the year is like nothing I've experienced in my over 10 years in retail. Last week I had my own fence ripped down by a man (who was unknown to me) because he couldn't get what he wanted. A woman to speak to him. After the police came they waited for 3 hours for the CAT team to arrive. Our community FB boards are littered with warnings of dangerous men spitting, groping and yelling at women in public, they are not afraid, they're emboldened. Women being killed by their partners increased by 30% last year. The system is failing EVERYBODY

[@lauren.a]

The Facebook groups are wild! As is retail. I had a man threaten to set me on fire by cornering me and holding a lighter at my clothes, another man spat on me and another threw part of a mannequin at me when I worked in retail - also in Victoria, all because I caught them stealing and asked if they could put the items back. I wasn’t aggressive but frustrated and scared because I was alone. I didn’t deserve any of that, and neither do you and your staff. We deserve better

[@cic3000]

​@@lauren.adont be stupid, stupid. no retail item is worth your life. It should be common sense to let them steal, then call the police AFTER the fact. Hello 🤗

[@lauren.a]

@@cic3000 firm agree 🫡 I was a teenager and it was 2008 and I clearly didn’t have enough common sense. I was in a small jewellery/gift store alone with the only other worker being the owner, who would curse me out for stolen stock. It was a gross working situation and I was so conflict averse and felt pressured to ask them to stop. I’ve learned so much since and would never do it now 🙌 if I see someone stealing, no I didn’t.

[@lauren.a]

@@cic3000 your comment, while I agree with the message, your victim blaming. Please don’t suggest it was my fault they assaulted me

[@bridgetkrusec4047]

@@lauren.a I am so sorry this happened to you! And I am so upset that we are all experiencing this while we are just trying to make a living. Albos announcement today just reinforces that women are responsible for their own safety.

[@ElisePickering]

AI Data scraping is a hugely scary problem in the fanfiction communities. Fanfiction already exists in a very delicate gray area of copyright law. It was a huge stink when Google changed their terms of service to start accessing Google Docs. People have been frantically switching to alternative writing tools to continue their works without jeopardizing their place in the ecosystem. It's a very real fear that if fanfiction data is scraped the fanfiction writers will also face legal backlash for writing it even if they didn't consent to the AI scraping by the Fandom's original author. Absolutely wild.

[@FNLNFNLN]

To be frank, I agree with AI companies being able to use (Edit: publicly published, aka, not peoples' private messages or emails/edit) data at will. Everyone should be able to, and modern copyright law is far too restrictive. Flip side of that, AI developed freely using other peoples' work should itself be freely available. The rest of the issue with livelihoods is a larger societal issue that has to be fixed one way or another.

[@cablefeed3738]

​@@FNLNFNLN i completely agree

[@MrAfrodisiakOo]

@@FNLNFNLN You do realise that allowing anyone to use anyone's publically available data at will, will also allow them to impersonate these people as well as use their likeness for whatever they like, right? Also, people have their e-mails publically available, in fact, people have A LOT of personal data publically available, you just don't know about it. We already have a huge issue of scam using people's photos, videos and voices to do scams and\or promote whatever they want. Do you want more of it? Allowing anyone to use the public information however they want would open up a HUGE can of worms.

[@nadaroule]

​@@FNLNFNLN it shouldn't be in the hands of any company as AI trained on everyone's data should belong to the people. Copy left licenses for AI feel like a given.

[@feha92]

@@FNLNFNLN Yes, the whole stink about ai needing extra rules for usage of media is way too obviously manipulative and lobbied by vested interests. We already have laws about plagiarism, so the output from the ai is still limited just as much as if a human had copied someone's work. We already have laws about both piracy, privacy, and gdpr. So the training data is still required to be sourced in a legal manner (and any legal but unethical such data, is obviously a question of poor privacy laws, not a question of needing new laws specific to AI, and *only* AI), just as if a human wanted to find inspiration/learning. For stuff like google docs, and terms of services in general, the issue is not that ai can use the data. It is that those large companies are allowed to sneak such clauses into them _at all._ Sure, do allow them to have such clauses (it's their service and servers after all), but make them far more obvious, *and even when they updating ToS then do require some more explicit agreement from the user than simply continuing to use the site or checking some checkbox about an entire update.* And "private" files that a company has access to, should still be considered private. And the company would be the one liable for any illegal usage thereof. (say a user upload a movie they bought to their google drive, then the user should be fine as it is still private use. But google should be liable for any illegal sharing of the movie.) And for fanfics, disallowing fanfiction is stupid. What should be possible to disallow, would be using their trademark or having too similar titles and not making it clear it is a non-canon fanfic. But the usage of their characters or world or whatever, in a clearly marked non-canon way, should obviously be ok. Even if you monetize it.

[@isthisajojoreference]

If your product can’t exist without stealing then it sounds like your product doesn’t deserve to exist

[@LeslieMorris]

Australian here - this has been a problem for decades. For the major of that time we had useless conservative government that didn't do anything. This current government is basically play catchup on a decade worth of neglect by that government, in literally every aspect of Australian life. They have so many problem to solve and sadly it won't happen overnight.

[@LeslieMorris]

@AdamFontenet-hd1nn 43 year old Millennial here. What on earth are you talking about?

[@cherrybomber69]

​@AdamFontenet-hd1nnfind a highway to play on

[@cherrybomber69]

​@LeslieMorris yeah nah Labor aren't going to do anything to fix the mess, they have already proven they are the same as Liberals

[@haseulibae7083]

I DESPISE Ticketmaster so much. I've only used them once in the last five years, bc the show I was wanting to see only sold them on TM. And I spent almost $400 for one ticket. I'm just to a point where I can no longer afford to go to any shows, of any kind, at all anymore. And I make okay money for a single person household! It's ridiculous.

[@skycatlive1576]

Ya and its been like that for like 20 years too. It's like they wanted to kill music. =( used to go to 2-3 shows a weekend until i was 24, that was the year it changed, used to be maybe 15-40 bucks a ticket. Don't know why that changed but i do know i pay less attention to music, as it feels inaccessible.

[@snakabuz]

As long as audiences continue to spend money they don't have, on people that don't know or care about them, companies will continue to gouge. Just like Netflix and all the others. They will do what makes them money. If people just.stop.spending, these companies will crumble. There are a lot of ways to show support for things and people you care about. But you have to put your foot down, and the majority of people will have to learn to sacrifice or show some restraint if we want ANYTHING to get better.

[@humandisaster3902]

@@snakabuz "Music enjoyers complaining about tickets to their favourite bands not being sold at reasonable prices? EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, STOP BUYING ANY TICKETS FOR ANYONE. That'll teach Ticketmaster." Ticketmaster cornered the market. They are a monopoly. So long as anybody is seeing live events, Ticketmaster is making money, because nobody else is selling tickets to those events. The only way to break up a monopoly is legislative involvement, which is well established and precedented because Ticketmaster is not the first monopoly, nor will it be the last if we continue with capitalism.

[@iggberthumperdink]

You're part of the problem. You wanted to see the show, you didn't NEED to see the show. You spending 400 bucks on a Ticketmaster directly supports their bad behavior. If people would stop financially supporting them, they'd change, but people refuse to have some self control.

[@iggberthumperdink]

​@@humandisaster3902you don't NEED to see any shows. It's a luxury. If enough people stop paying for the luxury, even a monopoly will need to change.

[@xBlondieBear]

As a female Aussie, thank you for coving our story. It’s getting so bad out here with violence against women especially those who need to be homeless to escape DV. Having eyes of the world on this issue is needed to shame out political parties into action

[@johanlarsen7656]

Regarding the 'sex' narrative: sex-filled movies from the 80s/90s are often with very limited consent; that if you get rejected and just continue pressing, then you'll get the girl - which is often just straight up harassment. So yeah, if modern movies have consent, it makes sense that those movies get an audience

[@zwerko]

Regarding scalpers, that's an extremely easy problem to solve for the most part: just make all tickets fully refundable up to 24 hours prior to the event. If you cannot go for whatever reason, you just refund your ticket and let it be resold via the original channel and at the original price (so no platinum or any such service) and that's it. Even Ticketmaster allows setting such a scheme (tho they actively discourage it for obvious reasons), so performers who complain that they cannot do anything about scalpers or surge prices are either uninformed or plainly lying.

[@Playingwithproxies]

Just make tickets only refundable not resaleable. Of course they don’t want to stop resale cause every transaction is money for them.

[@patrickjdarrow]

Machine learning / AI guy here. Very few players are playing any games by the books and those who do are falling astronomically far behind because policy and legal action is lagging adoption. In a way, there is no "book" to play by. There is a moment here for us to demand this is done right and I fear that if it isn’t seized, a very dangerous precedent is set, confirming that tech giants can truly behave lawlessly with customer data and the public’s IP

[@TreesPlease42]

On the face of it, corporations exist in service of the government. The government wants them to move as quickly as possible -- just like during the cold war. Their behavior will not change. The products made available to us may be neutered, but the companies will not stop pushing for more data. Ultimately AI is the final centralization of power that can make way for a new dynasty to take hold.

[@justak37]

Aussie woman here - I wrote this comment about 20 times trying to fit in and clearly get across what I wanted to say but I struggled so here is what I ended up with. I don’t want to be scared and I don’t want to look at the men of Australia as a threat, I know you are good but then I remember that none of them are giving me a reason not to view them as threats no matter how ‘good’ they think they are. So I will leave you all with this, this country is a boys club, (trust me you haven’t seen a boys club quite so powerful until you have seen it in action in Aus) always has been and it’s not about to change because Aussie men your efforts in everything other than supporting your AFL football team is nonexistent. I hope Phil showing this madness that our Aussie men are apparently to outraged at that keeps happening to the woman of this country, embarrasses you globally, I hope you winch when someone asks you where you are from and you say Aus and you know they know and when our next generation grows up and they see what little you did to be kind of their/our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, favourite teachers, sisters, best friends - i hope they look at you the way we do, disappointments.

[@HClipsIndustrialComplex]

I am an australian woman and the mechanisms for protecting victims are not sufficient at all. Changes need to be made to laws and family courts as well as in the culture, particularly in private schools and universities where there are frequent stories of misogeny, harrassment and sexual assault. There is a current lawsuit against the Australian National University and their handling of sexual assault and cover-ups. As a student, it is scary that there are particular residences which are well known for sexual assault but female students are not given any information about this so the univeristy can protect its reputation. I know women who have been sexuallt assaulted and told they could only make a report if they agree to have their name public. This prevents reporting. I know people who have suffered abuse and when they finally got the courage to reach out to police and get restraining orders and such there was no protection following this. This means that at the time where victims are most vulnerable, they are left to fend for themselves. I also know people who work with police, tracking cases and domestic violence is extrememly common. Things need to change because deaths are sadly common.

[@ChloeAriT]

I think what a lot of young people really mean when they say they don't want sex scenes in movies is that they don't want bad, misogynistic, heteronormative, exploitative, hollow sex scenes in movies that add nothing to the story. these days, if a teenager wants to watch porn, they can just watch porn online. when we go to the movies we want a compelling story. if people tell a compelling story that involves sex, we're more than happy to watch.

[@nicolasgomez390]

I have a brother who is part of the Columbia protests. On his acceptance letter, they said one of the reasons they admitted him was because of his willingness to take political action in the face of consequences. he was disciplined by our highschool when leading a class walkout over political inaction due to gun violence. He and other students are doing the exact thing Universities say they want. The 1960's Vietnam protests and the 1980's South African Apartheid Protests are celebrated on their website as honorable student actions, and that the crackdowns were wrong then. I have no doubt that in 20 years, Columbia and other schools will celebrate these student actions as proof they attract and create the moral leaders of the world. Of course i worry for his safety. but its not his decision if he's in danger. Its entirely Columbia's decision whether to create danger by bringing in the police, or remove any disruption by divesting from war-profiteering. Students succeded in forcing South African Apartheid Divestment. I believe they'll succeed again.

[@Music34897]

Liberals (meant in the European way, centrists who are devoted to capitalism above all else) are opposed to every war except the current one and support every social justice movement except the one happening right now. I am paraphrasing/butchering a tweet there I think but boy is it true.

[@yowaikemen]

IDK, man. Columbia is not going to be an accredited institution after this.

[@ronswanson1410]

Why are there protestors in Columbia taking Janitors hostage? Why are there protestors in UCLA blocking students from going to class? They simply want to voice their dissatisfaction at the cost of making other people's lives difficult, which in the end does nothing but relieve them of their survivors guilt from having fortunate upbringings. It's a self indulgent act, not one aimed at actually helping others.

[@PointlessPerspective]

Your brother sounds like a very unproductive person. A walkout in high school over gun violence 😂😆😂😆✌️

[@ali-zl9ls]

history always repeats itself

[@limeadel303]

As a Gen Zer we aren’t necessarily entirely against sexual scenes in media. It’s just more often than not it’s completely unneeded to the plot. A great example of this was Netflix’s Wednesday it was a great show but the romance added absolutely nothing. Theirs a time and place and it’s usually not gonna work for every movie

[@jblyon2]

Millennial here with the same thoughts. I don't mind them at all, when they make sense. All too often the scenes do absolutely nothing to contribute to the plot and usually just seem like an excuse to objectify (mostly) women. I've had the same complaint about books I've read. There will be a random romantic/sexual bit that lasts a few pages...and has nothing to do with the story. It's just there, for no reason, and seems deeply out of place.

[@MeganBomar]

I'm a millennial myself but I have always had the same feeling. It's one of the most uncomfortable thing when watching stuff with other people when there's just a sex scene in the middle of an otherwise cohesive story not about couples or relationships. When the story is about those things, it makes sense that there would be those scenes, but when I'm watching Oppenheimer the sex doesn't actually add anything to the narrative of the movie and just makes me feel awkward (just as an example).

[@Tustin2121]

Yes! This! Romance and sex scenes are often used to paper over a terrible plot. A scene in a plot done well has always been fine!

[@PointlessPerspective]

Dudeee I was just talking about this! Maybe it’s my add but I’m always like…. Y?! When it’s implied you don’t gotta show it off over and over

[@comicsans3537]

We want sexual, not porn. Huuuugeee difference!

[@MrCaku]

Thank you for speaking so frankly about postpartum depression!

[@CaptainHarknesss]

Aussie here - I was about to type that I have been lucky enough not to be a statistic, but I have as a young teen by someone I worked/volunteered with. My two closest female friends both have had abusive and controling partners in the past. Every week we hear of yet another woman murdered by a current or former partner, and when we ask for help it feels minimised or trivialised. Until you die and then it is an unvoidable tragedy. It feels like it's never going to end.

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

It's always fascinating how much downplaying these companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars do when it comes to freely harvesting copyrighted material for maximum profit from individuals and small businesses. All while simultaneously swinging a sledgehammer at anyone who dares to use a few seconds of a song, movie, or any media they own. Will we even make it to the end of the year before any content you create is immediately being captured, repackaged, and monetized on another platform automatically by AI?

[@cablefeed3738]

Agreed. We should just get rid of Copyright

[@Phil9874]

@@cablefeed3738 or just take away the copyright of big corporations

[@judithbradford9130]

Isn't it amazin how opfen astronomical profits depend on ripping people off at grand scale??? THen they whine they can't be forced to "lose profits' by paying for what they steal.

[@Blodhelm]

Richest companies in the world pretend they can't afford to pay people a few bucks for the "data" they're taking.

[@LetsPlayAceCraft]

@@Blodhelm I mean, they literally couldnt. a few (3+) bucks with 300 billion items in their dataset means 900 billion at least. That would ruin literally any company.

[@MZZenyl]

In other words, it literally took movie execs and directors a decade to realize that, in an age of nearly endless online porn, people don't care about pointless sex scenes in movies. They're whining about having to actually make an effort to make sex scenes in movies be more than just horny.

[@The_Evening_Sun]

Pretty much this. If you're going to have sex scene have it actually mean something or develop the characters in some way, or imply important subtext.

[@kameronjones7139]

Yup and I am glad of it. I was so tired of just stuff like that randomly thrown in at least make it add something to the relationship

[@frostfang1]

or that we don't need movies seley about sex or horniness, the relationship has to actually be based on chemistry and romance. Not just because two heterosexuals of the same age and attraction "level" are in the same action movie together

[@zachdrasher128]

How about we just make movies where people dont fuck?

[@Onikage55]

Honestly I hate sex scenes in movies and tv because they're already struggling to keep a interesting plot going, no need for pointless filler where I can watch 10x better sex in porn for free that has zero story. Especially TV series with a 10 episode run. Move the damn plot along, don't waste 5-10 minutes of a 40 minute episode on softcore sex

[@Nimafox]

I work for a university is a major city and one aspect that these universities don't seem to understand is as soon as protesters get that kind of push back, more and more protesters will come to support that specific protest. The university just down the road from ours had a protest that ended in suspensions, and now they have massive protests with major political leaders. This means that the students from the university I work for are going over to the other university to protest. Earlier in the year, we had a small group do a protest, no one was suspended or arrested, and now our students are off to bigger and more oppressive protests.

[@vulpex4105]

What do you want the university to do? Its obligated by contracts to its paying students and workforce to continue teaching and providing, they have to disperse protests or they could be theoretically sued for enabling them, or worse, lose face and prestige, harming its image in the eyes of prospective students (customers)

[@seto007]

I love Phil being like "yeah, when I went down to Texas I heard from everyone that they weren't able to access these blocked sites." You weren't fooling anybody lmao

[@olivialeathley605]

Australian here, and friend of Sarah Williams. The rant our prime minister went on on Sunday after this Indigenous woman organised rallies across the country in a matter of DAYS, was appalling. It just highlights the major discrimination against our women, in particular Indigenous women, who are being killed at a higher rate than any other group. The prime minister has promised a 10 year plan with lives lost decreasing every year... in the last two years deaths have only INCREASED. This is not a matter for the future, this is a matter for now and we are fed up.

[@Devilishlybenevolent]

It is sad to see in the US/Canada/Aus, when indigenous women disappear or are missing you never hear about it. But when a young white woman disappears it makes national news and volunteers from all over try to look for them.

[@lightsaber230]

From how Albo was talking it didn't seem as though he was even invited to talk. Even though Sarah said she sent invites before the rally during her speach then when he came up to ask to speak it took other organisers to get her to hand it over for a short time.

[@standepain]

Seriously who pays these prices??? I wouldn't pay more than $100 to see even my favorite band.

[@funkspinna]

Taylor Swift and Beyonce fans.

[@Avocado_Gravy]

This is Ticketmaster openly wanting a bigger piece of that scalpers pie

[@halfadecade4770]

I wouldn't even pay $700 for a 3 day festival

[@boozypixels]

A lot of people do, especially if it's a once-a-lifetime sort of opportunity

[@ErebosGR]

Dude, I watched Metallica in the early '90s for the equivalent of $10.

[@allnaturalblue]

don't have much to add but THANK YOU for talking about the situation in oahu. im a hawaiian and my dad is a vet and he has talked about this with me many times, it's absolutely maddening.

[@thatguy-js7ri]

The fact that when ai was first becoming big everyone was worried about it developing too fast and issues arising vs now where companies are blatantly stealing from everyone with no regard for legal repercussions in an effort to advance ai. It's sad to see how little our privacy is worth.

[@souleylove]

The screening for postpartum in my area was a few questions every pediatrician visit for the first few months asking "do you feel like harming yourself?" and "do you feel like harming others?". I realize that's probably more than some mothers are asked, but it's not enough. I didn't realize I had postpartum after my second child until I was on the other side of it, and that's because I thought postpartum only manifested in wanting to cause harm. No one told me that it can be anxiety, panic attacks, feeling like a stranger in your own body, and so many other non-life threatening symptoms that still tear you apart. I hope with everything I have that this new test works and is made easily accessible to everyone who needs it. Postpartum doesn't always take lives, but it can ruin them nonetheless.

[@ajwhitworth8803]

3:10 Gen Z here and one of my anthro classes had a discussion about this!: it's not that gen z doesn't like sex scenes or do like sex scenes, it's that it has no make sense. If you have a movie about sexual tension and also tennis, and everyone knows that those are the topics in the movie, we're not against it! If we have a movie about tennis and there's a not-expected sex scene in an otherwise very tennis movie, we're probably not going to like it. We also consider whether or not the sex scene actually helps or hinders the plot -- is the writing pointing to a sex scene being "good" or making narrative sense or will it just interrupt the story. Of course, there's more to this, this is just an outline to the class discussion. Feel free to comment/debate!

[@paigeknight97]

I lived on the Hickam Pearl Harbor base. Before 2018. As soon as we moved in I couldn’t drink the water. I raised concerns but I was told it was safe. I had chronic migraines, nerve pain and constant nausea. Confusion. I was so sick that friends wondered if I was being poisoned.

[@brent_christensen]

Loving the long shows. You’re my new treadmill buddy.

[@loudemopsychic]

I think what the explicit scenes thing is showing is that there is places for "spicy" media, but there is no need for all media to be so, and injecting it into shows that are *about other things* is unnecessary. We want a variety of media, and on top of that we don't want everything to be catered to a male gaze. If it doesn't serve a story then it isnt needed.

[@XPsychowaffleX]

*cough HALO cough*

[@Bendylife]

I'm an artist and i hate how the theft of peoples artwork is just referred to as "Data". This is theft of millions of peoples hard work and time. Whats worse, is this theft might also risk the jobs of artists that were used to create this software in the first place. This mass theft of intellectual property is horrible, but whats more horrible is that no government seems to care. edit* to add: Think of this art or other "data" like a resorce. You can't just steal lumber to build houses that you then sell for profit. People spent time collecting and cutting that lumber, they trained, invented and acquired equipment, etc. Sure, they themselves were not going to use it, but you still need to compensate those workers for their time and effort creating that resorce for you to use. It's the same with the "data" used to build these AI programs.

[@MrAfrodisiakOo]

I think they're referring to it as "data" because it's not just about people's artworks, but all the other types of data as well: videos, texts, writing, photos, music etc. etc.

[@Bendylife]

@@MrAfrodisiakOo I think my point is more to do with how the term "Data" is far too nebulous, regardless of the artistic medium or works being stolen. It's not just "data" it's work, it's time, it's other property being used and stolen. I've seen so many tech bros use this word to sanitize what is happening and distance the programs from the crimes used to make them.

[@MrAfrodisiakOo]

@@Bendylife well they do be stealing "data" tho. Like bits and bytes. Just technical terms.

[@lordlyka68]

Yeah. I'm an artist too and I hate how AI has changed everything. I love to share my artwork online but every since AI started getting popular I've been so anxious to post ANYTHING because I fear it'll just be stolen and used in these models. I have a strong emotional attachment to my pieces so to me at least just thinking about the process AI goes through with its data, its akin to shredding a million artists work together to create a disgusting amalgamation of what was once human. It makes me not share my #1 joy in life with anyone, no matter how much I want to.

[@coasterthekid8867]

That’s just the nature of the Internet and has been sent it’s creation. Am I to believe that you’ve never pirated anything? No software, movies, anime, etc.?

[@AngryKittens]

Weird how those protesters don't demand the return of hostages.

[@guy0203]

As an American hearing 27 deaths based on gender based violence, I'm ashamed to admit my first thought was "only 27? That's not so bad" IDK if it's the culture or my time in the military but I've become terribly desensitized.

[@kodabuck225]

as a Canadian, same, makes me think there is a lot of under reporting happening

[@cherrybomber69]

You should see how Australian men react to it, they think the deaths are justified

[@Peachillie]

As an Australian woman, I am proud of the people that took to the streets to voice our dissatisfaction with the continuing trends in violence against women and minorities in this country, but I'm a little disappointed that much of the conversation seems to have pivoted to whether or not the PM was asked to speak and whatever drama is going on there. Thousands of people marched all over the country in places that the Prime Minister wasnt present and their voice is just as loud as Canberra's. It doesn't matter if he speaks at the rally. What matters what action the Federal Government takes to help the issue, because his speech is just words in the end if it's not backed up with action.

[@badwolf3618]

At least violence against women gets taken seriously. All current DV research shows that men are being abused by women as much as women are being abused by men, but no one ever talks about it, or its dismissed. The stigma and lack of resources and protections for men are much worse than they are for women, despite men being victimized just as often. As a man who had an abusive ex-girlfriend, it fucking infuriates me every goddamn time DV is talked about as if it's only an issue women face, when yall motherfuckers are attacking us just as much. And before you or anyone else says it, women used to kill their partners as often as men did, but that only decreased when DV shelters became available for women. Given that there are no DV shelters for men, it would make sense that the rate at which men murder their partners would also decrease if men had DV shelters too. God this shit pisses me off so much.

[@ronswanson1410]

You guys need a female batman.

[@lauren.a]

@@ronswanson1410 we DESERVE a woman Batman lol

[@radarjwns]

Not really addressing the issue by blaming men when women are the main culprits for violence against children

[@Peachillie]

@@radarjwns first of all, did I mention men besides the PM? Secondly, statistically there are more women with full custody of children or spend the most time with children so it’s a bit of a false equivalency.

[@noobiusmaximus6314]

I love it when a website advertises their tickets as £50 each, then you check the seating plan, and they're £200, minimum, no explanation.

[@benjiakre-hill5961]

Beetlejuice The Musical came to Portland and the lowest ticket was already about $50. When I went to stubhub those tickets were nearly $1200. This is not surge pricing -- the performance in question was 3 weeks away. I really wish I were exaggerating or, even better, joking. I'm not. I was completely shocked.

[@ketchupjonmustard4514]

thank you for not making the ad portions of the videos super loud

[@HappyLarry.]

As an Australian, the current discussion about violence against women has been interesting to see. On one hand, I'm thankful the discussion is still being had. Every woman I know either knows someone or is someone with a story of violence. Many commentators are right, throwing money around doesn't do much when most services don't implement that money properly. Homicides as a result of breaching AVOs and DVOs shouldn't be happening, and the government should be making them stricter, and police should be stepping up in making sure they're enforced. Assistance, services and community outreach need to be properly staffed and funded. On the other hand, I think that there's a significant level of fearmongering. Women are ~30% of homicides, and half of those are from intimate partners. In 2020-21, one woman was killed every 15 days by an intimate partner, while one man was killed every 28 days by an intimate partner. You won't see the later part, because the news will spend two weeks milking the death of a poor woman, creating an environment of fear that leads to prominent feminists like Clementine Ford being allowed to say how men should d*e and that men weren't being k*lled fast enough from COVID. That type of environment will likely ostracise boys and young men rather than promote them positive behaviour. The focus also means that people who don't fit the norm of domestic violence incidents (i.e. male perpetrator, female victim) are often left to the wayside. In 2016, Morrison's family violence funding literally CUT funding for men by focusing solely on male perpatrators and female and children victims. When people talk about fear of reporting, not being believed, services, call lines, actual convictions, ALL of them are worse than we want them to be for both genders, but they're also all far worse for men who are victims of DV and abuse from women. When the discussion is always "men abuse women" and not "we should stop domestic violence and abuse", that is going to abandon many many people.

[@gilbej91]

As an Aussie female, it's so frustrating to know that violence towards women is such salient and yet nothing is being done. Women are having to share information about previous partners that are violent to others to protect each other because the law isn't.

[@taylorbug9]

Are you guys not allowed to carry knives?

[@MizzzFizzz]

@@taylorbug9 Self defense should be the last option, I hate when people would prefer to put the responsability on the possible survivor instead of talking about ways to prevent it, like education or regulations and changes to laws and justice. I should not have to become a murderer so that i am not attacked.

[@Uuber2Jupiter]

​@taylorbug9 What a wild response. So I'm carrying my groceries and a 2 year old and hsve to drop my groceries (with the price if food these days thats a big loss) and grab a knife or firearm so a man doesn't SA Or Take me/us... at 10 yrs old, a grown man stuck his head in our car wibdow at a stoplight and tried to kiss me. At 10 I learned how to always watch for men.

[@MizzzFizzz]

@AdamFontenet-hd1nn Did you comment on the wrong thing? what are you on about, what buzzwords? was it the word salient or violence that got you amped up?? Strange.

[@iirosiren5120]

It would be insane if most of these cases in australia are caused by them and people just ignore that fact, to me that sounds insane idk.

[@momo02022]

I am a UW-Madison student and we had protests started here in our central quad area by Memorial Union. The protesters have been nothing but kind and respectful, answering questions and respecting even counter-protesters in the area. I have biked and walked through this area without issues several times. Yet, the insistence of the University and our governor Tony Evers to say they'll deal with these protesters "as necessary" and seeing the continuous police prescence is frustrating. There has also been statements that they will be breaking up the protests whether "voluntary or not". Truly tired of these misrepresentation of protests going on college campus and the way these institutes are blocking the constitutional right to protest. Hoping more people will come to their senses on this and help support protesters, regardless of if you agree or not, when they are simply exercising their rights.

[@BioshadowX]

Lol, there's literally footage of your protestors flipping a car but okay

[@chrischika7026]

"exercising their rights"

[@Masterhitman935]

Stay cheesy

[@mmarage1]

They also love to conveniently forget the Jewish organizations that are also part of the protests, because if they did note those groups, it takes a sledgehammer to the claims of it being purely about anti-semitism.

[@sushiroll3795]

​@chrischika7026 ...Yes? The right to free assembly is literally enshrined in our national Constitution and has been for centuries (not that it's prevented our government from completely ignoring it plenty of times).

[@strides6625]

I’m Australian, I’ve watched you for over a decade I agree with the protests against domestic violence, and I think our prime minister’s comments are strong and accurate. Thank you for covering our small country and its problems

[@courtneycooper4905]

Hi there this is the person who commented a few months ago about the FQHC and what we offer in Maryland. Having ANY test to help diagnosis post partum depression would be HUGE. I have a coworker who makes calls checking on the mothers every day and doing the screening and some of the stories she has alone is heartbreaking. To be able to find these ladies and get them proper help ahead of time would be huge.

[@Zachory]

Australian here. The focus around Anthony Albanese is frustrating. The media here is heavily skewed towards the right, and having a left leaning leader is a threat to them. The fact that they have made the talking points about him wanting to speak, ranter than focusing on the actual violence against women is infuriating. There are real issues here. I love living in Australia, but we're not perfect.

[@p1nkyblue]

Look I hate our media as much as anyone, but in this instance Albo is the one who made it all about himself. He got up there and said all the same things he's said every other time women were fed up with being murdered, his only new talking point was his claim that he wasn't allowed to speak. He's the one who lost focus. There isn't a "they" pivoting the talking points here, the prime minister did that all on his own.

[@dntmesswithmeow]

Albo is an asshole. He's just as bad as Scomo. The reason the media is so skewed to the right is because of censorship... Hello the ABC? Albo loves to cry and say we should do more but he's the government. He's not doing SHIT. Even the endo clinics were an initiative of the LNP. They're laughable.

[@OptimaWoods]

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[@CupcakeCarina]

And to add to that it was just disgusting that the rally was to stop violence against women and here is the leader, barging his way in and continuing to spout his own agenda while a woman is left crying next to him. Fucking read the room mate.....

[@lucyluu02]

The right leaning media thinking that Peter Dutton of all people would be able to fix any of this. The politician that sat back for a decade of liberal governments with blatant sexism rampant in the party 😕

[@ScorpiousDelectus]

Australian here. Almost 10 years ago to the month (Feb 2014), the NSW state government's reaction to a male teenager being assaulted (and later dying from his injuries) was to introduce lock-out laws covering what was deemed to be an "at risk" area in the CBD. These new laws included preventing people from entering licensed premises after 1:30am and forcing those businesses to close at 3am. They also forced bottle shops to close at 10pm. The laws were repealed by 2021. There was a running joke at the time that all it takes for the government to act is for a man to be killed.

[@brijetteyork802]

Aussie here, the government is truly fucked over the Christmas period in Perth the government tried to shut down a womens shelter for dv, the people revolted and it stayed open, but they have absolutely no care for women who need help

[@deanfriaryhall]

Good to back! I'll be honest with you and the community, sometimes I have to rewatch videos because It's just smoothing hearing someone telling the truth!

[@ericreativecuts]

At Passover we prayed for a cease fire and my brother gave a speech about how Tikkun Olam is being compassionate, not punishing the innocent. My dad shook his head: "it's like the late 60s all over again." He was at the Berkley riots but luckily left before the cops arrived. My mom was nearly thrown out of school around the same time for giving out birth control information on campus. They are slowly watching all their work crumble around them. We don't want this. Most Jews don't want this. Most Muslims and Palestinians don't want this. We care about normal people. It's time to stop listening to the power hungry shiesters at the top. Bibi is bad for the Jews. (Goyim: that is a famous Yiddish joke.)

[@josea1707]

Social media has definitely given a larger voice to the ridiculed extremism of the past, and sadly many of us with passionate feelings on either side of this situation have given in to their reactionary emotions and blindly accepted their hatred, ignorance, and misinformed rantings as fact.

[@marthasteele9917]

In the 60's I remember watching the news coverage of riots that started as peaceful protests. It is nice to see some law enforcement taking a different view and allowing for peaceful protesting.

[@josea1707]

@@yzrosner blind to your own biases and allegiances.

[@coachmcguirk6297]

​@yzrosner he's overwhelmingly unpopular in Israel. His approval rate amongst Israelis is less than 40%. That number was posted by the official Israeli government.

[@blond7899]

I agree but don’t like being called a Goyim

[@thomasandrewclifford]

We need to alter the way companies are fined for their malpractice. The amount they are liable for needs to scale not just by amount but percentage wise. A small AI company won't be able to continue if it lost 20% of its value for poor practices and AI giants wouldn't dare exploit systems if they would lose an amount that scaled to the same 20%. They are literally treating the legal system like a joke and paying the fines are if they were toll boothes on the way to making far more money.

[@Samantha.Horton.]

As soon as you mentioned Australia, I was so excited thinking you were covering the David McBride situation. Maybe next time lol

[@aidanmungai2290]

i live in regional New South Wales (one of the states) and it's gotten worse here, the rate of domestic violence is 1.4 times the state average. it goes up by 40% every time the footy is on i don't know what the answer is but clearly whatever we've been doing isn't working. it's more than just giving more money to frontline services and harsher penalties for abusers, this country is in dire need of a top to bottom cultural shift

[@grrrrrrr0]

Really awesome to see some police departments recognizing that disrupting peaceful protest is not thier job... The bar is in hell

[@m.r.6264]

They’ve probably read the handbook and don’t want to contribute to an unnecessary escalation

[@ronswanson1410]

The situation in Gaza is very serious and we have these unserious idiots in Columbia who desperately want to be part of a cool kids social club

[@evilcoffeemug5605]

I'm going to gwu right now and I'll give some credit but not too much as one of the cited reasons was "optics" according to the gw hatchet (uni newspaper) and they've been taking heat all year for arming thenselves with guns against student and staffs wishes So glad they made the right move but maybe not for the right reason

[@dustinford9534]

Its the job for the National Guard not the Police just like it was at Kent State

[@TheOnlyDeimos]

sometimes i does not come before e *their

[@theartist_dt]

I go to Virginia Commonwealth University. Our encampment zones were in front of our campus library and were peaceful until the VCU police showed up in riot gear and tensions were escalated. Many students were pepper sprayed and arrested for exercising their right to protest peacefully. These protests are MEANT to be disruptive. We've had many cooperative public assemblies with police around Richmond, VA, but that only does so much to gather attention. Many students are enraged right now.

[@ali-zl9ls]

free palestine. thank you for your effort

[@Chris-lm1nx]

Disruptive in a shouting and listen to me... sure I can agree. But when people, break things, put out tents, and don't leave when the time is up.... its no longer a peaceful protest... also... more times then not.... its outside actors or people that want chaos see those protests as opportunity. Idk the case for your university but mess around and find out is a real thing.

[@ronswanson1410]

Omg who cares. What will their protests achieve? Serious question. They are being disruptive for the sake of it. They don't know who's attention they are trying to grab and what they would say if given an ounce of influence on the issue.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

God hearing all these stories is great. Gen Z has the *best* FAFO energy.

[@ronswanson1410]

@@ali-zl9ls So brave of you to say that. Wow. You deserve a medal for your heroic efforts.

[@missingPiece5]

15:32 love the editing choice of showing the Big Butte from Arizona here XD

[@kab5592]

Thanks for talking about Australian DV, Phil. Means a lot as an Aussie woman and a 15+ year viewer of yours.

[@BennyVibes]

Imagine a bakery selling their donuts for the day for 2$ each with a sign displayed in front of them. They make 24 of them and you jump in line to grab one. You're the 24th in line and each person buys 1 donut before you but when you finally get to the front the final donut cost 65$. You ask the manager and they tell you it's "market based pricing" - you'd probably laugh, tell everyone and the bakery would be closed within a month. Ticketmaster thinks they're different and we need to show companies we wont stand for it. I understand supply and demand and the donut price would go up the next day (or a better baker would just make more and set a profit margin they are happy with). Ticketmaster have a model that tries to milk the highest price at every second/stage of the game. It's pathetic and has no place in society.

[@GrayWoIf]

Problem is they have almost a monopoly on venues. Most venues work with ticketmaster live nation so you have no choice than to work with them.

[@KendallM0219]

@@GrayWoIfI guess the only solution would be to stop buying tickets available on ticketmaster.

[@Everyday_tiarna]

As an Australian woman the knowledge that our government is aware that we are at risk of domestic violence without police support as well as danger in public situations LIKE SHOPPING AT A BUSY CENTRE by complete strangers is infuriating. I, like too many others, am already a part of a traumatic statistic. Why is our government keen on increasing that one as well as our risk of death? Changes are needed now.

[@olknoxlo]

How exactly is increasing funds to domestic violence shelters gonna help stop random lady stabbings? It’s like adopting rescue anomals to help sort out gun violence.

[@majorwolf1282]

Lmao i see you Editor. The Butte joke was clever.

[@Traxiconn]

Imagine being shocked learning that police action on protests only makes the protests worse. Shocker.

[@VSPoliFight]

😂🤣 ah yes you should always placate t36606ists. But only if they're left wing of course.

[@rationalbushcraft]

Apparently the Google tag line of "don't be evil" is now "be as evil as you want."

[@cablefeed3738]

I think copyright is already immoral, so taking people's Copyrighted work is the moral thing to do.

[@MrAfrodisiakOo]

@@cablefeed3738 sooo it's moral to let big companies steal the works of individuals, aka smth the copyright was designed to prevent? You ok?

[@cablefeed3738]

@@MrAfrodisiakOo Yes, just like those small creators can make whatever the hell they want without getting copyright struck or botherd by patient trolls.

[@MrAfrodisiakOo]

@@cablefeed3738 Look, the copyright law ain't perfect, but if it is removed then the small creators will be getting bent over even more, but now with 0 ability to do anything about it. You made a new creative show on youtube? YOINK big streaming company put it on their site and they aon't paying you a dime, or even crediting it. Wrote a book? YOINK some big director made a movie out of it, and you get 0 credit or compensation. Made cool artwork\comic\indie game? YOINK Big companies took it again. You invented smth? YOINK and so on and so forth. Just cuz big companies are abusing the law doesn't mean the law itself is bad. It does a monumental job of protecting small creators from big companies.

[@Pratchettgaiman]

Y’know, even if I disagree with the content of their protest, I respect the right of students to protest. But not allowing their fellow students access to university buildings is crossing a line, and UCLA should not tolerate students who do that

[@eliteflare6063]

You got some damn fine editors, Phil.

[@SonNeturo]

As someone who lives in Australia, I have seen the growth of the so called 'red pill' movement amongst young boys. I think this is something that the government often overlooks. The effect of social media on how the youth view people of the opposite sex. It is honestly depressing that more than half of the females I know have been through SA in their lifetime and that's just the ones who have been open about it in our friend groups. I think the problem is more complex then what we are seeing on face value.

[@thelemonwho]

Here in AZ: the propaganda-level "News" was praising the Police for arresting kids. Saying the lack of violence at a PEACEFUL PROTEST was because of the cops... 🤦

[@crosstrigger1]

Based

[@InvaderMedia420]

yeah, it honestly makes me sick. Journalism is supposed to put a leash on power not be a lapdog.

[@honeybee347]

Makes sense considering boy boy's recent video on the military whistle blower being sentenced to prison over the people who did the war crimes the whistle was blown on. Edit: sorry, thought the comment was about Australia. Just noticed the reply referenced AZ. 😂

[@queenpurr4275]

Propaganda level "News" here in PA was calling ALL college protestors Hamas terrorists. Yes. All of them.

[@dragb9284]

@@queenpurr4275fing insane

[@AlaynaGuthrie-sq4ig]

Thank you for your coverage of trans healthcare Phil. Gender dysphoria actively ruined the first 22 years of my life and having access to trans health care saved me. I can finally connect to the world around me, it feels like Im alive for the first time. These last couple years have been so heartbreaking, it feels like our country has been trying to ruin my communities lives and its been heartbreaking watching the lack of coverage. It means a lot seeing you cover it

[@makennamiller8512]

idk who is in charge of your design team but KUDOS they are all sooooo cooool!!!!!