LwL

Tbh I don't really get why though. Clearly he's good at getting people to listen, but... why?

Hitler was similar (except I'd say better looking) but listening to his speeches I at least get how he had crowds cheering. Trump could say things I agree with and I'd still not want to listen to him.

As someone who has looked into voice training a lot, at least the basic ideas I'm sure you can. None of it is necessarily specific to transfems and I would assume all the mechanisms behind feminizing your voice will be covered. The part that people might ask about that's more specific is probably which parts are most important for being recognized as feminine (and the answer from what I gathered is kinda just "it's complicated but it's not just pitch").

I was wondering which part about them makes them dangerous or fucked up, given they're from australia. Thanks for providing the answer lol

A few years back a known guy from a game I play said something similar on twitter. Though he said it was specifically because he has had only bad experiences with transfolk so as a result he's now literally scared of them/instantly gets a bad feeling interacting with a transperson.

Sooo many people cancelled him for it but I never saw the issue, you don't control your fears and if anything it's just confusing that we use the suffix -phobia for bigotry but in some cases it's a literal phobia. If you interact only a few times with members of a small group and it's always negative you're almost guaranteed to end up with that reaction, and no one but the person themself can know how bad the fear is.

Stare at it. Ignoring cats will make them like you, bevause to cats, not being looked at is a sign of trust.

A big factor is probably that the AfD has an actual large tiktok presence, and if that's where all the zoomers are, many are bound to fall into that echo chamber. It's the same thing people see in assholes like Andrew Tate.

I saw some AfD tiktok clip that literally said "Echte Männer sind rechts. Echte Männer wählen AfD." Felt like it should've been a parody. But apparently that's effective.

I really do think that actually making organic seeming tiktok content (as opposed to obviously awkward content where the politician barely gets whats going on) would help against the radicalization of the youth.

Honestly the EU is fucked up in so many ways but somehow still feels far more competent at doing good for its citizens than basically any other government institution, even if it's of course not without its failures (looking at you, copyright reform).

Honestly, she's insanely rich already, the main entity that would get money from buying hogwarts legacy is the dev studio and publisher. So for that reason I believe a boycott to be pretty pointless - she's richer than anyone should ever be anyway, and that won't change whether or not people buy whatever else is made with the IP.

I respect anyones decision to not buy it, because fuck jkr, but imo there's also great reasons not to care in spite of her being a terf, and I don't think anyone should be judged for buying it.

I think there's a lot of backlash bc of the few lunatics that went and harrassed people for streaming the game, which of course gets reported on by sensationalist right wing media as "all trans people ever are doxxing everyone who they see play hogwarts legacy" and people believe that horseshit.

As someone who never cared all that much about HP anyway, it's just one more reason to spend my money on something else instead. But if the same studio made hogwarts legacy 2 and it's somehow the greatest game ever made instead of another slightly above average open world rpg, I'd probably buy it.

A lot of things I could buy end up giving some money to rich assholes that I'd rather not give anything to, after all. If anything, someone saying hateful things on twitter seems middle of the field, even if I'm part of the group being targeted.

I can agree with the consecutive spending one, that seems like something that shouldn't be allowed, but log in bonuses? Sure it's an obvious way of getting people to keep playing your game by at least getting them to log in, but it's functionally no different from daily quests in that regard. Wow, now your log in bonus is instead a daily quest to do something extremely trivial that takes 10 seconds. And if lawmakers start wanting to forbid the concept of daily quests then I would like them to get the fuck away from my hobby.

First time spending bonuses kinda w/e, it is a pretty manipulative thing but it's so easy to work around too, just put in a one time purchasable thing that gives better value.

Makes sense though since the article said it's more about the scare of more such regulation coming than necessarily the specific proposal.

Because they can't (couldn't?) build it for the usual reasons that there's one place on the route where they have trouble getting permission. Not because of any faults with the technology.

Also wasn't even the original planned completion date still in the future? You don't build hundreds of km of railway featuring some of the longest railway tunnels ever built in a year.

It solves the problem of long travel times if you're not flying. Not in this case of course, but in general. Even a straight line HSR line from e.g. Hamburg to Munich could never compete with a plane. Maglev could.

There are plenty of caveats in the additional requirements for higher speed trains, but there is a reap problem to be solved.

Japan is in the middle of building a very long maglev line, what about it is supposed to be not at all ready?

There's still no point for a 10km intracity line, but for important long distance routes it seems like the best way to kill flights, though we'll see how it works out for japan whenever they finish it.