https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/

It’s the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.

I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.

All trans people secede from their various nations and invade TERF island to form a new nation flying the trans pride flag and honoring Blahaj as the national animal.

Let me explain the angle that I am coming at this from:

I am trans. I am not specifically non-binary, but I appreciate all types of trans and non-binary representation in media, and want to support it. I appreciate it because it shows that the creator is willing to stand up for my people, and because it helps to normalize our existence to the audience of the media. Both of those reasons depend on how explicit the representation is, because both depend on the average viewer of the media being aware of the character being trans and/or non-binary.

To me, this does not seem like explicit non-binary representation at all. Kit could be considered to be whatever gender the user wants, maybe even subconsciously. I don’t think Mozilla’s intention is for it to be subtle non-binary representation, either, I think that their intention is for users to be able to view Kit however they want - which would be a binary gender in most cases. They leave the door open for non-binary users to see Kit as non-binary too, which is better than being openly hostile, but in the current environment trans and non-binary people need actual allies to push back against the rampant hostility they face. So I don’t see this as a reason to specifically support Firefox. They’re just doing the bare minimum by not being openly hostile.

To contrast with that, take the mascot of Honkai: Star Rail, Pom-Pom. The developer, MiHoYo, is located in China, so they are legally barred from showing explicit LGBTQ+ representation. However, they go right up to that line and even arguably over it on many occasions, going basically as far as they can without saying it explicitly. Pom-Pom is no exception. All of the characters in the game refer to Pom-Pom with they/them pronouns specifically, including characters who know Pom-Pom very well. That goes far beyond what Mozilla did with Kit, because the implication that Pom-Pom is enby is quite clear and consistent. Mozilla never once used they/them pronouns to refer to Kit from what I have seen, and Mozilla could say outright that Kit is non-binary if they wanted to, so them not doing so is a choice.

Ah, I had not found that page from my research. That seems to explicitly represent the intention that Kit can be whatever gender people want Kit to be.

A correction to make from the research I did:

Mozilla did not say that Kit is non-binary or uses they/them pronouns. Nor did they use they/them pronouns for Kit in official material. They pointedly avoided using pronouns for Kit at all, to keep it ambiguous. It seems like their intention is for the user to see Kit as whatever gender they want Kit to be.

Or best, depending on your preference. ;)

Easy, just get in an uninsured car accident. Now you’re in debt for the value of someone else’s property.

Ooh, I bet I could 10x my negative wealth pretty easily.

Those things she mentioned all seem pretty aligned to left vs right to me. Welcome to the left, MTG.

Not that I expect her to be in any way consistent about supporting those values. I just think she’d have an aneurism from being welcomed to the left. XD

It’ll be “fun” to see how they spin it so that the constitution says that the president has a power that it explicitly gives to congress.

What about the part where Trump burned all goodwill with the rest of the world through his trade war and actual wars? He tanked the US’s export market at the same time that he’s tanking the domestic market. There are other wealthy consumers, but they’d rather be buying from literally anyone else besides the US.

Who do they expect to buy their $300 shoes, then?

This seems like the biggest stretch of the “national security” justification I’ve heard yet.

Is he planning to make the nation “secure” by making it so much of a shithole no one wants to go there?

Hey, I’ve seen this one before.

Last time it was crypto instead of AI, but other than that it’s just the same shit again.

You need to look at it from their perspective when weighing the inconvenience. You know how to quickly install an adblocker, so it looks like the inconvenience of doing that would be small. But they don’t know how to install an adblocker. And they don’t have the skills to learn how to install an ablocker. They might not even know about the existence of adblockers.

The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.

Also, it’s worth noting that there are plenty of Windows users who are tech savvy. There is a lot of convenience that comes from using the dominant OS even if you have the proficiency to use others.

This take might make you feel a sense of superiority, but it’s a braindead take. It’s not “learned helplessness”, it’s simple convenience.

It’s convenient for the average user to not have to know computer fundamentals. It’s also convenient for users of any tech proficiency to be able to assume that the vast majority of programs will run on their OS with no fiddling required.

To the overwhelming majority of users, their PC is a tool to run programs. Convenience is king in that use-case, because any amount of time fiddling with the tool or any number of situations in which the tool doesn’t work outweighs the benefits in any other metric for the average person.

“arrested”

Nope, that’s not the word for that. That was kidnapping.

First amendment.

I like the Tron reboot movies more because of Daft Punk rather than the other way around.

It maybe depends on the particular culture/context around you. When I was growing up I was usually in explicitly Christian contexts, so it was probably more repressive than what some people experience. I think that toxic masculinity is pretty widespread, though.