It probably doesn't help that a lot of us are ineligible to donate. I donated as often as I could up until I got a same sex partner

I wish I hadn't had to suffer the years I did, but on the other hand I wouldn't be the person I am today if I was cis. I like the life I have and I put in the work to build it

Lemmy already has public ban logs which have reasons listed. I'm not sure what you're really offering here. I think you're being extremely naive and are fundamentally lacking understanding in how oppression and the "marketplace of ideas" functions.

There's also a big push internally to add AI features to their products. I don't think this was some shadowy push to discredit satellite imagery (to help Israel I guess?) - the more mundane explanation that this was a poorly conceived feature thought up by some team internally to meet business demands unfortunately rings far more likely to me.

Edit: I want to make it clear that I'm not defending Google or the team that made this feature here. This is awful, and they should have seen it coming. But falling into conspiracies and looking for the man behind the curtain just leads to overlooking the mundane people who just follow orders or fail to consider the impact and ethics of their actions. We can't reach these people (or consider these lessons for ourselves) if we talk past them (especially if they dismiss criticism as coming from it off touch conspiratists).

Whenever my testosterone drops too low (which it was for years) I get it. It's pretty miserable. I'm on monotherapy now and it keeps my testosterone in a good range.

Porkbun has a tonne of TLDs and is reasonably priced and great. No scummy paywalling like you get work so many registrar's

I was a big fan, Jax's story and their very non-traditional trans story pulled it together for me.

There is no "algorithm" in the common use of the word - there is no machine learning black box running what you see, if you can read source code you can see exactly what it's doing: see the listing types, and how those types are used and sorted. Either you've subscribed to a furry community (I'm assuming not if you're complaining about it), or you're on all and seeing the content because other users are upvoting it.

The site is filled with furry porn because the internet is filled with porn and this site is filled with furries.

It's an honour for my community to even be mentioned.

Yeah turning off nsfw filters and searching "furry" or "yiff" is probably the best bet to find anything.

In my career, I've had the most luck finding jobs through networking. If you have the ability to (and I will fully acknowledge not everyone has the ability), networking can help you get your foot in the door.

Aside from that, yeah, spam your resume.

I am very happy with this outcome as well. This should be the final ruling on this case unless it is accepted by the high court (highest court of Australia, like supreme court), which is unlikely. That said, we aren't in the clear yet - all the major conservative parties and even the "left wing" state Labor government in NSW have pledged to amend the federal or local equivalent act to add back "biological" definitions of gender.

In my opinion, it's not about trying to prove you're a genius, the key is that confidence and passion is infectious - people want to be around interesting people who are interested in them. Being skilled and well-read, as well as having hobbies lets you engage competently in deep conversation and have interesting qualities you can connect over or other people can grab on to.