There’s no trust and safety team at Twitter anymore!

Also if you are on Reddit all the people moderating the subs are Just Some Guy, it’s pretty much the same.

Dude you use it like Twitter, you post on your own timeline or in reply to other people. What’s this about trying to post on other servers.

Your DMs aren’t protected on Twitter either.

You don’t make an account for every server you’re interested in on Mastodon either, who told you you had to do that? You just follow servers you’re interested in to see what’s being posted there. Or individual accounts like on Twitter.

When I first started there, not a lot of prominent people were on there, but now with Musk’s shenanigans on Twitter there are a lot of big names moving there. All the big news services are posting there too. Government agencies are starting to post there.

King isn’t there yet but there is an account that reposts his Tweets there.

Also if you are in a tech field you are likely to find a lot of prominent people in your field there. I did and it’s actually a lot better for keeping up with my professional stuff than Twitter ever was. There’s a lot less clutter and things trying to advertise at me.

Your older family members probably write their passwords down in a little notebook or something. They can write it down in the same notebook. Are you just trying to keep your parents off it or something? LOL

It’s not really that hard. If you can deal with using Discord where you can be on different servers and have different names and pictures for them, you can deal with Mastodon.

For now Mastodon is pretty nice, although it does have issues with transphobic speech on a couple servers and people getting their panties in a twist about POC mentioning racism exists (full disclosure). It doesn’t have an algorithm to show you stuff to get you worked up all the time, uh, “promote engagement,” and people who troll around get frozen out very fast.

See, you get it.

I mean when you see a story like this and your first thought is “timely and well-placed abortions prevent things like this!” yes actually that implies it pretty strongly.

Dude, I hear the argument “abortion would prevent children from being born to abusive/unfit parents” all the time, it is not something novel. Hundreds of people say this every day! It is a stock argument for abortion rights and not a good one!

It is also gross to bring up because the idea that abortion is a way to solve the problem of “unfit parents” has its roots in eugenicist thinking. And “forcing people who might be unfit parents to get abortions or be sterilized” is not just some theoretical thing, this country was doing it officially through the 70s and unofficially through the 80s or 90s.

> Actually, all of those reasons are GREAT arguments to use for pro choice! Use all the arguments that imply making a child and adults life better.

Actually it implies that you think forced abortions as part of a eugenics program might be a neat idea which is why it’s awful.

Why someone chooses to have an abortion is not my business!

Also you still don’t know whether the lady in this article abused her daughter because she was an unwanted child. You have no basis for that. Plenty of people choose to have kids and then treat those kids horribly. People abusing their kids is not a soapbox for you or anyone else to make a pro-abortion argument. Neither is poverty or crime or any other societal ill - other than people being denied their right to have an abortion if they want/need one.

That’s nice what does it have to do with child abuse

> Wow, way to jump the shark, your inability to see nuance during an online discussion is not indicative of you needing to be solved by being dead, but jump to hyperbolic comments for fun I guess?

Can’t see what isn’t there!

Gee, maybe my mother aborting me would have solved me according to you.

Crime rates went down because we took lead out of gasoline and stopped damaging developing brains.

“Abortion rights would stop child abuse!” is a stupid reductive argument based on a false premise.

Also you don’t understand the dynamics of abuse, which I guess means you are a very fortunate person.

How do you know? Are you a therapist who treats abused children? Do you study abusive parents? Do you know the factors that lead to child abuse or interpersonal abuse within families? Do you or anyone close to you have any personal experience with emotional abuse within the family? Are you familiar with the behavior patterns of narcissistic parents?

So, you just wanted to shoehorn something about abortion into a totally unrelated discussion, and I’m the problem.

No. Some people can’t handle it when their kids aren’t perfectly compliant. Other people can’t deal with their issues in a healthy way and take it out on people close to them.

Not everyone is as fortunate as you are and some people have to deal with horrible things.

How do you know she did not want to give birth to her daughter?

> I believe that people who don’t want to have children should have abortion as an option to ensure that they don’t have children, rather than having a child that they didn’t want (or want yet) thrust upon them.

What makes you think the woman in this article didn’t want to have children?

Plenty of people who abuse their kids wanted to have those kids.

This is, like, the worst and most cringe argument you can make for reproductive rights.

The real problem here is the mindset that a parent essentially owns their child and can do whatever to them.

Oh, and guess what the only legal means for sports betting is in my state of Maryland! (lolsob)

No, I have not been using this but it has been so heavily promoted here and now a bunch of people from my state are probably victims of this hack.