OpenStreetMap is awesome. But vandalism to get an unfair advantage in a game (#cheating) is not.
But I also blame Pokémon Go; the game should have never trusted a source data blindly in the first place; if you know the Internet, you should have predicted this.
@Wuzzy I'm not sure the negative of vandalism outweighs the positive of the thousands of people who've learned about OSM trough PoGo, and maybe started contributing constructively.
Aphobia is bigotry against #asexual (#ace) or #aromantic (#aro) people (sometimes agender, too). And in the following posts I will do a little explainer.
(I won't talk about agender, because I'm not agender.)
It's fine to not be that into #sex or #romance. It's fine to not feel sexually or romantic attracted to anyone. It's fine if you do have sex, but only rarely.
Sex and romance are deeply personal things, so don't let society put you down.
But aphobia says the opposite. Aphobia says that it is NOT okay, thus forcing everyone into sex and romance, even if it doesn't work.
#Aphobia may come even from the #LGBTQ+ community: There's this idea that #asexual and #aromantic people do not belong to the LGBTQ+. A common excuse is we're not "oppressed enough". 🤡
Here's the thing: ALL #aces and #aros violate #heteronormativity. No matter how you twist and turn it, it's impossible to be ace/aro AND fully comply with heteronormativity.
Excluding people who violate heteronormtivity is patently absurd.
Because this word implies that there isn't anything truly special or weird about #trans people. It helps to put things into perspective, and normalize trans people a bit.
Accepting the word "#cisgender" implies that trans people have a point (and they do). But if you're a transphobe blinded by hate, you can't have that. Even a simple word would be too much of a concession.
What they do to #intersex children should HORRIFY everyone.
"Removal of gonads can end options for fertility and will lead to lifelong need for hormone #therapy. The genital surgeries done on intersex children can result in loss of sexual sensation and ongoing #pain. The procedures are #irreversible, in that tissue or organs that are removed cannot be replaced, nerves that are severed cannot be regrown, and scar tissue can limit options for future surgery."
"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable #heterosexual penetrative intercourse, and to help the child #conform to #gender and sexual norms"
@Wuzzy all forms of nonconsensual genital cutting should be banned, including penile circumcision and medically unnecessary intersex surgeries. Right on.
Oh no! It turned out I accidentally left the playlist on private, so the link didn't work. It is public now, please try the link again. I apologize for the inconvenience. 🤷♂️
I don't need a judge to know the #AfD party in #Germany is a #fashist threat. This party upholds an ideology of "ethnopluralism" which is basically the #nazi race ideology for the modern era. Also, many of its members are also deeply hostile to the #LGBTQIA+.
What the politicians say in public is already bad, but journalists keep uncovering dirty secrets.
@Volksverpetzer keeps exposing their lies. (Use a machine translator of your choice to understand German.)
A German court just decided the Federal Office for the Protection of the #Constitution (#Verfassungsschutz) can continue to classify the #AfD party as a "rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall" ("suspected case of #right-wing #extremism"). This is the 2nd-worst classification. The worst is "gesichert rechtsextrem" ("assured right-wing extremism").
The judge said "The smoke alarm of the constitution goes off.".
@Wuzzy there have been image recognition systems that can recognise landmarks for a few years. I wouldn't be surprised that they are now reaching a bit further than tourist traps. However, it would take a mindbogglingly massive amount of data to work reliably anywhere in a large land area like Europe or the US. On the other hand, Metafacegramwhat gets a steady input of pictures from around the world... So... Possible?