I actually thought "gender studies" was like a joke/meme until about 2017

Gender studies... please put a bullet in my brain.

my thinking being "well.. no-one would actually pay thousands to study this"

It is more of... make men feel like scum and put women in positions to dominate them.

It feels like Domitrix gone wrong.

Ironically, it disempowers the people it claims to empower.

I noticed that.

Hard to be brave, strong, etc when youre taught to be victimized by everything

good linked comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fngRKx3CUs&lc=Ugy2lnEdTVzC1tC9FS94AaABAg

Yeau got a loicense for that link?

I do

His microphone is rather quiet today, I can barely hear what he is saying.

Does anyone know what a link tax would even look like? It's very hard to enforce on a technical level if I understood it right

@Dusty Morgan yeah, I had to wear headphones to hear him 😉

its called a link tax .. but its more like link "compensation" which would go through copyright take downs and suing for usage

@LEER when you click a link, browser sends "Referrer" header saying where you came from - the site can collect these referrers and demand ransom 😉

ransom from the websites ... not the users clicking the link

yeah, probably - and then website from you - so they will probably move to subscription or something like this 😉

referrer can be spoofed

or they just get rid of those types of links... which is what happened when they tried it in spain

yes, so they will probably have to invent something else or .... lock-down the browsers

and spanish news sites lost trafiic

The only thing our public schools are proud of is how much money they can waste

Almost all growth in per-pupil spending is aborbed by bureaucracy/administration.

@aukkras but wouldn't that mean the browser had to implement it?

Is the link tax going to apply to the public or just private entities?

If it applies to the public... VPNs become tax evasion. *Guys...*

@LEER yeah and I wouldn't bet google won't do this, nor microsoft nor mozilla if the law will require it

Let us just hope they implement/enforce it poorly or not at all.

Doesn't something like that already exist? When someone gets a hold of an url like youyube and then forward it to youtube in exchange for some benefit from youtube? I'm sure I heard of that...

I predict in the next few years we'll see governments try to lock down the internet to login codes only, because they have no idea how the internet works and will be like "oh if it's a login only system people will be held accountable!!! thisll totally work"

Everyone gets assigned a Unique Internet Code or some bullshit

This is now related to an old discussion but fuck it
>the left fears a man who got sucker punched by a scat fetishist soyboy while nerding out over a meme pin
Ffs

@LEER you mean Referrer ? it's already in the browsers, but "invent something else... or lock-down the browser" I mentioned - they would have to implement it... and "benefit from youtube" is totally different thing I guess

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9h3tgb/north_and_south_korea_commited_to_an_era_of_no/

Comments locked lel

Prob because of pro trump users

you guys might find this to be really interesting. Back in April, my school put out a "Freedom of Expression Task Force Survey" to see where the students stand on free speech and all that jazz. I have a copy of the survey, which I'll attach to this.

Well today, in fact, just a few minutes ago, we got an email detailing the results, and there's some pretty interesting stuff in here. I'll attach a link to the results as well, but I'll quickly go through some of them here. My college has about 2000 students, and 628 responded. I was one of them.

80% of people feel comfortable sharing their opinions, with 90% of liberals (claiming to be anyway, any of these labels are claims because the whole thing is anonymous) feeling comfortable vs 58% of conservatives feeling comfortable

There are 2.7 times more bisexual females than bisexual males. There are 8.25 times more "queer" females than "queer" males. (It uses queer, which I imagine to be a blanket term for a bunch of different subcategories)

54% of students strongly agree (and 40% agree) that we should be exposed to opinions different from our own, with 0% of conservatives disagreeing and about 5% of liberals disagreeing.
Now here’s where it starts to get interesting. 48% of students agree that they SHOULD NOT be exposed to intolerant and offensive ideas, while 47% disagree (5% don’t care). However, the percentage of students per grade level (first year, sophomore, etc.) that disagree increases every year, with 58% of freshman agreeing that they shouldn’t be exposed to these ideas, but only 38% of seniors agreeing that they shouldn’t be exposed.

I’ll attach the results and original survey as google drive links.

yes I know that was a lot of text

but this is neat stuff alright

im so ready for a one party state in 20 years