Shariah law calls for the stoning to death of gay men.
"But you would need to do it in public to reach the 4 witnesses requirement" is NOT good enough, because these reasons fuel stigma that leads to lynching and hate crime. If the whole "Lut" thing and the aforementioned precedent in the Hadith didn't exist, there wouldn't be this state-sanctioned execution/imprisonment of gay and lesbian people ("but you can just be trans" is frankly bullshit and is downplaying the severity of the issue). Without the religious baggage of Islam there wouldn't be social stigma on anywhere near the scale and that would drastically improve life expectancy for queer people.
You say "as long as that sin is self-indulgent" but this isn't how homosexuality is treated historically. It's viewed as a plague that would spread through the masses if allowed and they assert the need to step down on it (as is evident given by the fact that there are exactly 0 countries that legalized homosexuality and have hate crime protections).
It's not just "not ideal", it's downright barbaric and disgusting.
West Europe, Scandinavia and Canada may like a word with you. Hell, even the US was "okay" w.r.t. queer rights before trump.
Judaism and Christianity both share the passage of Gemorrah and Seldom, none of the Abrahamic faiths are inherently queer affirming, only fringe minority subsections of those communities are.
This is not a myth. There may be regions where it's not the case ofc but communicating that one is gay in Muslim countries doesn't typically end well.
Some countries have protections for transgender people, but none have protections for gay or lesbian populations (please mention any that do if you disagree).
"Living as a woman" if you like men is fucked up and is the same as death ime; gender dysphoria and being denied the experience of embodying the gender you view yourself as is something that's linked w completed suicide; it's the same reasoning why GAC is life-saving intervention and why trans people being denied GAC spikes suicidality and attempted/completed attempts amongst transgender populations. Just because some of them are more trans affirming, doesn't make these countries any less of a death pit for the rest of us who aren't trans.
That gives me some hope. Either outcome works for me. Either china making more ram in 5 years (and exporting it, not at insane prices...), and/or the AI bubble popping and lowering prices that way.
Hmm. Doesn't seem like it'll be good news for the average person afterwards then. But perhaps when the bomb goes off computer (ram) prices can go down(?).
I don't really get what the punchline is. It's not sustainable seems to be it, but it doesn't seem likely to be destroying OpenAI or Anthropic etc, which is what I want to happen.
European colonies and the Caliphate had slaves but the rest of the world didn't, and even then there were long stretches of time prior where slavery wasn't a thing (though this is region dependent). Slavery in indigenous communities is also not something I've heard of (prior to colonisation, obviously).
Private capital has always existed everywhere (always i.e. the past 500 years).
It's hard to imagine what you've never seen
Technically they would do the same thing for billionaires and anti-immigrant propaganda too if that was the case since Jesus was with the poor people and he didn't care about treating people as "immigrants" or "illegals", but they don't even follow their scripture.
If you've seen trump long enough you'd know he always makes excuses for everything. He doesn't need Biden for it. It's just one convenient excuse; he has an endless supply.
Yeah but all the het shit isn't "inappropriate"? Do gay parents try to hide each other from their kids cause they're "not appropriate"? Stop over-sexualizing the LGBT community to the extent where it comes off as a weird fetish.
Cops are an instrument of state violence so it's generally reflective of the state if left unchecked (which it usually is).