I was literally joking about the Netherlands offering to make New York into New Amsterdam again last week.

My wish has come true!

Well done @EUCommission 👏

#USpol #NLpol #EUpol #funny #YesPlease

I was curious what a TikTok user might see if they made a fresh account. I provided no preferred content categories, and did not interact with any video in any way except the skip them.

In my first fifteen minutes, I received:

9 manosphere “inspiration” videos
The official accounts of Tucker Carlson and Vivek
2 clips from each Fox News, and tabloids New York Post and Metro
1 “America first” rando
1 Copaganda vid of “cool” new police robots
Elon’s nazi salute without context or commentary

I love this. It needed to be shared.

#WritingCommunity #PennedPossibilities #Writer #Author #BannedBooks

So here's the new Gallup poll saying 9.3% of US adults now identify as LGBTQ+, with younger generations far more likely to. It makes intuitive sense that identification goes up when social acceptance goes up. The same thing happened with left-handedness in the early/mid 1900s.

But younger generations are also the least likely to respond to phone calls for random sample polls. Last year before the election, I became convinced that traditional representative polling is all but dead, because no one answers unknown calls anymore. The alternatives - opt-in or online polls - aren't representative, hence not reliable. Maybe a solution will be found someday but we ain't there yet.

So the rational response to the LGBTQ+ poll, and any recent poll, has to include skepticism. Not because we don't want the 🌈 trends to be true, but because selection biases and other problems are extremely hard to avoid. My data-less gut says the upward trend is true but the specific numbers should have come with very big ±.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/656708/lgbtq-identification-rises.aspx

#LGBTQ #skepticism #gallup #socialAcceptance #polls #statistics #generationz #millenials #genz #criticalthinking #bisexual #gay #lesbian #transgender

People keep missing a letter. They keep saying trump's attacking DEI initiatives.

He's attacking DEIA initiatives. That A is for "accessibility" and it's pretty fucking important.

Accessibility effects literally everyone. Healthy old people with walkers need ramps. Parent's carrying a baby need handrails on both sides. Hell even eyeglasses are an accessibility accommodation.