Jojo

Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

There are plenty of examples of companies challenging the legality of regulations and winning, and other cases of apparent corruption among judges.

Gigabit fiber is a thing, and not at all uncommon in a lot of places.

I mean maybe they decided it was going to be easier to buy a judge than another FCC chair?

It’s the only way to be sure!

Game over, man! Game over!

And I get that the business maybe “has” to be run that way, because of the way it exists in the economic system it exists in, but I’m definitely taking issue with the language he’s employed here. He’s not a prisoner being forced to run things this way.

Seriously. Everyone gets the luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business. You didn’t “have” to run that business at all.

She is a terrible bigot, and a loud one, and that sucks because she also produced a cultural phenomenon of my childhood, and while the canon of HP is only just barely pretty okay sometimes, it spiralled out from there and SO MUCH of the media and culture I’ve consumed and existed within since then has been informed by it.

So yeah. If there’s any comfort, let it be that any money she gets from this comes from explicitly affirming a trans woman through the work, as well as implicitly affirming any trans players through the character creation options. Small comfort maybe, but she is far away.