EmilyIsTrans

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It took me a long time to be comfortable with it. I had mad imposter syndrome, feeling like I didn't "deserve" to be called it somehow. Plus I'd panic a little if someone used it in public because I was afraid of negative attention.

I'm more secure in my identity now, and its to the point now that if someone does call me my deadname (usually its some medical person of fucking course) it takes me a little to even register they're addressing me. It does get better and you're not alone in your experience 🩷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its really hard to find a dress that is sized and proportioned for our bodies. For some reason clothing companies are positively allergic to making cute "plus sized" clothing. Personally I go for dresses with straps rather than sleeves, the others just make me dysphoric.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congrats on coming out at work! I'm a little ashamed to admit my work is the one place I've been too afraid to come out (I work with clients and you never know how much of a shitbag they can be).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But this conversation has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand

They stop their ads for the same reason you don’t shit talk at a funeral: its disrespectful and makes you look like a prick.

I'm using an ✨analogy✨ to explain to you why, even if they are "serious about the topic in the ads", they would stop them when someone dies or a tragedy occurs. Its not some conspiracy about "planned division", it's because speaking ill of someone under those circumstances makes you look like (and be) a disrespectful dick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not asking if you remember them as an arsehole and speak of them like that. I'm asking if you do that at their funeral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd be interested to hear whether you regularly attend funerals and speak ill of the deceased. They stop their ads for the same reason you don't shit talk at a funeral: its disrespectful and makes you look like a prick.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (9 children)

She drew crosshairs on congressional districts and tweeted it with the text "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD". That is stated in literally the first paragraph of the article your citing, and I can't help but feel you're intentionally misrepresenting it to draw a false equivalency.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

An audience member was killed according to ABC News (Australia)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Making a breaking change to the mobile API also breaks old outdated installations of the app. Websites and their APIs are usually synced, apps not so.

If they were really motivated to stop your method, they could just obfuscate the frontend with webpack and break your scraper every time they make an update.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suspect that any of the methods proposed here would be prone to a C&D, but IMO the safest legally would probably be the RSS method (not a lawyer though). Reddit's RSS feeds are public, documented, and available without the need for private APIs, authentication, or an API key, so I don't see how they could claim that a wrapper is unauthorised/illegal. Documenting their private API however seems like a gray area. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. found that APIs are copyrightable, but this use may constitute fair use.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Is there a reason you're scraping data rather than attaching a network sniffer/reverse engineering the official apps and documenting the results? Or map the RSS feed to an API? The main thrust behind my comment is that I think scraping is pretty fragile, so I'm interested as to why other options are infeasible.

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