It’s pretty insane that choosing the default instance is seen as being indicative of your politics

The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media

Edit: spelling

Kanye still gets features and collaborators despite his Nazi turn. All the major rappers associated with him chose silence over condemnation. Biggie would most likely make the same choice with Diddy

I was here for the whole thing but was too new and too scared to ask what the hell all the beans were about. Can someone explain the history beanstory to me?

Many such cases

There’s no mention of any of this in an article about how she qualified. In fact, you can go and watch her qualifications on YouTube and it looks like she did 1v1 battles against some mediocre opposition and won each time.

From what I could find, her husband’s name is Samuel Free and I can’t find his name listed on either the AusBreaking or DanceSport Australia websites.

Maybe some Lemmy sleuths can find something to confirm that something nefarious was going on here, but to me it just looks like the idea that her qualification was rigged is just a Reddit rumour. If anything, it looks more likely that she participated in a closed qualification system that didn’t allow for the best competitors to show up

There’s actually too little cheese lady content on the timeline

“Autistically smart”?? There are many words in the English language that describe extreme/unusual intelligence. There’s no need to perpetuate stereotypes just to do so

I can still hear this in George’s voice

They actually know a lot of stuff is harmless but it’s Security Theatre that was meant to make people feel better about flying after 9/11

F is for phenomenal

J is for genius

The past decade has given us the start of a really misleading children’s ABC book