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Yep, he adopted the stage name of his father, Martin Sheen (Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez).

I think the issue is people getting hung up on the gender identity, not the name. I have known lots of people who go by preferred names, whether chosen themselves or given to them by friends as nicknames. Hell, there are a few people I knew for years only by their preferred name/nickname without realizing it wasn’t their given name.

And stage names make a lot of sense from a practical standpoint. Being famous by your given name can make it hard to separate professional life from personal life.

Oof, don’t do that to Kathy Bates. She deserves better.

Hey, why am I Mr. Pink? Why can’t we pick our own colors?

I’ve half-heartedly looked at Australia and New Zealand. Many parts of Europe are also appealing, as are Chile and Canada. Though between finding employment, language barriers, and the logistics of moving my whole family, leaving is an intimidating proposition. It’s much easier to live in a blue state and work to keep my corner of the country a decent place.

The people I know who left the US either did it as students or they married foreigners. Either of those paths tend to make the initial visa process soooo much easier.

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Or Trump is trying to shake down Argentina while they’re in a tough spot. “We’ll give you a bailout if you give us open access to your mineral wealth, and promise to do some future favors when we ask.”

Headlining this Friday night! With special guest Gay Zombie Super Soldiers! $10 at the door, 21 and up, doors open at 8pm.

Also baseball players.

Recent: Joey Wiemer

Old gold: Randy Johnson

[puts on my Admin hat…]

sh.itjust.works has had hilariouschaos.com on our instance block list for quite a while. If you see content federating from there, send me a link and I will check it out.

As for maga.place, as @[email protected] said, that’s a good topic for a discussion post in [email protected].

[takes off my Admin hat…]

maga.place clearly looks like someone’s personal troll instance. However, I notice their local feed is currently dominated by someone making anarchist posts in [email protected]. A piece of me is curious to watch how this is going to play out.

That is one adorable timber tiger right there!

You might get some downvotes for mentioning that book. The author makes a few sloppy assumptions, and the anthropology/sociology/history communities love to hate him for it. His overall thesis is still generally good though, IIRC.

One thing I don’t think is in Diamond’s book: once Europe had realized they could sail far and wide to get things, the Dutch invented the idea of a stock market to fund voyages (the British took this idea and really ran with it). This system made long, risky trips easier to finance. Instead of a single monarch funding a single expedition, many people could pool their money to fund many expeditions.

I agree that none of this means Europeans have some special intelligence or attitude. Any other civilization that developed in similar conditions could have followed the same path.

I didn’t notice that! I wonder who originally made that edit, and when. Google image search comes up with both versions from multiple sources.

Another strong contender, to be sure.

Also saying “im cishet” is so odd lol.

Yeah, reading back I see that it’s a clumsy choice of words. I’ll work on that in the future.

His left arm even seems to suggest his hand is between his knees

This is actually a crop of a famous photo. In the full photo he is nude, with his left hand between his knees and his forearm just covering his privates.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/news/a48108/burt-reynolds-cosmo-classic/

I believe user IP addresses are stored and correlated with a user’s session token. Those tokens are valid for a while. The database does not have a post-by-post record of a user’s IP.

Disclaimer: I am not one of the admins with direct database access, so I cannot confirm that this is true. My statement above about IP addresses is secondhand information from memory. I may be wrong.

I should leave this to the professionals:

https://lemmy.world/post/4754397/3291219

Each instance’s database contains the email addresses of local users only. Lemmy does not share email addresses between instances.

Viewing users’ email addresses requires directly querying the database. They are not visible through the API.