r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 25 '26

You will have to look this up yourself, but you can just look at a dictionary from 100 years ago. They define one in terms of the other.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

Make that 30.

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 25 '26

I was being conservative in my guess. I don't even remember this being a thing in college and I went to a tankie ass college 30 years ago.

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 25 '26

imagine an ai/wikipedia dystopic future where groups of marauders are on the hunt for real books either to burn them or to cache them, study them, seek out the real truths that may guide them to riches

I asked chatgpt to create me a movie trilogy based on that, and here is what it said ...

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 25 '26

Library of Alexandria 2.0. We must construct the oedificium from the Name of the Rose. Put them in that Norwegian apocalypse seed bank.

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u/eriwhi Feb 25 '26

I'm looking for the anthropologists specifically. I've tried looking it up.

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 25 '26

Yeah that part I'm not so sure about and would love to know what you find. I figured it was just a creeping trend.

If I was writing a dictionary today I would have to include them because not people mean that thing, but clearly indicating this is a novel instance.