As highlighted by a user above, please refrain from derailing this thread to discuss the issue of redacting certain words and take it to MeTa if need be.

Edited archive link in OP and deleted two comments about the correction.

Yeah, i'm not going to re-delete it, but let's not continue with the military derail, please.

One deleted; wrong thread.I misread something badly; i've restored the comment. Sorry, Paul Slade!

Also, folks, the "how people are treated" derail should either stop or go elsewhere.

Added Substack tag, and one comment deleted. Folks, Pangram is more accurate than other "AI" detectors, but it's less accurate on this kind of very formal writing than it is on other kinds of writing, because this kind of thing is overrepresented in the training corpus. Philosophers, in particular, are trained to write like this. So i don't know if the content at this link is "AI" or not. And while i personally hate "AI", the community keeps making it pretty clear that they're not thrilled about every discussion getting derailed by that question. If you must say something, please keep it to one comment; but in general, the better practice is probably to flag it to our attention and/or just not engage with the post.

One deleted; we do not need to relitigate the 2024 US election in a thread that's primarily about Canada.

Fixed broken markup in OP and deleted a comment about the correction.

One comment deleted at user's request, and a second comment deleted because the user was under the mistaken impression that this is an obit thread (Felicia Day is not dead!) Also fixed the spelling of Patton Oswalt's name in this comment.

Fixed typo in OP.

One comment deleted at user's request. I've added the "AI" tag to this post so folks who want to skip this kind of thing entirely have the tools to do so. Also, folks, this comment has gotten flagged a few times for being LLM-generated, and it's definitely true that part of it is, but that part is directly quoted from the linked source, which is currently a weird gray area. hankscorpio83, you're not in trouble! But it'd be good if in the future you would use the <blockquote> tag or otherwise make clearer that you are quoting content from elsewhere, especially if that content bears the hallmarks of being generated by an LLM.

Deleted a dupurrlicate comment.

Thanks, DoT! I've edited my previous mod note to reflect correct information. (Folks have definitely been using both)

Just a quick note that Jane Schoenbrun is a "she", not a "they", and it's especially important to be careful about pronouns when talking about trans folks because they get misgendered and degendered all the time. It was clearly unintentional and i'm going to leave it, but i did want to remind folks to use care! Okay, apparently i am wrong (thanks DoT) and Schoenbrun does in fact use they/them pronouns! So i'm a shining example of my own mod note here; sorry, folks. (A number of other people do use "she" in the thread, so my point stands that we need to be careful! But i am sorry for having failed to double-check the details.)

Fixed link in this comment and deleted a follow-up about the error.

Two deleted. Ideefixe, this is the second comment of yours i've seen today where you seem to be trying to bait people into a fight about racial justice issues. Knock it off; the next one gets you a timeout. (sickos, you're fine, your comment was deleted because it was a direct reply to the other one.)

Removed a comment referencing Rachel Dolezal that was absolutely going to start an irrelevant fight.

Added an archive link to the OP, in consultation with the user. Again, folks, it is not against the guidelines to link to social media, and complaining about it (especially in the first few comments) drags down threads and irritates people. If you cannot access a link for whatever reason, it's totally fine to skip a post!

Hi, folks. Many things in this thread are being flagged. One comment has been deleted for being callous; i've also added a "suicide" tag to the post. A couple notes for the conversation more broadly:

• Suicide is a very fraught topic in general, and this incident is particularly ugly for many reasons; please be very aware that conversations like this can trigger or exacerbate suicidal ideation in your fellow community members, and exercise care in making your points.
• If you are struggling with depression or suicidal ideation, we do have a page on the wiki with mental health and suicide-prevention resources. Please, do not damage yourself for the sake of this thread, and ask for help if you need it.
• The pushback on the framing of the post is very valuable, and i am letting it stand (sickos, thank you in particular for being vigilant here). I do think the point has been made and further discussion about it should probably go to MeTa.

One deleted at user's request.

Folks, i'm not going to delete anything right now, because i'd have to leave giant holes in the thread, but conversation about people who have buttoned is absolutely off-topic here and needs to go to MeTa if you want to continue it.

Deleted a comment that related to a now-fixed error in OP.

Added to USPolitics sidebar. Also, one comment deleted as noise.

One deleted. Please keep comments on-topic and refrain from directing comments at individual users.

Added Substack tag; edited links to be clickable in this comment and this comment.

One deleted at user's request.

One comment removed as requested.

Edited OP to add Matchmaker link, and removed a comment about the change.

Tagged USPolitics and added to the sidebar.

Added link to FLEEP in the post. Please carry on. Edit: also corrected a word in the post as requested by OP.

Please keep in mind that this thread is not about US matters. Please stop derailing the thread.

Made link clickable in this comment.

Your Childhood Pet Rock, please stop the back to back commenting in this thread and let others participate. Further comments will be deleted.

Nothing deleted, but yeah, please do not compare people with cognitive impairments to bullshit machines. The analogy there is always going to upset people and it generates way more heat than light.

Two deleted. If you find yourself repeating the same points over and over again, it might be time to let the thread breathe, just in general.

Made a small correction: Dement -> DeMent in the title and body of the post.

A few back-to-back comments removed. okayturnip, roughly 30% of the comments in this thread are yours and several of them are back to back, please take a step back by letting other members express themselves and carry on with the conversation.

One comment removed. Let's avoid name calling other fellow Mefites.

One deleted. Pseudonymous Cognomen: 90% of your comment was fine but unfortunately you cannot talk to other MeFites the way you did in the other 10%. I'm happy to remove that line and undelete, or send you the text and you can repost without it, or whatever. EDIT: The comment has been restored with the problematic bit removed, in collaboration with the user.

anoldfriend6: "Many people on the internet assume posters on the other side of the screen are straight white men by default. Well, most people here know I’m lesbian. But…am I white, black, or Bhutanese? Who knows?" Somehow i missed this one the other day, and i'm sorry. anoldfriend6, this kind of thing isn't okay; please don't do it. either talk about your own experiences with race or don't, but this kind of "am i white or not?" thing comes across as very edgelordy and gross.

Hi, folks. Some housekeeping notes:

• i made the link in this comment clickable.
• marshmallow tester, one deleted for ableism. blind programmers exist and they tend to have an excellent understanding of both UI and UX. I left up your Flowers for Algernon reference but that too verges on ableism; please be more careful.
• okayturnip's comment was not a personal attack on cortex; it was a joke and i'm leaving it. but folks, just in general, please do be mindful that sometimes tone doesn't come across in text!

Fixed missing word in OP, deleted a comment about the correction.

One comment removed as requested.

One comment and reply to it deleted. Please do not make jokes about gender neutral language, that is not OK.

One deleted. We are not going to turn this thread into a referendum on whether "real men" engage in sexual abuse (they do) or whether girls and women are partly to blame because they like "alphas" (they are not).

Tagged as "USPolitics" and added to sidebar.

Three deleted. ambrosen, it is not okay to speak to or about other community members like that. (One was also deleted as a response to ambrosen's comment, and the third deleted comment was a dupe.) Folks, there's now a MeTa up; if you have complaints about the subject matter of this post, the poster's behavior, or the way we moderate threads in general, those complaints need to go there.

Hey folks! No comments removed so far but just a quick nudge to bring things back on track. The thread is starting to drift into broad generalizations, “all women/all men” takes, extended arguments about Western culture in general, and a few back-and-forths that are not engaging with the article at all. That’s not super useful for anyone trying to discuss the actual topic here. Please refocus on the specifics of the post and let’s keep this thread grounded and in good faith. Further derails and back-and-forth comments picking a fight will need to be removed.

chmmr, please take a break from making back-to-back comments and provide the opportunity for others to engage in the thread. In the future, commenting several times in a row will warrant a deletion of comments. Thanks!

OP edited to put trigger warning above the fold and triggering content below it, at user's request. A few comments about the pre-change state of the post were deleted.

One deleted as noise.

Fixed link in OP and deleted correction comment.

Removed two duplicate comments!

One comment deleted as noise. Seriously, folks, if the presentation (as opposed to the content) of a link bothers you, it's okay to skip it.

Nothing deleted, but MetaFilter is an international site, so yes, there are a lot of people from around the world who comment here; let's not make them feel like exotic animals, please.

Two deleted. Henry Fool, do not be a jerk to other users. (Plus one comment deleted for responding to the deleted comment.)

One comment deleted. "Sometimes misogyny is cool" is not an appropriate sentiment for MetaFilter even when the woman in question is objectively shitty.

Edited link in OP at user's request, and deleted a comment that was strictly about the correction. Also added a link to the ungated content on Skyview. Also, folks, seriously, the first couple comments in a thread do not need to be about how the content is paywalled or account-gated or otherwise inaccessible. Said content is also not against the guidelines to post; you can continue to flag it if it annoys you, but those flags are unlikely to be acted on. It would be good if folks posting Bluesky content remembered to add an (ungated) link to Skyview, but you can also bookmark Skyview and use it yourself.

Folks, please try not to get into a direct back-and-forth/slapfight in the thread, thanks.

Hey, folks, legit information about someone's misdeeds is generally fine in an obit thread; i'm not going to remove it. However, MisantropicPainforest, please do try to keep it contained to a single comment in future, instead of three in a row?

Made a small correction in the post as requestedby OP.

Made link clickable in this comment.

BlackLeotardFront: "Even so, I must say it reads better than yours!" Regardless of the provocation, it's best not to snipe at other users like this. (I know i'm not perfect about this either! Just, please make an effort?)

Folks, nothing deleted, and this isn't a thing that's really addressed in the guidelines as they currently stand, but: i really wish we could, as a community, move away from complaining about stuff like paywalls, video runtimes, and/or Javascript, especially early in a thread. It tends to pick up a bunch of flags and it not-infrequently derails the conversation entirely. If you can't access the links in a post on terms that are acceptable to you, it's okay to just not comment.

Added USPolitics tag and added to the sidebar.

One deleted, poster request.

One deleted, duplicate.

Fixed an issue with the post, at the poster's request.

One comment deleted as noise.

Fixed typo in this comment and removed a comment that only existed to make the correction.

Again, folks, discussion about moderation needs to go to MetaTalk. We'll be deleting any further comments about it from here.

Edited link in this comment to be clickable.

(Also, two deleted: one at the user's request, and the other because it was a reply to the deleted comment and became meaningless without it.)

beesbees: "So if the subject was about a Proctologist in Silicon Valley catering to billionaires, then you couldn't say "What a bunch of assholes"?" Well, just for starters, "assholes" isn't a gendered slur. It is not acceptable to call women "cunts" on MetaFilter. Even if the women are rich shitheads. Even if you're from a Commonwealth country. Even if you do it in a plausibly deniable way with some of the letters replaced with asterisks. It is just not something we're going to allow. If you would like us to change our guidelines and policies around misogynist slurs, that discussion belongs in MetaTalk.

Folks, i'm not going to leave a big hole in the thread with deletions but we are not gonna do jokey usage of misogynist slurs on MetaFilter, even if it's got some letters missing, and even if it's something where you can do the plausible-deniability "oh, but i meant the actual body part!" thing. Paul Slade, that wasn't acceptable; take a break from this thread and don't do this again.

One comment deleted with extreme prejudice. (Replies left up for context.) ianhorse, i'm giving you a day week off; next time you post transphobic or otherwise bigoted nonsense it will be a permaban. ** NOTE: Edited because i said "day" but meant "week", and that's the penalty that was applied.

Ungated link updated. Please carry on.

One deleted at user's request.

Fixed broken link in post.

One comment from Mr. Yuck has been removed. We have identified an ongoing pattern of posting graphic and disturbing personal anecdotes, despite prior moderator guidance on this issue. As a result, Mr. Yuck has been placed on an open-ended timeout and has been notified about it via email.

One deleted. Let's be careful about suggesting that rapists are closet cases and hold off on speculating/suggesting that as the case.

Just a quick note, folks: there are, in fact, people on MetaFilter whose native languages have grammatical gender, and it'd be great if we could avoid casually insulting those languages.

One deleted at user's request.

One comment deleted. Describing a situation involving sexual assault and unsafe supervision in a care setting in a casual, storytelling manner that is not appropriate for a free thread. Content that includes or trivializes harm needs to be handled with care and posted, if at all, in the proper context with clear intent (like seeking advice or support). Additionally, disclosing the name of the victim can do more harm than good, please refrain from doing that. If you need guidance on handling such a situation, consider posting in a dedicated Ask MeFi thread looking for advice or seeking appropriate professional resources

Duplicate comment removed.

One comment deleted. otherchaz, i assume you mean well, but that joke came across as pretty racist!

Fixed link in this comment to be clickable.

Hey, folks, everything's going pretty okay in here so far; i just wanted to drop a note to ask you all to please exercise caution about (a) linking this to transness/trans-related issues (unless you yourself are trans) and (b) verging into body-shaming (including penis size shaming). Both of those things have an extremely high likelihood of causing this conversation to go completely off the rails, and i'd very much rather it didn't.

Fixed a typo in this comment, at user's request, and deleted an extraneous comment about it.

Fixed link in original post (time scrubber was scrubbing to end).

Fixed link in this comment to be clickable.