Tales of Celan

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's AI assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

but it still sends a message to the bigots, that companies would rather cater towards us than them. that we are a very big fact of life. it still shows that progress is happening - do you think companies in the 70s were frothing at the mouth to accept the queers?

to queer people its just a marketing ploy. to bigots, it's their worst fucking nightmare. have you seen the people throwing hissy fits over these logos? throwing away their products, boycotting them? people are being forced to contend with the fact that queer people are real, and are not as small of a minority as they would hope. that they cant just ignore us and hope we go away. it's just a marketing ploy at the end of the day, but it sends a message.

but with companies now refusing to do so, it's sending the opposite message. that we aren't worth enough to even market to anymore. at the end of the day, they never gave a shit in the first place - but it's telling that in our current political climate, they would rather pussy out instead of stand their fucking ground. it's erasing us, even if at the end of the day it was never real activism. it's still giving in.