RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on BBC Question Time Assembled a Panel on AI and Forgot to Invite Any Critics 9 hours ago:
People still watch question time?
- Comment on Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near 'the Island Behind Which Lies Death' 6 days ago:
To add to this, it’s Sentosa Island in Singapore. It was renamed in the 70’s, presumably because “death island” was putting off tourists.
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
A terrorist is someone who uses violence to change government policy, if you are the government then by definition you can’t be a domestic terrorist.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
I generally agree it’s fine where there’s an “equality of arms”.
A freedom for everyone means a freedom for the capitalists, and the communists too.
By capitalists I mean business owners and/or bosses. Your boss shouldn’t be able to dictate what you can say outside your job. That just lets the owners of corporations control speech.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
Or choose not to hire them
This just allows capital to control speech.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
The problem is you hand government and courts the right to decide what is hate speech.
I’m the UK the government is already trying to classify anti-zionist speech as banned hate speech.
Laws are weapons, your enemies can use them against you.
- Comment on Why don't people complain about Gary Stus? 2 weeks ago:
Tony Stark is also a barely functioning alcoholic, and a lot of people complained that the MCU skipped over that.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 2 weeks ago:
Rhymes with fiche, quiche and capisce.
- Comment on Officer who cracked serial rapist Worboys case says justice system ‘close to exploding’ 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure politicians will just use this as another excuse to get rid of juries, instead funding the court system properly, and getting officers to focus more on rape and less on tweets and people holding signs.
- Comment on Cut UK speed limits to reduce Iran war impact on consumers, thinktank urges 3 weeks ago:
Going slower will just make congestion worse, cars spending more time on the road means more cars on the road.
This just sounds like a cynical way to make more money from speeding fines.
- Comment on Borders 4 weeks ago:
I’ve read that humans, chimpanzees and wolves are the only animals that have shown a capacity for genocide.
- Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views 4 weeks ago:
It’s a CIC, so they can’t just kick out the founder. Founding a new organisation takes a lot of work.
Even if they could kick her out, it’s legally a protected belief, so it would potentially be discrimination to kick her out for it.
- Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, but punishing an entire choir because of the wrongthink of one person is stupid. Not only that, but all the reporting of this is just going to give her a massive amount of publicity, I’d certainly never heard of this lady before.
- Comment on ‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage 5 weeks ago:
Prakash
Sounds brahmin.
- Comment on Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops 5 weeks ago:
Rooftops is where it belongs, not on farmland.
- Comment on How did Greek or Roman choose their gods besides the big name ones? I mean did they have a god of shoes, god who relieves constapation, or one for there squeaky door? 1 month ago:
Many saints just took on the stories and aspects of pagan gods or heroes.
- Comment on Why is the first thing the internet says whenever a relationship post comes up is: "Red Flag"/"Break Up"/"Divorce"/"Don't Walk, Run"/"Go No-Contact"/"Let them die in a nursing home"/etc... 1 month ago:
Because the people the spend all day on relationship subreddits are bitter and want everyone else to be.
- Comment on What would/could the US government actually do if they found out the real identities behind all the "guillotine memes" that people post online? 1 month ago:
In theory it’s legal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 1 month ago:
Did they delete the community? It doesn’t seem to exist any more.
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 1 month ago:
You can export your followed communities in settings, then import them on another instance after you make an account.
As long as the instance you choose federates with lemmy.world you’ll see exactly the same communities you do now.
Db0 tends to host piracy related communities,.
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 1 month ago:
I think it sometimes works for technical terms.
The one that comes to mind is microphotography (taking very small photographs) and photomicrography (taking photos of very small things)
Similarly, historical cartography is maps of history, while cartographic history is the history of maps.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be for or against glyphosate?
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 month ago:
They also have to continually convince politicians and other politically minded people to give them money, and risk having it taken away if their results are politically inconvenient.
- Comment on Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September 2 months ago:
It’s always seemed odd to me that the boy scouts had to accept girls, but the girl guides didn’t have to accept boys.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 2 months ago:
I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.
- Comment on Revealed: The internal police guidance on chanting ‘death to the IDF’ 2 months ago:
A rare outbreak of common sense.
It does worry me that “Zionism” could be considered a protected belief though. Surprised they didn’t go that route. I guess they didn’t want to risk a court ruling on if Zionism “conflicts with the fundamental rights of others”.
It confirmed that correspondence exists but refused to release any information, saying it would prejudice the department’s ability to offer “free and frank” advice in the future.
They should appeal to the ICO, it’s surprisingly easy. If an idiot like me can win there anyone can.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 2 months ago:
you end up with decimals of an inch
tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 2 months ago:
Alternatively they would at least have a vested interest in not having the planet turn into a fireball.
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 2 months ago:
It appears it isn’t complete nonsense ar.iiarjournals.org/content/44/9/3725