RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on 504 errors 1 week ago:
Thanks, it seems a faster in general now too.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 week ago:
Being a tomboy is more socially accepted than being a sissy.
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- Comment on How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension 1 week ago:
Farage begins his argument with a truth, which is that white working-class boys are failing in Britain’s schools.
Farage won’t fix it, all he cares about is scoring cheap political points. The problem is nobody else will even pretend to care about it, especially not on the left.
- Comment on UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time 1 week ago:
Not really true if you read the article
Note that the analysis is based on figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). Figures published by the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) are based on a slightly different categorisation for hybrid cars.
All hybrids run entirely on petrol or diesel fuel, while also carrying a small battery and an electric motor. ACEA counts these cars separately to petrol and diesel models.
In contrast, the SMMT counts what it calls “mild” hybrids as petrol cars, while listing “full” hybrids – such as Toyota’s Prius – in a separate category.
The ACEA data shows that hybrids are the most popular type of car in the UK, as illustrated in the figure below, but also shows that their sales are relatively stagnant.
Hybrids, with the exception of PHEV, are still petrol cars IMO.
- Comment on From Harvard graduate to the Unabomber 2 weeks ago:
He was an MK ultra victim.
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 2 weeks ago:
Should’ve made them out of tannerite
- Comment on What's up with children's books? 2 weeks ago:
*dogtor
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spoilers 2 weeks ago:
Did he wear a costume?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, I try my best.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
I think he’s a monster, in the classical sense, that is.
The Latin monstrum, had a broader meaning, encompassing any kind of warning from he gods (demonstrate has the same root). Rulers then, just as now, weren’t very observant of subtle hints, so back then this often took the form of godzilla wrecking shit.
Take the story of Laomedon, the Trojan king. After having some very nice city walls built for him, he neglected the small matter of actually paying his workers. Unfortunately for him said workers happened to be gods, who have slightly more bargaining power than your average worker, with the eventual industrial action including a cetus, a kind of sea monster, sent by Poseidon.
Rather annoyed at having his shit wrecked by a sea monster, Laomedon enlisted Heracles to kill it. Which, of course, being a hero, Heracles did very heroically. Now Laomedon, being a complete fucking moron, failed to learn absolutely anything from this, and decided it was a good idea stiff Heracles out of payment for this task.
In response, Heracles raised an army, besieged Troy, and killed Laomedon and his sons. This bought the matter to a close.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 weeks ago:
“leadership” is often a euphemism for nepotism.
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 3 weeks ago:
PHEVs are a good compromise until we actually have the infrastructure to support pure EVs.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 3 weeks ago:
That’s tantamount to a hot take.
- Comment on Australia, UK single out China, urge Beijing to halt supply of dual-use items to Russia amid Ukraine war 3 weeks ago:
Country supplying weapons to Israeli genocidaires mad at country that sells chips to Russia.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Very early on there was a hard-coded slur censor list that was eventually changed to be settable by the instance admin, that’s about it.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot to criticise Washington for right now, and westerners will generally care a lot more about it since it affects them, even if it’s only indirectly.
It’s also a bit of a reaction to how the western MSM tends to be the opposite, being critical of everything the CPC does.
- Comment on NHS to curb political symbols on uniforms after antisemitism report 5 weeks ago:
The author of the report is married to a Labour friends of Israel member who has broken previously broken rules by not declaring a witness is her own husband. declassifieduk.org/mp-broke-rules-at-maccabi-hear…
- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I’m just used to censoring it for the reddit/facebook/etc algorithmic censors. I generally dislike censoring quotes.
- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 5 weeks ago:
Since the emancipation of the N******, the distinction between the two parties has been diminishing. The fight between these two parties has been mainly over the height of customs duties. Their fight has not had any serious importance for the mass of the people. The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties.
VI Lenin, 1912
- Comment on Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize 5 weeks ago:
Had to look him up
In 2018, Polis was elected governor of Colorado. He is the first openly gay man elected governor of a U.S. state
Does that make him the first openly gay governor to engage in union busting? how progressive 🙃
- Comment on If I have PMOS would I be allowed to participate in the Olympics? 5 weeks ago:
I believe there’s specific criteria and tests published, you can probably look them up.
Personally, one of the reasons I don’t really care about all the arguments about who can compete in what category of olympic sport is that in most sports everyone at that level is some kind of high powered mutant. Yes they train a lot, but 99% of people could do the same and never be olympic level. To give a specific example, having Alpha-actinin 3 deficiency makes it impossible to become an elite level sprinter, but it isn’t considered a disease because 60% of the Caucasian population have it.
In some ways it would be more egalitarian to just let people take whatever drugs they want, instead of punishing people who use technology to make up for not winning the genetic lottery.
- Comment on BBC Question Time Assembled a Panel on AI and Forgot to Invite Any Critics 5 weeks ago:
People still watch question time?
- Comment on Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near 'the Island Behind Which Lies Death' 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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.
