RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 4 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
People still watch question time?
- Comment on Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near 'the Island Behind Which Lies Death' 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 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'? 5 weeks ago:
Rhymes with fiche, quiche and capisce.
- Comment on Officer who cracked serial rapist Worboys case says justice system ‘close to exploding’ 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Prakash
Sounds brahmin.
- Comment on Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops 1 month 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? 2 months 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... 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Did they delete the community? It doesn’t seem to exist any more.