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- Comment on BBL DRIZZY BPM 150.mp3 by Metro Boomin 1 week ago:
So far I’ve heard everything from Japanese rappers, to little kids to Masego dropping a saxophone diss on this beat. It’s all been very amusing.
- Comment on THE HEART PART 6 - DRAKE (Kendrick Diss) 1 week ago:
There is some nuance to the R Kelly thing. From what I understand the issue he had was that Spotify were delisting tracks from notable black abusers but not touching any of the white abuser backcatalogues. However, the nuance wouldn’t really matter to make a good rebuttal in a track.
Drake sounds tired in this track tbh. Suspect this might be the last thing he releases.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 2 weeks ago:
A postal service is vital for a society to function. A couple of things I’ve sent in the past few years: marriage forms to the registry office, returning old drivers’ licenses and passports, sending signed docs to my solicitor when buying a house. Less relevant - birthday cards, thank you cards, xmas cards; I think these things have a “personal touch” value which is lost in an email.
I think the prepaid business envelopes make sense when you are receiving post but private individuals need to be able to send things back without having bespoke, bulk postage deals with Royal Mail. Have noticed that employment contracts are now done with e-signatures if not in person these days but many legal docs require the same piece of paper to be signed.
- Comment on Peter Murrell charged with embezzlement in SNP finance probe 4 weeks ago:
This investigation has been going on for ages. The case against him seems fairly devastating. Curious to see if they reveal the extent of Sturgeon’s awareness/complicity.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t the person but presumably they thought your point of view was reductionist given that the 90s were a time of widespread global prosperity. Like there was a specific context behind all of the investment.
The government investing in public services was definitely one of the key factors in life being better back then.
- Comment on Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors 4 weeks ago:
Technically it modifies some people’s behaviour as adults by validating them perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
- Comment on Why craft breweries are under threat as closures leap 49% 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
These look like defensive structures from a war movie with some plants on them
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 5 weeks ago:
Appreciate the detailed reply.
I kind of agree that the physical differences can be worked around in certain sports but I think I need to defer to the governmental bodies in most cases since they will have the best overview for what is relevant in that sport.
Do agree with the Rowling-esque fear mongering with cherry-picked examples being problematic. You see bigots do that for racism, homophobia, etc.
WRT the race comment, I’ve not read her book(s) so I was not aware that she endorsed intersectionality. If she does then your comment makes sense and your original point went over my head!
Was a mistake to go into the weeds on this topic to be honest. My original point was more that you can disagree with someone on one topic without it invalidating everything else they have to say. For example it’s a textbook ad hominen to claim something like, “David Hume is wrong about the existence of God because he was a racist” or similar.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 5 weeks ago:
I guess since the thread has been derailed might as ask - is this summation of her problematic behaviour accurate?
She’s not exactly JK Rowling.
Being against trans inclusion in sports puts her in line with almost every sports governing body. There’s a legitimate concern about inclusion on both sides in terms of representation of both women and transwomen in sports, so no resolution is possible that will keep both parties satisfied.
Additionally voicing skepticism about puberty blockers is exactly what the NHS has been doing in recent months.
It looks to me like she’s been singled out for being a centre left journalist who has opinions which deviate slightly from what she’s “supposed” to think. Also it was weird of you to bring up her race in the original comment - her being a white woman is orthogonal to the criticism you are making of her.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 5 weeks ago:
Her fairly normal opinions about trans inclusion in sports or whatever aren’t relevant to the topic being discussed
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 5 weeks ago:
This programme is actually about technology instead of trans issues.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 5 weeks ago:
Whoops! Thanks for catching that. Will update the link if I can
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- Comment on The Making of Pentiment - Noclip Documentary 5 weeks ago:
Interesting to hear about Sawyer moving from a humanities / liberal arts degree into self-taught coding. I followed the same kind of path (although have been far less successful than he has!)
They nailed it with this game. It’s glorious. Every historical detail is spot-on and the “bestiary” style is a feast for the eyes.
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 5 weeks ago:
Given the amount of parents who are happy to buy their kids alcohol and GTA videogames I wonder if the social pressure would vanish overnight.
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 5 weeks ago:
I think that qualifies as being a severe network effect. Point taken though. In those cases would recommend the parents spend 5 minutes configuring the parental controls before handing the phone over.
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe that parents prefer to wait for legislation to ban smartphones instead of refusing to buy one for their offspring. I get the network effect of having all the other kids with phones but at the same time if that is the only motivation for buying one for your kid then you must not care that much about their dangers.
- Comment on Extinction Rebellion co-founder avoids jail term for drone action near Heathrow 5 weeks ago:
Agreed! Dude is a nutcase
- Comment on Cropped out, banned, airbrushed: the school photos that show the ugly face of Britain today 5 weeks ago:
Is this ‘perfect picture’ stuff related to the changing nature of a photographer’s job? Now that everyone has access to high quality camera equipment and can take photos with their phones. Maybe their job description has shifted from capturing the moment to creating some kid of artificial pefection with virtual (and real life) airbrushing.
- Comment on Extinction Rebellion co-founder avoids jail term for drone action near Heathrow 5 weeks ago:
Podcast is called Political Thinking - the Roger Hallem one
- Comment on 400,000 species 5 weeks ago:
I think this is a case of the Seinfeld effect where people take them for granted due to them being so influential that part of their sound has become imbued into every single pop band that came after them.
- Comment on Jenes 1 month ago:
It’s in my DNA, cause my pops liked to shitpost the same way, It’s in my DNA, cause my moms liked to shitpost the same way, DNA, DNA cause my fam like to all shitpost the same way DNA, DNA cause my fam like to all shitpost the same way
- Comment on I feel so old. 1 month ago:
I believe you could buss’ in a bussy if you were so inclined
- Comment on I feel so old. 1 month ago:
“lit” seems like a 21st century artefact to me
- Comment on average reddit user 1 month ago:
Yeah the creative side of it is nuts. They seem to just throw things at the wall to see what sticks. I used to work in adtech doing web attribution so I’ve got some perspective on that. The upshot of it is that like 90% of a marketing budget is always wasted but no one knows which is the good 10%…
Made a comment a wee while ago with more details if you are interested - lemmy.world/comment/7031249
- Comment on average reddit user 1 month ago:
Saw a post the other day on AskUk or somewhere similar which was the most blatant astroturfing I’ve seen to date. It was someone asking if people had seen the latest ad for a toilet paper brand on tv with a brief description of the ad. The ad itself sounded like it had been designed to be a bit gross to up the meme potential, didn’t watch it though.
- Comment on I just hope both sides have fun 1 month ago:
Skepta - Disguise
- Comment on ate Dogg f. Warren G & DJ Quik - There She Goes 1 month ago:
Gastronomers! Mount up
- Comment on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) 1 month ago:
Kevin Smith himself has discussed it as a bad tweet in interviews since. The tweet itself is funny because it is a mixture of TMI and cringey youth slang; then the general background context of him being a professional writer makes the bad tweet more incongruous.