steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Great guy 7 hours ago:
It’s from /mu/ originally
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 9 hours ago:
I believe it is still a criterion for changing gender to use the bathroom of the gender you are transitioning to for 2 years before the legal process can be satisfied. It sounds like the entire legal framework around changing gender is incompatible with requests like this.
For what it’s worth the supreme court decision simply found that someone’s sex could not be changed legally but that still shouldn’t preclude changing gender. Forbidding people from changing gender is essentially what is being asked for by these groups and society at large does not seem to have an appetite for that.
In the immediate future sex based legal protections do have the legal apparatus to trump gender based rights but it’s going to be implemented on an arbitrary, case-by-case basis. For example in the event that a trans person has a transphobic colleague of the same gender then the employer needs to provide facilities for both parties (as seen in a recent workplace dispute in Fife, Scotland). This is going to get messy where the NHS might have certain hospitals with this arbitrary need for extra facilities depending on people having the misfortune of transphobic colleagues.
- Comment on Great guy 1 day ago:
I saw Keanu Reeves at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
- Comment on China - Hong Kong: Civil society organisations urge UK PM to stand up for Jimmy Lai 2 days ago:
Not much we can do after giving it back
- Comment on Robin Ince forced to quit [BBC] Radio 4 over pro-trans views 4 days ago:
Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 week ago:
I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.
My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 4 weeks ago:
Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 4 weeks ago:
You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London
- Comment on The word "slop" has been taken full circle 5 weeks ago:
TIL I’m subbed to two green text subtlemmys
- Comment on Anon starts his day 5 weeks ago:
How about simply waking up and cursing whatever entity or cosmological force made this hell world?
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 1 month ago:
Why would these doctors and engineers commit a random act of violence?
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 month ago:
We did it, Lemmy!
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 month ago:
It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.
Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 1 month ago:
greentext reads like it was written by that old Chad-PS3 console… not sure famous it was but he referred to wiimotes as dildos
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 2 months ago:
Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 2 months ago:
Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 2 months ago:
To be fair, she could have kept quiet about this and avoided another round of people calling her names online, which would have been the easier path. Most people in this thread might know “Robinson” is dodgy but we’re not the target audience.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 2 months ago:
Totally agree with you. I think society/politics has become polarised to the extent that we’ve all grown colder towards perceived “enemies”; at the same time people shouldn’t be victim blamed for abuse, no matter how dumb they are.
Additionally, what we perceive as “dumb” can sometimes be other people struggling with mental illness or disability.
- Comment on UK: Chinese agents ‘given licence to spy’ on parliament as failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster spy case opens door to foreign agents, lawmaker warns 2 months ago:
I went to school with Chris Cash. His dad was my family GP and he was my cousin’s first kiss.
His HS yearbook has “most likely to end up in jail” on his entry.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 months ago:
Date someone younger who doesn’t realise how weird you are. /s
For real though that seems to be a favourite in the weirdo playbook
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 2 months ago:
I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
Killzone on PS2 was the first game I played that wasn’t inverted and it took me several hours to figure out why aiming was so hard
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
If you just imagine that the right stick is their neck you don’t need to postulate a Parasaurolophus horn
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
I care more about the vertical inversion than the horizontal one. Not certain why. Have played with horizontal inversion on before and it didn’t bother me much after a minute or two.
- Comment on You donkey 2 months ago:
Her name is Jeanie though, which I’d pronounce differently to Jenny… unless it’s one of those awful new age spellings of a classic name.
Fwiw Jennifer is a fine name and people can figure out the best way to shorten it for their circumstances. Maybe living in a rural community with a lot of donkeys would affect it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
Yes, both of those and their sequels - Future Perfect and Perfect Dark - were by far the most played FPS games for me as a kid.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
It’s more like the analogue stick is representing your characters neck. IRL you pull your neck down to look up, and vice versa.
- Comment on "Undercover Informant" 3 months ago:
This joke brought to you by: dads
- Comment on "Undercover Informant" 3 months ago:
They call me 007 at work too:
- 0 tickets finished
- 0 docs written
- 7 smoke breaks
- Comment on "Read lit" Me: 3 months ago:
Obviously encountered a believer in metaphysical immanence on the subway