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- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 5 days ago:
There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about.
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 1 week ago:
… /etc/X11/xorg.conf…
- Comment on Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. 1 week ago:
Democracy is in crisis. Eating the rich is the only answer.
They are so fucking close to getting it.
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 1 week ago:
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
This is not a tech critic, it’s a culture critic.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the piece?
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 2 weeks ago:
And it’s not even “Charlie Kirk comments”, it’s “guy who shot Charlie Kirk comments”.
He’s not taken off the air for “Charlie Kirk comments”, he’s taken off the air for not licking enough fascist ass. But of course the poor NYT reporter cannot write that, or they’d suffer the same fate.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 weeks ago:
Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But at least he's self aware! That places him in an intellectual capacity at least somewhere between a giant panda and a house mouse. Not bad for a troll.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
respect, kindness and have principles that I apply uniformly
Not actions that he applies uniformly. Obviously you meet people with different actions. But you can remain constant in principles.
Its possible to respect both your mother and your partner, yet only have sex with one of them. Weirdo.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Of course, I wouldn't expect the UK government to produce information in French. However there is a traditional way of doing things: You fly a yellow flag, and you report to a port of entry upon arrival.
If this is changed without being very publisized, it is really stupid not to at least have a transition period where people can still register their entry into the country after their arrival, until the new rules are well established and the website that is supposed to be serving them is out of beta testing.
If you want to sail from the UK to France, you just raise the appropriate flags, and then you announce your arrival when you get there. Ask in the harbour and they'll let you know where to go. So you wouldn't have to navigate their legal system, you just need to know how to use flags.
That said, I had no problem being in the UK illegally, so no real complaints from my part. It just seems like an attempt at tightening control of the borders that ended up having the exact opposite effect.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, but it needs to be announced somehow. We all filled in ETAs, because this is something people have heard about. It would make sense to inform of something like this at the end of the ETA registration. Instead, the fact that I had a travel authorization lead me to believe that I was, in fact, authorized to travel to the UK.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, I suspect I have a neat little collection of views that would be considered extreme by certain layers of English society. Feels weird having to lie about agreeing with UK politics in order to enter the country as a tourist.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I got what you meant - it's a word that takes on a billion different meanings. I just find it to be important to push back against the strawman whenever I see it, as I'm not gonna let a bunch of dumb kids raised by a social media algorithm ruin feminism for me. Get off my lawn etc.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All good - the UK is a fascinating mix between the best and the worst. I guess that's almost part of the charm at this point.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, in order to find the site again for the purpose of this post I had to switch search engines as well.
Also doesn't make it easier that a minority of the crew spoke good English. Most are only comfortable in French. I imagine most Brits would struggle if they had to dig up obscure government websites in French that they had no idea even existed.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I'm pretty sure it's because I mention that I support Palestine Action, which although it's not a central point in the post is a pretty hot political potato in the UK at the moment. Fair enough. :)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It's easier to find the website retroactively when you already have it and you know which vocabulary it uses. Use the wrong word and you only get a million articles about illegal immigration.
Furthermore, we had no way of knowing a website like this now existed, as in the past you would sail in and then register. We had no reason to believe anything had changed on that front and therefore no reason to conduct a whole lot of research into it.
If I wanted to enter illegally I would obviously have saved my £20 and not gotten an ETA, as I ended up not needing it anyway.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
At least it feels good to be part of a statistic.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
When you read guidelines about sailing to the UK anywhere this website is never linked, at least not in any source I could find, as it is too new and nobody seems aware of it yet. The harbour when we arrived were also not immediately aware of it. And to find it again I had to try several different search terms while adding "site:gov.uk" into the search engine. All the search results are just about illegal immigration. I'm not sure exactly how they expect people to gain awareness of it.
If you press the big green button saying "start now" you'll come to the website of the form, which states clearly on top: "Beta This is a new service – your feedback will help us to improve it", which is why I describe it as a beta website. Because it literally is.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Small footnote: I noticed this post got deleted from !casualuk@feddit.uk for not being casual enough (I guess I am extreme), with a suggestion it could be put here instead. As I spent some time writing it and was lucky enough to still have it open in a browser window I figured I'd give it a shot, even though I feel like this community might be for slightly more serious stuff. I hope it's not too out of place :)
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 31 comments
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
In feminist scholarship it tends more towards the "we are all victims of patriarchy" stance. Most my friends are academics so they tend to lean the same direction, though not always.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
It's worth emphasising that concerns about male mental health in large part comes from feminism. Feminism is not inherently man hating, and research of gender dynamics through the lense of feminism is what made it possible to observe how patriarchal structures in society harm not only women, but also men.
It's kinda like how a marxist will tell you that even rich people are happier in egalitarian societies: Capitalism hurts everyone, including the ones seemingly profiting from it. In the same way, feminism gave way to the insight that patriarchy hurts everyone, including men.
That said, you're not wrong that here is a (perhaps more popular rather than scholarly) feminist critique of male grievances. Feminism is a bunch of different things, and there's a bunch of contradictions between different understandings of feminism.
Not too weird then that people end up hating the whole issue. Some feminists hate it because it's sympathising with the oppressor or whatever, while anti-feminists hate it because they see it as soft feminist bullshit or whatever. Having a nuanced opinion about anything this day is difficult.
- Comment on Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16? 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16? 1 month ago:
What exactly are you unhappy about? I'm thinking of getting one soon-ish and would love to hear which negative experiences I could expect to bump into.
- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 1 month ago:
How about getting a portable monitor?
Pros:
- Cheaper
- Less e-waste, doesn't require a whole new computer
- Fewer components that can break
- Stays up to date along with your phone - won't be unable to update netflix in five years because of lacking software updates
- Probably a better screen than what you'd get from a cheap tablet
Cons:
- Your phone would need to support an external monitor
- Not a separate device; good for watching videos, less good for sofa surfing
- You'd need to connect your phone somehow while consuming content. I think there are some wireless options, but personally I'd probably just use a cable.
- Comment on Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French Kick streamer 1 month ago:
Sarah El Haïry, France's High Commissioner for Children, described the death as "horrifying".
"Platforms have an immense responsibility in regulating online content so that our children are not exposed to violent content. I call on parents to be extremely vigilant", she wrote on X.
The satire writes itself.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 2 months ago:
Training LLMs is not surveillance. As long as the platform doesn't need to know who I am I'm good.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 2 months ago:
The entire sky is a carpet of stars.