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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it feels good to be part of a statistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 :)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire sky is a carpet of stars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have most people never seen a full starry night sky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a green-ish area of this map in Norway, and in Winger it gets pitch black. If theres even faint aurora in tje North we can see it behind the house.

  For sure there is some light pollution - we don't draw the curtains in the evening - but it's pitch black by any standard observable by humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's no real difference, content flows freely between the two platforms.

  I'm writing this in piefed - does it make my comment "piefed content", while your comment is "Lemmy content"?

  The distinction makes no sense. And that's the point - use whatever platform you prefer, enjoy the same content anywhere you go. There is no "piefed content" or "lemmy content", only content. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/, which is visible without signing in.

  Posted.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.

  This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.

  It's pretty funky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, studying the performance of individual judges is criminalized in France, so we have very limited ability to know about their individual performance. :)

  It's a huge lie that judges are neutral, but some argue it's a necessary lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANIMAL FARM | Exclusive First Look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I guess the piglets just represent random Bolsheviks sucking up to the Party leadership. Makes it look a bit like if Death of Stalin was set to Animal Farm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that would be most people these days.