LainTrain

@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Convicted Paedophile Was Chosen as a Parliamentary Candidate by Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing says “trust me with your money and your children” like a permanent ‘smelled a fart’ grimace and an equally permanent entry into the sex offender registry.

  Honestly he looks young though I would’ve guessed he’s more in the cryptobro workplace harassment wing of the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though this isn’t a UK rule or UK laws, but one of an international organization, it’s certainly an optics opportunity for them to make their own fund to help those who need to pay for it.

  Especially since it can be argued that the alarmism around trans athletes was started by terfs.

  But if they won’t, that’s an optics opportunity for progressives, like this Pink News headline here.

  Headlines like “No plans to help female athletes pay for testing” - says [insert terf org here like sex matters or for women scotland or whatever] would work pretty well too.

  Especially if then some relatively rich trans person or ally then went ahead and made their own independent charity fund to help struggling athletes pay for these tests, assuming there is actually demand there (I have no idea how much they make at that level), all while having some blerbs on their website out of the way on their website about advocacy for removing barriers to participation and streamlining this and how few trans athletes there are or how some studies show that over time performance equalises and how they already test for T levels etc etc.

  Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised that most cis fem athletes don’t see it that way, and I’m not sure where I stand on it either. Personally I could give a fuck about sports regardless, but while millions of trans folks are stuck suffering from dysphoria without proper care, anything that damages the terf establishment is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehm, this is an international organization’s regulations. Not the UK at fault here.

  The UK is just advising their own athletes of the international org’s policy - and telling them to pay out of pocket rather to “avoid delays”, even though financing is available to those who need it on a “case by case” basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think reasonable is even it, it’s just a helpful assumption.

  If “they” are doing a perfect job, there’s nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they’re not and play your role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gorton and Denton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it joever or did it just bidan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  co-op and Waitrose

  I know I missed a few lol.

  It’s you who’s missing the point, though.

  Your cheap goods

  I’ve never bought from one of those shoplifters and I’ve never personally met or seen one, I have zero self-interested motivation here.

  Out of business

  Now you’re getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world.

  Nothing less than total corpo death.

  Then we can sail to the stars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And? I said “corporation”. I don’t give a fuck how “Legitimate” they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.

  Sainsbury’s is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.

  Tesco’s is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.

  Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.

  ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t affect them It’s the shop who takes the loss

  So it does affect them, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re selling them to people who can’t afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.

  Where there’s demand, there’s supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn’t worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they’re just poor.

  There’s a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it’s pretty clear that they’re not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People with rare genetic conditions are ‘systematically ignored’ by NHS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People are systematically ignored by the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for replying! That’s cool to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about raw numbers, more like subgroups, if that makes sense?

  Lemmy is a niche place, yes? Skews techie, nerdie, someone very internet heavy. At least that often seems to be an assumption I see about the place. But I don’t think it’s true, so I would just like to test that assumption, this is just an observation in that test.

  I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse, I also think it skews very young comparatively, for the latter in particular I think this is a good test.

  It’s also of course possible that the techie, nerdy internet heavy crowd subgroup is big enough that even isolated to that sample, the chance of encountering someone who has seen the image before is actually that small, but nonetheless it’s a worthwhile observation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s enough pressure from European countries at this point regarding age verification, algo manipulation and more that soon it’s gonna be more like the American containment zone rather than a great firewall of anywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon disrespects their elders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t they mean “boomer” as in “30 year old boomer” meme? Or even just as an insult?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like that honestly if it wasn’t so unpredictable. Sometimes I actually do something and do it well and I get shit for it, sometimes I literally do absolutely nothing the entire week and it’s all smiles and praise, it’s weird and for a long time it put me into a really anxious uncertain place. Now I just try not to care, I’ve accepted I can be fired anytime for any reason anywhere. But that also kinda sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I stupid and missed the joke, or do you mean to imply that “most skilled blackhats” communicate over Microsoft Teams?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Colour me jelly. Old school Unix guys are the kind of boomers I’d probably enjoy being around and ask stuff from.

  Imo Automation is good when done well, but if anything I’d say half the problems at companies I’ve seen - including my own workplace - come from automating things that shouldn’t be in some ugly way that inevitably breaks at the slightest change and that would work much better if there was just a person doing it manually instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they don’t mean it in the way engineers do, they mean it literally :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I stay is because I’m fairly free to fuck around while I WFH and I always WFH, I’m assuming that’s what he means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go tell her to work for a team with more women in it. A balance generally helps imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a quarter of workers really be better off on benefits?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny how this is meant to be right-wing slop to get me outraged about le benefits, but even if this was true (and I believed it was till I read the comments below), I always just took it as a condemnation of awful economy and wages.

  Immigration outrage comes from the powers that be via the internet, but our free falling standard of living is immediately obvious and easily observed to anyone under the age of 50.

  The awful shape of our streets and our people is a stark reminder of the fact that only half the population is in full time employment according to ONS, combined with non-existant growth since 2008, even when measured in GDP per capita.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  start cyber security job am 27, BSc, MSc, 4 years of xp entire team is over 50 with one youngling at 45 none of them have any formal IT qualifications whatsoever boss does not know how to read clearly just reads the first few words of a sentence and guesses the rest only writes in 3-4 word sentences without punctuation and capitalization only time anyone writes any detailed amount of text is obviously with copilot they refuse to use Jira because it’s “too complicated” even though we all have licenses to it and there’s a security project already set up have me log ticket statuses in a spreadsheet instead but only for 2 weeks, after no one checks it all communication is 3-4 sentence emails in threads with 20+ people 100+ emails each going back years boss proceeds to talk about how he feels for the fact women don’t get to speak while not letting me speak a single word almost every time I try to add to a conversation in a group meeting it’s taken as an attack team’s main project is to put the password manager behind the same password manager half of them are constantly having very basic computer problems boss opens group convo on teams only to complain there’s “too many messages” and that he can’t keep up I provide summaries in a few short paragraphs but he doesn’t read them Boss says he doesn’t have access to a system but he’s really just unable or unwilling to locate the sign in button I complete tasks, but they’re never checked on by anyone or followed up by anyone at annual review receive complaints that I’m not doing enough but no specifics how positively I’m perceived on a given day seems to not correlate with any work done seems to mostly depend on how I look in meetings try to make small talk most don’t seem to understand the concept one proceeds to show me his entire house, room by room it’s completely empty and unfurnished wut.jpg ask them if they like to do self-hosting or play ctfs or hackthebox no one has any idea what any of what I said is ask one if he’s seen movie_name Very awkward pause barks: “No” Drops off meeting because he had a windows update He uses a Mac One talks about crypto Huge crypto guy I somewhat jokingly ask him if he’s got XMR he doesn’t know what that is

  Honestly bros I don’t wanna be fired because job searching is hell but there’s a part of me that will breathe a sigh of relief when I eventually am. Quirky star wars shit here I come.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s not just newbuild housing, the rest are Victorian era crumbling shit holes filled with mold and damp up to your ears. I’ve rented “”“flats”“”" that clearly used to be someone’s attic or someone’s basement and it was the most awful place one could imagine. The flat I’m in right now had water pouring out the lights in the ceiling and it’s still the best place I’ve lived in this country by a mile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their goal has always been the total non-existence of trans people. They don’t actually care about whether it’s the right choice for someone or not, they simply do not want it to happen at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You advocated for banning ready meals because you are crazy, I had to elaborate on it to hopefully get across that your viewpoint is insane and you should not hold it, nor should any sane person hold it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it just gonna be Wes in power after him? The whole party is rotten. Greens are our only hope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate cooking, and especially batch cooking so I can eat cold soulless slop chicken later to keep myself alive for 0.83 years longer and I hate meal planning and how much time and mental energy it takes, absolutely none is acceptable to me.

  It kills my soul little by little and honestly I’m sure it’s fine for some people, but I’m not doing that, the money saved is minimal because food costs next to nothing compared to housing etc. I could order takeaway everyday and it wouldn’t substantially put me further away from house ownership than I am now.

  I WFH and I love the fact I can toss the little fuckers into the microwave and not worry about it and consume ze slop and get back to what I was doing quickly without much disruption.