LainTrain

@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London coroner calls for circumcision safeguards after baby death⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This country only gives a shit about genitals when it’s trans people receiving treatment for their disorders.

  When it’s actual children being mutilated against their will because their parents are so deeply schizophrenic they believe it is the will of people that don’t exist that they mutilate children, it’s all muh “community leaders” this and “concerns” that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions some decisions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re right, but also, the commenter above isn’t just being mean for the sake of it, there is a real issue at the heart of it.

  The issue is that having 1 person come around to your side implies the millions that don’t and won’t.

  Some of those people simply don’t share any underlying morals in common so that’s fine, you’ll never see eye to eye in ideas because your goals are ultimately different.

  Some of those people also just don’t care and/or don’t know.

  Some people will never care, and that’s fine too, but some of those people will care if they do know.

  Spreading information to those people is tough when you don’t have backing of the govcorp media ecosystem and it doesn’t help when the ideas you want to get across are sophisticated, boring and fairly nuanced and require lots of context.

  It also doesn’t help that this would-be progressive in their ignorance could be damaging to the cause when misinformed, which means that sometimes you have to argue against this person and potentially turn them off the movement forever, because you never really know whether it’s possible to sway someone until you do.

  That’s what makes ignorance trolling or JAQing so effective because progressives will either have to waste time explaining openly to someone who will never agree and only feigns ignorance, or risk being potentially a confrontational asshole with a genuinely ignorant person.

  It also doesn’t help morale of said progressive when confronted with all that, that many of us simply learned about this information on our own, we never asked anybody of anything, we just explored enough perspectives on issues we cared about until our bullshit-o-meters were finely tuned enough to find truth and construct a path from reality now to future we’d like.

  On the other hand, convincing some people who are actually sway-able to not want the world to function like a war crime can be like pulling teeth, people are zealous defenders of their opinions because it reflects badly on their self-esteem if they are misinformed and someone else isn’t, especially in the Information Age.

  I speak from a progressive viewpoint but it’s just as true for any real ideological position, information is the fuel that turns simple moral beliefs into functional ideology.

  For as long as we live in a democracy, we need to somehow solve the systemic issue of ignorance at scale without inventing a ministry of truth type situation and being able to effectively counter trolling and JAQing/sealioning while also treating those asking questions with the utmost care and having the emotional stamina to do that when many of us had nothing of the sort.

  It’s a tough position, even describing it or explaining it is tough enough already when fewer and fewer people even seem to even just read at all.

  Then there is often just confusion over what someone open to information actually wants, e.g. the Adam Something guide to dating video he made where he said that teenage and adolescent men want instructions and not philosophical musings on the concept of dating and purpose and approach came as a genuine shock to me, because from my, non-male perspective I can’t imagine anyone needing instructions or explanations of that sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the YouTubers Terrorising Britain for Clicks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically these people and what they do are the ultimate effect and evidence of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Racist prick' Tommy Robinson 'bullied' at Dubai boxing event⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, no, the headline pretty straightforwardly describes what is happening. These are private firms, they should frankly have zero recourse other than simply not doing business with that customer again and reporting to other private firms that track credit scores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greta Thunberg arrested at Palestine Action protest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More sources:

  news.sky.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-prote… theguardian.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-…

  Some right wing media sources too, for your suffering:

  telegraph.co.uk/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-… www.dw.com/en/…/a-75286097 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x1jenvv9o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re right, I’m an it scmuck in cyber now but it doesn’t mean I failed at computers, I don’t want a more stressful job, I don’t want to program for a living, I just enjoy learning computer science

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, god bless, that’s the spirit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to love computers… still do, but good god do I hate tech companies and all this shit it’s spawned. My last remaining line of defense mentally is that at work we have shifted to a mostly Windows environment, and my interests lie with the Unix side of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two arrested on suspicion of shouting slogans calling for ‘intifada’ at protest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got a loicence for that thought?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn’t reason and can’t be reasoned with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robin Ince quits Infinite Monkey Cage over BBC censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this show, but it’s always a shame to lose something like a science show to this insane far-right takeover of the UK happening right in front of us. What’s happened to the BBC is especially a travesty. I’m glad that there are still people out there who seem reasonable and not driven to insanity, and who use their voice to do right, and as a trans person I appreciate him for standing up for our community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up science!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, FYI, when scientists say “blue light” they don’t mean literally the colour blue, they mean short wavelength light typically emitted by LEDs.

  As far as the hue goes, the results in animal testing have been inconsistent, there’s a paper from 2022 that says it has no influence, and this one from 2020 that actually found the opposite to be the case www.cell.com/…/S0960-9822(19)31368-5

  In my personal experience I do the exact opposite of all conventional advice as admittedly a diagnosed ADHDer.

  I cannot sleep without a good scroll and never have, before phones I had books and before I could read as a child I had music and my mom to read to me.

  As an adult if I keep listening to something or reading something intently while comfy I will eventually and fairly quickly fall asleep.

  I also sleep much better when I sleep immediately after or while scrolling/reading/doing anything than if I try to sleep “normally”.

  The number one way for me personally not to fall asleep is to “try” to sleep. Any sort of “ritual” around sleeping or attempt to deprive myself of stimulation and my mind will go pretty crazy with infinite thoughts and infinite random bullshit and I will fling out of bed in an hour full of energy and start projects, after working on something for 10-20 min I’ll feel sleepy again and could even fall asleep while doing them easily, much more so than in plain dark.

  It also helps me to not have any sort of ritual and just sleep whenever I feel sleepy if the circumstances allow. I have no idea why or how neurotypicals have sleep schedules and I’ve given up on understanding it. For me, as long as I get 8 hours or so it doesn’t actually matter at all when I get them, i will feel as fresh and awake waking up at 3AM as I would at 10PM or 7AM as long as I get my hours.

  So I pretty much get 8 hours, and sometimes more every day and I feel nice and fresh when I wake up usually with sad exceptions during particularly rough work weeks where I end up staying up way late.

  All’s I’m saying is YMMV, I’ve never had any issues with sleep nor do I feel particularly tired, I don’t drink coffee nor alcohol, but if I ever explain this to a doctor they go nuts and assume I have insomnia, they try to offer “treatment” when I literally don’t have any problems with this at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wes Streeting should review himself instead because this level of callousness probably warrants a mental health diagnosis of some sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sucks. For what it’s worth all the victorian mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on a street that had literally no signal.

  The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS doctor suspended for 15 months over series of 'anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism' comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about “conspiracy theories” and “denying sexual violence”, so I’d like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn’t just seem like what you’d expect, so I’d like to see it before I dismiss it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fresh groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fresh groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Come to the UK and stand outside for a sec on an average day then. 89-96 rH% humidity gets old real fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Co-founded Interplay. Came out as trans in the mid-2000s. Jesus what a legend gone too soon. Bless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what I asked. I asked for if they had a higher % change than other demographics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And it's BILL by a... Er... Uh...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking the moment to link my other comment about this from a previous thread where I looked up other mentions of ‘Bubba’ in the files: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22613917

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackney children among most deprived in England as working parents ‘struggling to feed kids’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Blackpool has lower healthy life expectancy than Rwanda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not wrong though? Was the % points change higher among that demographic or not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Rest of World”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is active thought. I don’t space out to music at all, I don’t “space out” period, I stay engaged actively with the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with basically everything you said, but let’s be real - I’m not the one doing the tearing down ITT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The stoics are morons mostly. Yes I have ADHD, and I’m fully medicated for it, thanks.