LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 14 hours ago:
A trans woman, and a cis woman are both subtypes of women. One used to be physically male, the other didn’t. Both are women and should be afforded the same treatment under law unless actually there’s actually reasonable issues created by that.
- Comment on ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist 1 day ago:
I was a bit confused by the use of “theft”, for anyone else wondering they mean it in the opposite way most people think, where it’s not the companies that are investing big ££££ into robbing us blind every minute, but actually normal people who are using electricity without gasp forking over the tribute willingly.
- Comment on 🐻❄Bear goes rawr🐻❄ 2 days ago:
What stock ticker app is this?
- Comment on Zoom is down 🎉 6 days ago:
Lmao that’s a good one.
- Comment on Zoom is down 🎉 1 week ago:
And then you have apps that will use their own DNS silently instead of the NS you point them to…
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Including myself you absolute dense motherfucker. Did you read the thousands of other retards making this same point ITT before you and really decide to say it again? Or can you not read? Go fuck yourself either way. Blocked.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
This is it. Gboard autocorrect has felt shittier to me recently as well, so I turned it off.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Are you fucking dense? I just told you that I’m also ESL, I don’t make such typos, it’s no excuse at all and makes it make not an iota more sense than saying the pigs are flying hence people’s spelling fell off a fucking cliff.
Lemmy is def not it, I moved here a year or more ago, the spelling has gotten very bad very recently and I only use this platform pretty much and this is where I’ve seen it the most by far.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
So true. People are likely being fucked up by poor autocorrect algos, as I noticed even mine messing up and turned it off outright, because I blind type like 89wpm on my phone anyway so I’m fine without it. Then they’re defending it like ignorant fools that they are, reasoning backwards and perpetuating anti-intellectualism
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
That in itself is discriminatory, I have ADHD but it doesn’t mean I’m retarded.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Yes yes you and many others have pointed this dumb take out already. I’m also a second language English speaker, and no one in my family even speaks English or ever has, and I’d never make a mistake like this.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I’m also second language lol, I’d never do this, I learned how to write English before I knew how to speak it.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I think you’re onto something there.
- Comment on Supreme Court to announce ruling on definition of a woman 1 week ago:
Unsurprising.
On the surface the ruling isn’t awful because it’s the old TERF play of: “they’re entitled to protection from discrimination on the basis of their transgender characteristic but not under the basis of being a woman”, so effectively it means that under the eyes of the law a “trans woman” is the characteristics “man” + “transgender” which is essentially how the TERFs see it with their newspeak slurs (“TIM”,“TIL”).
But de-facto this has already long been the case anyway. The real reason trans women have any legal protections remaining at all is because it’s a violation of privacy to actually go and check if someone has had a GRC and this ruling doesn’t change that and even reasserts that in some situations trans women are entitled to protections based on perceived sex, as improvable and meaningless as that is.
I think the real play here is to clarify that the GRA and the EA2010 are in contradiction because the latter refers to “biological sex”, because that is a cassus beli for repealing the GRA outright, which is the ultimate goal.
We lost the war, and this is the enforcement settlement.
Here’s your fine democracy hard at work. On the other hand the house of lords before the supreme court never pulled shit like this, schadenfreude is in full swing on /r/LabourUK from assorted democracy defenders.
Idgaf about any politics anymore, all I want is revenge.
To all the trans folks who kept their head in the sand pretending everything was fine seeing stats from yougov like vast majority of the public being against our healthcare and only increasing - you’re the enemy too.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
The bar is in hell if opposing articles suggesting my people are some disease or delusion that’s harming children and needs to be eradicated is moral high grounding for liberal minded people.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
You can memorize the patterns of each word and eventually you just understand language. Is that not how it’s meant to work?
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I’ve done LSD many times and while I’ve imagined impossible colours I could never imagine how that mistake might occur. Care to enlighten us?
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Sounds? You pronounce words as you type?
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
No they haven’t changed at all. I’ve been using mostly Lemmy as my one and only SM for most of the past year and this is a very new phenomenon to me.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
No I’m not implying any conclusion with my post. Smartphones actually massively improved grammar on the internet through the joys of autocorrect in my experience
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Y35! HAC4 TH3 PLAN3T!
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I didn’t downvote you at all
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Typos aren’t what I was talking about, but your autocorrect should take care of it, at least on gboard. I also type everything on mobile. I don’t browse Lemmy on my desktop at all.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I’ll have a look, but idk I was taught whole word in two languages and I can write a lot better than I can speak in at least 1.3 of them.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I’m not a native speaker, and our screens have only gotten bigger. Also while you are correct that we may have temporary myopia from looking at screens too upclose, that should not matter when it comes to spelling, since it affects the ability to see in the distance, not from upclose.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Idk I swear to god it wasn’t this bad like 6 months ago, nevermind 10 years ago. Again, I’m not talking about formality or punctuation but basic grammar like spelling.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
See, I legitimately can’t even tell if you’re trolling or not.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Phonics is dogshit and it’s being phased out in favour of whole word reading here.
You should not learn spelling by “sounding out” much of anything, you should learn it through reading text and remembering how words are spelled.
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