Hegar
@Hegar@fedia.io
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a costume 4 days ago:
Disney capitulated to the regime's demands to axe kimmel because he stated basic facts that contradict their lies about the kirk shooting having anything to do with the left.
They relented to public pressure, but I think when you have taken action to support the lies of fascists, you are a fascist collaborator.
Not mention, you know, walt himself.
- Comment on Trivago 4 days ago:
Omg never do I get so many downvotes as when I point out how unnatural a white wall of american teeth look.
To me it's like neck rings or cranial deformation. Intellectually I understand it's a cultural practice that must display worth to those within the culture or they wouldn't do it. But that's not the effect it has on me.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a costume 4 days ago:
I would not encourage anyone to dress as characters that earn money for or promote fascist collaborators like disney.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a group costume 4 days ago:
I would not encourage anyone to dress as characters that earn money or promote fascist collaborators like disney
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Nope, abduction is a magic speciality that prevents you learning alteration or illusion spells.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Congyoubingius
- Comment on Trapeze artists 1 week ago:
Yet another problem that wouldn't exist with a properly unionized work force. If your boss tells you to work when sick, there's only one person who should be shat on.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Ah, could be. There's non-homogenized milk that we get sometimes here but it's nowhere as good as I remember that UK milk being. Maybe it's just distant childhood memories being incorrect.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Raw milk is way tastier though. The clearest memory I have from visiting the UK at 9 y/o was the milk from the milk rounds being unreasonably delicious. Like so much better i wasn't sure it was milk.
It's obviously not the right choice to fulfill the nations milk needs, that's a public health disaster. But I wish it was available in limited, risk-minimized contexts like in most of Europe.
- Comment on 'Pure Incitement': Google Allows Israeli Sponsored Propaganda Aimed at Global Sumud Flotilla 2 weeks ago:
Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla particpants as being allied with violent, terrorist elements.
Like every youtube ad, google is once more foisting objectively false bullshit on the public.
Maybe next they'll claim that bombing peace activists is ten times more effective than ozempic?
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in the world 3 weeks ago:
I had two friends who were in a choir and they would rickroll people live at parties - sneak up behind people and start singing the entire song.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 4 weeks ago:
Choosing the source then the destination is the correct order. The money moves from X to Y, of course you should choose X first and then Y. Destination then source feels inherently wrong to me too
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 4 weeks ago:
Except dinosaurs weren't taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.
I think that's the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we're still around to do it all over again.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich.
But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. I'd guess it's a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you're talking about Lia Thomas. That's a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
"...finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability... than their cisgender counterparts."
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
Yep, the "fairness" argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I've heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we're going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.
- Comment on Technically Correct 1 year ago:
Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.
Bummer to hear that's changed!
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 1 year ago:
TBH, I just don't think something better is possible - I suspect that there are no valid shortcuts to trust.
Unless something is just obviously bullshit, it will always take some time to develop a sense of how the different sources are treating a new story. Even a trusted source can prove unreliable on a particular topic.
It's uncomfortable living with that uncertainty until you've seen a story from enough angles that you can judge for yourself. But either the story is important enough to me to spend that time, or I just accept that I can't really know.
- Comment on Technically Correct 1 year ago:
The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
- Comment on Technically Correct 1 year ago:
I don't think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can't bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 1 year ago:
It's perfectly normal for humans to become less matte as they age. Please stop this unnecessary reflectivity shaming.
- Comment on Technically Correct 1 year ago:
Ah yes, the "rules only apply when I say they do" rule.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 1 year ago:
Just block it and move on already. Your disagreement is hardly worth this crusade.
That's not sufficient.
A private trust assessing company shouldn't be given free space in an open public forum as though it's assessments we're something the general public should be aware of. If you trust it you can go seek it's assessment off site. But this company shouldn't be allowed to spam the fediverse of all places.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 1 year ago:
I down voted, argued against and the blocked it because:
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I don't trust its specific analysis of sites. Others detail some examples.
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I don't think whole-site analysis is very useful in combatting misinformation. The reliability and fullness of facts presented by any single site varies a lot depending on the topic or type of story.
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Other than identifying blatant disinformation sites I don't see what useful information it provides. But even that's rare here and rarely needs a bot to spot.
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Why is an open-source, de-centralized platform giving free space to a private company?
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Giving permission for a private trust-assesing company to be operating in an open public forum makes it look as if these assessments reflected a neutral reality that most or all readers would agree on or want to be aware of. Really, it's a service that people can seek out of they decide they trust it.
Presenting this company's assessment on each or most articles gives them undue authority that is especially inappropriate on the fediverse.
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- Comment on Sigma male Patrick Bateman Ryan Gosling Drive (2011) Compilation Cobratate The Joe Swanson Experience 1 year ago:
No, that's too shitpost.
- Comment on I drew the Mexico states by memory 1 year ago:
If you'd zoomed out a little more you could've included Ibiza to the north, where the Mayans started out before expanding north towards disneyland, or the Azores to the west, the base used by the Polynesians to obtain sweet potatoes from the Ghanaians.
- Comment on yew 1 year ago:
The stink lines. And everything.
- Comment on Anon has a master plan to get her boyfriend back 1 year ago:
Yes. No. Yes. Yes but not gay.
- Comment on Anon has a master plan to get her boyfriend back 1 year ago:
Luckily green text is fiction, no one really did this.