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- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 1 day ago:
I really wanted Freelancer 2. Star Citizen was meant to be it before Chris Roberts did… well I have no idea what he did, what he is doing or the state of Star Citizen any more, its got so out of hand.
Elite Dangerous just wasnt it for me. The ship and space stuff is amazing but the world just isn’t as fun as Freelancer. I know its come a long way after I played it just after release but it doesn’t seem to quite fill the same niche.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Certainly agree with some of it but I don’t know if I necessarily agree with legalised non-harmful CP. I absolutely think that non-acting paedophiles deserve compassion, I can’t imagine how genuinely awful it must be to have thoughts like that, particularly if they clash with your own moral values. Even trying to get help could potentially wreck your life so it feels for some its a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. I wish I knew what the answer could ever be but absolutely we need to somehow reduce the automatic prejudice on those who want help. As you say, conversion doesn’t seem to be the answer, if you haven’t seen it then I highly recommend watching Louis Theroux’s A Place for Paedophiles where he spends time at Coalinga State Hospital looking at people convicted of these types of crimes where they are held indefinitely unless they enroll in a conversion therapy course which has an insanely low number of successful patients being able to leave it and get back to the real world. The stuff feels inhumane and almost designed to fail.
Its an area that absolutely needs more researchers and resources thrown at it but no government in this awful timeline is ever going to survive the right wing press backlash on “wanting to let predators live around children”. - Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 1 week ago:
“Woke brigade” - go on, do elaborate
- Comment on Gender neutral guide 2 weeks ago:
Is it pedantry if it isn’t true though? Or am I being woooooshed?
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
I don’t think it ever left… Its not popular with Gen Z that’s for sure but I love my side parting! Give it a go for her.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
Well yeah, gotta have a nice purse, its too useful, didn’t mean it as a separate thing just that apparently crossbodies are apparently a very millennial thing…
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
I thought it was crossbody bags and side partings that gave us away?
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 1 month ago:
Thats more what i mean, even the lime ones are absurdly fast, not like a lightly assisted e-bike
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 1 month ago:
I don’t really agree - theft prevention is one thing but I’d argue that if they have permission to rent their bikes out in unmanned public space locations then they have a duty of care to the population of that area to make sure their bikes are not mis-used.
Your point about personal e-bikes isn’t really directly equivalent simply because of the additional expense involved - if you send a lot of money on one then you are less likely to be quite so irresponsible. The financial punishment for misuing a Lime bike is negligible.
Honestly I want to see significantly more regulation surrounding these things in general. They are becoming a real issue.
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 1 month ago:
I think the argument here is out of negligence on Lime’s part as they aren’t the manufacturer, they rent these to people. Like why does the bike even work if not part of an ‘active ride’? Surely it should be locked down and the electric motor shouldn’t work, making sure that you can be more certain that you always have the details of the renter for insurance reasons exactly for this kind of incident.
There are a lot of things that I think need more regulation for these things, I nearly had somebody hit me the other day on a pedestrian crossing and had similar situations with hired electric scooters in the past. Things like:
- powered riding should not be possible if the renter (having provided ID etc.) is not present - some kind of phone proximity or re-verification after a period of inactivity
- the excessive weight and speed of these bikes is really dangerous given how often they are used by inexperienced riders who ride on the pavement with pedestrians and not on the roads. Being hit by an idiot on a rented pedal bike is one thing, this is quite another thing
- a speed/power limit is already activated in certain areas, they should also detect (by front facing camera or something) if the bike is being ridden off the road, to reduce the impact of collisions
I can’t blame her for trying to go after Lime, what else is she meant to do seeing as the kid disappeared? She suffered really quite awful injuries. Had Lime had mechanisms in place to prevent unauthorised riders or limit speed and power then this wouldnt have happened. Yes we can blame lack of regulation but I don’t think that should absolve them of their responsibilities.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 month ago:
2003 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa (which I still own!), yeah had to hit that boost button, god it was slow with aircon on.
- Comment on Fingies 1 month ago:
I think thats taking what they said a bit too literally, both the knowledge they do have and the tone makes it pretty clear to me that they know what they are saying but are using it for humerous (heh) exaggeration and effect.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 month ago:
Online skews things a lot. Often due to how they are raised in childhood you might find more trans women online as being terminally online was more socially acceptable and the norm with their, at the time, peers. Also you tend to find a lot of trans women seeking community to be themselves before coming out whilst trans men are often able to explore their gender more in person so the idea of presenting as the ‘opposite’ gender before or at the start of socially transitioning means trans men might not be seeking that extra level of community and support - there are generally less things to learn from scratch.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 month ago:
Its tricky to say when it comes to that. How do you tell if neurodiversity results in more likely to be trans vs neurodivergent people are more likely to break the taboo and are more likely to come out vs remain closeted? (Which is a feasible thought if there is actually a meaningful disparity and the way that autism can present in childhood?).
Either way its a really dangerous subject because it already gets vastly misused to claim that gender affiming care is abuse of ND (mainly autistic) people - simultaneously removing their own agency and treating them as simpletons who don’t know what they are as well as indicating that trans people don’t really exist because its all some kind of delusion from being autistic.
The more interesting statistic I saw was prevelance of gender diverse people with EDS - up to 17% (eds.clinic/…/transgender-and-non-binary-identitie…) but could actually in theory skew numbers towards more trans men… Its all a bit wooly unfortunately.
- Comment on Yeet 3 months ago:
In one direction sure, not on the z axis
- Comment on Charlie Kirk commemorative PEZ dispenser 3 months ago:
Well we know Ben Shapiro hasn’t
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 3 months ago:
Never understood the point in this. When you flipped the DVD to the other side to play the other half it naturally rewound the first side. Such a scam.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 months ago:
I think we need to be more consistent with it, time to drop the ‘p’ sound from helicopter as per its roots.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 4 months ago:
My point was more that harmful chemicals in the sense of chromium salts etc. aren’t present in veg tan which, for the most part, is boiling it in a load of tree bark.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 4 months ago:
I do hobby-level leatherworking and I’m all here for real non-animal leathers but yeah, basically all of them, cactus, mango, pineapple leaf etc. all just get put on a PU backing…
I got excited for cork leather at one point but turns out that is also either PU backed or fabric backed (which is better but doesn’t really work as a direct replacement for leather, especially structurally).
There are a few I’m more excited for and I would love to get hold of but they still seem either experimental or used directly by the makers for their own finished products. Most are fungus based, so one is SCOBY leather, basically the big blob of microorganisms used to make kombucha can be grown in big flat sheets, dried and treated to make a leathery material but I’ve not seen many applications of it yet…
But mushroom/mycelial leather is the one I’m most hopeful for. Not only do some of them look like real leather but the random ‘grain’ of the mycelium has the potential to ape the natural fibrous grain of leather that gives it its strength. That is the one I’m really excited for.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 4 months ago:
And veg tan? I try not to use chrome tan in stuff I make for both environmental reasons and the fact its a pain to work with but we have been veg tanning for thousands of years.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I think so? I think ours used UniVerse whixh used UniBasic and UniQuery. I never had to use it in anger, I was mostly focused on supporting a different thing written in VB6…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I worked for a company that still supports a critical healthcare system that runs on Rocket U2 on AIX which is an evolution of PICK.
- Comment on Biological Women 4 months ago:
I dunno, referring to somebody as a “total weapon” is very valid here
- Comment on What was your social media path? 5 months ago:
MSN messenger Independent forums (like Invisonfree) Bebo Facebook Reddit Discord Matrix Lemmy Instagram (originally just for a friend to sell me stuff but I now have some more friends and communities on this) Tiktok (only used for a friend to send me things she likes)
- Comment on 3-bean soup 9 months ago:
Fair enough, more of a misuse as the word has kind evolved away from its original meaning.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 9 months ago:
Its not mistranslated, its caffe latte but the caffe part is cut off for brevity when ordering at a coffee shop.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 9 months ago:
Coffee
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 9 months ago:
Nah its Daniel Day-Lewis
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Then use the provided scanning handset! Both are provided, just depends what you prefer.