sanity_is_maddening

@sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I already said that I’m going to refuse to sit down with people wearing these if they don’t put them away when I ask them to. If they are not going to respect my sense of privacy and that I do not want to have spyglasses pointed at my face running surveillance for one of the most corrupted conglomerates, then I’m going to leave.

  They can all keep their “Cambridge Analytica Scandal Glasses” to themselves and their friends who are too stupid to not know when they’re tasting boots.

  And no, I don’t even use WhatsApp. Nothing Meta has been in my life for quite a while. And it’s a fundamental right that I shouldn’t be forced to participate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness, creeps will continue to do it because odds are in their favour. If you are in that precarious of a situation, and ending up on the streets in the cold and the rain is a larger possibility than the creep who exploits that precariousness to “get some” who might only get a slap on the wrist or dismissed in the courts as a possible outcome, this becomes the most probable outcome.

  Most would say… call the police and ask them to listen in to these creeps “negotiating” their chances of sex after iniatially proposing them. No recording. Direct line and called in as distress in the form of coercion.

  I agree, but… most people are still afraid of what people who are capable of these heinous propositions are still capable of doing to them after being exposed. Fear of retaliation. Added to the the fact that they’re still not gonna know where they’re gonna live.

  Yes, this requires much more attention. And not just in the UK. Everywhere.

  But I also need to say this… if nobody is under coercion, I have zero problems to the agreements that people come to on their own terms. It’s a tough and shitty world out there, and I’m not gonna shame anyone for making offers to get by or to get a roof over their heads. If both parties have no issue, neither do I.

  But if there’s coercion. That’s the same as rape. Plain and simple.

  If not, have fun and no need to bother anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don't need to "grow up". You're right in feeling the way you do. Growing up in relation to that sounds like giving up. If anyone needs to grow up or give up is the people destroying Nature and people's lifes just so they can get more tokens in a rigged game that always benefits them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep saying for a while that Precision Fermentation is the future. Because if it isn't, that probably means there isn't one.

  Using the lowest trophic level possible to grow our sustenance directly is the only way to ensure the least destruction possible. Which ensures the most environmental and ethical efficacy. As there should never be anything to distinguish between them in the first place.