leraje
@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
Atheistic satanist - justice, compassion, science.
- Comment on Is this how you start a satanic panic? 3 days ago:
If the ordination point is the letters/symbols then those pentagrams are not inverted. Therefore, not Satanic at all.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 6 days ago:
Engines might (if you can fight your way though the crap) give you a factual answer but people can give you that plus opinions and context and personal experience.
- Comment on why does crossing legs increase blood pressure? 1 week ago:
I’d assume because one leg will inevitably be compressing the other, including arteries and veins?
- Comment on Are Lemmy and Mbin the same instance? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy and Mbin are software. Together with Piefed and Kbin they make up what’s loosely called the threadiverse which is the slang name for different types of software that are similar in nature to Reddit.
Each of those can be installed on numerous servers and become instances. So your instance is Lemmy.ca and runs Lemmy. Mine is piefed.blahaj.zone and runs Piefed. Even though the software is slightly different they can talk to each other. So all Lemmy instances can talk with all Piefed (or Mbin or Kbin) instances.
Mastodon is slightly different. It is also software but its nature is closer to microblogging like Twitter or Bluesky. There are also different types of software for this too and each instance of all of those can talk to each other.
It is also possible for threadiverse software instances to talk with microblogging software instances but its still a bit unwieldy and awkward due to differences in how they each present content.
- Comment on Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something? 2 weeks ago:
I think photon’s don’t have mass but they do have energy and that can mean they act in the same way? In that they are subject to gravity. That could be very wrong though, I’m going off my own non-scientist memory of a popular science book.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 2 weeks ago:
Algorithms push emotive ragebait at people. Then, when they’re angry and not thinking rationally, they push bullshit-merchants at the same people. As its now something they’re motivated to believe, they don’t check. Then they share the story to their contacts/friends/followers and now you have a big group of angry misinformed people who are now all also following the original account - and then lo and behold - MAGA. Or Reform. Or AfD and all their associated podcasters, youtuber ‘citizen journalists’ and tiktok flagshaggers.
- Comment on [Video] Sky News instantly interrupts Zack Polanski when he says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 2 weeks ago:
UK media now literally banning the words and findings (link goes to the Independent) of UN investigators.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 3 weeks ago:
No. I think he’s just the most visible psychopath in the room.
The true horror of Trump is not just the things he’s done. Its that everyone now knows what he’s done - and seemingly quite a lot of people don’t really care.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Depends on how you define ‘bigot’ I guess. To me, a bigot is someone who is intolerant of another person or community despite the fact their existence in no way materially affects that persons ability to live their life. I can’t have empathy for people like that but I might try once or twice to talk with them about it, but only a couple of times - if they’re still a bigot after that, fuck them.
- Comment on Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack 4 weeks ago:
“Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack "
More accuracy required: “Far-right extremists burn out anyone without white skin amid fascist riot”
- Comment on Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air 1 month ago:
As far as I can tell he certainly didn’t say anything to TNT about the Villa final last week.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m both cis and hetero. There is not one iota of evidence I’ve seen that there is any sort of movement that wishes death on cis and hetero people, or that organises vigilante groups to hunt down cis or hetero people to beat them up, or that invents bizarre rumours about ‘what they do’ or conflates cis and hetero people with paedophilia or that tries to organise campaigns to get cis or hetero-centric book removed from libraries.
There is no formal or informal system of oppression towards cis and hetero people. It just doesn’t exist.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 4 months ago:
There’s a fine line between celebrating the history of your ancestors and performative cultural appropriation. Being interested in ones ancestors is one thing - swearing that you’re ‘fiery’ because of your Irish ancestry when you’re 3 or 4 generations removed from that ancestry is a bit weird at best.
I think the US does have a culture all its own - some of the world’s best authors, musicians, artists etc are from the US. It does puzzle me that some US folks are so desperate to claim deep cultural ties when they have a pretty good culture already, formed in part from those ancestors.
- Comment on UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe 4 months ago:
From the article:
“Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits”
because of course he does.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 5 months ago:
TIL, thank you.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 5 months ago:
No doubt. But the time correlation (and yes, I know correlation does not automatically equate to causation) together with the direct consequences it would have on trans kids seems much more suggestive of the withdrawal of care playing a role than COVID.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 5 months ago:
You’re right that I was wrong that it was Wes Streeting who was warned - got my dates muddled - but it was him as then leader of DoH who commissioned and then downplayed the report into the surge in suicides. It was him and his dept who tried to block various FOI requests. They knew.
Not sure how you come to the conclusion this is COVID related though.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 5 months ago:
Wes Streeting et al were warned suicide numbers would surge if they did it. They ignored the warning and did it anyway. Suicide numbers did then surge. Streeting et al called the reporting on the surge irresponsible and wrong and denied it all. Now this FOI shows the carnage. Carnage that is most likely as this stage under-reported.
And nothing will change because to the Wes Streeting’s of this world - and sadly a lot of the UK general public - there’s a difference between dead kids and dead trans kids.
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 5 months ago:
Agree with one side, not the other.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 10 months ago:
Everyone knows what they did. That's not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren't a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 10 months ago:
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 10 months ago:
It would improve the society
No. It would create a society in which the powerful have decided which genes are the ones they like when in reality, its diversity and complexity that is what's 'best' for humans.
and people quality of life
That is not how eugenics works.
I don't understand why is it bad
Then take a biodiversity and ethics class.
Just to Godwin the thread, eugenics is the province of nazi's and other totalitarian regimes. Even though it could never work in the way they want, all anyone who advocates eugenics really wants is to eradicate other people different than them.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
It's not a bad idea at all - more people should try things they're curious about. As long as everyone involved exercises informed consent its your call what you do.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 10 months ago:
The first step in implementing a military coup is to secure your base.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
On behalf of the saner members of the UK, sorry about Murray. Sadly, we're overrun with pedants of this nature which is largely why we've become such a backward set of mouth breathers since 2016-ish.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 10 months ago:
ABMN is not just Black Metal, they're YT channel (findable on Invidious too) is divided in to playlists by subgenre.
SNH also a huge mix of sub-genres and non-metal genres such as EDM, Noise, punk etc.
In terms of non-metal, there are similar projects for neofolk (which also has a tendency to attract the fash), the LeftFolk collective features some great music. The Riihimaki Collective feature hardcore, and DIY Conspiracy are a punk collective.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 10 months ago:
Luke's List (Google spreadsheet)
Antifascist Black Metal Network (not just Black metal)
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 10 months ago:
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 10 months ago:
"We need an excuse to carry on increasing the surveillance of our citizens."
"Just say sex offenders and terrorism. If anyone protests we can then call them a sex-offending terrorist, thus winning the argument instantly."
"Hmmm...we have used those excuses quite a lot over the last few years. Don't we risk-"
"The phrases becoming essentially meaningless? Well, yes, but it doesn't matter. By the time the populace finally realise that, we'll have total control." - Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 10 months ago:
The two examples the US uses - 'chilling online free speech after the Southport attacks' (translation: not giving credence to the lies Farage and the extreme right invented about the immigration status of the perpetrator in order to avoid people being burned to death in hotels) and 'prohibitions around silent prayer outside abortion clinics' (translation: stopping christofascists from trying to intimidate service users and providers) speak volumes about what fascist America sees as the only important free speech.