phutatorius

@phutatorius@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans?

  From a policy and human rights point of view, it’s irrelevant whether it’s a choice or predetermined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  /s aside, what it takes to use science is mental discipline, not faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are rules that govern stochasticity, and especially the behavior of large aggregates of things that indivdually behave stochastically. It’s not a tradeoff of 100% locked-down order or headless-chicken chaos. There’s a continuum.

  No one thinks it’s the truth

  Within a certain range of scale, speed and energy, it’s an excellent approximation of the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Science is religion in the same way as sex is an airplane hangar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this leads to a culture shift in the country, where islam is getting a foothold.

  The experience in the UK is that Muslim immigrants’ level of religious observance (e.g., mosque attendance) and degree of religious conservatism both decline based on how many generations the immigrant’s family has been in the country. Out-marriage (with respect to both religion and ethnicity) also increases with each successive generation. There’s an issue with a small minority of second-generation youth becoming extremists in reaction to difficulty in assimilating, but the overall trend goes the other way.

  And the right’s solution is to add more barriers to assimilation. That makes it look to me like their goal is not to solve the problem, but to be sure they have a steady supply of marginalized scapegoats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you clearly think any bad opinions about immigration is xenophobia.

  That’s very likely, far more so than the chance that you know what a stranger on the internet “clearly thinks.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden its definently the case.

  Is it? The statistics you see are probably unsound. Here’s why.

  What’s actually happening is a pipeline: P(crime_occurring) * P(crime_being_reported) * P(crime_being_investigated) * P(charges brought) * P(verdict_being_reached) * P(sentencing).

  There’s inherent bias in the reporting, in the likelihood of a crime of a given severity being investigated, the severity of charges being brought for a given crime, the likehilood of conviction based on a particular set of facts, and the severity of sentencing once a conviction has been made. All of this has been conclusively shown in a large number of different countries. There’s no reason to believe Sweden would be different. Based on some of the ignorant shit I’ve personally heard Swedes say, at least anecdotally, it is not a country free of prejudice.

  And the statistics that are actually easy to accurately measure are not at the first step in that long pipeline.

  Even worse, tthe data served up to the public via the media is often manipulated to support a given political point of view. And sometimes it’s more than manipulation, it’s outright lying. Coincidentally, some of those lies are identical to the lies being told by the far-right parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You dont want to think immigration can be a problem because what about the feelings of immigrants.

  No, it’s just that suppressing immigration creates even worse problems that effectively managing it. Not least because it empowers sister-molesting mouthbreathing racists who should be caged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer calling them Goebbels or Himmler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegan dildo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You leotard!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.

  Didn’t stop me, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cancer sufferer works in the Netherlands

  Kankerlijer. You can replace cancer with any of a number of other nasty diseases.

  It’s also customary to tell someone “get cancer!” (krijg de kanker), “get tuberculosis!” (krijg de pleuris) or “get leprosy!” (krijg het lazarus). All map to English-language sentiments such as “eat shit and die” or “fuck off.”

  You can also just use “cancer” as a prefix to anything that happens to piss you off: cancer-influencers, cancer-sandwich, whatever. And the same goes for other diseases.

  I personally prefer “klootzak,” which means ball bag. The word rolls off the tongue so nicely. But then, everything said in Dutch sounds aggressively pejorative, even sweet talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You fucking spanner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My, what a lot of conclusions you just drew on zero evidence. Almost impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clarkson went into farming as a tax dodge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Farmers usually have a lot of money invested in capital equipment but their lifestyles are anything but lavish.

  They often hide it, but the farmers I know are far from poor. Like a lot of us, they’re rich in illiquid assets but not in terms of cashflow. That’s my situation too, and I don’t whinge about it.

  Inheritance tax is a tax on unearned wealth. There’s no reason to distinguish one asset from all others. Those inheriting almost invariably did nothing to earn it; it’s almost always an accident of birth that puts them in line for an inheritance. That, and the whims of some elderly person. A steeply progressive inheritance tax, with no exceptions besides spouses, would be ideal. And if you’re concerned about corporations grabbing all the arable land, regulate them to prevent any firm directly or indirectly owning more than, say, 10 hectares of land. A similar rule should apply to housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but clearly most Brits are dead against that.

  With the likes of Palantir sniffing about in the lobbies, there’s good reason to be against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He hasn’t rescinded it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’s practical and level headed

  He seems to me frightened of the rightwing media and of Reform and twitchily reactive.

  You don’t defeat the enemy by becoming them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? He banned weapons exports to Israel, publicly condemned Israel for war crimes, sanctioned a bunch of members of their parliament, ramped up aid for Palestine, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever steps foot on British soil, resisted joining the US and Israel with their attacks in Iran, and has recognised Palestine.

  And still has contracts for the Israeli military to train British troops, and still criminalises the expression of support for Palestinian rights. At best, we’re seeing some mixed messaging here.

  They’ve been a centre-left party for half a century now.

  Sure, because there’s no difference between Labour under Michael Foot or Corbyn and Labour under Blair or Starmer. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the guy did give off the impression that he was genuinely trying to improve things and was giving it his all despite his party being a unruly shitshow

  Funny, all I saw was a smug time-server who didn’t give a toss about British people who aren’t rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His attacks on trans people are also scummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There probably wasn’t time to conduct a poll before Truss fucked off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they do. Some people are that stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what’s that say about common sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chile Verdius (cum cervino).