FishFace

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
YAYYY
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAWK SHARK⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Coward.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
But I wanna
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm. Well I haven’t been saying that, that’s true.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
What daily affirmations should I have been making that would have had “bum” in??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixels inflation⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
You can cross-post, you don’t have post a link to the original post. Then users on other instances will have a better experience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
But effort

Butt effort?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAWK SHARK⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
HAWK TUARK?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
If unemployment will give me an arse like that…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The full privacy policy doesn’t contradict the summary of how they share data with other organisations.

if the primary aim of change is to save money, then it’s the logical conclusion of that argument

No, that’s the absurd extension. Their argument is not “money must be saved at all costs”. That should be obvious.

But we’re not locked into a broadcaster’s schedule! We have recording devices that now perfectly display any broadcast programme at a later time of our choosing.

If you have one. And remember to set it. And don’t want to record more things than the number of tuners you have. Etc. you can’t say that this experience is remotely similar to the freedom offered by streaming.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

If the BBC want to say that cost is the main problem with broadcasting, then the next step is to say we close BBC TV entirely (or maybe except for one or two news channels) and save even more. Saying it’s cheaper to close things that deliver public benefit is an absurd argument for them to use.

Why would the BBC, which believes in the benefit of its output, suggest closing itself? On the other hand, the BBC is an organisation with a finite budget and has a responsibility to spend that budget wisely. It’s clear why it might suggest targeting that budget in different ways.

Giving me a million pounds would deliver “public benefit” (I am a member of the public), but is clearly a waste of resources.

The proportion of video content being watched by streaming is increasing because even the BBC is advertising and marketing streaming over all else. There are numerous adverts/trailers for its programmes shown on its broadcast services which don’t give a time or date of broadcast, but simply say “watch on BBC iPlayer” at the end.

Right, I’m sure the BBC advertising iPlayer is why YouTube is now the second-most-watched “broadcaster” in the UK.

This change in habits has been gradual but inexorable. The reason for it is obvious: because streaming at any convenient time is more convenient than being locked into a broadcaster’s schedule.

Your privacy objection is bogus. Here is the relevant section of the privacy policy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not sex it’s the next best thi-ing
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks for being more specific!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Well look I understand if you don’t want to be more specific, but without specifics there’s no point bringing it up, is there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
What are you talking about? Whose argument should be that? The BBC’s? Why would they say that broadcast is worth user privacy, when they aren’t violating anyone’s privacy?

It’s even cheaper for the BBC to close, if that’s the logic they want to pretend they’re using.

It’s even cheaper for the BBC to close what? iPlayer? But the proportion of video content being watched by streaming is increasing; cutting it makes no sense at all. Maybe you meant something else, in which case you should be more precise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Op is clearly talking about anatomy
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
They’re already full of shit
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah that’s why the BBC, subject to gdpr, proposed doing this 8 years in the future. It’s cheaper for the BBC to switch off broadcasts, that’s the simple and sufficient reason, not conspiracy needed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cats are so silly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
One of my cats is almost this obsessed with pears. She likes smelling people’s mouths anyway, but goes nuts if you’re eating a pear. She rubs her face all over pears, bites the stalks, licks them…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
If you think butter is bland you may have broken tastebuds, or really shit butter. You know it’s supposed to come from a cow?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve upvoted you but it’s different for me. I hate ad hoc calls but have no issue if someone comes over to my desk. Terrible is I’m basically remote full time…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will they wake up before it's too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah I’m not sure what’s happened but we’re definitely talking about different things! Society (democratic ones), during its normal operation, officially agrees on things by creating laws that have the agreement of the public. Laws forbidding murder, and laws circumscribing how officials can use their powers, are of this type. So just because part of the government stops enforcing those laws doesn’t mean society didn’t (officially) make them. They’ve been (unofficially) suspended.

What Nazi Germany did (just to bring it back to the picture) was seized power (through illegal suppression of the democratic process) and then used that perverted legal process to - officially, but no longer democratically - change the laws.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough, thanks for the chat
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will they wake up before it's too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No, society agreeing is morality (well, depends on your conception of morality). Officially agreeing is the difference between that concept and law.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will they wake up before it's too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Then you’re throwing away a whole load of favour for absolutely no reason whatsoever except that it gives you a feeling of self-righteousness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will they wake up before it's too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It means society has agreed officially that it should be punished, and you’re getting away with it.

You’re talking about the direct, practical implications, and sure, there it’s no different. But there’s more to life than that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think it’s too much speculation, because opinion polling found that the public was broadly in favour of age verification. It’s a mistake to think that politicians must automatically know (and agree with) things that the public don’t know.

Sure, puritanism means that politicians aren’t going to leap the defence of porn sites and their business models. But that angle is rather different - and I think contradictory - to the one you started with. You said that the government was told that it won’t work; if that really was the solid argument you presented it as, wouldn’t that imply they couldn’t possibly be in favour of OSA for anti-porn reasons? After all, they ought to believe it won’t actually work to reduce access to porn, right?

Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will they wake up before it's too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not what “legal” means, is it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What makes you think that, because someone will have told the government something, that means they believe them? That’s always the missing link in this argument.

It’s what makes me think it’s a failure to mentalise other people. “It’s so obvious” I imagine you thinking, “anyone can see that it won’t work!”

But no, not anyone can. Some people are dumb. Some people are smart but have a blind spot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

But it’s like I’ve said before, this isn’t about preventing kids seeing porn; it’s about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.

This is bollocks and lazy thinking.

It is about preventing kids from seeing porn, but the people who support this lack the knowledge and intelligence to understand that it does more harm than good.