HeartyBeast
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social
- Comment on Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston 5 months ago:
It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.
In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.
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- Comment on German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' 5 months ago:
I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.
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- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 5 months ago:
However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.
There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 5 months ago:
To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 months ago:
“It’s a bit lively tonight “
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 months ago:
£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter
- Comment on Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice 5 months ago:
If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer
- Comment on Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning 5 months ago:
Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair
- Comment on Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning 5 months ago:
Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.
- Comment on Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning 5 months ago:
I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.
In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.
- Comment on What happens when councils take control of buses? 5 months ago:
I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the shoe
- Comment on What happens when councils take control of buses? 5 months ago:
Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.
- Comment on This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ 6 months ago:
You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 6 months ago:
The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism
- Comment on Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware 6 months ago:
That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 months ago:
Yes, that is mildly infuriating. Someone deliberately going to additional trouble to increase the a kind of microplastics in the environment and make it harder for the poor folks in the recycling plants.
Get over yourself
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
The way marriage is set up presently, it is made for the needs of a majority, but there are many outliers.
Firstly, of course many people cohabit very happily for a lifetime, there’s no requirement to get married. They settle their affairs with bespoke agreements property contracts and wills. It works fine for them - it’s just a bit more complex than the standard package that marriage presents , but not a real problem.
Don’t want marriage, but quite fancy the tax benefits? In the UK you can opt for a Civil Partnerships which handles most of the outliers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_partnership_in_the_United_Kingdom
Bottom line -for people who want to get married, there’s marriage. For people who want to formally merge most of their financial affairs and tax obligations, there is civil partnership, for everyone else, there are bespoke legal and financial arrangements and contracts.
No compulsion, no loss of autonomy (other than mutually agreed) an D.C. certainly no slavery.
Good, eh?
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
So, your actual problem is the legal expense and legal hassles involved in divorce?
Many/most of these are to do with the painful untangling of shared resources and responsibilities that come from sharing a life and resources. Marriage simplifies many things for two people - ‘we own this thing together’ becomes much simpler with marriage. The legal process of negotiating whether 20 or 40 or 50% of the house belongs to partner A is what tends to cause the pain.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
How does gay marriage fit into your claims of misogyny? I have at least 3 sets of gay friends who, after decades of waiting were delighted to make formal public promises to each other.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
A relationship is work.
Absolutely. And it’s an oath is just a commitment to work at it, and not just throw up hands at the earliest opportunity
There is no right to the rest of someone’s life on either side should they change their mind or evolve in different directions;
It’s not a “a right to another’s life” it’s a commitment to a shared life. And yes, that commitment can not work out, which is why divorce is now thankfully pretty easy.
that is slavery
Not using any common definition of the word, no.
I have no right to stop them. This is true equality and freedom. It is a fundamental human right.
See, divorce - above. Some marriages don’t work out, or are abusive. That doesn’t mean there’s no value in marriage.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
I think you are getting downvoted because you framed it in terms of ‘entitled to get a wife’. It it is usually similarly beneficial/problematic for both partners. I have a work colleague from India who is probably going to have a marriage arranged for him in the next year. It’s not something he particularly wants, but it’s traditional so he’ll probably go through with it. It doesn’t really feel like he is benefitting from the patriarchy 🙂
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
The first scenario is called ‘forced marriage’ in English law and is illegal. Arranged marriage is consensual
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 months ago:
It’s not clear to my why you draw parallels with slavery. Spending a massive sum on the days is not an intrinsic prerequisite for marriage, neither is a dowry.
All marriage is, is a formal public oath between two people to spend the rest of their lives together, to look after each other and to share resources.
As an institution, it has many benefits including to the married people’s health. It also negefurs the state in that the mutual commitment to care it tends to reduce healthcare and social costs. So the state may provide some benefits.
The main disadvantage is that she stacks the dishwasher wrong.