Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on 1 hour ago:
Trump sees opportunities for corruption everywhere.
- Comment on UK ticket holder wins 'life-changing' £111m EuroMillions jackpot 3 days ago:
Statistically most people still lose money gambling; news outlets shouldn’t encourage it by reporting on the statistically insignificant winners.
- Comment on Every UK Billionaire to be Assigned a Tax Compliance Manager 1 week ago:
Better to make the Bloomberg article the primary one to make it clear to users that the article is from Bloomberg before opening the thread.
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 week ago:
The Israeli government also invests in marketing to encourage its citizens to vote in Eurovision.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 1 week ago:
I think he represented his position well.
- Comment on UK paying £56,000 for each person returned to France under ‘one in one out’ scheme 2 weeks ago:
She said: “If you’re a failed asylum-seeking family, what you’re trading off is an offer of £40,000, which will help you resettle back in your country of origin, versus, you know, access to free healthcare and education for your children.”
If people are being paid to leave the U.K. and return to their country of origin, seemingly it would be more efficient just to fund stability-improvement programs in applicable countries to reduce the outflow of asylum seekers?
- Comment on The Anbernic RG DS Plus Is The Best DS Handheld Yet 2 weeks ago:
Someone should test the stylus with Pokémon Ranger.
- Comment on Driver who killed Team GB triathlete to be deported 2 weeks ago:
He said “the very significant public interest in deportation outweighs the appellant’s private and family life considerations.”
Deporting long-time immigrants for non-repeat offenses falsely implies that they are more likely to reoffend than British citizens. By giving disproportionate attention to such cases, more people end up voting Reform in the false belief that immigrants commit more crimes than average.
- Comment on Amnesty: 10 ways censorship has silenced Hong Kong’s dissenting voices and their impact on the UK 2 weeks ago:
While China is indeed suffocating freedom of expression and democracy in Hong Kong, Amnesty’s article on the matter is ironic given their own capitulation to J.K. Rowling’s legal threats.
- Comment on FFVII Revelation Director Insists S-E Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Version 2 weeks ago:
PS5 discs can store up to 100 GB.
- Comment on Trump shares misleading video of King Charles and fainting worker 3 weeks ago:
Captions saying “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you” and “the people’s president” appear during some of the clips and the song A Thousand Years by Christina Perri plays throughout the video.
Trump is as far from being ‘the people’s president’ as it gets.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Is Turning A Free Speech Victory Into A Defeat 3 weeks ago:
Justification of transphobia is disgusting.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Earlier this year, several sports organizations, including Parkrun, were facing potential legal action over their inclusivity – this was spearheaded by the U.S-based Alliance for Defending Freedom, known for targeting LGBTQ+ people and organizations and championing far-right causes in court.
Organizations with the primary goal of denying minorities equal rights shouldn’t be allowed to use ‘freedom’ in their names.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Good to know, thanks! 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Was AI used in any way to make the game or its assets?
- Comment on Xbox's Disc-to-Digital Programme Is Official, and It Starts Next Week - Digital Foundry | Latest Updates 5 weeks ago:
If discs are going away, this at least makes it more tolerable.
Manufactured consent.
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 5 weeks ago:
Then they should be provided with mental health support beyond merely a pamphlet that implies that foreign cultures tolerate sexual assault and rape at higher levels than the UK.
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 5 weeks ago:
Handing it out just to immigrants falsely pre-assumes that immigrants are more likely to commit rape; if reducing rape is the motive (rather than bowing to xenophobia), then those pamphlets should be handed out to British nationals too.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Because most people equate the more marketable term ‘WiFi’ with it and most people don’t use Ethernet.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 5 weeks ago:
Then the UK law would require all such bathrooms to be single-occupant, something that may not be practical for large establishments where multiple patrons of each gender may need to use the bathrooms simultaneously.
The genderless, single-occupant bathrooms argument is a solution derived for a non-existent problem; transgender women are women and transgender men are men and instituting policy that disregards that is discriminatory.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 1 month ago:
Because installing them is still exclusionary to trans people, telling them that they do not belong to the gender they identify as and/or that they are a danger to the people of the gender that they identify as.
- Comment on "Please Do Not Let This Vanish Into The Night" - Konami Is Terminating Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls 1 month ago:
A game that can be taken away (in this case, due to a subscription) is one I won’t play out of principle.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 1 month ago:
While the Co-op may not be transphobic itself, single occupant gender-neutral bathrooms are a solution presented by transphobes who want to continue misgendering trans men and women under the veneer of a discriminatory ‘compromise’.
Trans people across the UK are having their rights marginalized.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 1 month ago:
Hyperburner’s a fun arcade flight game (though the iOS version is the definitive version).
- Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science 1 month ago:
‘AI literacy’ in the context of ‘don’t use it to cheat’ or ‘it may fabricate information or attributions’ should be an extension of institutional plagiarism and acceptable source policies.
Framing it as being ‘literate’ in AI use is a tacit encouragement for such tools to be used.
- Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science 1 month ago:
“In the same way that everybody needs some degree of math, reading and writing, I think everybody needs a degree of AI literacy,” he said.
🤮
- Comment on Large scale terror thwarted 1 month ago:
That means 200 officers taken off the capital’s streets, where they could have been tackling the crimes that matter most to Londoners.
Don’t waste law enforcement resources dismantling civil rights then.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 2 months ago:
Someone has at least archived Grey’s video here, though Grey’s actions have put me off watching any of his content.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 2 months ago:
While I already didn’t like CGP Grey for multi-striking a reaction channel, monetizing the ability to comment on his videos, and exploiting the algorithm with clickbait title and thumbnail changes, locking old videos behind a paid membership is astounding.
- Comment on UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers 2 months ago:
The Starmer government certainly has a talent for u-turns.