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- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
Some dev theoretically might not like a mod decision Valve theoretically makes, so the only logical solution is to expect every single dev that publishes on the platform to commit to moderating Valve’s game-specific forums forever.
Yes, good moderation is expensive. Externalising that cost onto devs is, frankly, exploitative. Also, “a few anti-woke weirdos” is a massive understatement. The modern reactionary movement is heavily tied to gaming and Steam plays a major role in that.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
So devs not only have to give Steam 30% percent of every sale, but they also have to provide the additional labour of keeping hate speech of the platform in perpetuity.
If Valve doesn’t want to do moderation, they shouldn’t have got into the social media business. It’s their platform and they’re ultimately responsible for it.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
If you pump enough money into Linux gaming and do regular sales, a lot can be forgiven apparently. Steam Discussions are one of the most miserable places on the internet I go to semi-regularly and I don’t understand stand how Steam just gets a pass for the stuff that’s normal there.
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- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 week ago:
You haven’t been able to do that since 2017, the European Court of Justice said so.
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 1 week ago:
The right doesn’t need the left to do something to do it, they just do it. Reform is already tried to do a ban against books with ‘transgender themes’ (this was later revised to adult transgender books after backlash). If we’re going to not exercise power, it should be for something more than a fear the right will also do it, because the right doesn’t care and will do it anyway.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 week ago:
On Wednesday the supreme court unanimously ruled that Oatly can no longer trademark, or use, the slogan “Post Milk Generation”.
This is even dumber when you realise Oatly is explicitly prompting themselves as not-milk.
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Veganuary 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but the supermarkets I go to don’t stock them. Besides, multivitamins are easier, cheaper and supplement other things (like the vitamin D).
- Comment on Veganuary 2 weeks ago:
Vitamin B12 is the main one that’s hard to get. It’s not really natural to any foods apart from animal products.
Iodine is also a tough one. Though you’re probably deficient in this anyway depending on how much sea food and dairy milk you eat. Technically iodine isn’t natural to milk, but we feed iodine supplements to dairy cattle.
You can get enough of both of these by drinking enough fortified plant milks, but it’s like half a litre a day and idk I find that’s just a lot.
I’m personally just lazy and take supplements, the Vegan Society here in the UK do ones that are affordable and have everything you need in them. If you live far enough north or south you should be taking vitamin D supplements anyway, at least during the winter.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 2 weeks ago:
I’m not anti asylum seeker. I’m anti people taking advantage of the system for legitimate asylum seekers.
Unless you’re from Ukraine or Hong Kong, there’s no way to claim asylum in the UK that doesn’t first involve entering the country illegally.
I can’t remember the statistic, but the majority of asylum seekers don’t even come over in small boats.
About half of asylum applications come across in boats.
I’m talking about the widely condemned human trafficking industry that takes advantage of our system to make a business of bringing people across the channel.
I also want to stop the boats and the exploitative gangs doing this, but any approach that isn’t opening up safe and legal routes for applications to be made is just advocating for everyone else to bear the burden of global instability the UK played a disproportionate role in creating.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 2 weeks ago:
This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of. And it works for them.
I don’t know how you can see abysmal living conditions, hate crime and being subjected to attempted pogroms as ‘works for them’. I’ve linked you stuff in the past telling about how bad conditions are for asylum seekers, I’m honestly getting sick of pushing back on your vibes based, callous anti-asylum seeker rhetoric for it to constantly fall on deaf ears.
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- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 weeks ago:
Sorry I misspoke, when I said it wouldn’t work I was thinking of the negative knock-on effects that make this approach unworkable, not that it was entirely ineffective. What I’m trying to get at is that there were more effective options that the government for achieving it’s stated goals, only allowing legal adults to access pornography, that didn’t require you to send a picture of your ID or face to every website that happens to have nudes on it. But other, more privacy-friendly approaches wouldn’t make adults hesitant to access porn websites and I think this quality of the current approach was a desirable effect.
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.
I think politicians hating the concept of porn and liking the idea of having your real identity linked to your social media accounts are actually pretty good explanations for the government knowingly going with an inferior approach to all this.
Again, I think we’re at an impasse, you’re giving the former government a level charitably I can’t. That’s not to say prospective is unreasonable, I think it’s perfectly reasonable, I just don’t believe it.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 weeks ago:
This is just getting into pure speculation now, neither of us knows for sure. It just lines up too perfectly with the Tories history of anti-porn stances for me to believe that it wasn’t a motivating factor in choosing this approach to others that were pitched to the government (the lobbying from the age verification industry probably helped as well).
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 weeks ago:
The government absolutely has access to people with the knowledge to tell them that this approach wouldn’t work, Aylo (the company who owns Pornhub) has been advocating for device based age verification for years (Yes, Aylo are a shitty company, but they’re right about this and have been vocal about it). But sure, a piece of Tory legislation, the same Tories who banned porn with bondage and even women ejaculating in 2014, didn’t choose this approach because it’d discourage adults accessing porn.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 weeks ago:
It’s honestly maddening that we’re being subjected to this mass surveillance in the name of preventing children seeing porn when we’ve had much more effective tools for decades now. An OS or ISP level DNS filter takes more work to get around than just finding a more shady website. Microsoft, to its credit, have pretty good parental controls built into their OSs (Windows + Xbox).
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.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 weeks ago:
Most parents apparently don’t agree with you, or are too lazy to do anything:
back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them
- Comment on Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity' 4 weeks ago:
Russia have proven themselves to be true to their word
Ukraine literally gave up its nuclear arsenal because Russia promised not to invade them in 1994, what are you on about.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 4 weeks ago:
I think for what it is, it’s all right. Not good per se, but it’s a 10 minute exercise in a larger lesson.
The tiktok scene is stupid, where if you “do your research” you get radicalised, so the correct option is to “just ignore it”
It is, like maybe it’s just me but who’s idea of doing research is going onto someone’s bio and going to their website? I get some people do this, but the good option should have been looking it up in a reputable news source.
so the correct option is to “just ignore it” and then you find out apparently a charity is doing something the government stopped doing (how is that a good thing???).
Peak neoliberalism.
Then at the end you nearly get arrested if you attend a protest. Not a good message to send.
It’s accurate at least, even if that is depressing.
Also quite sloppy how when you do choose the correct option you literally lose all of your friends. Couldn’t they have had you do research and debunk your friend’s claims?
I’ll defend them on this, they’re trying to say don’t let peer pressure radicalise you. Maybe not the best message that not becoming a racist will leave you lonely and friendless, but I see what they were going for.
I think the best way to actually make someone less racist in the youth is to create an environment where they can befriend immigrants
I completely agree, but that only works if there are actually immigrants around. Hull is 100% white, so this goes into the question of how do you deradicalise people when exposure isn’t an option.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 weeks ago:
You can play the game here. Honestly, it’s not worse than some of the games about anti-social behaviour I was made to play in school. Some good advice, some bad advice and encourages an incourious trust in the system, fairly standard school stuff. Very funny that in the video at the end that the transition from potential terrorist to law-abiding citizen is a gamer going outside.
- Comment on They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads??? 5 weeks ago:
You can hit share, more, Firefox and then hold the image to download the original image, btw.
- Comment on Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images 1 month ago:
Maybe if we also started to promote eugenics and race science we’d also get the full backing of the American government.
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 1 month ago:
Just an fyi, but this is a news comm. Something like this would probably be better suited for !memes@feddit.uk or !okmatewanker@feddit.uk. I’ll keep this up, but just bear it in mind for the future.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 month ago:
LMAO, a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard, how do you even do this?
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Music is music 1 month ago:
This, but unironically.
(Shout out to Dysmorphia by Body Prison)
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 1 month ago:
Chapter one also released in 2018 (
78 years ago), so the game doesn’t really feel like it’s from this year. - Comment on Does he think he is The King? 1 month ago:
Polanski is doing one as well, but at the same time as the King’s Speech. This is apparently just a feature of British politics now.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 2 months ago:
Link to the article as it doesn’t show up on Lemmy: gamingonlinux.com/…/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-w…
