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- Comment on BBC Question Time Assembled a Panel on AI and Forgot to Invite Any Critics 6 days ago:
Inspired, I asked ChatGPT to, err, unlock the full potential of my newsletter writing.
This is like easting a spoonful of shredded plastic while commenting on microplastics.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 1 week ago:
Yeah, I agree with the point about dairy being bad, and it’s one that’s easy to make without objectifying women.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 1 week ago:
“other females”
- Comment on Seagull leaves it's mark on King as he visits seaside resort 2 weeks ago:
At least they didn’t shit on his hair like they did to me on Saturday.
- Comment on Jewish man in hospital after attack by group of men 2 weeks ago:
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish
He was speaking Hebrew, that’s how they identified him as Jewish.
beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
It’s a populated area of London, they likely couldn’t do more before people intervened.
- Comment on Who is James Murray, the new health secretary replacing Wes Streeting? 2 weeks ago:
It’s impressive that Labour found another gay man who’s willing to throw trans people under the bus to be Health Secretary.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 1 month ago:
No, you don’t understand. The child has magical powers that make you love him.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 1 month ago:
Gender as a term has existed since the 14th century, the distinction that gender = social/cultural aspects and sex = biological aspects is a recent phenomenon, but still predates the internet. The problem with ‘biological male’ is it actually doesn’t tell you anything, it’s just a way of calling someone a man with plausible deniability. Are you talking about chromosomes, sholder-to-hip ratio, hormone levels or any of the other biological stuff we conceptually tie to sex? And what is the BBC referring to when calling this unnamed woman a ‘biological male’ (they’re not referring to anything biological, they are calling this woman a man).
also, right from the article disproving your annoyance…
They’re referring to the nurse, not the trans woman. The part I quoted is literally the only time the article refers to the trans woman.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 1 month ago:
transgender woman - who was born a biological male - after she addressed them as “Mr”
The BBC sure have got the ‘not technically misgendering’ thing down to a science, calls her a ‘biological male’ (nonsense term made up by internet activists) and refuses to use she/her pronouns for the trans woman.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
Firefox is now exclusive to ternary computers.
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- Comment on Do I need to say anything else? anyway my waifu is calling 2 months ago:
Małgorzata Niemirska in an old Polish TV series called Four Tank-Men and a Dog.
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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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Veganuary 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.