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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers for Israel criticised for suggesting a reduction in obesity resulting from the war in Gaza may increase life expectancy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “So we pointed out, secondly, that this claim was based on entirely unfounded speculation, which also ignored factors that might result in lengthening the lives of Gazans, given the public health situation existing in Gaza prior to the war, including the extent of obesity. These factors include the possible reduction in the availability of confectionery and cigarettes.

  What a ghoulish thing to say, really speaks to how nasty this man is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant

  I didn’t actually, I wrote that to probe out what you actually meant because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

  A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and you know this.

  And trans/cis is a descriptions of whether a woman was assigned female at birth or not. Woman is not synonymous with cis woman.

  They have different names, which you yourself, use for a reason.

  You give them different names, I’m using adjectives because the distinction matters in this context.

  I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen [sic]; nor is Keir.

  But also:

  This is exactly the same as saying transwomen [sic] are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen [sic].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should a transwoman have the same rights and respect as a woman? Absolutely. Are they the same? No, they are not.

  ‘As a woman’, a trans woman is a woman, different from a cis woman sure, but still a woman. This statement is fairly absurd if you substitute trans with another adjective, like is a blonde woman different from a woman?

  Kier’s words are still not transphobia. There is no fear, dislike, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, or violence in his statement.

  The prejudice is denying the legitimacy of trans women as women. ‘Adult human female’ is a dog whistle for ‘not trans’, so by asserting that a woman is ‘an adult female’ he’s saying trans women aren’t women (and that trans men aren’t men).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not huge. He is literally saying what the law says, which is exactly what you expect a prime minister to do.

  Damn, if only the PM had the power to get the law changed.

  The PM declined to repeat his previous statement “transwomen are women,” instead asserting: “A woman is an adult female - the court has made that absolutely clear.”

  This is transphobia, seriously listen to him weasel out of it. He was asked if trans woman were women in general, not specifically for the purposes of the Equalities Act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are actually saying Tories apologies for being too pro-trans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-Hosting: Server: Easy (Leverage email hosting services) → Score: 18/20

  Is it really self-hosting if someone else controls the data and software?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name some latest top Public Domain Movies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fix has been merged, but it hasn’t been backported to the 0.19 branch yet. It’s been brought up in another issue and it should be fairly simple to backport (most of the code isn’t even relevant for the 0.19 branch), so I’ll try to do that for Lemmy 0.19.12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the same timestamps with:

  select name, score, comment_like.published from comment_like 
  left join person on comment_like.person_id = person.id 
  where comment_id = 16354453;
  

  IDK, I just don’t think this is the pattern of someone boosting their comment (see !albumartporn@lemmy.world for actual vote manipulation), or at the very least I don’t think it’s Plinky doing it (he’s a fairly regular contributor to UK threads and this is the first time those accounts have interacted with his comments here).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked in the DB and the other Hexbear votes happened quite a bit after the comment was made. I don’t think someone doing voter fraud would wait 50 minutes, then another 15, to boost a comment, but maybe I’m underestimating their dedication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case. There are many moderation tools, including shared blocklists, that prevent it. However, the idea that the fediverse is full of harmful content was used by Elon Musk to justify his anti-competitive decision to block links from X to Mastodon.

  Didn’t he unban someone who posted one of the worst CSAM videos know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point they should just hire the Heroic devs, I doubt anything they could build themselves would compare in terms of quality.

• Child poverty hits record high in UK with nearly 4.5 million in low income householdswww.independent.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t actually played WoT since they added tier 8-10 light tanks, but god did I sink a lot of my teenage years into it. I have been really craving it lately, but I know better than to go back to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  World of Tanks, which is pretty funny considering the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Made a fix: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5509

  By the looks of it, Dansup is it similar to how PeerTube does it, but doesn’t wrap it in an array which is annoying. Hopefully he changes that.

  cc @s08nlql9@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like I was wrong, PeerTube does set an attributeTo, it’s just different to how Lemmy does it. Lemmy expects an OrderedCollection, while PeerTube sends an Array of IDs. Don’t know how I missed the attributeTo in the PeerTube output I was looking at (I was pretty tired when I wrote the tbf). This is probably something to fix in Lemmy.

  cc @emperor@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a look at the logs and trying to resolve a video fails with OnlyModsCanPostInCommunity. This is because PeerTube sets lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods to be true on the Group, but doesn’t set an attributeTo for the Group object so Lemmy sees the community as having no moderators. It seems that the only reason this used to work was because the posting_restricted_to_mods setting was ignored when resolving an object from ActivityPub.

  cc @s08nlql9@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a wild thing to publish on International Women’s Day. Almost like this “we don’t talk about young men” stuff the media is pushing isn’t about helping young men but telling women to shut up.

  None of this is to deny the many inequalities faced by females in a patriarchal society.

  “Faced by females”. There’s quite a bit of bioessentialism in this that attempts to essentially say violent men have no agency. Like I’m sorry, having a shitty childhood or high testosterone aren’t excuses. The culture shift needed to help young men is to treat them like people, capable of feeling the full range of human emotions, and part of being a person is being responsible for your actions.

  Also, no amount of women capitulating to reactionary rhetoric is going to bring about a culture shift that young men don’t want, young men are just as responsible for making their lives better as everyone else. Yes, they need more support structures (we all do), but young men need to want to get better and I’m not sure a lot of them currently do.

• Government announces plan to open up Land Registrywhoownsengland.org ↗
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• Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ orderwww.ft.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to propose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Baroness Bertin made it clear she would not be approaching the topic from a prudish or disapproving position.

  Because if there’s one thing you’d expect from a Tory peer it’s a healthy attitude to fetish porn.

• Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to proposewww.bbc.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads are a plague⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cartoon of someone typing Ned Ludd into their phone and then holding it to their ear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trade offer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cigarettes cost about twice that here, like 70p each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trade offer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cigarette giver. Those things are expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trade offer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A cig for a chicken nugget is a terrible deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeremy Hunt wants to cut benefits to pay for this increased defence spending. They’ll do anything before taxing rich people more.

• Childhood memoriesfeddit.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-AMP link.

  This is the kind of news that plays in the background of disaster films before it all goes to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this isn’t the next Far Cry game, then Ubisoft deserves to go bankrupt.