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- Comment on PUT. HIM. BACK. 6 days ago:
“Anyone got a lighter?”
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 6 days ago:
Do you think the government is paying for the park…?
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s largely for the same reason; their legal obligations to ensure they don’t facilitate illegal stuff means that the risk of working with companies that do e.g. amateur porn makes the potential consequences (financial processing ban, i.e. effectively the entire company being shut down) massively outweigh the potential benefits.
So you’re right that PH’s legal liability was part of the reasoning, but that pressure largely came from payment processors, for whom the legal consequences are more severe.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
GIMP is really powerful, but goddamn its UX is abysmal, unfortunately
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
No, you didn’t lmao
Would you call them He if you found out?
Yes I would
if we were friends I might call them the way they want
You specifically said you would actively misgender them, unless they’re your friend, in which case you “might” not actively go out of your way to do so. That’s a dick move, simple as.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that if you don’t know the particular person, you will actively go out of way to be an asshole to them, but if they’re someone you care about, then you’d pretend to respect trans people enough not to intentionally fuck with them.
Lovely.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
Just because you don’t think there should be social characteristics associated with gender doesn’t mean that there aren’t
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
They’re pointing out the stupidity of your argument, since it depends on ignoring the fact that the remaining 5% exist, in the same way that classifying everything as those two elements requires ignoring the fact that the other 1% of matter exists
- Comment on When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing? 5 weeks ago:
In the British monarchy, the monarch (“the Crown”) and the person who is the current monarch are considered distinct “people” with their own separate possessions (i.e. King Charles as the Crown owns property separately to Charles Windsor the private citizen).
So these oaths are meant to be pledging loyalty to the Crown, in its role as the embodiment of the British state, as opposed to the king personally.
The commons library is a treasure trove of information about the UK’s fascinating and complex constitution, I’d strongly recommend giving it a read if you’re interested in this sort of stuff!
Commons Library: the Crown and the constitution
In particular, I’d recommend checking out The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise, which is a document intended to be a reasonably thorough summary of the UK’s constitution and where it comes from. It’s ~300 pages so I wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing, but it’s great as a reference for the parts you find interesting.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 4 months ago:
No, public companies and cooperatives are completely different things
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 months ago:
They’re hoarse
- Comment on USA President term limits 4 months ago:
It’s also worth adding, though, that the convention of only running for at most two terms had existed pretty much since the establishment of the republic (until FDR broke it), when Washington and Jefferson each chose not to run for third terms
- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 4 months ago:
Plus mini metro, terraria, don’t starve, wild rift, and TFT (last two are free to play, and only have cosmetic transactions)
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
I think BAC is supposed to be defined as a right-angle, so that AB²+AC²=CB²
=> AB+1²=0²
=> AB = √-1
=> AB = i
- Comment on Truly a tragedy of our times 5 months ago:
Clearly.
- Comment on Iguanadons 5 months ago:
Get the knife!
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 5 months ago:
I’m such a dunce, I didn’t spot your username 🤦
Thought I was asking a db0 random, not the NaN himself
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 5 months ago:
Slightly off topic, is db0 one of the anarchist instances you’re referring to? I know it’s a generally leftist instance, but don’t know much more detail than that
- Comment on Academic writing 6 months ago:
It’s saying that it uses terminology that is well-understood, specific and explicit within the field, but depends on a common understanding of the language used. So people outside the field are unable to understand it, even though they would be able to understand the actual concepts.
- Comment on More 6 months ago:
It sounds hot, though
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Lula Brazil is very different from bolsonaro Brazil
- Comment on little hopper 7 months ago:
And the overreaction of the year award goes to…
- Comment on Thousands of counter-protesters take to UK streets as far-right unrest fails to materialise 8 months ago:
I think you misunderstand the idea - he wasn’t proposing hiring more police, but temporarily increasing the total man-hours being worked to make sure there is sufficient capacity to respond
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 8 months ago:
What’s with your name, buzz?
- Comment on The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 8 months ago:
This is a knife and fork burger if I’ve ever seen one
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 9 months ago:
Why? This is a scientific paper with a shitpost as the title
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 9 months ago:
“generally speaking” as in “I pulled this stat out of my ass”
Calling you a russian bot isn’t exactly a liberal policy, is it?
If your reasoning for determining someone is “a lib” is saying that, then that’s exactly how you’re using the term.
The fact you immediately assumed I was a capitalist is a pretty compelling argument that you’re not good at determining people’s ideologies based on their unrelated complaints about your bad takes
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 9 months ago:
Criticising liberal policy is absolutely reasonable
Using “the libs” as a catch-all term for “anyone I disagree with” is the marker of an incoming terrible take
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 9 months ago:
Didn’t mention capitalism, and I consider myself a socialist, but go off
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 9 months ago:
Word “libs” in first 5 words, opinion rejected