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DomeGuy

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  • intersectionality forever

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  • What matters is consistency.

    "Why do you have a label that excludes me?" scales up and to a virtually universal group and down to a specialized category with only three members.

    It doesn't really matter if you say that men are right to critique the label "feminism" or if you allow specialization all the way down to "Midwestern small city non-theater trans-male part-African part-Irish demisexual furry feminism". Just so long as you're fighting bigotry and applying your principles consistently.

    (I much rather spend effort arguing that a man arguing against anti-masculine sexism is a cause worth supporting than bickering over whether or not his cause counts as "feminism", even though I would casually include him in the label.)

  • Get bent, Brenda

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  • If you were in a jury box and were shown just this message and a note about how he was fired two months later for "not being a team player" you'd infer the intent and vote to hold the company liable for wrongful termination.

    Corpospeak keeps a "work through lunch" message from being a self-evident labor law violation even if no adverse action occurrrd. They don't disguise intent if those later bad actions occur

  • YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system

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  • Any work that wouldn't be done if we had a UBI should either be automated away or sufficiently well-paid that it would find workers even without the threat of poverty.

    We don't need to ritually kill a homeless person just so someone will pick up our trash any more than we need to do so for someone to tended to our elders dying of cancer.

  • Project 2025 creator wants to ban gender-affirming care for trans adults

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  • Actually? Any cosmetic or medical action to augment someone's identity as either man or woman.

    To a transphobic bigot? Anything that deviates from strict gender alignment with sex assigned at birth.

    The best filtering example is "breast reduction for cis boys in Texas", since one study looking for underage "female mutilation" found that the exactly same surgery was more than twenty times as likely to be performed on a cis boy than trans boy.

  • Is it possible that none of this is real?

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  • It's philosophically impossible to know if the world is "real" unless you reduce the word to an axiom. Just as it's impossible to prove tbat all of existence wasn't created yesterday morning at 1115z.

    Much more useful is to accept both for the sake of contemplation, and then go on to ask the subsequent question "so what?"

  • What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

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  • That isn't "religion", it's a tenet of a fraction of Christianity.

    Many religions (Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Bhuddism) do not hold faith up as a virtue, and many Christian denominations (Roman Catholic, non-evangelical Protestant) assert that your faith must include good action and rational thought.

    (We could have a conversation about the good things inspired by religion or the terrible things done by irrreligious folk who share your reverence for skepticism, but I really just wanted to point out that you were using an overly broad brush)

  • Before AI, the better technology was, the less valuable eye witness became. In the future, the better AI technology gets the more valuable eye witness will be.

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  • *Tell me you've never encountered a real courtroom without telling me never encountered a real courtroom... *

    Our legal systems have long required things like "chain of custody" and "corroborating evidence" for essentially any claim. Because in essentially any instance where the opposing sides dispute a question of fact they need to convince a mildly annoyed rando that things happened a certain way while the other team is arguing that it's all a hoax.

    They generally skip all that in courtroom dramas and even broadcasted courtrooms, because the very first phase of any trial is discovery where both sides show some or all of their cards to try and convince the other team to fold.

    AI slop is hardly the first time someone invented a new tool for faking evidence. Heck, we had a whole industry based on faking video evidence before the first surveilance camera was ever installed.

    (There's a huge possibility for slander and fraud that the general public should wise up to, but starting with an assumption that evidence is fake unless proven otherwise is kinda how things go.)

    (And, yes, the big hole here is that "best avaliable" evidence is often nonsense. ACAB and all that. My point is just that fake evidence isn't a dangerous new invention courts have never seen before.)

  • Is it possible that none of this is real?

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  • Sex is way too enjoyable for this to be a poorly coded simulation.

    I think you just saw someone who needs either a break or some better mental health care.

  • [In the US] If we can give a floating date to a "real" (but lame) holiday like Thanksgiving, there's no reason we can't do the same for Halloween and codify it as the last Friday/Saturday of October.

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  • And if you're a kid, the job of keeping those people away from you is your parents'. They can either step up now or deal with never seeing you once you move out.

  • [In the US] If we can give a floating date to a "real" (but lame) holiday like Thanksgiving, there's no reason we can't do the same for Halloween and codify it as the last Friday/Saturday of October.

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  • No, you don't. Anyone who tells you that you must is pro-bigot and pro-rape.

    Thanksgiving is a holiday about what you are glad for in your life. The only people you should deal with on Thanksgiving are those who you would thank God for putting (or keeping) in your life.

    Everyone else should either take the hint, or not be surprised when you engage in the modern tradition of "tell off your racist uncle who can't keep his mouth shut" day.

  • If a time traveller posts a video from future, it would probably be tagged as AI generated video

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  • Causality is just determinists starting with "time travel is impossible" and finding a fancy name for it.

    I don't want to say they're wrong, just that asserting casualty in a discussion about time travel being impossible is kinda like asserting Godwin's Law in a discussion about whether or not Trump's a nazi.

  • The stupid train has left the station.

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  • Why do they only put that little dab of roasted red pepper in the middle of hummus at the stores? That shit should be half the container.

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  • The same places you buy pre-made hummus also sell factory-made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. There are a lot worse food crimes than "Food for people who dont own a blender."

  • Where to did people on Bluesky go to?

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  • A good portion of those who left Bluesky did so for bluesky.

    ATProto vs ActivityPub are very different ways to build a social network, and Bsky 's still has a fairly big asterisk, but they scale up dramatically better than Lemmy/Mastadon and aren't quite as "not-federated" as some ActivityPub promoters want to admit.

    Most notably, you can move the canonical source of your account data to a server not owned by Bluesky, and access the same massive firehouse of data via a client app or last-server option of your choice. And since the banning and safety is done mostly in either that canonical source or last-server step, moving away from the crypto-friendly founding corp is enough for many.

    I'm sure there's a big swath who moved to Mastadon or threads or even to Twitter. But BlueSky's still got plenty of traffic for what I want from it.

  • YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should choose Mustard. It's healthier.

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  • When the USA was civilized we required every food sold to the public to list its nutritional information.

    https://calories-info.com/mustard-vs-ketchup/

    100g of ketchup or mustard both have about 100 calories, with ketchup getting more of those calories from carbohydrates and much less from fat.

    Even if you make your own ketchup or buy a no-sugar added brand, it still has a fair amount of carbohydrates. And a substantial amount of salt.

    https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/2594364/100g/1

    Both are worth including if you're calorie counting. (And don't necessarily trust the per-serving size label, since if they set that low enough they can round down and claim a 100% fat cooking spray is 0 calories. We only used to be civilized.)

  • Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs?

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  • Don't ever feel guilty for doing exactly what every last plutocrat and "entrepreneur" would do in your place.

    (Do feel outraged that the richest country on earth still demands we work or beg if we don't want to starve to death.)

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception.

    Off the top of my head:

    • Do not store user information in an unsecure or identifiable mechanism.
    • Be transparent as to what parts of the page are ads and which aren't.
    • Follow best-practices for accessibility.
    • Give @DomeGuy a lollipop if he asks.

  • Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email

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  • Just because they are a distasteful company, doesn't give us free reign to spread lies about them.

    To be pedantic, I'm spreading alarmist rumors at worst. In English a "lie" has to be something the speaker doesn't actually believe. And I honestly believe that users of WhatsApp should assume that Meta can read their messages.

    The signal protocol and encryption explicitly prevents the transit server decrypting messages. That a theoretical hidden third person ... in the chat doesn't change that is e2e encrypted.

    You're splitting a hair that's not even worth curling.

    If I ship you a locked box via courier, and the courier can get a copy of the key without talking to either of us, we should presume that the courier may have looked inside and take appropriate measures. Like, inventorying the contents of said box before and after, and not shipping things we don't want the courier to know about.

    It doesn't matter if the courier keeps the box locks, doesn't habitually carry a key, or even promises that they won't get a key. We don't even have to assume that they actually looked in the box, or use a slower or more-expensive courier.

    If there's a plausible way they can open the box, we should start with the presumption that they did and then go from there.

  • Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview

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  • Websites that break in Firefox are websites that should not be used.