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HauntedCupcake

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  • Okay, let's try this again

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  • Is there anything wrong with the statement? Is there a misconception of how Spanish works?

    I literally don't know enough about Spanish to know either way or what the correct translation should be

  • Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL

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  • This line of logic is a good advice to help politically disengaged women, but isn't going to convince men to abandon Trump.

    The ratio of conservative women to men is roughly 50/50. It's not an effective tactic to convince men to stop supporting Trump, when the women they're likely to be dating are Trump supporters anyway.

  • Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats

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  • I get what a lot of you guys are saying about Starmer and the Labour government not being as left wing as Corbyn. I would also like someone who would use this majority to implement some really hardcore leftist policies.

    But please can we just take a step back and look at what he wants to do:

    • Massive amounts of NHS funding
    • Nationalised green energy
    • Tax private schools
    • Allow regulators to hit company executives with criminal charges
    • Nationalise the railways
    • Increase the minimum wage to a living wage
    • Free school meals

    I don't know about you, but that seems at the very least, left of center. Sure, he's not making drastic sweeping changes right off the bat. But this country needs an era of stability, whilst we make small but consistent steps in the right direction, and that's what Starmer will give us

  • Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

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  • The people who are more likely to retain a PC and not just use a phone, are more likely to be tech literate power users.

    This selects against casual windows users, and selects for hardcore Linux users

  • J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”

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  • Thank you for the response.

    The problem is that the accommodation and special treatment is in part separating these women from men and perceived masculinity. We would have to start chopping up support groups into trans-inclusive and trans-exclusive. And I don't think sending them to a male/trans therapist is going to be very helpful.

    Transphobic (I'm not sure of a better word) trauma victims would want some sort of system in place to ensure these extremely unlikely things don't occur. Trauma can really fuck with your rational thinking like that. I still can't really cope in certain places and environments.

    Once again, I'm aware this is an extreme edge case, and basically never going to happen irl

  • Apple Rumored to Be Working on AirPods With Built-in Cameras

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  • Only because everyone's on edge, give it a few years and they'll need "anonymised" data collection to "help improve their service"

  • J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”

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  • I 100% agree with your post. The issues she raises are nonexistent or extremely rare. In my personal life I believe and practice "trans-women are women" as for all intents and purposes it's true.

    I am however concerned that I don't really have a response to anyone who doesn't believe that, particularly women with some sort of past trauma that gives them an instinctual fear response. It feels insensitive to tell them to get over it or go to therapy. Particularly if they've been exposed to one of the extremely rare examples Rowling has presented. But I think going to therapy is probably what needs to happen.

    My other conflicting thought is that therapy or condemnation it is what we would say to people being racist, but there seems to be a societal agreement that we need women only spaces. And we don't say "get over it" in regards to men trying to enter a women's shelter, we offer an amount of sympathy and understanding to the women and allow them that space. Which means there is some amount of gender discrimination is desired/needed. This also indicates there there should be a line or set of fuzzy criteria that determines if we treat trans-women as women or not. But this obviously also feels wrong, and I hate it.

    Sorry if this was insensitive, I mostly just want to gather thoughts as I'm not confident in my thinking. I don't think these issues deserve the amount of attention transphobes are giving them, but we're here now, so I want to try and figure out a solution or response to more "reasonable" transphobes that I could potentially change the minds of

  • I'm getting old

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  • Thank you my dude 🙏

  • I'm getting old

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  • Totally, the other thing both of your examples did well is actually integrate the "Woke™" elements into their world in a natural and believable way. None of it unearthed established canon or went out of its way to score rainbow capitalist diversity points

  • I'm getting old

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  • I feel like a lot of "woke" shows are not great, but they get a cult of defenders and haters boosting it's popularity because of some perceived culture war. When it's really just execs trying to make their milk toast milquetoast slop shamelessly appeal to a wider audience.

    No one complains about Spiderverse (after it came out) because it was good

  • Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company

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  • The original 20 minute video in the article makes it clear he's talking about job roles, and mentions writers a few times (admittedly not close enough to draw an 100% certain link). I don't think it's enough to discredit this just based on the assumption that he's talking about actors or that there isn't enough context. Obviously it's vague enough that we can't draw any solid conclusions, so I agree with you there.

    The main reason I think this is bullshit is that the guy's testimony isn't credible for two main reasons:

    • The guy was recently passed up for promotion, and blames it on being white and male
    • The interviewer is posing as a romantically interested date and asking plenty of leading questions, the guy is at least partially telling her what she wants to hear

    These two points, regardless of how true his story is, give him an ulterior motive for embellishing the story and exaggerating facts, which ultimately means we can't trust this.

    I'd like to see a full investigation, as with any accusation of discrimination. But we all know that when nothing turns up, it wouldn't shut the right wingers up

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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  • only 2tb? that's the size of my cache drives

  • 'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning

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  • This is also a lot more achievable than total healthcare reform. Both are achievable for sure, but just forcing landlords to install and maintain aircon is easier

  • Animal homosexual behaviour under-reported by scientists, survey shows

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  • I'm a strong atheist, but you're kinda pick and choosing the facts. Skepticism isn't about replacing one dogma with another.

    China had a whole thing with persecuting those with religious beliefs. It's certainly the minority, but state enforced atheism has created great horrors. Anything can be warped and disfigured into a horrific belief system used to justify anything.

    Those who are religious should be held to the same level of scientific scrutiny as everyone else. There's no evidence to show that Andrew Wakefield was Christian, and look at the shit show that caused

  • "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

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  • Isn't like most of the problem fascists who aren't explicitly calling for genocide? I thought that the antifa position didn't support free speech for them too

  • Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

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  • Well you have to actually setup the boilerplate, plus copilot is generally more intelligent and context aware, especially for small snippets when you're already coding

  • Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power

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  • Also want to point out, most of that is container, not spent fuel. The safety standards are so ridiculously high that they basically guarantee zero risk.

    More people (per plant) are exposed to elevated levels of radiation due to coal power, and that's not even including the health risk of all the other shit they release

  • How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

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  • Other than the currently dying Tory party (and even sort of them), every single major UK political party is for green energy and against climate change to varying degrees. And I mean on a policy level, not just words.

    I'm not too familiar with other governments, but Europe seems to be going well on that front too. And as much as China bad, they seem open to green policies, and the US democrats seem pretty okay on climate, especially as carbon capture helps out fossil fuel companies.

    I know that's not a massive ringing endorsement, but considering the cost of 4% energy expenditure for a single year, it seems like a no brainer. If you spread it over 20 years that's 0.2% of energy, less than AI or crypto uses by far

  • Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

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  • Agreed, using LLMs for code requires you to be an experienced dev who can understand what it pukes out. And for those very specific and disciplined people it's a net positive.

    However, generally, I agree it's more risk than it's worth