Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
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I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
Sweet pepper is the most disappointing vegetable (yes, I know it’s a fruit).
It’s like someone was, “what if chilli, but shit?”
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Trans women, 6 months on HRT: “My breasts must have stopped growing now and I’m only an AA cup! WOE!”
Trans women 18 years after transition (e.g. me, now): “Aw fuck, I gained a cup size last week.”
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After watching Oppenheimer the other week, I just rewatched Dr Strangelove.
For the love of god, will one of the nuclear powers announce it’s destroying its hydrogen bombs? These things are psychotically evil. Just get rid of them. Now, before the kill us all.
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Apropos of a conversation elsewhere c, I’ve always been given the creeps by “Jonathan Pie”. It’s always struck me as “manufactured outrage click bait culture for left wing people who think they’re too clever to fall for that.”
The sceptics in the pub crowd had the same sort of attitude and it made them really really easy marks for the alt right to use as useful idiots in their culture war.
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Do Americans realise just how much it looks like they’re trying to speedrun “imperial power collapsing into failed state” to the rest of the world right now?
Guys, sort your shit out FFS.
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@Ghost of Hope I think that’s a stress timed/syllable timed distinction more than anything else (stress timed languages tend to swallow syllables to make them fit, so if you don’t know to listen for the tonic syllables it’s really hard to get the words).
Curiously Brazilian Portuguese is syllable timed, which is the biggest difference. That I wouldn’t mind. What made my ears bleed was rendering all the consonants as “tch”.
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Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
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What I would have liked to have learned in English classes at school:
- Grammar.
- The history of how the language evolved from one with a rich conjugation and case system into the vastly structurally simpler one we have now.
- Points of convergence and divergence with other languages, closely related or not. How did that happen?
- How to speak and write beautifully and precisely with rhetorical flourishes if needed
What I actually learned in English classes at school:
- Thomas Hardy really hated women.
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On top of that, once you're required to write essays, you aren't actually taught how to do it or given any examples of one looks like (IIRC) which probably explains why I've always been bad at them.
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!Friendica Support Hi all.
Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.
The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.
So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?
TIA
@Michael Vogel Should note in case it's not clear, the container called "friendica-cron" is actually running the daemon, starting with this script:
#!/bin/sh
trap "break;exit" HUP INT TERM
while [ ! -f /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php ]; do
sleep 1
done
echo "Waiting for MySQL $MYSQL_HOST initialization..."
if php /var/www/html/bin/wait-for-connection "$MYSQL_HOST" "${MYSQL_PORT:-3306}" 300; then
sh /setup_msmtp.sh
exec gosu www-data:www-data tini -- php /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php -f start
else
echo "[ERROR] Waited 300 seconds, no response" >&2
fi
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Had to look it up to be sure (I mean I have C64s and I have a MiSTer, but YouTube had to suffice for now:)). That title music on the C64 is fantastic, and the main theme is so much better to me.
I often wonder what would have happened if the SID hadn’t been crippled and would have been the 16 voices that was intended. Would have been bonkers 😀
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Christians: This Friday we celebrate!
Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?
Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.
Non Christians: You celebrate that?
Christians: There are sound theological reasons.
Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.
Christians: We call it “Good Friday”
Non Christians: …
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In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…
And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.
I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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Trying to imagine the culture shock immigrants to the UK get when, for the first time, they encounter someone like an accountant asking for their electricity bill.
Because, fellow Brits, I have to inform you that that's a bit weird.
It is though.
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I arrived in '96 and the first thing my bank did after opening an account was to issue me a cheque book. The last time I'd seen a cheque in Germany was at least 10 years prior...
Later that year I wanted to transfer money to someone (I can't remember the reason) so went to my bank and they told me that was only possible if they had an account with the same bank... Bank transfers had been the standard in Germany since the 60s.
@Ozzy My UK bank keeps asking me, “what’s online banking like in Portugal compared to ours?”, presumably expecting effusive praise about their app, and their face falls when I say, “it’s at least a decade ahead of anything you have”.
So many Brits think they’re living in high tech utopia, when actually it’s backwards as hell in so many ways.
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BOLA be like, “I saw geese break someone’s arm”
Did you though?
Geese cheat code: they’re bullshitting. Make it clear that you know this and they will fuck off. Run at them screaming “Dinner!” and flap your arms. They fuck off incredibly quickly.
If that doesn’t work, grab the squawky cunt by the neck and practice Olympic hammer throwing. It’s funny, and it won’t give you shit again.
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“Turbo cancer”?
The fuck is “turbo cancer”?
Dear god, yer racist uncle on Facebook says the most stupid shit.
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Ha! A bit of sciencing reveals that my new dental implant crown, while colour matched perfectly under visible light, is a completely different colour to its neighbouring teeth under UV.
No reason why it wouldn't be, I guess. It's designed to look real to human vision, which it does, apart from the little blob of epoxy filling covering the screw head.
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Enoch Burke to remain in prison for contempt of court
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is to remain in prison for contempt of court after refusing to engage with an offer from a High Court judge to release him for Easter.Orla O'Donnell (RTÉ)
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@Sarah Brown is this based on what they announced, or did you actually check?
I had half an idea to check, but that involved
a) interacting with a post coming from threads
b) enabling javascript from the threads server
and that's was more than I was willing to do 😁
so, to recap,
- the smartest people with accounts on threads (it's a bit of a contradiction)
- from just 3 countries
- that do opt in in their settings
can be followed by us, without reading our replies
i'm not impressed, i'll think about when some personal old uncle will succeed to find me the other way around
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Anyone know about Synologies?
I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.
I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?
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so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:
1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS
(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)
2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.
i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU
if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it
I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.
Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).
I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.
I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.
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Things I learned on the internet: apparently the country where a deranged tantrum-prone egomaniac fascist with dementia is leading the polls has a problem with its public education system.
How surprising!
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This analogue landline turnoff at the end of this year is going to be a disaster for older folk. Less than nine months to go and the only official advice is "you may need to buy extra new equipment" *mic drop*.
No advice as to the equipment, nor where they've planted the magic money tree.
Yes *I* know what to do, and yes, *I* can afford it.
@chiffchaff It's been so completely unadvertised. Although to be fair I don't really consume any advertisement channels these days. But no household leafleting, letters from provider ... I might have had an email, but I think I found out about it by accident (and I'm not even sure how).
I'm still wondering how many rural exchanges still don't have fibre connection. Our old place up the valley certainly didn't last time I checked. How are they expected to cope?
Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".
And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"
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I, for one, welcome the support of our catsnake friends and allies.
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Liz Truss’s bid to ban trans women from sports runs out of time after MPs discuss ferrets instead
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss's attempt to ban trans women from female spaces ran out of time after MPs joined forces to "talk it out"Hilary Mitchell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
And yet …
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
And yet …
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Cycle reset. Doctors hate this one simple trick.
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