We accepted control at expense of convenience

I would have thought it would be more accurate to say we accepted convenience at the expense of privacy and security…

Why would the ATO care? Purple Pingers’ list might actually help it become occupied.

People seem to hate the title but hopefully it lures in some ignorant people who would ask that and teach them why science changing is a good thing.

Looks like he’s living the dream

Looks like bad photoshop more than AI

I’m sure there’s way better examples than the president. He’s in an entirely unique position and can do things that would land anyone else in prison.

I wish the guy who assaulted me went to prison for it… or anything, really.

Just want to let you know I feel for you. Really sorry that happened to you and that this kind of thing does happen. I hope you don’t let it continue to reduce your quality of life.

I do feel like a lot of self proclaimed feminists are dismissive of sexual assault against men. I’ve often seen responses like “but it’s men who are usually the perpetrators”, which I think really shows they’re coming from an us vs them perspective and they don’t have much empathy for the male victims, because of their gender.

So you don’t think inclusive language is important?

Hmm, this is an interesting line of thought. I’ve always thought these movements are dominated by left leaning people and the left usually understands the importance of inclusive wording. So why do they use such exclusive labels?

Surely many people do try to jump at that low hanging fruit and adopt more inclusive labels. But, I guess it’s not an idea that spreads so easily? These movements must rely on people with strong feelings on specific issues and have to target them with a label they can identify with. I guess the more moderate majority would associate with other terms, but don’t have the motivation to take much action in the name of it.

I’m confused… There’s an Android Auto WiFi that’s available while you’re driving around?

I think the ideal is that it would be a conscious decision to donate more to software that needs more work. It definitely wouldn’t be good to encourage poor usability that creates more usage time. (That’s how we ended up with terribly written recipes all over the internet that make you scroll for ages before you get to the useful information)

Have you tried being less of a prick about it?

Maybe bigotry is the wrong word in this case, but maybe not. Either way it’s still discriminating based on an unchangeable characteristic of those people. I’d be equally annoyed if they targeted men or a specific race or an eye colour. I just think that when you try to help people, you should try to discriminate on circumstance, not things like race or gender. And we should be calling it out so people can do better in the future.

I do know there is a lot of correlation between gender and circumstance, but I think it’s either lazy to use gender as a proxy or they really are bigoted.

On the other hand I would still like to give them props for helping people in a significant way.

I wish these kinds of services could target specific at risk groups, not a gender.

I would be happy if it was focused on homeless parents with young children, or homeless victims of family violence. With those things they might still end up getting only women, but at least they’d be selected based on their situation instead of bigotry.

Just a couple months ago I was giving snacks to my kids by a river, with one of them on my lap. Then a lady started yelling across the river, saying I was suspicious and asking my son if I was really his dad… It changed a really nice moment into something horrible.

That’s a good list, except I would have thought that number 4 is an important responsibility for teachers? Probably the most important thing kids need to learn is how to behave in an acceptable manner. We can’t rely on all parents to be able to do that unless we start putting draconian restrictions on parenting. So, it has to be part of teachers jobs.

Maybe there just needs to be better processes in place to handle problematic children, especially in high school.

I mean, you’ll never really get the full story of anything if it requiers every adjacent detail, there’s just too much detail in any event to document it all. So, I think it’s more that being queer is an important part of this story because queer people have been marginalised. Which means it’s important that they have good representation and their achievements are celebrated.

RiMusic is still working fine for me

I was confused because it’s such a bad take… That’s not what 15 minute cities are about. That’s just the dumb conspiracy theories.

… it conditions people for 15 minute cities and other forms of tyranny

Are you saying you think the idea of having all important services within 15 minutes is tyranny?