13esq
@13esq@lemmy.world
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
Sorry, amateur mistake, I meant Britain.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
To be fair it’s not for off in the UK, the rules are so flimsy that the chance of you actually being taken to court is almost zero. So instead you just have to put the angry letters in the bin until they finally get bored.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
And here we are. “tRaNsPhObE!”
Honestly, people like you are your own worst enemy. Shame on you.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
It’s not a warning, I’m just old enough to know pigeon chess when I see it.
Who knows, maybe we’ll get twenty years down the line, the evidence will be there and I’ll be amazed at how wrong I was!
Good luck to you, I wish you all the best.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
I’ve said everything I have to say and I can see trying to explain myself further will be fruitless.
If you honestly think that a child could block puberty up to the age of 18 or further and then change their mind and go through a normal puberty like nothing ever happened, then good for you, personally, I’m doubtful.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
The main difference with vaccines is the overwhelming medical proof of the benefits, that’s something that currently isn’t there with the use of puberty blockers during the years you would typically go through it.
I do somewhat agree with your less harm premise. If a child literally threatens to kill themselves, then as a parent you’d feel like you had little choice in the matter, however if there are permanent side effects and the child, now as a young adult starts regretting their decision, it’s going to be shit for everyone.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…
That is quite obviously an assumption. You are extrapolating data and although I see the logic of your statement, it’s bad science. The rest of your comment is based on this premise.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age. I did mention this.
At the end of the day, I’m not pretending to be an expert in puberty blockers, I’m saying that sometimes children need to be protected from themselves.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know why people are so worried about it
As far as I understand it, there are two main concerns that people have.
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There is very limited data regarding clinical proof that the long term use of puberty blockers is 100% reversible in cases that block puberty during the typical years that you would go through it. Traditionally, puberty blockers would be used in cases where children start puberty at extremely young ages, In these cases the puberty blockers would be withdrawn at an age typical for a child to start puberty.
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Leading on from point 1. Many people don’t trust children to make decisions that could impact them for the rest of their lives. Some parents are concerned they will be met with their child who is now a young adult to be asked “why the hell did you let me make that decision, don’t you know the mind is still developing at that age?”. I would not want to be held accountable for the countless stupid things I said or beliefs I held at a young age, so I can see why it is a concern.
Personally, I’m broadly in support of trans rights and what people want to do when they’re adults is their own business, but I think allowing a child to make a decision that may impact them for the rest of their lives is a grey area to say the least. I’d draw the line for a child at anything that’s not 100% fully reversible.
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- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 1 month ago:
I take your point. But you could make the same argument for many things that are already very affordable.
Personally, I’m against nanny taxes, they only work against people who are financially struggling, yet ironically it’s generally the poorest people that have the worst health, especially when it comes to obesity.
I think there is work to be done on improving the health of the population, but I’d like to drive that from a perspective of education or a carrot rather than a stick method.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Show me the demand for my body parts on only fans and I’ll give up my job.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
That’s not the point. The point is that the music industry doesn’t pay artists.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
The first thought that comes to my mind is that the people in Twitter are just going to migrate to another social network.
The second thought I have is the amount of hate and comments full of misinformation on sites like Facebook. Should we ban Facebook too? And if so, where does it stop and who is it that gets to decide that a site is getting banned for “wrong think”.
Personally, I believe this isn’t so much a petition against X, but a petition against Musk, who I think wouldn’t be absolutely gutted even if X went out of business. I think he bought it with the aim of derailing anyway.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
If someone told me “I don’t like Musk, I’m going to stop using Twitter”, I’d say “good for you”. I think it’s great when people stand up for their beliefs and put their money where their mouth is.
If someone told me “I don’t like Musk, so you’re not allowed to use Twitter”, I’d tell them to go fuck themselves. It’s none of their business whether they personally like what it is that I want to do as long as I’m not hurting anyone.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
I actually can’t remember the last time I saw someone under 60 buy a newspaper. I think the cross over in the venn diagram is going to be pretty small.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
How about “if you don’t like Musk, just don’t use X or buy a Tesla?”
I personally don’t really like any billionaires at all, but I’m not going to get in to a hissy fit because someone uses Microsoft Windows or bought something from Amazon.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 2 months ago:
I’m actually really looking forward to lab grown meat becoming an established industry. Not just for the benefits of the environment and animal welfare but because you could feasibly grow the finest lobster meat, fois gras, wagyu steaks etc etc on industrial scales which would lead to much lower prices.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 2 months ago:
Before we move over to heat pumps and electric heating, a lot of work needs to be done on insulating homes.
A heat pump is not more efficient if you have to run it 24/7 to try keeping up with heat loss from single glazed windows and drafts from knackered doors etc.
- Comment on Two more cases of more transmissible mpox detected in UK 2 months ago:
Quick! Let’s shut the country down for a year, spend £250 billion on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get a shit load of inflation and a cost of living crisis.
- Comment on BBC Weather app bug forecasts hurricane force winds in UK 3 months ago:
Apparently the fastest known winds in the solar system are 1,100mph and on Neptune.
- Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 4 months ago:
Yh, not like it’s her job to parent the child, that’s the government’s responsibility!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 4 months ago:
It’s worked for me but with a couple layers of insulation tape rather than a rubber band.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 5 months ago:
Worth noting that Canning died in office, rather than having to resign in disgrace.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 months ago:
People used twitter?
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 5 months ago:
I was generalising. I think it’s pretty obvious that you can save for an early retirement if you’re lucky enough to have the means to do so.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 5 months ago:
Which the article implies many are struggling to afford.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 5 months ago:
Assuming that it pays enough to justify an early retirement.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 5 months ago:
I believe you could scrape by on a state pension if you have your accomodation paid for, but it’d be absolutely no frills and if your rent is £1000pcm, you’re absolutely fucked.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 5 months ago:
Yep, two years of arthritis and then death, what a brilliant retirement it will be!
- Comment on Water temperatures near UK last year were hottest on record, say scientists 5 months ago:
Definitely not my idea of a nice day out haha