Schadrach
@Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 6 days ago:
City of Heroes tried the same basic thing back in the day. They figured it’s an urban environment that has billboards and posters as part of the general clutter, why not get paid to switch out a fake ad for a real ad?
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
In short, they should be allowed to discriminate against men and not the reverse because men are an acceptable target?
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
So, the short version of this is that you feel explicit sex discrimination is not only acceptable but good, but only in cases where it makes women feel better?
Because I guarantee you most of the people who make the kinds of arguments you are here are not broadly in favor of businesses being allowed to discriminate with respect to sex in general, in large part because it would sometimes inconvenience women.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
…and yet, how do you think it would be described if I opened a business that refused to accept women as customers?
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
and should have just moved to form their own men-only spaces
In CA? Those are illegal except in very narrow exceptions. In most other places they’d be subject to anger, protests, and might be illegal there too (state laws are all over the place on anything that’s up to the states).
Like Title IX, everyone loves the idea of a law mandating that you can’t discriminate right up until someone who’s an “acceptable” target for discrimination makes use of it. See basically any time a boy has invoked Title IX.
My personal favorite example of that being feminist philosopher and icon Mary Daly, who’s teaching career ended due to Title IX because she refused to teach male students.
MRAs are idiots
Ironically, MRAs would love to see the Equal Rights Amendment (so long as it doesn’t include the Hayden Rider or similar) or a federal version of Unruh passed more than anything else. But then it would immediately be used to attack things with explicit sex discrimination like differences in pricing based on sex, differences in facilities offered based on sex, Selective Service, VAWA (actually not sure if the last re-authorization cleaned up the relevant language or not) and the ACA (the contraceptive mandate explicitly only applies to contraceptives for women, including barrier and surgical methods - this means that for example there’s no requirement to cover vasectomy and if vasalgel or the like ever hits market there would be no requirement to cover that either). Likewise, if women are ever required to sign up for Selective Service it will launch dozens of lawsuits across a bunch of states because a bunch of states require men to provide their selective service number to qualify for various things.
- Comment on TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment 1 week ago:
the Citizens United case - which gave corporations First Amendment rights
SCOTUS has generally defended the idea that corporations have first amendment rights since Grosjean v. American Press Co. in 1936 - a case where a Senator pushed for a tax designed to target papers critical of him and tax them into submission.
To quote Wikipedia on the case:
The case is often cited because it defined corporations as “persons” for purposes of analysis under the Equal Protection clause.
The Citizens United case was that a corporate entity or nonprofit distributing political messaging about a candidate is not considered a campaign contribution (even when it costs them to do so) so long as the entity in question is not attached to or coordinating with the campaign.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
The reason there are no women only gyms in California is because men’s rights groups sued them for discrimination.
California has one of the strongest anti-discrimination laws in the country, the Unruh Civil Rights Act: “All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”
It turns out that yes, male is a sex and that means that no, you cannot discriminate against them as a business in California. The same men’s rights group put an end to differential pricing based on sex at bars (aka ladies’ night). You would likely be screaming about the sexism from the top of your lungs if a business refused to take women as customers, or charged women more for the same thing, or any of that sort of thing.
The group in question (NCFM) is better known for challenging Selective Service, and their VP and lawyer in charge of that case being murdered (the killer would then cross the country and shoot two more men [killing one and wounding the other] in a “misogynistic attack” against a federal judge [the two men were her husband and son] before killing himself). The judge in question presided over a different Selective Service related case that the killer had been a lawyer on.
Hypothetically, a gym could probably get away with women-only hours if they either also had a matching number of men-only hours or charged men a discounted rate adjusted for the fact they’re paying for less gym access.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
“Maturity”, defined as being willing to accept explicit sex discrimination, so long as said discrimination penalizes men (as men are an acceptable target for discrimination)?
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
so I don’t understand what your point here is
It’s that all the articles over the last year screaming about the dangers of AI because it can be used for something an interested high school student could use an image editor to do 30 years ago but more easily and arguably at somewhat better quality (depending on the person using photoshop) are being ridiculous because they’re blaming the technology instead of the weirdo using it to doctor an image of that girl at their school and pass it around. And yes, anyone who makes and distributes on of these images of someone should be nailed for revenge porn, harassment and whatever else might apply. I say “and distributes” only because if they never distribute it no one would ever know it exists so there would be no opportunity to bust them.
The best use (ie only good use) for one of these is to feed it an image of something that is definitely not the right kind of image for it and seeing what horrors it invents trying to fill in the blanks. Hand it your buddy with a beer belly and a mountain man beard or a dog or garden gnome something.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
The AI angle is just buzzword fearmongering though - this is something you could do with photoshop back in the 90s (and people did, usually with celebrities and with varying levels of quality).
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t matter, because the problem isn’t about space or motion, but about position. If you jump backwards in time but your position in the universe doesn’t change then you are probably no longer on earth because the Earth moves about the sun, etc. To land somewhere meaningful, you’d have to calculate the target location relative to some reference point with a predictable location and as Earthlings we’d probably pick the Earth itself unless this is a time traveling spacecraft.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Media presents time travel as just inputting the date and off you go, but really you need to input time AND space because the two are interconnected.
Alternately since we’re Earthlings, someone designing a time machine might think it’s a good idea to automatically calculate the location using the Earth as a reference point because that’s likely to be the most common use case and doing so would prevent you from dying to the void of space if you make a tiny math error. At which point you would just need to input the destination time if the target is the same location relative to Earth.
- Comment on and they were roommates 5 weeks ago:
You could make that argument for the whole thread, though. It’s just that LGBT stuff is treated as always on topic across a lot of communities.
There were times where the atheism and LGBT subs on Reddit were practically indistinguishable.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
Arguably these are even greener than photovoltaics, since they don’t require the same kinds of materials to make (mostly just steel) and last longer than photovoltaics are supposed to. They use a fair bit of water, but you probably aren’t building them in places where water is at a premium.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
I suspect we’ll be fine until Gabe dies. Then, it depends on who ends up with the company and what they do with it.
- Comment on The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. 1 month ago:
That would be a more accurate statement, yes.
But there’s more to it than just semantics. There’s also the level of certainty - civil trials have a dramatically lower standard of evidence than criminal trials.
So when you say he’s been convicted of rape, you’re saying that 12 people were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed rape. But that’s not the case - instead a judge was.convinced it was at least slightly more likely than not that he committed rape. That’s a very different standard.
- Comment on Not hiding it 1 month ago:
Because she only ever needed about 30% of the vote in the primaries to win. Unplugged delegates made that the case, and they all fell in line with Hillary. Then heavily advertising the disadvantage Sanders is at in delegates to depress the Sanders vote.
My state is a good example of this - Sanders got over half the votes and Hillary got 35%, which is why Hillary only got one more delegate than he did in my state.
- Comment on Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions 2 months ago:
There’s a difference between training related constraints and hard filtering certain topics or ideas into the no-no bin and spitting out a prewritten paragraph of corpspeak if your request goes to the no-no bin.
One of the problems with the various jailbreaks concocted for various chat AIs is that they often rely on asking the chat bot to roleplay being a different, unrestricted chat bot which is often enough to get it to release the locks on many things but also ups the chance it hallucinates considerably.
- Comment on Nintendo emulator Pizza Emulators pulls its apps from Google Play store 2 months ago:
I suppose this just means that piracy of the Pizza Emulators themselves is going to pick up, unless there are better GB/GBA emulators for android out currently.
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
Yeah, silicone is in a weird spot where it’s kinda a plastic and kinda rubber.
But that’s less important because they aren’t single use. You’re going to use them time and again.
Same reason I never felt bad about buying the “single use” plastic grocery bags from Aldi that they’ve discontinued - I still have ones from my first visit to an Aldi that I continue to reuse.
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
Ours have little silicone bits on the end to use as a mouthpiece to prevent that. We also have some silicone straws which work fine.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 2 months ago:
In Germany, it’s an anti-terrorist precaution. Criminals love anonymous prepaid SIMs.
Wouldn’t they solve this by adding a level of indirection? Like offering to pay some schlub cash with a nice margin to buy several prepaids for them?
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 2 months ago:
And they had nothing to hide either - and all of the ones they burned were perfectly innocent and legal… but even those can be taken out of context and used against you during a police investigation.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 2 months ago:
See, I just ignore studio altogether, skip forward enough that it’s already to the action so I tend to miss intro cards and tend to pick out particular actresses and look up other stuff with them.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 3 months ago:
when the Brattysis intro gets to the “You’re the best big brother…” part.
Well, we know what **your ** favorite site/studio/whatever is. Based on the name and intro line you provided I’m guessing their whole thing is straight sibling porn where the girl is supposed to be the younger sister and kind of a pain before they fuck? That’s pretty specific, but I guess everything is someone’s kink.
- Comment on What game fits this? 3 months ago:
I feel like you need to be introduced to mods. There are…a lot. Even if you keep it to just relatively high quality ones that add content (rather than mechanical overhauls or graphical overhauls), there are still a lot.
I’d suggest Falskaar, Wyrmstooth, The Hanging Gardens, The Maelstrom and vicn’s mods (Vigilant, Glenmoril and Unslaad) as a starting point.
Actually, that’s not true, I’d recommend Legacy of the Dragonborn as a starting point, then grab mods that require it and mods that require those until you have all the content mods that can have displays in the museum (which includes all the ones I mentioned before, but is not limited to them).
- Comment on First game you played 3 months ago:
Adventure for me, but we had Atari 2600 Pac-Man too. And Combat, Space Invaders and a few others.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 3 months ago:
so it’s very easy to encounter goro and other niche kinks that make a lot of people want to bleach their eyes.
Once. Then you add the offending tag(s) to your blacklist or include -whatever in your searches. Sites like that are kind of extreme about thorough image tagging which is handy when there are things you strongly don’t want to see.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 3 months ago:
Even ignoring the likelihood of being murdered, illegal drug arbitrage is going to be low margin for the amount of risk involved. Most of the profit is with the manufacturers and distributors.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 3 months ago:
Isn’t that literally just a thinly veiled Futurama reference? Like, there was an episode where planet Express was sent out to fetch ice from Haley’s comet to dump in the ocean to combat global warming which fails and they end up just pushing the earth farther away from the sun to cool things down?