RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
2025 is off to a good start.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Turned? Have you ever heard of the Rockefeller and Morgan families?
- Comment on Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere 2 weeks ago:
just 40 light-years from Earth
The word “just” is doing a lot of work here.
- Comment on Embodied Is Actually Trying To Release ‘Moxie’ Robots To The Open Source Community 2 weeks ago:
If you’re looking for an actual self interest element, they may be planning to start a new company selling a related product, and doing this creates some amount of goodwill.
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 3 weeks ago:
Especially with how cities in the UK are effectively banning driving for anyone but the rich.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
My understanding is by medical standards, the evidence is pretty low quality, which is why GnRH agonists aren’t approved by the EMA, MHRA, FDA, or NICE for gender dysphoria.
It highlights a wider issue in medicine though, the obsession with randomised controlled trials, which is basically the only evidence the GRADE method considers “high quality”. We are seeing exactly the same problem with MDMA assisted therapy, any therapy where blinding is difficult is dismissed by the medical establishment. NICE dismissed (es)ketamine for depression for the same reason. Add to that the fact that GnRH agonists are off patent, so there’s no incentive for industry to fund studies.
- Comment on Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine's access to WordPress.org | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
The whole thing has implanted into the mind of any wordpress user paying attention they should start thinking about alternatives.
- Comment on Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion 5 weeks ago:
A complicating factor here is that the Sandy Hook families (who as far as I know are the large majority of the creditors) also supported the sale.
I assume there are other creditors who didn’t?
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
except for use in clinical trials
- 77-year-old activist faces return to prison because her wrists are too small for electronic tagmorningstaronline.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
In an ideal system the jury would decide the sentence, and give him one day community service (time served).
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 1 month ago:
The EU really hates the poor.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
I had to look that up, it’s the Spanish spelling? I didn’t realise. It’s commonly misspelled by native speakers.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
bourgeois, the spelling is bourgeois.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
The truth is often crass.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Well, that’s one way to reduce, to quote Sir Starmer, “the benefits bill blighting our society”.
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 1 month ago:
Okay, but now I really want to read the rest of the paper to see what R’lyehian incantations it contains.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
Yeah, by this argument lead in the water isn’t a concern.
- Comment on Nuclear ‘Renaissance’ Recalls Past Boondoggles, Legacy of Failures 1 month ago:
those dirty, dangerous, and expensive energy sources
Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy, so I have zero faith in his objectivity.
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 1 month ago:
We’re going to need a conversion chart of international units, 5 moochies = 1 truss, etc.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will we party like it's 1999? 1 month ago:
If it isn’t really obvious he died of natural causes, whoever becomes president will have a lot of pressure on them to abolish the CIA.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
Op, if you want to submit a petition to the EU, you should use their portal www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 1 month ago:
It specifically cites Brazil as an example, that involved a complete block of the website.
- Comment on Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed 2 months ago:
Yet they plan a massive shareholder payout telegraph.co.uk/…/thames-water-plots-2bn-sharehol…
And paid over £7bn in dividends in the past theguardian.com/…/in-charts-how-privatisation-dra…
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
write their newspapers that they would cancel their subscriptions if the articles quoted … tweets.
Given the former and future president of the USA’s habit of announcing policies there, that seems unworkable.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
As much as I dislike Musk, expansion of the great firewall of Europe seems like a bad idea.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
It’s like JK Rowling all over again.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
You’re going to upset a lot of chess players if you get rid of all AI.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
I’m not anti-ai, but all signs point to the who thing stagnating, I don’t see what mozilla could contribute in the current climate.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 months ago:
At best you’d end up with the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.