LainTrain

@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A trans woman, and a cis woman are both subtypes of women. One used to be physically male, the other didn’t. Both are women and should be afforded the same treatment under law unless actually there’s actually reasonable issues created by that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Russia does it for things like being gay, trans or from Ukraine, and Mexico is doing it because Americans next door are deporting it’s own citizens over tattoos.

  Different things are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a bit confused by the use of “theft”, for anyone else wondering they mean it in the opposite way most people think, where it’s not the companies that are investing big ££££ into robbing us blind every minute, but actually normal people who are using electricity without gasp forking over the tribute willingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐻‍❄Bear goes rawr🐻‍❄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What stock ticker app is this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every day the bait gets lower and lower effort

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m not determined on anything you projecting fool, I am saying that based on your definitions of community and my experience it is others who are determined to close their eyes and ears from me and from each other.

  And no, I’m not gonna go up to literal strangers that have never spoken to me or each other ever and tell them about hosting some sort of unsanctioned “party” because some guy said this will be good, or something, on the internet.

  This doesn’t make me determined at “closing eyes and ears” to those around me, not acting based on the words of one guy explicitly only on the internet about something that suspiciously doesn’t seem to leave any traces of existing IRL makes me fucking sane.

  Literally the only time I ever hear of this shite is on the internet, no one I know or have ever known as ever been part of or heard of this “community” drivel IRL and I’m sick and tired of hearing it without a decent explanation ngl .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That you live in the same area.

  But that’ happenstance. Literally thousands of randoms live in the same area. I’ve never seen the same person twice, and I’m sure they want to be left alone. Not really enough to start a conversation.

  You have the same elected representatives

  Pretty sure an average person has no idea who that is or what that means. Hell, I don’t know who that is for my area from a few months ago.

  you shop at the same stores

  That’s a bit of an assumption.

  you live with the same stakes

  I’m not even sure what you mean by that. We have almost nothing in common in our actual lives apart from living in the same city and area.

  That’s why people say you need to get involved in your community.

  I get that - what I don’t understand is how.

  Whether or not you acknowledge it, you’re part of it

  I can acknowledge it all I want, it doesn’t matter if most other people aren’t aware of this supposed community we share, or of other people in general.

  Idk again on paper you say things that make sense and I could picture a village where neighbours talk to each other and greet each other and maybe even discuss their elected representatives or whatever if they’re tight-knit, but this just doesn’t match anything even close to my lived reality.

  I do appreciate the explanation though, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom is down 🎉⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao that’s a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See that’s counter-intuitive to me because doesn’t it usually imply some level of knowledge of the people or at least something you have in common?

  I don’t know them, I’ve never seen any of them more than once, I’ve never spoken to or been spoken to by them anywhere I lived, because people IRL generally keep to themselves and just talking to random strangers is pretty weird all in all.

  With your usage of the word “community” in “community centre” i just figured it’s an extremely old timey generic way to generically refer to a settlement, including cities, towns, residential areas/neighbourhoods, districts, zones, boroughs, areas and other localities.

  In that case I’m not sure how OP is using the word community because I don’t know how I’d do anything with literally random collections of people on the street lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom is down 🎉⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you have apps that will use their own DNS silently instead of the NS you point them to…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read this in a dumb voice in my head, it sounded kinda like goofy but like, lower pitch. So I’m gonna say you’re wrong, and I’m the smarterest bye bye XoXo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’ll just give more seats to reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …Yeah? At least I don’t think I do. English is my second language so maybe I’m missing some nuance here, but no I have never heard of a “community” IRL.

  A community to me is just members of something like an online forum or a subreddit or subscribers of a content creator. I’m not that young either, I remember being on IRC back in the day and I’d call that a community.

  People I know IRL are disparate acquaintances and friends and friends of friends, none of them know each other or share anything in common, so I don’t think that’s a “community”.

  People at work are coworkers. Neighbours are just people forced to cohabit nearby due to finite amounts of land, you’re usually enemies with them or on friendly terms, so that’s not community.

  Most of the time I hear “community” it’s a dog whistle meant to make something sound more polite than “people” so e.g. “LGBTQ community” - there is no such thing, it’s just people, but no one would read articles saying “LGBTQ people fight for rights” because that sounds too sad, so they say “community” or e.g. “migrant community”. It’s a euphemism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How am I meant to fuck off from work for an hour to go to the store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AHH, makes sense then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Says the mold. Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think and seeing as most people who all go to the same schools with the same programs never learnt it, I don’t think schools have much of a part in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I don’t think my example is an extreme, like I work from home every single day and have always done so, there are no longer stores around me that sells any electronics, and as I don’t drive, I get it delivered, which is the primary and most of the time the only way of buying anything that isn’t groceries for me these days.

  If anything my example is an extremely down to earth grass-touch-core argument about the basic material realities of problems with their their absolutist rhetoric.

  I agree with you though, I don’t drive and I hate cars anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My pin is on mold. So many young people I know today in the UK live around mold or likely have mold hiding somewhere due to living in old buildings, likely because it’s the only choice they have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Define community. I genuinely want to know because I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of a community that wasn’t on reference to online forums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I guess we’re gonna have a far right government next election then when this is inevitably dragged out until the rich can buy the election by drumming up enough hate to make the average Brit spit in their tea if they thought it’d make immigrants/transes/youth sad.

  I’m sorry to soapbox about politics in a tech thread, but this charade of “law and order” and endless debate about the actual merits of the actual lawsuit under the actual law are so tiresome when these corpos just bypass this shit anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How are deliveries going to work, exactly? If I order a computer, what, I can’t have it anymore because some dumb ecofash said so? And before you go all “hurr durr go 2 ze store” I can’t, I WFH, as should everyone who can, in part - to save the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Including myself you absolute dense motherfucker. Did you read the thousands of other retards making this same point ITT before you and really decide to say it again? Or can you not read? Go fuck yourself either way. Blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is it. Gboard autocorrect has felt shittier to me recently as well, so I turned it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you fucking dense? I just told you that I’m also ESL, I don’t make such typos, it’s no excuse at all and makes it make not an iota more sense than saying the pigs are flying hence people’s spelling fell off a fucking cliff.

  Lemmy is def not it, I moved here a year or more ago, the spelling has gotten very bad very recently and I only use this platform pretty much and this is where I’ve seen it the most by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So true. People are likely being fucked up by poor autocorrect algos, as I noticed even mine messing up and turned it off outright, because I blind type like 89wpm on my phone anyway so I’m fine without it. Then they’re defending it like ignorant fools that they are, reasoning backwards and perpetuating anti-intellectualism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That in itself is discriminatory, I have ADHD but it doesn’t mean I’m retarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes yes you and many others have pointed this dumb take out already. I’m also a second language English speaker, and no one in my family even speaks English or ever has, and I’d never make a mistake like this.