bearboiblake
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
To be fair, destructive scanning isn’t like they destroy it for no reason - to scan a book quickly you need to remove all of the leaves from the binding (this operation is usually irreversible) and feed them into an automatic document feeder scanner. If you need high quality scans of a physical book it’s really the only way to go.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
When Donald Trump is put on trial, the stenographers do not need to comprehend what he’s trying to say as long as they can make out the sounds he is making - and if anything is unclear, he will be asked to repeat it.
I doubt it’ll matter much at his trial, but he is of course free to say whatever he wants before a jury deliberates on their verdict. I’m sure he’ll not give them much to think about.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Do you remember after 9/11 and 7/7 how Indian and Pakistani (and frankly, any non-white) people living in Britain were treated? That attitude went away for a while, but came back with a vengeance. In many places around the UK, people of colour face really severe discrimination. I don’t live in Germany, so I can’t say which is worse, but I imagine both are pretty bad tbh
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Oh yeah, for sure, no doubt - if there was any funding available for such programmes. All the research on this points pretty conclusively towards prioritising getting unhoused people into stable accomodation first and foremost, it’s impossible to recover from PTSD living on the streets for example, and we would also need a robust public health focused approach to drugs, e.g. decriminalizing drugs and treating them as a health issue rather than a criminal one. That, plus funding the NHS appropriately, esp. mental health, would work miracles and change so many people’s lives.
But instead the bastards running the show would rather loot the public purse for all it’s worth to line their pockets before getting a cushy 6 figure job as a lobbyist.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Does she spot problematic patterns more among people who have poor English than those who have fluent English? I’m sure your mum is lovely, really I do not mean any disrespect, but I really suspect that subconscious bias may be playing a major role, here - it’s easy for out-groups to stand out and to see a pattern which isn’t really there - it’s just how our brains function.
In the full interests of fairness, I also do know that some people who speak ESL do sometimes weaponize their issues with English if they think it could benefit them, e.g. pretending not to understand something they actually do. In their defense I would probably do the same thing if I could get away with it tbh
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
The UK pretty consistently scores low compared to other emigration destination countries, and Germany consistently scores higher, actually.
This is one of the mainstream media’s favourite pieces of propaganda. “we’re a soft touch, that’s why migrants come here!” it’s just completely transparently wrong, the reason migrants come here over other countries is because there used to be a British Empire that colonized half the world and as a result lots of people speak far better English than they do German or Swedish. Most of the countries people migrate from we had some hand in destabilizing too.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
God I hope you’re right, but idk, I can imagine that Telegraph readers self-select for bot aspirancy.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
I’m picking up a vibe that their ethnicity might be something she mentions, am I right? Not being accusatory or anything here, just trying to have an honest conversation.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of.
Oh, actually, this isn’t true, usually it’s because they speak English. The UK is quite a nasty place for immigrants.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
a lot of the rough sleepers they come across aren’t really helping themselves nor extremely interested in actually getting help
Unhoused people more often than not have quite a series of issues which are at odds with them helping themselves or proactively seeking help. I think this is the issue with most cases like this where people think others are “exploiting” the system, simply because they don’t know what it’s like to live that person’s life, you know what I mean?
Either way, no matter how many people really do abuse benefits, it doesn’t come anywhere close to the exploitation that the ruling class subject us to.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 day ago:
The amount of SS troops who ended up unable to continue due to the mental after effects is staggering.
I’m interested to learn more about this, could you point me in the right direction?
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Her bitterness about it stems from the fact that many of the families doing it aren’t that integrated into society.
Can you clarify what you mean by this?
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Anyways, this sounds pretty good to me. It genuinely sounds like they’re taking accessibility seriously, and their approach sounds pretty well considered to the needs of everyone.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 day ago:
Telegraph commenters are truly the most revolting, ignorant people of all time.
TW: ableism
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
be proud of yourself for who you are, find happiness in a life you choose, and live without regrets, that’s all any good parent could ever hope or dream for
- Comment on ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use 2 days ago:
I strongly recommend against using bluetooth connectivity unless completely necessary. Bluetooth is used for tracking, monitoring and detection. It is very precise. Your position can be triangulated with it and tracked in real spacetime using hardware that costs literally less than $5 without any warrant, license or restriction.
I strongly recommend getting USB-C adapter for headphones and opting out of smart wearables which rely on bluetooth.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 2 days ago:
The media didn’t fail at all, it worked exactly as intended.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 2 days ago:
evil never dies unless we make it
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 2 days ago:
I’m not making the argument to you that Epstein for sure killed himself, I’m making the argument to you that this specific claim you made:
He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over.
was completely and obviously incorrect. You can believe whatever you want about Epstein’s death, but if this man had survived, he would not have seen any kind of justice with the level of power and influence he had, and if you believe otherwise you’re either not paying attention or you’re delusional.
- Comment on Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps 2 days ago:
At a certain point, you’re fucked anyways - if the administration goes even further fascist eventually they’ll connect you to SOMETHING, even if it’s some asshole ex co-worker telling the Gestapo they once overheard you speaking critically about President Tucker Carlson. Opsec is important and should be taken seriously, but we need to always keep our security and safety in perspective, and always keep in mind that the security/safety we feel from the status quo is 99% illusory.
- Comment on Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps 2 days ago:
Most of these apps were probably put together in a massive rush in response to people suddenly becoming aware of the threat that ICE poses. My guess would be that the most egregious security flaws are a result of vibe-coded (i.e. AI generated) code where it really shouldn’t be.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 2 days ago:
He had blackmail material on politicians, authors, billionaires, thought leaders, presidents and princes. If I was in his place, I’d be sitting pretty comfortably, thinking “there’s no way they can take me down with the justice system without taking themselves down too. I’m too big to fail.” literally the only risk would be being assassinated by those you have blackmail material on.
how is this not obvious?
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 2 days ago:
Trump isn’t the problem, the problem is twofold - firstly, Trump won the popular vote, meaning that at least half of active voters voted for a totally incompetent fascist. This suggests a slightly more competent fascist would be even more successful.
The second problem is that the system that makes fascism inevitable will remain in place and no amount of voting will ever dismantle that system, because the powerful & wealthy ruling class work very hard to ensure the system that keeps them wealthy & powerful stays that way.
The only way to change the system is to dismantle it completely.
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 1 week ago:
My point is that we need to recognize that Fascism is already here and that we need to accept that democracy has failed us here. We need to fight for a better world, we can’t just vote our way out of this.
Clapping our hands and saying “I do believe in Democracy!” won’t bring it back.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
if you’re still scared of china at this point the propaganda has unfortunately broken through and taken root in your brain stem, i’m sorry, there’s very little any of us can do to help you
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
mate… the US is by far the most evil country on the international stage, the whole china scare stuff was the US telling everyone what they’ve been doing to US-owned social media all along… this is nothing new or surprising, if you’re just now waking up to this reality I’m sorry you’ve been asleep for so long, but I’m sorry to let you know this is gonna get worse before it gets better. The only chance the US has of avoiding falling deeper into fascism is to have a socialist revolution.
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 1 week ago:
People’s trust in democracy SHOULD BE 0%. It’s all fake, it always has been. It’s an illusion of control for us, so we don’t resist and try to break free of the open-air prison we live in.
Revolution is the only way out.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
there is no satisfaction in being proven right for this shit, the vindication is absolutely hollow. It sucks for everyone.
- Comment on The #1 trick Furries dont want you to know! 2 weeks ago:
but what if you’re a species that hates water, please be more considerate & inclusive /j
- Comment on Lose yourself 2 weeks ago:
it also facilitates AI ingress and usage, so it’s not all upsides
