TheLeadenSea

@TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The notion that "old is bad and new is good" is a seriously damaging part of western capitalism brainwashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both appeal to tradition and appeal to novelty are harmful. An idea should be evaluated on its own merits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for E-Book Reader⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreraFD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for teaching me about this!

  Source is anyone else was interested

• Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...
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• The two types of peoplesh.itjust.works ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Lobby Pushes For Age Verification Checks For VPN Use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they do. But the VPNs people use to bypass the law will just ignore the law anyway, especially ones such as Tor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever heard of Marisa Coulter from His Dark Materials? Just to add to all the other examples people have given

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Science works best when information is not restricted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC apologises to xenophobic Jendrick, because it accidentally broadcast the truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lord Dubs, who came to the UK from Prague, said: “I think anything that encourages hostility and is undermining mutual respect, undermining compassion, is xenophobic in its intent and xenophobic in its consequences. And that’s not the sort of thing we would expect a senior politician in the Tory party to be talking about.

  It’s exactly what I’d expect them to talk about. I don’t know why you’d have high expectations of Conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia restricts calls via WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest step to control the internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is coming to Europe soon if people don’t get their act together against the Online ‘Safety’ Act and its copies. A temporary workaround could be installing GrapheneOS on your Pixel phone in Russia, and using Tor and Signal in the meantime to access the internet, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition to send a swimming pool to the moon!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  verity.news/…/scientists-develop-moon-soil-tech-f…

  They might not need to send water to the moon, they could just extract it from the soil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you-know-who singing you-know-what

  Voldemort singing the philosopher’s stone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most babies are Indian or Chinese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iconic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha males⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are not only two personalities

  both men and women

  There are also not only two genders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe check!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ADDA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is something regular people need to know, put this in the Perchance community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Misinformation is still a form of information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you went to an island, and formed a new country and forcibly inject everyone there with a drug that makes them happy, you new country could surpass Finland as the "Happiest country in the world"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hard part would be finding a place to make your country that would be legally recognised as not part of another country’s territory. Maybe construct an artificial island in the ocean, or a floating island made of essentially large boats, or settle in Antarctica and hope when the treaty goes up for renewal you can get recognised?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it is true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Historical precedent has shown that people generally revolt once they don’t have access to basic necessities, such as food. If you can only get necessities through work, in capitalism, and the majority of people don’t have work, so they don’t have work, so they revolt and take the food for all of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, there will be a socialist revolution and the people will take the AIs from the ownership class to work for all of us, so we have to work less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the UK, as the parliament is made up of local representatives. They should be two different people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s even more unfair is area based voting, where your individual vote doesn’t count to affect the government, you instead vote for a local representative which in turn effects the government. Your vote for president or prime minister should be direct, not a postcode lottery even without gerrymandering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now it's stuck in your head too. You're welcome.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  01 I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves
  02 I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves
  03 I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves
  04 And this is how it goes… 05 GOTO 01

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number of times a person mentions ChatGPT in a random conversation might work as a rule of thumb to measure her intelligence (inverse proportion, of course)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The default pronoun is they though, not he. I would have put the exact same comment if they’d used he.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number of times a person mentions ChatGPT in a random conversation might work as a rule of thumb to measure her intelligence (inverse proportion, of course)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to remind you of the existence of the pronoun ‘they’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the site controlled by Spez that’s blocked for people who are in the UK and are under 18 or don’t want to violate their privacy to verify their age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes even less sense in the UK where 16 year olds can legally vote and consent to sex, but not listen to explicit songs on Spotify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were reincarnated, wouldn't it be elsewhere in the universe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like that story as it is a profoundly scary idea that I have to experience all human suffering in billions of lives.