FishFace
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- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 1 hour ago:
Fair enough, thanks for the chat
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 2 hours ago:
I don’t think it’s too much speculation, because opinion polling found that the public was broadly in favour of age verification. It’s a mistake to think that politicians must automatically know (and agree with) things that the public don’t know.
Sure, puritanism means that politicians aren’t going to leap the defence of porn sites and their business models. But that angle is rather different - and I think contradictory - to the one you started with. You said that the government was told that it won’t work; if that really was the solid argument you presented it as, wouldn’t that imply they couldn’t possibly be in favour of OSA for anti-porn reasons? After all, they ought to believe it won’t actually work to reduce access to porn, right?
Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 hours ago:
What makes you think that, because someone will have told the government something, that means they believe them? That’s always the missing link in this argument.
It’s what makes me think it’s a failure to mentalise other people. “It’s so obvious” I imagine you thinking, “anyone can see that it won’t work!”
But no, not anyone can. Some people are dumb. Some people are smart but have a blind spot.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 3 hours ago:
But it’s like I’ve said before, this isn’t about preventing kids seeing porn; it’s about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.
This is bollocks and lazy thinking.
It is about preventing kids from seeing porn, but the people who support this lack the knowledge and intelligence to understand that it does more harm than good.
- Comment on A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE. 4 hours ago:
If your post is poignant, sad and truthful, it’s not a shitpost.
- Comment on Currency 10 hours ago:
The dollar is backed by being able to exchange it for not going to prison for tax dodging
- Comment on Police to get 40 new live facial recognition vans and AI help in sweeping reforms 1 day ago:
Palantir supplying ICE leads to the direct harm of ICE busting down your door and shooting you ten times in the back out of self-defence. That’s not just corps “gathering data” that’s law enforcement committing abuse. In the same way, if we in the UK give the police facial recognition technology it could be used to commit abuse.
That’s a far greater potential for harm than just “oh no, details of my face are on Google’s servers”.
- Comment on Police to get 40 new live facial recognition vans and AI help in sweeping reforms 1 day ago:
Are you more worried by American corps “gathering data” rather than the potential for actual, physical misuse of data in the UK? What are the corpos gonna do, advertise to you?
- Comment on It's a Furby! 2 days ago:
Furbies are already cursed so who the fuck knows what this is.
- Comment on Penetration 3 days ago:
But can it easily penetrate me? I dare you to try!
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 3 days ago:
It’s “left wing” because the buildings are identical, because they were built through central planning.
- Comment on Spliit – Open-source, self-hostable alternative to Splitwise 5 days ago:
When I started living in a shared house I wrote a Python+GTK app to split bills. It worked but it’s shonky as hell. It was my first time writing a database schema!
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 5 days ago:
That’s what I’m saying yes
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 5 days ago:
But id cards, which might actually be useful, are unthinkable!
- Comment on Discord expands age verification id system to more regions 6 days ago:
Could you make the article the URL of the post?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Saying that gravitational waves (which were observed in 2015) are the “cause” of gravity is like saying light is the “cause” of electromagnetism.
Your characterisation of dark matter as “not having been observed” is one of degree and one of terminology. There is evidence that something causes stronger gravitational lensing than can be accounted for by otherwise-observed matter, but this gravitational lensing (alongside other things) is an observation. How then has this phenomenon “not been observed”?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
According to what you said, gravity is matter, since gravity exists.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
The only matter you’ve proven to exist is your own consciousness, so that’s not saying much.
Since you’ve defined matter to be everything that exists, you must believe that whatever is the explanation for dark matter is matter, since it exists.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
So, dark matter is matter?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
How do you know you’re made of matter?
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 6 days ago:
Logograms like Chinese characters are not 1:1 symbol to word; they stand for morphemes, not words. Some words are morphemes, but most words consist of more than one.
Chinese script evolved from a pictographic script, just as the Latin script evolved from a pictographic script. You have to go through a chain in either case.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think people disagree because they disagree with the very idea of religion, and don’t like it being pointed out that religious people exist and do things differently. Saying that people read the Bible “as history” was deliberately vague to encompass multiple ways in which it is read, but one irrefutable one is that Christians read it as history in exactly the way you’re saying it isn’t.
The fact that people may be interpreting what I said not to mean “Christians read the Bible as historical fact” but “The Bible is historical fact” is for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That would have been reasonable but I wanted to also encompass the way in which a Christian would read the bible, because asking such a question needs to have that pointed out. I have close friends and relatives who are religious, and don’t want to people to essentially deny that they exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- When you read a document as history, you absolutely should not have the mindset that everything in the document is true. If you read the historical documents that were used to convict Albert Dreyfus, you should bear in mind the possibility that they were forged… because they were. But they’re still historical.
- There are over 2 billion Christians in the world who believe the Bible to be more-or-less historical. It is unlikely most of them believe in the literal truth of all of it, but that’s still essentially how they read it. The OP shouldn’t have asked the question if they didn’t want to hear an honest answer.
If you think that because I answered “as history” to the question “how else would you read the Bible” that I must believe in its historical truth (either in the normal manner of a Christian, or in the insane manner that everything in it must be completely true) you’d be wrong. I just answered the question.
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 1 week ago:
Indeed, but he understood the concept of writing already, and several existing scripts (besides Chinese) were known to him and his court, so he could consciously take those ideas and work with them.
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 1 week ago:
OK, but if we’re talking about origins then the Latin script ultimately descends from Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were also originally pictographic, hence 1:1 symbol:word (but evolved and so were much more complicated than just pictographs when they stopped being used)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You asked
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 1 week ago:
It means there almost certainly never was such a genius.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As history
- Comment on Half of UK's grassroot music venues make no profit 1 week ago:
In a world where AI can make passable music, it’ll be less and less about maximising cashflow and more and more about fulfilling innate human need.