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  1. Comment on Two-thirds of anti-vax propaganda online created by just twelve influencers, research finds in ~health

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    What's weird to me is that this article is on sky.com, a former Murdoch property, fountain of engagement-over-truth, and the equivalent of Fox News in the parts of the world that don't watch Fox News

    What's weird to me is that this article is on sky.com, a former Murdoch property, fountain of engagement-over-truth, and the equivalent of Fox News in the parts of the world that don't watch Fox News

    8 votes

  2. Comment on After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful in ~tech

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    Hooray for business models getting in the way of actually delivering value

    Hooray for business models getting in the way of actually delivering value

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Classic social networking in 2022: SpaceHey in ~tech

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    Seems like there’s nothing here to stop it from eventually becoming just as problematic as Twitter or Facebook Doesn’t seem to have federation/decentralisation, and doesn’t seem to be open-source...

    Seems like there’s nothing here to stop it from eventually becoming just as problematic as Twitter or Facebook

    Doesn’t seem to have federation/decentralisation, and doesn’t seem to be open-source

    Neat, but not for me (yet)

  5. Comment on Leeks, tropicalizers, and cutting the soap: A guide to global startup slang in ~finance

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    Technology, finance, startup culture — all of these communities have developed their own language, with slang and jargon so common that they’ve passed into wider use. (What is a “platform,”...

    Technology, finance, startup culture — all of these communities have developed their own language, with slang and jargon so common that they’ve passed into wider use. (What is a “platform,” anyway?)

    It’s no different outside the Anglosphere, where an array of unique terms and phrases adopted by startups around the world have come into fashion. Here’s our guide to decoding some of the more notable (and notorious) terms.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t in ~science

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    Those who have opposed climate science’s conclusions—they’re a broad menagerie, including scientists in different fields, politics-obsessed bloggers, and think-tank employees—have also been squawking long enough for predictions to be tested. Despite their alternate-reality insistence that climate science never predicted anything, these contrarians don't spend much time showing off their own predictions’ track record.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on New research shows a vast majority of cis people won't date trans people in ~lgbt

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    To clarify, I'm not saying I've come up with the galaxy-brain perfect understanding here, this is just where I'm at at the moment, thank you for litigating this with me to focus my thinking It may...

    To clarify, I'm not saying I've come up with the galaxy-brain perfect understanding here, this is just where I'm at at the moment, thank you for litigating this with me to focus my thinking

    It may help to focus on the reason here: if the rejection is based on someone identifying as transgender, and honestly not for any other reason, then that seems like transphobic behaviour to me

    5 votes

  10. Comment on New research shows a vast majority of cis people won't date trans people in ~lgbt

  11. Comment on New research shows a vast majority of cis people won't date trans people in ~lgbt

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    First point is about rejection based on whether someone was born not matching your genital preference even if they currently match your genital preference e.g. fixated on their genital history...

    First point is about rejection based on whether someone was born not matching your genital preference even if they currently match your genital preference e.g. fixated on their genital history

    Second point is about rejection based on whether they currently match your genital preference, purely about the present, e.g. fixated on their current genitals

    4 votes

  12. Comment on New research shows a vast majority of cis people won't date trans people in ~lgbt

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    I was commenting in the broader sense, e.g. sexism, "gender" reveal parties, gender roles, blue versus pink colours having specific associations, etc I understand that genital preferences for...

    fixation on other people's genitals is increasingly weird to me, and individuals ought to dig deep and really think about why we personally feel the way we do and whether it's useful and healthy

    I may have misunderstood what you were suggesting here? I'm not sure of another way to read it though.

    I was commenting in the broader sense, e.g. sexism, "gender" reveal parties, gender roles, blue versus pink colours having specific associations, etc

    I understand that genital preferences for sexual encounters are a thing, but in my life I am 99% of the time not actively engaging in a sexual encounter, so there's no need to fixate on other people's genitals and what it does or doesn't mean for 99% of my life :)

    Your genitals only matter to you personally, or to a medical professional, or to a sexual partner, and are not anybody's business outside of these specific situations

    1 vote

  13. Comment on New research shows a vast majority of cis people won't date trans people in ~lgbt

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    This is a discussion that pops up occasionally in my circles (entirely cis, boo) Where I've landed is: it's not transphobic if you are looking for a partner to create biological children with, and...

    This is a discussion that pops up occasionally in my circles (entirely cis, boo)

    Where I've landed is:

    • it's not transphobic if you are looking for a partner to create biological children with, and you are upfront about this with your dates, because that way you're rejecting based upon biological-compatibility and procreative-fitness (e.g. anyone who already knows they can't sire/bear children with you)

    • dating for fun/sex is an entirely separate endeavour than looking to start a biological family, and in this situation it is definitely transphobic to reject a partner who matches your genital preference, if your rejection is honestly because they weren't born that way

    • if you are rejecting someone specifically because they do not match your genital preference, then I'm stumped here, I think much of this is likely unnecessary/harmful social constructs (e.g. caring more about what your friends think than whether you actually might like someone), so I think some of the time (maybe most of the time) this happens it might be transphobic, and sometimes maybe not

    • fixation on other people's genitals is increasingly weird to me, and individuals ought to dig deep and really think about why we personally feel the way we do and whether it's useful and healthy

    • fixation on biological children is increasingly weird to me, and individuals ought to dig deep and really think about why we personally feel the way we do and whether it's useful and healthy

    Anyhow, this is one of those things I'm still learning/thinking about, and definitely open to discussing or learning further

    10 votes

  14. Comment on Security tips for online LGBTQ+ dating in ~lgbt

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    These are good online tips for anyone risking harassment or threats to physical safety

    These are good online tips for anyone risking harassment or threats to physical safety

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Rust in the Android platform in ~tech

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    I didn't even consider this, oops I just assume that for Android userland they'd have "app" or NDK or SDK in the title, I understood "platform" to mean something beneath those things :shrug:

    I didn't even consider this, oops

    I just assume that for Android userland they'd have "app" or NDK or SDK in the title, I understood "platform" to mean something beneath those things :shrug:

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Rust in the Android platform in ~tech

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    In addition to memory-safe languages like Kotlin and Java, we’re excited to announce that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.

    1 vote

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  20. Comment on Mask up! How to choose and maintain the best masks for use against COVID-19 in ~health

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    To that end, we've updated our guide with new insights on double-masking, the best options for double-masking effectively, links to legitimate and regularly-priced N95 masks, and some of the latest information on overall mask studies.

    3 votes