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  1. Comment on Trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference in ~lgbt

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    I'll edit this comment to be more comprehensive (I should sleep and I can't watch the video now), but I wanted to thank you for being the only one who considered that I could just unfamiliar with...

    I'll edit this comment to be more comprehensive (I should sleep and I can't watch the video now), but I wanted to thank you for being the only one who considered that I could just unfamiliar with the group (you're right!). I do not support or defend them ot their stances at all, I simply didn't look them up and wrote my comment based on the activists' action and the way the article dismissed transition dangers.

    Honestly I'm a bit surprised people are jumping at me for supporting the group when it was not at all what I intended or even wrote. :-/ I suppose not explicitly denouncing them is being interpreted as support?

    11 votes

  2. Comment on Trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference in ~lgbt

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    I want to make it very clear that I don't defend or support the group that organised the event, as I'm not familiar with it. Rereading my comment, I don't see how I'm defending the group behind...

    I want to make it very clear that I don't defend or support the group that organised the event, as I'm not familiar with it. Rereading my comment, I don't see how I'm defending the group behind the conference?

    My main point stands as - very boiled down - you should not dump live insects on listeners of a conference you don't like or disagree with, especially regarding a very important topic. My comment was just looking at the action combined with the way the article handwaved the dangers of medically transitioning.

    (To make it very clear again - I'm not at all defending the group's actions or stances, I did not look them up prior to commenting. Please do not think I'm supporting them simply because I disagree with the action these activists took.)

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference in ~lgbt

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    I don't think this is the heroic feat the article makes it out to be. Disrupting a conference with the intention of it being canceled, using thousands of live insects to prevent talks from being...

    I don't think this is the heroic feat the article makes it out to be. Disrupting a conference with the intention of it being canceled, using thousands of live insects to prevent talks from being hosted... because the conference does not align with the activists' views? Would an article titled "anti-trans activists release 6,000 crickets at trans conference" be written in the same positive light? No, it would be rightfully condemned - as should also be done in this case.

    The group released approximately 6,000 crickets [...] just before a talk on the “dangers” of medical transition [...]

    Why is "dangers" in quotation marks? There are very real dangers involved with medical transition - surgery and hormones. Subreddits about trans surgery have people posting and looking for reviews on surgery doctors - because the surgeries performed on people who want to transition are complex. Not every surgery goes well, and not every issue can be rectified with follow-up surgeries.
    Trivializing these dangers by putting it in quotation marks shows that - in my opinion - the article is written from the point of view where anything not strictly positive about trans surgeries is instantly negative and transphobic. This type of surgery and process calls for an especially transparent and open nature of sharing and discussing information and outcomes, since it is not something you can undo.

    This ends up hurting people who are looking into transitioning when they are only exposed to positive anecdotes and feedback about transitioning - as attempts to talk about anything else (such as this conference and talk) are targeted - cancelled - and the people responsible hailed as heroes in articles like these.

    13 votes

  4. Comment on A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark's Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic into Danish in ~humanities.languages

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    Sorry, I don't understand. It says they're allowed to speak in their native tongue?

    God forbid an Inuit person from Greenland be able to watch and understand what's happening

    Sorry, I don't understand. It says they're allowed to speak in their native tongue?

    10 votes

  5. Comment on Performance Improvements in .NET 9 in ~comp

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    It's a very long page, so you might need to visit in on a PC. Though it works fine for me on Firefox on Android (on a budget phone).

    It's a very long page, so you might need to visit in on a PC. Though it works fine for me on Firefox on Android (on a budget phone).

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Joe Biden calls Volodymyr Zelensky 'Putin' right before huge press conference in ~society

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    He then went on to call Kamala Harris 'Vice President Trump'. Link

    He then went on to call Kamala Harris 'Vice President Trump'. Link

    20 votes

  9. Comment on What are your predictions for 2024? in ~talk

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    Thanks for the link to last year's post, I added the last two prediction threads to the post body.

    Thanks for the link to last year's post, I added the last two prediction threads to the post body.

    6 votes

  10. What are your predictions for 2024?

    ~talk Ask (survey)

    It's 2024 (sometime) soon, and I'm curious - what are your predictions for the next year? I don't have any specific topic in mind, so feel free to predict whatever. 2023 post 2022 post

    46 votes

  11. Comment on Six months from now this channel stops in ~tech

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    I searched the video ID on Google because the video is now private, and was actually linked to this thread. Does anyone know why it's now private? Did Tom change his mind? I couldn't find anything...

    I searched the video ID on Google because the video is now private, and was actually linked to this thread. Does anyone know why it's now private? Did Tom change his mind? I couldn't find anything in my (admittedly very brief) search.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" in ~hobbies

  15. Comment on Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - September 7 in ~news

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    Elon Musk confirms disruption of Ukrainian drone attack on Russian fleet in Crimea and claims necessity for truce: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/8/7418936/

    Elon Musk confirms disruption of Ukrainian drone attack on Russian fleet in Crimea and claims necessity for truce: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/8/7418936/

    10 votes

  16. Comment on CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking in ~tech

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    Wouldn't sending a noindex header for these articles achieve the same thing, while keeping links alive?

    Wouldn't sending a noindex header for these articles achieve the same thing, while keeping links alive?

    4 votes

  17. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    That's certainly one way to flush 17 years of branding and recognizability down the drain.

    That's certainly one way to flush 17 years of branding and recognizability down the drain.

    77 votes

  18. Comment on Cloud Servers for the Broke in ~comp

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    Make sure you keep the data backed up!

    Make sure you keep the data backed up!

    12 votes

  19. Comment on I'm finally biting the bullet and investing in laser eye surgery, anything I should know? in ~health