Vulgar conduct isn’t about representation. And “the people” are having their brains cooked by hysterical unregulated algorithms pushing fear and division.

Pfft

If you have something of substance to say (coherently), I’m happy to listen.

I’m torn on this one, because I think we are complicit for not doing the basics of deleting our accounts. We learned about how powerful boycotts are in school as teenagers.

I get that they buy up all the competition, but for most people these are luxuries rather than essentials.

I don’t think the EU will fail functionally. It has already failed morally and legally.

I couldn’t have said it better. Some people are genuinely not suited to it without other interventions first, but for everyone else, it’s basic mental hygiene.

Can you look the other way while we do business-as-usual with genocidal entities? That’s the main requirement these days.

Until the far-right lead the dominant EU players such as Germany & France. We’re already up to our necks in genocide so I see no reason to expect basic decency in this context either.

This seems to mean that Meta can’t have the case dismissed. So I’m guessing that other companies who can demonstrate similar downloading patterns, or present similar evidence can also bring a case forward.

I’d imagine that the outcome of the case will be more telling.

Those don’t seem like seismic changes, but if the pace continues it could be significant. My main worry is that we end up with equally shitty companies just under a different jurisdiction.

You know that leading with benign parts doesn’t successfully hide the contradictions and unhinged parts later, right?

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon: Foreign asset.

The days of Having friends to make sketches like this with were so cool.

Yes, but I think radical reforms have been needed since he took office haven’t happened. They’ve gone backwards in some cases.

He has also broken ten of his election promises, IIRC. So I’m basically saying that when a laggard like himself complains, it has less credibility.

Thanks gods Starmer is on the case /s

Is this real?

it’s got fuck all to do with me.

And therein lies your problem. You’ve taken something which seriously affects women at large, and reduced it down to something about yourself.

Empathy can be learned (it’s in us already, just needs unimpeded space). It’s a higher-order form of intelligence that helps us understand the connections between things that are not mechanical, but rather living: each other.

Even for computer games, I hear stories of men smashing things up when they lose a game or have a certain interaction with another player. There’s an impotent rage lying in wait in many of us, and no man wants to confront their own sense of impotence.

Sincerely, if you can’t see that the trends of behaviours like this in men outpace women significantly, you have a heavily skewed view of the realities here.

There are other phenomena too that uniquely affect men, such as violence towards a spouse when the man’s team loses a sports game.

There is no equivalent for women at that scale. We as men have to own these realities.

They knew