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by Latty 5y ago
Even if we ignore the fact this is a nonsense non-issue that isn't solved by the "solution" of forcing people into bathrooms by biological sex rather than gender identity, it's still nonsense. You've just created
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by Latty 5y ago
It's really not complex. "Trans women are women" is directly comparable to "Adoptive parents are parents". It is a statement that biology is not the important factor generally, identity is. The supposed fear that pe
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by Latty 5y ago
> The university should only allow speakers that the students agree with? I was very clear that was not what I was saying, I said literally the opposite, so it seems like you didn't even bother reading my post. > The university h
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by Latty 5y ago
The students have a right to freedom of expression in protest. The University should absolutely be providing speakers that challenge the student's views and offer ideas they may not agree with, but that's an educational decision
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by Latty 5y ago
By this logic, it would be fine if they were infertile, which is obvious nonsense. Sexual assault does not hit some magic breaking point where it becomes an unacceptable risk at the chance of impregnation. If there is a significant risk of
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by Latty 5y ago
Then why did you present it as a zero-sum game where you were quite willing to suggest putting trans-women into a situation you find unconscionable for cis-women? You have thoroughly proved the original poster's point: TERF talking poi
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by Latty 5y ago
Someone having a right to say something doesn't mean they are entitled to every platform to broadcast it. Not everyone can go and speak at a University, there is not enough time and space for that to be viable, just as not everyone can
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by Latty 5y ago
This begs the question of why it is acceptable for men and trans women to be raped, but unacceptable for cis women to be raped? There is no justification for accepting any prison rape—or, for that matter, sexual assault, which cis women a
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by Latty 5y ago
Even beyond that, a cis woman can sexually assault another woman (Rape has different definitions depending on where you are, but clearly the distinction is irrelevant—sexual assault isn't inherently of a different impact, just differen
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by Latty 5y ago
Indeed, well said. Even outside of the realm of gender, the rhetoric of biological essentialism is harmful. When I see people say things like "biology is what is real", I think about the harm done to every adopted child who is bei
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by Latty 5y ago
It seems to me he states pretty clearly that his issue is the support burden, not some paternalism over users: > If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to
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by Latty 5y ago
When they offered to fork it completely to avoid the issue and he rejected that, it really just looks bad. I get being done with something when you've had a bad experience, but the maintainers here went to every effort to accommodate
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by Latty 5y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of the way they bin chips and segment the market, I was talking about "not having" the capability. As I understand it, the ability to re-enable parts isn't really a thing any more. It was true historicall
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by Latty 5y ago
CGP Grey, Practical Engineering, Real Engineering, Real Science, Tom Scott, Johnny Harris, NileRed for some others in a similar vein.
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by Latty 5y ago
Another one with some relevance right now in an era where GPUs are hard to get is "F" which signifies that it doesn't have an integrated GPU.
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by Latty 5y ago
Same deal. I've switched everything I can to USB-C, and so far had literally zero issues. Obviously my phone charger will charge a laptop more slowly, but I had that issue with micro-USB and Kindle chargers that couldn't charge a
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by Latty 5y ago
You can't imagine anything else affecting it? There is a pandemic, young people are increasingly struggling to move out of their parents houses, and young people are increasingly not able to afford to go out and socialise as much. If I
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by Latty 5y ago
Linux users can set up a compose key and the default is Compose, -, -, . for – (en-dash) and Compose, -, -, - for — (em-dash).
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by Latty 5y ago
I wonder why I see the take "I don't use this thing/see the value, therefore it is bad and shouldn't exist." so much more on HN than anywhere else? It's such a weird view.
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by Latty 5y ago
"We don't need them because it has downsides for me." is an argument for Unions, not against them. The fact that he accepts the need/value for workers in a union, then completely ignores that to say they are not need
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by Latty 5y ago
A necessary fuel transfer, at least, wouldn't make sense. If fuel was needed to come back, sending it down and back again would have just meant wasting more fuel for no benefit to lug it there and back again.
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by Latty 6y ago
Oh, for sure. I'm just saying that "they don't use DRM, therefore they care about privacy and we should support them" isn't going to hold. I agree no DRM is better, but as you say, there is more to privacy than that
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by Latty 6y ago
Shame GOG don't care about your privacy. When they published a profile page for you without asking first, leaking your personal data and what games you owned to anyone you had friended before, I contacted them and they just straight up
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by Latty 6y ago
There is a CSS media query "update" that would in theory allow sites to switch from scrolling to pagination with CSS on devices that do slower updates like e-ink. Unfortunately no browser seems to support it yet. https:/&#x2
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by Latty 6y ago
This a false equivalence. Adults in countries with statutory rape laws have a responsibility placed upon them by the law not to have sex with minors, if they do so, they are breaking the law and—at least—endangering minors by giving cover t
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by Latty 6y ago
Legally (at least in a lot of countries), you were incapable of consent. This is a trade off between rights and protecting people, and a reasonable one. The adult you had sex with broke the law, and endangered people. Just because you actua
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by Latty 6y ago
Another post on this that just says that the other claims are spurious without actually addressing them, equates Stallman and the entire FOSS community, and then says "there is room for difference of opinion". Of course there is,
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by Latty 6y ago
You can absolutely claim he was wrong, we are talking about a case where it was assault. A minor can't consent under the law. Claiming it was consensual is an excuse that the laws specifically says does not hold because it abusers will
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by Latty 6y ago
The "only one"? It doesn't matter if other people might do the right thing, if he doesn't, he shouldn't hold the position. If someone reads this, it makes them think they won't be taken seriously when they come
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by Latty 6y ago
Sure, replace the word "child" with "minor" or whatever, I'm not a lawyer here, it's clear what I mean from context. The point is that once the rules are set, you follow them because to do otherwise means eithe

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