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by throwaway53453 6y ago
First, I'm not some kind of shill who's "part of the UK anti-trans lobby". I'm not anti trans. What I am concerned about is damaging children's hormonal development and having them later regret it. > Some ad
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Read the article again. We know there are severe long term effects to a child's development, and there's been more than a few cases of people saying they regret it decades down the line.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
The corporation doesn't get loyalty, they get employees who will keep doing this in the future.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
I have been friends with a few trans folks in the past, and more than one has suggested that things are going too far. The prevailing opinion I get is they just want to be left alone (after going through what is a traumatic situation), but
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
No, I think there's clearly a large cohort of angry and armed Trumpers also looking for a fight. Just visit Facebook. But the ratio of 300:0 for right:left violence is clearly wrong.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
There's no such thing as white privilege. Only socioeconomic privilege.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
I dunno, I had a lot of friends from poorer families. Their computers were shared and usually not the best, but I never saw anyone without any access at all. Group projects were regularly done remotely on Skype after school to do homework (
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
> while antifa members haven't killed any https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an... Yesterday: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/imez-wrigh..
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
The right are not the ones cancelling people. It's better to have everyone fighting like hell than one side censored into oblivion.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
God help the mixed race people who have it from both the left and right...
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Unironically, which one is that then? Because as far as I can tell, both are armed and battering each other.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Yeah I'm agreeing. Undesirable wasn't meant to be literal.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Everything is a jewel if you look hard enough.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
> Knight of the UK Technically he's an " Officer of the Order of the British Empire", a bit anachronistic for sure :)
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
> "A shocking number of kids in the UK don't have meaningful connectivity." Growing up the UK, I don't think I ever had a classmate without internet connectivity at home. It would've been like not having electric
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Cancel culture ensures we basically have that already... How many times has an undesirable been unpersoned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube within hours?
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Tabloids has the same issue with transparency and scale. The media industry took a liking to pushing governments to war, whereas so far Facebook has proven to just hunger for money.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
To be honest, I think they've gotten so used to not using the switches they don't realise they're not working. Will be inconvenient if the internet goes down...
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
The other day I went to my parent's place. I literally couldn't turn the lights on because the Google Home there didn't recognise me. Smart things that add value are okay, but smart things with a single point of failure are j
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Agreed, but I get the feeling that many people here are fervent believers that adtech doesn't work/shouldn't exist, etc... so they tend to gloss over just how important monetization is. There is nothing with the distributive
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
Are you sure you're just not predictable? If HN had Ads, you could be blocking all the cookies and analytics you want, but those Ads can "look" targeted.
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by throwaway53453 6y ago
These controls are not a trick, they really do what they say.