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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:That's basically what is for, yeah, I managed to trim my actual bookmark list to around a hundred a couple of years back. Edge goes one better and has Collections, which is mostly the same but you can further split links into topics, so you don't have to have political articles dumped in the same place as recipes or whatever.
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I just use Pocket for this, which at least means they're available on my phone if I'm ever stuck somewhere with no internet and I'm bored enough to read something longform
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# ? May 31, 2021 10:36 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yesterday, I was clearing out bookmarks as I was duplicating the entirety of the google in my bookmark folders (again, for the nth time). I'm a big fan of an app called "pocket". If I'm browsing SA on my phone and an interesting link appears, I tap to 'share' it and the default share option adds it to pocket. Then I have pocket open on my desktop in a pinned tab and just catch up on everything there E: pocket also has a webpage previewer thing which can often get around pay walls somehow
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# ? May 31, 2021 11:14 |
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ronya posted:Genocidal intent rests heavily on how rationally thorough its execution is. Unsystematic or unintentional mass killing or ethnic cleansing may not be genocide, whereas an organized campaign of sterilization or forcible transfer of children would be.
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# ? May 31, 2021 11:23 |
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Oh so Terfism actually was just cover for general homophobia after all, who would have thought? https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1399290132440784897
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# ? May 31, 2021 11:47 |
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Guavanaut posted:What's their current working definition of 'ethnic group'? quote:494. The definition of protected groups. While they specify the classes of prohibited conduct, international rules on genocide use a broad and loose terminology when indicating the various groups against which one can engage in acts of genocide, including references to notions that may overlap (for instance, “national” and “ethnical”). This terminology is criticised for referring to notions such as ‘race’, which are now universally regarded as outmoded or even fallacious. Nevertheless, the principle of interpretation of international rules whereby one should give such rules their maximum effect (principle of effectiveness, also expressed by the Latin maxim ut res magis valeat quam pereat) suggests that the rules on genocide should be construed in such a manner as to give them their maximum legal effects. It follows that by “national groups”, one should mean those sets of individuals which have a distinctive identity in terms of nationality or of national origin. On the other hand, “racial groups” comprise those sets of individuals sharing some hereditary physical traits or characteristics. “Ethnical groups” may be taken to refer to sets of individuals sharing a common language, as well as common traditions or cultural heritage. The expression “religious groups” may be taken to encompass sets of individuals having the same religion, as opposed to other groups adhering to a different religion. (501 alludes to the disputes that occurred during the writing of the Convention itself over whether this should include political groups, e.g., social classes)
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# ? May 31, 2021 11:54 |
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Almost every coherent definition of ethnicity makes David Lammy more English than Jacob Rees-Mogg and I enjoy how much that winds some people up.
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# ? May 31, 2021 11:59 |
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keep punching joe posted:Oh so Terfism actually was just cover for general homophobia after all, who would have thought? Well, that's handy they've taken the mask off I guess
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:02 |
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I'm sure that the LGB Alliance will be along any minute to condemn trans people and ignore this.
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:03 |
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https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1399307432850038785?s=19 If the Greens won a by election off Labour I'd laugh wildly and await the inevitable "Regardless, people want centrism"
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:08 |
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure that the LGB Alliance will be along any minute to condemn trans people and ignore this. They won't ignore it, they'll crow about it - they've been at the heart of the anti-Stonewall movement because of Stonewall campaigning for trans people.
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:16 |
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Jesus Christ, will Not the Nine O'clock News ever stop being relevant? https://youtu.be/Rl6TWGRcs6E
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:24 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1399307432850038785?s=19 Labour finally 20pts ahead of Tories though, TIGFKS
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:30 |
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Sheffield was a very local issue driven by the council trying to cut down loads of trees. It would be very funny if it was replicated in a general election though.
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:39 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1399307432850038785?s=19 I love how Labour assumed voters had nowhere else to go in Scotland for decades and watched all of their support evaporate off to the SNP... and now insist on just doubling down on the strategy.
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:40 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:What’s this about Milo’s standup? Milo Edwards of Trashfuture performed his standup show Pindos in-person and with an online stream, too.
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:49 |
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I wondered why anyone in this thread was watching Milo Yiannopolis comedy
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# ? May 31, 2021 12:57 |
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forkboy84 posted:I wondered why anyone in this thread was watching Milo Yiannopolis comedy Yeah, got to say, this is also what I assumed this was about. Sorry to the Trashfuture guy, but the nazi has managed a monopoly on the name.
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# ? May 31, 2021 14:06 |
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Milo Edwards however is a rising star and Milo Y is still desperately trying to be relevant by calling himself ex-gay while still admitting to having gay sex but is calling his black husband his "housemate" instead.
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# ? May 31, 2021 14:32 |
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The Yiannopolis will always be outranked by the Milopenis. Does anyone have a good non-paywalled source for the Liz Truss / stonewall stuff? Everyone online seems to be sharing the Times article which I can't view on my phone or share without giving page views / revenue to the terf papers. E: also, is there a thread for the trashfuture podcast universe? I feel like there should be but I couldn't see one.
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# ? May 31, 2021 14:36 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They won't ignore it, they'll crow about it - they've been at the heart of the anti-Stonewall movement because of Stonewall campaigning for trans people. What the hell is it with the UK and terfs? We've got them here but everyone just tells them to shut the gently caress up. Why are there so drat many over there and how do they keep getting into positions of authority?
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# ? May 31, 2021 14:37 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:Why are there so drat many over there and how do they keep getting into positions of authority? Everyone in a position of authority is an idiot who believes whatever they're told as long as it comes alongside an expensive dinner and a bunch of freebies. Nobody actually understands the issues or the morality, they just repeat whatever they've been told is the good thing to say and then they get lovebombed by terfs to reinforce it.
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# ? May 31, 2021 14:43 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:What the hell is it with the UK and terfs? We've got them here but everyone just tells them to shut the gently caress up. Why are there so drat many over there and how do they keep getting into positions of authority? You'd think it would be worse in the US, because it was weaponized into "They want to be able to use Bathrooms without judgement. Which is just a front so they can legally do horrible things to your kids." But no, they are all over the UK. I think it's down to the fact that the UK people, as a whole, just love the taste of boot. There are just so many people who are happy to talk about the rules, and the proper way or doing things and so on that if enough of the "right people" tell them something, they will go along with it.
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:05 |
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It's always been impressive to me that to have power in this world you have to focus your efforts and abilities on the pursuit of power rather than the gaining of knowledge or understanding. Sure there's a limit, you can't be expected to be an expert in every field, but it feels like you should be an expert in *something* just so you have an understanding of the limitations of knowledge and don't just Dunning Kruger your way to the top. As a leader you should surround yourselves with smart people each with their own specialisations and then lean into their knowledge and use it to form your policies and opinions. Instead the only way to get into one of those "smart expert" fields is to be a specialist in politicking of the right clubs you got sent to as a kid. All the while the system is set up to look like it's actually functional and doing what I just said to the casual observer. Instead of a bunch of bastards trying to out bastards each other for another slice of the poo poo pie.
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:10 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:What the hell is it with the UK and terfs? We've got them here but everyone just tells them to shut the gently caress up. Why are there so drat many over there and how do they keep getting into positions of authority? A lot of them were in positions of authority decades ago. The world has moved on, they have not. Basically the idea that institutions and political parties in the UK can ever be anything other than a blight and dead weight on people's lives getting better is a joke. Every aspect of the government just exists to make things worse.
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:19 |
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https://twitter.com/KieranTidmarsh/status/1398759616935301120 you love to see it
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:22 |
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Called my mum earlier and she asked "Do Newport County have any coloured players?" (They're in the League Two play off final.) When I said they did she said "They'll be getting abuse if Newport lose." I think I should go round and take her laptop off her
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:31 |
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I was thinking to myself them two ain't gonna do poo poo and then there was more than two!
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:45 |
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bessantj posted:Called my mum earlier and she asked "Do Newport County have any coloured players?" (They're in the League Two play off final.) When I said they did she said "They'll be getting abuse if Newport lose." I think I should go round and take her laptop off her Did she follow it up "they'll be getting abuse, from me"? I was regaling Twitter with the story of my mum calling my half-Malaysian sister in law "sort of latte coloured" yesterday
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# ? May 31, 2021 15:54 |
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bump_fn posted:https://twitter.com/KieranTidmarsh/status/1398759616935301120 Its how everyone seems to have beer guts in it.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:07 |
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There seems to be a mindset where people extrnalise their own prejudices as "oh, other people will say..." Like they don't want to admit that it's what they thought, so they frame it as 'concerns' that 'other people' might think that. My brother dyed his hair pillbox red (and to be fair he has great hair and it looked really good) and my Daily Mail reading Mam was up in arms about it, talking about 'what will people think' and 'people will call him names' and I just felt like no; you feel like that, you just don't want to admit it so you're pretending that other people are going to think that.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:11 |
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Also, non terf (afaik) & non paywalled page on the Liz Truss / Stonewall thing: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/31/stonewall-diversity-champions-liz-truss-government-trans-rights/
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:27 |
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MikeCrotch posted:Did she follow it up "they'll be getting abuse, from me"? For a moment it did seem like she meant that she'd be on twitter giving out. Thankfully she has no idea how to use most of social media, most of her Facebook usage is just smile reacting to posts.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:28 |
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i’m at the park and someone is blasting a club remix of wake me up by evanescence summer is here
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:33 |
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Some of the discussion seems to be down to the age old nugget of essentialism vs constructivism. Essentialist thinking appeals to those who think they're being "rational" or understanding "nature". It's the idea that certain "things" have essential qualities and if those qualities are removed then it is no longer that "thing". For example, mammals are species whose females produce milk for their young. If its females don't lactate during child rearing, they're not mammals. That would be an essentialist argument. Constructivist thinking appeals more to socially orientated minds. Its the idea that everything we've thought of is a social construct. We described mammals for our own purposes, but could easily decide that the definition of mammals can change if we decide to deconstruct or reconstruct the concept. The essentialists get up in arms when the essences they're describing, particularly ones from what they perceive to be an external reality, are then changed. Constructivists get up in arms when there is a reason for changing a construct that is resisted for reasons that, to a constructivist, amount to begging the question (because essences don't exist).
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:33 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:Some of the discussion seems to be down to the age old nugget of essentialism vs constructivism. Essentialist thinking appeals to those who think they're being "rational" or understanding "nature". It's the idea that certain "things" have essential qualities and if those qualities are removed then it is no longer that "thing". For example, mammals are species whose females produce milk for their young. If its females don't lactate during child rearing, they're not mammals. That would be an essentialist argument. Constructivist thinking appeals more to socially orientated minds. Its the idea that everything we've thought of is a social construct. We described mammals for our own purposes, but could easily decide that the definition of mammals can change if we decide to deconstruct or reconstruct the concept. The essentialists get up in arms when the essences they're describing, particularly ones from what they perceive to be an external reality, are then changed. Constructivists get up in arms when there is a reason for changing a construct that is resisted for reasons that, to a constructivist, amount to begging the question (because essences don't exist). A fun example (that isn't to do with Diogenes and plucked chickens) is that if the definition for mammals is a) has hair and b) produces milk then a coconut is a mammal.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:36 |
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bump_fn posted:https://twitter.com/KieranTidmarsh/status/1398759616935301120 To understand the UK is to understand that everyone in this video votes tory.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:44 |
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Miftan posted:A fun example (that isn't to do with Diogenes and plucked chickens) is that if the definition for mammals is a) has hair and b) produces milk then a coconut is a mammal. Oh god, this whole time I thought it was okay for a vegetarian to eat coconuts.
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# ? May 31, 2021 16:46 |
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bump_fn posted:i’m at the park and someone is blasting a club remix of wake me up by evanescence The summer of 2004, apparently
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Finally got a first dose of vaccine. No credit to the government gently caress you Boris.
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