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May 7, 2024 21:52
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smellmycheese posted:An artist who’s released a load of bangers and that’s the song they decide on for Eurovision. Bizarre I knew that they were going to tank when they went onto the news this morning talking about how they had gotten really bad food poisoning but would still perform. That's just getting in the excuse for why their performance was crap in advance.
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May 7, 2024 22:01
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Y'all watching Eurovision?!? First time I watched that Abba won (1974). Last time I watched that (1978) Israel won Izzie Cohen & The Alpha Betas singing A-bah-ni-bi Regardless of the politics what I've heard of the songs over the years is they're always a pile of turd.
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May 7, 2024 22:06
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Doing my Satanic ritual performance after getting norovirus.OwlFancier posted:Everyone's covered in blood and fluids and having the worst day of their lives.
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May 7, 2024 22:07
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Y'all watching Eurovision?!? I would have thought you would also be a fan of 2006  Though granted it might be a little light for your tastes.
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May 7, 2024 22:11
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smellmycheese posted:An artist who’s released a load of bangers and that’s the song they decide on for Eurovision. Bizarre They we're thinking: "we don't want to pay for this shite again". 
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May 7, 2024 22:16
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I feel like Israel are hoping for a Ukraine-like runaway victory and they’re in for a very rude awakening
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May 7, 2024 22:27
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 quote:UK Border Force System down. Nationwide outrage. Long queue at Airports. Yes, the most reasonable set of events is that a Muslim guy won a council seat in Stanton-under-Bardon and immediately used the library computer that can't even get youtube to hack the MoD using his beard.
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May 7, 2024 22:31
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Guavanaut posted:
أبو دقن الله أكبر
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May 7, 2024 22:39
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Y'all watching Eurovision?!? Eurovision might be preferable to having my balls stuck in one of those potato ricers, but not by much. If I'm going to listen to Satanic music it might as well sound like this (Who am I kidding? At least 1/5th of the music in my collection mentions Satan explicitly. Probably. Metal loves a cliche) forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 22:45 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 22:41
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forkboy84 posted:Eurovision might be preferable to having my balls stuck in one of those potato ricers, but not by much. I raise you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sBes7IjhHI
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May 7, 2024 22:45
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https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1787948158493876720 People are able to escape slowly fuctifino fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 22:57
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at least only some of metal is complicit in glorifying genocidal regimes
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May 7, 2024 23:52
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I once had an e-gate crash such that you could see it was a batch script calling ffmpeg.
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May 8, 2024 00:14
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Woke E-Gates threatening to FFM Peg innocent British passengers.
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May 8, 2024 00:26
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The toilets at work are pretty good, segregated downstairs (with separate disabled and baby changing rooms), and following the rebuild in 2019* gender-neutral toilets upstairs (there's also a disabled upstairs, though slightly awkwardly no baby-changing). Also the two staff toilets got converted from gents/ladies into gender-neutral a while back (they're two entirely separate rooms anyway). * just in time too, IIRC some rule was brought in after that banning the construction of new gender-neutral loos? Funnily enough ⅔ of the people in my job role (including myself) are some variety of enby, not sure what it is about working in a science centre that does that but there y'go.
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May 8, 2024 06:04
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Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I would like to believe that gender neutral bathrooms would encourage everyone to keep them that little bit less disgusting.
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May 8, 2024 06:44
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I would like to believe that gender neutral bathrooms would encourage everyone to keep them that little bit less disgusting. Last office I worked in had a toilet upstairs and one downstairs, both inclusive. I preferred going upstairs, since it smelled less of guy pee.
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May 8, 2024 06:47
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I feel like a lot of people don't use urinals now if a cubicle is free.
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May 8, 2024 07:00
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I’d say the majority of newer bars I go to in Manchester now have GN toilets and it causes absolutely zero issues whatsoever that I’ve seen. Pointless bullshit pandering to a small group of loving morons is all that policy is. But then most policy is that I suppose.
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May 8, 2024 07:32
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I went through Heathrow yesterday and was saying to my wife it would be our poo poo luck if everything got hosed up like they like to do randomly, turns out I was just off by a few hours and successfully escaped the island before egatemaggeddon 
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May 8, 2024 07:42
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Last semester I was teaching in an old building on campus that had recently been refurbished but which I'd never been in before. I think there were two large bathrooms, but it was kind of a labyrinth and I only ever bothered to find one; it'd been converted to gender neutral and had a bank of about ten stalls in it. I never saw another man in that bathroom despite visiting it pretty much weekly the entire semester. The first few times I went in I had to triple check that it was in fact gender neutral and not a women's bathroom. Not sure where the lads are making GBS threads and pissing. MeinPanzer fucked around with this message at 08:32 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 08:26
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Seeing a lot of chat on the BBC today about parents laying the blame for their inattentiveness to their children's emotional and social wellbeing at the foot of social media. I'm sure it plays a part in the cocktail of whatever makes kids miserable these days, but imo a lot of their complaints could be solved by the wild and radical notion of "talk to your kids regularly" and "be an attentive and conscientious parent" rather than "we gave our child a glowing rectangle and hoped that would do our job for us"
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May 8, 2024 08:58
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There's only so much you can do to save your kids social life when all their friends are on social media because their parents gave them a smartphone at nine. It is a problem that requires collective action to solve, not individual responsibility.
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May 8, 2024 09:07
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I grew up with the early internet and I came out (mostly) fine. I did see some wildly inappropriate shock videos when I was like 9 though, like seriously yucky gore stuff.
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May 8, 2024 09:11
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Yea I don't think the internet itself is bad. It's kids having a smartphone and being attached to it 24/7, rather than only accessing it via a desktop PC at home (where it's basically another console). The drive towards smartphones is mostly driven by social media.
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May 8, 2024 09:16
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Yea I don't think the internet itself is bad. It's kids having a smartphone and being attached to it 24/7, rather than only accessing it via a desktop PC at home (where it's basically another console). The drive towards smartphones is mostly driven by social media. This is the difference imo, it's just so ubiquitous. When I was growing up kids TV was over when the BBC stopped putting it out at 5 pm on a weekday and 10 am on Saturday. Now any streaming service can be on anytime, anywhere. It creates huge pressure and is very difficult to manage.
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May 8, 2024 09:19
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When I was a kid, my parents did this "we'll have no tv and make our own entertainment" thing quite frequently or if we did have a tv banned us from watching certain shows eg Top of the Pops. What that meant was we got more and more alienated from everyone else at school. The final straw for me is when I was in 2nd year (Year 8 in the new money) and was in love with a boy in the 5th year (Year 11 in the new money) and he cosied up me one evening when we were rehearsing a school play or something & asked me if I liked the new Slade. I had no idea who Slade were. End of beautiful potential relationship. I went home and demanded that in future I was going to watch TOTP whether they liked it or not. (So we must have had a tv that week). Some year's later I was temping and one of the bosses had this very large, awkward daughter aged about 12 who had terrible problems making friends and he was doing the 'no tv' thing so any chance of her having any common ground with classmates was out of the question. I honestly believe it is cruel and unusual punishment. So yeah, talk to your kids, limit screen time but don't stop it all together. Ed: obviously this was long before the advent of smart phones! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 09:36 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 09:33
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kids (and people in general) being internet connected all the time is just the way the world is now, you cant put that genie back in the bottle and its a constant balancing act between managing their interaction with it and not being over controlling. As a parent you have to be super SUPER proactive in talking to your kids constantly about misinformation and portrayal of normality and whatever the latest thing is. Advertising & consumerism through social media drives feelings of inadequacy by design and will destroy their self esteem if you just hand your kid a phone and let them go hog wild on it
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May 8, 2024 09:37
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I was lucky that in the 90s most of the time the interesting TV was over by the late evening so I had to go do something else and usually that meant reading, although they didn't hard limit my time on the mega drive you could only fail to get past the labyrinth zone in sonic 1 so many times before you give up for the evening.
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May 8, 2024 09:37
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Some year's later I was temping and one of the bosses had this very large, awkward daughter aged about 12 who had terrible problems making friends and he was doing the 'no tv' thing so any chance of her having any common ground with classmates was out of the question. I honestly believe it is cruel and unusual punishment.
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May 8, 2024 09:39
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I also remembering hammering home to my younger cousins to never, EVER upload a photo in private they wouldn't want seen in public. This was before they passed the revenge porn law mind you so probably not as big of an issue as it used to be.
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May 8, 2024 09:41
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Probably what actually saved us from too much online as kids was you're phone bill would mean your folks would murder you. One phone bill upwards of £250 was plenty...
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May 8, 2024 09:42
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Oh and it's from yesterday but I'm still laughing at Elon "my cars keep exploding" Musk calling the IRA a bunch of pussies https://twitter.com/FCTwenteBenson/status/1787865709755748657 Even ignoring him thinking the RA run Ireland?
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May 8, 2024 09:44
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Tesseraction posted:I also remembering hammering home to my younger cousins to never, EVER upload a photo in private they wouldn't want seen in public. This was before they passed the revenge porn law mind you so probably not as big of an issue as it used to be. Probably more so because there's still the gap of "the internet isn't real" when it comes to people sharing gossip, and sharing photos is as easy (easier now), and people don't always think about what they're doing.
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May 8, 2024 09:50
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I grew up with embryonic social media like Myspace, Bebo and early Facebook - to my mum's credit she drove home the point about "never, ever" sharing personal information, which is why to this day I feel reluctant about using even part of my real name online, and treat those who do as the biggest phishing marks imaginable. However that's where it stopped, and I could have definitely benefited from more proactive parental engagement - at the time there was a "the internet isn't real life" mindset among parents. If you're going to have children, it's your responsibility to make sure they're emotionally and mentally healthy, instead of hoping that a combination of school and the internet will take care of it.
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May 8, 2024 09:52
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I would like to believe that gender neutral bathrooms would encourage everyone to keep them that little bit less disgusting. Not a personal frequenter, obvs, but I have occasionally heard some horror stories about womens' bathrooms. Turns out being disgusting is an equal opportunity thing.
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May 8, 2024 10:35
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Tesseraction posted:Oh and it's from yesterday but I'm still laughing at Elon "my cars keep exploding" Musk calling the IRA a bunch of pussies https://twitter.com/FCTwenteBenson/status/1787865709755748657 It's (somehow) even worse in context. Elon's post is in response to one of Musk's "friends" making this political post. Captain Hygiene posted:Fun guessing game: could it be the antman doing a racism? Basically, Musk seems to think the IRA (who run Ireland?) should be going around murdering people from Africa? It's a lack of understanding about how Ireland works that goes beyond that of the average American, and could only be invented by a Malaysian man and a Boer. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 10:42 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 10:40
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It's tough to thread the needle of permitting social media within limits. The tools that phones and social media apps offer can be tuned to more or less what you want but it is tricky & effortful to keep things consistent. The only real way we've managed this is through discussion on safety, trust and boundaries (i.e., her phone is open for me to check all social media on matters of safety but that I don't use this capacity to 'snoop') that are part of the bigger conversations about growing up well. Most of this hinges on the good fortune that we've built a good relationship in the past couple of years and can openly talk on anything. We've had an exciting journey into social media with my daughter from 13 to ~16 now that has included (in on particular order): - Her initial obsession with why people aren't constantly messaging her - that every moment people aren't chatting with her must be because they are actively ignoring her. - Her recurring need to instantly reply to any message received, which has often spiraled into her suffering quite charged matters incl. bullying, hate, isolation. - Having to raise safeguarding with sports clubs on the sheer volume of photos her and teammates take in changing rooms. - She set up a secret Facebook account at 13 and added literally every 'recommended person', including spambots, scams, and groomers. She had no idea how facebook functioned and treated the the main feed as instant messaging. Ultimately, this meant she was so annoying online that many of those accounts told her to piss off and blocked her. - A worrying fluke in me catching early that she was being solicited for photos recently. While the photos shared weren't specifically harmful but rather the speed at which the guy got her from "I'm not sharing photos with you weirdo stranger" to "Ok here's a photo of my face (that inadvertently shows my location)". Our discussion following this one was interesting as she was quite disappointed in herself for falling for the set up as she knows all the info/rules on safety online. She just felt that given how familiar with social media she is now, she doesn't need to reflect on what's happening at the time. - Her independently discovering how to circumvent apple's parental measures to gain more unlocked time in tiny increments (though it was annoying, I was a little proud of that one).
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May 8, 2024 10:42
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The Question IRL posted:Basically, Musk seems to think the IRA (who run Ireland?) should be going around murdering people from Africa? It's a lack of understanding about how Ireland works that goes beyond that of the average American, and could only be invented by a Malaysian man and a Boer.  These are the people that think "you have a wall around your house, so why can't we have a wall around our country" is a good own, but then can't tell the difference between inviting people in and a home invasion? They're being stupid on purpose is the only explanation.
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May 8, 2024 10:48
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