flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I can’t count the number of times I’ve tapped the tiny button with three vertical lines right next to the tiny button with three horizontal lines, which can be a problem, because one of them pauses your game and and opens in-game menus, while the other kicks you out to your game library to launch a new game without pausing your game at all. If you press the library button a second time, it doesn’t take you back to your game, so you probably have to long-press the Xbox button to get back to your game, but not the Library button or the Control Center button because those will summon AI assistants instead, and if you understood everything I just wrote and found it reasonable then boy do I have the operating system for you.

    Lol, Lmao. Peak Microsoft.





  • It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years

    Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.

    Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.

    It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.








  • “I’m not defending their actions, but their reasons were right” is such a cop out of an answer. Have you not considered that racists are going to hold racial minorities they don’t like to a different standard to everyone else, and that maybe the Roma’s behaviour wasn’t so exceptionally bad? Or are you just going to blindly believe the words of people happy to violently remove racial minorities from their town?

    a large portion of immigrants were deliberately not targeted

    But it wasn’t down the ‘illegal/legal’ dichotomy you say are these people’s primary concern, was it.

    antisocial white people all of the time and it doesn’t make the news

    No it doesn’t, if it did the Reform/DUP lot wouldn’t shut about it. Or are you comparing a single person or family being ostracised to an entire racial group being pushed out of a town.





  • Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”

    She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”

    Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.

    * I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?

    The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.

    I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.

    Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parents actually used the tools already available to them:

    We actually already have measures to deal with this: back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them. Again, sing it with me: lol.

    Back to the BBC article.

    More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.

    This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.