salith @salith@computerfairi.es

Once again for the folks in the back.

I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

no, seriously, FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

Based on new data, I've changed my mind about the belief that "People don't change their minds based on new data."🙂🙃

My previous belief was based on the great research on the "backfire effect," done by Brendan Nyhan in 2010. But in 2020, Brendan did new research, showing that he was wrong about people not changing their minds.🙃🙂
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912440117

He showed that presenting the right data the right way, does cause people to change their minds. This was the right data and way for me.

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We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic.

If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year:
1. Let us know: https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT
2. Check out our 'My GP is refusing to prescribe' resource: https://transactual.org.uk/medical-transition/my-gp-is-refusing-to-prescribe-my-hrt-what-can-i-do/

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Transition #NHS #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen

Valve: "We love our fans! We even let them use our IP!"
Microsoft: "We love our customers! Just don't use our IP please."
Sony: "We like you as long as you don't try to reverse engineer anything."

Nintendo: "I swear to fucking Christ if you so much as doodle an M in red crayon I will come to your house, kill your family, and strangle you with your own intestines"

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ

🚨 Firefox quietly enabled a supposed “privacy feature” that tracks users - noyb files complaint today!
Read more here: https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

u.s. coast guard released the images of the oceangate sub and i kind of find it funny cuz it's kind of rubbing salt in the wounds to send a government submarine to take photos of an imploded libertarian submarine

“I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history. It’s easy to attack them for being musically regressive: after all, they didn’t just Stop The Clocks, to quote the title of their 2006 best-of, but rewound them by 30 years. But the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
…
It’s no coincidence that Oasis are the band of choice for flag-shaggers and Reform voters”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/stop-the-celebrations-oasis-are-the-most-damaging-pop-cultural-force-in-recent-british-history

#oasis #neanderthalRock

With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

1. Open about:config in your browser.
2. Accept the Warning it gives.
3. Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .

Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

@hailey if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Wonder how long till AirTags get banned because they can be used to track the scam that's called "recycling" and the other scams of the so called "free market" and "secure supply chain":

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled

I just made @alice LOL

I have walked this earth for almost fifty years, and today for the first time I heard somebody refer to a phoenix as a "molotov cockatiel".

And sure, it's not new to the world, it's just new to me. But the world still has undiscovered joy and wonder in it, it can still surprise you, and I thought I'd mention that.