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
Always a fun read (The Door Problem);
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/-quot-the-door-problem-quot-of-game-design
“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”
With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.
about:config
in your browser.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.
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":
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.
#openai pleads that it can’t make money without using copyrighted materials for free.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament