HexesofVexes

Interesting - time to go poke one of the politics lecturers and see what ramifications they had.

To the average person on the street their lack would likely mean little, though I’ll miss the interesting coin designs of the pound.

I hear this point a fair bit, could you elaborate more on these special treatments (I know about opting out of the euro, but that’s about it).

LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat

3 terminal apps that got me hooked:

mednafen (emulating a PS1 on a net potato with 2gb of ram and an atom processor at a playable framerate was just magic to me)

moc (epically minimal music player that just feels right)

nano (I wrote a series of short stories using it while listening to music on moc, honestly the most zen-like experience I’ve ever had)

Bonus: radion (an online radio player mostly written in bash I discovered in the early days of Lemmy)

[✓] Realised I understand nothing

[✓] Time for this planet to die

Definitely checks out.

Yep, because it was never about protecting the children ;)

I COMPLETELY AGREE - THIS ALL MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

Imgur blocking is a bit of a pain - half the mods in steam are missing images in their description.

The online safety act also means we get to submit ID to view anything construed as “adult”. Very “av you got a loiscencse for that” these days without a VPN.

DRM - the bane of good user experience.

GOG nailed it - no DRM, low prices, convenience.

If most book publishers released their texts with new features (e.g. linking references, or adding additional notes to proofs/solutions) they’d get their sales. Instead they just slap DRM on and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWQvzrv6gI

Fair play to you - it just comes off that way.

Each post that hits my feed makes me think “wow, sexism is alive and well”. Glad to hear it isn’t just all rage bait.

Eh, I only ever see that community when a bait post makes it to the front page.

Honestly, I just assumed it was a really elaborate troll group and didn’t bother engaging.

It’s as if the USA and UK are locked in a perpetual “hold my beer” moment with their legislation.

Then again, Europe is also pushing some boundaries with it’s chat snooping laws.

A bad time to be an internet user really…

How GLaDOS would hurt us now: Portal 2 turns 15 next year.

Reply to edited chart - violence against adult was not as common. Violence against other kids however…

Also, 1995–2002 was peak chav ;)

I’m not from the USA so I don’t really have a clear idea on what a redneck is.

However, going from media representations (dodgy ground) I’d say no. There isn’t the strong streak of racism, and the demographic is uniquely young for chavs (since most grow out of it).

Chav is not a term to describe a working class person - it’s a term to describe a subset of youths who are pretty much feral.

By feral I mean aggressive and “antisocial” in the “are you looking at me pal” kind of response to eye contact. In essence, a youth whose primary strategy is to escalate to conflict by the shortest possible route in the hopes of winning status.

What that has to do with coming from an honest working family is beyond me!

No… that culture of violence was very very real. The stories may sound ridiculous, but that’s just because of how extreme that culture was.

Erm…

I think there are errors on both parts here…

1.9/170 is about 1.1176%. 4 decimal places is still an unacceptable level of rounding here, but it’sa damn sight better than 0/1 decimal place. Both of you were off on this.

It is definitely right to split rape and sexual assault, they’re very different crimes - combining them is double counting which is a poor faith tactic used to inflate numbers.

1.1176% per year DEFINITELY does not translate directly to that for a lifetime. To put it into context, if you have a 1% chance of being shot each day (assuming BINS) you have a [(0.99)^365]*100% (or 2.6%) of not being shot at all that year - note binomial is not appropriate for rape odds calculations but it’s a nice example of how low odds per year DO NOT translate to low odds per lifetime.

Self report is absolute garbage - it’s the worst form of stat gathering and often leads to socially advantageous answers being given. Using self-report stats as a keystone to an argument is dangerous at best.

The “known rapist” is a tricky one, as it depends how you define rape. Sex under the influence of alcohol you later regret - tricky to place in the at home (you knew them enough to go home with) vs stranger (did you really know them). While it’s nice to give clear cut numbers, this isn’t a clear cut scenario.

/Statsrant

Seems to me you both care about this topic - sounds to me like you should both go data hunting and explore the topic together. Two opposing perspectives makes a great paper, and you generally learn more!

My two cents - being alone with someone is always risky. Trying to assign which is riskier (men or women) is foolish, it creates the dynamic of “men vs women” rather than the desired “everyone vs rapists”.

Tiny Truss Tower?

Managed this as a millennial - had absolutely nothing to do with my parents helping pay half my deposit. Nope, absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.