geekwithsoul

Have you ever heard the phrase “You can’t reason someone out of an opinion that they didn’t reason themselves into”? If they’re objectively not fat, than what they’re really saying is they feel like they’re fat, not they they think that they’re fat. That can be for a whole host of reasons, but arguing facts with them won’t help. Far better to have discussions with them about why they feel that way and why they’re focused on it. Ultimately it’s an issue they have to resolve themselves and not something you can convince them of.

What the hell is this horseshit… from the AP?! That’s a Sunday magazine puff piece. It’s made him “grateful” and “appreciative”? No, it’s made him even more reckless and reactionary than he was in his first term.

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Was thinking it’s either going to be food poisoning, completely unpalatable food combinations, or it’ll all be a sham and they’ll have their usual solution of immigrants doing all the actual work - and who are underpaid indentured servants and have had their passports confiscated.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”

Which still always amuses me, as horses originated in the Americas and lived there until about 12,000 years ago, went extinct there, and then got brought back by humans.