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  • Is there no one in the replies here who thinks women have a legitimate discomfort, or unsafe feeling, having men around in a toilet space, even if the men aren't actively being harmful?

    No women here who had difficult upbringings with men? No men whose daughter or sister or female friend feels uncomfortable letting certain barriers down around strange men?

    Of course there is an important discussion about how bathroom culture changes as society's acceptance of trans people changes.

    But, OP, I think what you would do best beyond what you said, is to acknowledge that some women have a legitimate concern, even if there's not an easy answer. Once you have that point of agreement - once the other person can see you care about the concern they're coming from - you have a foundation for discussing a real problem and/or solution.

    Otherwise you're just buttimg heads to win, and asking an internet echo chamber to adjudicate.




  • January brings the snow: makes your feet and fingers glow.
    February's ice and sleet freeze the toes right off your feet.
    Welcome March with wintery wind; would thou wert not so unkind.
    April brings the sweet spring showers... On and on for hours and hours!
    Farmers fear unkindly May: Frost by night and hail by day.
    June it rains and never stops; thirty days and spoils the crops!
    In July the sun is hot. (Is it shining? No it's not.)
    August cold and damp and wet, brings more rain than any yet.
    Bleak September's mist and mud is enough to chill the blood.
    Then October adds a gale, wind, and slush, and rain, and hail.
    Dark November's damp and fog; would not do it to a dog.
    Freezing wet December then...
    Bloody January again!



  • "They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning..." But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren't supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron fist head.

    Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wantonremoveds and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.

    One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.





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  • I think its best for us to be thinking both

    1. how to live in this world of eroded privacy. Privacy has always been a mixed bag, right from when your neighbour might peek in your cave and tell your aunt what he saw on the wall; part of life is learning how to live best in society as it is. "Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change." And,
    2. how to work to improve things. "And the courage to change the things I can." Spreading privacy ideas on Lemmy is one part, as is choosing to use private and ethical options, but so is bringing society-benefiting ideals to your workplace, doing advocacy, supporting and developing software for privacy, and so on.

    Well, that's my vacuous philosophical thought for the week. I hope you enjoyed it, and find some wisdom of practical substance somewhere else ;-)


  • What if we didn't want more sea, just spikier? C#

    I look out acroth the thea, and thee what I can thee. I can't pronounth that thtupid language; I'll write in lithp.

    Ocean + traversing a desert => Ocaml?

    I improved the C! It is greater! More potent! But what is this? I look at at my poor boat, upon which I traverse the waves of the C++ 7; now it is degraded. Now its beautiful metal hull has oxidised. Oh, the dangers of the C. ...Wait, that gives me an idea...



  • Do you mean the bit before where it says "2017-2019 and potentially thereafter"?

    Of course interviews are few and anonymous, and information is scarce: much of the premise of the report is that it's hard to get access, and that anyone known to be giving testimony will be at risk of harm.

    What you are doing is interpreting based on the report, and on other evidence - but the discussion earlier and elsewhere in this thread is that the UN report itself goes against the genocide claim, and that people just don't read it. But it seems to me, if one is to simply read it, it's clear the UN believes there were, and probably still are, serious and systematic human rights violations against the Uighurs.

    As to 'genocide' as a term, I do think it's fashionable - a buzz word - like 'terrorism', often bandied around when the author wants people to feel the thing is truly serious and unpardonable, but not always with good care as to the meaning. Hence it gets often argued about with respect to various events, even in cases when the main facts of the event is mostly undisputed.