Swinging at the hornets nest once again but I hate when I post critically about christianity & somebody's like "what about all the people they colonized and forced to be christians" 1. That is in fact my main fucking issue with christianity
Like yes those are christians too and it can add a smidge of nuance in certain contexts but that is kind of my entire point. That colonizing people is bad
The thing isn't that every single individual christian is a mustache twirling villain it's that the church is evil. Most of those colonized people will tell you their relationships with christianity are typically. Complicated. Considering they got fucking colonized innit. Why are you trying to tokenize Indigenous people on my Indigenous ass post I know more than you
If we're talking about the horrors inflicted by the church both historical and modern & you're like "āļø but aren't mexicans catholic" I don't know what to tell you. Like.
They're going to keep doing this until they accidentally 9/11 a NASCAR event with an AC-130, then spend 100 million dollars getting an army of groypers to post that the pilot was probably trans
Love that we have a DoD that doesnāt believe in tradeoffs
>"Why does [rule] exist? Its pointless and only stops cool stuff!"
>leadership stops enforcing rule
>cool stuff happens for a while
>someone makes minor mistake at the wrong time
>100 civilians killed
>"How did we let this happen?"
You think you like cool shit until people die.
Itās ācarry on patriotsā until a lowest bidder part fails and an F-18 kills 100 beachgoers. Then all the people saying aviation safety doesnāt matter will become NATOPS experts overnight.
"Going a couple hours without eating a single kind of food? No thanks, I would rather kill a child" is such a wildly horrifying take to see MULTIPLE people proudly stating.
I think gatekeeping art is such a funny thing like. "Oh so this doodle I just made is art" yes next question. "So video games are art?" yes????? Bitch your essay you wrote on that book you didn't read in English class when you were 10 is art. Painting a fence is art. 2 sentence shitpost on Tumblr is art. Get on my level.
The parachute study is actually a wonderful piece of art because it demonstrates so succinctly the kind of situation where randomized controlled trials are not the gold standard of evidence, and in fact reach misleading conclusions.
Because you can't recruit people to willingly jump out of mid-flight passenger planes for science, you redesign the study to engineer a scenario where the risk to the control group is minimsed. The plane is landed.
And then, because you've removed the main reason to use a parachute, you find that parachutes have "no effect" on mortality or injury.
The constraints of performing an ethical RCT guarantee this result. A result that we obviously know is dangerously wrong to extrapolate to the real-life uses of parachutes.
Now here's the thing: The people insisting that "evidence-based medicine" says we need RCTs of trans healthcare know this is what they're doing. It's extremely well established that you can abuse these "standards" to engineer incorrect results.
SEGM and their ilk are doing this on purpose because they know it's an effective way to dress up science denial in a veneer of scientific rigor.
Well, barring exceptionally fortunate cases like this one, where they were able to use "skip the conventional wait time" as the test group and "wait as usual" as the control, you sort of can't.
It's foundational medical ethics that when you have a treatment that's known to be effective, you don't withhold it for a study. The demand for RCTs is done knowing that it's unserious.
The "gold standard" here would be some kind of quote-unquote "natural experiment" where you have 2 different countries that are very similar but one enforces wait times for trans care and the other doesn't, and then you compare outcomes for trans people in each country. Likewise, the "natural experiment" for parachutes would be crashes where people were able to eject with a parachute vs. crashes where they weren't. Or you could throw ballistics dummies out of planes.
Basically, the way you study this kind of thing is you look at where existing regulatory or other differences have created two different population groups, or you simulate it.
The interesting part there being that we know for a fact that the SEGM-affiliated gender clinics, many of them state monopolies, have worse outcomes than informed consent clinics.
Based on the extreme rates of patient complaints and high rates of patients being traumatized by the clinicians' behaviour, that is.
And yet, somehow, when these clinics self-incriminate in their research, it's taken as evidence that care needs to be restricted more.
There is one singular gender clinic in all of Norway that actually treats patients of all ages with government funding, and the leader of their pediatric department, Anne WƦhre, goes to SEGM conferences.
But like genuinely. "humans have an innate need for spirituality" should be pretty transparently a reactionary opinion. It's simply not true and equates something that some people get benefit from with it being a fundamental aspect of being human (and one that is missing it most people today). You gonna start arguing "children *need* fathers or they grow up broken" next?
Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and stockholm syndrome was coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.
things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing
so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.
fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip
plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.
library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.
an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question
freedom from the hell that is DRM software
everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd
so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.
so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet
preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them
just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing
a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.
#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher
this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.
if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.
do you have an "about" page with relevant information about yourself (eg pronouns, a name you go by, etc)? only i like your blog but always feel strange about following blogs with no face so to speak
Iāve answered this before so weāre going to do this bullet points style
-If there are categories of people you donāt want to follow please assume I belong to all of them
-If you need my demographic info before you can decide if you agree with my opinion or not please disagree with my opinions
-Please assume I am up to no good - this is a good thing to assume with any blog on here - even blogs with faces may be no-faces in disguise
-All of the information you want has been posted here at one time or another if you want to know but I like having that threshold of difficulty in place - if you want to get your creep on I want you to have to work for it
-I am hoping the irony of your having sent this ask anonymously is not lost on you
And, for all bloggers everywhere, a quick reminder: you donāt owe anybody jack shit!
The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.
The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.
Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.
Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.
grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them. just because you hate ai and want their companies to die doesn't mean you should be pro the music industry's copyright lawsuit apparatus. the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend!!!!!! please!!! for the love of god
i know im just preaching to the choir by posting this on my tumblr blog but bluesky is obsessed with celebrating the music industry taking suno and its ilk to court. this article has been going around there with commentary like this:
but it's just fundamentally incorrect. "the point" of lawsuits like this is not to "destroy the perpetrators", it's to bring them to the bargaining table. the linked article is less than 600 words long but i can guarantee you almost nobody sharing it is reading it, because they wouldn't be able to make claims like this otherwise. here's a pretty important bit of text
wuh oh!!!! doesn't look like they're very destroyed here!!!!! you'll notice how these contracts are about compensating rightsholders, not artists. as will be the case for all of these trojan horse copyright victories you have the temporarily embarrassed vivziepops of the world rooting for.
copyright law is not your friend. copyright law will not save you or anyone else from the continued gutting of the creative sector. copyright law will make sure that the profits that come from this gutting will go to the same titans of industry that the profits from creative labor have already been going to. im begging everyone to stop falling for it over and over again.
at the very least if you're going to share celebratory articles about supposed wins for the anti AI crusade, please actually read to see if the thing you're celebrating has actually, like. happened! come on! this is embarrassing!
Apparently juries in Texas are now issuing life sentences for possessing information ?? There was no terrorism involved, no assassination plot; the couple mentioned in the article did not do or plan to do any violence. They literally just got sentenced to life in prison for being associated with anti-fascism (aka... a pro-democracy movement).
So just to be clear:
Attack the US government and attempt a coup = Pardoned and free to go!
Be present at a protest or in possession of leftist information = Life sentence.
Daniel Sanchez Estradaās 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facilit
Last year on the Fourth of July, a small group from Dallas-Fort Worth held a night-time noise demonstration, setting off fireworks outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility south of the cities, in solidarity with the detainees. A few protesters broke away and spray-painted graffiti on employeesā cars and a security post, slashed the tires on a government van, and broke a security camera. The facilityās guards ordered the protesters to disperse, and most of them did. When a police officer arrived at the scene, drawing his gun, an armed protester shot her rifle, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of āproviding material support to terroristsā, among other crimes.
For the Sotos, this āmaterial supportā included owning a āprinting pressā used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences ā 30 to 100 years ā essentially life in prison.
Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.
The Prairieland case was the first tried and convicted under the Trump Department of Justiceās ācounter-terrorismā initiatives targeting āantifaā ā short for antifascist ā a decentralized movement the administration has officially categorized as a ādomestic terrorist organizationā. The federal government argued the Prairieland defendants, what they called a āNorth Texas Antifa cellā, had planned the demonstration as an assassination attempt against a law enforcement officer. The government alleged this conspiracy even though the defendants were loosely connected, and some who attended the protest did not even know each other.
So being anti-fascist is llegal and worthy of going to prison for life in the United States.
btw this is how russia became what it is, so you guys have a clear view of your future. If you think these facist fucks are gonna allow a real election to happen, you are deeply wrong. You're gonna have to claw and scrape them out of your government... I wish you all the strength and bravery necessary to do that. You deserve so much better. We all do.
