It is what Reform are inciting but I think it's important to recognise the history of British nationalist violence that has existed going back a long way in Northern Ireland.
It's fucked up that it is scarier to be on the road in control of a vehicle that weighs less than the person/people it's transporting and rarely hits 30mph than it is to be on the road in control of a vehicle that weighs several tonnes and can do well over 100mph.
When I was an engineer in a factory, we worked on the basis that systems should fail safe in the event of machinery failure or operator error.
It's wild that suggesting applying the same principle to roads - space we all have to use, including kids - is considered extreme.
Reminded again of Jaques Ellul’s definition of propaganda — not a specific message, but the establishment of an information landscape where opposing ideas are crowded out by a cacophony of vaguely pro-regime ideas, none of which need be particularly convincing or even compatible with each other.
The first step is to remove the people most likely to shape the ideas :.. which is why I am always going to point out
The FIRST thing Weiss did was get rid of Black and Brown reporters which journalism itself has been doing for years
And nobody said anything and still doesn’t
If your local government does this they're telling you there's no reason to give them anything voluntarily or without a fight
genuinely:
if 18 year old kids are allowed and encouraged to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, a 15 year old kid should be allowed to pick what puberty they want
give trans kids hormones, actually
While we're talking about Mary-Anne Stephenson, she said to my face in 2013 that her friend calling us tr*nnies "is not transphobic". It's long been clear that she will endlessly lie and deny for the sake of hate.
Aaaah! I'm so excited! www.reddit.com/r/QueerSFF/c...
As a strong believer in the importance of critical engagement with AI/ML specifically for technologists, the growing argument on the left that "we need AI engagement on the left or we're losing the AI arms race" is fucking stupid and wrong.
Having said that quite confrontationallyb I'll defend it.