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The more I probe in arguments with people like transphobes, the more I tend to expose an underlying deep discomfort with ambiguity and a need to impose hierarchy. It’s in line with existing evidence about authoritarianism.

submitted 1 hour ago • 10 comments

Netflix's Adolescence highlights the danger of social media content on young people's minds. There needs to be an equivalent show highlighting the dangers of newspaper content on the minds of the elderly

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Step-daughter and her partner are talking about our grandson staying with us occasionally while they go away. Poor sod isn't allowed any screen time, processed food, salt, etc. That first night watching Bluey, while he stuffs his face with nuggets and fries, is going to be epic.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

I just finished an IT project to put ad blockers on everyone's browser. I work at an advertising company.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

School uniforms are intended to remove a sense of difference based on the cost of kids' clothes. But expensive haircuts is just as effective at communicating class privilege. Everyone should have a shaved head until they leave school at 18.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Public libraries are the best places. They're free, you can take a Flask and use it to work from home and not spending money in cofffee shops, it has heating, electricity, toilets, unlimited books. Quiet spaces, list is endless. One of the only free spaces left in the UK,

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

I have a case of distilled water delivered to my house every day but I also drink at least one glass straight from the toilet because I don’t want to miss out on other perspectives

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

There's nothing more passive-aggressive than the use of the phrase "a friendly reminder".

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Teacher here. I'm always hearing how every day's different in education. Not my experience, and I've been doing it for 30 years. The odd kid has a bit of character & comes out with something interesting, but most kids are like most adults: boring and thick. Why wouldn't they be?

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

People think those born on February 29th get a rough deal with birthdays, but it's not true. They get it every year the day after February 28th, whenever that is. The real victims are those of us on March 1st, who every four years are made to wait an extra day.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Public libraries are deprived and crumbling but they are still oases of sanctuary and sanity amid vast deserts of corporate bullshit. Pretty much the last ones left. Treasure them.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Historian here. Witnessing so many gullible people vote for their own downfall is upsetting. It means humans, even in an age with the total sum of recorded knowledge at their fingertips, will not learn from the past and just repeat the mistakes we've made time and time before.

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

As soon as robots become available to the public, the first thing you're all going to start doing is shagging them. I'm gonna be stuck on this fucking planet with a bunch of robot shagging apes.

submitted 26 days ago • 22 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

In the same way that it's only drunk people who ever need to claim to be sober, it's only nazi sympathisers who ever have to say they're not a nazi.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

"Anyone currently living in the country and earning XP on Duolingo must comply and register with the government or face deportation." theonion.com/dhs-beg...

submitted 38 days ago • 123 comments

All tech company bosses just give off the weirdest vibes. Something not right there. Obviously Elon, but Altman, Bezos, Zuckerberg. All just creepy. Would not want to be stuck in a lift with any of them

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

If Skynet had perfected time travel why didn't they go back and kill Sarah Connor's great great grandparents? No one going to stop a Terminator 100 years ago.

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments