Okay my friend, lets start at the beginning:

• someone asks, in a thread about misogyny, why the british government doesnt instead do something trans related first before caring about the cis women
• i respond with the most common and pragmatic political reasons not to do so
• some twat accuses me of being a bigot over this
• i point out that i merely responded
• the twat doubles down on hostile accusations
• we are here 👈

Can we move on now?

Leave it to lemmy to read everything in the most antagonistic way possible. Really getting fucking tired of this place

Are you trying to prove me right? Lmao

Since i apparently need to justify every fucking grammar choice i made on the shitter, i opted for the terms “trans people” and “women” as a matter of expediency and under the assumption the reader would be making a good faith effort to interpret the words as context suggests.

Also, way to ignore entirely what i said for an opportunity to bitch about phrasing.

Okay in case this was not entirely clear, this isnt my opinion, supposedly evident from the term devils advocate. I was merely illustrating the thought processes involved in making women a bigger political priority than trans people.

Leave it to lemmy to read everything in the most antagonistic way possible. Really getting fucking tired of this place

Devils advocate here:

• trans people are far, far fewer
• trans people are a lot less socially accepted
• trans people are not objectively required for the continued existence of a society and/or country
• trans people make for great social lightning rods because they are so controversial

As for the royal pervert, you know as well as i that nothing will happen in that regard. The man is literally royalty.

Can i just say that i love your username (in reference to the disgusting one)

I mean, vpns have additional value by allowing people to circumvent geoblocks, possibly local censorship, and in general the whole nonsense tied to access based on where you are and what nationality you have.

Committing sudoku is a sort of meme way to refer to seppuku.

Shower in the morning, sink in the evening

Pros:

• if you are in a rush you can save time by scrubbing yourself and brushing simultaneously
• any spills are washed away immediately, leaves the sink clean of toothpaste splatter
• you get to stand under the nice warm water for a few extra minutes instead of standing in front of the sink, staring at your tired self in the mirror while doing your brushing regimen

Cons:

• apparently women don’t really care for the concept so be aware of that lol

Why are you like this, fucking exhausting lol

I’m not trying to defend a masters thesis while taking a shit, thank you very much. My comment is based on what i know and learned about China over the last few decades, why do you treat this as some outrageous claim i am making?

Industrialization under a system of private ownership leads to a general increase in the standard of giving, yes, but still causes an extremely rich owner/capitalist class to emerge. In Europe that happened earlier, sometimes meshing with old hierarchical structures such as the nobility, in the other countries later.

What the fuck kind of proof do you want? Thats not contested information.

I dont know and really dont care to look them up for you. I would think you could google for whatever year and wealth distribution / productivity indicators of China, iirc they are fairly proud of what “the party” has done in that regard. Shouldnt be hard to find.

If you want to believe we germans live in some equality paradise thats your call of course, but we dont.

Well historically the industrial revolution began in GB and then the rest of the “west” as we know it today. All under existing structures of old wealth such as monarchies and nobility, eventually giving birth to capitalism.

The countries mentioned above were going through that same process only some decades later.

China is a great example because they are so thorough and totalitarian in their societal progression, they essentially forced through all this change in just a few decades and there is a lot of statistical information available that you could have a look at illustrating the process of an emerging middle class and their ultra rich class along their economical development.

Thats nice, but also largely due to the fact that Europe has been industrialized much longer. We already had the wealth inequality going before

Its just that one guy who does it, i think either out of pretentiousness or to hamper indexing.

Are you trying to prove my point?

Sarcasm and irony on the Internet are dead though. We live in post-sane times, i cannot ever assume the other person is not completely serious about the utterly deranged and/or idiotic shit they write or say.

I must always assume that yes, that person is in fact as stupid as they seem until proven otherwise/indicated by an /s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte

It is a project of european (mostly German/French) cooperation, providing primarily cultural content, always offered in both or more languages. No advertisements or common denominator slop.

I used something called spotDL, it grabs your music from youtube. I also had to get several thousand tracks, but it still found almost all of them. Didnt find maybe 50 out all those.

State capitalism is when the government has controlling stakes/legislation in all major economic actors, ensuring they pursue government objectives, while still allowing the capitalists involved to extract the major share of profits.

A real world example is China.

Pros: you form a parasocial relationship with what is essentially a sophisticated next word guessing device additionally railroaded into keeping you engaged

Cons: see pros.

I also cannot stress enough how cripplingly unhealthy that would be for you, what happens is that you form an echo chamber with a decidedly not intelligent machine that is optimized to keep you coming back, so its owners make more money. It is not made to make you happy, or to actually be there for you, only to sell you the impression.

There are various articles about people doing just that, and then they are talked into unhealthy to extremely harmful behavior by those devices, ranging from extremism to suicide.

Understanding them from context works reasonably well yes, but they are still odd letters in modern usage, most people couldnt use or type these on their devices without extra steps.

Seems unnecessarily complicated for everyday use. Being a german myself i also do not use our Umlaute outside of communication in german, because barely any other reader can make sense of ä, ö, ü. Simpler to just spell them accordingly as ae, oe, ue.