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@RedstoneValley @Buffalox Marie Le Conte left X and joined Bluesky ages ago. She’s mostly trying to make the point to some of her fellow journalists who are ridiculously clay-footed and don’t seem to have realised that they haven’t “made themselves a nice little corner of X”, they’re just swimming in fascist waters now.

@seraphine @technocrit the cookie banner is often now an “accept or leave” button, similar to how this addiction one sounds. Or “accept or pay”, commonly.
I never accept.

@Rooster326 @xenomor not just SEO; also the blogs are paid for with inline ads so you need enough text to fit the ads in *and* a forced scroll through them to satisfy the view counters, plus you can’t copyright a list of ingredients but you CAN copyright the text around a recipe so this is all a method of claiming authorship (not that that will stop the AI scrapers).

@ZILtoid1991 @MicroWave the Tories did that to the NHS here and then we had a pandemic.

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@hotdogcharmer It’s not that they’re not used about men, it’s that people don’t consider likeability in men as an important factor when determining their competence as a leader. And in terms of aggression: men who are “aggressive” are “strong leaders”. Women who are “aggressive” are “unlikeable”. These terms work together. Aggressive can be used about both but it is only a pejorative for one.

@hotdogcharmer @leadore I absolutely assure you likeability is an issue for women in the workplace in the UK. Signed, a British woman.
Look up “likeability trap”, though - it’s the name of a campaign tactic used against women in politics. It’s an ongoing problem.

@UnderpantsWeevil I think Khan basically had to exist as the national example of Labour in high places, when parliamentary Labour were taking themselves down over how to respond to a completely self-inflicted national disaster like narrowly voting in Brexit. Oh, hey, a parallel.
If Khan had been shit I think it’d have been harder for Labour to get such a big majority.

@Horsey still its nation’s richest city

@UnderpantsWeevil @frankiehollywood Out of context, I thought you were talking about London then. Can’t say the world has shifted on its axis since Khan took over 9 years ago. Although he and Trump really openly hate each other…

@CharlesDarwin @phoenixz same. But it will take a lot of Americans to turn it round, and until/unless that happens the rest of the world has to work out a backup plan, brace, and leave them to sort it out.

@desmosthenes but to go back to the first point - if they want to have a company in the US they will do it whether or not they’re resident. Can’t very easily employ thousands of Cayman Islanders in your billion dollar business. A Way would be found. But by structuring the business in such a way as to avoid whatever restrictions there are, there would at least be a small reduction in their cut. And a small reduction in billions is not insignificant. Plus… One fewer tax haven reduces options.

@desmosthenes they also buy food and drink from your local town, rather than designer limited editions from Paris.

@desmosthenes a lot of it is more likely to go into the Cayman Islands or investing in media they can control or buying politicians. Give $1b to one man or $20 each to 50 million people - bet you more money makes it into your local economy the second way.

@desmosthenes @technocrit why does that matter if they’re not contributing anyway. But also https://taxjustice.net/press/millionaire-exodus-did-not-occur-study-reveals/

@CmdrShepard49 @dukemirage If ten people want to store or listen to the same original album at the same time then the creator gets to sell ten copies. Then they might hand them on, but ten copies are still out there. Maybe an eleventh person wants one but they’re all in use - they’re going to have to go back to the creator and buy a new one. If someone pirates one copy and gives it to nine people for them all to have at the same time then the creator only sells one copy, forever.

@BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays

@anomnom @UnderpantsWeevil through a good guy, with a gun.

@sugar_in_your_tea @BarneyPiccolo especially in a language as widely used as English with regional nuance that an NLP could never distinguish. When I say “quite” is it an American “quite” or a British “quite”? Same for “rather”? What does it mean if we’re tabling this thing in the agenda? When/for how long is something happening, momentarily? Neither the speaker nor the program will have a clue how these things are being interpreted, and likely will not even realise there are differences.

@FreedomAdvocate no citizens have been deported *because they are seeing judges*. https://web.archive.org/web/20250418013839/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html