3·13 hours agoThey don’t strip out the markdown on the bluesky side, so posts are just full of junk. Weird choice given the focus on ‘seamless’ integrated between the two.
It’s because YouTube puts a bunch of JavaScript at the start of the file (1MiB) before the opengraph tags and Lemmy only fetches the first 512 KiB (a fix was merged a couple days ago).
Neoliberalism is actually praxis as it creates more billionaires /s
A Wake In Providence – I Write To You, My Darling Decay
263·12 days agoTraditionally, puberty blockers would be used in cases where children start puberty at extremely young ages
Puberty blockers have been prescribed to transgender youth since the 90s, they’re use in combating gender dysphoria is just as much a part of the puberty blocker tradition as their use in combating early puberty.
I would not want to be held accountable for the countless stupid things I said or beliefs I held at a young age, so I can see why it is a concern.
This subtle notion that slips into this discourse that being trans is akin to a make-belief thing is deeply frustrating. No, children were not just being given puberty blockers because they suddenly declared that they weren’t their assigned gender. Getting puberty blockers required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, something I can assure you is not an easy thing to get in this country, and even then still needed a specialist’s approval.
This is the worst part of this ‘debate’, people are led to believe that it’s the child deciding for themselves that they get puberty blockers despite the very stringent requirements on their use for trans youths. The point of this entire ordeal is not to protect kids (puberty blocker usage has a 4% regret rate), it’s to build up the idea that no amount of safeguards can make the prescribing of trans healthcare acceptable to people you don’t believe have full bodily autonomy. Where this goes from here is not looking for other areas in which our medical system is failing children, it’s expanding the list of trans people who don’t have full bodily autonomy. The Cass Review has already said that autistic people need special consideration.
6·14 days agoThis guy keeps coming up, but this recontextualises the stuff he’s said before. Previously:
The housing secretary, who is also the deputy prime minister, said building more homes would stop prices from rising further and pricing new buyers out.
This would only really works if supply outstrips demand, but even if Labour delivers on the 1.5m pledge, it still falls far short of the current 4m+ deficit. The best this policy will do is stop prices rising as fast, but it won’t stop prices rising.
The cast size thing is definitely more of an early-RWBY issue, I think the Atlas arc overall did a decent job of managing all the characters.
I felt Ruby’s breakdown was a bit sudden. I don’t recall any foreshadowing of that in volume 8 but I might be misremembering. There’s definitely been points where she’s been stressed out before but I never felt she was the type to break down, but maybe it was just a matter of time.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen V8, but I remember her being on the verge of a breakdown throughout it e.g. that scene where she bursts out the meeting. In universe, it was only about 4 days between Salem arriving in Atlas and the Paper Pleasers fight, so the breakdown felt very natural to me.
601·16 days agoContext for people who don’t keep up with Lemmy drama.
I really like V9, I think it’s one of the strongest volumes of the show.
I personally thought the smaller cast was to V9’s strength, a problem RWBY’s had is that it’s tried to have a shonen style large cast but has never had the run time to balance all the characters. This is also why I really like V4.
You’re right about the budget constraints, they preemptively cut this volume’s budget so V8 could be longer (V8 and V9 were greenlight together), which I think was the right move. This volume didn’t need all the fight scenes like V8 did, but the final episode of our main cast reuniting with everyone in Vacuo getting pushed to a potentially never-to-exist Volume 10 was a let down.
Ruby having the mental breakdown she’s been putting off since V3 was very satisfying (ok, that sounds bad but you know what I mean).
I’d completely forgot about them tbh. You also see it a lot with cheese alternatives, even though they broadly fucking suck so I don’t know why the cheese industry even bothers.
In 2019, Oatly applied to trademark the phrase “Post Milk Generation” but this was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in January last year after ruling that its use of the term “milk” was “deceptive”.
But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them. Guess I’ll just continue to enjoy the two bottles of oat ‘drink’ I have in my fridge.
To be honest I do think calling it “milk” lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.
Most good oat milks will have stabilisers and vitamins (B12 especially) added to them vs if you just made some at home.
Nah, I did it and that seems to have sent it through to everyone else. Just weird as I checked the logs and slrpnk seems to have not sent the pin activity to feddit.uk.
It absolutely does, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skeet-bluesky-slang
Maybe after it arrives in merry old England.
Weird, it didn’t federate.
I concur, that’s all three of us (don’t worry about tom, they’re inactive).
They do, at least, acknowledge this: