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>they're mainly complaining about proprietary OS vendors restricting users' choice in browsers I guess they think everybody forgot about the many years and hundreds of millions of …

I would have agreed with you in the past. And I still do when it comes to defending a lot of the BBC content that doesn't come from the news department. But BBC News is just so bad…

I think experience will differ a lot based on when you were vaccinated. Earlier on (Feb/March last year) it sounds like the waiting time wasn't being strictly enforced - you were a…

>The defining characteristic of cancel culture has always been using collective online action to have someone ostracized from social or political circles, removed from their job or…

The defining characteristic of cancel culture is people with massive platforms who spend a lot of time trying to get people fired for saying then they disagree with complaining whe…

'Today' is tabloid bilge and has played a big part in the dumbing down of political discourse in the UK. It's hard to take any of the rest of your recommendations seriously when th…

The most important counterpoint is that the Stanford study cited there is really bad: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... The more recent numbers from N…

Maybe you aren't old enough to remember but plenty of people were up in arms in 2000 as well. I can't comment on what popular sentiment was in 1888.

You're getting downvoted because you're dangerously wrong. Yes some anti-vaxers send threats, but the idea that they have managed to silence the mainstream scientific opinion on va…

>It is an uninformed choice if you want to run wayland Creating a product that only works for people who already a) know about it and b) buy their hardware specifically to support …

Well you can read the thread on the mailing list but to put it bluntly - because they wanted to stop ZoL from working. They view non-GPL kernel modules as a violation of the GPL. "…

The UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association Here's them going on strike the other year: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announce...

>I invite the reader to search for any serious discourse on problems within "sex work" at Current Affairs or The Intercept, The Guardian It's always dangerous to make generalisatio…

I think we have very different definitions of 'respectable'. Maybe it's an American thing where absolutist free speech is worshipped as part of the cult of civic religion, but wher…

Even the Financial Times, notoriously partisan backers of privatisation and markets, struggles to make the case for rail privatisation these days (although they do try, bless them)…