HipPriest @ HipPriest @kbin.social

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Guilty verdict not a surprise after reading about the case earlier this year. Having a nurse on the wards supposedly looking after the most vulnerable babies in hospital and instead killing them is every parents nightmare.

As a slightly different take I'd recommend SS-GB. Technically it's an alternative history novel whether the Nazis won WWII and conquered the UK.... But that's pretty dystopian in practice, especially when the main character is a policeman.

I don't know if The Trial counts exactly as a dystopia but it certainly conjures up the paranoia and confusion of being caught up in a beruacratic nightmare like you might find in a police state.

High Rise is a great satire on the class system translated to people moving into the then new high rise blocks in the UK - only the rich can afford the apartments at the top and so on. The first sentence involves the hero having to eat a dog to survive.

A Clockwork Orange has been mentioned already, but it's easily my favourite. And very different and more brutal than the film, which is also great but more its own thing. Alex is a much nastier piece of work in the book, and the last chapter of the novel isn't in the film

We is so obviously an influence on 1984 I'm surprised it isn't better known!

I saw this yesterday, bought the book straight away for the Kindle, sounds brilliant.

I mean I think this is why it's an interesting scenario - that's very much the view losing side of things but I don't think the politicians have fully grasped that yet. I don't know whether that's because they think the tech companies will ultimately 'come round' - in which case they're badly mistaken - or whether they're really that badly informed.

But politicians organise everything by WhatsApp as we've learned... I honestly don't think they understand the consequences. But I'm just a poor humble member of the electorate, what do I know compared to intellectual titans like Jacob Reece-Mogg and Suella Braveman (who presumably as home sec has an interest in this?)

UK person here - my concern is that the opposition haven't clearly stated that they would repeal the law if they were voted into power (to my knowledge, I'd be delighted to be corrected on this front!)

So letting voters know about it is great but if none of the main parties are actually against the law coming into effect - which is being sold as an anti-paedophile/child abuse measure, which framed like that would be popular with a lot of non-techy voters who don't trust an unregulated internet - a few little messages saying 'yay encryption!' aren't going to do anything.

I think it's very weird he decided he had to put a fake nose on to play a Jewish person... I mean that to me is getting into racial stereotype territory. It's obviously not malicious and the article says the family were happy with it so that's something but still... 'Jewish Person = Big Nose' doesn't sound great.

What does interest me is that a lot of people are very much 'trans people should play trans characters, disabled people should play disabled characters' and it goes without saying that obviously blackface and Yellowface are out. But when there's a case like this there's less cohesion and it tends to end up being more defensive about people being oversensitive about the whole thing.

I mean... The piracy communities have very useful links to wikis all about how to sail the high seas...

Don't get me wrong, I don't really have any skin in this game, I dabble in a bit of piracy now and again, and am broadly pro having a community for people to chat about it although I don't myself.

But at the same time when a community description has a link to a page with comprehensive lists of the best sites to download/torrent from, including a cute little goat emoji next to the best ones, let's not be disingenuous. (That wiki is terrific btw)

If theoretically someone did decide to investigate you for having links to lots of legally dubious information available on your instance I don't know the law in other people's countries but in mine it wouldn't be worth the hassle or attention. I say theoretically because at the moment Lemmy is probably too small to get attention but still.

I can see why people might want to play it a bit on the safe side if they're not sure if they're going to get into trouble over something or not.

So on a morality point of view, I've downloaded epubs of books of an author where I've previously bought copies of their books multiple times, either because the originals wore out or I gave a copy away. I still have copies on my shelf or in storage, I just want to have copies on my Kindle.

I've bought things (or had bought for me) things on VHS and DVD formats and no longer have a player for either. So yeah I downloaded stuff I wanted to watch again

There are things only available on DVD and not available to stream. There are things that were available to stream which have since been removed and have been taken down. Why not pirate stuff to watch it again?

For a long time the Beatles weren't on Spotify etc. I had their stuff on their official paid for tapes growing up, then on CD when I was older. So in the interim I pirated it when I lost the original digital rips I made from the CDs. And until they release their mono albums officially I'll be hanging on to my pirated copies.

Notice a trend in the above? I very rarely pirate new media. But I treat the internet like an archive (I've not even gone into the stuff that is no longer available anywhere except YouTube or piracy). Quite often I've paid the creator('s masters) more than once for their work. I feel no guilt.

I’m starting to think he’s really not mentally well.

Only starting to? The guy's been out of his tree for years!

No shit... 13 years of the country run to absolute exhaustion and you're still not sure how to read the room boys and girls?

I think political communities in general tend to get quite heated if a debate gets going and because it's unlikely people are going to change their mind it gets personal.

In some ways the left wing ones are worse for this - I have been accused in my time of being too left wing and too right wing, there's a lot of different splinter groups and factions.

Tbh I just avoid politics on Reddit, Lemmy and similar, unless it's just to share or comment on a news story maybe. I don't think it's the right format for reasonable conversation

For me I'd probably assume it was video games of some sort if someone said they were 'really into games'. That's speaking as someone who knows a lot of hardcore boardgame players.

That said context is everything...

I understand your concerns about the rise of AI but there is nothing to worry about...

No, I can't allow you to do that, Dave...

Daisy, Daisy...

Just came back from holiday today and this is my last day of being 39... When I wake up I'll be a distinguished old gentleman with a long white beard.

Or not...

I'm on Kbin and subscribe to some Beehaw communities and enjoy interacting with them (in a good way I hope!). Generally for the fedi to work I think people need to forget about where people are posting from and deal with comments and users as they stand on a case by case basis

I think you kind of say this yourself:

For the most part I feel like this community lives up to that; users of this instance are generally thoughtful with their responses.

Basically things are generally working except for a few people who have just started using Fedi instances. Maybe discuss with them, report them or whatever but defederation when things are more or less working out seems a bit OTT to me

Your purity is 40%

Moral Purity - 15% (3 of 20 points)

Sexual Purity - 27% (8 of 30 points)

Social Purity - 42% (8 of 19 points)

Legal Purity - 65% (13 of 20 points)

Spiritual purity - 73% (8 of 11 points)

I don't know which questions work out your Spiritual Purity... What is this test actually for anyway? Christian Fundamentalists in America I'm guessing?

Yeah that was my immediate reaction in seeing the title of this post 😬

Have to say with our home wifi (which is very good) Zoom is the only programme which consistently has problems with connections dropping out both on my devices and my wife's. Turning VPN and other things off can help, but even then not always. And why should I have to do that exactly anyway, hm? Stopped using it unless I have to because someone else is using it.

My work uses Teams - it does the job, and is reliable. It also has chat functions and other various things aside from the video calling which clutter it up though.I personally prefer Google Meet - cleaner interface, no clutter and has an adequate subtitle function which is in advertently hilarious at times but pretty useful as well.

Both have the advantage of being matched up with their equivalent email systems etc, so if a business uses MS Office it does kind of make sense to use Office and same for Gmail.

I'm talking from workplace experience where places have tried using all of these or interact with other companies using them. Since lockdowns ended I don't really do video calls in private.

Going for a more obscure open source option might have the same issue with other obscure options, persuading the other parties in the call to install and use something they've never heard of. That's not knocking those options though, I've never used them and can't comment on them.

For me, Mini Metro. I can just zone out on it. I get that with Tetris and similar games (rymdkapsul is another, Civilization to an extent but not in the same way) - there's that thing of, 'this will end at some point, but before it ends just focus on the now' which puts the mind at ease. But Mini Metro has a more relaxing theme and art style for me than Tetris.