agrammatic

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[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago

The cyberpunk future is here

The term "boring dystopia" is a very apt description.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

The article reads so generically, as if it's soul it isn't there and it's only forced to talk about this issue but it rather it didn't.

But the issue is existentially important. Seems like I'm not ready to write in which ways, but definitely it's not so clinical and buzzword-heavy like the article presents it.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did I miss the line in the linked article where it says that one or more of the affected families actually previously supported the extreme-right government, or is your meme simply totally misplaced?

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Philips OneBlade war eine sehr gute Wahl für mich.

Meine Bibliotheksverbund Mitgliedsschaft und die BahnCard25 sind auch besonders günstig.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

The GDR denazified much more thoroughly, especially in the conservative /monarchical-leaning juridical branch, with well known consequences (eg, lack of judges with proper education).

But on the other hand, didn't the SED give old Nazis a political home in the National Front, supposedly to keep them in check and prevent them from potentially becoming an opposition force?

GDR was not alone in using this strategy, but I'm not aware of anywhere that didn't end up lending a lot of legitimacy to fascists and coming back to bite them in the end. Same story played out in my country of origin, but there it was the centre-right that decided that they should absorb the fascists in an attempt to control them, and it predictably backfired.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

As if anyone was ever harmed by such books.

Children's literature can still be judged on its pedagogical merits. Not all books are good, and that's why we have book reviews and experts writing recommendations for which books can be worthy additions to the school curriculum.

Heartstopper happens to be a work with quite high pedagogical merit because it approaches sensitive issues with tenderness, age-appropriateness and responsibility (especially when medical themes are explored in the story).

But some books can be potentially harmful and they shouldn't be read by children still learning about the world, especially if they don't have access to other reliable sources of information to counterbalance the bad information of some books.

To talk from personal experience, when I was growing up as a young gay teenager in a conservative country where there was no sex education in schools (at all, not even straight sex education) and no public real or fictional healthy models of queer relationships available, my only source of representation was yaoi manga that seemed to end up in the general comics book section of a chain bookstore. Even the non-pornographic manga did give me extremely harmful ideas about how relationship dynamics between two men might look like, both romantically and sexually. I did suffer real harm later on when as an older teenager I began dating, and the contribution of reading bad representation is not trivial to that.

For my younger self, I wish that I did have access to good books like Heartstopper, and someone informed enough to tell me that I shouldn't be reading the bad books until I was mature enough to understand why they are bad and how healthy relationships look like.

Hungary's law of course doesn't care about queer youth getting access to good books and avoiding bad books. Hungary's law just wants queer youth to disappear.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

You don’t like a product? You don’t buy it for you or for your kids as long as you materially provide for them.

It's not as simple. As we see from the US (but also to a tamer extend in some EU regions including in the bible-belts of western member states), even if the "market freedom" argument is established and there's no doubt about the right to sell children's literature with queer characters, those "concerned parents" move the goalpost to the school system (assigned reading in language classes) and libraries.

The argument that must be had is not about free markets, but about a child's inalienable right to develop their personality outside the control of their parents. The statement "children do not belong to their parents" remains a controversial one. In one country I am familiar with, "our children belong to us, so the school does not have a right to talk to them about things we do not approve" is now being used against the introduction of (straight-only) sex education.

It's more crucial to have a discussion about whether all children should have the right to read children's literature with queer themes, not only the children of parents who do not oppose the idea.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 34 points 2 years ago

Not to mention that

a) going under the plaintiff's outer clothing very clearly moves the onus of demonstrating that it was accidental back on the accused's side, because no reasonable third-party can accept that you can accidentally slip and fall into someone's pants

and

b) the accused admitted that the action was intentionally non-consensual, but their defence was that the motive was non-malicious

Even before we look at the duration, there are other factors that make the case way more clear-cut than this judge thinks it is.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Notarzteinsatz auf der Strecke: Auf der Strecke Offenburg - Karlsruhe Hbf zwischen Achern und Bühl(Baden). Es kommt zu Verspätungen und Ausfällen in beide Richtungen im Regionalverkehr der Deutschen Bahn.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Kommt auf die Strecke an.

Kurze Strecke laufe ich gerne. Für etwas längere Strecken ist das Fahrrad praktischer, doch in Berlin nervt es. Außerdem ist die S-Bahn besser als Straßenbahn und Bus.

Fernreise, natürlich mit dem Zug, wenn die Reise nicht länger als 8 Stunden dauert.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Are they asking for money

The text ends with an appeal to donate to KDE's fund-raiser, so they are asking for money.

Whether that makes it an advertisement and/or whether all advertisements are undesirable on a link-sharing board are independent questions. Personally, even if this is an advertisement by some reasonable definition, I did find it helpful enough and KDE got one conversion out of me because I downloaded one of their apps.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Warum brauchen wir den A100 noch?

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