Not that big of a deal IMHO; it’s what verification is for, unlike X’s blue check model.

Obligatory fuck ICE.

I’m liking COSMIC better than GNOME, personally. Not sure why you are mad that something else exists?

I agree with the sentiment except for the last bit, which is a bit harsh. LLMs didn’t exist when I was in uni, but academic dishonesty did happen from time-to-time. It’d usually result in that assignment getting a 0 (sometimes enough to fail the whole module), although repeated offences beget more drastic consequences. LLM use is just a new form of academic dishonesty IMHO, albeit one that is more difficult to detect definitively.

There are a lot of idiots in university who do dumb things but then learn from the experience. Being too punitive would likely be a net negative, especially when talking about pulling their funding…

Really the broader point is nobody should have to take out life-ruining loans for a chance at education in the first place.

Thank you. Honestly I don’t have an ideal answer for you. I would have said the same thing (“women”), although I see why people take issue with it.

I think “people who can get pregnant” is marginally better than “people who get pregnant”.

I love this comment so much you have no idea

I know people will disagree, but as a trans man I personally find language like “people who get pregnant” really dysphoria-inducing and uncomfortable. It’s still better than AFAB/AMAB though.

Yessss!! Hahaha. My whole life people have been trying to convince me that I’m crazy because I don’t like orange chocolate. (Not even the actual fruit, just the flavour in chocolate.)

I agree with this wholly. I love fruits. I love chocolate. But I don’t want them together.

Six London councils? Not a chance.

I do unfortunately still think Reform will win the next GE, but London won’t be the reason why.

People can talk about their own lived experiences however they want

Hey, I’m really sorry you’re having such a shit time :(

I wasn’t willing or able to compromise on the way I was treated just to appease the family. It took cutting my family off until the message landed – that there’s no relationship with me if they can’t get behind my identity. Around the 6 month mark I gave them a chance again and started to feel a change in the atmosphere. Years later and we’re finally OK now. (Not great, but OK, and more than teen me could ever have imagined.) I hope you can get to this place someday.

Sadly, a lot of email address fields know this trick and won’t let you use an alias like that.

Few things entertain me as much as people using “woke” in a derogatory way.

How on earth are you only paying £20-£40 a month for food?! My weekly shop costs more than £20, and I live alone…

Oh yeah, this is super relatable.

I have a very complicated relationship with my heritage. (I come from a Middle Eastern country.)

As a teen I would stay up at night wishing I was white (because my white friends’ parents were OK with me being queer. They showed me a kind of love my life was so sorely lacking in.)

Whenever I’d come home I’d have to put the proverbial mask back on, but no matter what, I couldn’t work my way out of being a disappointment to the family. I felt like a prisoner in my own house and I knew other people had it different.

My mother also used to throw my medication (antidepressants) away because “chemicals bad” and it’ll “ruin [my] brain”, essentially. And so I’d deal with withdrawal too.

I was victimised by a combination of difficult life circumstances, and (really, mostly) a rigid, conservative, and intolerant culture.

As an adult now, my feelings about this are not so black and white; I am proud of where I’m from. But I do feel for younger me. And I’m still damaged from my childhood. Always will be.

Honestly, she might have the same thing I do. I don’t know if it’s got a name or anything, but absolutely all red wine tastes like balsamic vinegar to me, almost indistinguishably so, even when I’m sharing it with someone who’s talking about how this one is “fruity” or whatever.

I went through a short phase of thinking I was being pranked. So I’m with your sister on this one, minus the sangria bit lol.

I really don’t disagree about the government’s currently delusional priorities. None of those things are better, or even good uses of taxpayers’ money. I suppose it would be an expedient way to make use of already existing healthcare facilities and staffing, at least in the interim before they can start gradually streamlining.

My comment was influenced by my mentality as someone who does live in a(n actual) welfare state, but I’m sorry I was so ignorant about it!

Obligatory “not American” warning, but I think the problem is more complex than just making the government a customer. Countries with public healthcare generally don’t refer to private providers because the cost is orders of magnitude higher than a state run operation. (With few exceptions; my country paid for me to go to a private hospital once because I needed a specialist for something uncommon, and there weren’t enough in public hospitals / I was overspill.)

You don’t just have hospitals, you have an entire economy of insurance, administration, and severely inflated pricing to account for all the useless jobs and bloat. If none of that goes away, then I don’t see why the government would be incentivised to use them, rather than just set up state hospitals.

Also, unrelated but I just re-read the title; does Dr Oz still have any credibility whatsoever?

I do it by hand because I rent a small 1 bedroom flat. Those don’t typically have dishwashers here.

My last place had one though, and what an absolute godsend. I’ll definitely get one when/if I ever buy my own place.

Finally! I’ve been on Cosmic for months. Waiting for search results to be relevant again, rather than assume I use Gnome.

It breaks my heart that apparently most of the British public have never had good black pudding.