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New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues"

Mediterraneo10 — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:56:27 +0000

Again, the whole point of UnHerd is that it includes people from a range of ideological outlooks, who ordinarily would be opposed to one another, because they share some concerns and can forge a common cause in publishing.

None of the headlines that you cite are specific to “extremist Christian-right propaganda”, indeed these are themes are commonly discussed by those who identify as leftist and unreligious, but feel that certain things that are presently insisted on in leftism as de rigeur, are not part of the leftist tradition they recognize from a few decades back. For example, with regard to being “anti-trans”, there are a lot of soixante-huitards who find the current focus on trans activism on the left excessive and even problematic, because it was utterly foreign to their struggle against rightist forces.

You have still not brought forth any proof of your claim above that UnHerd was founded and funded expressly for “extremist Christian-right propaganda” purposes. The gentlemanly thing to do would be to back up that claim, or retract it.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues"

Mediterraneo10 — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:41:38 +0000

Yet at the same time, there is this [0] posted by a higher-ranking staff member. That you have found an article written by a contributor who has also written for a Catholic publication does not served as proof of your claim in the GP that UnHerd was founded to push “extremist Christian propaganda” – the whole point of UnHerd is that it draws on writers from a range of ideological outlooks.

And FWIW, the idea mentioned in these links that early-millennium New Atheism eventually evolved into the current wave of social-justice activism, is something that has been often set forth by people here on HN and is not exclusive to any particular religious or anti-religious viewpoint.

[0] https://unherd.com/thepost/richard-dawkins-scientism-is-a-di...

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues"

Mediterraneo10 — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:30:42 +0000

Can you cite that UnHerd was founded by and funded by “extremist Christian-right propaganda” forces? Considering that its executive editor has frequently featured commentators who are downright anti-religion (e.g. Richard Dawkins), and various commentators who subscribe to old-school 20th-century leftism including its antipathy to religion, that is a claim hard to believe.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "The Banning of Joyce's Ulysses"

Mediterraneo10 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:00:30 +0000

Indeed, Ulysses is accessible to anyone with a well-rounded humanities education, even some particularly bookish high-school students. Sure, you might not get every single reference, but the story is plain.

Arguably the most challenging element for readers is not Joyce’s heavy erudition in drawing on the classical canon. Rather, it is some of the Irish politics in the early 20th century that will baffle most readers outside Ireland (and probably most readers inside Ireland, the colonial era being so far away now).

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials"

Mediterraneo10 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:02:32 +0000

There has been speculation that in a future Android version, Google will extend features of its Advanced Protection program to all devices. One of those is that sideloading of APKs will no longer be possible unless you do it over the command line via ADB. Only a tiny percentage of the population, techies like us, would be comfortable doing that. So, "you can still sideload" might not be a thing for long.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Police have been quitting in droves in the last year"

Mediterraneo10 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:27:39 +0000

The concept of policing by consent arose in a city which, at that time in the 19th century, was not riven by racial conflict. To claim that it is an argument for segregation is ahistorical. Self-determination maybe, but the concept was originally put forward in order to improve outcomes, not for the political liberation of the local people per se.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Police have been quitting in droves in the last year"

Mediterraneo10 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:08:47 +0000

It is true that even among minorities support for the existence of an active police force remains high. However, the principles of policing by consent still hold: a community deserves to be policed by police it recognizes as members of that community, not outsiders, and which have the community's best interests at heart. There is still a lot of work to be done in the US regarding these things.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Police have been quitting in droves in the last year"

Mediterraneo10 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:02:19 +0000

Maybe ex-combat military, but the vast majority of military never see combat.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:37:10 +0000

Don't expect your bank app and other common non-FOSS apps to ever work on Anbox. The problem is that more and more Android apps are requiring the device to pass SafetyNet. Not only will Anbox not pass SafetyNet, but even de-Googled Android ROMs like LineageOS have generally lost this war.

Generally supporters of FOSS phones who have to run an Android bank app or their country’s official ID app which is SafetyNet and Play Services-dependent, are encouraged to simply get a cheap Android phone for those limited purposes. Not to expect the PinePhone or Librem to run such apps.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:26:40 +0000

Signal on the Librem 5/PinePhone is already usable through one client (Axolotl), with possibly more clients on the way – the Signal devs still don’t publicly endorse third-party clients, but they have softened their stance and even quietly helped some other projects. So, a working Anbox isn’t seen as a must-have for Signal.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "The ongoing witch-hunt for sex workers in Sweden"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:31:50 +0000

There is a strand of feminism that holds that women should have the right to work as sex workers, because women should have their own agency, yet at the same time men should at least be shamed – if not prosecuted – for recourse to sex workers. In this view, men’s use of sex workers is objectifying the female body, and on a societal scale that is not so straightforwardly a "victimless crime".

In the modern era, libertarianism quickly breaks down when certain demographics feel grievances.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Apple Daily: Hong Kong pro-democracy paper announces closure"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:59:00 +0000

HK depends on the mainland for water and in fact has for decades, even during the era of British rule. That is one reason independence has simply never been an option.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:42:13 +0000

I would suggest that it is a slur because it is used as a term of disparagement that often doesn't even accurately describe the target. The label gets thrown at women who are not RF, and sometimes women who, for whatever reason (for example, a religion they adhere to) would be reluctant to even call themselves F. At that point, I don't see how the word is any different than people e.g. referring to any Arabs as "camel jockeys".

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "New network of European sleeper trains planned"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:04:53 +0000

Why do you think the taxes are inevitable? Not only are short-haul flights in Eastern Europe not heavily taxed, the building and running of the airports has been heavily subsidized. It has more than paid for itself by bringing tourism income to the region, and encouraging the diaspora to regularly revisit and spend the money they have earned abroad.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place"

Mediterraneo10 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:57:21 +0000

It is common to hear a transwoman claim (indeed, even occasionally here on HN) that anything other than recognizing them as equal to ciswomen is an act of violence and prejudice against them, and at worst, they utter some invective about “TERFs”. So, suggesting the recognition of a new gender is unlikely to satisfy at least those strident individuals.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Five year olds 'having panic attacks over socializing with their friends'"

Mediterraneo10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:25:18 +0000

> Judging parents is much easier than actually raising children.

I have seen this line used often. However, from an anti-natalist perspective, actually raising children is a mistake. Therefore, no one should actually expected to actually raise children, and simply judging those who do without that firsthand experience is perfectly reasonable.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "SimCities and SimCrises (2017)"

Mediterraneo10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:34:21 +0000

Depending on your social circle (or that cross-section of the general public that one encounters on Twitter and Reddit), then we may be entering – as society does cyclically – an era where any “escape” from modern problems is viewed as offensive. I have seen this recently even in literature forums where poets who wrote abstract modernist verse are now labeled as problematic because their work does nothing to tackle the problems that BIPOC and LGBT face. It would be no surprise if gamers, too, were challenged for the games they play being supposedly unhelpful.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?"

Mediterraneo10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:23:32 +0000

The EU standard was developed for the purposes of avoiding additional quarantine or testing during cross-border travel, not going to pubs within one’s own country. For domestic use of proof of COVID vaccination, some countries developed their own internal standards alongside the EU standard.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "Drinking coffee may cut risk of chronic liver disease, study suggests"

Mediterraneo10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:22:34 +0000

Experts generally regard fruit consumption as beneficial due to the fiber, not so much the rest of it, and squeezing the fruit for its juice (or drying it) is viewed as a risk of excessive sugar intake.

In any event, in the case of coffee its consumption bears little resemblance to what would ordinarily be regarded as a fruit.

New comment by Mediterraneo10 in "What it's like to be cancelled"

Mediterraneo10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:32:26 +0000

The relationship between a composer and his regular publisher is not one of employment. And publishers regularly refuse to work further with authors when said author does or says something that the publisher feels will make it look bad. Lawsuits don’t typically happened unless a contract has already been signed for the creator to provide a new work to the publisher, while if the two parties are currently between contracts, there are no grounds for a lawsuit.