vashti

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[–] vashti@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Always amuses me a bit when people say Kindles don't support EPUB, since I've been stripping DRM from my books and storing them in Calibre (enabling transparent conversion between EPUB and Amazon's formats) for thirteen years without a hitch. You should be doing this on any platform if you want to keep your books.

It's beyond me why anyone who so much as knows what FOSS stands for wouldn't do the same.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, the BBC never report on protests, and the people behind the protests always get mad about it. They just aren't newsworthy unless something happens besides the fact of a protest.

Essentially, this story is free advertising for the protest.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

She has accused him both of rape and of grooming her. What on earth do you think her punching him in the stomach while he forcibly deep throated her was supposed to be?

This has been highlighted in the news coverage.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Both child grooming and emotional and sexual assault are illegal in the UK, bizarre as this may seem to you.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

SMS was free on some networks initially. They only even realised they could charge for it later.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

The thing is you aren't the audience. Discussion about anti-Asian racism in English tends to be focused on the experiences of e.g. Asian-American people and on the racist abuse they get from white people.

It's actually that exact kind of self-moderation, surely? "hang on, doesn't this word suck, let's not use it"?

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Some of them have a real thing for saying the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened and there's no evidence, too. I guess I just hallucinated those news reports at the time with screams and gunfire in the background.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when "joey" became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.