A take: Payment processors provide a de facto public utility. Legislation should forbid them from enforcing arbitrary rules outside of what is legally required, or they should be nationalised.
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@HarriettMB Facts are irrelevant when it comes to chasing down a threat that only exists in her head and makes her more paranoid and irrational and yes, it will harm people which I think is the point of her little war.

Womanhood is purely physical, fail the TERF's purity tests and they'll tear you apart for not fulfilling the feminine standards expected. They need to stay the fuck out of other people's lives and if they can't they need to be told to stay the fuck out of society.

@PatrickoftheG @L1vY@mstdn.social That is true but they said the same thing about Covid risks and heat tolerances will vary. I doubt they're that picky about the ages of death as long as it's not impacting their profit.

@nini She’s so wrong about everything. Women often develop facial hair post menopause, can have minimal or no breasts [including mastectomies] as well as natural body shape, have deep voices, be tall. Some ethnicities have naturally occurring body and facial hair that is perfectly normal for them, but TERF police wouldn’t want to know that. My niece is six feet tall. I know trans people who are more feminine than some CIS women I know, and you honestly cannot tell in any ‘sniff’ test. My eldest child’s partner is a trans person. When people are on medication for various conditions it can change their body shape and alter so much about them - ie steroids, or chemotherapy. She knows nothing and her hateful ignorance is dangerous. I fear it’s going to cause a serious assault, or worse.
That chief TERF is going to have people attacked or excluded from public facilities based on her misinformation and weird concept of what is a male or a female is dangerous to all women.

@Lazarou You're also not a trillionaire so the things that get them going will seem alien if not entirely pathetic to us.

@ChrisMayLA6 "We're British you see, we don't do humility."

@samnabi @psiie Expats are allowed to swan around in another country because they as white people can do that and are more an outcrop of colonialism that should have died out a long time ago.

@Geri Has the air of "there's no law against it".

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying :dancing_baby: I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

@Cheeseness I've been following along and I'm glad you're keeping tabs on them even if everyone else is distracted by the Apple tax.

@HarriettMB The moral relativism here is striking from her, guess breaking the law doesn't apply if you're a vigilante and can "sniff em out". The anti-trans is gutting her critical thinking skills.

@Lazarou Yeah but it's not a giant dick swing to do that, renting out Venice will definitely impress your fellow trillionaires.

@Lazarou @NorthantsGreens Why do I feel like it's only "Britain's Greatest Mistake" so far and worse is yet to come?

@bimshwel That's how artfights have always seemed to me, just a method for already big artists to get adulation while leaving smaller artists to do a lot for little in return.

@PatrickoftheG @L1vY@mstdn.social I wouldn't say geronticide, everyone will be at risk.

@L1vY@mstdn.social I get exceptionally ill during times of being too hot and that doesn't even need to be all that hot so yeah, heat will kill me and probably much earlier than most.

@Geri Britain First may have killed people but they are imperialist and white nationalist so that's okay, they didn't fuck with the power and therefore the money.

Palestine Action didn't kill anyone, opposes the imperialist structure and did at least thumb their nose at the power and as such need to be considered more dangerous than fascist murderers as punishment.

@HarriettMB This fucking bitch...

It is an offence to photograph anyone in or using a restroom, and it’s a jailing offence to doxx that person by posting their image online. I strongly suspect some stalker doing this could be rewarded with a physical lesson in manners from a fit person with martial arts training. The correct procedure would be to report them to the store manager or security and insist on pressing charges. #TERF #ToiletsForAll #Autonomy https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-Lk1JpWpbTCiMnEOr8DA1EQ%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

@larsmb @b_rain That might be the core point of the LLM push, acceptance of the lying lie machine will come easier if it's framed as being like regular computing (hard, absolute, factual) though it's all smoke and mirror tricks (soft, relative, fiction). Also it's playing incredibly hard on lies being more convenient than the truth for a lot of people, remember "alternative facts"? This is the alternative fact generator.