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Too close to politics for me, so I'll bow out of this now. Very much a politics thing I am afraid. The current self-immolation of the Scottish devolved government is in part due to the transgender laws issues. (The other main problem being climate change/environment. Who knew when you are in a powe...

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It's not a hypothetical, we already have convictions of Male to female Trans sexual offenders in the UK. Scotland had to rethink their basic prison policy because of it.

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I just don't see the issue. A woman could also conceivably be abused by another woman. And under law there is no difference, is there? In practice the penalties are weighted against men I am sure, but that's on the theory that there is a disparity in the potential for lethality. A female MMA fighte...

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As you explain, there's an edge case there. The VAST majority of 'concerned opinions' held about this are simply garden variety bigotry. Well Scotland still is a very conservative country compared to the rest of the UK, so you could slip 'religious' into that sentence quite easily and not bat an ey...

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Even worse, about shit that's none of their god damned business. Well thats the problem. It is indeed, not anyone else's business in the vast majority of cases. The problems are where it very much becomes someone else's business is where it puts someone else at risk of harm. And yes, this is a smal...

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Its also largely bullshit. As the vast majority of customer service centres are staffed with women and gay men who are happily handling confrontation day in and day out all year round. The issue with LDickinson is that she's shit at her job, not because she's a woman, but because she's a product of ...

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COVID also affected a huge amount of people geographically. Stuck in countries, maybe visiting family at home etc and unable to return to wherever they were. The change in focus might be no more than their location changed and so did their interests. I think my favorite story of the period was autho...

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Boy Scouts of America went basically co-ed in the 2010s. Though I see stuff about separate girls' troops. In fact on this they lag the original organisation: what's now called The Scout Association allowed admission of girls at all levels in 1991 and made it mandatory in 2007 . (Too lazy to cite be...

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Kraken wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:10 pm
Here's the fun part. All five are on a plane being transferred to a supermax. The shackles malfunction and all are released simultaneously. What happens next?

Have you seen Con Air?

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Semi-Related

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:14 am

Konveyor Belt wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:50 am
Ironically, if there's one person who's experienced in sniffing out socks, it's Tamzin.
Or sniffing socks, as the case may be.

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I've stopped wearing socks almost completely for at least 20 years. Big Sock is fooling you into thinking they are necessary.

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I'm sure he will be popular. He looks soft and fleshy.

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S L O W K I N G (The CU banned: User:Slowking4 ) He's banned on five wikis so far, but still a valued member of Wikimedia District of Columbia, where he's on the public policy committee . He's also active on the wikipediaweekly Facebook group . They all know he's the incorrigible slowking4. Also ba...

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On the plus side, 1700 socks does kind of make a mockery of their captcha

(Quite a few of which have been known to be ineffective for years anyway.)

Maybe the tech team might be prodded into getting off their fat lazy arses and doing something useful.

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Stupider ideas have been done in the past tbh.

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The US has a terrible human rights record when it comes to prisoners, and executes people. So any extradition there is a long drawn out process. When was the last US execution of an extradited person? God knows, from the EU? Probably at least 30-50 years. The EU won't extradite anyone unless it's t...

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The US has a terrible human rights record when it comes to prisoners, and executes people. So any extradition there is a long drawn out process.

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eppur si muove wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:43 am
I assume they were all too busy stabbing Beeblebrox in the back to pay attention to the case in hand.

Or Beebs personal impact on arbcom's efficiency as a group is greater than people thought....

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The WMF has no ability to prevent CUs from copying data off the CU-wiki and storing it forever. And to be fair, neither do many organisations. Its just not feasible for most to run an entirely locked down data structure. Even then its a matter of minutes with a paper and pen for the majority of wha...

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Very little has changed since 2015 regarding the core issues.

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"Racist-enabler" is probably more accurate, but for most people these days it's pretty much the same thing. If someone doesn't say anything about someone else telling a racist joke, they might be a racist enabler. If someone tells me a racist joke, I assume they are a racist. Sharing that post is l...

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eppur si muove wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:24 am
If I voted it would be no against everyone except possibly the non-admin.

Yeah I did that as soon as the voting opened

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Reminds me of a time back in school when the fire alarm went off. Everyone got up to leave the building. But our teacher told us to sit back down. He said that he hadn't been informed about a fire drill, so it must be a false alarm. The idea that it could be a real alarm simply didn't occur to him....

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Someone told me that if one sprinkler goes off, they all go off - is this true? From when I worked in construction, generally yes for sprinklers with exceptions. It depends on how it was set up. The more expensive, the more targeted. Not so much for fire suppression systems. But that was over 20 ye...

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Boing! said Zebedee wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:30 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Stuart_Seldowitz

Looking at that editor's contribution history, its amazing they havnt been indeffed yet.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Requests_for_rights&oldid=822254366 Looks like there are now a twentynine requests for autopatrol open right now, compared to a whopping two prior to this announcement. A well-thought-out plan saving time and effort, definitely not just creati...

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Like most things involving the WMF's internal teams, the general idea isnt bad. It is just the execution that is crap. -edit- I think their main problem is ultimately they are a charity/not-for-profit, and the skills required to do things like project plan, adaquately risk assess, foresee negative c...

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I'm not sure I understand what that person thinks Amtrak can do about a private building thats clearly having structural issues over their track other than stop all the trains running through it. The lack of a buffet car and train schedules being re-jigged are just a consequence. Pretty sure Amtrak ...

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Oddly enough I have seen an upswing in the 'Putin is already dead' conspiracy nuts the last couple of weeks.

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Ron Lybonly wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:30 pm
I do not want to know the basis on which that editor makes his (or her?) assertion.

Rigourous analysis.

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(looks at gallery) My, that's quite an array of ... tits. :evilgrin: “Tawnee says what she does is Art, Sarge. And she wears more clothes than a lot of the women on the walls around here, so why be sniffy about it?” “Yeah, but…” Fred Colon hesitated here. He knew in his heart that spinning upside d...

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Herbert James Draper During his lifetime Draper was quite famous, a well-known portrait painter. I dunno. In context, it makes sense to add an intensifier, since he’s one of those “famous people that you never heard of.” Well yes, in the ranks of 'victorian painters who did porn-masquerading-as-cla...

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Yeah process-wise this is one of the options they should have gone with in the beginning. I wouldnt go so far as to say unintended consequences, its not that difficult, even for commons editors, to see the consequences here. I cant think of any of the disbenefits that outweight the benefits though. ...

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Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy) It's 29781 words or 100 pages. FourLights has made 14,000 edits to it over 13 years. Most of the 500 page views per day are probably from him editing it. FourLights created Political thought in ancient China in 2015 and deleted it in 2016 and moved the content to Legal...

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Snooper wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:26 am
Ah, Mr. Brandt. The very first non-article space edit I ever made was to vote in the deletion discussion of the article on him. I got emails about it for close to three years. Fun times.

Well next time you will know not to vote keep

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That article may have made the most direct connection between Law and Sanctioned Suicide that I have seen in the press. Of course, they refuse to name the site and Kenneth Law doesn't have an article. Still. This I think is one of the issues with the BBC. As a publicly funded national news organisa...

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“A coalition of 41 states and the District of Columbia are filing lawsuits alleging that Meta Platforms has intentionally built its products with addictive features that harm young users of its Facebook and Instagram services,” the Wall Street Journal reports. I dont really see this going anywhere ...

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That article may have made the most direct connection between Law and Sanctioned Suicide that I have seen in the press. Of course, they refuse to name the site and Kenneth Law doesn't have an article. Still. This I think is one of the issues with the BBC. As a publicly funded national news organisa...

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I should add that the reason I checked whether I could reach the SS site is because of this edit by Second Skin 1179552617 with the caption "Also not accessible in UK". I've checked with a couple other child safe ones, and it appears SS is blocked. So it sounds like a problem with Virgin, I'd repor...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67082224

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I'm sure no one is going to find a way to game or bot this and bloat datastores with six quadspillion throwaway accounts with incomprehensible names to the point where stopping bad actors or tracking POV or LTA socking jackassery becomes pointless. The signal to noise ratio is not at all going to b...

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Beeblebrox wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:57 pm
The underlying issue having also been more or less resolved.

She's still not dead, so I guess the underlying issue is going to be simmering for awhile.

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el84 wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:40 pm
That's a separate "motion" regarding Kolya Butternut being unblocked, presumably so they wouldn't continue to talk about Flyer22Frozen or whomever it was.

Ah yes, Flyer22Frozen, who is absolutely alive and kicking.

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Every member of the IDF once completed their national service is a reservist. I'd be surprised if there wernt any there.

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And he might end up spending some time in the hellhole that is Chelmsford Prison. He'll be feeling homesick for Scotland in no time. Hellhole by UK standards, or US standards too? UK standards. US standards are so far below most western democracies they approach places like Thailand etc. The differ...

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Cool story bro.

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This is the legislation would say that he should be deported if convicted of rape or similar and sentenced to a year or more imprisonment for any one offence https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/30/crossheading/deportation-of-criminals Thats the legislation the Government uses when it tries to...

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This just in. Nicholas Rossi arrested by Essex police over latest rape allegation Essex police confirmed he was now in their custody. “Officers investigating a non-recent allegation of rape in Chelmsford, which was made to us in April 2022, have arrested a 36-year-old man,” a spokesman said. Extrad...

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Boing! said Zebedee wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:38 am
"Scotland's justice secretary has confirmed that the extradition of the American fugitive Nicholas Rossi can go ahead."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67016975

Prepare for the huckling.

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At least the WMF employees who get treated like crap get paid for it. Ordinary Wikipedians who get treated similarly get nothing. I actually think this very idea is how some people justify being rude to them. "They're getting paid and I am not, so fuck them and their feelings" kind if an attitude. ...

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