JoBo

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[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Maybe you could direct your righteous anger at the people misselling the app, not the people who use it to help them get pregnant or to avoid becoming pregnant in a proto-fascist society that has removed their right to an abortion?

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 94 points 8 months ago

Wordle is a ripoff of Lingo, first broadcast in 1987.

They can take themselves down.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This was one company, with only their NZ code affected. It'd be astonishing if all the pumps in NZ were still using the same code as four years ago. And not at all astonishing that coders are still making careless errors to do with dates.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

Neither ADHD nor autism count as 'insanity' defences. They're neurological conditions, not mental illnesses that alter the perceived state of reality.

They're being advanced as mitigating factors for sentencing. He's entitled to do that and any competent lawyer would (and should) be making these arguments.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

No.

But if you have to buy from Amazon (and sometimes it is difficult to avoid), find it via a search on your less evil search engine of choice so that Amazon has to pay them for the click.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 22 points 8 months ago

Are you charging for your performances?

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can't point to a difference and say it's (directly) caused by chromosomes or the SRY gene or hormones, whatever. Brain differences increase with age, suggesting that they may be more to do with socialisation than genetics. Does this evidence prove that women should be treated differently or is it evidence that women are, in fact, treated differently?

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Try reading the article.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

But they're not telling men that, only women. And that is unreasonable no matter how hard you struggle to justify it.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Surely there's a legal way to carry on fucking women over.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes! Phones with small screens are not useful. Phones which don't fit in pockets are not useful. Flip phones solve the problem and I've been wanting one for twenty years.

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