Maybe not the strangest but here are 2 from my vacation to London last month:

2 women walking past. One of them says:

“I talk a lot of shit, but my fart is bigger than my shit.”

Then in Covent Garden I met a very polite drug dealer:

Excuse me, do you need any weed or coke? No, well then have a very good evening.

Nice guy, big smile.

What year is this? This was a scare back in the 1970.

Un-fortify the wheat now!

/s

Did you send in the Human fleet to defend the Citadel from the Reapers, or did you hold back ensuring Humanity had the biggest fleet after the attack?

Hitler’s generals we’re largely good generals. Many came from the Prussian school of war.

The Allies didn’t try to assassinate Hitler because Hitler was causing so many military blunders by thinking he knew better than his generals and overruling them.

If they don’t win then they can’t pay it back. If anything it gives an incentive to lend them more.

The Iron Bank.

British Private Schools:

Fagging was a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys.[1][2][3] Although probably originating earlier, the first accounts of fagging appeared in the late 17th century.[4]: 23  Fagging sometimes involved physical abuse[4]: 23–25  and/or sexual abuse.[5] Although lessening in severity over the centuries, the practice continued in some institutions until the end of the 20th century.[4]: 23–25

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging

The discussion of nuclear power, much like the discussion of communism, is met with entrenched positions on Lemmy.

Break them up!

Ahh yes the: we can’t have self signed certificates for security reasons but also can’t open up the environment to the web, and we dont have our own CA server, trifecta.

Solution: awkward, manual, certificate import process from a 3rd party vendor.

This was my gut feel. Like the “Trip Wire” forces NATO members deploy along the Russian border States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force

I do this:

1. Tell myself I’m not going to do it. What ever it is, I’m not going to do it.

2. Do the bare minimum thing like: open up a word document, turn on a tap to wash dishes, take something out of a box.

3. By commencing the task I’ll usually default into doing the next part like reading the document, washing a dish, sorting something out.

Additional tips:

• Break big things into small chunks.
• Dont get overloaded. If your a room do it one draw at a time so you can stop when ever. Getting trapped in a “I can’t sleep until this is finished” task is a trap.
• Lists to keep track.

P.S. I was in recruitment 13 years ago and once thought about throwing myself down the stairs to get out of work. I did that job for 2x years and used it to move to a better industry.

You can make change in your life.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you :)

Why are tetrapacks so good?

I assumed they were terrible as laminated paper can’t be recycled?

As I write this I start to think this might be one of those things I learned in high school that might be total BS.

This statue is is Budapest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo_statue

I was thinking about this. Can we crowd source add hash markers, in a similar way to how Sponsor Block opperates but with hashes instead of time stamps?

I’ve never really understood the 3D gun printing use case.

Yes, they can fire bullets but bullets are illegal where guns are illegal.

Am I missing something?

There were cases where decommissioned guns could be bought in the UK (firing pins removed). Gangs were recommissioning these guns by adding the removed components.

However, where do the bullets come from?

Didn’t we learn from the pandemic that most toilet paper is produced with country borders due to high shipping costs?

Yes, no one seems to raise this anymore. AI to me has always been something akin to computer sentience.

Things like ‘self healing’ systems are being badeged as AI when they’re little more than an application load balancer.

Thank you for this detailed reply.

I think we’ve found the crux of our 2x points of view:

1. Without a definition of a disinformation campaign it is difficult to set rules that can be enforced. Example: do religious leaflets count as disinformation as they aren’t based on scientific fact? If not then why is there an exemption for that case and not others?

2. I preface this with: I am not in the field but am biased to the views of the British NHS. The scientific sources you’ve listed, though through, are contradicted by other scientific sources (note, I’m not talking about “these are my facts” but actual institutional research).

Source: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/

Puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones

Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria because there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness.

So in summary there are 2x challenges I see:

1. Reputable scientific sources do not agree on this issue.

2. Applying a purely scientific principle will break existing norms and allowances. Principles agrees for this area and applied to other areas will cause an impact.

I’m keen to get your views on this as this is where my own thought processes usually get stuck.

Sorry for long text replies but this is helping with forming a more concrete view for myself :)

What was the behind the scenes deal on this? I remember it happening but not the details

Good points. I agree with the paradox of tolerance and your other points.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. This type of discussion is why in use social.media but it is rare to get past the partisan brigading.

Civil disobedience is an interesting point in this case. Personally, I probably would have acted as this Canadian woman did.

What I am struggling with is understanding what counts as a disinformation campaign. I read in your post that you’d answer this as a society and with research however, if you were put in charge of this research tomorrow, do you have a draft definition of a disinformation campaign?

I ask as I try to see the world in black and white and steer clear of the grey however, this is rarely possible.

Free speech being a good example. It’s either a 1 or 0.