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Anki might be worth your while if you are trying to learn something.

Load it up with a flashcard deck of something you want to remember, and it’ll show you those flashcards. Lots of people use it to learn languages, but it’s also good for anything that requires memorisation.

Ah no, that sucks. I’ve been using a lot of those apps.

They are going on adventures together! Maybe one day they’ll both read the same book at the same time, and go on the same adventure!

I would love to do something like this, except it’s way too goofy with the attached controllers.

Steamdeck in a tablet form factor would be perfect.

Yup, that’s what happens whenever “civility” is the primary metric used for moderation.

Trolls post heinous nonsense, and respond to people in the most insufferable rage-bait-y manner. But if anyone so much as calls them an asshole, they get their comments removed for saying a no-no word.

Even without knowledge of the source of the image, there is no reasonable way a normal person interprets that message as a genuine threat of violence.

Because the picture of the “gayroller 2000” is very obvious satire from the known-satire comic The Oatmeal, originally posted to satirise conservatives’ baseless fears of “the gay agenda”. Seeing a pattern?

On the other hand, there a pattern of hostility, hatred, and violence from conservatives towards LGBT people. This pattern is both historical and contemporary, and currently it is absurdly common for LGBT people to be called “groomers” and be accused of being dangerous to children.

Gay people obviously do not want to run over straight people with a steamroller. On the other hand, the people posting wood chipper memes… Some of them would, and have, followed through.

I quite simply do not believe that for even a second.

Let’s not pretend that you actually give a damn about transgender people. This is just concern trolling.

I mean, sure. That’s not at all unexpected. But not even allowing the user to try at all, or making it unreasonably difficult to try, is very frustrating.

Place the option behind developer mode, with a disclaimer that features may fail and Mozilla makes no promises or guarantees.

But just flat-out denying the option, or making the user jump through ridiculous custom collection hoops is nonsense. In my case the custom collection method still failed, but the extension I was looking for does in fact work just fine, after installing it with the modified user agent string.

What’s really annoying is that a lot of existing extensions already work. Mozilla just makes it unreasonably difficult to install them.

Change your user agent (using Firefox Nightly and the user agent switcher extension, which is supported) and you can install extensions exactly as on desktop.

Installing directly from an .xpi is still seemingly impossible though, annoyingly.

Yeah buddy that’s what getting a loan is. Except in reality, you get them from the bank.

And society does, very much judge outsider demographics on the worst actions of individuals.

Yes that’s the point I’m making, sweetheart. That we don’t judge most people by the actions of individuals but for minorities, it’s fair game.

Unless you are saying that it is right for people to do that?

Not all trans are like this…

Then why even bring it up?

We don’t judge demographics by the actions of individuals. If we did, both cis men and cis women would be banned from every aspect of society.

But for trans women, it seems to be fair game to dig for crimes and then make this sort of two-faced statement where you are definitely saying that we should view trans women with suspicion, but won’t come out and just be transphobic openly.

No. It isn’t on the table. This is another in the long line of scenarios that only exist in TERF imaginations.

She shot her shot. No regrets.

If you are allowing a company that Elon Musk of all people is involved in to operate on your head, maybe the damage has already been done.

I’m all for transhumanism, and I sincerely hope that the people who are hopeful for Neuralink to be therapeutic for their condition find some relief. But nobody should trust anything Elon Musk touches with their brain.

Sure he’s a curmudgeonly old man walking down the same path so many previous comedians walk: when their jokes stop landing, they rage at minorities rather than updating their craft.

It still does harm. He doesn’t get a free pass.

Thing is that he gets to speak out in support of someone actively working to harm trans people in the UK. But then when the backlash comes around, he gets to say that he doesn’t care.

If he didn’t care, then why stick his nose in it?

If he hopes that trans people are happy and that people treat them kindly, then why does he speak favourably of people who want to strip them of their legal recognitions and protections, and who harass and degrade them?

One can argue that he doesn’t know the extent of the issues that trans people face. And that fair. But that ignorance is weaponised against trans people. He either doesn’t need to care so he doesn’t inform himself before speaking. Or he does care and is opposed to trans people living their lives authentically, and is just saying that he doesn’t care to avoid getting embroiled in the controversy.

That’s fine, add a big disclaimer that “here there be dragons” and a checkbox to accept that.

But they fight the user every step of the way to disable features that do in fact work.