tae glas [siad/iad]

oh absolutely! it’s vital research & the article seems well-written but still accessible to a lay-person like me.

my only issue was with the editor or whomever wrote the misleading headline (i was expecting to read about a human father), not the article itself & certainly not the researchers.

*mice fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their mice children’s metabolic problems

i know it’s mentioned in the article, but it feels like a pretty misleading title to omit that this study wasn’t done on humans

idk, i’m vegan and i think it’d be perfectly ethical to eat centi-billionaires 🤷

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they’ll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.

it’s a phonetic (and maybe playful?) spelling of no more

they’ll spend money on anything except fixing the housing crisis or cost of living crisis, it seems.

which is something that in turn would cut down on “keyboard warriors” as they put it, because when people aren’t priced out of living their lives, they have other things to do!

i really worry about what spaces kids online are going to be pushed into, with all these bans. so many people my age were groomed on internet forums when we were kids; i imagine social media bans are going to push kids into spaces like that, where it’s not technically considered a social media site, and there’ll be little to no adult supervision from anyone who’s not in the inner circle of the forum.

this is perfectly legible, calm down.

rather than being angry at a stranger who’s written something in a v standard way, maybe point that anger at the education system you went through, which seemingly didn’t teach its students how to read anything other than printed fonts.

i’m sorry you’ve been neglected like that, but it’s never too late to learn.

the article feels like whataboutery in itself, imo. gchq’s main thing is mass surveillance of uk citizens. if they didn’t steal & store people’s data, then that stolen data wouldn’t be stored in one convenient central location from which to steal it 🤷

edit: i do get that it’s not great that this has happened, of course. i just don’t think surveillance should be seen as inevitable in the first place.

until they have a problem with bringing in digital IDs, and the amount of data being stored by google/meta/amazon/apple/etc, this just feels like sinophobia & xenophobia. stealing & storing our data’s bad in general, not just when china or russia want to do it 🤷