A transferee from Reddit. Also the person who does those imgur meme dumps.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Schoolfriend of mine was captured, tortured and killed by the Taliban. I still remember crying over a song we sung.

    We don’t just have Farage wanting to pay them to take back people the Taliban wanna kill, but we have this baby fucker wanna give them money for their airbase.

    The fash want to give these fuckers money, perhaps because on some level, they admire them. The Taliban use the same excuse for their fucked up policies as the fash do (“we’re preserving our culture”).











  • So he was a civil servant (nothing big, photographer and graphic design dept, some of his maps are in a preserved nuclear bunker in Fife) and one day the nurses went on strike and he (despite not being a nurse) walked out in solidarity. He was dragged in front of his boss who told him he was now banned from any official honours, meaning he couldn’t become a Knight, get an OBE, CBE, MBE, get a George Cross or become a Lord.


  • Scottish person here, no we do not.

    This is a well-known scam that perpetrates a myth that you can become a lord or lady by owning land in Scotland. There is not, and never was a law saying that. If that was the case, my parents would be a lord and lady because we own land in Scotland (my house). In reality, my dad is banned from any official honours. No seriously. Its pretty based.

    The firm running the scam claims the money goes to reforesting schemes in the highlands. It does not. If you want to contribute to reforesting in the highlands, look up the national trust for Scotland or the Scottish wildlife trust.

    The title of lord is not one that you can buy by getting land in Scotland, it is the British equivalent of senator. I want you to imagine if someone claims that if you a square metre of land in Alaska. You can call yourself a senator.


  • Pretty much because my smartphone is basically my digital Swiss army knife. Like even if I got a separate digital camera and MP3 Player, I also use it for navigation and to communicate with my parents and friends over signal, and like hell I am gonna give up signal. Add to that it’s also my portable wifi hotspot when I’m out, my train tickets, and how I pay for things when I’m sans-purse, I don’t know if I can give up my smartphone.

    Would it be good for me to get off social media and to stop doomscrolling the news? Yes, but I can do that by going out and touching grass.




  • Are you sure about that?

    Like I know you are going to point to the following:

    • Surveillance Capitalism
    • The rise of the Alt Right
    • Conspiracies
    • Social Media

    But I would pin that more on capitalism than anything. The internet in my opinion has been a boon for society. For example…

    • Wikipedia has basically made the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy real.
    • Open Source Technology wouldn’t exist as it is now without the internet.
    • There are entire businesses that wouldn’t exist without the internet.
    • There are whole fandoms that wouldn’t exist without the internet.
    • The internet has allowed for economic and political opportunities that just couldn’t be a thing if it wasn’t for the internet.
    • It’s been a boon for collaboration, which I think it’s humanity’s biggest strength.

    Do I think the internet has allowed for us to enter a cyberpunk hellscape? Yes. Do I think the internet has been a net negative for society? No!