DavidDoesLemmy @ DavidDoesLemmy @aussie.zone

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As a daily bike commuter in Melbourne, these concerns exist, but they're really not as bad as you make them seem. Most days in the year it's very enjoyable to ride to work.

It might mean a lot of world record times with the extra incentive!

Books need informative ratings that aren't enforced. You should be able to tell what sort of book you're about to read to your kid, before you get to the detailed sex scene.

Good on them for trying, but some of these are awful ideas. It's like every expert just used it as an excuse to publicise their own issue, even if it wasn't relevant to productivity.

It is funny when revenue raising and incentivising behaviour get mixed. Like when governments become dependent on speeding fine revenue.

This would incentivise cycling and public transport

I'm all for changing the tax system to be more fair, but that figure about people earning over 1 million a year and paying no tax is misleading. Their taxable income would be zero to pay no tax. They would do this by losing all the money in investments or giving it all to charity. So they didn't net anything, so they don't pay tax. That is fair. We tax net income and net profits.

It's similar to how music went from people buying albums to listening on iPods and phones. You can't fight the tide, and if you're not in there proposing solutions, you'll have to live with someone else's solution. Streaming (in its current form) isn't great for artists, but the industry dragged it's heals for so long they were left with no other choice.

Yeah sorry, I meant inequality is non directional. It might seem like I'm being pedantic with language. But I was unsure if you meant that men's experience was more homogenous than women, so women experience more inequality even within their gender. Which I don't think it's the case. There are more male billionaires and CEOs, but also more male homelessness and suicide.

The fact that there are so many definitions of what feminism is, shows that the label is not super useful. If you say you're a feminist, you then have to explain which version you're taking about.

It could be anything from "people should be given equal opportunity" to the extreme "all sex between a man and a women is rape"

Labels that start off as descriptive become prescriptive. People who associate strongly with a label are less likely to have nuance to their views or change their minds. It becomes us and them.

You can become a prisoner of your labels.

What flag?

Yes this! Do a trial with each one and see which class she likes better. It might come down to the teacher, the other students, or any number of other factors that aren't the style of martial art.

I would never condone killing or violence, but I'd buy Luigi a beer!

I think it's not controversial to say content creators need to get paid for the content they create. But I think we need to find a way to do that while adapting to this new era of AI.

They're not making an llm. He's commenting on fair use and copyright laws. Copyright has been broken for a long time. AI just highlights it. It needs to be reimagined.

I think women do experience more gender based adversities, but I worry framing it like that creates an "us and them" situation between genders. We should fight inequality wherever it exists.

It also misses intersectionality. Not all men are advantaged over all women. A man born in poverty, violence, with a disability, or of a marginalised race, isn't automatically better off than a rich white women born to a good supportive family.

For each of those examples women were disadvantaged and men were advantaged. So they both experienced inequality.

I don't believe in an -ism. I believe in equal rights. I think the name feminism does more harm than good.

Can you explain how women deal with more inequality than men?