> people go apeshit if you question the number, nothing more or less.
Have you considered that this may be because it's one of the most well studied events in recent European history and the only people who are still obsessed with trying to revise what happened are those with certain political views on Jews?
By the way,
> The threshold for "never again" is much less than 6 million but also they are insidiously trying to convince people it was 6 million for some reason
Make it make sense please.
Also,
The Holocaust could have literally not happened and it would make no difference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas are basically Arab Nazis wishing to exterminate Jews because their holy book says so. Blow them off the fucking orbit.
The Holocaust could have not happened and it would make no difference to the fact that "Jews are running the world" conspiracy theories are bat shit retarded because the vast majority of Jews are at most middle class and even the few Jews who are part of the "world elite" are westerners with no say in China, Russia, or the Arab or Turkic world.
The Holocaust could have never happened and it would make no difference to the fact that I want to kick in the teeth of people who paint Jews as gay pedophile demons because no ethnic group deserves being treated that way except for the French.
My man what are you doing arguing with someone whose nick is "wight power" who's arguing that Jews collaborated to make the Holocaust happen and wanted it all along.
It's like Islam you know. The non extremists are chilling and although they believe stupid shit they stay out of your way and you barely notice them. Then there's the extremists...
Every single person who is not an ardent follower of the Temple of Gender Identity will sooner or later be accused of transphobia for one or another minor verbal "offense" against the Temple.
@sun@georgia@hj Reputable blacklists allow you to remove your IP from them. I was hosting feministwiki.org on a super cheap Strato VPS at first and managed to get email exchange working fine with all the big email providers.
It is indeed a lot of work though: correctly configure Postfix and Dovecot (or w/e software you wanna use), SPF, DKIM/DMARC, PTR (rDNS), contact blacklists to be removed from them... And IIRC one popular German email provider has their own private blacklists so I had to contact them separately. I think it was web.de.
Not to mention that there's nothing that can prevent an ActivityPub implementation from adding it as an extension, as is already the case, which is how I'm quoting you right now...
Campaigning against quote posts in Mastodon is like campaigning against the availability of cupholders in one specific brand of automobile, because you think it makes the roads less safe. There's no law preventing you from installing a cup holder (don't need the manufacturer to support it) and there's many other brands of cars, some of which already decided to install cup holders.
"Limited evidence" is meant literally, not as a negative. It's basically one step above "no evidence." To quote your own first source:
> In the community setting, a possible reduced risk of influenzalike illness was found among mask users. > In observational studies, wearing masks is associated with a lower risk of contracting viral respiratory infections.
The disclaimer on the mask box could simply be to ward off complaints.
Given that wearing a mask causes barely any inconvenience at all, I don't see an issue with mandating their use in enclosed spaces, based on *potential* benefits despite lack of clear evidence.
It's a bit like the seat belt mandate. Maybe you only ever drive very carefully at max. 20 Mph / 30 Kmh to the grocery store down two blocks, but you still have to wear the seat belt every time because it's easier to just mandate it for everyone in all cases than to figure out the exact scenarios in which it's really beneficial and try to encode that into precise rules.
> I believe that mask wearing was chosen as an easily identifiable marker of compliance.
Can you elaborate on what exactly you mean by that?
@anemone@Tony@lain@sun Please enlighten me. For about 10 years now, I've been asking people to provide evidence that male people who identify as trans are *less* likely to be sex offenders than other male people. Just days ago I had this argument with someone again and yet again they weren't able to deliver a sauce.
The only two sources on this that I'm aware of are the old Swedish study that found them to have about the *same* rate of being sex offenders, and the UK prison stats I mentioned.
Personally I think "about the same" seems most likely. There's some uwu sensitive guys who are too shy to look in the general direction of a girl who start to ID as trans, and then there's the unhinged cross-dressers and such, so they probably cancel each other out more or less. Would also explain the over-prevalence of sex crimes amongst highly violent prisoners who ID as trans. (EDIT: In the sense that the unhinged ones become rapists whereas the uwu sensitive ones don't commit *any* kind of violent crime, hence the skewed stats from high security prisons.)
And yes I'm including stuff like "trans health care" for minors in that, because there is at least some kind of rational thought behind that ("they are born trans so they'll want to transition sooner or later so we should help them do it before puberty") no matter wrong it is in practice.
"Let's just allow everyone to change their legal sex once per year by signing a piece of paper" is simply not defensible. It's just pure unhinged idiocy. Needed to get that out of my system. Thanks for coming to my fedi talk.