bendigedig (u/bendigedig)

bendigedig commented on Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score” josepheverettwil.substack... · Posted by u/adityaathalye

cwmoore · 2 months ago

Population level proof is, at best, a model which fails every minority, including individuals. Which is arguably still useful, but only a different fallacy.

bendigedig · 2 months ago

Yeah, but then the comment was making sweepingly generalised statements based off personal experiences.

bendigedig commented on Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom aeon.co/essays/why-an-abu... · Posted by u/herbertl

bendigedig · 2 months ago

In my view a superabundance of irrelevant choices blinds most folks to the lack of more politically important choices which are denied to most.

Perhaps the contemporary fight back against 'woke' is really about the important and empowering choices in life being denied to too many?

bendigedig commented on America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

bendigedig · 2 months ago

> America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

America is Sliding Towards Autocracy - FTFY

bendigedig commented on Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act theregister.com/2025/10/1... · Posted by u/klez

alphazard · 2 months ago

What do they seek to accomplish here? There is strong precedent for the US defending the 1st amendment against foreign interests. No UK bureaucrats are going to make a career out of this. Going after a company that can defend itself and can't be intimidated, will prevent them from bluffing successfully against smaller companies, who could realistically be intimidated. If I were working at Ofcom, I would stay away from the large US sites with access to good legal counsel, and instead try to intimidate the long tail that don't.

Totally separate from the issue of whether this is good or bad: it doesn't look like these Ofcom guys are playing with a full deck.

bendigedig · 2 months ago

> There is strong precedent for the US defending the 1st amendment against foreign interests.

How does this ruling affect the company's right to free speech in the US? It's a fine for refusing to comply with a law in the UK; any sufficiently competent organisation could choose to comply with censorship/age gating in one country and avoid those restrictions in all others.

bendigedig commented on Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act theregister.com/2025/10/1... · Posted by u/klez

retrac98 · 2 months ago

At this point we need big names to choose to remove their services in the UK so the government gets the message.

bendigedig · 2 months ago

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bendigedig commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum

the_mitsuhiko · 2 months ago

One of the problems with modern internet discourse is there is an implicit assumption that the problem of one country is automatically the problem of another country.

bendigedig · 2 months ago

I think that's just Americans tbh.

bendigedig commented on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine express.co.uk/news/uk/211... · Posted by u/ANewbury

stavros · 3 months ago

Right, but the UK is saying they'll fine Imgur even after Imgur blocked access. At that point, what tooth does the fine have? "You must pay this fine if you want to, err, nothing I guess"?

bendigedig · 3 months ago

Just because they've blocked UK users doesn't mean they aren't making revenue from advertising operating via the UK.

bendigedig commented on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards petition.parliament.uk/pe... · Posted by u/DamonHD

FridayoLeary · 3 months ago

Kier Starmer seems to have no idea how he's coming across. Everything he does just makes him look more authoritarian. He's doing this right after passing that "online safety" bill. It's remarkable that the only time he got his act together was in sending anti government rioters to prison in record time. Which only goes to show what he can do when he wants. The palestine action thing is another one. They embarrassed him so now they are being arrested in their hundreds. It's really not a great look for him at all. But he seems blithley unaware of this. I imagine he's confused because his entire social group of enlightened progressive elites tell him he's amazing and he doesn't understand what the plebian class are complaining about.

bendigedig · 3 months ago

He's the ultimate product of a dysfunctional civil service; what else could be expected other than dis-empowering people, ignoring democracy, and increasing bureaucratic power?

bendigedig commented on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards petition.parliament.uk/pe... · Posted by u/DamonHD

dazc · 3 months ago

The likelihood that it will become tied to your bank account, credit file, etc in a way which isn't currently possible with physical forms of id such as passports and driving licences.

bendigedig · 3 months ago

Don't banks demand your National Insurance number already in order to open an account?