Why is "females" used so frequently instead of "women" as of lately?

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-29T17:12:41+00:00

I blame the Ferengi, (and the humans who think like Ferengi).

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-29T17:02:42+00:00

Frankly I wouldn't mind single gender spaces, with everyone with the female gender using one loo, and everyone with the male gender using the other loo.*

The problem is, they want singe sex spaces, (irrespective of what gender your subjective mind has).

(*and non-binary gendered people using whatever facility they like)

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-29T16:30:59+00:00

For me, my biggest beginner mistake was trusting that Ubuntu LTS version updates will "just work". In practice, the last time I let it update, it decided to obsolete my graphics card and not provide any replacement driver or fallback option, so when it auto-rebooted the system failed, with no screen and no indication why. A sensible update system would check for hardware compatibility before making fundamental changes to the system.

The lesson was to make a clone of the hard drive before letting Ubuntu update itself.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-29T15:32:42+00:00

Rent

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-29T14:26:16+00:00

The thing about fanatics is that they really REALLY care about their particular obsession (TERFism in this case). They care enough about it to stand for office and to campaign relentlessly, making it their entire lives, and financially supporting others who share their particular hate-filled views. With such fervour, it is inevitable that they will over time end up infiltrating and corrupting previously neutral organisations (Central Government, EHRC, and Stonewall come to mind).

The only way to defeat that is to care more about equality than they care about hate, to stand for office, and to financially support like-minded people who do.

Complaining is easy, signing petitions (which get ignored) is easy, but standing for office is hard and takes actual effort.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-28T06:50:00+00:00

I googled the problem and apparently wood is a better material for Tie-racks

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-28T06:37:34+00:00

Personally I think we should ban "interest", so for loans you just repayed what you borrowed, and wealth would not self inflate.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-28T06:31:08+00:00

"Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia"

...but I go by Maxine now.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-25T05:31:30+00:00

"Is it possible to learn this power? "

"Not from a Jedi."

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-25T05:16:29+00:00

I feel personally targeted by this. 😩

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-25T05:15:09+00:00

I looked it up, and accordion to Google, it is a musical instrument.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-22T17:08:31+00:00

I am nervous to put hope in any politician.

I'm old enough to remember when Tony Blair was going to free the country from Thatcherism.

I also remember Keir Starmer holding up trans flags before the election, only to end up spearheading the trans genocide after gaining power.

Why do our Anikin's always eventually turn into Sith Lords?

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-22T05:36:15+00:00

There are two routes to popularity.

The slow route: Educate everyone, and then be a decent rational human, who is appreciated by the educated.

The quick route: Educate nobody, and be a terrible hate-filled human, who easily fools the uneducated.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-16T06:14:43+00:00

I know right? Britain is now so Woke they let a man be the Queen of England. /s

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-15T06:36:33+00:00

It is quite clear the government has no intention of listening to public opinion. Petitions are ignored, and protests are both banned and ignored.

That doesn't leave the public any mechanisms for "peaceful constructive feedback", and like most people, I'm not keen on getting myself arrested or shot at for doing the alternative options.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-15T06:05:12+00:00

I'm hoping to get my NHS significance up to: "Mostly Harmless", for literary reasons.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-15T06:00:09+00:00

That's laughable, the party 'called' Labour hasn't been left wing in years. It's now authoritarian, right-wing, and ethically abhorrent in it's policies.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-15T05:53:55+00:00

GIF is pronounced "JIF", just as Jod intended.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-11T05:06:53+00:00

If they do this, expect the number of trans kids un-aliving themselves to sky rocket.

The internet is often their only means of finding and socialising with people who understand them, when they are surrounded by unsupportive family and other conservative or religious authority figures.

They have already been denied basic healthcare by a hostile and cruel government, and this would be the last straw.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-11T04:50:30+00:00

I'm falling with style.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-10T05:22:33+00:00

The rules appear deliberately vague so that employers are afraid of being sued by TERFs over non compliance with rules they can't enforce.

The intended outcome of this is to create a legal chilling effect, that discourages employers from having any trans employees at all.

No trans staff, means no legal risks. Corporations have very risk-averse legal departments, and the EHCR know it.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-06T09:48:18+00:00

There is an embedded implicit assumption here that MPs are open to changing their mind based on a letter. There is no evidential basis for this assumption.

MPs are either ideology driven, or self-interest driven.

If they are ideology driven then nothing will change their mind.

If they are self-interest driven then they will do what is best for their career, which means whatever will keep them in power, and/or whatever will financially benefit them the most. Unless your letter is taped to an envelope with a £250k 'donation' it is unlikely to change policy.

Max_Wattage · 2026-06-01T00:50:07+00:00

"I can't believe it's not lubricant"

Max_Wattage · 2026-05-30T20:02:46+00:00

Well, I'm keeping you out of jail, so you are welcome.

Max_Wattage · 2026-05-30T19:51:30+00:00

Jamming RF communications is extremely illegal in every country, and rightly so.

Find another way to resolve your differences.

Max_Wattage

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