Ok, I think I’ve worked out what the issue is here.

First of all, let’s go back to where Owen Jones starts off.

The term chav refers to a specific subset of young people who spend a disproportionate amount of their money on fashionable clothes and hang around being a nuisance to other people.

He also argues that the term is used by right-wing media outlets as a broader generalisation of working-class people as a whole, to further push their arguments.

These two things can be true at the same time.

But I’d definitely agree it’s not a slur. It’s just lazy journalism presenting a caricature of the working-class because it’s easier for their deranged arguments.

The majority of people are born into working class families, but only a few become chavs.

It’s a sad reflection on the country that the right-wing media is able to get away with presenting absolute rubbish with abandon, and it’s unfortunate that a lot of people consume this media without realising that they’re being told lies and half-truths.

But that’s what the problem is. It’s not that the term itself is bad, it’s that bad people use the image it conjures to caricature the working class in general.

“Chav” doesn’t mean “working class” in the same way that “penguin” doesn’t mean “bird”.

Heck, some of the chavs I know wouldn’t know work if it hit them.

Chavs are a tiny subset of working class people, in the same way that penguins are a tiny subset of birds.

I live in a northern mill town. Most of my very large extended family are working class (it’d probably be a bit disingenuous for me to claim that I still am, though). They would look at you like you were an idiot if you tried to convince them that chav means them.

Chavs are the kids who hang around with expensive trainers and caps, who have absolutely no qualms about being a nuisance to other people.

They represent a tiny proportion of the working class, and any criticism of them is specifically targeted at them.

I wish. Cursive is an absolute antipattern that only makes handwriting more difficult to read. There is a massive drop in legibility once children start to write joined up when compared to the year before.

I realise that it was a solution to the problems that old dip ink pens posed, but now everyone uses biros there’s really no need.

I realise things move slowly (I’m in my forties and had to use fountain pens for schoolwork, ballpoints were banned), but cursive is truly a relic of a bygone age, kept alive only by government mandate.

EDIT: I’ve just checked to see if it was still the case and it turns out that this year the UK government has released a revised Writing Framework. There is no longer a requirement for teaching cursive in primary school, and it actively advises teaching using pre-cursive letter forms.

Exactly this. My youngest (now 12) was taught letters in exactly this shape. It’s called “pre-cursive”, and is intended to ease the transition into writing joined up.

I didn’t get it, so looked to see if the answer was on other sites. Full credit to Tisha Bell on Facebook.

“if you notice, around a certain time, there stopped being villains and became more about breaking generational traumas, and believing in yourself”

I tried to find out what you were referring to - was it the rude person in the vegan thread? If you look, they were pretty heavily rebutted and downvoted by the other users.

The mods uphold the community guidelines, ideally without overreach. If someone’s out of line, but not technically breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.

This. Dirt cheap material cost, no additional machining costs.

You’ve basically said much of what I was going to!

We know where memories are stored in the brain, physically. The biggest problem with targeting specific memories is simply a matter of working out which neurons are tied to that memory.

We can already, fairly crudely, see roughly where a memory is stored by looking at brain activity when the patient recalls it. We can also directly trigger memory recollection by applying electrodes to the brain during brain surgery.

There’s still massive engineering challenges to overcome to get this to a practical stage, but engineering challenges are usually surmountable. With that in mind, do I think the technology will be doable, ever?

• Technology to erase specific memories - absolutely.

• Technology to replace specific memories with new ones - I suspect yes, but that’ll need some big leaps in our understanding of how memories actually work.

• Technology to do this with just a flash of light - no, probably not.

TIL George Orwell was a pen name.

I don’t know where they’re sitting, but I know I don’t like it.

Heterodexteral

Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know, this is not the actual etymology.

It just started as a misspelling of “owned” (with p and o being next to each other on the keyboard).

Its clearly Seen Been.

You’ve decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?

FWIW, I didn’t downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?

I’ll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.

“Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link”

“Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link.”

Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they’re exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.

100% trap. As soon as someone self-reports, ICE will be over there kicking their doors in.