I disagree. Pre vaccines, Covid roughly doubled the death rate in every age band IIRC - obviously this hit the oldest the hardest but the effects on younger cohorts were very bad & the load on th… (View Post)

Rigid views on gender were (and are) absolutely a hallmark of fascists sadly. Those pictures of book burnings we’re all familiar with? A fair chunk of them come from the burning of the library of the… (View Post)

Woke became the word the right used to stand in for what they saw as the hegemonising swarm of leftist beliefs & goals. Which is fine, usage defines language & language shifts over time, even… (View Post)

Builders are woke now apparently: “Woke” has become completely meaningless now. Just a vague all encompassing term for “things the right doesn’t like”, including (apparently) talking to your colleagu… (View Post)

As an aside, it’s absolutely hilarious that Elon Musk built an entire LLM based AI to counter the perceived wokeness of OpenAI’s ChatGPT & it’s turned out to as woke as it is possible to be: Exhi… (View Post)