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My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean?
  • Yes, there are red flags there IMHO.

    You know, I've seen similar behaviours so many times from people that they tell you how many problems they have and they kind of put the burden on you to deal with their problems. I don't mean you cannot be supportive of them if they really have problems they are trying to fix, but you shouldn't be dealing with someone else's problems if they don't want to do anything about them themselves.

    I usually listen to them, tell them that I understand they are going through hard times and that I understand how tough that is being for them and all that supportive stuff... and then I tell them to go to therapy.

    We cannot be someone else's therapists. Unless, you know, we are actual therapists. And even in that case, they would have to go through one of our formal therapies. I don't think even therapists get into relationships with someone just to fix them.

    Some people will take the advice and consider getting help while others will not even consider it because they just want to take you hostage of their emotions. It's not worth putting any much more effort into someone who is apparently crying for help but doesn't really want to make any change and just wants to manipulate you instead.

    And punching other people? Yeah, I don't care how "honourable" his reasons were, that's also a red flag.

  • Man pages bad
  • And that reminds me of an anecdote with one of the products our customers usually use. There was a problem which was kind of common and it had a discussion thread in the forum on the vendor's website where somebody suggested that the solution to the problem was rm -rf /var/lib/rpm.
    Needless to say, we had a customer who ran that command because they had read on the Internet that it was the solution to their problem without understanding what that command was going to do. And of course they ruined that server which needed to be fully reinstalled.
    Until I notified the vendor to delete that malicious advice from their forum, that answer lasted there for years and who knows how many people ran the same malicious command without trying to understand first the disaster they were going to cause.

  • Man pages bad
  • I think it's that the mental effort required to read the documentation, understanding how a tool works and producing an idea in your mind of how to achieve your purpose with the learning you just got of how that tool works is usually bigger.
    Even if it takes more time, the mental effort of copying and pasting examples from Google until you find the one that works is way lower.

  • Man pages bad
  • What people? If you are referring to the people I mentioned in my example who don't read the text next to the commands explaining what they do, that seems to be also the output tealdeer produces, so I don't know how it would help.

  • Man pages bad
  • Oh, yeah. I had this situation so many times in this same project. Even pointing them to the documentation and telling them to read it because the explanation was there didn't even work because they just wanted immediate answers. Sometimes I even had to join them on a call and tell them to stop, open the link on a screenshare and read it out loud to me to make sure they were actually reading it and not just telling me they read it.
    It felt like teaching to read to first-grade schoolers.

  • Man pages bad
  • Yeah, many people don't want to read and understand, just copy and paste.
    I saw that in a lot of people I worked with on projects, they just look for something to copy and paste from the Internet without even trying to understand what it does. Just looking for some command without even paying attention to the text around it.
    I remember one girl once that I gave her the link to the documentation explaining step by step what she needed to do, a link I had to find myself and pass it to her, of course, even when it was her task. Those steps included some alternatives like "if you are in this situation, run this command, but if you are in this other situation, run this other command" but she ignored all the instructions on that page and started copying and pasting every command that was found there. When I asked her what she was doing and why she was running every command there without reading the explanations around them, she said she thought she just had to run all the commands on that page.

  • Europe's top selling souvenirs
  • Forty years as a Spaniard and I just learnt now tourists come here to buy espadrilles, which is even a word I just learnt from this map.

  • Frame Variation in Child Protectionist Claims: Constructions of Gay Men and Transgender Women as Strangers (Amy L Stone, 2019)
    academic.oup.com Frame Variation in Child Protectionist Claims: Constructions of Gay Men and Transgender Women as Strangers

    Abstract. This research contributes to social movement framing theory about frame variation, along with the social problems literature on child protectioni

    Frame Variation in Child Protectionist Claims: Constructions of Gay Men and Transgender Women as Strangers

    This research studies how the idea of "child protection" has been historically misused as a tool for discriminating against gay men, portraying them as a danger to children. Over time, this argument evolved into subtler claims as it became less effective and faced greater rejection from the general public due to increased public acceptance of gay men. At the same time, the most overt claims now target trans women in a manner reminiscent of their past use against gay men.

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    why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?
  • I know you are not suggesting that seriously, but if we were to consider that seriously, I don't think it would work.
    Palestine (and more concretely Jerusalem) is considered the Holy Land by Judaism, Islam and Christianity. That's why the state of Israel was created there and not somewhere else. And that's why Palestinians wouldn't receive with a lot of enthusiasm the idea of being given a state of their own somewhere else.
    A big part of the conflict is a "holy war" thing about who controls the Holy Land.

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  • Yeah, I also checked the date first and I think that makes it worse because that's a statement he made when he was still the Prime Minister.

  • Follow up. They fixed the light bulb
  • It works for me, so the issue must be on your side (or they fixed the link)

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • No, they didn't. Their answer was wrong.

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • Oh, that's helpful and sheds some light, thanks.
    Still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, though! But it is what it is.

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • OK, so all the explanations I saw were vague because the law itself was vague. That looks quite like a loophole to have passed!

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • It seems you are confusing strictly necessary cookies with legitimate interest cookies, which are different things: https://kbin.social/m/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world/t/466192/-/comment/2427882

    It would help to clarify in the post that you’re interested in the legal aspects for the EU under the GDPR.

    I had added the #GDPR tag to the question and, as far as I know, GDPR is the only regulation that requires a cookie consent banner and mentions legitimate interest cookies, but I may be wrong on that as I don't know all the regulations around the world 😃 (and California tends to follow EU's stances on these matters, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were baking something similar to the GDPR if they don't have it yet).

    But yeah, you are right, people from many different places around the world could be reading the question, so I must have been clear that this is specific to some local regulation. I edited the post.

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • That doesn't answer the question, does it?

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • That's a functional (or "strictly necessary") cookie and those are the ones you cannot reject.
    Legitimate-interest cookies are a different thing and you can indeed reject them, but they are on by default.

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
  • I know what a cookie is.
    I was asking what are legitimate-interest cookies and what makes them different so they don't need explicit consent under GDPR.

  • ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies

    So almost every GDPR cookie consent banner out there has a section for "legitimate interest" cookies that they can leave on by default and you will inadvertently accept even if you choose "Reject all" unless you go to the detailed settings and disabled those too. Some of them have dozens of legitimate-interest cookies. I read some articles about what they are and why it is allowed to keep them on by default, but they were very vague. So can someone explain it to me like I am five?

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    What’s the deal with Western Sahara?
  • Another Spaniard here, for the record.

    I wouldn't say it's like Palestine, there are relevant differences between both cases. The basis of the Palestinian conflict and the reason why two states were created were mostly religious and ethnic. I don't think any of that plays a significant role in the Saharan case and it's all down to Moroccan expansionism and access to oil reserves in the Saharan sea.
    In the Palestinian case, it was a former British colony that was being decolonized and tensions between two communities living in that territory led to the current situation. I'm not going into the details because it would be too long, you can just go to Wikipedia.
    In the Saharan case, it was a Spanish former colony which, in the process of being decolonized, was invaded by a neighbouring country for political and economic reasons.

    You are basically saying Western Sahara ended up in this situation because Spain abandoned it unattending the UN's mandate to decolonize it.
    Spain was indeed attending the UN's mandate to decolonize it as it did with Equatorial Guinea a few years before, which is an independent country nowadays. But both Mauritania and Morocco had aspirations on Western Sahara and wouldn't accept an independent Sahara, so taking advantage of one moment of political weakness in Spain with the dictator retired to die, Morocco invaded Western Sahara and mainland Spain was more concerned about their internal issues and was not in the position to defend the Sahara against Moroccan invasion.

    Mauritania eventually gave up on their aspirations on Sahara and that's how we ended up in the current situation with a Morocco-occupied Sahara with a self-proclaimed government that fights back against the occupation with very little support (other than Algeria) because Morocco has much stronger diplomatic ties.

    The current situation, de jure, is that Western Sahara is a Spanish former colony in the process of being decolonized.
    But de facto, it's a territory governed by Morocco and disputed with the Polisario Front, which was already fighting against Spanish occupation before Moroccan one and has declared an independent Republic which has very little recognition.
    De jure, Spain would be continuing the decolonization process, but that's not realistic when the territory has been occupied by Morocco for half a century.

    It's true, however, that this is not an issue that raises a lot of interest currently in Spain for anything else than playing internal politics.
    Also, Morocco and Spain have a lot of common interests so Spain is very careful to not upset Morocco with this topic. On the other hand, Algeria is the biggest supporter of the Polisarian cause and another Spanish strategic ally and probably the reason why Spain hasn't fully abandoned yet the Saharan cause. So Spain usually tries to play a low profile on this trying to balance their position between not upsetting Morocco and not upsetting Algeria.

    For more details, Wikipedia is still your friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March

    And the former Spanish king being a CIA agent? Yeah, I don't think it's even worth to add any comment to that.

    And, of course, when I say "Spain", "Morocco", "Algeria", etc., I am referring to the regime that ruled the country at that moment.
    I'm not trying to imply that every Moroccan or Algerian is responsible for what their rulers do the same way that a lot of Spaniards were not Franco supporters by that time.

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    LGBTQ+ people are protected against being fired for being LGBTQ+, does that mean straight people can be fired for being straight?
  • LGBTQ+ and labour laws are very different across countries, so it's very difficult to talk generally about how this works without being specific to some country.

    I will talk about Spain because there's where I am from and where I worked most of the time.
    You generally just cannot fire someone for arbitrary reasons before their contract comes to an end. You really have to justify why you need to fire that person, like having several poor performance reviews against them. Otherwise, you may risk having your firing judged as "unjustified" and having to pay that person a big compensation or even the firing being judged as void and having to readmit them to the position you fired them from.
    No matter whether they are cis, gay, straight, man, woman, POC or whatever, you just cannot fire someone without a valid reason unless their contract has come to an end and you don't renew it, that's basically it.

    So could someone argue that your sexual orientation or gender identity is a valid reason to fire you because being gay doesn't fit within their company culture or having trans people may cause them an image problem?

    No, article 4.2.c of the Worker's Statute says you cannot be discrimanted for employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, among other criteria like ethnicity, age, union membership, etc.
    So you couldn't be fired for being either gay or straight, man or woman, cis or trans, etc. Nothing of that is a valid reason to be fired.

  • Where and when did you start your fediverse journey?
  • I created my account in Status.net (now GNU Social) around 2009 and later it was switched to pump.io: https://identi.ca/chuso
    And Diaspora* in 2010: https://joindiaspora.com/people/4d0aa88b2c174330380001db
    Like others, with not a lot success with those early projects until I joined Mastodon in 2017: @chuso

  • International chess federation FIDE: a trans woman "has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women"

    The international chess federation known as FIDE has published new rules that state that a person whose "gender was changed from a male to a female the player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made".

    The new rules introduce the following changes:

    • Trans women cannot participate in the women's category unless they are explicitly allowed in a case-by-case process that can take up to two years.
    • Trans men will be stripped of their titles achieved before their transition while trans women will retain their titles achieved before their transition.
    • In case a trans person is allowed to participate, their trans condition will be added to their files and communicated to events organizers.
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    chuso chuso @kbin.social

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