its been a project at least 2 years in the making

the amount of people 'deserving credit' for this achievement is literally staggering

like I live in the shadow of an observatory and the local news is cheering all the work done there

and they are just one of dozens of observatories that worked on this project

they are literally pointing to a crowd of people and saying 'that one is the best'

then arguing about it

People need to calm down over something that equates to doing a human flag. Fucking hard. Years of work goes into it. Looks cool. Entirely pointless.

To be fair though, having so many contributions to men's rights does harm your reputation on reddit. That's why I've purged all my contributions to the majority of "undesirable" subs. It allows me to engage in debate without them throwing my post history back in my face.

That's what having multiple accounts is for... RSN is my 'don't give a fuck' account

I have another that is purely for things related to work, one that is only related to hobbies, and one that is only for mobile.

heyhey @Vokae

@Tobin sorry.I didnt see that.hello

Hello @Vokae

hello brothers

It's biscuits and tea time!

Meow meow meow. I'm a cat. 🐈. Meow.

Needs some scritches?

*Pets kitty

._.

Lol

hi guys...

Heya, welcome

I didn't knew much about the mrm until last month.

was kind of oblivious about it just like all of my friends.

I have read a lot of content on gender lately and I felt like I need to support the mrm and maybe do something for the movement. :)

Welcome @jamieM

That's cool

That's great @jamieM we are also doing a project for MRM as a discord group.

It's a website for 'The best introduction to MensRights' done in an faq format.

That's great.. I guess that's the most important thing needed right now for the movement.

There has been a lot misconceptions about the movement. I guess the most important thing is to have a platform to clear it up.

Sup

Yo @demdude1

Welcome

thx 😃

GIVE ME THE PIZZA NAO

im *h u n g e r y*

Hello MRAs and fellow fans of MRAs

I like the character Ray Donavon from the show by the same name

But also I dislike it when people who can't drive honk their horn

Same.

Reddit is running a Game of Thrones betting pool on who will win the Iron Throne

I think it will be Sarah Connor

Blonde Sarah Connor

Brienne?

?

Cersei

The actress played Sarah Connor in "Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles".

Remember, with the cute little chick terminator played by Summer glad

GLAU*

oh

wait seriously?

that means both Cersei and Daenyrus have played Sarah Connor

Yep seriously

She was a brunette in the series though

I forgot Deanyrus played Sarah Connor

It was a really good show

I think it fell victim to that writers strike back in the late 2000s

yeah it did

Stupid writers strike

well it was really important... for writers

I get it but I really miss that show

they were basically being subjected to systemic theft

yeah

its unfortunate it had to happen

I dont blame the writers

I also miss the Stargate series though that just ended due to the way against good sci-fi

Back when the sci-fi channel changed to Syfy and stopped having good sci find

Sci fi*

well the people that own and manage Syfy at the executive level are just... not science fiction people

Yeah

its why Sci Fi had that period where it showed a lot of pro wrestling?

Yeah lol

because one of the executives loved pro wrestling

And really bad sci fi movies

yeah

Like this one where the sun momentarily became a magnetar, which magnetized Mercury and flight it at the Earth.

Flung it *

right, because Mercury is made of metal

And they sent rocket ships to go get it or something.

I was so mad when they started ruining sci-fi

I actually really like this Canadian channel now called Space

they have been making some really good original sci-fi shows, that Syfy usually picks up for showing in the US

I'm just glad there is a Star trek series now

Even if they did screw up the klingons a bit

Remember when 43" was a really big tv

I've never kept track

I remember when 17" was big

morning

I'm so bored I feel like hand soldering a BGA would be fun...

what's a BGA?

Ball Grid Array, it's where all of the pins of a chip are in a grid on the bottom side of the chip instead of the outer edges

you ARE bored.

Either you use hot air, bake, or create a via grid to hand solder them one by one...

stick it in the oven.. with cookies. for the neighbours you don't like. those things can't be healthy

Eh, I've breathed enough flux smoke I'll probably die of cancer... if the cigarette smoking doesn't do it.

it's a toss up.

According to the state of California... I'll get cancer from my garden hose too

I have to go...

well you shouldn't have waterd the plants then... which probably also give you cancer..

'they' have created a wikipedia page for Katie Bouman

its only a few days old

doesn't even have an accurate date of birth on it

It also says it wasn't her algorithm that was used in the end, but I can't find any evidence that it's true

Why are people so dense when it comes to a basic understanding of math...

I want to beat my head on my desk

https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/comments/bc72m7/caption_her_thought/ekp2pqh/?context=10000

Have to love that fake narrative "94-98% of rape allegations are legitimate"

And when you bring up that that's not true they say "well, murder has very few false accusations" and wow. They don't get that you basically need a body to prove a murder. Lol

i really don't get the number of false rape accusations. i mean, the judicial system has always been on a "innocent until proven guilty" basis, yet there seem to be a lot of men that go to prison without having done anything. wtf how can you have proof of something that didn't happen

do you mean people that are held for long periods or people that are convicted falsely

most violent offenses (which rape is considered) are held in prison until they go through court

i was talking about wrongful convictions, but the power to send a man to prison until the court date by just going to the police is also a bit much imo

its meant to be for public safety

yeah, i get that, but there should be some verifications don't you think?

there should, its a perfect example of abusing an unfair system

exactly

plus if a man accuses a woman of rape i really doubt she would be getting into hold immediately

TGIF

time to get a drink

I don't really have a problem with people being held in custody when charged with violent crimes. I just want that standard to be applied equally, and if it can be proven without doubt that the accuser made it up, they should face harsh punishment for depriving that person of their liberty

@InsaneCaterpilla could always open up a civil suit

imprisoning someone isn't going to help, lost money might

People can rely on others for their lifestyle. They can't do that in prison

yeah, but the taxpayers man

I'm a supporter of a good prison system, and personally don't mind that my taxes go toward keeping prisoners alive and reforming them to be positive contributors to society.

what happens if that person will never be a contributor to society or a net drain?

Then that is a failing of society, not just the individual

perhaps

do you believe in capital punishment?

No

but life sentence is fine?

Being in prison the rest of your life, to me, is worse than death, but I feel its's acceptable because a society shouldn't murder its own members unless it can help it. The death penalty can be abused and the innocent cannot reclaim their lives.

In the above I'm assuming you mean a life sentence means life, as the majority of the time it doesn't.

yeah, because the thing is

I support capital punishment but in certain cases only

the reason why people don't support capital punishment is because of the way its handed out

i don't support it because the judge and jury are people and they make mistakes

There are all kinds of things that can be done to reform criminals into useful, positive people, and although I am not removing blame from people for the actions they choose to commit, to a certain extent society has produced this person

I have trust in my country's judicial system

but in other country's ones

not so

it's not about trust, it's about people making mistakes which can and does happen

what about corporal punishment, or public shaming

sure, but what happens if its beyond a doubt

I come from singapore

we're famous for caning people

but nobody questions the process because we're rigourous on it

it is supposed to be beyond reasonable doubt, but even in good systems mistakes happen

and a capital punishment is not a mistake that can be fixed

yes, that's why even in singapore, we don't dish it out regularly

people think we cane everyone or we hang every single drug trafficker we lay our hands on

that's incorrect

plus death row in the us is gendered

98% of death row inmates were male

oh

yeah, then that's the problem

we hang both genders regardless

the law is blind to gender

i'm more for not hanging anyone but i get your point of view

I think capital punishment should not be used unless for the most sinister of crimes

when its beyond a doubt

justice has to speak up for the vicitim

example, we had a serial murderer here before

chopped up his victims

into tiny pieces

not a single murder mind you

maybe with a single murder, a lawyer could argue to get your charge dropped down to manslaughter

i don't believe in killing people for murder

in an eye for eye society a lot of people would be blind

the government is supposed to protect its citizens even if they are criminal and they have no right to kill them

war is state sanctioned murder

governments have every legal right to declare it

yea but it's murder of other nations' citizens

not that it's a good thing

still murder morally

the question is whether justice should be upheld

or morality

well i think morality is deeply subjective, that's why we have written laws

yes, but morality and justice goes hand in hand

laws and morality

laws are based on morality, but they are not the same thing

I'm saying they're linked and they complement one another

yes but the laws are what should be enforced

here's another problem

what happens if you commit a crime in another country

a judge can't imprison a person because they think what they did is wrong, they can only imprison people that violated the law

which has the death penalty

and you committed a crime which calls for it

by that country's laws

well that does happen

of course it does

singapore has hanged as many foreign nationals

as it does locals

usually there are diplomatic deals involved with that

yes and no

again, principles

it ultimately comes down to politics

for example if a us national gets sentenced for the death penalty in a country in which the us has power over, they can get them back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_Contemplacion <- here's one of the more famous examples

yeah

we got into hot soup over the canning of that american guy

that must have been a shitty situation

actually I'm more for the plight of migrant workers here though

you will have people from poorer countries wanting to go to richer countries to work

exploitation isn't restricted to the US

but a crime is a crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay

we don't do this anymore, usually we try to quietly sweep the matter under the table

but once it gets out to the media...

moral of the story, don't do stupid shit right?

It's usually a good idea to know what other countries laws are before you choose to go there

of course

but if you don't know, be respectful right

you're not going to someone else's country and say, shit on someone's car right

reminds of me the british guy that went to saudi arabia and got arrested because he had alcohol in his blood due to drinking wine on the flight

it's not always about common sense, some countries have laws that you need to know before going

the Kaite Bouman wiki page is up for deletion! woo small victories!

well it was basically a draft

it didn't even say the complete dob

tbh i have nothing against her, i just think her colleagues should have gotten recognition too

90% of the citations on that wiki page are news articles, which do not contain any actual information about the project, the whole thing is built with sticks and thats shameful in the realm of wikipedia

i agree

they all amount to "look! its a girl! she did this because we say so! praise her!"

but she doesn't deserve any hate herself

its why the page has no valuable information beyond public records

no she doesn't

and I don't want to underplay her contribution to the Event Horizon Project

but giving her this much attention and so much credit is wrong

The media is crazy.. She didn't may had even known

yup

last I checked she hasn't actually made ANY public statements in the last few days

There's was also a lot of misinformation being pushed

though several people have impersonated her on social media

That she was the head of the team

She wasn't

yea

shes a grad student for crying out loud... and she doesn't actually have any background in astronomy

I mean shes a great programmer for sure, but shes not actually a scientist

tbh she has contributed like 2400 lines of code on the project's github repo

there's a guy who has more than 850'000 and nobody talked about him

Lines of code doesn't tell much about it

The guy had made a statement about it

i know there's more than writing code to programming, but the time consuming part is writing, debugging and all that stuff