Interesting Links for 06-10-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram

(tags:nazis communication technology privacy )

2. Refusal to recognise a change of gender violates the rights of EU citizens, rules the European Court of Justice

(tags:Europe LGBT transgender GoodNews rights Romania )

3. People are just awful at telling if someone is flirting with them

(tags:psychology relationships communication )

4. Canada halts 30 arms export permits to Israel, including US-linked deal

(tags:Canada Israel war )

Comments

[rmc28]

3: people are very bad at identifying when other people are attempting to flirt with them, is the fault in the performance or the recognition? (or the whole concept of flirtation, lol, what is with this plausible deniability nonsense, normalise the directness of "nice boots, wanna fuck?")

[rhythmaning]

Nice boots? Damn, I *knew* I was going wrong somewhere!!! ;)

[zz]

i once accidentally walked into a sex/stripshow shop in australia, because all they had in the window was a load of thigh-high boots, so i thought they were a goth/fetish clothes place. :D

[zz]

normalise the directness of "nice boots, wanna fuck?"

if only. sadly these days we seem to have gone the other direction, thanks to american puritanism, of everything being cause for getting cancelled.

it's always amusing seeing videos of women complaining men don't make the first move any more, and the response always being "but this is what you wanted". :D

[rmc28]

Can't say I've noticed such complaints, but I did really enjoy going clubbing on Friday night and dancing for hours during which I neither experienced nor witnessed a single attempt to sexually harass anyone. Refreshingly different from my youth where getting groped by strangers seemed to be the price of admission to dancing in public, and I'm overwhelmingly in favour.

[channelpenguin]

Yeah. This is why I still have a supply of nice boots. :-).

I was always rubbish at spotting any other kind of flirting.

I don't flirt. Never have. I am interested (in which case you'll notice) or I'm not (in which case, you'll notice).

[mdlbear]

3 - You mean it's not just me?

[andrewducker]

Apparently not!