thanksforallthefish

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, you’ve got me puzzled. What’s a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?

  The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have considerably more characters than 6 at lloyds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record 420,000 patients in England had ‘more than 12 hour wait’ in A&E last year⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Tories have been bleeding the NHS for 13 years in the hoping of getting it to deteriorate to a point where they can make bank out of privatising it, without the british public realising it’s their fault.

  A difficult balancing act as the NHS has near universal support across all voters so assassinating it while not being caught is tricky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The French had a cracking solution

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Under threat ? That boat has already sailed. We no longer have the right to protest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you actually read the article? It specifically calls out “overtaking on double white lines” which is ILLEGAL for a very good reason. It’s not calling ordinary overtaking dangerous.

  In case you’re unfamiliar with the road rules in UK, Europe where the US has double yellow lines to mark a centre line that is illegal to cross, those lines are white here.

  They indicate that it is unsafe to overtake (lack of visibility due to bends etc)

  Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe the article anywhere tried to claim that buying a BMW turned you from a safe driver into an arsehole did it ? Therefore your causation comment isn’t really apropos.

  It’s a clear case of effective marketing selecting a sub demographic: drivers who have self perceptions around their driving and certain innate traits (selfishness, lack of concern for others) will prefer to buy cars that are advertised in a way that boosts their ego or enhances their self perception.

  Or to quote an (Aussie) friend of mine "maybe not every BMW owner is an arsehole, but every arsehole I know owns a BMW "

  Interesting (to me anyway) anecdotal aside, here in the UK it’s usually Audi drivers who are stereotyped as the aggressive drivers not so much Subaru WRX and BMW owners (source: reddit sub discussions and pub/work conversations, not scientific of course)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be right. Ram sized trucks literally don’t fit down London streets sized for horses & carriages from centuries ago, they’re very rare here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Starmer can’t be worse, I’m just praying he’s at least a little bit better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in Great Britain ‘bribed’ by sellers to offer good review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a combination of what you buy and how often you buy things. I’ve been offered bribes for reviews at least a dozen times. Never taken them because they weren’t worth the effort (offering gift cards for small amounts or a discount on other stiluff from them). It’'s always chinese vendors and usually stuff like torches and bike accessories that are fairly generic in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rishi Sunak axes northern leg of HS2 in flurry of ‘radical’ decisions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Tories happened. They’re a disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except car insurance is dearer in the UK than Florida, in fact I was shocked by how expensive insurance here was compared to the other countries I’ve lived in (including the US).

  I’m not an actuary but I do know there are a lot more parameters to come to an insurance cost than “number of hurricanes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Errm Florida prices aren’t particularly relevant to the UK ? No ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Tories have never had the interests of the UK population in mind let alone that of foreigners. They exist for one reason, to line their pockets and those of their donors. They get votes the same way the US GOP does: channeling hatred of “other” and promising things they rarely deliver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More Homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You post a lot of links from “stop population decline” is this your website ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the vast majority of press in the UK are unequivocally still for Brexit for various reasons, and pro Tory. Starmer is playing the “give them nothing to get hold of” game.

  Doubt it will work when they managed to turn eating a bacon sarnie into a drama, they’ll make something up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons place low value on teaching children obedience, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Plato in the original version, although it’s actually an invented quote from a PhD student in about 1905

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons place low value on teaching children obedience, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So what happens when a lot of bad laws are passed, and the legislative system only listens to 1-5% of the population ? Should obedience still be lauded ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess a Bully XL could choke on a pug while swallowing it ? Is that the danger pugs present you had in mind ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hectares are also standard in Australia