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- Comment on A year after nationalisation, is South Western Railway delivering? 1 day ago:
American flag shagging is considered beyond funny and well into boorish here. So yeah it may be tame by yank standards, but sticking Union flags (or St George flags) on stuff is considered a bit crass.
Didn’t used to be, became considered tasteless due to the oiks that keep doing it.
- Comment on Insomnia 1 day ago:
That is exactly what the comic says but its not true, fossil records for ferns go back to the devonian several 100 million years before the Cretaceous
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
Not to mention the astro-turfed voting by Israel last year (and presumably this year but I didn’t watch)
- Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds 1 week ago:
Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries;
Yes but that is exactly the timeframe the person you replied to is discussing.
It has been quite a while since nobles were generally illiterate and needed clergy to read and write for them…centuries in fact
- Comment on Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group 1 week ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one there. I mean if you’re going to be a melt at least do it properly, these half mast flags are just half arsing it
- Comment on NHS to grant Palantir contractors ‘unlimited access’ to patient data 2 weeks ago:
Of course they are, that was the whole point of letting the Trojan Horse inside the stockade. Thanks Streeting, may you burn in hell.
- Comment on MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows 2 weeks ago:
Because they don’t care ?
- Comment on On this day 100 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II was born. 4 weeks ago:
Missed being longest reigning monarch ever by about 18 months
- Comment on Why are homes left empty in the UK and how can we fill them up? 1 month ago:
That is a little unfair the final paragraph sums up the argument it made throughout the article which is:
“Our research shows that while governments across the UK have introduced a range of measures, too many local authorities lack the dedicated resources, funding and strategic framework needed to deliver meaningful change. Financial penalties alone will not solve the problem. What works is sustained local engagement, professional advice, and properly funded empty homes teams that can support owners through the process of bringing properties back into use.”
In other words, there are powers that exist that could partially address it, more funding and focus on it would have an impact, they also highlighted areas where more / new measures could be added.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 month ago:
Focussing on the important things I see. Jesus.
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 1 month ago:
Thats because it takes years of practice to get the motor skills for writing trained, remember how bad you were in kindergarten at writing ? If you practised with your left your writing would improve.
Out of curiousity (because I’ve not met another ambi in real life) do you also have things you do left handed and things right ? I play tennis left handed and write right handed for example.
- Comment on DisnAI 5 months ago:
Perception changed as info flowed more freely. They’ve been evil quite a long time (at the least the 1970s), our very ridiculous intellectual property laws (mostly copyright but also other facets) are the direct result of Disney lobbying (and directly bribing) US govt lawmakers at multiple levels of govt.
It was only post internet that their leverage on media channels weakened enough for it to start being discussed
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Is there a way to get rid of the huge distracting “Swipe for next article” overlay on the-independent.com?
uBlock Origin and add “annoyances” to your filter list
- Comment on £6 million repaid to workers as Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff 7 months ago:
The full list of employers caught is on the press release linked above - maybe your employer wasn’t there ? There’s also a link for working out if you’re being gypped and what to do (if you’re not on the list)
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 7 months ago:
There already is a tax on sugary drinks
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 7 months ago:
And a “d” gently falling to complete the word
I love it, it’s a nice touch
- Comment on Anyway I started blasting 8 months ago:
Just a thought, if there seems to be a difference between US & Euro wheat it could be a pesticide reaction rather than actually the gluten. I know you guys have a lot looser laws on pesticide use.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 8 months ago:
The trick was to throw yourself at the ground and miss
- Comment on Prince Harry makes surprise visit to Ukraine pledging support for thousands injured in war 8 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Finances_of_the_British_royal_…
investopedia.com/ahead-of-king-charles-coronation…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653
I’ve never dug into it but these are the first couple of links for Harry personally
parade.com/culture/prince-harry-net-worth
businessinsider.com/prince-harry-meghan-markle-ne…
NFI of the accuracy of any of that
- Comment on Our charity could have lost thousands due to Thames Water delay 8 months ago:
Thames Water suck
- Comment on Cant install app on android 8 months ago:
Caveat - I don’t use skylight or bluesky
A cursory search indicates the US should work. It also came up with a reddit thread suggesting it’s basically just bluesky - dunno how true that is.
reddit.com/…/creators_to_follow_on_skylight_socia…
"Your followers and follows on Bluesky and Skylight are the same unless you make separate accounts; something to keep in mind. "
Which implies they’re different front ends for the same thing.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 9 months ago:
Guys don’t get sucked into the misdirecting packing - this is nothing to do with keeping children safe. Better parental effort isn’t going to make this UK govt stop the initiative because it has absolutely nothing to do with child safety.
This is about authoritarian tracking of everything a UK citizen does and says online - that’s why the careful quote is about it being ok for adults to have VPN not kids.
You know how they do that ? They make it necessary to show ID to have a VPN so then they can track what the adults are doing on a VPN.
The “think of the children” pearl clutching is a sham and a scam
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 9 months ago:
God help me when I’m barracking for 4chan
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 9 months ago:
Please tell me you forgot the /s ?
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 9 months ago:
Well it’s an epithet I use because it appropriately mocks a govt who were elected on a groundswell of “we’ve had the Tories up to the back teeth” and then preceded to do things even the Tories shied away from. I dunno where Starmer & Streeting got the idea that being a Poundland Reform was going to endear them to voters but the polls answer the question. That and the fact he’s filled his Cabinet and the Human Rights board with TERFs, cracked down on protests worse than the Tories have previously done and generally made the worse parts of the Conservative party seem like reasonable people. I can’t recall who it was but a former Tory minister criticised him a couple of weeks ago for going too far on authoritarian crackdowns. Hell the welfare changes he walked back were ones the Cameron govt considered and rejected for being too extreme.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 9 months ago:
Which based on the last 12months of Queer Harmer’s govt seems to be a fairly accurate position
- Comment on parallels 9 months ago:
TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it
Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.
Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.
If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.
Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 9 months ago:
Yep Herpes Zoster is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 9 months ago:
You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.
Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it
- Comment on Why, just why? 10 months ago:
If we have agreed to host them because they are applying for asylum, and we won’t allow them to work, then how … do these people see them sleeping and eating?
Not advocating for it, but I suspect in the minds of its proponents the other half of this initiatives is refusal to accept any asylum seekers into the country at all.
Either that or they wish asylum seekers to starve to death so they don’t come.
Could be wrong, I avoid the Faragists like the plague