thanksforallthefish
@thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
- Comment on Oh, behave! 2 days ago:
Can you clue me in please ? I can pick written AI stuff a mile away, but I can’t see anything odd about her. No extra fingers or what have you.
- Comment on Thames Water creditors to vote on emergency £2.4bn loan as cash runs low 2 weeks ago:
Because buying it back is expensive and rescues the capital of those who bought it and asset stripped it (by giving them money for the assets they allowed to deteriorate)
Allow it to fail, let it go into administration then they can legally seize the assets at no cost to the taxpayer under the law that privatised it in the first place.
Won’t happen of course, despite the route being clear and without legal issue our corrupt govt would prefer to pay our taxes to overseas interests in the expectation of cushy jobs when they’re no longer MPs
- Comment on Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists 2 weeks ago:
Islam would be ironic
- Comment on Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn 2 weeks ago:
That’s another great point. I hope you’ll respond too
- Comment on Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn 2 weeks ago:
Actually your text just triggered a thought to add to your list - renters being able to easily check who owns a property can help reduce the incidence of fraud where people get signed up for a long term rental and pay money at properties where the fraudster is resident for a couple of weeks via air bnb (yes it really happens - foreign students in particular)
- Comment on Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a few links on the subject
www.countryfile.com/environment/who-owns-england
grandgoldman.com/…/land-registry-paywall-removal-…
(warning the grandgoldman one has ai slop javascript, click the firefox reader view button for a better view(the square that looks like a page in the url bar))
theguardian.com/…/no-timeline-for-lifting-land-re…
(earlier guardian article on it)
- Comment on Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn 2 weeks ago:
No worries, easily done. I’ll get my tuppence worth in as well.
On the how to respond, well it comes down to basically stating why you think opening it up would be a good thing. I’ve not thought through my response yet, but calling out transparency is helpful for good governance; for being able to easily find ownership of derelict properties; or even just understanding who owns large blocks of land allows appropriate representations to council about management of your local area.
- Comment on Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn 2 weeks ago:
It’s linked in the guardian article
- Comment on Ofcom’s Fix For An Online Safety Act That Isn’t Working: More Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
Working as designed and intended. Was never about kids
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 3 weeks ago:
And further to that I note an article in today’s Guardian referencing a Reuters article (I’ll dig that out and update with it if I can find it)
theguardian.com/…/uk-outlier-europe-farage-politi…
“However, an international study has confirmed that the UK’s decision to allow politicians to present such shows is highly unusual across Europe. In 35 of the 37 European nations studied, regulators found no recent examples of serving politicians presenting news or current affairs programmes”
“The study, by an academic from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism for the Demos thinktank, will be used as evidence by critics who believe that Ofcom, Britain’s media regulator, has failed to protect impartiality by allowing the politician-led shows.”
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 3 weeks ago:
The top two layers are literally stacked with Tories, it’s already biased as hell (I’ve posted peer reviewed papers on here previously that’s fact not opinion).
Changing the funding model doesn’t affect that.
Changes to remove overt bias can be done regardless of funding.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Before the entryists gave fuel to the right wing press he was a pretty good chance of winning it - they’ve successfully killed his chances now. Which was, I assume, the whole point of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s literally a month old. WTF ? The election vote is today
- Comment on Sussex officers sacked for using excessive force on care home resident 5 weeks ago:
92 year old amputee in a wheelchair, bludgeoned with a baton, pepper sprayed and tasered. Jesus christ. And the assault charges were dropped.
I’m glad they were sacked and banned, better than the US would have done, but utterly appalling they weren’t tried for assault, that is so clearly disproportional.
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
Well that’s a third option I wouldn’t have thought of, but that it is very plausible. Would also make sense of how they could be initially suspected of having explosive materials before it getting discarded.
If so they were rather stupid in choosing where to try and rob - right next to a RAF base on high alert wasn’t exactly the lowest profile location in the country
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
Yeah the news they were released this morning was surprising.
Only two options I can come up with are a) your suggestion that the UK counter terrorism police are comically inept or b) they were just protesters with more balls than brains
My opinion is that the UK police generally are heavily leaning to the right and hence will only arrest protesters and investigate perceived terrorism if it’s coming from the left. They’re not institutionally incompetent although they are institutionally racist. Point being I don’t think comically inept is a good explanation.
I’m thinking it’s a group who were planning some sort of stupid protest (that was likely to get them shot) like hanging an anti-Iran bombing sign on the airbase wall. Particularly given the supposed explosives in the back turned out to not be
theguardian.com/…/men-arrested-raf-fairford-count…
theguardian.com/…/raf-fairford-uk-bomb-plot-marco…
“An initial examination of the vans led police to suspect they carried explosive materials, with assessments made as to whether they were viable improvised explosive devices. After the suspects’ release it emerged that no explosive material had been found.”
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s a good point. I assumed Russia because they have the pre-existing spy / subversives network and we have been being warned for months they have plans, but the Iranians also have good cause to want to attack a joint UK/US airbase
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s one spin. Another is the new tyrant make seek to blame everything that is wrong with Russia on Putin - there’s plenty of historical support for that being a likely tactic (across many dictatorship changeovers).
In that event the war becomes another piece of evidence about Putin’s incompetence and how the great new leader is fixing everything by exiting it.
There’s a few ways this can go, but realistically given the massive impact it is having on the Russian economy and hence the next tyrant’s ability to siphon off assets I’m betting it goes towards stopping the war than doubling down on it
- Comment on Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US 1 month ago:
So on the one hand you have the farmer saying - no action visible until I called it in, on the other hand Defence Minister Streeting saying “thanks farmer but it was under control”
I know who I believe given I think Streeting is one of the lyingest liars we’ve had in power since BoJo.
Mysterious info my arse, you got lucky and saved by a local’s vigilance. Which btw is exactly the way it should be - local support is the best safety net you can get.
Paste from article below Streeting said he was grateful for the vigilance of the members of the public who are thought to have helped alert the emergency services to the suspected terror plot.
He renewed his thanks in particular to the local farmer who rang the police after she reportedly saw “a large group of hooded and masked men” near RAF Fairford early on Sunday morning.
Speaking to the BBC, the farmer said she thinks “someone dropped the ball” by allowing the suspects and their vehicles to get so close to people’s homes.
Streeting told Sky News:
Thank you to that member of the public. She has done exactly what we would hope that someone in that extraordinary situation would do. I’m really grateful to her – I think she acted, by her own admission, quickly and thoughtfully, and she did the right thing. With respect, though, she does only have a partial picture. And that’s as far as I wish to go this morning.
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
Mmm, I’d agree that there’s a larger cultural issue with Russia, but Putain turning up his toes will make a difference, because then they have an excuse to quit a war that isn’t going well for them. Sure, give it a couple of years and who ever replaces the vampire will pull something similar, but in the mean time we get a respite and an opportunity for Europe to swivel away from US dependency and towards self sufficiency.
- Comment on Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences 1 month ago:
We’ve been warned multiple times, it’s no surprise. Won’t stop until Putin is buried and MAGAts and the tech bros pushing it are defenestrated
- Comment on Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship 1 month ago:
Quelle surprise. Liars gunna lie
- Comment on Trans rights activists protest Haringey debate on single-sex spaces petition 1 month ago:
“she heard chants and the word TERF being used”
Well it’s good to know she’s not deaf I guess, but are we supposed to be upset that a TERF got called out as a TERF ?
- Comment on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? 1 month ago:
From the article
But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.
“It’s not the tanks you need to worry about,” says historian Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
“It’s the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It’s the hacking into systems on which so many things depend. The possibility for asymmetric war, for cyber war, is growing by leaps and bounds.”
Russia is winning the war they’ve been in with Western Europe for the last decade. Trump is in the White House, AfD just won the Saxony election. RN are on track to take the French presidency, Farage still gets 25% polling despite the rank corruption swirling around him.
Russia won’t send troops anywhere until the country in question is deeply compromised. It’s hybrid warfare and the battle started years ago, and we’re doing a shite job of defending ourselves (because we have quislings on the inside helping them).
- Comment on Horrified children look on as lollipop man in his 70s struck by car on school crossing 1 month ago:
Edit: also Lollipop lady/man is also used in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand apparently.
Can confirm, that is correct
- Comment on Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires 1 month ago:
This implies that everyone else used logic to arrive at their points of view.
LOL, only if you have reading comprehension issues.
It explicitly STATES (not implies) that they (not wealthy right wing populist voters) are a member of the set of those who arrived at the position emotionally. It makes zero statement about who else might be in that same set.
The good news however is that we have academic studies have actually answered that question. In short the right is heavily supported for those who select emotionally predominantly from an underlying fear basis. And that the left predominantly operates from an analytical basis. This is the source of the (very poignant) quote about “facts having a left wing bias”
To argue that your position is grounded in logic whilst the ‘other’ group is ground in emotion is an ego-inflating fantasy.
Yeah, well, facts are uncomfortable, I get that.
People most often make decisions based on emotional reasons and then use logic to post-hoc justify them.
Oh now, that is absolutely true. Academically well supported too. You know what the next sentence is going to be though, don’t you ? It’s the right, particularly the populist right, that heavily do so.
We are all closer to reform voters than we would like to believe.
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night, meanwhile the polling shows that voting “anyone but reform” to keep reform out makes up about half of UK voters, and only 25% are willing to vote for them.
- Comment on Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires 1 month ago:
I think your view is the dangerous one.
It has been proved over and over, UK and overseas, that the non-millionaires/not wealthy people voting for right wing populists (MAGA, Reform, AfD, RN) are doing so for emotional not logical reasons. You can’t argue people out of a position they didnt use logic to get to.
So, are they real reasons underpinning their support, of course, in broad brush strokes it’s a combination of fear, a feeling they’ve been treated poorly, a certain amount of entitlement.
The problem with that is that a group of people are promising to fix all their problems at no cost to them (a patently false promise).
So yes, being realistic isn’t “tarnishing them” - if you don’t correctly diagnose the disease you can’t cure it.
The big problem is those who should pay the price for fixing the problems they caused (the Epstein class) have the wealth to divert attention away from them having caused the problem and its fixes
- Comment on 2 months ago:
What evidence are you looking for ? I’ve stated the Greens have made no formal statement on it - because that’s the process when someone is suspended and their conduct is being reviewed - unlike the Mail I don’t just make shit up to make the readers happy
- Comment on 2 months ago:
She was suspended (she hasnt yet been removed) because of a media post, not because she is toxic. I explicitly state that two lines below my opinion about her toxicity. Separate items.
Are you deliberately misreading or just seeing what you expect to see ?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There are several other trans members on the GPC… she didn’t get suspended for being trans, she got suspended for breaking party rules on conduct by committee members.
This is from the (trans) member whose bluesky post is elsewhere in the thread (Kat Bristow) taken from the reddit post I linked
“TheKatBristow
There’s other trans women currently on GPC, including the other co-chair of LGBTIQA+ Greens, and no action has been taken against any other trans person on GPC.
So we can safely assume that Eleonora’s suspension is unrelated to her being trans.”