RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 day ago:
Same reason Microsoft or Adobe do not stop piracy. They want to create friction that pushes people to pay, but if they fully blocked adblockers then it could create an impetus for a competitor to become popular.
- Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting databasewww.legalcheek.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 3 days ago:
Interesting that the US already has this requirement
Must use a U.S. passport to enter and leave the U.S.
- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 4 days ago:
But Spain requires non-nationals naturalising to renounce their previous nationality and presenting her British passport at the airport will legally risk her Spanish nationality.
Surely if she’s renounced her nationality she isn’t a British national?
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 1 week ago:
Proprietary app, run by Trafi, a company that advertises itself as selling “mobility as a service”.
No thanks.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 week ago:
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it” - Lincoln
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The “and” is necessary in British English at least (saying that the US constitution uses it)
(In older forms it would be three hundred and seven and twenty)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how universal it was, but in old documents it’s common to see dates written out fully in the form of “on the thirty-first day of January in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-six”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
🐟 is technically a pictograph not an emoticon.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Traditionally numbers in text should be written out fully, so “three hundred and twenty seven” instead of “327”
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 3 weeks ago:
Ask them why they use products made in Communist China.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 3 weeks ago:
Weren’t all the former Chagos inhabitants against this?
- Comment on Driving test cheating soars with use of headsets and impersonators 3 weeks ago:
Groundbreaking stuff going on
Steps taken to try and prevent fraud including matching a practical test candidate’s face with their photo ID
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 4 weeks ago:
Sure, give a nation of nihilistic alienated young men racist daria, what could possibly go wrong.
You just know someone embezzled most of the budget before wrapping a bunch of lectures in a “game” less complex than a 2006 newgrounds flash game made by a teenager.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 4 weeks ago:
One can only hope Charles ends like his namesake.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 4 weeks ago:
It’s like 4chan Vs Shia Lebouff all over again
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think it was intended as an insult?
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 4 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people started using it after they paid slatestarcodex to start using it.
- Comment on UK: Politicians warn of ‘total warfare’ as election intimidation intensifies - hostile states and extremists exploit democracy, more parliamentarians need police protection 5 weeks ago:
adding that they feared unless the issue was confronted voters would increasingly turn to fringe political movements.
They piss off literally every soul in the country they claim to represent, then cry about extremism. Cry, me, a, river.
And of course the times doesn’t mention the insidious Israeli influence on our Epsteinite ruling class.
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
It has more upvotes than down, so it’s an improvement over Reddit I suppose…
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
a post-pandemic low
It’s peak guardian to ignore that it’s still higher than pre-pandemic, and not have a graph in the article. Then have a classic “the poors are dumb” headline www.ons.gov.uk/…/yearendingjune2025
- Comment on Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr 5 weeks ago:
Call ICE and report the wives of ICE agents.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 1 month ago:
they do directly comission some highly specialised services.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 month ago:
Look on the bright side
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- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 1 month ago:
What does this have to do with gundams though?
- Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homesmorningstaronline.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 1 month ago:
The last strong left wing politician America had was Huey Long, he was assassinated.
In America, anyone who is left wing, actually willing to do what is necessary to effect change, and who gets vaguely close to power, either has their reputation assassinated or is assassinated more literally.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 month ago:
The UK has www.legislation.gov.uk
It only covers statute law, not common law, but most things are codified by statute today.
- Addison Lee to pay an estimated £200,000 compensation to drivers after faking email in gig economy lawsuitmorningstaronline.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments