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- Comment on Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts 2 days ago:
This is pretty shoddy reporting
UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.
So, to be clear, they aren’t distinguishing between an entire mummy and a lock of hair.
37,000 items of human remains are known to originate from overseas
Experts said the findings contradict a claim made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in its 2005 guidance that said “the vast majority of human remains in UK museums are of UK origin
37,000 / 263,000 ≈ 0.14 or 14%. Am I wrong to think that 86% qualifies as a “vast majority”?
- Comment on Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case? 3 days ago:
It will have a lot more weight if they win, since it potentially sets a legal precedent (at least in common law countries like the US and UK)
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 4 days ago:
Yes, that was my point.
If they have to pay “out of pocket” for existing tests it’s at-least consistent, if unsavoury.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 4 days ago:
Genuine question, do they have to pay for their own drug testing?
Also they’re using cheek swab testing, is that even guaranteed to pick up xx/xy chimerism?
- Comment on Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy 4 days ago:
These are the people who want to spy on all our private messages.
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 4 days ago:
Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
It would be ridiculously expensive for every rural and suburban area to have frequent reliable public transport.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
It’s not shown, but the MRLP actually contested this, they got 159 votes.
So the conservatives only received ~4 times the votes of the actual MRLP. I think I’d quit.
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- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
I expected it to be close but they were demolished
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but after the court sends them the bill then what? Wouldn’t we have to invade America to enforce it?
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 2 weeks ago:
I’m familiar with Mr Lysenko and his work, trusting him was one of those poor political decisions I referred to.
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 2 weeks ago:
What’s he going to do if they say no? Make the great firewall of Britain even bigger?
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 2 weeks ago:
As for “using products of capitalism”, ask them why they use a phone made in communist China.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 2 weeks ago:
There was only ever one famine in the USSR, partly caused by kulaks burning grain. There were dozens of famines under the Tsars.
The same goes for China, there were dozens of famines under the emperors.
Communism ended famine.
Were those famines caused by poor political decisions? Possibly, but both countries were emerging from feudal subsistence farming, and had been ravaged by bitter civil wars. The position they were in meant even a single poor political decision could have caused a famine, if we were in that position today, with the leaders we have, we would all be dead.
- 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? 3 weeks 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.
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- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it” - Lincoln
- Comment on 5 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 5 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] 5 weeks ago:
🐟 is technically a pictograph not an emoticon.
- Comment on 5 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? 1 month ago:
Ask them why they use products made in Communist China.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 1 month ago:
Weren’t all the former Chagos inhabitants against this?
- Comment on Driving test cheating soars with use of headsets and impersonators 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
One can only hope Charles ends like his namesake.
