Dendrologist
@Dendrologist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 4 weeks ago:
You think NATO v Russia is going to require conscription?
Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA v Russia is going to require conscription?
Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think 966 million people v 145 million people is going to require conscription?
Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think a country that has been at war with its small neighbour for 10 years and is struggling v the largest military alliance in the world with the largest economies in the world would require conscription?
I’ve been a bit of a dick here to get my point across but making excuses for the tories bringing back conscription is also a bit dickish.
If you want to sign up, go for it. If there comes a point where it’s required, I’m a relatively young fit man so would consider signing up too. But only when there’s a need for it. There is no need yet.
Plus, if we’re going for WW3, we’re all gonna die in the nuclear blasts before we even get a chance to put boots on the ground anyway.
- Comment on Children's mental health records published after cyber attack 1 month ago:
NHS Dumfries of Galloway has confirmed some children’s mental health records have been published by criminals following a cyber attack.
Can’t even get the first line of their story correct. Dumfries AND Galloway
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 month ago:
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"You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store. "
The company store is slowly making its way back in vogue
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 1 month ago:
Why even use precious metals at all? What is wrong with big stick?
- Comment on MP raises security fears over a Chinese firm's involvement in North Sea windfarm developments 2 months ago:
The large wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen could power about 70% of the entire city iirc. That was one of the first large offshore windfarms, they’ll only get better and more efficient. If large offshore windfarms become more common, then huge swathes of the country will be powered by them.
If we then become reliant on those windfarms (which appears to be part of the long term plan) then putting control of them in foreign hands gives them power over us such as “oops, a cable broke and now your whole city has gone dark, ease off on foreign policy A, or agree to trade agreement B, and we might be able to fix that cable for you”
It’s a nationally critical piece of infrastructure, it’s strange to source it out of country.
Of course, a UK company could try that kinda stunt as well, but they then need to answer to UK courts. It’s less daunting for foreign state run companies as they can pull out of country easier to avoid repurcussions and have the backing of their government.
- Comment on "The Elephant knows that if there is no food in the forest, it has to come to the Food Corporation Of India godown to get food" 2 months ago:
That site is advert popup hell! Wow
- Comment on Fears for future of Gaelic language as community workers’ jobs under threat 3 months ago:
Pòg mò thòn. Tha Gàidhlig sgoinneil!
What’s “the point” of any language? What’s the point in Dutch? Every Dutch person seems to know English fluently, so why do they continue to speak in Dutch if there’s only Dutch speakers around? Could it be because they’re free to speak in whatever fucking language they like and they prefer that one?
Gaelic has been destroyed over a long period of time, from romanticised Red Coat colonial oppression at the end of a musket to more recent “you must speak properly or you get the cane” oppression in 1960/70s children’s classrooms. That’s why it’s required government intervention to get back on its feet again. It’s our language whether we know it anymore or not. But it’s still alive (just), and it’s ours to take care of.
You may not speak it, you may not understand it, but Gaelic has as much right to be written and spoken in this country as English does.
Oh and that tax money you’re complaining about is also paid by Gaelic speakers, so if they want to see the name of their town or village in it’s original form on road signs as opposed to an anglicised butchering then that seems fair enough to me.
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- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community' 5 months ago:
So a difference of political opinion = toxic? Got it.