steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 22 hours ago:
Way better, bravo
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 1 day ago:
Yeah I’ve let myself down here. Had a good streak going but I’ll let someone else take the wheel for a while.
- Comment on Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter 1 day ago:
This policy sounds dumb, in particular the insultingly small amount of money involved. That said, there is a problem with shoplifting in the UK where the police aren’t treating it as a serious problem and often refuse to get involved. High streets are already dying with predatory retail unit rents and losing stock ontop of that might end up being the nail in the coffin.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 day ago:
IMO these commentators got addicted to swashbuckling, revolutionary language during Brexit and now can’t switch it off.
Labour party can’t call them out because the real politik is that it would be spun as them minimizing concerns about immigration.
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 1 day ago:
Fake: There are no girls on the internet
Gay: OP was flirting with a man
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 1 day ago:
online
There’s your problem
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 2 days ago:
You’ve still got Metroid Prime 4 on switch to look forward to
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 2 days ago:
There are still great games coming out on OG Switch. The Hundred Line and SMT: Raidou are two recent highlights.
Honestly the Switch 2 is still a pretty bad value proposition for most people (unless you really love Donkey Kong like me).
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 2 days ago:
My dad’s family used to have a dairy farm. There was one point in time, like 100 years ago, where they rivalled Wiseman’s for distribution in Scotland. However my uncle took it over in the late 70s and gradually made bad decisions with regards to running it. I think it was ok for a while because the long standing managers were on top of everything but when they retired everything became more chaotic. My poor uncle probably should have gone into academia as opposed to business since he’s neurodivergent* and not particularly practically minded but his brothers had left to start careers in other professions, so I think he felt the mantle had fallen to him.
From what I can tell it was kind of inertia that completely killed the business. With supermarkets charging less and less for milk, the old way of operating a dairy farm as a regular business is not really viable. Successful farmers these days don’t just do produce; they do open days and sell “country experiences” to punters who crave some kind of rural nostalgia. You pretty much have to be half farm and half events agency providing organised fun to school/office groups or families.
*From what I understand, they didn’t really have the vocabulary to recognise this in the 70s. Family thought he was bright but eccentric.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 3 days ago:
Ok, I understand where you’re coming from now!
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 3 days ago:
Corruption at the highest levels of government!!
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 3 days ago:
I can’t work out your political persuasion from that nickname for Sir Keith. There are reasons a right wing person would use it and there are different reasons for a left wing person.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 3 days ago:
Former Economist subscriber, in my opinion this plays into the Economist’s centre-right positioning. They are liberals and might not be the most fiscally right-wing but there is a trope they sometimes use where they remind readers that Labour aren’t always socially liberal; Tories are bon vivants who let people have a little flutter/gander/drink while Labour are hall monitor buzzkills. You actually see the trope a lot more often in the Spectator but it’s present in miniature in the Economist too.
- Comment on Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders 4 days ago:
Nice to see we’re keeping up with China! Social credits incoming…
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 4 days ago:
yes
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- Comment on Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years 4 days ago:
Probably a whole confluence of factors… economists won’t have a settled view and are likely arguing about it rn
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 5 days ago:
Labour have always had a bad track record of civil liberties. Although as the other reply notes this was a Tory policy initially, I’ve not gone over the proposed amendments to see if they’d have implemented it slightly differently (I suspect not). Unfortunately policies like these are both popular and free for the govt to implement so it’s literally a no-brainer for MPs to vote through without thinking about consequences.
- Comment on Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years 5 days ago:
This has to be the result of house prices falling due to the interest rates being high. I’d imagine once the BoE descreases the rate again this will return to increasing.
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 5 days ago:
“You were always nice to me. Don’t come to space school tomorrow.”
- Comment on Anon goes home 5 days ago:
Fake: Anon has an idyllic homelife
Gay: Anon is emotionally well-adjusted
- Comment on Anon goes home 5 days ago:
It definitely happens. Not sure where the turning point is but I’m in my 30s and both my folks are in their 70s; somewhere along the way our interactions shifted slightly where I lean on them less and they lean on my more.
- Comment on Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increeased rent by £700 a month 1 week ago:
Homelessness minister: I’m doing my part!
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 1 week ago:
Fake: Anon understands maths
Gay: Anon thinks about hairy men
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
Fake: Anon is employed
Gay: Anon gets fucked by his employer
- Comment on Jay-Z and the Pitfalls of Black Capitalism 1 week ago:
I think this is an interesting article and I agree with most of it up until the part where the author thinks capitalism is going to chew Hov up and spit him out. His MO has not changed for his entire career, he’s a consumate capitalist through and through. Assuming you share the author’s view that capitalism is poisonous; Hov already drunk that kool-aid 40 years ago.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
I’m doing my part
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
Fake: Anon is literate/erudite
Gay: Anon has to ask what he is supposed to find attractive in the opposite sex
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
If anything I think paying close attention to a lawn is classic heterosexual male behaviour
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
Fake: Anon goes outside
Gay: Gardening (? idk this one is a struggle)
