steeznson
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- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 1 week ago:
Aside from statute of limitations the burden of proof is also lower to bring a successful claim. This is a classic he said/she said situation in addition to being historical. I suspect any lawyer would recommend this path regardless of the truth of the allegations.
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 1 week ago:
I’m not a paedophile (no) I’ve got paedo-files (uh)
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 weeks ago:
Would have been hilarious if big dairy brought them into the trial as an “expert witness”.
“Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am a real life strawman.”
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, they’ll probably call it ‘Nilk’ or something lazy like that
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird how much they love UHT milk on the continent. If you get a Starbucks in France (not sure why you would) then it’ll be that UHT shite.
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- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the so-called slippery slope argument people are making that countries which have legalised assisted dying so far have tended towards making increasingly more people eligible over time.
Conflicted on that tbh. Slippery slope is one of the classic logical fallacies but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t happen.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Setting the moral discussion aside. I think Starmer will be worried that this will define his first term and absorb his ministers’ bandwidth as it is being implemented. He would have wanted to focus on the economy and his plans for “rebuilding” but that will get less oxygen in the media now.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Canada has gone too far in terms of who is eligible for assisted suicide in many people’s opinions. For example people who are mentally ill are able to request assisted suicide from the state.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
I enjoy how old your picks are for the more modern games too! HoMM3 is a stone cold classic.
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a millenial but one of my most conservative friends has parents who are total left wing hippies. Sometimes kids end up rebelling or defining themselves in opposition to certain aspects of their family members.
- Comment on Drake escalates Kendrick beef and accuses record label of firing allies while boosting his rival 3 weeks ago:
It’s over, Drake. Just take the L and move on.
- Comment on How we feeling about GNX by Kendrick Lamar? 3 weeks ago:
Liked it more than Mr Morales but it sounds like a collection of B-sides as opposed to a cohesive album.
- Comment on Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over sponsor’s fossil fuel ties 4 weeks ago:
This Baillie Gifford controversy is nuts. They are one of the largest investment companies in terms of backing renewable energies and they invest way fewer funds than their competitors in fossil fuels.
Arts festivals like the Edinburgh Book Festival have been browbeaten by these grandstanding authors into removing them as a sponsor but the only repercussions we’re going to see is the event being reduced in scale in coming years. The government is not going to step in and take their place and there’s no viable alternative source of money other than the private sector.
- Comment on Mortgage rates rise despite interest rate cut 5 weeks ago:
I think their decision was influenced by the most recent budget. With business costs rising due to the national insurance increase, banks are anticipating that inflation will fall less quickly. This is compounded by government spending increasing which also has the potential to have an inflationary effect.
Given this background it is not inconceivable that BoE might need to raise interest rates again and this means the banks need to keep their fixed rates high to cover the risk of people locking in rates that turn out to be too low.
- Comment on Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers 2 months ago:
Vintage album. Kool Keith at his best.
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 2 months ago:
I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are
- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 2 months ago:
The phrase “absolutely decimated” annoys me since to decimate has a really exact definition of shedding 10% of something
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 2 months ago:
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is probably what I’ll remember her best for
- Comment on Women in STEM 2 months ago:
I thought her husband took a lot of the credit at the time. Might be mistaken about that though.
- Comment on Women in STEM 2 months ago:
Could also add Marie Curie in there. I didn’t realise until recently that there is a lot of controversy over France “claiming her achievements” since she was born and educated in Poland.
- Comment on Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s music streams jump after arrest and sex crimes charges 2 months ago:
Have enjoyed memes pointing out that a character who is a diddler named Diddy could have been written by Hideo Kojima.
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 2 months ago:
I think this would be less surprising if we didn’t imagine LGBTQ people were one homogeneous block of political beliefs and opinions. Some of my most right-wing friends are gay.
- Comment on Letby shift data was scientifically worthless, statisticians warn 2 months ago:
I think the subtext of it was that she could have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice if this one piece of evidence was invalidated. However from reading about the case it just seems like on piece of circumstantial evidence as opposed to the lynchpin for the case.
- Comment on Letby shift data was scientifically worthless, statisticians warn 2 months ago:
This article doesn’t explain exactly why the statistical anomaly should be inadmissable in court. She was a common denominator in being on shift when a large number of infants died on the ward. From my understanding of the case too, various colleagues had been raising suspicions about her for several years; one consultant testified that he walked in on her standing over a baby that was in medical distress while only watching and not taking any actions to assist it. I think there were unexplained results in the autopsies too.
It seems reasonable to have the shift rota as one part of the case against her given that it was more like corroborating evidence instead of the centerpiece for the prosecution.
- Comment on Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets 2 months ago:
I still think Opal Fruits is a more descriptive name
- Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 2 months ago:
Individuals have a perverse relationship to the economy where what’s good for the individual diverges from what is good for the economy. For example saving money is good but if everyone does it then you can end up with deflation like Japan.
In terms of children people do it due to biological urges without fully assessing the hit to quality of life or finances. The economy needs more workers at every point though since pensions are essentially a ponzi scheme.
- Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 2 months ago:
If they made paternity leave an equivalent length of time - and mandatory - then they could resolve a lot of the discrimination women face in the middle of their career when employers assume they will disappear on mat leave and withhold promotions.
- Comment on Kendrick Lamar - Watch The Party Die (Drake Diss) New Song - YouTube 3 months ago:
Not sure this is specifically Drake diss but that’s obviously relevant context. Kendrick is going back into his hip-hop saviour mode and complaining more generally about the culture.
- Comment on Lil Wayne Says Super Bowl Snubbed Him for Halftime Show: ‘That Broke Me… It Hurt a Lot.’ 3 months ago:
He spends a lot of time rapping about New Orleans but I suppose his album and mixtape prime were 16+ years ago.