steeznson

@steeznson@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.

  Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, she could have kept quiet about this and avoided another round of people calling her names online, which would have been the easier path. Most people in this thread might know “Robinson” is dodgy but we’re not the target audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree with you. I think society/politics has become polarised to the extent that we’ve all grown colder towards perceived “enemies”; at the same time people shouldn’t be victim blamed for abuse, no matter how dumb they are.

  Additionally, what we perceive as “dumb” can sometimes be other people struggling with mental illness or disability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Chinese agents ‘given licence to spy’ on parliament as failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster spy case opens door to foreign agents, lawmaker warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to school with Chris Cash. His dad was my family GP and he was my cousin’s first kiss.

  His HS yearbook has “most likely to end up in jail” on his entry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't fit in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Date someone younger who doesn’t realise how weird you are. /s

  For real though that seems to be a favourite in the weirdo playbook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killzone on PS2 was the first game I played that wasn’t inverted and it took me several hours to figure out why aiming was so hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just imagine that the right stick is their neck you don’t need to postulate a Parasaurolophus horn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I care more about the vertical inversion than the horizontal one. Not certain why. Have played with horizontal inversion on before and it didn’t bother me much after a minute or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You donkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her name is Jeanie though, which I’d pronounce differently to Jenny… unless it’s one of those awful new age spellings of a classic name.

  Fwiw Jennifer is a fine name and people can figure out the best way to shorten it for their circumstances. Maybe living in a rural community with a lot of donkeys would affect it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, both of those and their sequels - Future Perfect and Perfect Dark - were by far the most played FPS games for me as a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like the analogue stick is representing your characters neck. IRL you pull your neck down to look up, and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Undercover Informant"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This joke brought to you by: dads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Undercover Informant"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They call me 007 at work too:

  • 0 tickets finished
  • 0 docs written
  • 7 smoke breaks
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Read lit" Me:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously encountered a believer in metaphysical immanence on the subway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a problem with Bioshock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People were easier to entertain back in the day. There is also a clear line between Borges and modern short story authors like Ted Chiang who take what he started and develop it further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a problem with Bioshock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I suppose it’s similar to Herman Hesse or maybe Borges… except those two are quite cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a problem with Bioshock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ayn Rand isn’t really studied if you do a philiosophy degree. She’s more on the literature side of “philosophy” as opposed to belonging to the analytic tradition or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope his hand was ok afterwards!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with a lot of what Linehan says but I didn’t see his tweets as breaching the theshold for inciting violence. I think a threat needs to have the maker/sender of it claim that they, or those close to them, are credibly about to enact the violence.

  The tweet I saw, not sure if it’s the one that got him in trouble, was similar to how people put “punch nazis” in their twitter bio. To me, that is non-specific and not a credible threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to a steakhouse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  kinesiology

  but I study kino all the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a lemmy community for Your Party⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone check if the lemon party domain is taken?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  200 IQ child thief

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour to abolish most short prison sentences in England and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like the prison system is at capacity but idk if this is the right move for them politically.

  We don’t need to do Broken Window Theory but there has to be a repercussion for low level crime, otherwise the perception amongst the public is going to be that crime has got much worse. Most serious crime is going to be invisible to the general public so even if we throw the book at those criminals the perception won’t change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What has minecraft done to the kids?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this is in tune with the public sentiment. Reform are probably the most in tune with polling on the issue and Labour are half-heartedly going along with it.

  I’m generally quite pro immigration but the perceived unfairness of people skipping the queue has become a hot button issue / small fire which politicians can’t reframe. I think they’ll have to cut the gordian knot at some point and leave the ECHR. The asylum laws were great for the 20th century but don’t fit for the 21st century migration patterns, which only seem to get worse with climate change becoming more of a problem.

  In Australia they had their off shore processing system in Papa New Guinea which was absolutely brutal and I think people are still stuck in those internment camps despite the policy ending more than a decade ago. On the flip side of that the Australian public are the consistently most pro-immigration Western countries in the world in polling. If people feel that the govt has control of immigration then they will accept migrants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in that industry and it’s really not thriving in the UK from what I’ve seen. I work for a US brand and that’s really where all the money is. In the UK younger people are (sensibly) not picking up the habit, additionally the new (sensible) government safeguards are making people prove they can afford to gamble over a certain amount. I don’t know if they’ve introduced this proposal yet but it’s being discussed making gamblers submit bank statements to prove they can afford it if they gamble more than £1000 in a month - which seems like a great idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah clubs/societies are the places to meet people. No one wants so socialise in class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like Scotland has a flawless track record! Part of the reason why we unified with England was that our experiment being colonialists was an expensive mistake. Managed to make some of that back being involved in the triangular trade route sugar industry.