LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 1 day ago:
Yeah so would many same folks but alas whether it’s the weather or the alcohol or weed or mold or pollution or crab bucket mentality or FAS or poor healthcare - sanity is just in extremely short supply at the moment.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 1 day ago:
We have essentially two paths: continued vassalisation to whatever circus of clowns runs the US or a more equal and independent-but-unpopular partnership with the EU.
- Comment on Bullworth's Asylum 3 days ago:
I love Canis Canem Edit!
- Comment on Dormant Assets Scheme: Allocating £350 million for England 5 days ago:
Anybody got a nice summary for what each of those mean and/or really do?
- Comment on Vultr doesn't let you use Bitcoin until you've already set up payment using a credit card or PayPal 5 days ago:
I think you misunderstood. TLAs want people to prove their identities to prevent or collect data on victimless “crimes”. I don’t think that’s a good thing, therefore I am against KYC.
- Comment on Using a PC can I rearrange the order of my subscribed groups? 5 days ago:
I’d love this too. Such a hassle having to scroll all the way down to find some smaller community I really want to have up top because it won’t show up in subscribed sort and to not miss posts I need to visit it specifically.
- Comment on Vultr doesn't let you use Bitcoin until you've already set up payment using a credit card or PayPal 6 days ago:
Yeah, it’s an anti-glowie measure.
- Comment on l fixed it! 6 days ago:
Idk the AI tools are pretty helpful and they don’t fit with the rest as they’re FOSS and free as in free beer. Just pirate the Adobe products too, there’s still nothing quite like Photoshop and lightroom and premiere
- Comment on Vultr doesn't let you use Bitcoin until you've already set up payment using a credit card or PayPal 6 days ago:
Any reason why?
- Comment on Vultr doesn't let you use Bitcoin until you've already set up payment using a credit card or PayPal 1 week ago:
Sucks. Fuck KYC now and forever
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
If these are so easy to verify you’d post them here yourself and own me with facts and logic like I’d deserve rather than resort to insults.
As it stands, I’m not even sure what primaries you’re referencing as there was no primary this year. You sound like chatgpt spewing things that make sense at first glance but have little to do with reality. Either way, blocked.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
The Muslim vote in the end stayed literally the same, so did the Jewish vote. Most Americans prolly haven’t even heard of all this shit lol
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
students were arrested under their watch, a key demographic for them in a tight race. Students are often motivated canvassers. Their response to the outcry? There must be order. Get bent biden/harris.
Yes and most people support that. They see you as more unhinged than the anti-police protestors and think Trump must be onto something with demolishing the DoE if the nation students are protesting for who they see as Islamist terrorists.
they lost 25 electoral points in two fucking swing states directly related to this. In literal numbers codified in the outcome.
Source?
they completely fucking ignored the economic issues caused by corporate greed
Yeah that’s socialism. They already lost the Latino vote by being too socialist. The electorate wants tax breaks for Kelogg’s CEO.
Sigh. You didnt do well in math did you? Tell me where did the 20 million votes for biden last time go?
Some of them probably to Trump.
Trumps numbers are unchanged.
Are you an idiot? You’re implying that these are the exact same people just because the numbers are roughly the same?
Biden convinced a lot of swing voters due to COVID.
Never mind the fucking fact most adults dont vote.
Source?
And token handle the rest of your nonsense with the polling numbers.
Token handle? Like JRR Tolkien? Did you have a stroke?
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Huh? You really think that if they caved on Palestine they would’ve won?
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
You’re right. I guess there’s the problem. I don’t doubt that if I also checked some other memories of Biden’s mistakes I’d find that I remember them how the right wants me to remember them.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
“Bidenomics” and “Economy is doing great” and anything and everything involving the word “GDP”
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Thing is you can actually be radical. In a healthy democracy you need some small fringes to exert pressure, e.g. civil right activist groups and so on so that the government isn’t able to just completely ignore portions of the population.
But to be effective as an activist you have to know when to put on pressure and when to unite. Malcolm X or Fred Hampton didn’t go vote for David Duke just because MLK was a pacifist.
This was the wrong time to pressure because as always activists dramatically misread the levels of actual support for their cause and dramatically underestimate how much support the general populace gives the opposition.
Most people don’t even agree on the very basic facts of reality or that such a thing can even exist, how tf are you gonna expect to convince them of anything? What you gonna write some long post on it? Good luck - they cannot read.
Humanity is just a dogshit species. To even agree that we shouldn’t stab ourselves in our proverbial balls with a proverbial milwaukee power drill - it takes like generations and most people are always for the status quo and the worst possible version of everything is the default we have to work from and with, it’s just a cruel joke.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Thank you for your input, I’m sure you smell great bro all natural sweat and dog shit not like those “kids these days” and their fruity fumes amirite?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
sensing a culture war against vapes, really?
Isn’t there? Every time someone dies who happened to also vape the first to report is the Daily Heil and The Sun etc, then follow the Tory establishment mouthpieces who shy away less and less from culture war shite as long as they dress it up all nice for Surrey wine moms.
It’s almost as if the old business like Murdoch and Philip Morris interests are playing you to hate vaping so they can get it banned and win back marketshare from the shenzen vape/gadget mega industry that absolutely obliterated them.
It’s almost as if the people in charge of these have read a history book once and know prohibition of drugs - including nicotine - doesn’t work and they want to corner a market which is still a ton of money.
And it’s almost as if the disposable grift from the shenzen slop factories gave them the perfect storm to jump on this and you’re a pawn caught in-between, abandoned all reason and even a pretense of objectivity, driven to a steaming furvor about things that have zero impact on your life to push for illiberal restrictive authoritarian policies.
If you could just realize this, instead of defending conglomerates on your free time, then maybe we’d be in a better world right now. I hope it makes some sense.
It seems the government is going to consult about extending a vape ban
Yes, this bill gives them the power to do so, which in itself signals intention fairly well when you add onto it the specificity of other restrictions mentioned (packaging, flavour) and the existence of the new vape tax alongside it.
but it’s become a zombie and is making a lot of kids addicted to nicotine.
Yeah this goes without saying - don’t smoke, kids. Don’t vape, either. Even if it’s harmless it’s a waste of money and while I like it most people wish they never started.
That also however doesn’t mean that adults shouldn’t get the option of vaping without the morality police peeking in.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
No it’s not clear at all what you meant, because you used these things called letters in such a wrong capacity that it was no longer possible to successfully guess the meaning of your presumably stroke-induced ramble.
Not that it would’ve helped as literally none of what you said is at all relevant to anything I said whatsoever.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
What the fuck are you even on about? Where did I mention addiction, smoking, willpower, weak or any of those other things you’re referring to? Are the looney bins full too?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
And so what? Plenty of things I do not like, cars, chippies, fast food, non-brutalist architecture, low-rise buildings, smoking, weed and weed people (nothing against drugs, just weed), etc.
But I understand that others do like those things and that we don’t all have to like the same things, and when in a public space with others I will inevitably be exposed to those other things and I don’t think it’s reasonable in any society with some degree of individual freedoms to campaign the government to ban every single thing I dislike.
We should ban some things, but only with good cause, i.e. the bully XL ban, just too dangerous as it stands.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
They don’t burning smoking your idiot they’re bunning
Is this meant to be sarcasm?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, this must be awful for you. However we cannot base policy decisions on “most people” known by some guy, especially concerning the sensitive potential of government overreach.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
This is about smoking tobacco
Not exclusively. Please re-read the article and then familiarise yourself with the bill, particularly the following excerpts are relevant:
Subject to consultation, the government is considering extending restrictions in places that are currently smoke free to also become vape free, especially in areas where there are children and young adults.
This may sound reasonable, but surely the issue of e.g. a child vaping outside of a school is covered by the fact they shouldn’t be vaping as a child anywhere, and thus would either have the vape confiscated by parents taking them home or school staff? Such regulation placed on adults seems just unnecessary?
Unless of course: it’s not actually about the children as it tends to be with Murdoch newspaper moral panic-steered policy and is instead a much broader attack on vaping, which is supported by the broad far less “reasonable” powers granted by this bill as per below:
This sits alongside a ban in the Bill on vape advertising and sponsorship, **as well as powers to restrict the flavours, display and packaging of all types of vapes, as well as other nicotine products. **
As you can see, your statement
Disposable vapes will be banned. That’s it.
Is flat-out untrue.
Probably you do so because you got your fodder in the Murdoch papers and just need to regurgitate your breakfast. Judging by the lingo.
I’m really very sorry, and I do not want to embarrass you, but it appears you’re referring to yourself there. It’s okay. No one is immune to propaganda and we cannot all dive deep on all topics all the time.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Subject to consultation, the government is considering extending restrictions in places that are currently smoke free to also become vape free, especially in areas where there are children and young adults.
This may sound reasonable, but surely the issue of e.g. a child vaping outside of a school is covered by the fact they shouldn’t be vaping as a child anywhere, and thus would either have the vape confiscated by parents taking them home or school staff?
This is where I am worried the government is overstepping.
This sits alongside a ban in the Bill on vape advertising and sponsorship, **as well as powers to restrict the flavours, display and packaging of all types of vapes, as well as other nicotine products. **
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Hard disagree. Fuck off nanny state.
Ban smoking with proven second hand smoke inhalation effects - sure, incredible overreach but at least there’s some semblance of logic, but vaping?
Just…Why? After 20 years of being studied every which way still no negative health effects at all have been found, not first-hand, not second-hand, but what has been found is that it’s an extremely good smoking cessation device that actually gets people to stop smoking.
Nah fuck off, bus stops were bad enough but good luck enforcing this, everybody still puffing away at every bus stop and more and more just brazenly on trains and not about to stop anytime soon. Bad enough that not allowing vaping in restaurants/cinemas/cafes/bars is going to utterly obliterate the high street.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
Bruh. If anything they should pay extra for all the clearance one has to get as well. I love cyberchef, it’s unironically a point of national pride for me, but something’s got to give
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
As that one song goes
“But we can You know we can We can You know we can …”
- Comment on anonette doesn't want to admit she's wrong 3 weeks ago:
If you’re me a few years back then you realize that drinking is awful for you and it’s no way to live to drink every day and switch to benzos just to keep work somewhat tolerable
