LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Wet winter and rising energy bills spark damp and mould warning 2 weeks ago:
Mold is caused only by one thing: shit housing.
My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that’s how bad it was.
It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat, a houseshare of 5-50 “people” above. Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all.
Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.
Now I moved across the country and live in a new place, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it’s really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven’t changed a single one of my habits and I’ve never seen so much as a speck of it here. It’s bigger and has nice modern design and costs less, too.
Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.
We’ve spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes, (adjusted for inflation).
We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called “greenbelt” land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can’t help.
- Comment on Meningitis outbreak spreads to London as vaccine rollout expanded 2 weeks ago:
We looked at 2020 and said let’s have another one
- Comment on Annon is unable to find quality cock these days 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair
- Comment on Annon is unable to find quality cock these days 3 weeks ago:
Not clicking a .webm?
- Comment on Annon is unable to find quality cock these days 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t these contradictory?
- Comment on Millions in England to pay higher water bills after suppliers appeal 4 weeks ago:
Democracy is:
- Rule by the corporations
- For the corporations
- Of the corporations
- Comment on Convicted Paedophile Was Chosen as a Parliamentary Candidate by Reform UK 4 weeks ago:
Nothing says “trust me with your money and your children” like a permanent ‘smelled a fart’ grimace and an equally permanent entry into the sex offender registry.
Honestly he looks young though I would’ve guessed he’s more in the cryptobro workplace harassment wing of the party.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 4 weeks ago:
Even though this isn’t a UK rule or UK laws, but one of an international organization, it’s certainly an optics opportunity for them to make their own fund to help those who need to pay for it.
Especially since it can be argued that the alarmism around trans athletes was started by terfs.
But if they won’t, that’s an optics opportunity for progressives, like this Pink News headline here.
Headlines like “No plans to help female athletes pay for testing” - says [insert terf org here like sex matters or for women scotland or whatever] would work pretty well too.
Especially if then some relatively rich trans person or ally then went ahead and made their own independent charity fund to help struggling athletes pay for these tests, assuming there is actually demand there (I have no idea how much they make at that level), all while having some blerbs on their website out of the way on their website about advocacy for removing barriers to participation and streamlining this and how few trans athletes there are or how some studies show that over time performance equalises and how they already test for T levels etc etc.
Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised that most cis fem athletes don’t see it that way, and I’m not sure where I stand on it either. Personally I could give a fuck about sports regardless, but while millions of trans folks are stuck suffering from dysphoria without proper care, anything that damages the terf establishment is a good thing.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 4 weeks ago:
Ehm, this is an international organization’s regulations. Not the UK at fault here.
The UK is just advising their own athletes of the international org’s policy - and telling them to pay out of pocket rather to “avoid delays”, even though financing is available to those who need it on a “case by case” basis.
- Comment on big facts 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think reasonable is even it, it’s just a helpful assumption.
If “they” are doing a perfect job, there’s nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they’re not and play your role.
- Comment on big facts 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.
- Comment on Gorton and Denton 5 weeks ago:
Is it joever or did it just bidan?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 5 weeks ago:
co-op and Waitrose
I know I missed a few lol.
It’s you who’s missing the point, though.
Your cheap goods
I’ve never bought from one of those shoplifters and I’ve never personally met or seen one, I have zero self-interested motivation here.
Out of business
Now you’re getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world.
Nothing less than total corpo death.
Then we can sail to the stars.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 5 weeks ago:
And? I said “corporation”. I don’t give a fuck how “Legitimate” they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.
Sainsbury’s is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.
Tesco’s is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.
Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.
ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 5 weeks ago:
it doesn’t affect them It’s the shop who takes the loss
So it does affect them, then?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 month ago:
Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 month ago:
They’re selling them to people who can’t afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.
Where there’s demand, there’s supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn’t worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they’re just poor.
There’s a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it’s pretty clear that they’re not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.
- Comment on People with rare genetic conditions are ‘systematically ignored’ by NHS 1 month ago:
People are systematically ignored by the NHS.
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 month ago:
Thank you for replying! That’s cool to know.
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 month ago:
It’s not about raw numbers, more like subgroups, if that makes sense?
Lemmy is a niche place, yes? Skews techie, nerdie, someone very internet heavy. At least that often seems to be an assumption I see about the place. But I don’t think it’s true, so I would just like to test that assumption, this is just an observation in that test.
I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse, I also think it skews very young comparatively, for the latter in particular I think this is a good test.
It’s also of course possible that the techie, nerdy internet heavy crowd subgroup is big enough that even isolated to that sample, the chance of encountering someone who has seen the image before is actually that small, but nonetheless it’s a worthwhile observation.
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 month ago:
I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 1 month ago:
There’s enough pressure from European countries at this point regarding age verification, algo manipulation and more that soon it’s gonna be more like the American containment zone rather than a great firewall of anywhere
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 1 month ago:
Don’t they mean “boomer” as in “30 year old boomer” meme? Or even just as an insult?
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
I’d like that honestly if it wasn’t so unpredictable. Sometimes I actually do something and do it well and I get shit for it, sometimes I literally do absolutely nothing the entire week and it’s all smiles and praise, it’s weird and for a long time it put me into a really anxious uncertain place. Now I just try not to care, I’ve accepted I can be fired anytime for any reason anywhere. But that also kinda sucks.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
Am I stupid and missed the joke, or do you mean to imply that “most skilled blackhats” communicate over Microsoft Teams?
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
Colour me jelly. Old school Unix guys are the kind of boomers I’d probably enjoy being around and ask stuff from.
Imo Automation is good when done well, but if anything I’d say half the problems at companies I’ve seen - including my own workplace - come from automating things that shouldn’t be in some ugly way that inevitably breaks at the slightest change and that would work much better if there was just a person doing it manually instead.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
Yeah they don’t mean it in the way engineers do, they mean it literally :(
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
The only reason I stay is because I’m fairly free to fuck around while I WFH and I always WFH, I’m assuming that’s what he means.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 month ago:
Go tell her to work for a team with more women in it. A balance generally helps imo.
