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- Comment on UK willing to spend £450m a year on EU students if it can join Made in Europe scheme 5 days ago:
If only there was some form of unification with Europe…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That would actually be useful.
- Comment on The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act? | Fiona Harvey 1 week ago:
In hundreds of universities around the world, economists are still being trained today in those same traditional growth models (that William Nordhaus) used. And sunny predictions that the climate crisis could shave just a few per cent off GDP are still in use, shockingly, among governments, businesses and international institutions, even as temperatures shatter records and the supercharged El Niño threatens trillions of dollars in damages.
- Comment on Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months 1 week ago:
The trapped positron vowed vengeance upon humanity and became Lore.
- Comment on Exclusive: UK leans towards backing UAE's Lana Nusseibeh for UN secretary-general 1 week ago:
Wow, a tough one.
She’s definitely got cred:
(Nusseibeh) became the UAE’s first female permanent representative to the UN in 2013 and served until 2024, during which time she was a vice-president of the General Assembly, president of the UN Women executive board and twice president of the Security Council.
I like her background:
Nusseibeh is of Palestinian heritage and her family hails from Jerusalem. Her grandfather, Anwar Nusseibeh, was a prominent Palestinian politician who held ministerial posts in Jordan’s government when it controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and served as Jordan’s ambassador to Britain.
If anyone at this level understands what’s going on with the Palestinians and Israel, it’s going to be her.
But:
There is widespread public evidence, including extensive reporting by MEE, linking the UAE with the supply of arms and other goods to the RSF, although the Emirati government, including Nusseibeh, have repeatedly denied this.
- Comment on The one episode you'd share to get someone into Star Trek 4 weeks ago:
If we count movies, then Galaxyquest
- Comment on Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager 1 month ago:
Good shout for that linked article.
It’s good that a lot of people, including Bujold herself, producer Berman, the director, and even the other cast members, caught that she was wrong for the part early on.
- Comment on Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager 1 month ago:
The original Womans World article is much better.
- Comment on Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager 2 months ago:
Wow, my mind boggles imagining as to how would Erin Gray as Janeway have been.
- Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyagerpeople.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 5 comments
- Comment on We’re defending the Greens against a ‘gender critical’ group 2 months ago:
Fucking despicable group, among a host of similar astroturf orgs. How can you call yourself a Green while also calling for discrimination?
- Comment on The 'fiddly and frustrating' work removing 10,000 coins from Giant's Causeway columns 2 months ago:
Some other stupid TikTok challenge incoming.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 2 months ago:
I had never heard of mini CNC mills.
Now I want one.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 3 months ago:
Count Binface has adopted your slogan!
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 3 months ago:
“I’m the sane one” Binface sings
- British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Faragewww.ipsos.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 102 comments
- Comment on Whitehaven's absentee landlords urged to 'invest or sell up' 4 months ago:
Heavily tax the things you don’t want.
Impose a significant vacant storefront tax to incentivize reducing leasing costs for brick and mortar stores, or selling for more productive use.
- Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds 4 months ago:
Causes of de-banking in the UK:
Risk appetite: Some businesses presented an unacceptable level of business risk to banks to three of the UK’s major banks.
Financial crime prevention: Some accounts were closed due to financial crime concerns. Indeed, banks have a legal and regulatory obligation to stop/prevent money laundering and other financial crime.
Information sharing: Banks closed accounts due to being unable to complete their customer due diligence because of a lack of information sharing from customers.
- Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds 4 months ago:
Strong left bias, but “mostly factual” rating from mbfc
- Comment on Boston is the most pro-Brexit town in the UK. What has leaving the EU changed? 'They got nothing' 4 months ago:
clicks on map I have no idea where Boston UK is.
zooms out on map I still have no idea where Boston UK is.
zooms way out on map It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere isn’t it? Too far off the M1 corridor to be useful for anything that needs a supply chain. Surrounded by farmland
- Comment on Do not drop ammunition at Devon recycling centres, council warns 4 months ago:
The bullet or shell in the photo doesn’t look deactivated or dismantled to me.
It could be a dummy round, but until you run it past an expert, it should be treated as unexploded ordinance.
- Comment on How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi 4 months ago:
I think one can further break down “economic power” between industrial strength, control of the largest financial (stock, bond, futures) markets, and control over the de facto global currency.
- Comment on Do not drop ammunition at Devon recycling centres, council warns 4 months ago:
Okay, but the article has absolutely no information on how to safely dispose of ammunition, fireworks, flares, etc.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws 4 months ago:
He should rename himself again to Lord Haw-Haw.
- Comment on How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi 4 months ago:
The way I see it, living here in the US, is that since the 1970s corporate America has been in the business of extracting wealth from the great middle class that came out of WW2 spending, and US hegemony over the world:
Cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, cutting social spending in order to commercialize and tax social infrastructure that used to be free such as childcare, healthcare, elderly care, education and so forth. De-industrializing sending blue collar jobs overseas so that corps can extract even more wealth faster.
In many poorer areas, this vein of wealth has been tapped out and local communities are desolate, misery-drug addicted holes.
Britain did not have that same post-war middle class boom to the same degree, and taking on the same wealth extractive policies will result in little to no gain, IMO because there’s little wealth to extract.
The above is purely my own uneducated uninformed drivel.
- Comment on The Sprayster | 3D Printed Hose Sprayer Sets Phasers To Suds 4 months ago:
The TNG Sprayser was a downgrade in ergonomics.
- Comment on How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi 4 months ago:
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on British Heart Foundation to close 150 charity shops as costs rise 4 months ago:
The charity, which gave (Charmaine Griffiths, the chief executive of the British Heart Foundation (BHF)) a £35,000 pay rise to £268,239 for this financial year, also said it was planning to cut jobs in “central functions that support our retail operation".
I think some cost savings could be readily identified…
- Comment on Seagull leaves it's mark on King as he visits seaside resort 5 months ago:
“Queen Camilla” still sounds weird. Technically, she’s a queen consort, as opposed to a queen regnum, such as Elizabeth II. but Charles has dropped the “consort” part in his announcements.