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- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 6 days ago:
Dangerous terrorists but being released on unconditional bail?
Me thinks the courts know this is a farce.
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 6 days ago:
The Grauniad making typos? Never!
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 1 week ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiryX7a8gA&t=1230s
Skip to 20:30 if the time jump doesn’t work.
Comedy has been attacked and gutted from its previous peak as well.
- Comment on Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules 1 week ago:
Scumbags.
In contrast, Scotland just protected huge areas.
bluemarinefoundation.com/scottish-government-safe…
To see the sheer devastation and indiscriminate ecocide that bottom trawling does, watch this Attenborough clip:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 2 weeks ago:
Paywalled, also fuck the P&J.
- Comment on We are made of stardust 2 weeks ago:
Dust. High fat or low fat? Anybody?
- Comment on Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system 2 weeks ago:
If we’ve only got 4 minutes anyway, what’s the point?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_warning
Natural disasters, invasion, etc will be announced through so many news systems that I think I’ll stick to a nice silent phone.
So far the UK doesn’t appear to have abused the system but America certainly has and we’re ever increasingly becoming like them, so again, I’ll keep a nice silent phone and get a silent notification from the news if anything urgent happens.
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 2 weeks ago:
Right! Stop that. It’s silly!
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 2 weeks ago:
Nazi punks! Nazi punks! Nazi punks! FUCK OFF!
- Comment on Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest 2 weeks ago:
Met police chief forgets his fucking place and how society and justice function in this country.
The politicians set the laws, the police enforce the laws, the courts judge the laws.
The police have no business in politicking. That is a right they gave up in becoming a police chief.
Or should they just start questioning the legitimacy of every law? Where’s their questioning on proscription? Where’s their questioning of the Online Safety Act?
- Comment on Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting 2 weeks ago:
Ffs.
Asda, Flannels, Costcutter, Home Bargains, and Sports Direct as well according to the article.
How do you boycott every shop?
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 3 weeks ago:
Aye, so to compensate for a complicated, privatised, and fractured rail system, they implement a complicated ticketing system in the name of convenience. It’s a shit system to cover for all the other shit systems within English rail.
If they instead nationalise the rail, the end user can have simple fares from one easy provider.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 3 weeks ago:
Or nationalise it and then simplify it like this:
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 3 weeks ago:
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: “The railway ticketing system is far too complicated
So by making it reliant upon a foreign satellite navigation system, everyone having a working phone, and a willingness to give us permission to track all of your movements, we’ve now made it simpler than a piece of paper!
- Comment on Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn 3 weeks ago:
I fucking hate those dumb vehicles so much.
They serve no purpose for most people beyond being a stupid status symbol. I was so annoyed with my mum when she got one and had a rant when other family members started considering getting one, they have since decided a hatchback has suited them since the 80s so why change what has worked so far, but fuck.
It really goes to exemplify the dumb Americanisation of our population that just a little bit of marketing can push 30% of people to purchase a vehicle that 9 times out of 10 doesn’t suit their requirements. Not to mention how many of these dumb fucks are incapable of driving the things, even when they’re filled with sensors and cameras they can still take an age to reverse in and out, and in and out, and in and out, of a parking space before they’re in.
The worst part is how half of these SUVs are just chunky hatchbacks, so you don’t even get the advantage of having 4 wheel drive or rugged build quality. So unlike a (proper) Land Rover or Toyota Hilux which will just keep going forever [insert Land Rovers break down all the time joke here - they’re easily repairable!] they’ll end up in the scrap heap at the same rate as smaller cars but with twice the amount of material going to waste.
Stupid fucking vehicles.
- Comment on A UK government program to address obesity gets major funding from Eli Lilly, the maker of weight loss drug Mounjaro 4 weeks ago:
Why put in effort educating people on nutrition and healthy eating when we can just pump them with drugs?
Why put in effort growing nutritious food when we can just feed them the usual slop and then pump them with drugs to make sure they don’t get too plump?
Who cares that long term this will be detrimental for health, because instead of eating a balanced healthy diet and exercising to stay a healthy weight, we instead allow the eating of shit and no exercise as long as there’s a steady supply of weight loss drugs?
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on Could go for this right now 5 weeks ago:
I’ll take wasps any day over midgies.
Wasps will usually leave you alone, midgies will eat you alive!
- Comment on Could go for this right now 5 weeks ago:
That’s fan ih wee beastie bastard midgies cim oot though!
- Comment on Nicolas Sturgeon book reignites trans row with JK Rowling 5 weeks ago:
This reads like a Rowling hit piece on Sturgeon.
Where’s the impartiality BBC?
Oh wait, I forgot, it doesn’t exist.
opendemocracy.net/…/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum…
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 5 weeks ago:
I agree with HumanPenguin but your stance is a bit silly.
You don’t need to be an expert to know you need a licence, everyone else and their dog is expected to know to get one. Ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse by councils, police, or courts.
It sounds like he’s done right and remedied it, but again, ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse for breaching the law. Lammy doesn’t work alone, he has a team of people, and not one of them organised a licence. It’s either a case of incompetence or a case of thinking he’s above the rules and got caught. Both are bad optics for an already struggling government.
Don’t they look tired?
- Comment on UK cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus more than double 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. 3 is more than double 1. Not putting numbers in the headline is stupid.
For reference, it’s 73 cases versus 27 last year.
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 5 weeks ago:
You’re not a government minister setting laws and determining who can be jailed for what. The hypocrisy is the issue, not how minor the infraction.
- Comment on Under-22s in England should get free bus travel to access work and training, MPs say 5 weeks ago:
Scotland has had this since 2022 and it’s been a great success from what I can gather. There’s been some trouble with “hooligans” taking advantage and messing up buses or traveling to other towns to vandalise or pick fights but I think the press and gossips have blown it out of proportion.
Overall, freedom of movement is a good thing, even if there is a small bit of trouble due to it. Young’ns are young’ns and a percentage will cause trouble in some manner regardless of whether they can get about or not.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 1 month ago:
To download Wikipedia to your computer for offline use, see here: kiwix.org/en/
- Comment on Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years 1 month ago:
the average rent on a newly let property fell by 0.2% year on year in July. It was the first annual decline since August 2020
Fuck all. This isn’t a win.
For sitting tenants it is a different story. Average rents on renewed tenancies continued to rise: up 4.5% year on year in July.
An increase for being a loyal customer though.
Despite the small annual decline, the average monthly rent for a new let of £1,373 remains £350 – or 34% – higher than in August 2020.
34% increase in rent since 2020?! Have wages risen by 34%?
This month, Barclays said that, typically, housing accounts for close to a third (30.8%) of renters’ take-home pay, whereas homeowners report spending just over a quarter (26.6%) of their earnings on their mortgage.
1/4 to 1/3 of your labour, just to have a roof over your head. A basic requirement of life. And unlike food, housing isn’t perishable. Many houses could be rented out for over a century by now. And each month they pull in 1/3 of someone’s labour, for what? To pay a parasitic landlord.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 1 month ago:
It’s not like he brought it up out of the blue though, is it?
Maybe work on your own reading comprehension.
It’s in direct response to Angela Rayner selling off allotment land. Land that is deemed so important to the nation that it’s protected by law, and only sellable via ministerial sign off. Not even the scumbag Tories did this.
Plus, our primary source of food may well have to be allotments again soon. With farms failing due to years of monoculture and pesticides, coupled with climate change and a loss in biodiversity.
unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-e…
It is normal in politics for opposition politicians to attack the actions of governing politicians. That is what Corbyn has done, he’s not suddenly got out of bed and decided today’s topic of conversation is allotments because he’s away down to his in the afternoon.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 1 month ago:
Almost as if he’s tackling multiple concerns at once.
youtube.com/shorts/HuOP2vEEz6Q
Allotments are fundamental for the feeding of our people and in tackling biodiversity loss. If you don’t have green fingers you may not be aware, but we’re currently in the midst of the largest mass extinction event since the dinosaurs.
Currently, human activities are driving a rapid decline in biodiversity, often referred to as the Holocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction. It was estimated in 2007 that up to 30% of all species could be extinct by 2050.[4] Habitat destruction—particularly for agriculture—is a primary driver of this decline.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
This video from the WWF drives home the point.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufiiFGdAl5E
But even if you don’t care about biodiversity loss, it is a necessary means for many people to feed themselves. About 1/3 of my fruit and veg intake is homegrown. Without it I would struggle to pay my bills, not to mention the mental health benefits of being out in the sun playing in the dirt.
Rayner can get to fuck. She’s a fucking liar who pretends to stand for the left of the Labour party and since getting into power has acted like a Tory. There’s a reason she’s been suspended from Unite.
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 month ago:
Only if there’s not legitimate reason to have it revoked.
