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- Comment on MPs to debate NHS single patient record after data concerns 22 hours ago:
There will be strong cyber security protections for it as well.
About as strong as a Yale lock on a wooden shed door?
- Comment on Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds 1 day ago:
Different views on welfare and management by governments results in differences!
- Comment on 'Disgraceful' parking leaves village gridlocked 2 days ago:
He said the North Yorkshire Public Safety Service - comprising North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, and local health services - was gathering feedback to “help inform how these challenges are managed in the future”.
The MP said he hoped people in Wharfedale would participate so the authorities “fully understand the impact and respond appropriately”.
Free, convenient, regular, public transport, for all.
And change the penalty system. If the fine for illegal parking is £60 for everybody, that’s just a token expense for the rich but an effective punishment for the poor. Do as Finland do and link it to the driver’s wealth and suddenly all the twats in Porsches, BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes will think twice.
That’s outside the scope of a council of course but that doesn’t prevent schemes being attempted and national campaign pushes.
Plus, what village doesn’t have local farmers with tractors and pallet forks? Just put straps round the cars and lift the buggers out the way if absolutely necessary.
- Comment on Why there’s no legal “too hot to work” temperature in the UK 2 days ago:
This article doesn’t really explain why, just that it’s complicated.
That doesn’t prevent upper limits being put into place though, with scales based upon types of work, humidity, and break/water access.
For example:
- 45°C is too hot in all circumstances
- 40°C is too hot at x% humidity
- 35°C is too hot at y% humidity
- 38°C is too hot at z% humidity if manual labour but okay for office work
- Any work above 30°C can be refused if water and 5m breaks every 30m aren’t provided
But that bring us to the real reason for why, productivity may be affected and that would hurt the pockets of the wealthy.
- Comment on Man wrongly Tasered by police gets £30k payout 2 days ago:
He told me he was giving me to the count of 10 to leave the area
Moses was then Tasered… …while he was approximately 6ft (1.8m) in the air, causing him to fall to the ground.
As a result, he fractured three vertebrae in his spine, and suffered other injuries to his chest, back, hands and right shoulder.
Nottinghamshire Police stated McClintock "concluded it was necessary to discharge his Taser in order to prevent the claimant’s escape and safely detain him".
So first they wanted him to leave, then when he chose to leave (due to their physical threat), they decided to prevent him from leaving. And then to safely detain him they tasered him while at the top of a fence.
ACAB
- Comment on The Matrix 3 days ago:
I found a picture of @stenAanden@feddit.dk:
- Comment on Brothers accused of assaulting officer at Manchester airport will not face third trial 3 days ago:
The video appeared to show one of the brothers on the floor, being kicked in the face by Marsden while on the ground, as onlookers shouted for him to stop.
Marsden, who was suspended after the incident, maintained he had used reasonable force and that he had not intended to stamp on or kick Amaaz, but was instead trying to stop him grabbing the wire of his police radio and using it against him. The Crown Prosecution Service said in December that year that no police officer would face charges over the incident, leading to Greater Manchester police lifting Marsden’s suspension.
ACAB
- Comment on Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and Israel 4 days ago:
I believe it was his ties to senior figures in the USA that was the main issue… But sure, shitebags live everywhere I guess.
- Comment on Polanski calls for workplace temperature cap as Labour dithers 4 days ago:
We’re going to have a great couple of years becoming Mediterranean while the south boils, and then it’s going to very suddenly all fall apart when the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation collapses. And then we’ll freeze forevermore! Yippee!
- Comment on Russia is targeting UK’s infrastructure and democracy, GCHQ head to say 6 days ago:
Enemy state acts like an enemy? Wow! Who would’ve thought?!
But we’re definitely not doing the same to them though, certainly not! What incentive would there be for the British state to penetrate Russian infrastructure?
No,no,no, this is a fair fight where the bad guy does all the bad things and we’re the victims who have never done anything wrong, ever.
Forget that public infrastructure is falling apart because of years of neglect, private companies getting their grubby hands into it (e.g. Microsoft computers throughout public organisations), or even whole sections of it being sold off to the highest private bidder (e.g. water, mail, and rail). It’s the Russians at fault for our poor infrastructure!
You can’t expect us, GCHQ, the agency tasked with securing that infrastructure, to actually do anything to prevent outside influences from degrading the quality of that infrastructure! How else are Microsoft, Palantir, and Cisco meant to make their vast profits and give us our kickbacks if we stop them and instead built computer infrastructure in-house?
It’s not like we’re a highly developed technologically advanced country with huge swathes of expertise in both computer hardware and software that’s been at the cutting edge of technological advancement or anything. How can you expect little old us to compare with the big scary Russians?
- Comment on Rural Britain is becoming ‘food desert’ for lower-income families, study finds 6 days ago:
To begin with, it takes three acres of land for the industrial food system to feed the average American for a year, compared to maybe 5% of that area—or even much less—to feed a person for a year on a balanced diet of garden vegetables.
unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-e…
Written by a professor of botany justgrowityourself.com/about/about-david-fisher/
I have a tiny plot, far smaller than most rural gardens, and currently have growing: peas, beans, nasturtiums, lettuce, beetroot, spring onions, garlic, brown onions, chard, broccoli, kale, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley, fennel, apples, chives, nettles, dandelions, bay, marjoram, and fenugreek. All are edible, even if some are deemed weeds or just flowers by most. You’d be surprised how much can be packed into a small area!
Don’t take my comment to mean I think it’s the solution to food desserts, but it’s certainly part of it. Obviously in winter it’s pretty useless, but for most of the year it can go a long way in helping. Not to mention the mental health benefits for individuals playing outside and the environmental benefits for communities increasing biodiversity.
- Comment on Rural Britain is becoming ‘food desert’ for lower-income families, study finds 6 days ago:
I’m a communist, you idiot!
- Comment on Stay inside 6 days ago:
Woods? Caves? Leaves?! Look at you with your luxury biodiversity!
I spend every night in the open air with naught but rocks and sand for company!
- Comment on UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say 6 days ago:
Disingenuous headline which implies climate campaigners are for the use of energy intensive means of climate control in summer instead of opening some windows.
UK needs to urgently install solar panels which could be used to power air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say.
Would be a more accurate description of their stance. Which is far more reasonable than the original headline suggests.
- Comment on Lights at police centre to cost 'disturbing' £500k to replace 6 days ago:
I thought plod were supposed to stop daylight robbery?
- Comment on Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show 1 week ago:
Jesus, there’s far more to it than the headline implies! What a dickhead of a boss.
- Comment on Riz Ahmed Says British Intelligence Tried to Recruit Him Three Times 1 week ago:
AhmedBritish Intelligence: Why not come to our study group,OmarRiz?
OmarRiz: What, and get a four-hour dose of that face? The floaty face of the wise bird, hovering on a million quotes, about to do a massive wisdom shit on my head. - Comment on Rural Britain is becoming ‘food desert’ for lower-income families, study finds 1 week ago:
No mention at all of growing your own anywhere in the article, which is quite disappointing, particularly as it was focused on rural households which are more likely to have suitable gardens.
A patchwork of households all growing and sharing food can go a long way in filling nutritional gaps.
But where’s the profit in that I guess?
- Comment on UK records hottest day of year as forecasters warn of more extreme heat 1 week ago:
Oh aye, we’re fucked. Shite journalistic choices like this though don’t help the cause. If we’ve any hope of reversing course it requires all hands on deck, and a decent chunk of the population still scoff at the seriousness of climate change because they see titles like this and dismiss it straight away. That was my point.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Did you read the article? Do you understand how modern engagement and propaganda through anger works?
This news piece amplifies the voices of the bigots. Yes it may be in ridicule but it still allows their views to take up space in our limited attention. In fact, it may not even be amplifying real bigots views because it only quotes X which famously has a large amount of bot manufactured content.
This video explains why reverse ragebait does a cause a disservice and amplifies the opponent as much as it promotes your side.
Brexit is a perfect example, it was a niche view that David Cameron allowed a referendum on because he thought it would be beaten with ease. But suddenly it divides everyone and they must choose a stance. A near 50/50 split happened. Morrison’s have made the choice to install these bins, there’s no mention of them removing them, only what twats on X have said.
So yes, I’m upset at reverse ragebait because a news organisation should have a far better understanding of how journalism and propaganda are intertwined. How reporting on this story in this manner makes trans people less safe by broadcasting and therefore normalising intolerant views.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Aye it’s not the first time I’ve seen reverse ragebait from Pink News. They’re striving for clicks and views as much as the rest, just with a different angle.
- Comment on UK records hottest day of year as forecasters warn of more extreme heat 1 week ago:
UK records hottest day of year
It’s almost as if the days get warmer in late spring…
Shite headlines like this are the kind of thing that fuel climate sceptics.
- Comment on Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air 1 week ago:
Caesar urges Colosseum to make Circuses final free to watch
Context:
Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens (the Annona) as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. In much modern literature, this represents the Annona as a “briberous and corrupting attempt of the Roman emperors to cover up the fact that they were selfish and incompetent tyrants”.[8]
- Comment on Five toys on sale in Britain found to contain asbestos in tests for Guardian 1 week ago:
- Comment on Community cafe demands apology from Farage for ‘intimidating’ uninvited visit 1 week ago:
You could say that…
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage had a Five Guys milkshake thrown over him in Newcastle upon Tyne on 20 May 2019 by a 32-year-old Brexit opponent,[12] who was arrested by police at the scene for common assault.[13] Farage later blamed the rise of milkshaking on “radicalised Remainers” and said that it disrupted campaigning.[14] A spoof JustGiving campaign was set up to crowdfund the purchase of a new suit for Farage following the milkshaking, while instead donating its proceeds to a cancer charity.[15] A few days later, Farage was reportedly trapped on his campaign bus after arriving in Kent to speak to supporters, as a group of people holding milkshakes watched nearby.[16] In June 2019, Farage’s milkshaker pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage to Farage’s microphone, and was given 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £520.[17] An online fundraiser raised more than £650 to cover this cost, within hours of sentencing.[17]
A McDonald’s restaurant in Edinburgh was asked by local police to stop selling the drink during Nigel Farage’s campaign visit in May 2019.[18] Burger King responded on Twitter by advertising its milkshakes in Scotland.[2]
In June 2024, whilst campaigning as Reform UK’s candidate in the Clacton constituency for the 2024 general election Nigel Farage was hit with a McDonald’s banana milkshake thrown by a 25-year-old woman who was later arrested.[36]
- Comment on Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster 'Made Up' Temperature Data 1 week ago:
Another one of this genius’ great takes:
- Comment on Jewish man in hospital after attack by group of men 1 week ago:
I’ve read the original report that the Guardian story is based on now and despite having more detail it still reads very weird.
There’s something either being omitted or embellished.
Like the assailants and victim may have known each other but for some reason the victim isn’t disclosing that. Fuck knows. It’s shite being on the receiving end of a beating though, hopefully they recover soon.
- Comment on Police to seek criminal charges against 77 companies and people over Grenfell fire 1 week ago:
The group added: “The Ministry of Justice and the government must ensure the courts are properly resourced so that any prosecutions linked to Grenfell are heard swiftly. Justice delayed any further would be unacceptable.”
Too fucking right. Justice delayed is justice denied and it’s already been almost 9 years.
- Comment on ‘Dodgy’ candy shops handling criminal cash targeted by new specialist unit 1 week ago:
Candy, such a joy to me
Inner city nights, I cannot sleep
Oh Candy, sweetest remedy
Only you can ease my troubled dreams_
- Comment on Jewish man in hospital after attack by group of men 1 week ago:
What? That story makes absolutely no sense.
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish and beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
Firstly it smells of bollocks, secondly since when has street beatings become national news? They’re usually lucky to make local news, let alone national. Could it be somebody is trying to push a propaganda narrative? Hmm…
