ALiteralCabbage
@ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 1 day ago:
We have the benefit of a private education system whose primary output is financiers and politicians - give the septics time to figure it out.
- Comment on Where will it stop ? 2 days ago:
One of my go-to pizzas back in the day was sweetcorn, pineapple, and black olives.
I love traditional pizza, but sometimes, you want to get your freak on.
- Comment on Where will it stop ? 2 days ago:
It’s mildly infuriating that I don’t have this slce of pickle pizza in my mouth right now.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 days ago:
Honestly I don’t know enough about the way that it’s run to give a correct answer!
I mean even pre-privatisation the rail service was being reduced (Beeching’s cuts etc.) so there’s clearly a cultural element at a government level, but the actual running of the rail firms is pretty opaque; there’s a lot of subcontracting, and the profitability is high, with reinvestment in the railway services not being proportional to that. I suspect that the culture around rinsing public services for private gain isn’t quite so dominant in Japan, but again, I couldn’t comment on that really.
We also have relatively old infrastructure, comparably narrow gauge railways that we would struggle to update because the country was built up around it, but this might be a bit of an old-fashioned take. I’m sure some transport historians could set me right!
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 days ago:
Wait until you hear about the UK! I own the freehold to my land, but technically it’s gramted by the crown, so I could in theory at any moment have my home taken from me.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 days ago:
I think people forget that many of the highways in The West™ were created as part of glorified jobs programs too.
These projects run like utter shit now in places where work is tendered out to corporations now of course, because they’re being driven by private bodies whose sole motivation is profit, not the creation of useful infrastructure. In my own country HS2 is a beautiful example of this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Huh, TIL.
Should probably get some therapy soon then - had a bunch of uncles top themselves.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 1 week ago:
It’s insane.
What gets my goat the most is that farmers take collectve action over the most insanely selfish shit, but are happy to be absolutely rinsed over things that are actively making their lives worse!
Imagine if they actually pooled their resources to make sure they got fair pay from supermarkets instead of shitting themselves over inheritance tax and hunting bans.
I say this as someone who lives and works alongside farmers. I have a huge degree of respect for the amount of work a lot of them do, but fuck me they’re a short slighted bunch.
- Comment on Resident doctors’ strikes would be gift to Nigel Farage, warns Wes Streeting 1 week ago:
Absolutely amazing take.
Maybe worry about the state of the NHS rather than your election prospects?
- Comment on Workers at Hinkley Point C nuclear plant stage wildcat strike over alleged bullying 1 week ago:
Imagine being such a shitty manager that your workforce walk out on you.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 1 week ago:
Yeah but remember! No farmers no food! They’re the unsung heroes who do no wrong and are the guardians of the countryside! /S
- Comment on Resident doctors accused of ‘greedy’ pay demands before Streeting talks 1 week ago:
It’s a difficult sell because it’s unreasonable.
Doctors get paid vastly more than most of the public (I’m both the private and public sectors), including the healthcare workers whose labour supports them in their work.
Has anyone seen a rise in wages which is equivalent to the increase in inflation?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 week ago:
So she’s been caught speeding and got caught again, and again, and again, and again!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Can depression be genetic?
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 1 week ago:
Or tubular!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Try 3 cats, it’s the shit.
My sloth demon wants me to play the new mario kart and eat curries. I have married her.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What constitutes “more than a few” here?
- Comment on Who owns the press? 1 month ago:
They have a fairly short list of “bad takes” though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.
- Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month 1 month ago:
The only time the “crush” at a bar has been acceptable to me is in small pubs. Anything bigger than a neighbourhood/village scale battle and it’s oppressive.
Long live the queue.
- Comment on Netflix Director Arrested for $11 Million Fraud, Spent $2.4 million on five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari 4 months ago:
People banging on about having “generational wealth” is a pet peeve of mine. If you have it you wouldn’t talk about it, and it’s fine to want to set you kids up but you mostly want to spaff it all on awful shit people told you was bougie.
I miss the days when people who got rich suddenly bought jetskis, a good toilet, and blew it all having an amazing time. There’s an honesty to that I can respect (as a poor).
- Comment on Online Wars Aside, 'Snow White' Simply Isn't Getting Moviegoers to Buy In 4 months ago:
The only one I enjoyed was Branagh’s Cinderella. Good visuals, no weird messing with the story, just a straight up retelling, just with good acting and direction.
- Comment on 1987 4 months ago:
Properly fired it’s pretty tough to get any meaningful amount of lead out of a glaze on ceramics.
I’d bet they did it because of pressure from customers.
- Comment on Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn 4 months ago:
What’s your point? The Private schooling/Oxbridge education is a marker of wealth.
What’s going unsaid here is that for a while it was possible, because of a functioning welfare state, that an approximation of the fallback that rich people had was available to the rest of us povvos; this is the issue. It also applies to business as well as art too, to be fair. Rupert can found a business selling bespoke cat earrings or whatever and if it fails he has a fall back. If I try to run a business that’s shit or doesn’t make money and it fails and I default on my mortgage.
It’s standard pearl clutching because the concentration of people who can afford to work in creative industries in the upper economic echelons of society is something worth complaining about because it matters and we’re culturally poorer as a result.
- Comment on UN calls out treatment of prisoners after attack on arms company 5 months ago:
“attack” is doing some very heavy lifting here.
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 5 months ago:
- Comment on Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals 5 months ago:
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 5 months ago:
Although the government is using the phrase “new towns”, most of them likely won’t be: they’ll instead be extensions of existing settlements, not so much new towns as new suburbs.
Ah, so we won’t be building more actually livable spaces, just tacking on house building to already stressed developments. Gotcha.
I’m all for more home building, but this isn’t the answer, at least not without sensible planning (which doesn’t exist because “it takes too long”).
What would actually make sense would be to build actual new towns which can be done, and done well, but it’s obviously a bigger commitment. It seems like they’re taking the wrong lessons from Milton Keynes. As much as it pains me to admit, Price Charles’ new town is a great example of what can be done if the will is there to do it.
- Comment on Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein 5 months ago:
I don’t know why I never considered this.
I work for a German company and wondered why our internal prices were so high!
- Comment on Right-Wing politics 5 months ago:
He’s appeared in a few podcasts I listen to - he’s at the very least unbelievably polite in them.
- Comment on Right-Wing politics 5 months ago:
In anything I’ve ever seen him in (as himself) he comes across as a very nice chap. I hope I’m never shown to be ill informed.
