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- Comment on How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto] 1 week ago:
That would be great. “Get tae fuck ya wee bawbag” (I think that’s the kind of thing Scots say)
Unfortunately I think they’ll stick with the USA
- How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto]news.sky.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
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- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
In both cases you have a person doing something that many people would consider bad. Then this person gets mad when others find out about their behaviour. If you don’t want people to find out you did something, maybe just don’t do it in the first place.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s pretty comparable. The guys in the OP are getting mad at Derek but they’re the ones who said bad things in the first place. Their actions caused this. All Derek did was let people know the truth, and maybe it’s good when people know the truth.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
If you find out that someone cheated on their wife, do you have to keep it private to protect the cheater’s “privacy”?
Maybe it’s better if that person’s wife knows the truth.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
Good guy Derek
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 3 weeks ago:
I think health problems are one type of problem that young people are facing, and the news has talked about mental health in particular being a growing problem for young people.
Lack of employment generally (not just health related) seems to be a problem - apparently the percentage of young people who aren’t in employment, education, or training is increasing.
I think Sir Gareth has identified some of the problems too. Lack of healthy role models, abundance of unhealthy role models. Abundance of porn, especially unhealthy porn. Negative effects of social media. Etc.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
Even if Jesus was fictional, He’s still a pretty good role model by what’s written about Him.
If Christianity only expected people to think that Jesus was a good role model then maybe I would be more willing to turn up at my local church. But Christianity expects a further belief: that Jesus is the son of God, which is a supernatural claim.
Personally I’m just not sure I believe the supernatural stuff.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
We didn’t have smartphone on us 24/7. And of course content producers have gotten better at making their stuff visually stimulating and addictive.
Yeah I think both of those could be reasons why young people have problems today. Another reason could be the Covid lockdowns, which resulted in young people spending more time online, and less time in the real world.
When I was young I spent some time online, using internet forums etc. But the most fun I had was when I socialised with real people in the real world.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
True, you could argue that young women are also being negatively affected by “toxic influencers”.
I guess Gareth has chosen to focus on issues facing young men though. Of course Gareth has experience mentoring young men, as the manager of England’s men’s football team.
Society probably should help both young women and young men, but maybe each group faces slightly different problems. E.g. according to the Samaritans, men are 3 times as likely to die from suicide as women, although women attempt suicide more than men do. So both groups clearly have problems, but they seem to deal with those problems in different ways. Maybe different approaches are needed when helping each gender.
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- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 4 weeks ago:
Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
I thought that only applied to conservatives who have been accused of sexual harassment.
Being serious though, I agree with @mannycalavera@feddit.uk that killers probably shouldn’t be venerated, but it’s definitely interesting that the Luigi case has inspired a lot of discussion, so I wondered what Lemmy users might think about this mural.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 4 weeks ago:
It might still be there. The article I got the OP image from is about 1 month old, but someone posted photos of it on Reddit yesterday: old.reddit.com/…/luigi_mangione_in_bethnal_green/
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- Quarter of Gen Zs consider quitting work as young Brits cite mental health as key reason to go unemployedwww.lbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 19 comments
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- Comment on 'I was duped into leaving London for school in Ghana - but it saved me' 4 weeks ago:
I read this article, I thought it was interesting. The author says that he ended up being grateful for the strictness from his mother - he thinks she took him away from a dangerous criminal life.
I wonder whether British parents generally these days are not strict enough, or too strict. Clearly this guy thinks that strictness when growing up can be beneficial, even if it’s painful at the time.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I don’t think I’m convinced of God’s existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don’t think anybody knows the answer for certain.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 5 weeks ago:
What evidence is there that proves God’s existence?
- Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 50 comments
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Fair enough. I will try to read more stuff about encryption.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 1 month ago:
I think the 3% target is intended for the next parliament though. The target he wants to hit in this parliament is 2.5% from 2027 onwards.
I guess raising defence spending makes sense so that the UK can better protect itself from threats like Russia.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Fair points. That open letter is interesting. I didn’t mean to be annoying with my responses, I was just giving my view.
I do think the oligarchy in the US is pretty worrying. As for encryption, I should probably learn more about it. I guess my understanding at the moment is only pretty basic.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
The stasi would blush at the surveillance foreign corporations and the British government now engage in as a matter of course
My understanding is that the Stasi were very repressive - “using torture, intimidation and a vast network of informants to crush dissent”. I’m not aware of the UK government using torture to crush dissent.
But spying on all of the public all of the time comes at a cost to society I would rather not pay. It quells dissent in the short and maybe mid term, but that extreme intrusion, ultimately drives otherwise moderate people into the hands of extremists
I don’t think the public should be spied on all the time. But if there is some way that illegal communications (like planning murder) could be intercepted, without spying on others, that would be good.
The terrorists win when we sacrifice liberty for temporary security (or whatever that quote was)
There’s a quote by Benjamin Franklin which apparently is: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. I always thought that quote was a bit weird though, because humans do give up some form of liberty in return for safety. E.g. we give up the freedom to murder other people without legal consequences, because in return we get some safety: protection from being murdered by others.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Maybe I should read more about encryption. I was thinking maybe a company like Apple could just keep the encryption keys stored somewhere. So if needed they could decrypt particular messages. There could be big punishments, prison time, for anybody within Apple who decrypts messages without a court warrant.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
I would probably argue that China is a little different to the UK, given that China is a one-party state.
Yeah maybe the UK government shouldn’t be able to spy on Apple messages sent anywhere in the world. But maybe UK agencies like GCHQ should be able to get the messages of specific individuals who threaten the UK, with a court warrant, like how law enforcement has been able to bug the phones of criminals with a court warrant.
I dunno. Maybe I should educate myself more on encryption and how it all works.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
I guess I think of it like bugging a phone. The technology for bugging phones has been around for a long time, but that doesn’t mean the authorities are bugging everybody’s phones all the time. Even if they can theoretically listen to everyone’s conversations, that doesn’t mean they are always listening. There would be too many conversations to listen to.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Maybe people just use what’s popular. Telegram is pretty popular in some countries even though I don’t think they have end-to-end encryption by default.
Anyway I guess I don’t know what the answer is. Personally I would probably still use iMessage and WhatsApp even if I knew the companies behind them could potentially read my messages by decrypting them. If there’s a proper system in place so that messages are only read when there’s a court warrant, it’s probably unlikely my boring messages to friends and family would be spied on by anybody.
Maybe I need to send more interesting messages and then I would care about the privacy of them a bit more.
