ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 3 days ago:
It’s incorrect to say they have 0 expertise. One of their main functions is to set and enforce content standards, and a lot of research is done connected to that.
- Comment on DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed 5 days ago:
Maybe stress is appropriate to people who kill people for a living?
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 6 days ago:
On a linguistic level yes. The ancient Greeks named the islands after the Prythonic tribes, who were active in Britannia and Hibernia (Ireland).
On a don’t-annoy-the-alarm-clock-aficionados level, nope. This guy isn’t with me. Never met them.
- Comment on From Hero to Zero (Budget) 6 days ago:
They’re still using the Nazi rockets so not really.
- Comment on Franks and Beans: Take 2 1 week ago:
Or find some British baked beans.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
They have representation in other ways. For instance in Britain, where it is illegal for police to unionise, there is instead a government-funded Police Federation, which independently advocates for police working conditions and supplies advice and representation for police in disciplinary affairs. The main difference from a union is that it is free to members and that police are not allowed to go on strike.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
That sticker was exclusive to the LAPD, but it kept turning up in films made in Hollywood set elsewhere, so other regions adopted it eventually too.
- Comment on ‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback 1 week ago:
It’s all about the cost savings (in the short term. I don’t know how long such trackwork would last)
- Comment on UK anti-obesity legislation falls victim to food industry lobbying 1 week ago:
What a surprise.
- Comment on thicc 🌈 2 weeks ago:
I dunno what a Sir Newton is, but the chap is supposed to be Sir Isaac.
- Comment on what is north? 2 weeks ago:
The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 2 weeks ago:
E-ink is a slow deve
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 weeks ago:
They’re required to collect details.
- Comment on Sure.. 2 weeks ago:
Try saying it again in a higher register.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 weeks ago:
No medical professional worth a damn would ever advocate this. Indeed it’s a violation of the Hippocratic oath.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t anonymous.
- Comment on ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Renewed for Season 5 at FX as Spinoff ‘Necaxa’ With Eva Longoria Sets Summer Premiere 2 weeks ago:
English? Those are fighting words.
- Comment on ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Renewed for Season 5 at FX as Spinoff ‘Necaxa’ With Eva Longoria Sets Summer Premiere 2 weeks ago:
300k is a big rating these days.
- Comment on ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Renewed for Season 5 at FX as Spinoff ‘Necaxa’ With Eva Longoria Sets Summer Premiere 2 weeks ago:
No, FX is just in it for shits and giggles.
- Comment on Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles? 3 weeks ago:
You have misunderstood. Hollywood’s writers have been fully unionised since the 1930s. Shows were not winging it without writers, as showrunners were still supervising things as part of permitted work in their producorial capacity.
- Comment on Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles? 3 weeks ago:
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Hollywood is highly unionised. The writers are being paid.
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Disney makes a lot of profit from Lucasfilm.
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Workers are sick of being out of work.
Etc.
LA is more expensive to shoot in than London, Vancouver, Prague or Atlanta, and the crews there aren’t any better, the equipment and facilities aren’t better, it has an advantageous climate.
LA isn’t competing with the tax breaks elsewhere, and meanwhile the streaming age has matured into its profit-making phase, so the boom in production is over.
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- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1 3 weeks ago:
22 episodes, much of it slop. Shorter runs are more interesting.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 3 weeks ago:
7/7 was committed by an internal threat. As was the Manchester Arena bombing, the assassinations of Jo Cox and David Amess and attempted assassination of Stephen Timms, the Streatham stabbings, the London Bridge attacks in 2017 and 2019, the Westminster car attack, Finsbury Park attack, 2017 Westminster attack, murder and attempted beheading of Lee Rigby, Glasgow Airport attack, London nail bombings……
But sure, we don’t need internal intelligence agencies at all.
- Comment on South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour 3 weeks ago:
All? Not all. One
village of indomitable Gaulsstation remains in private ownership, and that’s St Pancras. - Comment on South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour 3 weeks ago:
This is the first “franchise” to be cancelled, the others were franchises that are extant but run by the operator of last resort.
It’s not making a bigger splash because the Tories nationalised the entire network in 2020 by abolishing all the franchises and replacing them with management contracts, whereby the operators are paid a flat fee by DfT to run the service.
The pace of absorption by GBR is dictated by the franchise terms, and operators seem to be being allowed to reach the end of their contract terms if that is in the next couple of years, or else having their break clauses invoked when they come into eligibility.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Foreign students pay more, so they subsidise others, and justify increased numbers of places then available to domestic students.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 3 weeks ago:
And over decades, many of you didn’t care enough to vote those stains out. Here you reap the harvest of decades of apathy, laziness, performative “patriotism” and religion. Trump was an entirely predictable circumstance.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 3 weeks ago:
The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.
- Comment on Common British L 3 weeks ago:
I thought Americans thought English Mustard was far too spicy.
- Comment on Speak American 3 weeks ago:
The last royal veto was in 1708, and any attempt to do so now would probably end the monarchy.