ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 7 hours ago:
Hawking left his wife for his much younger nurse. Then, 20 years later, he left her for another much younger nurse.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 7 hours ago:
He had a good sense of humour when it was about how great he was. A bit of a notorious asshole in other regards.
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 22 hours ago:
It’s not about Protestantism vs Catholicism.
- Comment on Pushback for Starmer as crowds back Kneecap 1 day ago:
Something quite apt that that website seems stuck in a 1990s time warp. But where’s the counter?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 day ago:
Because authors will run out of renewal money much quicker than conglomerates.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 days ago:
So a system that removes all the power from individual authors and puts it firmly in the hands of big corporations with deepest pockets? Nah.
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 3 days ago:
Where they’re so racist they’re even racist toward each other?
- Comment on Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters 3 days ago:
He has form for this, and the court found against him last time.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 6 days ago:
It’s very clear from context that the sentence refers to Britain.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 week ago:
None of that resulted in the overthrow of any government. Electoral reform was carried out by the government, and the Suffragette militant campaign ended in failure in 1914.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 week ago:
Robert Peel, the founder of modern policing and the devisor of policing by consent.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 week ago:
As it suggests, the Ukrainian Maidan was, well, in Ukraine.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 week ago:
[Points to the history of Britain]
[Further points to the Pink Floyd reference]
- Comment on How CBS Studios & Paramount TV Studios Are Divvying Up Streaming Series Slate: From ‘Reacher’ & ‘Cross’ To ‘Murderbot’ & ‘Clueless’ 1 week ago:
Yup. Skydance TV merged with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and it’s now Paramount TV Studios.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 2 weeks ago:
The trade journal for the journalism industry in Britain.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 weeks ago:
Unless they’re a heaving idiot looking to be arrested and sectioned under the mental health act, they swim next to a support boat, who give them directions and are in communication with other vessels. The Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 2 weeks ago:
A man was just convicted and fined for burning a Koran, under a blasphemy law by another name.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 3 weeks ago:
A reminder this government is also drawing up proposals for reintroduction of blasphemy laws. They know where they can shove their crucifix.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 3 weeks ago:
Their calculation was American kids are too dumb to know what a philosopher is, but they can strip an AR-15 blindfold.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 3 weeks ago:
In the American version of the books, they changed kids hexing each other in the corridors for shooting each other, to make it more believable.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes the distributor markets a season under a different title.
- Comment on YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change 3 weeks ago:
You know they won’t take that into account.
- Comment on So, Linus Torvalds is a jerk 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and so is Gates. Jobs too. Linus didn’t use it to milk his users though.
- Comment on Hong Kong democracy campaigner accuses police in the UK of asking her to ‘self-censor’ 3 weeks ago:
Appeasing tankies is such a winning strategy.
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 3 weeks ago:
YSK that like all demographics, grandmas occupy a range of intelligence options.
- Comment on Government response to the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition 3 weeks ago:
The Science and Technology Secretary was more concise on X today:
“If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.”
- Comment on I just send this message to a Financial Times journalist 3 weeks ago:
36 currently, including Ireland, Canada, India, Australia, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, Israel, Italy, Denmark and Japan.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 4 weeks ago:
America has had a concentration camp since 2001
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 4 weeks ago:
The database is for official use only. There is a disclosure scheme where a member of the public can ask the police whether a specific person (who is in unsupervised contact with children) is a registered sex offender or poses other threat to a child.
There do seem to be crowdsourced vigilante databases culled from media reports, which is probably a very bad idea.
- Comment on Secret Report Reveals British Army’s Culture of Harassment and Hostility Towards Women 4 weeks ago:
Just wait to hear how hostile they are to people who live on oilfields.