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- Comment on How long will it be before everyday AI like chatgpt can easily do videocalls? 1 week ago:
*wheyst
- Comment on US threatens Britain over Falklands 1 week ago:
Cool. The UK military needs massive investment in the green transition to ensure its energy supply in a time of war. The UK military also needs a better water supply, so funding should be increased so that water can be renationalised, more reservoirs can be built and leaks fixed. It also needs better public healthcare so everyone can be fighting fit and get patched up when Russians come for us. And while I’m at it, the UK military needs extra investment in public transport so that more productive output can be redirected to any future war effort.
I reckon that covers your 5% of GDP, Mr President.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I find this really therapeutic for some reason.
- Comment on "You're from where?" 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Power to the people ✊
- Comment on Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing? 2 weeks ago:
🤗
- Comment on Pie in the face. 2 weeks ago:
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?
- Comment on Pie in the face. 2 weeks ago:
Glorious 🤌
- Comment on Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, I liked it the old way!
- Comment on Zarah Sulatana pulls out the jpeg 2 weeks ago:
I dont understand this.
- Comment on Burnham to give councils more powers to block vape and betting shops 2 weeks ago:
This is increasingly feeling like a failing business where the new manager’s strategy is to just tidy up and look busy.
- Comment on If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn? 2 weeks ago:
Even if you are a millionaire. If you had a million invested in a simple index fund you would have got paid about 130k last year for doing absolutely nothing - just for holding wealth.
If you’re working, it is people with investments like that who are literally depriving you of either higher wages or better state provision of stuff you need.
- Comment on What would happen if I was elected President, and took all the tariff bullshit off of these countries? Balanced the budget, opened up the Reagan Reserves? 2 weeks ago:
Respect
- Comment on Ofcom investigating Sky News over Farage harassment claims 2 weeks ago:
Don’t remember Ofcom getting involved when Jeremy Corbyn was getting doorstepped non-stop.
Are they afraid they’ll cut if Farage becomes PM?
- Comment on Junk food suppliers have “shocking” major presence at UK’s biggest school food event 2 weeks ago:
One could say that the junk food suppliers are on the gravy train.
- Comment on Is people's attention on their surroundings terrible today? 2 weeks ago:
The other day I was driving down a single-lane road and there was a guy literally standing motionless in the middle of the road looking at his phone.
I got right up behind him without him noticing (earphones in) and then blasted the horn.
I think it made quite an impression on him.
- Comment on British Jews 3 weeks ago:
I think I’m joining the ranks of people who have become radicalised against the mainstream media.
What’s done it for me has been the reporting on the climate breakdown this summer. Most of the main ‘respectable’ news outlets have acknowledged the role of climate change but I haven’t seen any of them talking about the reality of addressing it and what that means for class structure and the wholesale redirection of productive output. The people who own, run and staff these outlets are the ones who will have their private consumption reduced if Zack Polanski’s policy platform of action on climate change and inequality is implemented, and he is therefore the enemy of them and their class. Because what he stands for also represents the interests of normal people like us, that means we are also their enemy.
When you understand what is at stake with the climate it’s impossible not to see this class war as literally a fight for survival.
- Comment on BBC Failing to Inform Viewers About Climate Emergency, Says Polanski 3 weeks ago:
Definitely vote green 👍
However, I suspect that while the media will cover climate issues for clicks (which they have to do to survive), they’ll ultimately continue furthering their own interests as a class by publishing content that delays action.
Most media is owned and staffed by people who will have to give things up if we’re actually going to tackle climate change.
So fuck 'em, unfortunately. Like this summer shows; we don’t have time to wait for them to get on board, and we can’t count on them to help.
- Comment on BBC Failing to Inform Viewers About Climate Emergency, Says Polanski 3 weeks ago:
This is why it’s so important for all of us to be having conversations about climate change. We don’t have to leave it to the media to set the agenda.
- Comment on On fire 3 weeks ago:
Enticing harassment sounds kinky. Good rule imo.
- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 3 weeks ago:
“Might look at introducing a disposable barbecue ban” - what planet are these people on? Seriously.
We’re at 2.4C of heating and have a water crisis, an energy crisis, a farming crisis, 3000 excess deaths and counting, and schools and workplaces shutting down.
Even conservatives and ‘climate sceptics’ are now seeing the writing on the wall, finally.
I’m lost for words tbh.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I thought Burnham was the bus guy?
Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2027 and leverage any shortage of EV supply and charging points to kickstart the public transport revolution. Just an idea.
The climate breakdown has landed on the UK’s doorstep at the same time as an oil shock and a cost of living crisis, and the best we can do is fiddle with EV targets and ban disposable barbecues?
I don’t want another petrol or diesel car. But to be honest I don’t even really want to buy an electric car - I just want to have a regular bus service nearby.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps even more relevant is that when when people are desperate/afraid/confused they look to strength and power to solve their problems. I can’t remember the name of it but it’s a documented psychosocial phenomenon. It is essentially being a sycophant or bootlicker but the academics have a more neutral term for it.
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 4 weeks ago:
Second most annoying man in the UK after Piers Morgan.
- Comment on Large scale terror thwarted 5 weeks ago:
Politicians should sort this out. Apart from anything else it’s making the police look really stupid.
- Comment on Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollution 1 month ago:
Man, water companies are asking for it.
They are politically an absolute open goal for any sitting g government to nationalise, and probably quite a good litmus test for how neoliberal they are.
- Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope? 1 month ago:
- Comment on School pupils to be taught strangling during sex is illegal in new lessons 1 month ago:
I agree. And I think people will be less likely to do it non-consensually if they they know that the other person knows it’s illegal.
- Comment on School pupils to be taught strangling during sex is illegal in new lessons 1 month ago:
Unsleepen.
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 1 month ago:
Copybewritten.
