Denjin
@Denjin@feddit.uk
- Comment on [Opinion] Media billionaires are getting away with murder 4 hours ago:
No, I’m suggesting that the slew of articles and stories we have coming out after the fact don’t actually hold anything or anyone to account but in fact are feeding into the very same media frenzy that started this whole tragic affair.
- Comment on [Opinion] Media billionaires are getting away with murder 15 hours ago:
And so the circus continues, now with the finger pointing and hand wringing. A never ending parade of misery and hate.
- Comment on Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper ousted 1 day ago:
Normalise not using businesses that do this. Sainsburys are off my list already.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 1 day ago:
We’ve had one of the top 10 wettest winters on record and reservoirs in my region are down to about 50%, and there’s no new reservoir construction or expansion even in the planning phase.
I don’t think it’s a huge leap to think about the possibility of reservoirs running dry if we have a couple more dry summers and follow that with even an average winter supplies could be dangerously low.
- Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals 1 day ago:
Clever people tend to be less criminally active.
So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.
I’m not even going to engage with the ridiculousness of your statement only to say that you must be a career criminal…
- Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals 1 day ago:
So with normally working laws percentage of crimes committed by foreigners should be noticeably lower.
We already have mechanisms to prevent those convicted of crimes from being allowed to remain in the country. How do you propose preventing those who might commit a crime in the future from entering the country? It’s impossible.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 1 day ago:
First linked site recommends a filter to grab hair and any solid bits of dirt or soap etc. I plan on adding an irrigation system for the future in my garden (mostly fruiting plants in the summer and brassicas over winter) that would be fed first from bath water, then water butts, then tap depending on what’s available.
Given how likely it seems that we’ll see significant shortages of water within the next few years, rainwater storage seems like a decent idea to me, £3000 for 5000 litres doesn’t make sense in pure financial terms but if it means that or not having any water at all, it seems like a pretty small price to pay.
- Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals 1 day ago:
The most recent published figures we have for foreign born UK population is from the 2011 census where it’s at 16%. Given the very high levels of immigration we’ve had over the last 15 years coupled with the historically low British born people having children in the same period, it’s certainly going to be higher than that today but without reliable figures it’s impossible to give a firm percentage.
The prison population is about 15% foreign born, which is already below the gross average of the general population, there’s also the issue that there’s a higher proportion of immigration among younger males who are disproportionate more likely to commit crimes.
The fact that the foreign born prison population is so low is actually proof of how foreign born individuals actually commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than their British born equivalents.
But don’t let a few things like that get in the way of your righteous anger though…
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 1 day ago:
Looked at a few sites talking about using bathwater on the garden and as long as you’re watering the roots and not edible leaves directly it’s perfectly fine. You also want to use the water immediately rather than storing it.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 1 day ago:
Can that safely be dumped straight onto the garden though?
As long as you’re not using antibacterial agents, bleach or things with parabens and phosphate you’ll mostly be fine.
Its pretty minor to switch to “biodegradable” soaps if you don’t use them already and then you can just dump your bathwater straight onto the garden no problem.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 1 day ago:
Anything to keep the gravy train rolling.
- Comment on Fogey-assed old dude says 1 day ago:
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Was getting nostalgic for Dubya the other day:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.
How naive we were.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 days ago:
He was a black person promoted to a position of prestige over white people, possibly motivated by an inclusion policy, it’s catnip to the gutter press and it’s a story tailor made to go viral in this day and age with the story amplified by places like twatter and farcebook.
It’s a textbook example of inherent racial bias in the system where even the slightest mistake by a person of colour, or a woman, or a disabled person is leapt upon but the countless examples of white men doing the same thing are glossed over, ignored and pass by without comment.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 days ago:
We’re actually a constitutional monarchy, so suck it Bibi.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 days ago:
Congratulations Telegraph, Daily Mail and all the right wing echo chambers, you got what you wanted.
- Comment on Climate goals 3 days ago:
You can’t sit in a Western country, farm all your industry out to India and China, then sit on your high horse saying "well, what about their emissions.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 5 days ago:
It actually takes more effort to ask a machine to do something for you than just doing most of the things you can ask them to do.
Useful for the disabled and elderly or those with other mobility issues, for everyone else they’re a waste of time that spies on you and sells your data.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 5 days ago:
Use shit product. Get shit results.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
Generative AI has incredible implications in practically every scientific and technical field. It’s just a shame the broligarchs are force feeding everyone the very worst, most wasteful, most pointless uses for the technology.
I don’t need to see an AI summary of a website on my Google results, the link is right fucking there! I won’t go to your event if you give me an AI generated flyer about it. I won’t read your email or novel if you wrote it with AI.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
You’d benefit from a local private model based solely on pictures of classic cars.
- Comment on Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? 5 days ago:
If I want to go to the pub with my partner and have one drink its nearly £16.
What used to be a weekly visit has now become monthly at the most and usually not at all any more, we simply cannot afford it.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
I would argue that Nintendo and Sega did more to assert Japanese cultural identity in the West than any anime.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
Weebs
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
Yes, I could easily say the same about all the Scandi noir shows my parents watch. The Bridge and The Killing were great but all the others only seem dark and mysterious because they’re in Denmark and speaking Danish.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
Anime is 95% shit and is only popular because it’s from Japan.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 days ago:
Capitalism, within a strong regulatory framework, a strong government that provides for the poorest and protects the weakest is a perfectly valid system and was how the liberal democracies of the 20th century were able to have such an explosion of quality of life for their citizens and innovation.
It’s only when the balance of power shifts away from states and towards corporations do we see the corrosive effects of unfettered greed on society as a whole. Was capitalist democracy perfect in the 1920s-1980s? No. Did its benefits outweigh its harms for the ordinary person? Most definitely.
Its also a testament to the broad success of capitalism that we’re all able to tap into our screens and have this very conversation now.
- Comment on cool cool cool 4 months ago:
When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in fear and agony like his passengers.
- Comment on The Real Ned Flanders 4 months ago:
No
- Comment on The Real Ned Flanders 4 months ago:
