Womble
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- Comment on Sadiq Khan fined over untaxed car falsely registered in his name 6 days ago:
Do you really think that a jury should be convened for the matter of a £220 fine?
- Comment on US threatens Britain over Falklands 1 week ago:
You joke, but that is actually a part of it. Spending on resistant infrastructure and re-industrialization of critical industries is 1.5% of the 5% target https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/defence-expenditures-and-natos-5-commitment
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Exactly. Its been one of the most depressing things of the past year or so to see some very specific legal guidance (essentially that it is allowable to have strict single sex spaces excluding trans people if it is essential to achieve certain aims (like women’s refuges)) being used to enact sweeping bans by governments and companies out of reflexive ass covering.
- Comment on Blood Moon partial lunar eclipse: How and when to see it in UK skies 2 weeks ago:
A lunar eclipse ("Blood moon") is the one that is actually a noticeable thing. The moon falls into the earth’s shadow and so is only lit up by the light that passes through earth’s atmosphere. This means it takes on the colour of the sun at sunset rather than the sun at midday.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
As well as this being stupid for the reasons given, its also just flat out wrong. There is no reason why you couldn’t have additional healthcare insurance to act as a top-up/faster non-essential care/nicer facilities when you are in hospital. That’s how it works in the UK, even with completely nationalized, free at the point of use healthcare there is still room for private insurance, it just has to earn its place rather than being a complete leach.
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- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
If you are interested in seeing how a clicker game can drive a story I’d recommend taking a look at https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html only takes an hour or so to play to completion iirc but its pretty interesting.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 4 months ago:
Most of those conversations seem to be steam asking the vendor to allow them to lower the price it’s being offered on steam to match the lower price it’s being offered elsewhere (or remove the sale from steam). I dont see any threats to kick games off steam (though that could be implied) or demands to remove lower priced sales from elsewhere.
It doesnt look particularly abusive to my eye at least.
- Comment on US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC 5 months ago:
Notice how those are on the ground, at a known location (an airbase), so a photo can be planned for in advance.
They are decidedly not fast jets travelling on an attack mission at close to the speed of sound.
- Comment on US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC 5 months ago:
Good look snapping a picture of a ~20m jet travelling almost at mach1 from at least 500km away with a camera that is on a fixed orbit so you dont control where it is at a particular time. (and even if you did unless you took a picture of it during take off, that also wouldnt tell you where it was flying from.)
- Comment on US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC 5 months ago:
You cant track a plane from 3600km away with a radar (how far the UK is from Iran), if for no other reason than the curve of the earth puts hundreds of kilometers of rock between them. And wreckage is pretty easy to identify for experts, you can find fairly small pieces that could only be from one aircraft type.
- Comment on US fighter jet shot down by Iran came from British base in Suffolk, says IRGC 5 months ago:
So they couldnt get the type of plane correct, but we’re to assume that they could tell where it flew from? Seems legit.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 5 months ago:
As per the article you linked, Iran had prior to that fired at Cyprus, but not hit anything, but looks like you’re right that none of the missiles/drones actually made it to land until after the position changed, fair enough.
But prior to that Iran had already hit: * Saudi (28th of Feb) * UAE (1st march, so same day as the position changed but it says its early in the morning so I assume before) * Bahrain (multiple attacks starting 28th feb) * Qatar (starting 28th of feb)
and others.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 5 months ago:
Ok bud, you definitely sound like a sane person worth discussing with.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 5 months ago:
The UK’s military base on Cypress was attacked in the opening weekend of the war. At the time the UK was not allowing the US to use any of its bases. Once that (and attacks on the gulf states who also werent participating in the war) happened the UK shifted to allowing the US to use its bases for “defensive” strikes.
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 5 months ago:
The wisdom of crowds is a real thing, but, it only applies when people are making decisions independently of each other. That is decidedly not the case when we are talking about an social media pile on about something.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 5 months ago:
Yes, to vote in the most progressive government the country has ever had, but then voted Churchill back in about 7 years later.
- Comment on [Video] The Rational National | UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad 7 months ago:
Just on a technical level that is an amazing ad compared to the usual political soundbites in front of a few images.
- Comment on America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster 7 months ago:
The thinking isnt that that you putting money on a horse to win increases it’s odds of winning, its that by signalling your belief that you think it will happen by a costly signal (you lose the money if you are wrong) you are updating the overall odds to be closer to the true probability by the power of crowds. if 200 people are betting something will happen and only 10 are betting it wont then that is evidences that the thing is more likely than not to happen.
There are flaws in this thinking, it doesnt take into account manipulation of events to win bets is a particularly big one, and it also gets worse the more removed the thing being bet on is from everyday life as people make less informed choices.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 8 months ago:
It should be pointed out that NHS England is a management layer and is in the process of being dismantled so that NHS services in England are managed directly by the NHS and not a third layer between hospitals/doctors and the Department of health.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists 8 months ago:
Outsourcing your critical thinking to someone maintaining a list of personae non grata sounds like a terrible idea.
- Comment on Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems 9 months ago:
The wealth of the USA compared to other devoloped countries has shot away over the past 10-15 years, it's not entirely clear why.
- Comment on Channel Tunnel says UK investment 'non-viable' as it halts projects 9 months ago:
No they're more like business property taxes, they're complicated but usually defined as a fraction of what the market rate rent would be on the property the business is using.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 9 months ago:
Users of consumer Windows are not Microsoft's customers in any real sense. Microsoft's customers are huge enterprises who want this stuff and smaller companies who are trapped into using the MS ecosystem by needing to have interoperability with other people/businesses who use MS products.
- Comment on 'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed' 9 months ago:
Its eco-friendly because the waste heat is being used to heat the home methane isnt being burnt to provide that heat. Data centres are needed unless you want to scrap the internet entirely.
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 10 months ago:
Alternatively, shutting down the entire internet (which is what removing datacentres is) for the sake of growing 0.1% more almonds in California is not a good trade off IMO.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 10 months ago:
Breath of the wild.
Complete disapointment as a Zelda game, it felt just like generic ubi-slop with a coat of nintendo paint, complete with a pointless crafting system and the ridiculous "swords can ony hit a dozen times before breaking".
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 10 months ago:
You're missing the key word there which is "overnight". Sudden dramatic changes rarely work out well for anyone other than people speculating (or having inside knowledge) on where the cards will fall.
Phasing out landlords over, say, 3 years would be a great idea, banning them tomorrow would not be.
- Comment on The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of 10 months ago:
I think the point there is that the government of the day cant just overrule him by saying so. If it comes down to it, in an supply emergency his word goes until the government either change the law or get one of these "Order in Council" directives signed off by the king.
It doesnt mean that much as it seems very unlikely that the monarch would refuse the PM something like that, but crises are where the unthinkable happens.
- Comment on Michelle Mone demands Keir Starmer ends 'vendetta' against her in letter to PM 11 months ago:
Look she's been made a peer of the realm, it is unacceptable to attempt to punish her for committing crimes. What's more its discriminatory as the state would never try to prosecute old money peers!