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- Comment on Pluto TV Relaunching Pop-Up Category Of 7 Star Trek Channels, Including All The Movies 7 hours ago:
I guess this is only in some areas because there’s no Star Trek content on Pluto TV here at all now. Discovery premiered some seasons there in the UK because Paramount+ hadn’t launched yet.
- Comment on Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist 8 hours ago:
Londonormalisation?
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 1 day ago:
The BBC buys a lot of American shot too, funded by our so- called licence fee, which is in reality a TV tax. We get little choice in it and that is a problem with the BBC.
- Comment on Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards 5 days ago:
Yes, why isn’t West Norfolk Council enforcing this like on other landlords ?
- Comment on Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards 5 days ago:
It’s more complicated than that, as the private and feudal estates are profitable, but they’d probably just replace any reduced profits with taxes , so basically yes in practice.
- Comment on Wetherspoon bans filming on Meta glasses inside pubs 1 week ago:
Yeah, they’re not gonna enforce it. It’s just a marketing announcement to let Mr Brexit Pubs deny all responsibility when one of their patrons uses pervert glasses to perv. “Well, we told pervert glasses wearers not to perve, so it’s not our fault”.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
“We have not been charged with, nor convicted of, any terrorism offence,” said Malik. “At no point during our trial did the prosecution seek to pursue anything to do with terrorism, and the jury were kept completely in the dark and were not told that if convicted, we could be sentenced as terrorists.”
It seems like this an add- on too.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
In fac, the judges might be true, but believe they have no alternative to following corrupt rules set by politicians.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
Different government, possibly different rules for prosecutors, or maybe even laws?
- Comment on Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests 3 weeks ago:
I wonder which government’s Home Office did this: Sunak or Starmer? Both big AI fans, it seemed.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
Barclays is bad at negotiating with repairers, or is taking a cut.
- Comment on Can darknet fill in for NHS? 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Have you tried the other legal routes first, such as getting a second opinion, asking for a referral to specialist care for the back, hip or the pain, switching doctors if you don’t get on with your current ones, and/or seeking a private consultation with any likely-looking workplace, trade union or commercial doctor near you? Going private wouldn’t be cheap, but might be cheaper than getting caught with controlled meds in some sort of sting.
The NHS is a wonderful thing, but sometimes people don’t seem to realise that the GP you are currently registered with is not the only option. They go ask the GP, get turned away, then just take matters into their own hands.
- Comment on Thames Water announces hosepipe ban 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of the case that they don’t have many ways to restrict use and this is one of the few that they do, PM it gets used.
But I agree that the private owners of water supply companies don’t seem to have spent enough on maintenance or supply storage.
- Comment on Hundreds left unpaid after festival firm goes bust 5 weeks ago:
AT least that one seems to have sorted out refunds now:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/26280959.fans-refunded-heritagelive-festival-sandringham/?ref=rss
- Comment on Hundreds left unpaid after festival firm goes bust 5 weeks ago:
And this is different to the problems with GCE Live (aka Heritage Live):
- Comment on MPs call for ban on fast food outlets opening near schools to tackle obesity 5 weeks ago:
Walk? They’ll drive if old enough or get lifts if not. MPs have totally failed to make most schools safe for walking and cycling, plus “parental choice” leads to people sending their children to non-local schools and then pleading they have to drive to drop kids off before work. Maybe they should fix that too?
- Comment on "It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure 5 weeks ago:
Not a waste of time. They got your nose. And data.
- Comment on Road closed to cars for six years will be reopened 5 weeks ago:
So RUK & Labour combine to champion motoring and harm walking & cycling. Evil, eh?
- Comment on 'Millionaires tell me every day that they want a wealth tax' 5 weeks ago:
Nah, they leave the lobbying to their employees or front organisations.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not that recent, but yes. Early reports suggested an unregistered vape shop caught fire in Glasgow. The fires in that city are thought to be symptoms of various ttings, summarised in Why do Glasgow’s historic buildings keep catching fire? - BBC News
Edinburgh has some similar features, but maybe it just got unlucky with this fire. We’ll see.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 1 month ago:
What do you feel is “a decent minority” that could prevent it? I think I’d say that Farage’s recent poll numbers are easily sufficient, but if his latest alleged corruption is found to be real and it halves them, then I’d say that wasn’t enough to prevent class consciousness.
In other words: I really disagree with your generalisation being permanent. Things change in politics and sometimes it’s even for the better.
- Comment on Virgin Media fined after hanging up on customers trying to cancel contracts 1 month ago:
Understood. Filed under “insufficient deterrents”.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 1 month ago:
Right or wrong, it’s bizarre to make an overgeneralised statement accusing others of bigotry.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Reform UK Ltd MPs are already trotting that line out in morning TV interviews.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Nothing is guaranteed in UK politics. Imagine if he loses to the Count!
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
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- Comment on UK abuse scandal ‘ignored because victims were working-class boys from north’, minister says 1 month ago:
Not more likely ignored because many abuse victims are still ignored?
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 1 month ago:
Well the streets are pretty safe!
The “how did they steal it” is probably by copying someone they saw. There’s enough hire bikes being ridden around with the locks clicking away or alarms beeping after being forced that it’s probably not much of a secret any more.
- Comment on Tony Blair think tank warns Burnham’s tax plans send ‘wrong signal’ 1 month ago:
“undermine investment”? Undermine investment in so-called advice from former Prime Minsters, perhaps? I understand rich people have invested a lot in that.
