Gentryfried
@Gentryfried@feddit.uk
My main account is FinjaminPoach, on lemmyworld instance.
- Comment on Company fined £2m after labourer crushed on site 1 day ago:
Ouch
- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 1 day ago:
Lmao, yeah the Ideologies at play here are 1. Believing in equal access to healthcare, which a genocidal AI company like Palantir will NEVER BE ABLE TO FULFILL properly, and 2. An opposition to AI because we believe in not letting robots steal human jobs
- Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 1 day ago:
I don’t use an adblocker on this device and the article was full of AI-gen adverts of old people exposing themselves to me :(
- Comment on US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches 1 week ago:
The British government in the year 3000 when a clerical error at 4Chan HQ leads to them panicking and actually paying this fine
- Comment on World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public 1 week ago:
Are we serious, dude? Why are they suggesting i do it in this order?
“Start in northumbria, go all the way to bristpl and then teleport to the other side of wales”
- Comment on ‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security 2 weeks ago:
Scary supervillain name = “i want it I want it I want it”
- Comment on Planters demoralised as council mows down 30k bulbs 2 weeks ago:
I would be on suicide watch if I had done all that hard work only for the council to completely undo it.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of NHS staff in England attacked and harassed, survey shows 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck do we fix this country
- Comment on UK Police demand mandatory parts pairing to cover up their own incompetence 2 weeks ago:
Incompetence or complicitness
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 2 weeks ago:
That’s insane. How long has this been a thing??
- Comment on 'I was punched in the face for driving at 20mph' 3 weeks ago:
They hand out free packets of the stuff when you buy the ladders - people might go into those trades clean but they all come out cokeheads
- Comment on 'I was punched in the face for driving at 20mph' 3 weeks ago:
Huh??
- Comment on Revealed: Shop where Glasgow fire started had not registered to sell vapes or paid business taxes 3 weeks ago:
How do such ahady businesses get such prime real estate? Right next to the central station IIRC
- Comment on Boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at Irish employee 3 weeks ago:
All doctors I’ve met are nice, tbh. Maybe not the case for med students but I don’t interact with them much
- Comment on Boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at Irish employee 3 weeks ago:
I guess so. Thought generally all the ones i meet who aren’t civils are… well, more civil xD
Source: i study civil eng myself
As a kid and teenager all the people who said they wanted to be engineers were also patently aggressive priviliged snobs. PAPS.
- Comment on Birmingham Crowned The Least Walkable City In The UK 3 weeks ago:
I think this is completely true.
- Comment on Boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at Irish employee 3 weeks ago:
I’ve met so many civil engineers who are hateful little tossers, there might (might) be something wrong with the industry in that regard. Or maybe it just attracts macho dudes.
- Comment on Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty 3 weeks ago:
This kind of moral judgement type of advice really doesn’t help.
Sorry if that was triggering, I’m not actually that kind of super critical person. I just thought it would be an appropriate time to slip in a joke-y phrase and I guess it didn’t come across as lighthearted. I myself am very sedentary, so I don’t actually hold contempt towards people for it.
That being said, the reason I threw that phrase in was because i feel the NHS (or at least, Wes Streeting) is making precisely these kinds of moral judgements when doing these decisions. And that the government is shying away from holistic improvement of our society.
On top of that, dieting triggers a hormonal process that seeks calorific foods and holds on to more of those calories. This has evolved to help us survive food shortages, but is backfiring on a population wide level now that food is no longer scarce. If dieting were the answer then Weight Watchers and Slimming World would have solved this problem decades ago. Instead they encouraged people to fall into the yo-yo diet trap that leads to ever more weight going on each time the cycle completes.
What GLP-1 inhibitors do is to shut down or quieten this hormonal response. This means that people can then do the obvious bit of eating less and moving more without their own bodies sabotaging them.
Very enlightening. This is pretty much what I wanted to know - if it’s actually regarded safe and useful - because when ozempic was rolled out in the USA there was some uproar about it and I personally don’t trust Trump’s regime with healthcare, so seeing that the NHS was promoting ozempic gave me pause.
After seeing your reply and mannycalavera’s i’m more optimistic about ozempic
- Comment on Tory peer to leave Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over Covid PPE deals 3 weeks ago:
So it took like 5 years to get thst sorted out did it
- Comment on Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty 3 weeks ago:
Why does everyone suddenly seem to regard weight loss drugs as safe? Up until RFK became health chief in the USA administration, stuff like Ozempic was a joke. Now it’s actually prescribed to people other than the Kardashians
The thing is, weight loss should be about learning and easing yourself into the habits of 1. Healthy Eating 2. Adequate Exercise 3. Not sitting on your arse all day, hence I feel like giving people a hack to skip all that grind is not good - you avoid learning about how to take care of yourself in the process.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lol what the fuck
- Comment on £25 for a cookie? What the baffling luxury bakery boom tells us about Britain 3 weeks ago:
Our reporter goes on a crawl to find out if a tart can really be worth £45
Really depends which kind of “tart” we’re talking about doesn’t it
- Comment on Major airline bans ‘barebeaters’ across all 24 daily flights from UK airports 4 weeks ago:
If I speak I am in big trouble.
- Comment on Greggs vending machines are going to be launching in UK 'very shortly' 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t eaten greggs much in last 10 years and yet i can’t help but be excited by this.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 4 weeks ago:
There is no way the kids who grew up with technology in their lives from the start won’t find ways to work around it
This is why i support the age verificsrion already in place, and perhaps a social media ban for kids - if we prevent them from seeing porn in the first place then they may not seek it out at all. Kids should at least be educated on how dangerous it is before they have a chance to stumble upon it.
So yes, they can locate it via VPNs and such, but that isn’t an argument against trying to prevent them from seeing the stuff in the first place.
Even if kids were to be completely banned from the internet and it somehow magically was enforceable, they’d just end up buying physical porn.
This doesn’t really line up with the experience of me or anyone my own age. Porn is popular because it’s on the screen and super easily accessible, like literally more easily accesible than food and water, lol.
But besides: physical porn is less harmful than internet porn.
- Are we talking playboy magazines? Static images > moving videos
- Or maybe porn videos? Well assuming such sales points even exist anymore, and aren’t enforcing age rules on the products sold, I still thinm they’ll end ul with stuff less violent or psychologically dangerous than they’d be seeing on the internet
- Alao, having to buy it from the get go makes it a much easier habit to manage. Rather than an addiction.
If they actually wanted improvement, they’d fund support for parents and the educational system so kids grow up in environments that teach them good values and feel safe in.
I do not feel good about getting the government to do nanny work for parents, as it has been disastrous so far. We should aim to get parents more time with their kids - e.g via a 4day work week - and we need to emohasis the importance of actually teaching your kids stuff rather than waiting for the government to do it.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 4 weeks ago:
Governments can usually get away with whatever they wabt and the british government is the best example of this. I’d literally write a letter in and tell them they can get away with banning it all in one go if i thought they’d follow through on it.
But maybe there’s another reason they do it in little chunks; one distraction headline becomes about 14 distracrion headlines, so lavour gov is safe to have 14 seperste scandals over the course of the next year or so
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. I personally think the racial fetishes are particularly harmful to how people perceive and treat one another.
- Comment on UK launches consultation asking for views on under-16s social media ban 4 weeks ago:
Here is a link to the actual consultation if anyone wants to get there quickly.
Some really wacky ideas in there. Having completed it, it is almost like they were skewing the arguments in the “against” camp to be really really stupid sounding.
Also bungs young adults in with kids and asks you questions as if you’re a 12 year old (i did the 3rd option)
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 4 weeks ago:
Tbf i’d be riled up if i got home to find kier starmer tossing my excessive hentai collection onto the fire
- Comment on Most Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds 4 weeks ago:
Would be more in their interest to vote RestoreUK in that case
