Semjeza
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- Comment on Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 4 days ago:
Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.
But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 week ago:
The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.
Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.
Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.
But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 week ago:
I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget).
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 1 week ago:
I didn’t say don’t take him back to be processed.
I just don’t see the need for him to be cuffed once the police know it’s a skipping rope and he’s no threat.
As for “no big deal”, it’s also about optics and respect. A lot of law enforcement techniques are about imposing lack of personhood on someone and by limiting those impositions it shows that the individual isn’t a threat and is being treated as something other than a criminal.
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 1 week ago:
But processed with the guy in cuffs?!
This is the sort of stuff that shows our bobbies are becoming ever more like Americans’ pigs.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 1 week ago:
One could certainly make the case that the two missiles into the sea near Cyprus were unintentional misses, which shows an attempt to preemptively attack. But even that was earlier the same day it all happened,
The strikes into other Middle Eastern countries, seem, especially early on, to be primarily targeting fossil fuel facilities, US military locations, and airfields.
So, at least to me - any assistance we provide to the US is aiding their war of aggression and belligerence, which is a repetition of Iraq. The British people deserve better than to be the back up attack dog of the US bully.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 1 week ago:
“The explosions came shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer authorized the United States to conduct what Britain described as defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites from British bases on the island.”
In https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk4nq00fkbg, which was one of the top results when I searched for the event to find out more.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 weeks ago:
Would you care to elaborate?
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 weeks ago:
And which territory was that?
Was it a base being used militarily against them?