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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bombshells from the undercover sting operation which plunged Reform into crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All it tells me is that I should be a shoe-in as a Councillor for Bromley if I just turn up with a ‘I’m certainly not him’ emblazoned on it with a picture of Dean.

  These people are just dumb psycho’s - I just can’t fathom how people really don’t think through the consequences.

  Honestly, I think anarchy would be better than having these people responsible for us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t even bother with the hard delete. It seems to do a damn fine job of wiping everything without needing to tell it, by all accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masts removed from bomb-laden WWII ship in Thames in bid to avoid explosion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this.

  Cant’ touch it for fear of exposing white phosphorous to water and causing an explosion.

  There was a plan to put a concrete bund over it but that’s been kicked down the road for what now, at least 40 years and they probably don’t want to do that for fear of giving first time buyers hope that they’ve started building projects. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water hosepipe ban to continue through autumn amid drought⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs to if we’re going to have water. Unless we have a month of torrential downpours where some other villages in the Devon wash away, we’re going to be so low on water.

  The summer was absolutely brutal, but what I don’t get is why they didn’t sound the alarm loudly at the start of the summer?

  I didn’t hear anything about water shortages until about mid August and I swear that we’ve have less hot summers where we’ve had warning far in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution to problems with the internet is not a fucking surveillance state.

  That ship, has sailed.

  Set aside the complete obliteration of any online privacy, and the fact that these bans are completely ineffective (piracy streaming websites are already illegal in basically every western country. Still watched a movie on one yesterday), the internet is also a valuable and important resource for many things, including studying and finding support encouragement, nformation and safe spaces on issues particularly for children and teens growing up queer.

  Nothing I disagree with there but I never said it would take it away from children. I suggest it would ringfence to acceptable sites so children can now find out about Homosexuality and Gender fluidity without being linked to a video on how to shoot up fentanyl with a knitting needle and a Maccie D’s straw (other straws are available and other restaurants).

  You’re throwing out the baby entire god damn family with the bathwater.

  I feel that ship has sailed. The government hasn’t listened yet, only to extremely old and sanctimonious other politicians.

  All these bans do is push teens and children into LESS safe spaces on the deep web that don’t care about enforcing UK regulations, and banning those sites is literally just playing an infinite game of whack a mole.

  That’s why it would be ringfenced.

  Banning children and teens from everyday life activities has never worked and never been a solution, just how “abstinence only” doesn’t work to prevent teen pregnancy. The solution is to teach children early and comprehensively how to engage with these systems safely and responsibly, how to recognise warning signs of unsafe situations or fake information, and how to react appropriately to those.

  100% completely agree with not banning teens and working with them, but the Internet is an actively and pervasively hostile place towards children. They are being groomed (not always sexuality), and most social media is just predatory grooming. If they’re not being told what to think, they’re being told what to buy. It’s pretty disgusting.

  Parents have their place in all of this too. Perhaps if more of them actually engaged with their children we wouldn’t be in this sorry state of affairs, but then the way things are now, Parents don’t even have the time because they’re working just to pay bills.

  The big Kaiju of the internet likes it this way (FAANG), they have the control. How do you stop that? It doesn’t seem legislation against them is working.

  We are currently now at the state where ID is required for certain access. It’s absolutely shitty, it’s terrible and shameful, but it seems the government and the zealots have built a brick wall around this issue about as much as talking honestly about the Israel / Palestine situation. They have shut down almost all dialogue with ordinary citizens - most likely because it serves more of a purpose of shutting out foreign actors and helps to combat terrorism.

  It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is…and it’s all one big mess where you’re damned no matter what you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot disagree with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen Sister/Brother

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said on both comments.

  I think there’s far too many religious zealots within government and too many religious groups advocating for such things to be banned.

  I feel that we’re not far from banning homosexuality by proxy - as some people might find their acts offensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This one of the the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard.

  Whilst your opinion is subjectively valid, following it up with such extreme’s doesn’t help make the case.

  Very few books have been banned out of existence, for starters and secondly, aren’t under 18’s typically ID’d if they pick up an adult magazine, or even a packet of ciggies. Even in a pub now they have that ‘Challenge 25’ - which is ridiculously outlandish. This wouldn’t be much different.

  I do believe the damage that social media and algorithms have done to society is astounding. I would effectively call what they do, including advertising, ‘Grooming’.

  Read Th4tGuyII’s comment - that would be the most sensible solution for everyone involved but noone wishes to take accountability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a conservative community and only got a broader world view from monitored internet access. I probably would have been more suicidal without it.

  And I don’t think that would change if a system was implemented. That’s not to say the future and future governments might change things for the worst.

  Major child traffickers are adults AND the elites who were doing before the internet. Porn will always exist and pubescent kids will always seek it out. Annorexia is more the direct result of Hollywood beauty standards and predatory marketers targeting insecure girls, also existed before the internet.

  While all true, the Internet as it stands puts this directly and en masse into childrens hands without a fuss and worse, grooms children via algorithms down dark paths.

  I think Th4tGuyII’s comment in here is the most pragmatic response and something the government should have started out doing.

  If there weren’t so many puritanical zealouts out there, especially in positions of power, I think we’d probably be in a better position now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly the right answer.

  Some parents can’t and won’t be arsed to take any responsibility for their kids at all, whether that’s parenting or teaching - it’s always the fault of the state. When the state acts, it’s an attack on the freedom of speech. It’s a hell of a situation and I don’t envy the governments choices in this matter.

  Parental controls as standard on, on a router would absolutely be the easiest, cheapest and most effective way but puritans somehow managed to keep this alive.

  Unfortunately, here is where we are and I wish that there was something we could do about it. Every single solution can and will be circumvented so it all seems like a colossal waste of money at this point.

  At least if they implemented a child filter, I would hope they ban ads on a large scale and put social media behind the wall completely. It would do the world a massive favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Labour party demands everyone to testify Zionism is not racism, or they will refuse to work with them Sky News Panel finds it funny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘where they are in collaboration with the Green party’.

  Nothing about ALL their members.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taxi driver given fake cash drove customer to police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the comments here its blatantly obvious that the police were clutching at straws here.

  There’s absolutely no reason to bring up the knife at all. It’s such a moot point to make. In this age where police don’t even show up if you call them, you’re making a point about a knife being under the bed?

  Cannabis cultivation kit? …seriously. Not even Cannabis plants…a kit.

  BBC should have just left the story as being about the fake notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ban under 18s from using the Internet, only allow portalling through a Government filter.

  If you wish access to the full internet, you get a government passcode when you turn 18 which can be used to allow you to leave the Government filter and back to normal internets. All of this is controlled by the Government, no 3rd party companies allowed access to your data.

  Boom! Internets now back to normal. It solves your problem of Paedo’s, kids looking at porn, suicide, annorexia etc etc…

  Just watch as Google, Facebook, X all would be absolutely up in arms claiming it’s banning ‘free speech’ when in fact they’re just watching their ad revenue tank thanks to nearly all of it being about suckering in children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No Palantir’ motion passes as Lambeth joins growing revolt against NHS data deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the news, it’ll be 4 eyes soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fork found in kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  'Our undercover reporter has spent months in Reforms operations to discover if there was any source of Racism within the party.

  “It was difficult but all the time I spent with the party, not once did I see a whiff of Racism, just jovial comradery and a sense of the British Spirit”, said undercover report, Mr N.Rafage.'

  • Geebeebies News.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No Palantir’ motion passes as Lambeth joins growing revolt against NHS data deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The NHS needs a uniform system tonfunction smoothly and effectively.

  Whilst I agree that Palantir is definitely 100% not the answer, we need to come up with an effective UK or EU (GDPR compliant) alternative that isn’t going to rob and export out data to US health firms.

  If we were processing, we could he doing the reaearch and the UK government taking a cut of cures and treatments discovered - thus keeping it cheap for the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail on ‘brink of collapse’ as 400 staff quitting each week, union warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hit the nail on the head!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family pays tribute to 'warm and engaging' man killed in tiger attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If he was an influencer doing this for karma, I would probably agree, but apparently this man had a mental illness, or some sort of breakdown - I’m not sure which.

  Out of all things he could have done while having mental problems, this probably wouldn’t even be in the top #100 of serious answers so this isn’t something that anyone really could have planned for.

  I think the family are currently suffering enough to be dealing with attributed blame currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a start, the church could sell off some the many many many plots of land they lay claim to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investigation into use of ChatGPT in asylum decisions highlights errors, inaccuracies and Home Office incompetence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is wholly inaccurate and should never be trusted.

  That being said, our whole country is based on copy and paste. Most companies expect cookie cutter people to fill openings left by other cookie cut people so why should I expect anything less from the home office using ChatGPT to the Companies helping make Asylum claims.

  Individuality is being digitally ingested and mass produced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK van drivers face extra £2.5bn in diesel costs this year, figures show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I was gonna go with Donnie Tango but decided to stick to more used phrases so everyone is on the same page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK van drivers face extra £2.5bn in diesel costs this year, figures show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Noble peace prize will go to the person who feeds him his last Saturated fat meal and rids us of this indelible stain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police Spent £320k on Face ID Tech That Achieved Nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite this failure, Transport for London (TfL) has given permission for the technology to be expanded across London Underground stations too.

  That’s the bit that gets me.

  It failed miserably and yet they still think doubling down will make it successful. Stop believing the hype!!

  Cut your losses on the 320K, consider it an unsuccessful trial and move on.

  Also, 100 hours is like 2 offices working for a week, so it really isn’t terrible in terms of man hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zia Yusuf Says Reform Would Tell Military To Use 'Lethal Force' On Small Boats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God they really are the worst.

  Even when scrambling to remain relevant, their riposte is ‘the man in the pub at the end of the night’ argument.

  Go home Zia, you’re drunk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please stop.

  You say her name 3 times and she appears like she’s relevant again to spout some other nonsensical shit.

  Could we just get Michael Boublé out of his cave early? I’d much prefer him over this Alf Garnett type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action arrests make up 94% of all UK terrorism arrests, Home Office data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, so are these people actually being arrested under Terrorism laws or is that News source just being inflammatory?

  I would guess the latter.

  If they were arresting so many people under the prevention of terrorism, we’d be under Martial Law right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir lobbyist Lord Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is ‘Mob Rule’ why we have a Labour government and Democracy, Tom?

  C’mon Tom…show us on the doll where the Republican party touched you.

  If it’s the Republican party it’s only one of two places, one of them is the wallet and the other gets you a Presidential nomination in the US or a prison sentence and your name on the sex offenders register in most other intelligent countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zia Yusuf Says Reform Would Tell Military To Use 'Lethal Force' On Small Boats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d probably televise it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scotland’s Data Centre Boom Is Selling Out Workers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope Scotland sorts this out properly. If it’s not UK / Scottish owned, it needs to be flattened because it’s all your data going out of the UK.

  Also, this will be a precursor to a few Billionaires buying up land and building massive bunkers to protect their wealth from the Climate Crisis.