Chariotwheel

@Chariotwheel@kbin.social

• Comment on [deleted]:

  If amything the Dutch hate water and by natural instinct try to create more land by filling it up.

• Comment on [deleted]:
  • nobody said in Europe, ever
• Comment on Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds:

  20 years ago: work hard, and get a house

  20 years from now: work hard, and maybe you get to live in a house

• Comment on Being Mean to Scabs Is Working:

  He is an angry man who knows it all and everyone else is just tok stupid to see what he sees.

• Comment on Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities":

  Great, what else then? Child labour?

• Comment on Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities":

  Gotta love how they really tried to check every argument against the engine.

  Financially, trustwise, politically. Next would be sexual harassment in the office then.

• Comment on Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities":

  Unity the Right something something

• Comment on Free streaming platform with live TV from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 launches next year:

  I mean, the thing about the fediverse is that everything is connected. That's why a lot of non-UK people frequent this part too or see it on the front page or in their subscriptions.

  You would need to Brexit from the fediverse to prevent that. Maybe send users to the Rwandan fediverse server.

• Comment on Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says:

  Papa Smurf? As in: entirely blue with a red hat?

• Comment on Watch out, this LastPass email with "Important information about your account" is a phish:

  They can do this becasue alongside

  Do people who write articles not use spell checkers?

• Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners:

  Yeah, I am not saying that they're not right to be afraid. I luckily was never robbed, but two of my co-workers were.

  The British police are in an unacceptable state.

• Comment on Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion. Comrades fear two men may have been killed not by Russians but by fellow foreign soldiers.:

  Realistically it's not just people who genuinely want to help Ukraine over there, but scum that just comes to fuck shit up and want to live their video game fantasies. No doubt there are a number of POS among the volunteers.

  I distinctly remember a situation where American volunteers executed a surrendering, unarmed Russian soldier to the horror of the European volunteers in the group and leading to the rest of the Russians stopping their surrender and going out fighting instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/10phb3z/rcombatfootage_believes_they_can_handle_the_truth/

  There is a big difference in attitude that is taught between the American and European armies.

• Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners:

  Staff couldn’t do anything.

  Neither should it. The wares are insured, there is no need for them to bring themselves in danger.

  I used to work at a fuel station and I was told to back off if something remotely dangerous was happening. The station was insured and we had cameras all over. Let them rob, then report to the police.

  Now, of course, this necessitates that the police does something, which I am aware, is a bit of a coin toss in the UK right now.

• Comment on American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak:

  And rather, few people can control a dog that powerful once it gets serious. I very much believe that these dogs are peaceful and nice most of the time. But what about the times they are not? Who can hold them back and stop them? They were bred to not stop attacking, bred for incredible strength. They are not evil, they do what they were made for, but sadly that what they were created for is incompatible with a family dog.

• Comment on American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak:

  Germany looks at patterns. Bully XL isn't even accepted as a distinct race and you don't need to ban it, it just needs to hit certain traits and it will be considered a dangerous dog breed regardless.

• Comment on American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak:

  Finally. Took them long enough.

• Comment on Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz:

  Don't shove us all under the same rug. I packed my bags, shred my old comments and posts and went into the Fediverse.

• Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs:

  Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft Lawyers united... that's an enemy you don't want to fight. Each department alone is scary enough. All three of them? Now, that's something you want to be on very solid ground for.

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• Comment on Saltdean Lido: 'Mayhem' as 150 dogs take over Brighton site - BBC News:

  Mr Chester said the dog-swimming events were fundraisers that contribute to the restoration and sustainability of the lido and subsidise swims for humans throughout the season.

  It is thought this year will generate about £60,000, and it is estimated some £250,000 has been raised since the events began in 2017.

  That's great! The dogs have fun, the humans have fun and the swimming pool gets some money.

• Comment on Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade:

  Fun facts:

  We finished paying off our World War 1 reparation debt in 2010.

  Although we're going to pay Namibia 1.1 billion, although those are explictely not reparations officially, because we also don't want to set a precedent on the matter.

  (and needless to say we're still actively paying for the Holocaust)

• Comment on Man spends 10 years persuading Newport council to let him dig through landfill site for £200m of buried bitcoins.:

  The bitcoin are noted in the blockchain belonging to X. The thing that identifies you as X is saved on the drive.

  And yes, that is a cautionary tale about making proper backups.

• Comment on BMW investment secures future of Mini factories:

  Yeah, and generally governments around the world pay a lot of subsidies to all kinda of industries. There are a lot of jobs on that, not just the factory itself, but the whole structure around it that delivers parts and services to the factory. Then you want to secure some important technologies and productions in your country.

  E.g. in Germany we are going to invest a lot in semiconductor factories. We won't see a direct return in tax from those factories for quite a while or even ever. However, securing that technology and production in the country is worth it.

• Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds:

  Yeah, I think voter ID is alright, but when you historically doesn't have it and don't really need it, it just seems to be a barrier for barrier's sake.

• Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds:

  It's kinda funny how this is the opposite problem of the usual "they all look the same!"

  I would probably unable to vote in the UK, given that I am not white and have IDs with various stages of hairlength and glasses. I look quite different in every photo.

  Btw. this doesn't seem to be much of an issue in Germany, so this looks more like growing pains with people who are not used to IDs.

• Comment on Surprise: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki has failed to retire a fourth time:

  Can't quit smoking, can't quit anime. He probably has a PC with an old game running for the past thirty years because he ain't quitting to desktop.

• Comment on Broken Britain: what went wrong?:

  Yeah, in the first place it needs to be looked at home outside influence could even do that. Because, there are systemic issues that let that happen. A democracy should have checks and balances to fighting something like that. And if it is so brittle that some Russian bribes can turn the country upside down, then you need to look at what went wrong in the democracy and how to fix that.

  If it wasn't the Russians it would be someone else. Britain needs to strengthen it's democracy and sharpen it's systems to minimize the impact of outside forces, not just blame outside forces for existing.

• Comment on Ban on walking more than six dogs to go ahead:

  Can we do something about the man dragging 25 dead beagles through a field?

• Comment on Escaped prisoner: search continues for terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife, who broke free from London prison:

  “It’s important that we remember we have some of the best military in the world here in the UK and he was a trained soldier.

  Everybody shut up, let's plug some nationalism in there.

• Comment on Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship:

  The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating senior officers at Avon and Somerset police, who knew about the undercover officer’s relationship with the woman as far back as 2013.

  They appear to have waited at least seven years before informing the woman that the person she knew as her fiance had been using a fake identity given to him for use in covert police operations.

  What the fuck.

  What was he even investigating that he stayed undercover for two decades?