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- Comment on Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election 8 hours ago:
The worrying development is that he’s starting to pump serious money into far-right politics in Europe. Nigel Farage should not still be a thing, but he’s going to be the best-funded politician in the UK, and quite possibly Britain’s Trump once Keir Starmer’s government out-Tories the Tories in uselessness and unpopularity.
- Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines | Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s. 1 week ago:
And today we learn that RFK’s lawyer has petitioned the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval 1 week ago:
The USA’s self-sabotage is starting to make Brexit look mild.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
Let’s hope that allows many kids access to the care they need. If there’s a real concern about the safety of puberty blockers, then clinical trials are exactly what’s needed to find out. I’m not entirely convinced this is really due to medical concern though. It smells like Labour trying to out-bigot the Conservatives, just to prove they’re not lefties any more.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
I think allowing a child to make a decision that may impact them for the rest of their lives is a grey area to say the least.
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It’s not a child making the decision. It’s typically adults making the decision for the sake of the child, and based on the child’s needs.
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Deciding to go ahead with puberty is also a decision that impacts a child for the rest of their life. In cases of gender dysmorphia this can cause psychological trauma that won’t just clear up, and prolong the agony by forcing the person to live into adulthood with a body that feels deeply wrong. At this point, transitioning can be more difficult because the body may already have taken on pronounced characteristics associated with the wrong gender.
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- Comment on Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increase 2 weeks ago:
They’re not talking enough of it, just piping it into a river near you.
- Comment on Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK 3 weeks ago:
Maybe next time they’ll really stick it to the man by moving to Facebook.
- Comment on It has nothing to do with your right to work 3 weeks ago:
Next you’ll be telling me that war isn’t peace and freedom isn’t slavery.
- Comment on CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room 3 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s OK to beat kids if they’re autistic.
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- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 3 weeks ago:
Remember when Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, said that it essentially cost nothing to produce “content”? Then he tried to walk it back when people pointed out what it said about his attitude to musicians who dedicate their whole lives to making music at great cost to themselves.
This word “content” needs to die. It conflates art with crap, because execs see both in terms of dollars and are too ignorant and incurious to tell the difference.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 3 weeks ago:
Are you asking for a friend, old worm?
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Murthy 4 weeks ago:
That is true. I just like to be longwinded.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Murthy 4 weeks ago:
This is Rishi Sunak’s wife’s father.
- Comment on Playdate Season 2 drops in 2025, but firm release details, price, and games all still to be finalised 1 month ago:
$199 now. Still seems a bit overpriced.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 1 month ago:
I put a bowl out once. The first kid that came emptied the whole lot into his bag and I had nothing left. So now if they don’t knock it’s their loss and I get treats.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 1 month ago:
The temperature is also tens of thousands of degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 2000 times that on Earth. He’s doing well, considering.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 1 month ago:
Spookily accurate. I like the way he’s just chillin’ in his office clothes (and long boots?) under the crushingly intense gravity.
- Comment on Trump Says He’ll Protect Women, ‘Like It or Not,’ Evoking His History of Misogyny 1 month ago:
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 1 month ago:
If they can keep a bit of money for themselves by not doing this, they will not do this. For the people who run corporations the emphasis in “human resources” is on resources. You are to be mined for value until it is no longer profitable to do so.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 1 month ago:
Sorry, that would mean prioritizing something that doesn’t directly increase executive pay in the short term.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — peak rate equivalent to 81GB of data per hourwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zeewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
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- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 2 months ago:
Some of the dumbest and most aggressive comments I’ve seen on Lemmy came from that instance. It has a reddit-like flavour.
- AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lakewww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 2 months ago:
This article is from 2018.