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- Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationswww.channel4.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 2 weeks ago:
The phrasing of this headline is a bit infuriating. Work has never been a free choice for me, and it’s less so now than ever before. I’m old and I can’t ever afford to retire, but no one wants a new employee my age. So if I lose this job I am afraid I’ll become homeless. I’m healthy and smart and capable and better at my work than I’ve ever been, but experience isn’t valued and youth is. So maybe soon I’ll be one of the people they count as “choosing” not to work but to beg on the street.
- Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds | Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully runningwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations 2 weeks ago:
I’ll raise my glass of delicious, cool Coca Cola to that!
- Comment on BBC puts up their favorite 3 weeks ago:
You’re still too kind to them. Even if they did this they’d be giving equal attention to different parties and apply critical thinking equally to them. In reality studies have shown they spend disproportionate time on Reform at the expense of the Lib Dems and Greens, and tend to be less critical towards Reform’s messaging than other parties, often simply reading out Reform’s statements while being critical of the other parties.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
Yes, stopping gun crime is how they sell it; protecting corporate profits by forbidding home-made repairs is how they will use it.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
It won’t just affect Californians. Printer manufacturers will make one model for everyone, and it will comply with this law.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 4 weeks ago:
Is it even a rally when there are only 15 of you? More of a get-together.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 4 weeks ago:
You’re being very generous with that last word.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 4 weeks ago:
Bolsonaro pushups.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
Where I am in Canada we do have problems with wait times, and many people can’t find a family doctor. But it wasn’t always like this. Successive Conservative provincial governments have cut healthcare funding again and again, trying to force people into private for-profit healthcare. It’s the same story in the UK: public healthcare has been undermined by every government since Thatcher’s in the 1980s, and the NHS is not what it was.
Both are still better than the US system though, even after all the cuts. I have to wait about 2 weeks to see my doctor unless it’s an emergency. Emergencies can mean an hours-long wait at the hospital. I was recently admitted after an emergency and needed surgery and follow-up examinations. I’ve had an MRI, EKG, ECG, and a whole bunch of other tests with specialists, and more surgery. The care has been very thorough and the doctors excellent, and I have not had to worry once about costs.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
Many are convinced you can’t have freedom and an affordable doctor at the same time.
- Comment on All part of their scam plan 4 weeks ago:
Companies always day they are forced to pass their increased costs on to consumers. Oddly, they don’t feel any such obligation when it comes to their reduced costs.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Doesn't add up 5 weeks ago:
Chatbots speak in coherent sentences and don’t mess up the number formatting. I think they are using their own words.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 1 month ago:
They’ve since clarified that he appears to have supported Jeremy Corbyn and identified as a communist. It’s quite terrifying.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 1 month ago:
Yes, if they really thought he were a terrorist they would be looking for his accomplices in order to prevent the next attack. But the word “terrorist” is thrown around by UK authorities as a matter of convenience these days.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 30 comments
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 month ago:
You mean ordinary Americans will.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 month ago:
The important question is whether the people of Clacton are a bunch of reactionary racists with no sense of humour or not.
- Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis | Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heatingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests 1 month ago:
I blocked it on my home network when it came out that their website is full of spyware, and I haven’t sensed any loss.
- Comment on LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests 1 month ago:
The site that was bullshitters bullshitting bullshitters with bullshit is now bullshitters bullshitting bullshitters with bullshit bullshit.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
Just get a small loan of a few million from your parents. Honestly, why don’t more of the poor think of this?
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
I like to use a private jet.
- Comment on 'Millionaires tell me every day that they want a wealth tax' 2 months ago:
We have to reduce the influence of billionaires, or anyone with less is ignored.
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- ‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering — Datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9Cwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 2 months ago:
Seems more likely RFK Jr. would go this way.