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- Comment on Mystery over UK airbase scare after reports no explosives found 3 days ago:
Kind of proves that he just invents convenient lies, if anyone still needed proof.
- Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Terror attack 3 days ago:
Hmm, and no explosives found, despite all the statements that these guys were going to do massive damage. It smelled like propaganda yesterday, and now it smells like a propaganda cockup.
- Comment on DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. 3 days ago:
This could be the bug that happens sometimes, where a post that contained a link to an article shows up for some Lemmy users as just a picture.
- Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 18 comments
- Comment on Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation 1 week ago:
Does it include the truth about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians? Or is it still terrorism to speak that?
- Comment on Landlords quitting “in droves” since Renters’ Rights Act 1 week ago:
“earn”
- Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics) 1 week ago:
I found this article interesting because it discusses the complexity of regret and of estimating rates of regret, and it discusses why the estimates vary so widely:
slate.com/…/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-…
Neither detransition nor regret are simple concepts. Transition, as with all social phenomena, is complex. You can stop taking hormones and still be trans. You can regret taking steps that alienate you from your family, even as you wish your family would accept you living how you want to live. You can even regret some aspects of a treatment (any kind of medical treatment!) while being grateful for the knowledge you gained by trying it out. Regret doesn’t always mean that people wish they hadn’t transitioned, it just means that there are some parts of the story that they long to change.
- Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics) 1 week ago:
That would make it so much more difficult for people and cause so much needless suffering. I know people who left it late to start transitioning, and some of them struggle with regret that they didn’t do it earlier while their body was still developing. Why should trans women who know as a teen that they want to transition have to suffer a decade of living with a body and an identity they find unbearable every day? How many more people will succumb to despair along the way? It’s cruel, which I suppose is usually the point.
- A Steam vulnerability (0-Day) on Windows lets any normal user silently escalate to full SYSTEM privilegesvideo.twimg.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 3 comments
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- Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationswww.channel4.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 5 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 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations 5 weeks ago:
I’ll raise my glass of delicious, cool Coca Cola to that!
- Comment on BBC puts up their favorite 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
You’re being very generous with that last word.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 1 month 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… 1 month 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… 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
You mean ordinary Americans will.