tenebrisnox
@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
- Baron Munchausen
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 20 hours ago:
On LBC radio yesterday, one of their presenters seriously asked “Are mobile phones now more dangerous than smoking?”
I was just drawing attention to the way people join in the hysteria about stuff like this. I grew up when it was illegal to own a copy The Evil Dead on video because it was a “video nasty” and would corrupt minds and lead to the fall of civilisation. I’ve lived through similar hysterics about heavy metal, hiphop, video games and hoodies.
(My son’s secondary school HAS banned ereaders and restricts computers to local apps without internet access at all.)
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 20 hours ago:
Wrong.
Howso? I was (non-seriously) referring to the way that the printing presses after Caxton were increasingly regulated by the English government starting in the 15th Century and reaching a high-point in the middle-16th. Fear of the wide transmission of printed materials made them do silly things like only allowing certain numbers of books before the plates had to be smashed. Remember England was a country that had prohibited printed versions of the Bible in English not long before. I’m not sure what your point about Gutenberg is.
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 23 hours ago:
Maybe stop spending all your time flipping pages on your book and you might get it? (Also a bit of basic historical knowledge about the history of the printing press and books would help.) Apologies if this went over your head though.
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 1 day ago:
Welcome to the 15th Century where books are prohibited in schools. We favour the age-old method of the scholar-teacher as the sole source of wisdom along with the use of slates for children to copy from The Bible uplifting Psalms and Verses. Allowing children access to books during the school day would only increase the transmission of unhealthy and ungodly ideas and cause disease and anxiety in young people. Naturally, in our better schools learning is conducted in Latin. Signed: His Majesty’s English Government.
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 2 days ago:
Luckily, UK govt will adopt Sam Altman’s Orb and everyone can probe who they are by eye scan. O Brave New World…
- Comment on Half of adults would not go to war for the UK, poll suggests 3 weeks ago:
Maybe all the kids on esports courses at school and college can be enlisted to fly drones?
- Comment on Man planned to set up militant pro-Palestinian group to 'attack police and British Army' 3 weeks ago:
Wow, the CPGB (Scotland) seem have moved a long way from their pacifist, kumbayah Eurocommunist days. I don’t give them much hope of success when this 22 year-old strategist keeps notes and plans about NOT keeping notes and plans in case the police find them. I suspect he was in a cell of one in an organisation of one.
- Comment on ‘English nationalist’ content creators film themselves in asylum seekers’ house 4 weeks ago:
No, not terrorists. Terrorists look like 80 year-old priests who hold up signs denouncing genocide. The world is upside down in the UK remember.
- Comment on UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
The actual study is far more worrying than I thought:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What is the record of the Scottish Greens? Returning to u/PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml’s point about bark or bite, what have they been like in coalition?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
News to me. But I’ve heard he likes football, beer and a curry.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
preoccupied
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If the German Green Party is anything to go by they will be constrained by the bureaucracy of the political system and compromises with coalition partners. Like the German Greens, I would imagine that if UK Greens get anywhere near a coalition with Labour then they’d be less critical publically but push for things to be done on the ground (like more renewable projects, rewilding and projects to combat air pollution). I suspect their social policies would be less prominent and they would fall in line with coalition agreements.
I reckon they’ll not bark or bite… just gnaw a bit.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
I’ve just checked this for you. France has operated 70 nuclear reactors since 1948. The early ones were test reactors and didn’t produce electricity. The first electricity generating one that worked was built in 1956. France had only had 3 breeder reactors which were decommisioned (they were failures and one of them leaked radioactive material). It has 57 currently operating which are PWRs.
Just to be thoroughly clear: nuclear energy is about 15% of France’s final energy usage (about 70% of its electricity use). France still uses a great amount of fossil fuels and some renewables.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
I’d love you to define:
to great effect
when the reality was they remained small-scale, in testing phase, were dangerous and ultimately scrapped. Next you’ll be waxing lyrically about modular reactors.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much the only sane comment in this thread.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
Not true. The ones they used from the 1960s onwards were phased out by 2009. All were pretty much still in testing mode and never deployed at scale. The Superphenix (the last) was shut down over leaks and safety concerns. France’s nuclear are all now 100% Pressurised Water Reactors.
So misinformation or worse, deliberate disinformation, in this thread.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s a shame that this article - which correctly points out the dangers of the far-right in the UK - has too many factual errors. For instance:
May 2026, US Vice President JD Vance attended a “Unite the Kingdom” protest rally organized in London by Tommy Robinsonl
No, Vance didn’t. Vance later said he supported the demo but was not in attendance. Stuff like this needs to be factually watertight.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
Give that man a job! So, where are we going to store this utterly toxic material? If you bury it there’s a chance it’ll leak into the water supply. Maybe launch it in missles at at the moon?
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
So, you know that all the existing waste in the UK isn’t in the ground. It’s been in temporary storage at Sellafield for decades. No plans to bury it just yet.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
So it’s ok to handle radioactive waste… with a shovel?
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
Which one would you like me to pick? How about Iodine-129 with 15 million or so years?
Have you been reading Russian propaganda again? Breefer reactors. Next you’ll be spouting the benefits of cold fusion for skin care.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
The modular (“village”) reactors don’t really exist outside of test facilities. China has one (maybe two) which they claim are operational and powering a local city but there’s not enough evidence to know whether it’s true or not. Lots of money being pumped into “research” - especially in UK - but not much to show for it. I suspect much is a scam.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 5 weeks ago:
I see that they’re passing round the nuclear Kool Aid. Remember kids: it’s radioactive for thousands if not millions of years. And in the UK there’s no plan for what to do with the waste. Drink up!
- Comment on Andrew launches court action against police over Epstein raids 5 weeks ago:
The Cliff Richards Stratagem?
- Comment on US bombers pulled from RAF Fairford base after suspected terror plot 5 weeks ago:
Supposed greatest army in the world scared off by half a dozen men in builders vans who seemed to have got lost in the British countryside?
- Comment on Ex-HSBC executive banned after dodging nearly £6,000 in train fares 5 weeks ago:
Joseph Molloy was head of passive equity at HSBC
Of course he was.
- Comment on Greggs announces hundreds of job losses 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t Greggs doing so well that it was opening branches everywhere (we have two in our small town) plus giving employees bonuses for the profits being made? What’s happened?
- Comment on Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January 1 month ago:
Our overlords think we still have too much of their money in our pockets.
- Comment on ‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham 1 month ago:
Gotta keep that threat level up!