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 Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x08 "Orders of Magnitude" 12 hours ago:
SMW actually makes a Star Trek episode! I’ve heard this described as the best episode of Star Trek for 20 years. I think I agree.
- Comment on British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports 16 hours ago:
I looked it up - yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260909-8d692-1
Seemed to me that men are slightly more in favour of the ban than women and that age was only a factor in those that disapproved. It’s probably not significant anyhow.
- Comment on British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports 18 hours ago:
Those breakdowns seem to be pretty much to reflect the general divisions in UK society (certainly since 2016).
Do you know the age breakdowns?
- Comment on Many teachers disagree with hardline attendance policies, report suggests 1 day ago:
This issue of attendance (which is currently the top priority for schools) is often framed as being parents being soft of their kids or about taking holidays in term time. UK state schooling is unsuitable for many children and the 10% is the tip of the iceberg. For lits of children - particularly neurodivergent and disabled - mainstream schools are hostile and brutal places. For children without additional needs its pretty much the same. There persists a weird “survival of the fittest” mentality in UK education.
I’ve been recently reading about Japan’s Yutori education where the Japanese govt attempted to reduce the academic demands on children in order to promote their happiness and wellbeing. It remains controversial there but I’d certainly like to see this happening in the UK. (Or at the least parents given the choice of enrolling their children in Yutori-style schools here.)
- Comment on Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations 1 day ago:
Reform cultists will explain this as an Establishment stitch up and already claimed it was entrapment.
I reckon Farage could be filmed shaking Putin’s hand and taking a plastic bag full of cash from him and agreeing to crash the UK and the cultists and their voters will simply applaud.
You could see at the Reform conference that this is a party of crazy old people who don’t want the UK (or the world) to continue without them after they die. It’s a death cult.
- Comment on Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire 2 days ago:
You are right: third decade! I’m so behind the times. I hear that the army’s going to start using bows and arrows as there’s nothing like saving a bit of cash. All does the same job in the end, I suppose.
- Comment on Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire 2 days ago:
Maybe because it’s the second decade of the Twenty-First Century and the tech should be much more advanced than 100 years-old balloons. It doesn’t provide confidence.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
“Entryist” suggests an organised faction like the Militant in the Labour Party in the past. Are you sayimg that she belongs to a group that is attempting to take over the Greens? If so, who are they?
- Comment on Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire 2 days ago:
You couldn’t make this stuff up:
The emergency system, called Low Frequency Fall Back or LFFB and codenamed SUNFLOWER, used a “blimp” style tethered balloon or aerostat (illustrated) to lift a 1,500 metre long radio antenna.
So the communications with nuclear-armed submarines is a 1940s-style blimp baloon? Launched in 2003 and tethered to the ground with a wire.
I do have to ask, where are all the £billions on “defense” going? Certainly not on blimp balloons.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Who are the “entryists”?
- Comment on Billions lost to Brexit could make NHS waiting lists disappear, top economist says 5 days ago:
Just imagine what could be done with the TRILLIONS that’ll be lost when Farage and his chums get elected!
- Comment on Big brother watch report reveals free speech is in "downward spiral" in the UK 5 days ago:
It’s when the article leads with
- Former Minister turned Reform member Nadine Dorries backs calls for review of “dogs dinner” online safety laws her government led
that I tuned out, sorry. Mad Nad isn’t a great advocate for free speech.
- Comment on Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battle 1 week ago:
Palantir, however, is refusing to allow their internal documents to be searched. Even though Khan and other custodians have agreed.
- Comment on ‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution 1 week ago:
Do other countries that claim to be in the top seven richest have this issue that you can’t go swimming after rainfall because of sewage?
- Comment on Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK 1 week ago:
His most recent photo (taken this week & on Wikipedia) isn’t much better.
- Comment on Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK 2 weeks ago:
There comes a point where you have to decide that going to work isn’t worth the hassle.
- Comment on Where Are the Climate Protests? Human Rights Group Warns Government Crackdown Is Silencing the Green Movement 3 weeks ago:
It is noticeable that the Green protest movement has been seriously worked on by the state. Much of this is the draconian infringements on the right to protest but it’s mixed with the mainstream media refusing to report on what climate protests occur combined with the state’s boosting of the Green Party as a vehicle for distracting protest. Those in comtrol would tolerate a handful of Green MPs and Green-led councils rather than hundreds of thousands on the streets involved in protest and direct action.
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
We’ll see. The smears against Arday are already coming undone and Cofnas has been suspended from his post. The actual dangerous aspect is that people like you pretend to be moderate while enabling racists to engage in witch hunts like this. Maybe you need to do some reflection - but my suspicion is that you actually agree with them.
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
Huh? Aren’t YOU one of the bad guys in this instance?
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
Maybe not Walter Mitty (Gosh! An autistic man doesn’t manage his fantasies in the same way as neurotypicals! What a crime!) but I can give you many, many accounts of senior UK academics involved in plagiarism, falsification of data and a survey of UK academics in which one in seven admitted to plagiarism. I can also give you names of academics who have encouraged the rape of children, sexually assaulted students, theft and other forms of real criminal behaviour… I don’t doubt you could name any of these because the mainstream media didn’t whip up such a lynch mob against them. Because they were all white I suspect. And really you can’t name these because you’re hung up on Arday being a black man as well. For you and the rest of the baying mob, that’s Arday’s true crime: he’s black, autistic and was taking the seat of a privately-educated white man.
It’ll be interesting to see which of Arday’s colleagues actually come forward. My suspicion is that the none of the allegations of academic malpractice will be upheld and Arday’s autistic “fantasising” (for want of a better term) will certainly not recognised as criminality. What WILL be revealed is the extent of the lobbying done by the Race Science Network.
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
Can you give me examples of another academic who has suffered similar levels of witch hunt by the British media? Or are there really no other academics who do stuff like this? You know as well as I do why the witch hunt was as relentless as it was.
Even when Arday resigned his post, the witch hunt continued. I’ve heard that there journalists talked about Arday killing himself long before he did. The focus should be on the process of Arday’s appointment. It wasn’t Arday’s alleged plaigarism or alleged fantasisings that caused the media witch hunt: it was because he was lauded for being young, autistic and black. Racists can’t stand stuff like.
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
Agree. People who are essentially racists and hung up on their obsession with so-called DEI appointments are going to continue to focus on Arday’s shortcomings rather than this. But to go back to the original subject of this thread: it is the racist, anti-DEI mob that hounded Arday to his death.
- Comment on Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda 3 weeks ago:
Really? Nothing to do with being black and autistic? Or that the campaign against him was launched by Nathan Cofnas, the “race realist” who dowsn’t believe that black people are intelligent enough to hold academic positions and the promoted by right-wing lobbyists? Really?
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
Care and thoughtfulness
Who is it that you think is providing “justice and fairness”? Our capitalist masters or their client politicians or media? O, to live in such a world where the ruling classes care for us poor people at their mercy.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
Without access to the actua or estimated costs at scale of providing free water, I can’t tell you whether the distribution and processing costs cause scarcity. As I replied to someone else, there’s no issue of scarcity when it comes to buying and upgrading weapons of mass destruction which cost £billions. I’d rather taxpayers’ money spent on free water and energy rather than a bomb that sits in a silo never being used.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
Oh, one of those “real world” arguments where it’s ok for example to spend crazy billions on weapons (especially those of mass destruction) that will fingers crossed never be used but in the “real world” decent water, food, energy is far too much to provide. It’s a question of priorities. Next you’ll be telling me that in the “real world” an NHS is not possible.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
100%. We need to push back on the idea that everything should be commidified and sold at a profit for a tiny minority of the already-rich.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
Why “reasonable”? We live on an island surrounded by water on a planet that is two-thirds water. If you want to make water a commodity to make profit then you have to intstil the idea that there’s scarcity of water.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we should turn taps on and let them flow but we shouldn’t be charging people for a basic element of human life. At this point in human civilisation we should be working towards ensuring everyone on the planet has a subsistence level of clean air, clean water, energy and food (and, I’d argue, a roof over their head). Not price it “reasonably” so that if by luck of birth you can afford it you can fill the three olympic-sized swimming pools in your back garden while the poor old pensioner on state benefits has to worry about having a shower once a week or not using a heater in winter to make ends meet. I don’t understand why people fret over the idea things should be universally available with no costs at point of use. Always strikes me as being entitled and selfish.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
You can see why they’re making a lot about water scarcity in the media now.
It’s about time we should start pushing back and saying that some things are a basic human right like air, water, food and energy (certainly at a subsistence level) which should be provided without cost.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t try to infantilise me by giving me a link to a wikipedia. I’ll just repeat: he was a vulnerable man.
