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 Vet prescription fees to be capped at £21 9 hours ago:
Cue the claims that this will force vets out of business!
- Comment on Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data 19 hours ago:
Handing over UK state information to a foreign entity that has links with countries like Russia is at best problemmatic. Hopefully Palantir will use the promised “quantum computers” that the UK govt is supposedly buying at scale - that way we can be assured that it’ll never work.
- Comment on Water bills are rising and thousands are planning not to pay 19 hours ago:
It IS a risk not paying bills - especially if you’re already hard up and extra fines just add to your family’s debts. I wonder how a campaign of only paying small amounts and then waiting for the water companies to chase up payments would go? Agreeing to pay and then dragging our feet?
- Comment on Spycops inquiry exposes police efforts to destroy left-wing movements 1 day ago:
It’s always been like this. I doubt there are any radical orginisations in the UK that aren’t riddled with police. There used to be a story floating around in the 1980s that there was a meeting of a Trotslyist splinter group from the WRP where everyone in the meeting realised they were all police. I doubt it’s true but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had some element of truth.
- Comment on UK looks to emulate Spanish youth custody where inmates do art and play sport 2 days ago:
Woke prisons? Fresh meat to the Tories, Reform and neo-Rightists! “Bring back the birch and National Service!” we’ll hear.
- Comment on UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax 2 weeks ago:
Are you daring to say that the poor family scraping to make ends meet with both parents working and still having to claim benefits is actually patriotic? And suggesting that the millionaire who hides his inherited wealth in an offshore taxhaven, lives in Dubai and hires accountants to avoid contributing anything to the UK doesn’t love this country? That’s not how we’re programmed to think in this country!
- Comment on Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks 3 weeks ago:
Salmon farms have an appalling impact on the sustainability of wild salmon, so no
- Comment on Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks 3 weeks ago:
Salmon next, please. Shut down the horrendous Salmon farms.
- Comment on Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up 3 weeks ago:
And, of course, energy prices will fall incredibly and they’ll never be the need for price caps ever again and the “clean” nuclear waste can be recycled into toys and distributed to children to play with in this New Jersusalem.
- Comment on John Lewis pulls out of housebuilding business 3 weeks ago:
Unless these housebuilding firms make huge sums of money, they really aren’t interested.
- Comment on Russell Brand latest: Comedian pleads not guilty to new charges 3 weeks ago:
He was one of those early grifters who saw the transition to para-politics and then God as a means of making a brand (of Brand).
That anyone ever took his spirituaity or politics or his cringe comedy or acting seriously is beyond me.
They had PILES of his Bookie-Wookie in Waterstones once.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 3 weeks ago:
I’m super-suspicious of the “massive increase in shop theft” stories. I’m sure it has happened, does happen and has increased as poverty goes up in the UK. I’m just dubious about the gangs robbing stored made-to-order.
- Comment on Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up 3 weeks ago:
Wait until the next “price cap” in three months… and the one after that in six months… and the one after that in nine months (that’ll raise the cap even higher). It’s a con-game and we’re the suckers.
- Comment on ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain 5 weeks ago:
It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 5 weeks ago:
Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can’t imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 5 weeks ago:
Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk’s content differs so much from brand to brand and there’s no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.
- Comment on ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 1 month ago:
Benzion Freshwater.
Surely that’s a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?
- Comment on Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows 1 month ago:
Why doesn’t your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?
I live in a road that’s nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people’s houses in the street.
- Comment on Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China 1 month ago:
I don’t blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?
- Comment on Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows 1 month ago:
Why aren’t the vans parked in commercial car parks or premises? And why do their owners insist on parking them wherever they like (but not their own drives!) without any thought for pedestrians? At the same time, after about 7pm it becomes almost impossible to find a parking space largely because of the sheer number of vans. I’m not talking about the little white vans but the big ones. Commercial vans and pickups have no place being parked in residential streets. Or, charge them higher rates of parking permit fees for commercial vehicles. No one is driving a big van as their family vehicle - unless they’re Steptoe & Son or Trotters Trading.
- Comment on The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline: Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department 1 month ago:
Palantir = truly evil Skynet.
- Comment on China has network of 75 covert influence outposts across Britain 1 month ago:
Are these “talent liason” outposts what used to be called spies? And doesn’t the UK have “talent liason” people in China? Excuse me if I’m not really shocked about this. Surely, rather than moan about it, the UK security services need to use some James Bond-types to investigate (using some futuristic gadgets like chewing gum that blows up etc) and sort it out. Usually these “talent liason” outposts are inside volcanoes or deep sea bases. Should be easy to spot in UK.
- Comment on Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers 1 month ago:
Welcome to the UK… country that once had aspirations to be a center of digital tech… now just wants a Victorian factory education for its kids. Soon pen and paper will be too radical and chalkboard slates will be reintroduced. You can hear the “teach from the front”-types salivating already. “The Empire was built on rote and chalk, Mr Gradgrind!”
- Comment on Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows 1 month ago:
In the last 5-10 years our residential road has gone from having normal family cars parked outside houses to pretty much these types of monstrosities and - worse - transit vans. Our Yaris looks like a toy car in comparison to these behemoths! What’s worse is the ones who have drives can’t fit them so they park in the street.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 1 month ago:
In other news: rabid dog bites gurning man.
- Comment on UK economy showing signs of 'zombie apocalypse,' says think tank 2 months ago:
Yes, a “Left-leaning” and “independent” think tank that used to be led by the Tory MP David Willets and now run by Ruth Curtice who was Director of fiscal policy to the Treasury for the Tories for 15 years. Of course I’ll believe what they opine. Just like I would have listened to the charities in the 18th and 19th century who warned about how ending child labour as chimney sweeps would destroy the British economy and everyday life while arguing that the children should have the opportunity to learn the Scripture.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 3 months ago:
It’ll be ok as the way things are going, the readers will be AIs who will summarise and review books for Youtube channels watched by AIs who go on to write books for… dead culture. It’s ok because the masses will be watching Strictly Come Hunger Games Dancing.
- Comment on Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems 3 months ago:
They’ve won the propaganda war convincing the majority that low tax = freedom and prosperity. However, the period of post-World War 2 social improvement was characterised by VERY high taxes for the rich.
- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 4 months ago:
Why do we need anything “far worse”? Why not just remove them constitutionally and let them do their own thing? Smaller state and all that.
- Comment on Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak 4 months ago:
Boris leading it? With an oven-ready plan to destabilise the BBC?