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- Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi 5 days ago:
Damn, I skimmed over the name. This is !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk material
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- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 5 days ago:
The BBC’s coverage on certain issues (asylum seekers, trans, disability, etc) has been inexcusably bad and has been for a while. I think it’s perfectly fair to hold the public broadcaster to a high standard. The Tories were able to stuff the BBC with their people and the quality of their journalism has plummeted since, the whole thing needs serious reform and Labour don’t seem interested in doing it.
I’m not a cynic, and as mentioned don’t have much of an imagination, so such thoughts don’t even cross my mind.
You wrote them out, so the thoughts clearly did cross your mind? I don’t even know why you’re trying to deflect this, it’s not unreasonable to think foreign intelligence would try to undermine trust in the BBC, they’d be dumb not to.
But again, those doing the most to undermine trust in the BBC are the people the Tories put in charge of it.
- Comment on We Lost Jason Arday to a Moral Panic 5 days ago:
A moral panic Novara were all too happy to play a part in.
- Comment on Just Think About It 1 week ago:
There’s a WW2 battle in the Pacific in the planes spin off film.
- Comment on The AYN Thor Lite Has Become Something Much Bigger Than AYN Built 1 week ago:
Good article! It’s always interesting to see the ecosystems that spring up around these devices, even if the Thor itself doesn’t interest me (my main console growing up was the 360).
Just a heads up, the first link in the article (the metrics one) 404s.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Burn 'em Burnham looked at the recent wildfires and thought ‘Yes, more of those please’.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
This is such a weird use of this system. Months of wildfires and Labours first action is to send a phone alert that amounts to ‘only you can stop wildfires.’
- Comment on Harry Potter star Bel Powley says she 'strongly disagrees' with JK Rowling's views 1 week ago:
Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children toys.
- Comment on Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Real 1 week ago:
I mean, this is a blog post not a news article, and it is at least a well sourced Reddit comment. Good video though, very convincing, thanks for the link.
Text version of the video, with links: www.patreon.com/…/dobby-grave-is-166521289
- Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Realwww.todayintabs.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Police and prosecution errors left proven sex offender free to murder two women in London 2 weeks ago:
OP is an infamous ban evader, they just spam post a bunch of from (mostly, but not exclusively) the Guardian, so I doubt this is OP’s agenda. The more concerning thing is the media, the BBC news homepage had 2 stories about this (and there were 3 this morning).
- Comment on ‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs 2 weeks ago:
who the people proposing these policies
Tories.
why they’re so opposed to fun, nightlife, and supporting long-standing traditions
Because they’re Tories.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 3 weeks ago:
Bait used to be believable.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
!lemmydrama@lemmy.world probably fits to bill.
- Comment on Nigel Farage calls for Zack Polanski to be arrested over 'guillotine' Instagram post 4 weeks ago:
So now he believes you can incite violence over the internet?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Should be now, OP changed it to a link to Google.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
BTW, there’s a bug in Lemmy where editing out a URL won’t work over federation, you’ll need to change the URL to something else to remove it.
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- Comment on If the Minions were in Germany from 1933 to 1945.... 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success 5 weeks ago:
Workers at ZA/UM once again facing the consequences of its managers decisions. Sad as ZP is by most accounts genuinely pretty good, though I haven’t got around to playing it myself yet.
- Comment on Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’ 5 weeks ago:
If you go to this centre for help, there’s a non-zero chance Rowling will tweet out to her 14 million followers about what you say.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 5 weeks ago:
Does this logic also apply to human corpses? Like if I go to a morgue…
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
The friend did get stabbed though and was left with injuries from it. Fending off the brunt of the attack doesn’t make the attack less attack’y
I haven’t seen anything saying he actually got stabbed, only that there was an attempt and he sustained minor injuries feeding it off. That could mean anything from the knife grazing him to him breaking his nose in the struggle.
The guy is mentally ill
Mentally ill people are still capable of hate crimes.
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
Source? Reports say he got stabbed but got off with minor injuries. It is sill proscecuted as attempted murder.
It is alleged Suleiman was armed with a knife and “tried to stab Mr Hussein” in his upper body, but his friend “fended off the attack”.
And I just quickly looked it up and it seems it’s a direct subway line from Northern Line Borough to Brent Cross station. He essentially stepped out of the station and was at the next attack location.
He tried to stab his friend at around 8AM and didn’t arrive in Golders Green until after 11. Did he not see anyone for 2-3 hours while taking the London Underground on a weekday?
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
He literally stabbed the guy. What do you mean “tried to”?
The friend fended off the attack.
8 whole miles? Is real life like GTA where your wanted level disappears if you travel 8 miles and everyone forgets about your crimes if you don’t get caught?
Now you’re being a prick. If he was stabbing people only because of his mental illness, then why didn’t he stab anyone travelling between Southwark and Golders Green? Did it conveniently only reactivate when he saw man wearing kippah.
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
There was a third guy stabbed which is conveniently left out of the “antisemitic stabbing”. Guess his faith.
The stabbing of the two Jewish men in Golders Green was clearly driven by antisemitism, though. He tried to stab a Muslim friend before travelling 8 miles without stabbing anyone to a famously Jewish part of London and stabbing two visibility Jewish men. The fact he tried to stab someone who is a Muslim doesn’t mean the other attacks weren’t driven by antisemitism.
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
No, the £40 million is for Muslim community centres, it’s just part of a larger scheme. I don’t know how you got to that reading.
They do indeed sound like the ‘special’ minority. Maybe it’s all the government lobbying (meddling) Isreal does to get them special treatment.
You understand that this is a deeply fucked up thing to say, right? There has been a genuine rise in antisemitic hate crime in the UK and the idea that the governments actions to address that must be because of Israel not only makes Israel look good, it unjustly links British Jews to Israel.
You can’t ignore the fact Muslims always have especially more recently been at the receiving end of a lot of unjustified hate. Where is their additional hundreds of millions in funding?
I agree that the government isn’t doing anywhere near enough to protect Muslims, but that isn’t the question I was responding to. It was about funding for Mosque security with the implication that it was 0, which it’s not.
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 1 month ago:
The government has had a scheme since 2016 to fund security for places of worship and in October they added an extra £10 million funding for Muslim community centres, bringing it up to £40 million a year.
Google is your friend and this whole ‘Jews are the special minority’ shtick you push is getting old.
- Comment on A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space. 1 month ago:
Wow, this chart is genuinely great. You must be so mad about today’s news.
