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- 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 days ago:
Bait used to be believable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
!lemmydrama@lemmy.world probably fits to bill.
- Comment on Nigel Farage calls for Zack Polanski to be arrested over 'guillotine' Instagram post 1 week ago:
So now he believes you can incite violence over the internet?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Should be now, OP changed it to a link to Google.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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.... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success 2 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’ 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Wow, this chart is genuinely great. You must be so mad about today’s news.
- Comment on Irish Hotel Cancels Conference for Peter Thiel’s Secretive Group 4 weeks ago:
>Irish hotel
>Posted in United KingdomNow that is commentary you probably didn’t intend.
- Comment on RPGs focused on crafting items/equipment 4 weeks ago:
Fallout 4 maybe? The main gameplay loop is gathering junk to get parts to improve your equipment.
- Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds 4 weeks ago:
You don’t understand, Lloyd’s decision was clearly a direct order from our ZOG. Don’t you know, everything is connected.
- Comment on Parliament spending £2m a week to stop crumbling palace falling down 5 weeks ago:
So MPs are pushing up the bill to repair the building because they don’t want to work elsewhere for a while? The entitlement, man.
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 5 weeks ago:
Presumably they must think this is a good thing, given they run a cloud gaming platform.
- Comment on [Video] Sky News instantly interrupts Zack Polanski when he says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 5 weeks ago:
The UK GDPR and EU GDPR are technically distinct now, so maybe one the ways the UK has modified it cause this. Or EU country regulators just haven’t opened up an investigation for whatever reason.
- Comment on [Video] Sky News instantly interrupts Zack Polanski when he says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, Imgur blocked the UK in response to getting fined by the ICO for illegal data harvesting. It’s honestly mad so many people seem to take their side.
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 month ago:
Do you have any examples of people actually like this? Or are you making up a person to be mad at.
Most of the people I’ve seen who critise Robinson also critise Lucy Connolly, who has (AFIK) has no links to either Russia or Israel like Robinson.
- Comment on Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack 1 month ago:
On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast’s Shankhill road, the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside.
As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks.
As they stormed the property, some claimed to be “liberating” it. Graffiti nearby demanded “local homes for local people”. A woman in the crowd said to her friend: “There’s wee girls inside”.
Christ, this is grim.
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- Comment on Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones 1 month ago:
The ultimatum comes a month after Jess Phillips quit her post as safeguarding minister claiming that Starmer had failed to introduce changes to halt the ability of children in the UK to take naked images of themselves.
I don’t see the issue with kids being able to take naked photos of themselves? Like I get that’s the fear is that they share this with adults exploiting them, but the Online Safety Act already requires platforms to limit sharing images in sensitive contexts (like DMs). You could also require just require phones for children to not have cameras, but this isn’t actually about children taking nude images of themselves.
“For too long, people have been told that [children sharing explicit images] is simply the price of modern tech – that nothing could be done. That government is powerless. That parents just have to accept it,” he said.
Just don’t buy you kid a phone? Or just get them a phone plan without data? Parents are anything but powerless.
“That is why today, I am calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce vice controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. Because this is not an impossible challenge.
You solution is literally technologically impossible, though. There does not exist, and likely will never exist, an algorithm that can identify explicit images from non-explicit ones with fault tolerances approaching acceptable.
The announcement has been driven by an explosion in child sexual abuse referrals. The UK’s National Crime Agency receives 1,700 referrals every week. Last year nine in 10 child abuse images were generated by children, many of whom had been tricked or blackmailed by abusers they had met on the internet.
These are social issues for which technology alone cannot solve. Tech won’t save us and it can’t govern for you, Mr Starmer.
The proposal is designed to sit alongside the Online Safety Act, which requires companies to have processes for removing material that is illegal or harmful to children.
Bullshit, this literally works against the OSA’s regime. At least with the OS age stuff happening elsewhere, you don’t also have to upload your ID to every website that might host a nipple.
I’m all up for legislation requiring certain standards from system parental controls. My take on the OSA’s age verification regime is that it should just be an API that tells apps/websites if parental controls are enabled. But this is about the most blatant trojan horse I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Cake sheds are making bakers £1,000 a week - but the dream might be over 1 month ago:
But red tape is now threatening the future of many bakers’ culinary creations as some councils in England are reviewing their street trading policies, and questioning whether cake sheds should require a licence.
What is this framing by the BBC? ‘Red tape’ is very ideological language. Most street food businesses don’t make anywhere near 1K a week, but I should feel sorry for these people having to follow the same rules as everyone else because it’s twee enough?
In Nottinghamshire, council officials have even suggested they should receive a slice of any money being made.
This is an insane way for the BBC of all institutions to frame a licence fee. If you’re middle class enough, the public broadcaster will frame fucking taxation as robbery. I can see the argument that £1000 annually is excessive for these type of businesses, but this is not the BBC’s framing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just use xcancel.com, no need to go to the actual racist’s CSAM site.
