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- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 11 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 week 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 1 week ago:
>Irish hotel
>Posted in United KingdomNow that is commentary you probably didn’t intend.
- Comment on RPGs focused on crafting items/equipment 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 3 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. 3 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attackwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks ago:
Just use xcancel.com, no need to go to the actual racist’s CSAM site.
- Comment on BBC Question Time Assembled a Panel on AI and Forgot to Invite Any Critics 1 month ago:
Inspired, I asked ChatGPT to, err, unlock the full potential of my newsletter writing.
This is like easting a spoonful of shredded plastic while commenting on microplastics.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree with the point about dairy being bad, and it’s one that’s easy to make without objectifying women.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 1 month ago:
“other females”
- Comment on Seagull leaves it's mark on King as he visits seaside resort 1 month ago:
At least they didn’t shit on his hair like they did to me on Saturday.
- Comment on Jewish man in hospital after attack by group of men 1 month ago:
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish
He was speaking Hebrew, that’s how they identified him as Jewish.
beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
It’s a populated area of London, they likely couldn’t do more before people intervened.
- Comment on Who is James Murray, the new health secretary replacing Wes Streeting? 1 month ago:
It’s impressive that Labour found another gay man who’s willing to throw trans people under the bus to be Health Secretary.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 months ago:
No, you don’t understand. The child has magical powers that make you love him.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 2 months ago:
Gender as a term has existed since the 14th century, the distinction that gender = social/cultural aspects and sex = biological aspects is a recent phenomenon, but still predates the internet. The problem with ‘biological male’ is it actually doesn’t tell you anything, it’s just a way of calling someone a man with plausible deniability. Are you talking about chromosomes, sholder-to-hip ratio, hormone levels or any of the other biological stuff we conceptually tie to sex? And what is the BBC referring to when calling this unnamed woman a ‘biological male’ (they’re not referring to anything biological, they are calling this woman a man).
also, right from the article disproving your annoyance…
They’re referring to the nurse, not the trans woman. The part I quoted is literally the only time the article refers to the trans woman.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 2 months ago:
transgender woman - who was born a biological male - after she addressed them as “Mr”
The BBC sure have got the ‘not technically misgendering’ thing down to a science, calls her a ‘biological male’ (nonsense term made up by internet activists) and refuses to use she/her pronouns for the trans woman.