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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th 1 week ago:
Been playing quire a bit of the new Dragon Age. I normally don’t play games close to release, and I’ve never played a DA game before, but I watched a review and it seemed like something I was in the mood for. Been enjoying it quire a bit, more than I expected. I just really need to do something about my thermals.
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- Comment on Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals 2 weeks ago:
Every year, about 12% of food from animals is wasted.
This is honestly lower than I’d expect.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 weeks ago:
7.2 million people in this country are food insecure, but one bad thing befalls investment bankers and landlords and it’s all we hear about for weeks, because guess which segment of society journalists are sourced from.
- Comment on World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News 4 weeks ago:
So he went with the means to cheat, but didn’t use it? That’s somehow even stranger.
- Comment on The Disappearance of an Internet Domain 1 month ago:
That’s what the author says IANA will do based on the precedent of .yu, but IANA hasn’t actually said what they’ll do yet.
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- Comment on The Disappearance of an Internet Domain 1 month ago:
I doubt they’ll kill the domain outright, there’s too many long established websites using it and too much money behind those domains. It helps that the Chagos Island transfer is a lot less messy than the breakup of Yugoslavia (hopefully at least as it hasn’t actually happened yet).
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
One thing these kinds of articles that are designed to stoke generational conflicts never mention is that rich people live longer. Like, obviously older people would be proportionally richer, the poorer people from that generation are dead. Also, friendly reminder, all this stoking of generational conflicts does is distract us from the real divide in society.
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- Comment on Government will not fund Casement for Euro 2028 2 months ago:
To host a game at the tournament European football’s governing body Uefa [sic] requires stadia to have a minimum capacity of 30,000. […] Windsor, which is also home to Irish League outfit Linfield holds 18,000. It would need another 12,000 seats to be able to host a game.
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- Comment on NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report 2 months ago:
“Raise taxes on working people or reform to secure [the NHS’] future. We know working people can’t afford to pay more, so it is reform or die.”
Alexa, show me a false dichotomy.
It’s amazing how the their report names austerity as the culprit of the NHS’ waning condition, but Streeting’s solution seems to just change where money is allocated. The UK spends significantly less on Health compared to other developed countries, is it really surprising that our results would be significantly worse?
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
That’s because she knows stopping the planes won’t stop the towers coming down. /s
- Comment on Meow :3 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 2 months ago:
They can either pay and get ad-free access to our articles
But it’s not ad-free access though.
Screenshot from the Mirror asking to pay £2 for non tracking ads or be tracked and read for free
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- Comment on Outrage as librarians reveal schools banning LGBT+ books after parents’ complaints 2 months ago:
Literally the fourth paragraph of the article:
The responses revealed that specific titles removed from school libraries included This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, a memoir about a young person discovering their sexual identity; Julián is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love, a picture book about a gender non-conforming boy who dreams of being a mermaid; and the alphabet book ABC Pride, by Louie Stowell, Elly Barnes and Amy Phelps, which introduces young readers to the alphabet while they learn more about the LGBT+ community.
- Comment on Giant spiders the size of rats making a comeback in UK 2 months ago:
Time to push the country into the sun.
- Comment on Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog 2 months ago:
- Comment on Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online 3 months ago:
For me at least, most of that was just identifying rhetorical devices used by the writer and summarising what they wrote, not looking at the legitimacy of what’s being said (it’d be hard to do that in an exam context anyway).
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 3 months ago:
Apparently, as the Telegraph decided to give this nothingburger of a paragraph its own heading
Ms Tweedale previously prompted controversy in the department after she was singled out by civil servants who accused her of furthering the “chilling effect” of gender ideology.
- Comment on Inside Labour's plan to build 'mini' nuclear reactors around UK 3 months ago:
I have plenty of criticism of this Labour government, but I’m still glad when they do things I like (rail nationalisation, scrapping the Rwanda Scheme, commitment to ECHR). I’ll admit, it was unfair for me to suggest Miliband was only committing to nuclear to spite the left. This is an attitude I’ve seen in some Labour activists, but not in him.
- Comment on Inside Labour's plan to build 'mini' nuclear reactors around UK 3 months ago:
But the left is perceived to be anti-nuclear and there’s nothing these people love more than ‘trot bashing’.
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- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 3 months ago:
I’ve said this before and I doubt it will be the last, but this ban is not about child safety. It’s about reducing the number of trans kids because they’re a political inconvenience to a slice of the establishment. If it was about how unsafe they are, it wouldn’t only be for kids experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence. The ban would extend to intersex adolescents:
However, [Streeting] overlooks the fact that this ban does not include teenage patients with a difference of sex development (DSD), more commonly known as intersex. These individuals are prescribed puberty-blocking medication when they unexpectedly commence a puberty that is at odds with their gender identity. DSD patients are taking the medication for much the same reason as transgender patients – ie the puberty they are undergoing is causing distress, and pressing pause will probably manage that distress and minimise harm while a continuing care plan is developed. If we follow Streeting’s logic, the medication would also be banned for this patient cohort.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 3 months ago:
“We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”
Mr Maugham said the review considered “current and former” Gender Identity Development Service patients, while his figures were directed to the larger group of “those on the waiting list”.
The DHSC has insisted that patients on waiting lists were included in the review as well.
They literally didn’t, from the review:
I have examined the figures provided by NHSE on deaths in each year between 2018-19 and 2023-24. They are based on an internal audit by the Tavistock of deaths among current and former GIDS patients
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 4 months ago:
Corn dogs are battered though. A beef wellington is actually a posh sausage roll.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
How is it that every time we hear from the TERF in the high castle, she’s somehow even more unhinged?
