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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UK 5G so bad? We investigated - Which? (Video)⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
There are places still waiting for reasonable 4G coverage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m beginning to suspect that might the a photo of the OP :P
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water industry bonus ban to be tightened as Ofwat warns of ‘damage to public trust’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Tightened back down to the point where a bonus was a thing given in rare circumstances, to people who has worked exceptionally above and beyond, and to a value of… about one month’s salary?

The whole “here’s a £6,000,000 bonus (as standard), for doing a worse job than if nobody had done the job at all” bonus thing really needs to fuck off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waste cooking oil thieves 'a growing problem'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’d quite happily leave a few jars out for the “grease and oil men” if they were doing regular collections like the “rag and bone” men are.

It’s a massive shit getting rid of used oil.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry, I missed this before - apologies, I wasn’t clear enough - I meant “I’ve only seen one person shout about this on Lemmy” like within the last year or so.

It was from when the UKIP/Reform types were all wetting their nappies because Rishi Sunak had referred to himself as English.

My apologies - it seemingly wasn’t you who was shouting about this, it was someone with a different username, who seemingly got banned about 5 months ago for being a racist/paedo/traitor/russian-spam-factory or whatever etc.

British is a Nationality. English is a sub-nationality. If Britain separated into England/Scotland/Wales/N.Ireland, then “English” would be the nationality of people born in the “England” bit.

The ethnicity bit is “white” or perhaps “European” or “caucasian”.

There’s no solitary English “ethnicity”.

For example, a chap whose family have lived in the North East for 500 years have a lot more “ethnically” in common with someone from Scandinavia than with someone from the South of England - but in the larger scale of things they’re both “white”.

Anyway, I very much doubt we’ll ever agree on this, so I’ll leave you to it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
…and this shows the census before (2001) and the census after (2011), after a bunch of bnp proto-ukippy knobs had cried enough to try and get “English” added to sub-options for “ethnic group”.

Also, “Ethnic group” is still not the same as “Race”.

I’m sure I’ve only ever seen this argument once before, and I’m now suspecting it was probably from you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No. The ethnicity is “white”. No idea about the other one.

In the census, the race was simply “white British, white Irish, white other” and “black British, black carribean, black african” for example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Good.

A bunch of UKippers or whatever they were back then had been pissing their pants about having to tick “British” and insisted that “English” should be added to the census.

So the sour-faced swivel-eyed gammonic ultra cunts eventually got their way and “English” was added to the census options.

But since then, the same or similar had been crying about how “brown people aren’t allowed to be English, because English is a race now, and its exclusively a white one”.

So this act, though small, might help urge enough of the screaming red-faced traitor cunts to an early heart attack, thus leading to the saving of Britain, perhaps Europe and possibly the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
On the Steam Deck they could stop disabling the search function on the “discussions” (game forums) tab.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where no man has gone before⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you for your contribution to humanity’s future :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KaBOOM!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well, I mean as long as we can all agree on a time…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where no man has gone before⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, so can you, a man of science, make recommendations as to the design of a safe flatus-pulse drive?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Met Police chief is paid adviser for Palantir⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Gosh, what a shocking coincidence! The things that happen these days! So many surprising coincidences!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man who stole ambulance with patient inside jailed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a drugs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
As a former child, I can assure any parents who are reading that it was entirely possible to experience heterosexual misery as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lady balls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
A sentient knee.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My suspicion is “yes”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cut number of police forces in England to as few as nine, review recommends⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
8 forces for doing what Israel’s Government wants, and 1 Force for all other crimes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Another classic example of someone suddenly and mysteriously becoming a “right-wing influencer” in an attempt to make allegations go away.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trio jailed after £80m of cocaine smuggled in lorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, fuck Boots the Chemists.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform Councillor Charged With Rape and Making Indecent Images of a Child⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Part of the Reform Party’s “thing” is apparently to have access to the “special lawyers who make allegations go away”, and I guess they’ve just been doing what they do best.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I stop unwanted shit like this being posted through my door?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I got one of these.

Fun fact: As far as I’m concerned (the law may disagree), anything which is posted through my door without my permission is completely 100% my property, to do what I want with.

Every image, logo, text, photograph etc - all mine. So I can scan, copy, paste, edit, adjust, reprint, repost everything wherever and however I want.

If they didn’t want me to do that, then why did they post it through my door? My terms and conditions are clearly displayed in a thought in my imagination. It’s not my fault if they’re too lazy to read them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police Threaten to Arrest Anyone Helping Protesters at Palestine Action Demo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
All the way back through every teacher that taught them right from wrong, all the way back to the midwife that delivered them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sadly it’s merely an “apparently” at the moment, sorry - and only based on a handful of other people having said so. I’d be interested in seeing any newer concrete sources myself to be honest.

I’ve had a quick look around, and there’s some older ones below, but it kind of sounded like something more recent - as is, I’ve heard several unrelated people kicking off about it in the last month.

independent.co.uk - How your entire identity could be sold for £30 on the dark web This is mostly talking about Discord-era stuff, and is from January.

Malware Bytes - 153M+ driver’s licenses for sale on new dark web platform This one is recent, but based on American data - so not directly connected to the “Online Safety Act”, other than a warning.

Daily sceptic - They Said it Was to Protect Kids. Now Your Passport’s on the Dark Web – and Your NHS Record is Next This is basically a year old - and again is mentioning the discord stuff.

parliament.uk - The Online Safety Act: implementation and impact This is official government paperwork about the OSA being shit, but doesn’t mention any specific incident

Metro - Hackers sell scans of 153,000,000 US driving licences – and drivers here could be next This is recent, and in a very widespread UK newspaper, but is covering a recent US related incident. I wonder if this is the source of hearing a lot of very separate people talking about it recently?

Anyway, sorry I can’t find more about it (yet!).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government to give £15m to anti-misogyny fund amid ‘manosphere’ concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yet they still allow GB News and The Daily Mail to exist and shout the opposite, every day forever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Apparently you can already buy bulk bundles of British passports and drivers licences off the “dark web” - I’m not sure if they’re newer porn site ones or slightly older ones from the Discord thing a while back (or anywhere else which hoards IDs), but to some degree this already has happened.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, it’s a different shape, in a different shaped package, with a completely different word on it (it’s not like a “Teebleroon” or something). There’s literally zero chance that someone could look at this and think “That must be a Toblerone”.

So, Mondelez can still fuck off and shove it up their arse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do Mondelez make a vegan Toblerone? No? Then there’s no copyright issue here. Fuck off amd shove it up your arse, Mondelez.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottled water and tinned food sales surge after UK government issues emergency stockpile advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think you’re right - but it used to be background information/recommendation tucked away somewhere on a website about flood preparedness or something.

This sort of ‘went out’ as a thing they were saying to do, and of course was picked up by news and media and repeated.

There’s a lot of people thinking “I forgot about that and never did get round to getting those things” along with people hearing it for the first time.

Mix that with “if they’re saying it out loud and publicly, maybe it’s a bigger issue than we thought”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d mostly like them to decriminalise peace protesting, stop taking orders from The Israeli government, and return basic human rights to trans people - but in the absence of any of those, this is still a win.