fakeman_pretendname
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- Comment on Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest 12 hours ago:
That’s not what I would have given him.
- Comment on Greens demand political donation cap to end political grifting 2 days ago:
They appear to be a right-wing troll. I think you can safely ignore them.
- Comment on Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns 2 days ago:
Somebody needs to “Yewtree” Christopher Harborne’s computers.
“Reclusive billionaire who moved to Thailand” is a euphemism for a reason.
- Comment on Delivery firm Evri sues BBC for £1.2m over Panorama documentary 3 days ago:
Maybe instead of suing, they could stop and think “Why is our company so bad that Panorama has to make a programme about us?”.
- Comment on Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’ 4 days ago:
Yes, but they also need to persuade the selfish or right-wing parts of the government and population that it’s okay to do this.
- Comment on Week-long heatwave due in England with 34C peak in south-east 5 days ago:
I wish I had your optimism! I didn’t realise the UK’s humidity could go below 60% (I must admit I don’t exactly keep an eye on it all the time).
- Comment on Heat waves hate this one WEIRD trick 6 days ago:
For a moment I thought “Why has that guy got a small Barbara Hepworth sculpture on his stepladder?” before realising it was a hat on its side.
- Comment on Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage 6 days ago:
Perhaps you just dislike whoever is being the biggest dickhead in any given situation?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Why do you always call them paedo flags?”
*gestures at various news articles*
- Comment on Academy school leaders in England face pay cap to curb ‘banker-style’ salaries 1 week ago:
Both is fine too.
Maybe a national maximum wage. How about 5x the average income? What about 5x the minimum wage?
- Comment on Millions of Britons urged to submit meter readings before energy price cap rises on Wednesday 1 week ago:
Better yet, pre-pay for your energy at the current lower price by inflating your current meter reading.
- Comment on First major hydropower projects in Great Britain in 40 years given go-ahead 1 week ago:
Brilliant. A nice spot of forward-thinking there.
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Those hotels aren’t exactly giving their “best deals” either. They (or the companies managing them) are charging the government £140 per night for rooms that would normally be less than half of that, or wouldn’t be used at all because they’re not up to standard.
The anger for some reason is directed at the people “just trying to live” and not at the companies deliberately doubling their prices to steal from the country.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
That’s not just a fun fact - it’s a useful fact :)
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Got you, a fancy cold-blowy box :)
I think I’ve seen one of those once in an office somewhere - though I feel like that one blew out warm air instead/as well (I may be mistaken).
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
What is that?
- Comment on Amongus 2 weeks ago:
I fully love your calculation, but I fear there’s a 1 in 1 chance this is photoshopped.
A lot of those green containers in the Among Us/Loss have a little white square in the top left and a sort of white rectangle in the top right, suspiciously identical to the ones next to it.
- Comment on Met Office issues Red Warning for Extreme Heat for record third consecutive day 2 weeks ago:
We name storms.
We should name deadly heatwaves after major polluters and climate-change-deniers.
- Comment on Work begins on UK's new £750m supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
Due to the cost of Graphics Cards, RAM and Hard Drives at the moment, £750m will only get them a fairly standard desktop these days.
- Comment on Parliament spending £2m a week to stop crumbling palace falling down 2 weeks ago:
As a child, when our school was crumbling a bit too much, they put some Portakabins at the other end of the playground, and we did all our lessons in them.
Can’t they just put some Portakabins at the end of their yard and do all their politics in them, to allow the main building to be cleared out and repaired properly?
If some pissy little primary school could afford it in the 80s, I’m sure the houses of Parliament can.
- Comment on As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers' 2 weeks ago:
It would be a shame if Badenoch and Farage got heat stroke mid-speech, like being Charlie Kirked by the sun.
- Comment on Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape 2 weeks ago:
A right-wing party leader? Says homosexuality is harmful deviant behaviour? Anti-abortion? Pro-creationist? Northern Ireland’s answer to Reform?
A child-rapist and sex offender?
Gosh! I’m so shocked!
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
Ah, got you. Apologies for my rant :)
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
[…]it seems pretty similar to age-based tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, or gambling restrictions to me.
Weed isn’t legal to buy in the UK, so we can ignore that one, as you don’t need to use ID.
As for tobacco, alcohol and gambling, these are based on “If you visually look under 25 years of age, we’ll ask for ID to prove that you’re over 16/18 etc”.
If you go into the shop, and visually look 30 or 40 years old or whatever, no ID is required.
If you show ID, the person in the shop looks at the ID, then gives you it back. The interaction ends there.
They don’t care what your name is. They don’t store the ID. They don’t record that “this person with this ID bought these things”. They don’t create a database of who you are, what you buy and cross reference it with other things you do, places you go etc. They don’t follow you home and see what you do with the alcohol/tobacco/gambling - they leave you alone, none of their business.
Online scanned ID is stored, databased, cross-referenced, attached to online accounts, bank accounts, mortgage accounts etc permanently.
Say for example, “Reform” become the next UK Government. In local councils, they’ve been trying to ban/cut funding to/actively oppose “gay stuff”, “woke stuff”, “trans stuff” and “autistic stuff”. They want to crack down on things like “women’s rights”, “trans rights” etc.
Suppose that’s our next Government?
Suppose they’ve got a database of passports and photos and addresses of everyone who’s ever said or done anything gay/“woke”/autistic/trans?
Was it worth it?
Instead of just putting fucking parental controls on admin accounts on phones and computers?
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the opposition is anything to do with restricting young people’s access to poisonous social media - the problems are in application:
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Applying it to any and all possible websites which have a comment section
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Instead of local computer admin account options, which could be implemented safely at home and easily complied with by any website, large or small, they’ve chosen to go with the same method as their porn ban - every person over that age must upload a scan of their face, a copy of their passport etc etc and freely give this information over to proven untrustworthy websites
All these websites must use “authorised age checking technology” from “our list of approved vendors” who are not trustworthy, and sell on the data.
Even if those were secured, once people have normalised “please scan your face” on websites, it’s very easy to set up a scam site to trick photos and IDs out of people. Horrific security risk for everyone in the country.
Anyway, the face scanning software is easy for large corporate websites to put in place, plus they get extra data gathering for free! This is difficult for smaller hobbyist websites to put in place, so it’s easier for them to simply block the UK, like many already do.
Basically, the social media ban would include things like Lemmy, or small obscure hobby forums, and using them would be illegal (for website and user) unless they could be tracked to your scanned face and photo ID.
So if, in future, I were to say something like “Israel is not 100% correct about everything” on Lemmy, that can be easily tracked back to my name, face and address - and currently, that carries a risk of imprisonment as a “terrorist”.
Basically it’s literally nothing to do with kids at all, and simply part of a larger plan to destroy and privacy or anonymity on the Internet.
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- Comment on How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet 2 weeks ago:
When we were younger, one of the first things we were taught about using the internet was “Your personal ID should never be used online”. This is still true.
“A small drop down menu in the administrator account of a computer or phone, to set the age range of the other users”
Plus
“Adults are responsible for their own children, and should set these age range flags on any devices the children will use unattended”
That’s all we needed.
Another glorious victory for criminals and spies.
- Comment on Islamic Ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Probably worth doing in both to be fair.
I have no idea what has been said in the Commons unless it’s significant enough to be reported on - but as you say, it’s the correct place to ask such things.
If you also want a bit of public support though, the public need to be aware of it, and twitter still has a lot of users, and its posts appear to be “newsworthy”, at least to some news places.
- Comment on HGV drivers given bogus medical tests in the back of a vans 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, that’s just businesses competing and improving standards in a race to the top.
- Comment on fruit flavor without the fruit 2 weeks ago:
If you skipped the sugar and instead added some salt, and a little cheese, this would be lovely meal (p.s. I am British).
- Comment on literally 451° 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I wondered if it was only because we’re used to it - if the book/film had been called “Celsius 233” all along, then perhaps it would work just as well?