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- Comment on US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser 4 weeks ago:
Chrome has achieved its utter dominance through its sheer push on Google.com, YouTube and all the high traffic channels they own.
If chrome is unbundled, it’ll have to compete on equal terms with Firefox. It will truly and thoroughly help.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
I agree with everything you’ve said.
I think if Starmer said “we aren’t going to raise tax on personal income, but on capital gains” he wouldn’t have to tie himself in knots trying to define “working people”.
I’m not trying to split hairs; it’s Starmer (who I, for clarity, support) that’s refused to be clearer about what he intends to do and ends up having everyone debate what “working people” means.
The challenge is that they clearly what some kind of threshold where personal income is also additionally taxed, and that’s when “working people” becomes a weird “I’ll know it when I see it” debate.
FWIW, I’m in the highest tax band and I support raising the highest tax band AND raising capital gains tax. It’s not Labour’s intent I disagree with, it’s their crappy own-goal communication style.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
I’m curious about your definition of shareholder; what if I owe £80 worth of fractional shares in an app-based investment service? Does that make me a shareholder?
- Comment on UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register 2 months ago:
We give 300 million a year to the RHS! Those money should go to bri’ish chargers running on bri’ish phones!
- Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 2 months ago:
Most western states are looking at bleak prospects in terms of keeping their welfare system going unless the citizens have more children.
Either that or accept immigration, which many western states don’t want to do either.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
I’m saying that many jobs require frequent travel. Software engineers will need to attend meetings in other offices, salespeople will be out with potential customers, customer success staff will embed in other offices, people at all levels and in all functions will need to travel. CEOs need to travel too; if you think the CEO of Amazon or similar sized businesses can do their job from a small office, I would wager you haven’t been very close to the demands of C-level in a business that size.
What makes you think I’m defending Amazon’s CEO to somehow protect my own future? I’m arguing that many jobs require travel, and that’s also the case for any CEO.
I personally work in a fully remote business that has never been anything but fully remote. I’ve made my bed and I’m laying in it very well thank you.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
I’ve been fully remote since COVID and have successfully argued for my team staying fully remote. I don’t for a second buy that a team works better in person, provided you make the right changes to your culture to ensure remote works.
I’m a fan of remote.
But come on, thats false equivalence and you know it. Of course a CEO isn’t in his office 5 days a week; mostly likely he is travelling 3 weeks out of 4 and the last week he is actually in his nearest office. You would expect a CEO to move around their business. If they sat in an office every day they wouldn’t be doing their job.
Look at the job description and then decide if a role can be non-office-based.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
I mean … ehm … so … ok …
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
TLDR; she became prime minister (PM) because some powerful forces in the conservative thought she would be easy to control (they were right), she instigated a borderline libertarian, trickle-down tax reform, the international money markets went insane (because it was borderline insane, unfunded and left no doubt as to her ineptitude), the U.K. economy took a massive hit - and all of this within a week or two - and it became crystal clear that she actually was indeed exactly as inept and dumb as she looked, so she was replaced because while everyone in her batshit crazy party was like “tax cuts for the rich”, enough of them understood that for the money markets to have any confidence in the U.K. economy couldn’t actually be run by someone with the intelligence of a lettuce. Fun fact, a newspaper ran a “who will die first, this lettuce or Liz Truss?” live video stream of a lettuce were proven right; the lettuce outlived her.
I’m missing a lot of detail that can best be summarised as: Liz Truss is a shining example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 4 months ago:
Man I miss him.
- Comment on Southport stabbing: Man held as eight taken to hospital 4 months ago:
I’m not actually sure about Britain, even though I’ve lived here for 23 years, but in the country I come from there is something called “treatment punishment”, which is basically “you’ll be in treatment until you are well and safe to let out”, which is basically a prison for the criminally insane. Conditions are similar to prison but instead of being under education and having to work, you’re under treatment full time. If not responsive to treatment you’ll sit there forever. The average span is 22 years IIRC but some sit there for the rest of their lives. The mad professor who murdered a woman he had invited onto his home built submarine is in there, for example.
- Comment on Southport stabbing: Man held as eight taken to hospital 4 months ago:
It’s 100% mental illness and lack of treatment options. It doesn’t mean we should feel sorry for the perpetrator, but everyone’s a victim here. It’s just a horrid situation all around.
- Comment on What is Firefox supposed to do? 4 months ago:
Come again?
- Comment on Meatly Receives UK Approval for Cultivated Meat in Pet Food 5 months ago:
They’re only introducing it to pets because it requires very few approvals compare to human consumption. Once it’s worked for a few years (assuming) and their production systems have ramped up, seeking human approval will be much easier.
Pet food is a stepping stone.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 5 months ago:
What else is a career politician going to do? Join the work force?
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 5 months ago:
What a cretin.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Are there people who can’t smell a coffee wee? You’re blowing my mind.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Same as asparagus wee. Man, when anyone has eaten asparagus I can smell it before I enter the door to the bathroom. When I have eaten it myself, I’m partly horrified and partly morbidly fascinated. What the fuck is up with only some people being able to smell it.
- Comment on Mushroom ID 6 months ago:
Wikipedia says the death cap tastes quite pleased, reportedly.
- Comment on Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes 7 months ago:
Yes, let’s make that thing that WORKS in every other country illegal. British laws for British people!!
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 7 months ago:
Banking security is so bloody awful it’s insane. I just want a passkey.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 7 months ago:
Yeah. I’m sure the Chinese manufacturers will get on to this right after faking the CE markings. Any second now…
- Comment on Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care 8 months ago:
Why is it a show trial of a study? In the article it seems Mermaids is supportive of the study.
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 8 months ago:
Yeah it has. The demo aspect became smaller and smaller and with the advent of internet penetration even the copy side of it dissipated. It wasn’t the same at the end tbh
Still, fond memories of coding, sleeping under the tables, eating junk.
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 8 months ago:
Same as The Party in Aars, Denmark, in the 90s. Every table had a sheet. Cross out the IP you picked.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I would agree with your suspicion but it’s got to be said that their public statements are pretty clear: It is coming.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yeah they should have run their own Mastodon server but I can understand they want to reach the Threads audience and until there’s two-way sync Threads it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I know. My point remains the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Groan. I’m on a mastodon server and a full believer in the free market. Can we not force this left/right conjecture onto server choice too, please?
- Comment on Jump Ship Plays Like a Mix of Sea of Thieves, Left 4 Dead, and FTL 8 months ago:
It might have started a 4/10. By now, it’s touching 10/10 IMHO. But of course you have to like the kind of game it is.