HumanPenguin
@HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 3 hours ago:
No you do not.
The idea that any marriage meets some pre difiend rules about spending. Is just a mythical unicorn.
Many men and women by cars without consulting the other party. This is very common when both parties are high income professionals.
They would involve each party arranging independent loans. Or in this case being a criminal arsehole.
Sorry to tell you this. But your understanding of marrage money management. Is a hold over from the pre 1974 period. Where women were not legally allowed to own or borrow money. Without a husbands permission.
Yes many many couple still think of money as a joint responsibility. More so with lower income couples. Because it is harder not to.
But it is far far from exclusive to all marriage’s. And many independent career women. Simply would not tolerate it.
As an old fart myself. Yep I’d find it uncomfortable living in such an environment. Even when I had a high income. I still had the ideas of someone raised working class. But me ex wife most definitely did not feel the same way. And her stepfather’s abusive history had a lot to do with that.
Bit she is an extremely example. The idea of independent financial management between 2 married career people. Is far from uncommon.
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 15 hours ago:
400k over 12 years. 33k a year.
Year seems huge to most low income families.
But 2 people earning about 150k a year.
10+% annual income. Is less noticeable. I can see why the police did not laugh. Just investigate and Ok for evidence she was directly informed.
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 16 hours ago:
Exactly. While few of us can honestly claim we would have done better in her situation.
She was the leader of the party. And the theft literally happened under her nose.
Yes we can all understand. She was busy. Not an accountant. And in her own words they were both high earners.
400k over 12 years. 33k a year. Is likely less noticeable then lower income families would have.
But she was the head of the party. And anyone else would expect to be held at least in part responsible. Even if they understand the missing of the actions.
- Comment on Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds 16 hours ago:
As they should.
No billionaire spend huge investments on something. To increase Thier labour expenses.
Any one old enough to remember the days of early robotic automation. Where the government and billionaires claimed it would creat new higher paying jobs. And not reduce working hours.
Can also remember how much easier it made moving those jobs to lower income nations,
Same billionaires claimed the internet would create huge numbers of skilled jobs. Again moving them to cheaper nations as soon as was possible.
The only reason AI can possibly be worth those same billionaires investing. Is to remove the few jobs left in high cost nations. And to start to remove the lower cost nations employment.
It is utter fantasy to think any single billionaire. Is going to stop and worry about who earns enough to bu their shit. While competing to gather as much wealth as possible. Against only other billionaires. They will just compete against each other. Until ones get to call themselves king.
Caring about workers. Just as much as their cared about the serfs that worked their land.
- Comment on A convicted NHS surgeon who froze his own legs so they had to be removed has been struck off the medical register. 16 hours ago:
And while being mentally unstable. Is a very valid and important reason to not practice medicine.
Making a news article about it. Is just horror porn. So the article written has little to harp on about.
Doctor did dumb stuff to himself proving he was not suited to practice medicine. Is far from a nessesery need to inform the public.
- Comment on River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution 5 days ago:
Unexpected but great solution.
Now can we do it for every other waterways.
- Comment on Five toys on sale in Britain found to contain asbestos in tests for Guardian 1 week ago:
And Brexiters will still claim.
Farrrage could have convinced the EU to allow us to do the same to every member nation.
- Comment on McDonald's boss on abuse claims: 'I don't want to talk about the past' 5 weeks ago:
Going bankrupt is a great way to avoid such questions.
And conveniently happens when you refuse to show customers. How you plan to ensure abuse stops.
- Comment on I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer? 5 weeks ago:
You realise a no confidence vote. Only means an election when the party in power has a narrow or no majority.
In most cases it would mean remapping the leadership of the existing party. Definitely here. It would mean a new PM. But with Labour not only having a majority. But also having removed left of centre MPs. Actual changes would be minimal.
- Comment on I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer? 5 weeks ago:
More concerning. Either the FO made a political decision without PM authority. Indicating the PM dose not have control or confidence of the government.
Or the PM ordered the FO not to inform him. Meaning he had suspicions. Indicating his claim of not knowing. Is a lie to parliament.
Both of these events should very much mean a call for a vote of no confidence.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 1 month ago:
Many daft ideas existed in the 14 century.
Humanity grew out of most of their shit.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 1 month ago:
Yes gender is a made up concept.
But sex is also not binary.
So ideas like biologically mailed are just that. Ideas with no real merit.
Biologically XY could be used. But without clear medical evidence. The BBC has zero idea if that applies. And people are known to be born female. To the po8nt of getting pregnant with xy chromosomes.
And while documented cases are rare. They are rare because it is rare that anyone is actually tested,. So how common is not really known.
- Comment on Nurse wins settlement in trans pronouns dispute 1 month ago:
Yep. A desperate attempts to not take sides while ignoring actual science.
And with everything BBC not taking sides translates to supporting the arseholes.
- Comment on Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast 1 month ago:
What a crap title.
Never seen a folk living near to any fossil fuel power plants who are unemployed.
Yeah sounds just a fucking ridiculous as a statement doesn’t it.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 month ago:
Unlikely. The difference is every retail employee in the nation. Is clearly told not to try and stop theft etc. Just report it.
And while the companies claim it’s to prevent harm to employees. It is very much to prevent employees or thieves from suing them.
ASDA and any other retail company. Would be held responsible for any harm done. By both failing to warn staff not to get involved. And failing to adaquotely disapline staff that do.
If ASDA was to hire this person. Knowing this happened. And then some event caused anyone to get injured. ASDA would go bankrupt.
- Comment on Minimum wage rises to £12.71 an hour as firms warn of impact 1 month ago:
The fact that this is a normal inflation based rise. Not in any way am attempt to make it closer to a living wage.
Makes it clear that companies complaining are not fit for survival. Or just lieing.
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 2 months ago:
Given he claimed to have head multiple officers telling others to shoot him.
With absolutely no legal motivation to do so.
Something needs investigating. Either his statements to the press. Or the utterly disgusting lack of professionalism shown by officers involved in the incident.
- Comment on UK-linked components identified in US Tomahawk missile used in Iranian school strike that killed multiple children 2 months ago:
No it’s the ball company that makes fake mason jars. (Well assuming it’s the same company. I honestly have no idea. But my point is)
Because the mason jar was made by Mason the company.
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 2 months ago:
Some Oil billionaire or 2 has paid him to help move his oil through.
Likely after paying bitcoin to trumps mushroom stains. Failed to convince the rest of the world to help.
- Comment on Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist 2 months ago:
The UK is one of the world’s biggest tax heavens.
We just allow foreign property ownership to provide a tax heaven from other nations taxation.
The UK introducing a wealth tax on both UK wealth and foreign owned property. Would be the first step to ending tax heavens,
And as soon as the billionaires etc decide to move their wealth from property. Capital gains tax is assessed.
- Comment on Yvette Cooper rejects Blair’s call for UK to have backed Trump’s strikes on Iran 2 months ago:
Fucking disgusting. The right wing as a whole ignoring the clear fact. Voters in no way support this war. Or Israel’s actions as a whole.
It is so fucking clear that the rightwing is not responding to political pressure. But billionaires funding their pressure to change voters minds.
Their was a time not so long ago. Where all political donations to parties were expected to go via the party.
It is amazing how personal donations have expended in the last 30 years. With huge Coralation to the growth of wealth inequality moving the UK to the top 10 most unequal nations. Matching the push to the rightwing for those at the top,
- Comment on ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised ritual abuse, UK experts say 2 months ago:
I lived near a house in the UK. Where in the late 70s the same rumers of satanic abuse and witchcraft cults existed. As a so called cult had been arrested.
Turns out to have been normal child paedofilea abuse. And a political cult. Just locals turning to satan and witchcraft. As a way to make it seem further from their own beliefs.
As chat got etc is trained on human responses. This is likely exactly the same. Folks seeing political figures acting like scum. And desperately looking for ways to define them as different to their own beliefs etc.
Just as every xtians church dose when priests or members are caught being sick arseholes.
- Comment on UK launches consultation asking for views on under-16s social media ban 2 months ago:
They ask. But will only give a shit about comments they personally benefit from.
IE ones that do not limit the billionaire owners bribing them.
- Comment on MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says 2 months ago:
Ain’t going to happen. Without folks joining parties that demand it.
PS it was voted as part of the YourParty constitution at conference. That no your party MP can not have a second job. Or accept any form of non party donations,
The donation thing was expected of all parties until recently. All this billionaires and foreign funded think tanks donating money to individuals rather then parties. Did not exist in the 90s.
What labour leadership Tories and reform dose now. Is new,
- Comment on Record number of rough sleepers in England last year, official figures show 2 months ago:
Useless alone. But absolutely any one of your possible answer is a fucking important one
And clear indication that some change is harming people in the UK.
- Comment on Why this school will ditch a shirt, tie and blazer from its uniform 2 months ago:
Because school head teachers think it makes the students look well managed.
Think for a moment about UK history. Very little to non of it was implemented to ensure poor people were treated equally. And the introduction of uniforms was no more so.
Back in the day it was about wealthy schools looking like they were preparing students for work life. iE uniforms tried to match the idea that successful students would have to wear suits.
And as such uniforms were mainly used in city schools as more rural schools tought for farming or mining communities. Not office jobs,
In the 70s as less farming or mining jobs were expected.more schools tried to introduce dress codes to force dress standards for children expected to have to do so once working.
- Comment on Why this school will ditch a shirt, tie and blazer from its uniform 3 months ago:
That assumes those with money. Will not go separately to buy clothing. While those without telly on the school.
Sorry but that is not the way it will work. Just because schools are required to provide the uniforms. Dose not mean their will not be a market for uniforms outside the schools supply.
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 3 months ago:
A case being “The Crown vs. HRH King Charles III” is perfectly feasible. The monarch being subject to law is a concept that goes back over 800 years.
Except the concept has not. At no point in that history. Has any UK king or queen ever been tried by anything other then parliament itself.
And the one time parliament did it. It was done in parliament exactly because the constituency of the crown being different from the current monarch is not well defined. It’s only separation definition is in the right for ownership and duty to be passed.
Other then the king. The only people fully free of the justice system. Are MPs when acting in parliament itself.They are not free of the whole justice system. They have limited parliamentary privileges mainly related to what they can say without consequences, but they couldn’t murder their opponents.
Actually no that is not how the sovereignty of parliament in defined.
Yes actions are only free of judicial jurisdiction when acting in parlimentry session. But those actions are in no way related to speech alone.
While no an MP could not murder someone during parliamentary session.
The normal justice system would not be responsible for protecting that person. Parliament will. This is exactly why the tower of London was originally considered the be the kings and then parliaments prison. And not the judiciary.
This is why parliament has a chief Marshall to enforce it’s authority. And why the tower of London has it’s own guards independent of the UK police and military.
While this all seems to be just of historic interest. And honestly the orders (people involved) are no longer armed or trained in a way that would be official to actually enforce the law. Not to mention the tower is no longer in a position to provide a reasonable or effective prison.
The legal structure has very much not been replaced in any way.
And if (cos I am biased after all.)
N Farrrage was to suddenly jump up and strangle J corbyn during PMs questions.
It would be an odd situation. Likely in 2026 it would involve parliament and the Chief marshall asking the met to actually help out. And quickly passing laws to support it. It would not be automatic.
- Comment on Why this school will ditch a shirt, tie and blazer from its uniform 3 months ago:
You may want to look at school funding and the attitude of the last 1t years of government to such.
Before considering that the future of school provided uniforms will be any newer or in any better condition.
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 3 months ago:
International law dose not exist. It is just a collection of treaties signed by different nations that they agree to. IE it is entirely contract law.
And given how little the UK has cared about such agreements. IE openly committing genocide. Against the Geneva convention treaty. Arresting protesters and abusing disabled people against the ECHR treaties.
There is absolutely no way parliament is going to consider any of them to outright override UKparlimentry sovereignty.
And when you remember our constitution literally applies the historical authority of the king. Being passed to parliament. Any agreement we sign. Is very much only down to the current majorities willingness to follow.
A point very important to remember given current polling for the next election.