HumanPenguin

@HumanPenguin@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Malicious communications.

  So basically the officers knew full well they have 0 chance of a successful trial. As no way any court will consider the intent to cause distress.

  But instead are openly acting to silence inconvenient speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation 4 inconvenient people were silenced by officers. By forcibly removing them from the scene. Knowing full well the CPS will likely not press charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who were the key figures at the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And being a zombie means a steam roller may catch him.

  We just need to find a working one to borrow…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DWP imposes 'gagging order' on disability experts ahead of PIP review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is basically the government via DWP. Openly saying, we plan to ignore these experts and do not want voters to know.

  Every MP needs to be connected in large numbers. Told this is totally unacceptable as a gov policy.

  Silencing the advisors used by a government to base laws. Is non democratic and totally unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour urged to create ‘national occupational health service’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You cloths really smell of alcohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked up. The crossbow law you may have mistaken.

  Technically it is still legal to own and carry long bow. But not to use to hunt. The laws requiring Englishmen to train have been repealed, and carrying arrows must be safety tipped in public. So it’s not practical. But if you have a safe private space to practice (100m from public access).you do have a technical right.

  But again carrying when. You are clearly not travelling to hobby shoot, is likely to come under offensive weapons act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawful reason is pretty open to court interpretation. Job or pass time has tended to require actual appointments or indication of intended visit. Carrying in any way as an every day thing will tend to involve it being classed as a weapon.

  I have a fairly large knife (far from a sword) strapped to the inner door of my brother’s and my little narrow boat. As on the canals and rivers it is a genuine safety need to cut ropes or remove branges weeds etc.

  But even walking with such on the towpath without a direct need has lead to friends arrest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it. Pretty much like any weapon you are required to have a lawful reason to carry. As hunting with them is illegal. Carring every day is fairly easy for a cop to question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour urged to create ‘national occupational health service’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Surly creating a new organisation with different motives to the NHS. Is hardly an effective way to manage ill health. This is literally a org with the same goals as the DWP under tories and Starmer. Just with a nicer name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the right has always been able to ignore inconvenient facts. They are very skilled at denial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He is not worth 650bln. From 380 to 415 depending on source.

  The vast majority of that is in shares. If he started selling those shares (or giving them away) in the numbers indicated. The value would drop faster then he can sell them.

  So while he most Def could bribe all MPs. It would be a hell of a lot less then a billion each. Unfortunately MPs are way way cheaper then that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer has rigged the deputy leadership contest so no one to the left of Thatcher can win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically no yet.

  This will sound insignificant but it is a result of the intentional set up of Your Party

  All MPs that currently support Your Party are classed as independent. Because ATM no one has the authority to appoint them as Your Party MPs.

  This is an intentional side effect of the Founders of Your Party preventing actions exactly like Starmer is doing here.

  By making the very structure of the party democratically run by membership. And requiring MPs to be selected by local party groups.

  Until the conference where members will choose a name and agree to processes/rules for the democratic selection of MPs leaders etc. No MP can be any more then a member of the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the speed it was covered. I’d not be surprised if it was a court employee. (Janitor etc). Who has a ongoing job of covering graffiti. likely due to rules of political independence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of fish will be the least issue.

  Every time the bottom is trawed. Huge amounts of CO2 is released into the atmosphere.

  The ocean base stores way more then any Forrest’s etc.

  202p study estimated trawling releases between 8.t to 9.2 billion tons a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or ATM any recent PM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Labour being owned by business interests/billionaires is no longer a suprise.

  But the fact they seem less able to hide it then the fucking Tories. Truly is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s Trade Unions Are Turning on Keir Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Def possible. But given starmers use of anti terrorism laws to silence opposition.

  I’d not be so confidence of one more democratic election.

  I can Def imagine a near future where the US shuts down elections over questionable world emergency.

  And the current government declaring a WW2 like ending of elections alongside them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Mandelson lauds Trump as ‘risk-taker’ in call for US-UK tech alliance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As early as it is to launch into godwins law.

  It is worth remembering in the late 1930. Many UK politicians and media barrona were suggesting alliances with Hitler.

  It’s disgusting that somany in both the UK and US. Either fail to see how much alike the situations are. Or genuinely do not consider it a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Secretary Peter Kyle thinks AI is just a few years from becoming as smart and capable as a human — and he wants the U.K. to prepare.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech Secrettary Peter Kyle has fuck all idea how modern AI works and how limited it actually is.

  IE it is in no way capable of comprehension. Only pattern advanced matching. Comprehension will always be needed to be as capable as a human.

  Hence why taco bells attempt need to be programmed/trained how to reject order of 18000 cups of water. While a human would automatically know such was not considered normal or acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Six arrested after red crosses sprayed on house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not entirely true. Yes flags have always been used when tribes etc go to war.

  But historically those same tribes often considered the result of winning a war. To include absorbing the population of the other. Tribe. Or the outsiders.

  Many different attitudes towards those outside members have existed with different nations and tribes over time.

  Vikings for example were nothing like the image we see in movies etc. those images were created by a single British priest as open properganda,

  He is documented as having declared them as stealing UK woman by being over clean and inclusive of their wants and desires. (Paraphrased)

  Rome was I little more questionable, but very much encouraged outsiders to join their culture. Not just as slaves. That generally only applied to opposition fighters. And those who refused to see Rome as the authority. But their Class system very much placed Rome born above others. But much like modern western nations. Immigration into Rome for employment as free citizens was very encouraged for those with any usable skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope Sorry.

  A GB news presenter is not all reformers, (yet)

  Added to UK law on self defence is very anti predictive risk as a motive. You would be required to show the reformer had a gun or some other intent to harm you. More accurately that you had reasonable cause to feel threatened.

  Now if reformers actually started doing so. iE you had evidence that GB news presenters had been successful in inciting such attacks.

  You would still need to show evidence you though the reformer was going to attack.

  So no shooting random reformers presenting no evidence of holding a weapon or aggression. But you would have a much easier time convincing a jury etc that you thought his fishing rods were a riffle.

  I hope this advice helps with any decisions you may be forced to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest a cool to kill disabled is less an ofcom broadcast issue. Then a police incitement of violence/riot issue.

  I mean it is clearly both and ofcoms answer is very much as expected given the current govs attitude to the right wing.

  But the police duty to arrest the presenters for calling for views to hunt down and kill disabled people. Drastically outweighs the broadcast licence issue.

  Anyone who saw the show should be calling the Met Police and reporting a crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You get a max of 2 free. It’s only summery dismissal the court ruled against. Following disaplinery procedures is still available to your boss,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do the vaste majority know what they did. They know Starmer as a lawyer successfully defended very similar actions under the Blair administration. As not criminal due to intent to save lives.

  The level of hypocrisy within the current government is beyond belief. Starmer is clearly the puppet of someone. What or who is the only thing up for debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Queen was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager, book claims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple Google search on why Camila is not consort will confirm it.

  Consort has not historically been used for the exact reason I indicated. In Pre Stuart time. More Pre Henry 8th. As he was more deeply religious then most kings before him. Hence the divorces and CofE. It was common as a tittle for the kings Favourite Courtly female.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Queen was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager, book claims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except Charles Banned the term Consrt as out dated when he was Corrinated.

  Paraphrased seriously

  Consort has negative historical conditions. IE as a sex partner rather then a real wife. As Queen Regent Vs Queen already separated a sovereign from a kings wife. He ruled the Royal family. While Prince is used for a Queen Regents Husband. Using consort was not appropriate in this century.

  My personal opinion Camila disliked the term. And honestly I would not blame her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an old fart. Bike Lighting in the 80s. Not seeing well may be understandable, but most were more then able to avoid what at the time were rarer parked cars. Excessive shopping carts dumped along cycle tracks etc etc.

  Given how insanely good available bike lights are now. Not to mention cheap to buy and power. Compared to the tungston bulbs and D-cell batts of then. There really is no excuse. For poor lighting.

  We never really had reflective clothing then. But police would pull you over for no lights. Travelling any distance at night without lights was really not an option. At least in a urban area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not visible in the dark?

  That is in part why cyclist legally needs lights in the dark. If you cannot see what’s in front of you. Slow down. It may be a pedestrian and or a disabled person.

  This is defiantly inconvenient. And a big oops.

  But the idea it is dangerouse due to dark. Is a compleate failure by some cyclists to recognise their own responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s last local currency axed due to rise of digital and card payments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I vaguely remember it being on the news when it was created. Such setup were never that common. This one was only created in the early 2000s. The design was to try and compete against huge international companies. Allowing a step above barter form local companies and customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s remember. Years of DWP using sanctions inappropriately is why private landlords started refusing to take anyone on benefits.

  2010 changes in how benefits sanctions were used and the randomness of “non targeted job centres” sanctioning Universal credit. left landlords unable to really on benefits claiments to pay rent at all.

  Due to that many cancels we’re forced to use other methods to house low or no income homeless.