frankPodmore
@frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
London-based writer. Often climbing.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 1 hour ago:
Well, I actually agree with you, but actually the first quote was from The Times and the second quote was from Labour MP David Taylor.
I just thought it was fair to extrapolate that the reasons the government banned him were the same as those who publicly called for the ban, not separate reasons that no one who actually supports the decision has cited.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 10 hours ago:
Isn’t it nicer when we all get along?
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 13 hours ago:
I actually agree with Novara that Piker shouldn’t be barred from entering the UK but this headline is very misleading.
The UK government has said the ban is because of his use of ‘“antisemitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America” and comments about grooming gangs he made on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show’ and because of his support of a ‘proscribed terror group’ (i.e., Hamas). Nothing to do with his support of Palestine (I don’t think that Hamas represents Palestinian.s any more than I think that Putin’s party represents Russians).
- Comment on Farmer jailed for stealing hundreds of sheep 2 weeks ago:
Sheep rustling is such an old-school crime. It’s like being a train robber or a highwayman.
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- Too many drivers see road safety rules as a personal affront. It’s time to tighten up UK laws | Sally Kydwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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- 'I've been focused on ensuring we become a co-operative country' | Co-op Party general secretary Joe Fortune talks about Labour’s bid to grow the UK co-operative sectorwww.thenews.coop ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Green conference votes AGAINST energy company nationalisation 2 months ago:
Interesting that The Canary is now publishing this type of nonsense about the Greens. I always suspected they were more committed to ragebait than to any specific politics. This is evidence in favour of that thesis.
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 2 months ago:
Supposedly this is also the reason that most 2D platforming videogames scroll left-to-right.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I can just about fill in the handwaving myself, but it still felt a bit too vague for me. I guess I’ve never really been sold on telepathy as part of the Star Trek universe, so the more they use it (and the more powerful and plot crucial it gets), the less I like it. Still, I can’t deny that it is part of the universe, so maybe I should get over it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 2 months ago:
Only think that didn’t work for me was the Caleb/Tarima telepathy working like a psychic airtag for Anisha. Needed more explanation than ‘They have a connection,’ IMO.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x010: “Rubincon” 2 months ago:
Graffiti’d on the wall in the Atrium are the words “Break. Burn. Build.” Other visible graffiti include “Liberation”, “Take Change” and “Never Again”.
There’s also ‘Veni, vidi, vici, Venari’, which is a modification of Julius Caesar’s famous phrase meaning ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. With ‘venari’ added it could be translated as ‘I came, I saw, I conquered, I hunt’.
It’s also thematically relevant to the title, as it was Caesar who crossed the Rubicon (on his way back from conquering), and became dictator of Rome, similarnto what Nus Braka was trying to do in this episode.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 2 months ago:
I think when they just said ‘Yes, LLMs can steal your work’. That showed they don’t even care about property rights, which is the one thing the right have always pretended was their raison d’être.
- Comment on Head of Police Federation of England and Wales arrested on suspicion of corruption 2 months ago:
I guess well done for not doing that?
- Comment on Most Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds 2 months ago:
Agreed, I’ve also seen and heard a lot of this attitude, going back decades now.
In addition, I think that Islamophobia is very widespread in the UK, including among ethnic minority groups. Both white and non-white Islamophobes see anti-immigrant polices as a way to persecute Muslims and prevent more of them coming to the UK.
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- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x08: “The Life of the Stars” 2 months ago:
I thought it was interesting that the Doctor didn’t want to mentor Sam after he was so enthusiastic about taking the same role for Seven of Nine. This episode gave a solid explanation!
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 3 months ago:
Even if you use open source software exclusively, the hardware you run it on was still manufactured under capitalism, the hardware it was built on was manufactured under capitalism, the electricity you’re powering your hardware with was provided by capitalism, and the very economic system that allowed the devs to build and maintain the software… was capitalism.
None of this is in capitalism’s favour. That there’s no getting away from it is, for Marxists, a key argument against it.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 3 months ago:
I’m not a communist myself, but the last point is so fatuous that I think it’s fair to conclude that anyone actually making it is not arguing in good faith.
The first two, though, are completely valid arguments and you should respond to them by ceasing to describe yourself as a communist!
- Comment on Thoughts on Kanar 3 months ago:
Oh shit, that’s a good point, because it’s drying her out.
- Comment on Thoughts on Kanar 3 months ago:
Damar drinks it often on Cardassia Prime in season 7, and it seems pretty viscous there.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 3 months ago:
Nah, they’ve never jettisoned the nacelles. The warp core is the dangerous bit (Voyager jettisoned it, what half a dozen times?). I don’t know if the warp core on the Athena is floating but… maybe.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 3 months ago:
Yeah, the Athena’s wings are cool. But, again, the weird floaty bridge is… weird.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 3 months ago:
Another good episode! Really feels like the show is hitting its stride now.
My only complaint is a bit of standard fan whinging: I hope the detached nacelles go the way of the S1 Discovery Klingons. They just look so goofy.
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- Comment on Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China 3 months ago:
Europe? I don’t know her.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 4 months ago:
I want some warp core pajamas.
Right? Glad I’m not the only one! I also want Thok’s workout jacket thing.
- Comment on 2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast 5 months ago:
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
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