ianovic69
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- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
I was living in SW London then, I even joined Twitter hoping to get news on local trouble more quickly. I did see a few very dodgy looking chaps hanging around in twos and threes but nothing happened.
Oh except a shop front glass got smashed over in New Malden high street. It was big news until the reports confirmed it was the owners had an accident.
It’s not like the old days when we could have a proper riot like in Brixton or Toxteth. Ah those were the days…
- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
Pockets, and with the further threatened riots being closed down by anti racism demonstrators. It’s over egging it for views.
Telegram clearly has much less users in the UK, but I don’t think it’s nearly as unknown generally as the article declares.
My issue with these points is not that they’re inaccurate, but that the article uses them in a sensationalist manner.
It’s poor journalism and it removes credibility.
- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
As riots swept the U.K.
fringe social network Telegram.
Yep, you need not read further.
They did not “sweep” and Telegram is far from “fringe” in the UK.
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 3 months ago:
Your prejudice is showing, mate.
Everything you’ve said is complete nonsense, you should get out more.
- Comment on ‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost 3 months ago:
At the University of Birmingham…
Yeah, Seven Trent Water (and Thames Water) could really do with updating their technology, dowsing is a bit old hat these days.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
First world problems, eh?
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
Discovering how quickly pollution levels dropped was eye opening, I’m sure a lot of people noticed the reporting on that globally.
Sadly it may never happen again, but I hope it does even if it’s after my lifetime.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
Oh look, a day off for the environment. I’ll take that as a win.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
And Waitrose is only taking cash FFS!
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 4 months ago:
ways of improving the sector’s performance.
Hmmm, I’m sure there’s a simple solution to this but…no, it’s eluding me.
- Comment on Growing Old 4 months ago:
Now realise that when you reach 75, on average, you will have been asleep for 25 years.
I have tried to reduce that average but it takes it toll.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 4 months ago:
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I don’t want to hear about his latest stunts and I particularly don’t want to have to see his mug.
Can we keep anything to do with him away from here and leave it in the political communities please?
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
No publicity is bad publicity, especially when you are trying to remind people what the world is being destroyed by.
Sites of human history have no significance if there are no humans.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
And that response right there, that’s why we are all fucked.
I read today that major banks are starting to move investments away from fossil fuels. Your mentality has about as much foresight.
“Self-centred,” the fucking irony.
- Comment on BBC uncovers 6,000 possible illegal sewage spills in one year 5 months ago:
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- Comment on PIP 'unsustainable' in current form as Stride to announce benefit changes 5 months ago:
Get the lazy cunts back to work, that’ll stop them foreign cunts coming over here and taking our jobs!
Or something…
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 5 months ago:
It absolutely amazes me that grown adults willingly put themselves in danger for the sake of a company that specifically instructs them not to, and therefore obviously does not care about them.
HR can and will hang them out to dry without any comebacks.
It’s disgusting and I tell staff this when they join and I repeat it often.
And they still do it. Which can end up with having an investigation and dismissal. You can’t help some people.
- Comment on Rwanda bill set to become law after protracted stand-off with Lords 6 months ago:
I hate this government more by the day. Cleverly even said more bullshit about stopping boats, the cunt.
- Comment on UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance 7 months ago:
I…I can’t believe they would do that!
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 7 months ago:
Amazing. Those few moments when everything seems to stop and go quiet have stayed with me.
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 7 months ago:
I too am in the Midlands and also went to Cornwall in '99.
We should start a Missed the Eclipse club or something. At least in Cornwall we got to experience the daytime darkness.
- Comment on UK secretly softens policy on Chinese firms accused of human rights abuse 8 months ago:
Of course. They aren’t going to let silly things like human rights get in the way of bungs and profits.
- Comment on Tories face 1997-style wipeout at next election, large poll suggests 10 months ago:
Should be the minimum requirement. Wipe out the lot of them. Public guillotine seems effective.
But seriously, they say that with age people become more Tory and less tolerant. I’m becoming less tolerant of Tories.
I think we all know what’s needed is total government reform though. We can’t go on letting them get away with this self serving, unaccountable nonsense. But I have no idea how that could be done.
And while we’re at it, unfettered capitalism needs to be reigned in. Suggestions gladly received for both.
- Comment on Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project 11 months ago:
It’s been this way for a while now.
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 11 months ago:
Road infrastructure brings much more wealth than the tourism at this site. The little A road from SE to SW is always jammed because of the stones, it hasn’t been able to cope with the traffic for years, if not decades.
Of course, any other option than road expansion isn’t going to allow enormous contracts and associated bungs and favours, so destroy our heritage it is.
I feel like I just issued a press release on behalf of .gov/tfl
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- Comment on A Metal Detectorist in the U.K. Has Discovered Two Ancient Roman Cavalry Swords Once Used for Fighting on Horseback 1 year ago:
Ahh, Detectorists was great.
- Comment on Designs chosen for mini nuclear reactors 1 year ago:
There can easily be enough renewable energy generated here for 100% of our needs 100% of the time. In fact much moreso.
Any suggestion otherwise comes from nuclear, oil and gas industry misinformation.
Batteries as they are now are not going to help. They are too costly, environmentally damaging, human exploiting, and only make Mr X even more wealthy.
We don’t need them and we certainly don’t want any of that or him. They are all lying so that we don’t make renewables. Every time there is doubt, they are winning. Every time there is a debate, they are winning. When anything delays the move to renewables, they are winning.
I don’t want them to win.
I want us to win.
- Comment on Designs chosen for mini nuclear reactors 1 year ago:
overbuilding renewables and building lots of battery storage.
I’m not convinced that we need much battery storage. If there’s enough being generated, less storage is needed. It’s another fossil fuel argument intended to sow doubt.
Nuclear is probably cleaner than building that many batteries…
Even if it is cleaner, we need the funding directed at renewables. This isn’t even debatable; renewables now, other stuff later once the emergency is under control.
The micro reactors aim to (hopefully) reduce the main issues with traditional nuclear power.
Again, this doesn’t help us now and actively hinders our ability to address global heating.