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- Comment on Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard 2 days ago:
ActivistTerrorist - Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 4 days ago:
I was in a hurry when I wrote the previous comment, but I would also like to point out that when something is both (a) a natural monopoly and (b) has a lot of positive externalities, it is the least appropriate candidate for privatization possible. If somebody wants to do it even despite that, it’s entirely justified to question their motives!
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 4 days ago:
“Somebody should make a profit off this because it’s more efficient” and “my cronies should make a profit off this because it helps me” are different, but the distinction is so minor in practice that lots of normal people rightfully don’t give a shit about it.
- Comment on How do you verify that a used bike that you're buying isn't stolen? 1 week ago:
Only buy bikes being sold at a fair (not suspiciously low) price* from sellers who can answer questions about specs/condition/history.
(* Being offered a bike for free from somebody who wants to get rid of it is an exception to this, obviously.)
- Comment on Question - Retro Handhelds 1 week ago:
What is “1G1R”?
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 1 week ago:
I would get a smart trainer (that you attach a real bike to) for Zwift etc. rather than a whole indoor exercise bike.
- Comment on Was anyone able to catch the 4K remasters in theaters for the 60th anniversary? 2 weeks ago:
I was planning to see The Voyage Home, but I was so frazzled by the end of Dragon Con that I thought it was on Tuesday, not Monday, and missed it. 🙁
- Comment on Thank you to cm0002 for reposting my meme from lemmy to lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
I like how the screenshots omit the instance, giving the false impression that it’s a repost to the same community instead of the reality that it’s a crosspost to the corresponding community on a different instance.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 2 weeks ago:
I was aware of the treaty and its role in circumventing the democratic process, but was not aware that the anti-cirvumvention bullahit was part of it.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 2 weeks ago:
“Safer” in this context meaning “a safer bet for the bank’s ability to reliably undermine your control of your device”.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 2 weeks ago:
So far, AFAIK, the “must use app to bank” problem is happening only outside the US where the DMCA doesn’t apply.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 3 weeks ago:
Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I actually think class has more to do with it than sexism in general. For example the first professional woman to play golf in slacks was in 1933, while the first black professional golfer was allowed in the PGA in 1967.
It’s weird that you keep saying only “class” when you mean both class and race. Yes, they’re correlated, but they’re not the same and both really are at play here.
- Comment on Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass. 3 weeks ago:
It’s because it brain dead “free market” cargo-cultism.
Merely not participating isn’t good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been boycotting WalMart for 25 years, but regrettably this has not put them out of business.
Something for folks to remember, when they try to pretend that boycotts are a good substitute for effective government regulation.
- Comment on The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim 3 weeks ago:
A ‘fun’ anecdote from Wikipedia about British attitudes towards non-white people swimming:
In 1844 a swimming competition was held in London with the participation of two Native Americans. The British competitor used the traditional breaststroke, while the Native Americans swam a variant of the front crawl, which had been used by people in the Americas for generations, but was not known to the British. The winning medal went to ‘Flying Gull’ who swam the 130-foot length in 30 seconds – the Native American swimming method proved to be a much faster style than the British breaststroke. The Times of London reported disapprovingly that the Native American stroke was an unrefined motion with the arms “like a windmill” and the chaotic and unregulated kicking of the legs. The considerable splashing that the stroke caused was deemed to be barbaric and “un-European” to the British gentlemen, who preferred to keep their heads over the water. Subsequently, the British continued to swim only breaststroke until 1873
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 3 weeks ago:
Or at least, publicly claiming to have done that and selling it to a jury as plausible, even if the actual thing that tipped them off was something else secret and inadmissible.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 3 weeks ago:
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
No. Kentucky’s governor should just immediately appoint a replacement, because the law requiring a special election was already unconstitutional (according to KY’s state constitution) to begin with.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 3 weeks ago:
Wish
he’dhis handlers would hurry up anddieannounce his death that happened months ago so we don’t have to keep paying him.FTFY.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.
It would still be an issue because (a) Kentuckians are missing half of their Senate representation, and (b) because his death is obviously being hidden for bad faith political purposes, to illegally deprive Kentucky’s governor of his right to appoint a replacement.
- Comment on US threatens Britain over Falklands 3 weeks ago:
Ah, so it’s not just bailouts and tainted beef trades; the US is fully adding fascist Argentina to its new Axis.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo's "hide ai images" option still shows AI images that are clearly tagged on the site 3 weeks ago:
Detection of AI is based on a list. Not some form of intelligent keyword matching algorithm.
“You said you wanted no AI, so we gave you no AI!”
- Comment on We don’t need 75-inch TVs, we need 75% off basic survival. 💀 4 weeks ago:
A small recompense for the huge prices they charge the rest of the time!
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 4 weeks ago:
There are also “speed tables” that are even longer and are flat-topped with sloped sides.
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 4 weeks ago:
These days they’re just as likely to hang up on you instead of transferring you to a human.
- Comment on Christmas is upon us 4 weeks ago:
Home Depot and Lowes have Halloween decorations in already, but that’s almost kind of reasonable. Ish.
Having Christmas stuff in August is just absurd, unless it’s one of those dedicated Christmas stores that’s open year-round for some reason. (Do those still exist? The only two I knew of near me either went out of business or became online-only years ago.)
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 4 weeks ago:
That user has a distinctly combative tone in general.
- Comment on Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections 5 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t even be voting anyways.
Well I’ve got some good news for you, then: they don’t and claims that they do are fucking lies!
- Comment on Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raid 5 weeks ago:
Anyway, I hope your faith in the British public continues to heal.
I hope the British public continues to increasingly act in such a way as to deserve our faith.
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 5 weeks ago:
Yoshi, because if I wanted the best acceleration acceleration the only other choice was the princess.
(I only played the original SNES version.)