BrightCandle

@BrightCandle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe its genuine on his part then and he isn’t playing dumb he just doesn’t actually realise that Labour has been bought and paid for by the rich and wealthy since the end of the 90s. He does keep thinking he can get Labour to change tune, yesterdays interview on channel 4 he is still talking like Labour can be pressured into wealth taxes to save themselves from wipe out in 2028.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By not admitting this is actually something the government is intending and helping happen. He is treating the powerful as if they are unaware of the impact of what is clearly their chosen strategy and what will happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Gary likes to play dumb and assume this isn’t actually the goal of the rich and powerful all along but they have been executing this class war now for 45 years. Its not likely its new and its had universal support from every government since the early 1980s. It is what the ruling class wants, because they get to own everything and live even better. There is a reason you can’t get Labour to do anything about it they have been pursuing this intentionally since the 2000s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Media fined after hanging up on customers trying to cancel contracts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They made billions as a company last year, they certainly made more out of this stunt than the piddly £28m fine. Handly worth the regulator bothering if its not going to actually take an action that dissuades them from doing this again. Just the cost of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games and the same approach with digital rights management of downloads will do the same to the consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofsted drops ‘clumsy’ and ‘offensive’ guidance linking autism and extremism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Such prejudice from Ofsted is unfortunately nothing new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why The Economist hates wealth taxes.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wealth taxes aren’t really about raising more funds for government, they will but its not the goal. The problem is the wealthy have all this excess money and they are driving up the price of everything, houses especially but other assets too and taking wealth away from the rest of society. The goal of wealth taxes is to try and slow that process down, no one yet is talking about reversing it but we really should be because the level of inequality is unsustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there’s no legal “too hot to work” temperature in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically it needs to take account of the wet bulb temperature since the UK has quite a varied humidity and it also likely needs to account for exertion as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After outliving 6 Star Trek TV shows, Star Trek Online deserves more love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish the ground combat was better or entirely ignorable because its not as good as the space ship combat aspects of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Ranked Second-Worst Place in Western Europe for LGBTI+ Rights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK is going backwards on social issues really fast at the moment as the far right has grown. Its going to get much worse after the next election if support for parties stays broadly similar to what it is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The disease might not show symptoms for around 1-8 weeks, which at the top end is 56 days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The antisemitic cartoons in 4 newspapers have been appalling. The press has been an absolute disgrace in this election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will definitely take in the order of millions of years to recover from what humans have done to destroy the habitat. The species will destroy will likely never return, the planet in a million years time will bear the scars of the Holocene extinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the public has been voting for this the entire time, giving the rich all the money seems to be an immensely popular policy. They are under enormous amounts of daily propaganda but its been obvious the entire time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a period in the 2000s government made racism unacceptable and the racists went into hiding. It didn’t change views it just hid them, now they are promoting bigotry in many forms and those views are coming out. At no point was the people of the UK tolerant, there is about the same number of racists its just whether politicians have emboldened those views or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the sales of public assets have resulted in drastic reductions in services and increasing costs. The water, electricity, post, gas and more it’s all just worse. Ths key infrastructure can’t just fail making them a very bad idea to be in private hands without very strict service requirements. We badly need to elect a government that will fix what is clearly broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Drax is an ongoing horrible scandal. The theory was that you could burn replaceable trees and wood waste and replant it and then at the very least it was a cycle, all be it a cycle that had a massive lag of many years before the CO2 was once again captured by new tree growth and the old coal power stations could continue on with this new fuel. In practice its repeatedly been caught cutting down ancient trees that wont be replaced from Canada and the USA. It should not be receiving green subsides its just accelerating the climate crisis and despite its relatively low energy output its the biggest contribution to CO2e production in the UK power system because burning wood is so inefficient.

  The iamkate and gridwatch sites (grid.iamkate.com and www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk) don’t seem to know quite how to classify it with the iamkate putting it into blue alongside nuclear and templar just noting in its description a link to the scandal but also including “bio” in its renewable graphs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The real value of uplink was that it was a game about hacking, it wasn’t trying to be realistic it had artificial tension added as well as simplified concepts but added gameplay around that. Almost all of the modern hacking games are much more realistic and capable but also miss what made Uplink the iconic game which is gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Its been so long I can’t see ever receiving the game I paid for on kickstarter. We seem so far away from having that game with single player and friend group hosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ Director’s Cut Is Finally Coming to Theaters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The movie was ok but I am not sure I want to watch an extra hour of it when seeing it again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The console market ever since the PS3 and xbox 360 has been a leech on the PC platform market. They turn up every X years apart to buy a cheap GPU and CPU on a chip and demand rock bottom prices for volume and pay for none of the research and development in the intervening years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s just corruption. As we have seen government works by giving their friends the work at crazy markups with no requirement anything be delivered. The end result is lots of people getting rich off government contracts and low quality infrastructure at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The mod packs just keep coming and there has been a number of interesting packs since 1.20 was released.

  Its got a billion accounts its the most played game in the world ever so its surprising to find it so far down this list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The two trailers put out on the Star Trek Youtube channel definitely didn’t calm my concerns about this movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK wastes most of its graduate talent, much of it ends up in jobs other than what the degree is directly in. Despite quite a lot of great Computer Science and Engineering universities most of the reasonable paid jobs have historically been in finance. As inequality gets worse and worse the Uk is becoming a county of serfs and lords once again with a poor populace and very rich owners. Its what people keep voting for so its what they want but it confuses me everytime people vote to be lorded over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Food is the big one that clearly has to change, its not possible to reduce the CO2 impact of meat and that will have to change. Its also going to be required to change the gas boiler for a heat pump or electrical heating, cars to be replaced by Electrical Vehicles and to stop using airplanes. The electrical side which is making progress is only about a third of the CO2 production and all the other things also need addressing.

  What a lot of personal CO2 calculators currently do is conflate primary CO2 production (your burnt the fuel in your device) and secondary (you bought electricity from a company) but things like meat and airplanes we know there isn’t a technical solution to reducing CO2. The same is not true for transit miles and other goods which often get included but which could largely be made with electricity given the transition that must occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The war on the disabled that Labour is committed to will bring further shame to a country already getting called out for crimes against humanity against disabled people in the UK. Labour seems to be worse than the Conservatives in its treatment of the most vulnerable in our society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The laws of physics mean that no matter what we do with carbon capture it is never going to be cheaper and less energy to emit it and then capture it again. This is a foolish endeavour the focus should be on the green transition with Wind, Solar and Storage combined with ensuring infrastructure is there for Electric Vehicle transition. This is the sort of investment the fossil fuel wants governments to make that will have no impact and allow them to continue to emit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Satellite Reign, I guess its not very recent since it was nearly a decade ago!