BrightCandle
@BrightCandle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 5 days ago:
This proved they will just use it for announcing their latest damp squid policies so zero point keeping it on, they are only going to abuse it.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 5 days ago:
Felt like an underlining of their new policy to
banadjust the guidelines to voluntarily stop the use of disposable BBQs. They are under a lot of pressure to actually do some mitigation since water is running low and crops are failed but apparently this was the actual action, banning BBQs and alerting everyone to that new guideline!!! - Comment on [Video] British granny in a wheelchair escorted by a gang of police officers for supporting Palestine Action, risking a 14 year prison sentence for supporting terrorism. 2 weeks ago:
Labour Friends of Israel. Its a group inside the labour party that are strong Zionists and their members are now in charge of the Labour party and the government with strong ties and bias towards Israel. They have been using increasingly authoritarian measures to put down anyone criticising Israel and its actions of genocide in Palestine and expansion into the West Bank.
- Comment on Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare 3 weeks ago:
Labour is going to get a lot of disabled people killed it seems, it has chosen them as the scape goat and is blaming them for the nations finances. Its disgraceful open bigotry.
- Comment on Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage 3 weeks ago:
The UK sure has become a fascist little backwater.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 3 weeks ago:
Really they all need to down tools until its revoked. Every one of them is risking criminal charges for doing their job, that is unacceptable.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
I bought physical disks until they were basically phased out. A large chunk of them just registered on Steam and downloaded the latest patch before they would run anyway. I have been against Steam and its DRM for a while, but everyone else chose to have no rights to their games, no ability to sell or loan them or give them to others. You will own nothing and love it.
- Comment on Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP 5 weeks ago:
The most widely accepted discrimination is actually disability discrimination, its so popular MPs routinely engage in it as does the press and many of the public engage in it so frequently that most disabled people face it every single time they are out in public.
- Comment on We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? 5 weeks ago:
Covid infections and a Long Covid are a big part of the problem now, that is manifesting in an enormous list of problems and newly disabled people. Its causing so many different chronic conditions that science is beginning to wonder if viral infections are the cause of almost everything. Its one disease that the NHS refuses to even diagnose correctly and certainly doesn’t treat after it shut down all the Long Covid clinics. 4 million new chronic health sufferers that know they have Long Covid from the GP patient survery and a further 6 million that aren’t sure.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 5 weeks ago:
The children have been marinating in repeated Covid infections now for 5 years after restrictions were lifted and one of the consequences of Long Covid is heat intolerance. Now we are subjecting them to constant excessive and potentially lethal heat in classrooms that often don’t even have opening windows let alone Air Conditioning. They really don’t care if the children survive at all, just that the parents are forced to work so the billionaires can get a bit richer and own ever more of everything.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 1 month 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' 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Such prejudice from Ofsted is unfortunately nothing new.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 5 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 10 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 11 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 1 year 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!