jabjoe
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- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 1 week ago:
Yep. Not just the gamed algorithms, but also the lack of fact checking and moderators. All the guardrails removed, and then algorithms pushing unhealthy engagement.
- Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist 1 week ago:
The problem with Amazon is one their anticompetitive practices is that you must sell on their platform cheapest to allow to sell on it. Even before you taken into account their own global postal services.
These guys want voting with your wallet as their wallet is a lot bigger. If any competition looks like real competition, the monopolies buy them.
Consumer choice isn’t going to solve this.
- Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist 1 week ago:
Also tax the megacorps. The massive American tech monopolies are hooving money out of the county. In Amazon’s case, while selling cheap stuff that doesn’t comply to our market’s regulations. All of them are bending or just breaking our laws. They aren’t too big or American for us to tackle. We can tax them properly and make them comply with the laws. Though we can’t really break them up, like should happen in a sane system.
- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 1 week ago:
I think if you go after the real issues, you are making voters looks at themselves. Which they won’t like.
- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 1 week ago:
How does this protect us from Boomers voting based on what they read if Facebook? Or Karens on mumsnet, or divorced dads and incels on X?
I worry about that much more than teens seeing porn or LGBTQ+ info.
- Comment on How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit 2 weeks ago:
This is the big thing that needs talking about. It is damagingly hypocritical for law makers to be making anti drug laws, when so many of their front men are coke heads. Legalize, regulate, tax and move on.
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 month ago:
I wonder if the humour of the song wasn’t coming over well in the other cultures. That the Kraftwerk mock styling was done with love. Maybe many thought we were just taking the piss, not of ourselves, but of them.
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 month ago:
Afghanistan and Iraq? Already dominating music industry? Being rubbish at languages because they all speak ours? Even in the EU, we were “Extrawurst” all the time. Denominating finance (partly with dark money).
Even before Brexit, we made ourselves unpopular.
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 month ago:
The maximum times they can. On as many phones…
- Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think the problem isn’t always our entries. Look Mum No Computer was fun and kind of smart and cheeky. Kraftwerk inspired. It should have done better.
Sam Ryder is so exceptional the anti-British settlement feel away. His character and voice talent shines so bright.
- Comment on Two UK men convicted of putting explicit content on OnlyFans without consent 2 months ago:
This needs to be treated as such a serious crime or we’ll get much more of it. We also need to educate our mids why it’s bad for everyone.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 3 months ago:
Was thinking of the Trump assassination attempts. Though it nearly always a rightwing but jobs, even when it is a rightwinger being killed.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 3 months ago:
Next supprise will be he is actually a crazy ringwing nut job who is upset she said something that was not right wing enough!
That seams to be the pattern of attempts on rightwing politicians’ lives.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Commercial closed source loses because of the profit motive to cut corners and make anti-features. Plus little to no independent peer review. Also legacy stuff can’t just be recompiled or ported by anyone, so ABI has to be stable for a long time. Even new stuff, can’t be all compiled to the same one version of every lib, so basically ever program has it’s own version each lib it uses.
Plus they have a big user base locked in, so they have to take whatever they are given. So motivation to be good is low.
Just so many reasons!
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 months ago:
Agreed. Do all the things!
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 months ago:
Completely again, but I don’t see that as either or. We need both. This is the coolest summer we might have in our life times. I’m genuinely concerned we are getting ready fast enough of what is coming. I mean it could swing the other way if the gold stream stops, or we need to deal with crazy cold, and maybe crazy hot.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 months ago:
We know this is the norm for summer now and only going to get worse. We can’t rebuilt all our buildings for this new climate, but we can retrofit active cooling. We need a nation program of ACs for hospitals and schools.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 months ago:
Aircon is an air to air heatpump. Normally they can run in either direction.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 months ago:
Have been a while. The American tech monopolies and their awful business practices have been with us decades. Been “too big to fail” and “too big to jail” for a while. Just now it’s in everyone’s faces.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 4 months ago:
I don’t think you remember https before. Snowden’s revelations kicked off LetsEncrypt and the much broader deployment of https.
- Comment on Tell your MP: End the Big Tech Rip-Off 4 months ago:
Done. Good on OpenRightsGroup pushing this. More this is highlighted the better.
- Comment on Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m 4 months ago:
These American Big Tech monopolies pump money out of our country, and many other countries. They are parasites enfeebling us all.
- Comment on Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles | Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels 6 months ago:
Well that is going to start causing panic for fossil fuel companies and petrol heads. Important mile stone. Cheaper upfront and cheaper running costs.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 7 months ago:
Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 7 months ago:
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 7 months ago:
No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Nazi always were a bit camp… All a bit homoerotic, but always closeted.
Tragic really, before crimes against humanity drown out any sympathy.
- Comment on Tesla wins licence to supply electricity in Britain 7 months ago:
Here comes Telsa V2G.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 8 months ago:
FPTP is the simplest and least representative. Worth reading about different systems out there.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 8 months ago:
More often it is Conservatives, also on about a third of the vote, and that has deeply broken the country, but I take your point.
I’d like score/rank voting based mixed member.