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- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 15 hours 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 months ago:
Here comes Telsa V2G.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 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 3 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.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 months ago:
Electoral college isn’t ideal, but the two party system is worse. It’s just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It’s false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That’s a better reflection of real politics.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 months ago:
Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don’t bother.
Frankly, I blame those who didn’t vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK’s FPTP is deeply broken, but it’s dysfunction is nothing compared with the US’s duopoly.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 months ago:
It didn’t work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn’t the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 months ago:
I don’t disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I’m disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on “it is us, or Reform” which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 3 months ago:
What’s great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.
The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn’t have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won’t fear vote splitting as much.
It’s one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 4 months ago:
Reform is a pro-Russia party with members jailed for Russian corruption. Farage is just good at it and not been caught.
Reform would give MAGA the UK. Traitors. Reform is full of Brexit people when Brexit massively damanaged the country. Traitors. Reform would privative the NHS screwing over all the but the rich. Traitors.
Magnet to the worse of the Tories.
Let alone the blatant racism and intolerance of any diversity. I refuse to tolerant their intolerance. It must be challenged or we’ll end sinking into a hell hole like the US has (and is still descending further).
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 4 months ago:
Their leader is a Putin man.
www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/…/887348060902269/
(Sorry this Led By Dockers video seams to only be on Facebook and Instagram)
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 7 months ago:
GB “News” is a blight on the media landscape. Calling itself “News” but says it is just “entertainment” so doesn’t have to follow news standards. That needs to drop them in a world of trouble. They need to be made an example of so we don’t get more of that.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I’ll never hear, or read, that phase the same again!
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Makes me think of Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 😀
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 7 months ago:
And the politically sane should be pushing back hard. If you can legally have misinformation labelled “news” we have a massive problem.
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 7 months ago:
It’s very simple. You can not call yourself “news” and not come under news regulations.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 8 months ago:
Scale is everything here. That the problem.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 9 months ago:
To be fair, those selling AI spades make money from this AI gold rush.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 9 months ago:
I agree we should be trying stop the ethnic cleansing Israel is doing. But I do think we should be catching those who want to take refuge here due to connections here. Also, Britain did create the Israel/Palestine mess.
I can’t speak to want Arab countries are doing or not doing. It seams they are interesting in maintaining good relations with Israel more.
- Comment on The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine 9 months ago:
While I’d like to see this, in our rising fascist anti-immigrant political climate, where even the BBC mix up migrant and refugee, it seams unlikely. These are brown Muslims compare with white Christian of Ukraine. Despite attempts to make it illegal, there is a lot of pro-Palestine support, but I don’t think that will translate to a lot of support to bring them here. It should, but won’t. Britain is losing it’s soul.
- Comment on Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why 9 months ago:
Private health companies often use the same facilities and stuff as public health. It ends up basically paying to jump the queue. Also the private health companies take the low risk, glamorous stuff and leave the complex, high risk, unglamorous stuff to public health.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 9 months ago:
Classic podcast on why printers are terrible. Planet Money with none other that digital freedom fighter and SciFi author, Cory Doctorow.
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 10 months ago:
Being that post war Britain has defined itself as Britain’s greatest hour was defeating the Nazis, this isn’t a wise thing to say.
This is a weak point of the British Far Right. They can’t wrap themselves up in the Union Jack and claim to honour Churchill, while actually being Nazis. It’s a weakness of us those opposed to the far right need to be pointing to a lot more.