jabjoe
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- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Have used it actually, but it’s not as good. Also we know some dairy farming families and they aren’t torturing their herd. Though you are right, I don’t really care about the fate of them. As long as their isn’t real sadistic cruelty. In that instance, I worry more about what it says about the people.
I’m far more interested in the environmental impact. I can’t seam to digest meat substitutes (even when they are meant to be coeliac safe). We make a point of restraining our beef consumption due to the environmental impact, as it’s the worse meat impact wise. I’d jump on lab meat and milk.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
You need people to choose it. Pricing dairy and meat away from the masses makes it a social inequality thing. I don’t think that is the answer anyone wants. It can’t be a hair shirt thing. (Though if history is to go by, there will be affordable meat from somewhere, legal or not.)
It has got to be a better option thing. Like EVs vs ICE. Climate and pollution advantages are nice, but it’s 10x running cost difference that sells EVs. It has to be a jam today option.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Agreed, but the problem is butter is really nice. We something as good, or better, that doesn’t use so much land and water create so much CO2 (well CO2e).
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 1 month ago:
Solution for butter at least : cbsnews.com/…/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-il…
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 1 month ago:
The north wasn’t set to join up the Northern cities. Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, New Castle all needs better connection. Going by rail East/West is terrible. Birmingham to London wasn’t even going to be much faster.
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 1 month ago:
Not sure if you mean in the UK, but in the UK, I think it is hard. We had the politically lead Beeching cuts that messed up what we had. Then those lines had homes and shops built on them. So there a numerous places in the UK cut off from rail that are hard to reconnect without causing a lot of upset. Building new lines is very hard, see HS2 debacle. However, HS2 should have been focused on join up the north, not linking it to London. Also, there is a lot of improvement possible on existing lines. Though won’t get us to bullet trains.
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 1 month ago:
The car is king is the problem. Which is dumb. Also, in densely populated Europe at least, with private property right, and hundreds, if not thousands, of years of legacy, environmental regulations, it’s hard to build train lines and stations. Also, the rich own so much of the country’s wealth and power, and they just fly, so don’t care.
- Comment on ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head 1 month ago:
Authoritarian governments need to be pointed and condemned. Make it clear this not the way to go, to own governments as much as anything.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 month ago:
They call themselves news but don’t follow the rules of TV news, you know, be balanced and truthful, because they say they are entertainment. The whole point of a license is to stop that kind thing. It should been long gone.
- Comment on How a high-speed ocean chase led to an £18m cocaine seizure in Cornwall 1 month ago:
There is no way the system isn’t riddled with officials making money from drugs being unregulated and untaxed. So they want it to remain as is. Then there are DailyFail idiots who just want drugs (but not their wine) illegal.
Anyone with half a brain can see we should just legalize, regulate and tax drugs. We waste so much time, energy and money fighting ourselves.
- Comment on VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in 1 month ago:
Shocking and completely unpredictable…
- Comment on Call to make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways 2 months ago:
That is why they should pay. They advertised them as flushable and they most certainly are not.
- Comment on Call to make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways 2 months ago:
You mean we pay? How about we take water back and make them pay for the clean up?
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 months ago:
I hadn’t explored block lists on bsky. Just looked, and added a few, though it is seams focused on anti MAGA/fascist/racists stuff. Pressing subscribe to get to block is not initiative.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 months ago:
Clearly people want BlueSky for very different users cases than me. TBH, it’s not been an issue for a while now, maybe because I’ve blocked so much of it when I started I guess.
I always had “Show NSFW content” unchecked, so it should never have that shit come up.
To be clearly, I don’t support them doing this. Unchecking “Show NSFW content” should have always worked. If that doesn’t work reliable, why will this identity verification privacy invasion.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 months ago:
“The laws in your location require you to verify you’re an adult to access certain features.”
I’ve got kids who are always looking over my shoulder. This sounds like it will make my feeds safer. Cleaner feeds is threatening me with a good time.
Is BlueSky really the place for that kind of thing anyway? I certainty don’t like it popping up unannounced, on any platform.
- Comment on Russian Imperial Movement: how a far-right group outlawed by the UK is spreading terror across Europe 2 months ago:
I know people who are for Brexit and pro Scottish independence. I ask if they want cities independent next. Frankly I don’t really speak to them any more. I’m too disappointed in them.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 2 months ago:
FPTP is going to give us a Farage reich with less than a third of the vote.
The voting system desperately needs changing. The left needs this more than the right as it’s always more split. It’s more idealistic, less comprising. Reform/UKIP/Brexit has been the right’s split from the Conservatives, but Labour has LibDem, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens and now more.
- Comment on More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before 2 months ago:
Can’t talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don’t see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 7 months ago:
Confirmed. No boom : www.worldometers.info/…/uk-population/
- Comment on Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report 7 months ago:
Pretty sure there are professional right wing trolls flooding and popular social media. MAGA backed, Russian backed, etc
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 7 months ago:
Amazon? They probably want Waterstone to. Competition
- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 9 months ago:
My preference is score/range voting. Then there is no vote splitting.
- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 9 months ago:
He should also get rid of FPTP now. If he doesn’t, the sane vote will be split Lab, Green, Lib and maybe Plaid, SNP and maybe Con. While the nutty vote all goes to Reform and they get in with like less than a third of the vote.