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- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 11 hours ago:
Your reading comprehension leads some improvement because I never said I disagreed with it I just said it’s hardly the most pressing of issues and it isn’t.
As I am sure you know our primary source of food is not random allotments.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 17 hours ago:
I see he’s tackling the biggest issues first.
As with most of the things Corbin says I don’t inherently disagree with him I just think he goes at it like a bull in a china shop. There was a time and place to go full nuclear option and an arguement over allotments (assuming there is an arguement, because this is the first time I’ve heard about this) isn’t the place to do it.
Also name your goddamn party, it makes it so difficult to talk about it when it doesn’t have a name. Spend 10 minutes and come up with a name for frig sake, even reform managed it.
- Comment on US envoy to Israel taunts Keir Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing 17 hours ago:
Of course trump would have been on the side of the South. So the union would have probably won the war even more easily if they were going up against him as chief decision maker.
- Comment on US envoy to Israel taunts Keir Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing 17 hours ago:
I don’t like Starmer very much, but that’s a utterly stupid and incredibly ignorant thing to say. Especially from the US ambassador.
The UK was under attack by a hostile force who were literally bombing the country. A military response was inevitable, the current prime minister would have had very little effect on that. One way or the other there was going to be a war, victory for that war was largely down to experience military commanders and not the prime minister. I’m fairly sure that if we reran history and kept everything else the same except had Starmer as prime minister we would have still won the war.
In reality we might have done slightly better because Churchill was incredibly uncompromising and inflexible. A better relationship with Eisenhower might have actually helped slightly. Although it probably would have not made a huge difference.
- Comment on Car Park Capital - Official Announcement Trailer 19 hours ago:
There’s already a value recent theme park game, and of course you’ve got things like planet coaster.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 20 hours ago:
That would be a case for censorship if they reported the actual news but they don’t. They’re like fox news in the United States, they literally make things up.
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 2 days ago:
No much of my diet consisted of fact. Lots of cheese and lots of burgers and lots of fat and lots of potatoes.
I’ve benefited enormously from not consuming the things that make me overweight and instead consuming the things that make me fall thus resulting in me not wanting to have a giant McDonald’s meal.
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 2 days ago:
You don’t want to count calories that’s not the way to do it. What you want to cut down on his carbs, pasta potato that sort of stuff.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 3 days ago:
Somehow I can just tell where this photo was taken.
That is the most British looking paving slams I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 3 days ago:
There’s good evidence that homo sapiens didn’t invent the shovel. That was technology almost certainly taken from another human species, which suggests a fairly integrated society. You could imagine different species of human all living together, it is certainly behaviour that has been observed in other primates so there is precedent.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 3 days ago:
God these people are dumb.
Imagine thinking like that. Does this guy not know how technology works, has he been alive for only 5 minutes.
If you want to see the rapid progress of technology go look at video games, 20 years ago if you had 30 polygons on screen at the same time you were doing well, now we have photo realistic graphics.
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 3 days ago:
My sister is pregnant and she keeps texting me baby names.
I’ve tried telling her that it’s perfectly acceptable to have a boring name. She has a boring name, I don’t have a boring name I have a unique name, and I really wish I had a boring name.
Ultimately though you can stay safe by not naming any kid after a TV series character when the series has not yet completed, I.e. Khaleesi and ensuring the name is spelt in the normal manner, and not something like Kylie but spelt Kailee
- Comment on This is why FPTP is a very dangerous voting system. 3 days ago:
That’s definitely what it turned into.
But it was originally designed with good intentions and actually initially it worked too, the problem with our democracy is that it’s very old and no one ever updates it. Just look at the absolute mess that is copyright law.
The system was designed when there were loads of little parties, and they all had a fairly equal chance of winning an election. Then all the parties started to consolidate and we ended up with the three-party except it’s really a two-party situation that we now find ourselves in. No one intentionally designed things like this it’s just how things ended up. And now all the billionaires are taking advantage.
If we have a due change the system whatever we replace it with needs some stipulation somewhere that it will not be fit for purpose indefinitely and it isn’t intended to be a forever solution.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 days ago:
Look I have the diet of a picky 10-year-old. No 3D vegetable is allowed in my soup.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 days ago:
Yeah but you can get stoves that look just like that. A lot of them are actually induction these days rather than radiant, the main benefit being it doesn’t heat the kitchen up to sweltering temperatures.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 days ago:
The all new bond girls for the age of inclusivity.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 days ago:
Nah, I’m just lazy.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 days ago:
I used to work for a company that made these kinds of almost art pieces. You definitely got a certain sort of client.
To be clear you can actually use them to cook food, they do work, but they are definitely more focused on the aesthetics side of things than the functionality. Having said that they do have things like timers and different cooking modes.
They come with instructions on how to clean them and it looks like a hell of a process so I don’t think I’d ever want to cook with them.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
It wouldn’t though because rich people are rich. They can afford to be extravagant, they all moan about it but ultimately just consider it the cost of doing business.
You would actually have to implement laws that directly instructed affordable homes to be constructed, trying to pussyfoot around the issue Will just result in it not working.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
It’s not just that it’s everything that he does.
At some point he was asked if he would fire nuclear weapons in the event that we were attacked with nuclear weapons. It was a stupid question, and one that’s easy to answer, just say yes. You don’t need to think about it, you don’t need to analyse the hypothetical situation, just say yes you would, and move on.
But he turned it into this whole thing about whether the ends justify the means. Obviously he has a point, but that news conference wasn’t the time or place to have that discussion. The time to have that discussion is after you’re already in power, otherwise it’s pointless and refusing to give a straight yes or no answer just hands the media another weapon to hit you with. As they can say you’re indecisive.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
I don’t think Corbin should have been ousted but at the same time he literally to smear him with.
What concerns me about him is he thinks that having principles is enough, he thinks that if he truly believes in something that’s the end of it and no more thinking about the matter is required. Righteously or wrongly, if you want to make an impact in the political world you have to play the political game, and part of that means limiting your exposure to smear campaigns.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
I feel like Reform are more likely to split the conservative vote than Jeremy Corbyn is likely to split the Labour vote. Mostly because the left has a very complicated relationship with him, he’s truly awful at being a politician.
Meanwhile Farage is a good politician, he’s good at playing up to a crowd, he’s good at taking advantage of controversy.
Also of course signing up to the party newsletter doesn’t mean that you’ll vote for them when the time comes. A lot will be doing it to try and send a message to labour. I’ve signed up to the newsletter but I’m not particularly inclined to actually vote for them. Not unless labour gets substantially worse.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 days ago:
I agree with pretty much everything you say except the immigration thing.
If you actually look at the statistics rather than listening to all the rhetoric you’ll realise that immigration into the UK really isn’t a problem. The main problem with the housing market isn’t immigrants who make up a tiny fraction of the people looking for a house, the main issue is that consecutive governments for years on end have not built enough houses.
The reason for this is actually pretty simple, it doesn’t cost much more money to build a house that will sell for a million pounds than a house that will sell for £100,000, so contractors build loads of expensive homes because it’s more profitable. What the government needs to do is force a minimum number of affordable houses to be built per year. Make it so they have to build affordable homes
- Comment on Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games 5 days ago:
This could crush their main export.
- Comment on Anon saves up 5 days ago:
Won’t mine don’t. If you still have days they either make you take them or they pay them out, about 3 years ago I had about a week due and it was around Christmas I wanted to take the week before Christmas off but it wasn’t an option and they had to pay me the days back. They were very cross about, but it was their fault for miscalculating staffing.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 1 week ago:
How on Earth am I going to spot a mini submarine? What they think I’m doing all day, staring wistfully out to sea?
Nah I’m busy downloading this fucking VPN that I shouldn’t need. I’ve got time to look for their drug subs.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 1 week ago:
Good thinking.
Those are illegal in the UK now. Along with everything else.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 1 week ago:
The problem is it’s their customers are the ones running the railways and Postal services.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 1 week ago:
I wasn’t making an inflation argument. But if any game was worth $80 that would be that. I can’t think of another candidate that’s due out soon, possibly another Sims game but the zero chance of EA are going to do anything with that franchise for a while.
CDPR has a very ambitious project coming up, but I’m not touching that with an electrified cattle prod until after the reviews come out.
Maybe a CoD game depending on who is actually developing it and assuming it had a campaign.
- Comment on Heathrow Airport's expansion plans to cost £49bn 1 week ago:
I agree with you but there are cheaper cities. Practically everywhere is cheaper.