wewbull
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- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 6 hours ago:
Talk about new-speak.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 6 hours ago:
What’s liberal about what’s going on? It’s all authoritarians keeping the population under heel.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 6 hours ago:
No way that’ll happen.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 6 hours ago:
It’s not just economic. Its a road towards societal disaster. We’ve been on it a long time but has accelerated of late. All of the post-war social democratic values have been abandoned and replaced with paranoid protection of the rich and powerful.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 6 days ago:
GPS isn’t the most reliable thing when travelling in a metal tube, through tunnels, and arriving in big buildings with Victorian iron roofs.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 week ago:
Dancing in your slippers, right?
RIGHT?
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 1 week ago:
Spherical cows is the one I always hear.
- Comment on Gotta Smash 1 week ago:
The centre would need to be somewhere between them for this to work. Insanely Capitalist merged with a bit more moderate capitalist… The best you can hope for is toxic goo.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 1 week ago:
What worries me is that they’re stealing a little bit of Jupiter’s momentum every time. If they’re not careful it’ll fall towards the sun and we’ll have a Jupiter landing on our heads.
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- Comment on Spelthorne Borough Council Public Space Protection Order 1 week ago:
Conservative 14 Liberal Democrats 10 Labour 7 Independent 5 Green 2 Ind. Conservative 1
Five of the independent councillors sit together as the ‘Independent Spelthorne Group’, the other sits with the Conservatives.
for me that makes 20 tory councillors.
It would be interesting to know how the vote went. My guess would be 27 to 12
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 weeks ago:
I guess I wasn’t trying to say there’s absolutely no-one that idolises homelander. Some people watch Star Wars and want Darth Vader to win. There’s not many of them, and social media tends to amplify the “edge lord” opinions.
Just that I thought sometimes pearl-clutchers can see people enjoying something that contains horrific aspects and interpret it as meaning those people support horrific things.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 weeks ago:
Anthony Starr is knocking it out of the park. Amazing performance.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 weeks ago:
The comics are from long before Trump. (2006-2012) Homelander is just what happens when you give a flawed person Superman powers. That’s the whole premise of the Boys. “What-if superhumans were real people with real flaws?”.
He’s the manifestation of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 weeks ago:
The Boys is great because it explores how horrific a world like that would be, and how close that world is to ours.
Thankfully I’ve not seen people fawning over Home Lander. I see people say they exist, but I do wonder if that’s drive-by people mistaking fandom of the show for fandom of Homelander.
The guy is a forever child whose insecurity makes him a monster. You’re shown how all his “romantic” relationships are about him being mothered. He literally keeps breast milk in his fridge. He’s an infant given god like powers. There is nothing inspirational about him.
He’s a great villain though.
- Comment on Thames Water says new Abingdon reservoir could cost bill-payers up to £7.5bn 3 weeks ago:
That’s what our bills are meant to be for. Not lining the pockets of shareholders.
- Comment on Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount 3 weeks ago:
At least the ones on the north east coast are close to the wind farms.
The ones around London are in the worst place imaginable. We all know the state of Thames water, and it’s got the least excess power. Scottish wind farms keep on getting curtailed at great expense. We literally have power to spare up there, but I expect it’s the financial services firms saying they need low latency links to the financial markets.
We’re a country with a gambling addiction.
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 4 weeks ago:
Personally I hate the “one MP per area” aspect of our system. You only have one person to raise issues with and they may not be sympathetic to your views.
Multi-member constituencies it’s much more likely that you can get your issue heard by someone who won’t dismiss you.
- Comment on glamorous dinos 5 weeks ago:
Those dino-hair stylists knew what they were doing. I wonder why we haven’t found parts of huge hair dryers though. 🤔
- Comment on Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition 5 weeks ago:
Fair
- Comment on Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition 5 weeks ago:
That’s just Minority report. That seems ok compared to where we’re headed.
- Comment on Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition 5 weeks ago:
How does this end? I can’t see how the surveillance state keeps going without things snapping at some point.
- Comment on ‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed this in the town I grew up.
They’ve recently added on three housing developments at the edge of the town. There’s no local shops. No pub. No pedestrian or cycle routes to connect it to anything. No schools, community halls, doctors surgeries.
No town planning whatsoever. You buy a house and are expected to just exist in it.
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 1 month ago:
Sure
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 1 month ago:
Most child abusers I know of are white.
I think you have blinkers on. There’s a lot of baggage around this in lots of cultures.
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 1 month ago:
I’m not allowed to see that. I live in the UK.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, is considering overruling the UK Supreme Court over a £44bn car loan commission scandal, the Guardian can reveal 1 month ago:
The 2008 banking crisis was different IMHO. A banking collapse would have bankrupted millions of people in the UK. They then imposed rules requiring the banks to restructure to make sure customer banking is isolated from investment banking. The intent being to try to make sure they can be allowed to fail next time.
What Reeves is trying to stop happening now is exactly what those regulations were designed to allow happen. Financial institutions feel the consequences of their own actions.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 1 month ago:
Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It’s those that people remember him for.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 1 month ago:
It was 1941, and not seen as valuable by the Germans.
The British built Collosus in 1943 and used it for code breaking.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 1 month ago:
The Z3 was relay based in 1941. (Germans)
Collosus was 1943 and based on valves. (British)
The Harvard MK1 was in 1944. (Americans)
There was a lot of parallel development going on at the time, all converging on solutions.
