wewbull
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- Comment on Thames Water says new Abingdon reservoir could cost bill-payers up to £7.5bn 3 days 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 days 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Fair
- Comment on Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Sure
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It’s those that people remember him for.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, is considering overruling the UK Supreme Court over a £44bn car loan commission scandal, the Guardian can reveal 3 weeks ago:
She needs to be fired. She’s a banking stooge, not a chancellor.
- Comment on Weapons systems used by the British army are causing brain damage in soldiers, with potentially thousands impacted, Ministry of Defense confirms 3 weeks ago:
Most at risk are those who have been repeatedly exposed to heavy weapons, including mortars, some shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons, 50-calibre rifles and machine guns, or explosive charges.
So nothing really specific to British troops. Any military would be exposing their soldiers to similar weapon systems. We’re the ones who are being up front about the long term effects.
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 3 weeks ago:
I expect Reddit will in the long run. I can’t see the prove your ID route being worth the cost.
- Comment on feeley feels 3 weeks ago:
Too easy to misspell.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
95%
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
Why does anyone give a fuck about these people?
The fact they were both cheating only matters to them and their families. There’s no illegality. Happens millions of time a day.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 4 weeks ago:
Many CEOs display sociopathic traits. Employees aren’t people. They’re parts of machine parts that you have to pay, but when you put them together form a company.
Now what if you could remove a proportion on those parts and replace them with automated parts you don’t have to pay.
- Comment on Nurseries in England bring in Covid-style protocols as measles cases rise 4 weeks ago:
It’s on the page I linked. I just copied one section.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 4 weeks ago:
The government fronted £225M for it. Therefore it’s being seen as a national resource that’s located in Bristol where they’ve built previous machines like this.
How machine time is allocated would be interesting to know. Whether it’s only an academic resource, or if it’s available to other organisations?
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 4 weeks ago:
Best info I’ve found on the is on the Nvidia blog
- Cost £225M of government money
- 21 exaflops of AI performance
- 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips
It’s a platform to accelerate breakthroughs in:
- AI-driven drug discovery
- Advanced climate modeling
- Materials science
- Large language models (LLMs) tuned to U.K. languages and laws
Early flagship projects include:
- Nightingale AI: A sovereign, multimodal health foundation model trained on National Health Service (NHS) data to support earlier diagnoses and personalized care.
- BritLLM: A U.K.-developed LLM project supporting British languages like Welsh, alongside English, to promote inclusivity and better public service delivery in healthcare, education and public services.
- UCL Cancer Screening AI: Developing the first scalable AI system for prostate cancer detection via MRI, aiming for faster diagnoses and tailored treatments.
- EIMCRYSTAL (University of Liverpool): Using AI to search 68 million chemical combinations to discover greener, more sustainable industrial materials — reducing reliance on rare or toxic inputs.
- EgoAI (University of Bristol): Using AI to analyze recordings from wearable cameras and other smart devices to help people perform tasks better at home. This holds immense promise for assisting dementia patients in the future.
- Comment on Nurseries in England bring in Covid-style protocols as measles cases rise 4 weeks ago:
Advice from NHS
How to avoid spreading or catching measles
Measles is spread when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes.
You’re infectious from when you first have symptoms (around 4 days before the rash appears) until 4 days after you get the rash.
There are things you can do to reduce the risk of spreading or catching measles.
Do
- wash your hands often with soap and warm water
- use tissues when you cough or sneeze
- throw used tissues in the bin
Don’t
- do not share cutlery, cups, towels, clothes, or bedding
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 4 weeks ago:
So under the law, waving a Palestinian flag is fine. Waving a Palestine Action banner is illegal.
Less than a month later and we have examples of the police disagreeing with you.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 4 weeks ago:
It was AV in the referendum not STV
- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 4 weeks ago:
We already jail more than France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. We’re about 40% more than the nearest one of those which is France. Several of them we’re 2-3x more per capita.
We put too many people in prison. We’re not on American levels, but it’s still too many.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 4 weeks ago:
To me this is tinkering with the edges of a broken system. How about some proper voting reform?
