wewbull
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- Comment on Revolution bars set to disappear from the high street after going bust 2 days ago:
Here’s the secret. Revolution shot boards were weak arse shit.
- Comment on Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China 2 days ago:
Those aren’t the only options.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 5 days ago:
I never thought handing them over to Mauritius was the right thing. Using them as a naval base is also messed up but that wasn’t going anywhere.
So I see this a positive thing, but the optics for Starmer couldn’t be worse. It makes him look like Trumps lapdog.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 weeks ago:
Oh no!
Anyway…
- Comment on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK 2 weeks ago:
They’re still building it though. Still spending the money. They’re just not making it mandatory.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 2 weeks ago:
From the BBC article:
The Liberal Democrats said the policy was “doomed to failure” from the start and called for “the billions of pounds earmarked for their mandatory digital ID scheme” to be spent “on the NHS and frontline policing instead”.
Damn right. We want our money spent on something useful.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 2 weeks ago:
I can’t read the full article, but it says it’ll be optional. That sounds like they’re still wanting to develop it, spend the money, and then say “well now we’ve got it, it would be silly not to use it!”
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 2 weeks ago:
Sad fact is, very little government policy appears to be driven by the values of those voted in. It’s just bandwagons and financials.
- Comment on Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 3 weeks ago:
One of the biggest examples of equality Vs equity there is, and how the Blair government picked the wrong one. A university education was a dividing line in society they said. It was something only available to a select few. Everyone should benefit from a university education.
Thing is, apart from Oxbridge, the dividing line was never about race, sex or class. It was about academic ability. If you had the grades, you could come from anywhere (Equality). Now, there was a problem with high schools and sixth-form colleges not being as good in certain areas, but that wasn’t a problem with the universities. Many even tried to take such factors into account during admissions. If they’d solved the school education issue instead it would have been a fair system (again, apart from Oxbridge).
…but Blair felt that everyone should go to university. So they pushed up the intake numbers, converted all the polytechnics into universities (blowing away further education for less academic people) and turned the now unsustainable grant into loans.
End result: 20 years down the road and the bachelors degree is now largely worthless in hiring circles because everybody has one, and the masters degree is going the same way.
Qualifications are meant to give prospective employers information about people’s strengths. Now everyone appears the same on paper (Yay… Equity!) and the qualifications have lost their reason to exist.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 3 weeks ago:
No. Just Oracle crap.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 3 weeks ago:
Manatees aren’t the only ones.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 4 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.
- Comment on We're just friends! 4 weeks ago:
I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.
- Comment on Reginald D Hunter: Judge quashes antisemitism case brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism 5 weeks ago:
The problem is that the hate speech laws are, like in this case, open to abuse. Somebody can have their career damaged whilst they fight an abusive case for over a year just because somebody feels offended.
They shouldn’t be on the books. They need repealing, or at the very least made much more specific.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 5 weeks ago:
It’s a subsidy to the shops and businesses in a town. Businesses that pay taxes back to the council. A thriving town provides more funds than a dead one.
In a rural area there isn’t public transport to get people to the centre of towns to buy things (and there never will be because the population is not dense enough to be practical). It’s personal transport, or people order online and the town dies.
In an urban area the equation is different.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 5 weeks ago:
Yes! Councils see parking charges as a money making scheme to bolster budgets, but having available free parking attracts people to the town centre. This is especially true in market towns that might have a large catchment area.
There’s a reason supermarkets don’t charge for parking when they can avoid it.
- Comment on It's the truth! 5 weeks ago:
No. They are maroon.
- Comment on Sea Level 5 weeks ago:
Landlords would love it, at least.
And I thought you ment because the pubs would be full that week :-(
- Comment on UK launches urgent review into foreign interference in politics over "shocking case" of former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill 1 month ago:
Was that while the other side was in power? Might have had a muted reception when it was delivered.
- Comment on 1.2 Å 1 month ago:
Angstroms hurt my brain. A $10^{-10}$ of a metre, but not a nanometre or a picometre. Just…why?
- Comment on Why you think the net was born? 1 month ago:
Context for the context
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 month ago:
No star = no charged particles = no lights. Doesn’t matter how big the magnetic field is.
That’s all he’s saying.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 month ago:
I would say yes, or at least there’s no reason that a doctor has to run a business in order for a GP surgery to exist. They are medical practices, not small business managers.
- Comment on qt π 1 month ago:
That there is an American Kestrel. According to Wikipedia…
… it is not actually a kestrel in the phylogenetic sense. Instead, a process of convergent evolution to fit a similar small prey niche in the ecosystem as the true kestrels have left it with similar physical characteristics and hunting methods.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long… Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
"our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!" -their motto, probably
Bravo!
- Comment on Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes 2 months ago:
Americans, this is what you do.
- Comment on eleven 2 months ago:
Remembering those who died in service maybe…
“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” is when WW1 ended and is held as Remembrance Day across Europe .
- Comment on Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68 2 months ago:
Damn. He was politically active recently trying to push environmental policy. He was a great spokesperson for that kind of thing given his history.
That’s a bit young to go.
