wewbull
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- Comment on Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68 12 hours 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.
- Comment on MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime 6 days ago:
The key point here seems to be the because Islam is a religion and not a race then it doesn’t get classed as racism, and that matters because certain laws reference racism.
To me, this points to a problem with our laws where we need a crime to be in the right category of motivation to be treated properly. Why is a racially motivated assault any different to a assault motivated for any other reason? Assault is assault and should be dealt with by the same law.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 1 week ago:
True, but it’s a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s Fat Albert.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 1 week ago:
Sound of Linguine
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 week ago:
There’s a lot of crossover here. It encompasses the “you rent everything and own nothing” aspect of today’s society. It’s multi-billion corporations against consumers.
A win here will be something that will expose chinks in the armour for a lot of other issues. I know it might seem unimportant because it’s games, but that’s its beauty. It’s a backdoor into so many other fights.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 2 weeks ago:
FFS!
How hard is it ? Nobody needs more reasons not to be a doctor. They are valuable to society. That justifies good pay. Nothing wrong with that. Lawyers are more debatable, but certainly they perform a civil function and often serve a community.
Go after the companies that are robbing you blind.
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 3 weeks ago:
Won’t somebody think of the children? (/s)
The death of online gaming? - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 4 weeks ago:
Conflict often arises because somebody is pissed off and nobody is listening. The first thing to do is listen and understand where they are coming from.
Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father’s operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they’re striking for better pay.
So, this “Karen” has a sick relative that she wants be helped, and nobody is helping. Sounds like she’s got a fair reason to be agitated. Now you may not be able to do anything personally about it, but ignoring her makes the situation worse. Listening and then explaining why you’re unable to help, maybe pointing her in the direction of somebody who has responsibility.
The first thing is to listen, then show a little fucking empathy.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 4 weeks ago:
You know the company printing out all those labels was going “Didn’t pay for the spell check service…”
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 4 weeks ago:
Probably was.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 weeks ago:
FFS the problem is the price disparity between standard prices and “loyalty card” prices. It’s anti-competitive.
How is that not obvious to politicians?
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 month ago:
Earth, Wind and Fire is where it’s at.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 1 month ago:
Yes, but we don’t actually want that.
We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 month ago:
No they can’t because we use them for different things. One ID means one system that tracks everything. Also, you don’t have to have a passport. You don’t have to have a driving license. Everybody needs an NI number to work, but it’s not an ID (No photo, DOB, etc).
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 month ago:
You’re nearly 40 and have to show ID to buy alcohol?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 month ago:
It’s on the box.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
…but we stole the rest of the worlds recipes.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
I was thinking about F for Argentine cattle alone.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
I’d miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 1 month ago:
The sad truth is that, regardless of your intention, it does exclude them. Even if they’ve put some effort in and learnt some basics, they’re unlikely to jump in to group of natives talking.
I don’t think there’s a good solution. I’ve been on all sides at work.
- Having fast conversations in English and realising too late that somebody is completely excluded.
- I’ve been excluded because people are speaking a language I don’t know (e.g. Danish – what the hell is that!!!)
- …and I’ve caught people talking behind my back about me because they didn’t know I could understand a bit of Dutch. To be fair I didn’t know either but my subconscious worked out enough from German.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 month ago:
Which doesn’t explain the reform support.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 1 month ago:
When you’re working you need to communicate in a lot more depth than that though. That’s exactly why they want to talk Spanish, to speed up communication or be more precise.
Social language skills are on the easier side. You can get away with a lot of mistakes.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 1 month ago:
Whoa whoa whoa! We were all having a good time joking about killing people and you had to bring religion into it.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 1 month ago:
You’re missing the point that the universe is expanding uniformly. That means two points acceleration away from each other is dependent on their distance apart. The further they are from each other the faster they accelerate from each other.
So GP is right. We measure red shift and infer distance.
