TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
Similar to Trump’s in rhetoric, but without the massive advantage that the US has in that countries trying to separate from them would undergo an economic catastrophe.
So in terms of impact, probably worse than Trump.
- Comment on UK: University of Liverpool supports Chinese, Russian military through its joint venture campus in China, assists Moscow and Beijing's military modernization and human rights violations 6 days ago:
I am so sick of tankies.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 1 week ago:
“The Toyota Corolla is an absolute failure”
“Really, how so?”
“My uncle crashed his into a lamppost and then it was rendered un-drivable”
- Comment on UK launches urgent review into foreign interference in politics over "shocking case" of former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it was Boris Johnson who buried the report as much as possible.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they are different games with different mechanics.
Mario Tennis and Super Mario Bros are less similar to one another than Call of Duty and Battlefield, despite them being from the same publisher and having the same characters.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
I sort of agree and sort of disagree.
People absolutely did move their consoles around then. When I’d stay at my friend’s or a family member’s house, I’d often take my Dreamcast or GameCube, because I knew they didn’t have one.
They’d do the same when they came over to my house, because I never had a PS1/PS2.
Where the handle doesn’t make sense is what you said with the cables and controllers. I’d always put the console in the same place I put my controller(s) and cables - a bag that has its own handles.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
I mean they’ve shown it, so we know it doesn’t.
But the community will make it happen.
- Comment on UK launches urgent review into foreign interference in politics over "shocking case" of former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill 2 weeks ago:
Good. Clearly there’s foreign interference in our politics, and we need to uncover it and decide what we’re going to do about it.
There was that report into russian interference a while back, but:
- most of it was redacted
- it wasn’t allowed to look into foreign interference in Brexit, one of the biggest political events in the 21st century.
- only looked into interference from one country
- happened years ago, and our political landscape has changed massively since then
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 2 weeks ago:
Increasing throughput and reducing cleaning time are both good things, though.
Increased throughput means less queuing and being able to quickly relieve yourself. In a shared toilet, this would benefit men and women alike.
Making cleaning quicker and easier means it’ll happen more and be less disruptive when it does happen.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Americans always try to paint British Indian food as not being British, but they’ll happily claim Tex-Mex as American. Same goes for pizzas and such.
Funny that.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow, tiktok? Must be true.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
The only reason Britain still has that reputation is because Americans repeat it mindlessly in media that the whole world consumes.
Like the teeth thing. In the 2000s, the UK alongside Germany had the joint healthiest teeth in the world (although now they’ve fallen to 8th after the Scandinavian countries upped their game). Did it stop the “Brits have bad teeth” gag in US media? No.
The US, for whatever reason, has been engaged in a cultural pissing match with the UK for a long time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Chip shops in London are always shit. It’s rare you get good fish and chips outside of seaside towns.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
British food is unironically great, and based on WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
Needlessly divisive identity politics that gets spread around a lot in the form of tweets/articles/memes because it’s controversial.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 3 weeks ago:
It absolutely did not start here only after Brexit.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 5 weeks ago:
I’m staggered to see some people actually accepting that this really happened on Lemmy. Usually it’s a bit of a forbidden topic.
- Comment on MI5 issues alert to MPs and peers over Chinese espionage 1 month ago:
There’s a strong tankie presence on this platform and on this community.
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 1 month ago:
A really nice move.
This legislation also looks at limiting ticket fees retailers can charge.
I’m sure people will complain because it won’t be 100% effective, but regardless this is still a win. We shouldn’t just do nothing because a solution isn’t flawless.
In the background, the CMA is currently investigating Ticketmaster for their surge pricing shenanigans.
Good moves are being made here.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail 2 months ago:
The activists brought it up in their defence, though?
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 2 months ago:
Indeed. Unfortunately in the age of abundant air travel and being able to do basically everything online, including remaining in contact with people, it’s not hard to just move out of the UK if you’re super wealthy.
We absolutely can and should tax assets that can’t be moved out of the UK, though, like land. A multi-millionaire can move all kinds of things out of the country, but they cannot take their land with them. Land value would of course go down or stagnate, but I don’t personally see that as a bad thing.
That said, even if you took all billionaire wealth in the UK (while somehow simultaneously preventing a crash in the value of those assets), it’d last months. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution. State spending is £1.2 trillion, a small amount of billionaires aren’t going to plug the gap for long.
There’s no simple solution to the financial situation this country is in.
- Comment on UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows 2 months ago:
We know policies from their manifesto, and we can look at our dropping fossil fuel usage.
What exactly is this government doing to assist fossil fuels? I can’t think of a single thing.
- Comment on UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows 2 months ago:
Hasn’t really went well for them, considering:
- the big expansion in renewable energy projects
- their calls to legalise fracking being denied
- the government upholding their commitment to ban new north sea drilling
- the coal plant in Cumbria being scrapped
- the windfall tax on energy companies going ahead as planned
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 months ago:
And some watches cost far more than both.
Price isn’t always perfectly aligned with complexity or utility 🤷♀️
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 months ago:
Some people are completely unable to understand that not everybody lives in a city with everything on their doorstep, some people have children, and some people need to be able to transport more than a few small items at a time.
- Comment on Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track? 2 months ago:
I’m so happy with the Northumberland line (although I wish it extended further north). So yes, absolutely.
We need proper infrastructure. Rail, bike lanes, road improvements, energy grid improvements, more reservoirs. Everything that has been left to crumble.
It’s ruinously expensive, and they government will (and is!) taking flak for spending, but it’s even more expensive to do nothing.
- Comment on Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk 2 months ago:
Flood protections in this country simply aren’t prepared for the regular extreme weather events we’re now experiencing.
- Comment on Police sexual misconduct complaints skyrocket – but half of claims go uninvestigated 2 months ago:
Police complaints being increasingly investigated has been increasingly happening over the years, stemming from the cuts the Tories made.
There isn’t the resources or the expertise in place to properly investigate the complaints or do a thorough job, and the backlog just keeps increasing. In the meantime, officers that are potentially dodgy are still on the job, and public confidence in the police suffers.
Slashing public services and throwing the money to pensioners for votes has been utterly disastrous for us as a country.
- Comment on Three Just Stop Oil supporters walk free after sentencing for M25 petrol pump action 2 months ago:
Tez Burns and Peter Lay were found guilty of criminal damage and Charles Laurie was found guilty of possession of a hammer with intent to damage property, at their trial in August 2025. Along with 5 others on trial that day they were also acquitted of public nuisance.
Feels like a somewhat misleading title given multiple were found guilty of criminal damage. They received a suspended sentence, which was always likely to be the result (or a large fine). Them being imprisoned wasn’t going to happen.
- Comment on Three Just Stop Oil supporters walk free after sentencing for M25 petrol pump action 2 months ago:
I imagine most of them won’t have even been trialed yet.
I also imagine it depends on whether they plead guilty to supporting a proscribed group or not, etc.