TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg 19 hours ago:
Good. This was one of the many things from the Tories that was kinda fucked up. Glad to see it dropped.
- Comment on Petrol bombs thrown at police during fifth night of Northern Ireland disorder 1 day ago:
Warmer weather means more riots. There’s been multiple times where days of rain or a cold wind has put an end to riots, and they almost never happen in winter.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 week ago:
In that case I’m sorry you failed to make the link.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 week ago:
Because – as I said – they are saying one thing and doing another.
From one side of their mouth they’re saying nothing has changed, from the other they are using this as vindication for new anti-trans moves.
Now that I’ve again answered you, for the final time, are you going to address what I’ve been saying?
It feels like you’re just arguing in bad faith for the sake of arguing, and I can’t be bothered with that.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 week ago:
I notice you’ve completely failed to address my main point - that the woman in the article said exactly what you said at the start of your comment. (Which undermines your main point.)
I know what she said, and it doesn’t undermine my point.
She is acting as if nothing has changed, when something has changed: the actions of the EHRC.
The law hasn’t changed, but the EHRC is dubiously using the SC’s verdict to push for anti-trans measures in gov departments.
Why are you still not addressing my comment?
I’m glad to hear that.
Ok?
Now are you going to address what I said or not?
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 week ago:
I know it wasn’t the head of the EHRC that spoke in this instance, but she is the one who runs the EHRC and what they do/say. She sets the culture. She’s the boss.
This commissioner is talking in this way because it’s the message that comes from the top.
- Comment on UK anti-obesity legislation falls victim to food industry lobbying 1 week ago:
Unsurprising. Lobbying plus a fear of driving up food price inflation was always going to dampen the likelihood of the government increasing prices on unhealthy foods.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves announces £15bn for transport projects 1 week ago:
Great news.
Although I’m still miffed dualling the A1 has been scrapped again.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 week ago:
The supreme court were very clear that their ruling was not a reduction in trans rights, but a clarification of existing legislation.
It’s pretty clear that the EHRC is purposely misrepresenting the SC’s conclusion.
She’s a TERF that the Tories put in place (Boris Johnson, 2020). It’s utterly absurd that the head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is against equality.
Her contract ends in November this year. I hope she’s swapped with someone more appropriate for the role.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 weeks ago:
You’d still be let out after your normal sentence, nobody that sets the laws is advocating keeping them there forever.
To be clear, I disagree with it, it seems crazy to me.
I’m just pointing out that this reporting is saying something very different to all other reporting I’ve seen on this topic. I’ve not seen anywhere else report it as being forced.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 weeks ago:
This is the first I’ve heard of it being mandatory. All other reporting I’ve seen is prisoners being able to opt in, for a reduced sentence.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 2 weeks ago:
Nationalising now would cost hundreds of billions.
Or, if you went down the banana republic route of forcibly nationalising without any compensation, and ignored the laws that currently prevent that, investment into the UK would plummet.
Investment in the UK already took a big hit from Brexit, we don’t need to make it worse.
The government is already the operator of last resort for the water companies. That means if the companies go bust any nobody steps in to buy them, the government takes over automatically.
I say the government should state they won’t be bailing out these water companies if they fail. That’s how it should be for any private investment.
When Thames and others go bust, the government steps in and takes over automatically as Operator Of Last Resort, with a tremendously lower cost to public finances.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 2 weeks ago:
Not from the government they haven’t.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 2 weeks ago:
They can’t be raised to cover it.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 weeks ago:
It objectively is.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 weeks ago:
A household with that income is very rich.
Jesus, toffs are so separated from reality it’s unbelievable.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 4 weeks ago:
Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.
That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they’ve broken past the “not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier”.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 5 weeks ago:
Set fire to his house, a flat “linked” to him (family member perhaps?), and his old car.
We live in an unhealthy democracy when people are being this extremist and violent over a political figure so bland he makes Gordon Brown look fun and care-free.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 5 weeks ago:
Nonce? I think if Starmer was a paedophile our press would be having a field day.
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 5 weeks ago:
Where I live there are frequently people that come into pubs to sell things that were clearly stolen from the nearby Morrisons.
I’ve found blocks of cheese to be an extremely frequently stolen item.
Makes sense. Fairly easy to conceal, surprisingly expensive (depending on what you get, like £8-16 per kilo), doesn’t usually come with security tags like steaks often do, and there’s lots of potential buyers for cheese since it’s used in a lot of things and it’s bloody lovely.
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 5 weeks ago:
And yet they’re the only demographic who gets a pay that always matches or exceeds inflation. Seems weird that they’d see a disproportionate increase in shoplifting.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 1 month ago:
This deadline wasn’t some unknown thing suddenly sprung upon energy companies, this deadline has been known about for a long time, why have they left it this late? Were they just expecting the government to keep extending the deadline?
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 2 months ago:
Truss thinks she can be a Trump or a Farage-style populist that can easily get people to jump in on any stupid scheme, but she just doesn’t have the charisma to pull it off. Such delusions of grandeur.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 months ago:
Well yeah, but if you go by that, literally everything is from public investment and subsidy.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 months ago:
Good. A massive investment, and not requiring a load of public subsidy like seemingly everything else.
Nice to see stuff slowly start actually being built.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 2 months ago:
Strange. But I won’t complain about more houses being built.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
It seems obvious that a 20mph limit will be more safe in most instances.
There’s the issue with older cars having a gearing not really suited to staying at that speed (meaning revving higher and chucking out more pollution/being louder), but that’s less of an issue with new cars.
There’s also the issue of a car in 2nd gear at 20mph being ready to take off far more easily if you were to accidentally press the accelerator instead of the brake – something which often happens in traffic incidents. But again, the gearing of more recent cars is typically fine with sitting at 20mph in third gear. Cars seem to be designed with 20mph in mind now.
And honestly, in most circumstances it won’t make a serious difference to travel time going 20 or 30. Either way you’re likely going to be stopping multiple times or stuck behind people.
Worth noting though, that the very people who collected this data say that the data can’t really be used for direct comparison and that we need at least a couple more years to see what the effect of the change is.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
Pretty much any car that comes with even a very basic cruise control will have a speed limiter option. My car is from 2010 and has it. I think my 2004 Mégane I had beforehand may have had it too, IIRC.
Although it’s a bit more fiddly than what you describe in that you have to turn off cruise control mode, switch to speed limiter, set the speed, then activate.
But yes, it would be an interesting feature to have a “town mode” button that you could set to 20 or 30mph in the car settings. Much more streamlined than the above. I imagine you could do other things, too like trying to keep revs to a minimum to keep the car quiet, (if a hybrid) going EV-preferred or EV-only, etc.
- Comment on Rachel from accounts causes the economy to shrink. Blames everyone else. 2 months ago:
Facts are lefty propaganda now…
The far right are the people living in a bubble separate from reality.
And imagine being someone who likes star trek enough to have a reference to it in their username, yet be far right. Incredible lack of perspective.