TheGrandNagus

@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorist gets ticket for being stuck in Lincoln hospital car park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Private parking companies are absolute scum. Anybody who’s ever had the misfortune of dealing with them can attest to this.

  The fact that the NHS were forced to sell a bunch of carparks to these criminals boils my piss on an almost weekly basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appeal court refuses to increase child rapist’s four-year jail sentence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As the crimes were committed in the 1980s, Roberts’ sentence reflected the legal norms of that period.

  I can see the logic to this, but holy shit, was 4 years for sexually abusing a 7 year old a typical sentence back then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anglian Water fined £300,000 for sewage pollution in Norfolk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kill thousands of fish and god knows what other wildlife, get a measly £300k fine that will be paid by customers rather than management anyway.

  Yet another turd in the septic tank that is Thatcher’s legacy of privatising everything that used to be owned by the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ministers considering renationalising British Steel if rescue plan fails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the current Chinese owners are battling tooth and nail to not have to foot 50% of the bill for the new furnaces (which is already generous from the gov), I highly doubt they are good custodians of British Steel in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Canada literally isn’t the UK.

  The motion that was passed is nothing like the framework Canada has.

  Plenty of countries ban drinking alcohol. You may as well be saying that having restrictions on alcohol for under 18s means it’s a slippery slope and it’ll be banned here. After all, Saudi Arabia literally did it. America literally did it. Qatar literally did it. Etc.

  Like I said, I want evidence. Not slippery slope fallacy. Show me MPs saying they intend to implement the system Canada has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “they just will mate. Slippery slope innit.” isn’t one IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol you’re just trolling now. You don’t even know how half of those work.

  Calling out the slippery slope argument for being the no sense that it is is not an example of circular reasoning.

  Me sharing my experience and saying that I think you’d have a different view if you had seen what I’ve seen is not an anecdotal fallacy - that is where you use anecdotes and try to represent them as objective facts.

  I didn’t dismiss your view via ad populum fallacy, I just said it’s pointless moaning about the idea of people dying painlessly if they choose because the debate has already been settled by MPs and the public don’t have the appetite to have them backtrack on it.

  The appeal to authority fallacy is about dismissing an opinion as being invalid because an authorative figure days otherwise. That’s not what I said. I said the debate has been settled, so it’s pointless campaigning against right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally is a fallacy.

  And again, this is nothing like the protocols Canada has.

  You need to be terminally ill with less than 6 months to live, of sound mind, have the go-ahead from two unaffiliated doctors, and it needs to be reviewed and signed off by a judge.

  You’re advocating for real, horrific, suffering to continue because hypothetically the law could be changed in future in a way that could be bad.

  I’ve worked in care homes full of people who barely sleep, and spend their entire days in agony that you and I cannot even conceive of. They begged to die. They begged us to covertly kill them. But our job was to forcefully keep them alive against their will, prolonging their suffering for as long as possible. Seriously harrowing stuff.

  If you had seen that, day in day out, I doubt you’d have this “we need to make them suffer, because hypothetically in X years we could be like Canada, where some doctors made a recommendation they really shouldn’t have.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typhoo Tea falls into adminstration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they aren’t correct. They just happen to like their tea prepared differently, and look down on anybody who doesn’t like what they like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think offering people with less than 6 months to live a way to die painlessly and with dignity is actually a conspiracy to mass-murder anybody on benefits, then you are a fucking lunatic.

  You can take issue with the bill without spinning some conspiracy theory about Starmer wanting to bring about a second Holocaust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the slippery slope fallacy, got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an amazing change. I’ve seen way too many people suffering in a way that before my previous job, I couldn’t have even begun to imagine. People in agony begging to die but being forced to live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except this is nothing like the procedure Canada has in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typhoo Tea falls into adminstration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s tragic that you drink tea to feel classy, rather than to simply enjoy it as a drink.

  And to answer your question - a lot of countries add milk to tea. I don’t know where this myth that only the UK does it comes from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typhoo Tea falls into adminstration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop chatting shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2013, Haigh was 24-years-old and working as a public policy manager for the insurance company Aviva.

  Following reports by Sky and The Times on Thursday, Haigh issued a statement, explaining she made a police report after a “terrifying” mugging in London.

  She said she reported the phone as one of a number of items she believed had been stolen, and was issued with a new work phone.

  Some time later, she discovered the handset was still in her house, and she switched it on, which “triggered police attention” and she was called in for questioning.

  “My solicitor advised me not to comment during that interview and I regret following that advice,” she said, and the matter was sent to magistrates.

  Haigh said she pleaded guilty to making a false report to police at a magistrates’ court, six months before becoming an MP in the 2015 election, and received a discharge - the “lowest possible outcome”.

  I’m surprised she’s resigning over something so minor tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  I’m so tired of people on social media dismissing me (who has lived in the countryside my entire life) as a clueless citydweller whenever I speak about:

  • This farmland IHT debate

  • Foxhunting

  • Using pesticides that don’t mass-kill bees and other critical insects

  • People having a right to roam/being against landowners illegally blocking off public footpaths

  • The amount of land multimillionaires purposely keep barren just so they can go grouse-shooting

  There’s this myth pushed predominantly by right wingers that everybody who doesn’t live in a highly urbanised area agrees with farmers on everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British PM Starmer criticised for meeting China's Xi as Hong Kong freedom protesters were being jailed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, former chair of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, Emily Lau, suggested Sir Keir’s meeting with Xi at the G20 a mere hours before the sentencing meant the UK’s agreements with China over the governance of the territory before its handover in 1997 were “evaporating”.

  Evaporating? The handover agreements have been completely ignored. It’s gone. And unfortunately, we can’t really do much about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex workers need the police to do better, not more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Our laws around sex work need serious overhaul. The current quasi-legal system just doesn’t work and necessitates unnecessary risk to workers, and the fact that some aspects of sex work aren’t legal discourages an open and trusting relationship between sex workers and police.

  New Zealand has a decent framework of sex work laws. That is what we should be emulating IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over sponsor’s fossil fuel ties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. This is a better idea.

  Take their money, publicly tell them to fuck off while donating it to a cause that go against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why it’s time for the UK to introduce a new law to allow assisted dying⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This proposed law cannot be applied to disabled people anyway. Only people with a terminal illness and under 6 months left to live are eligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Lammy dismisses past criticism of Donald Trump as 'old news'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I’d love to munch some popcorn and see Lammy double down on calling Trump out for being a fascist dickhead, that obviously wouldn’t be in the interest of the UK and would probably be an unwise thing for the Foreign Secretary of all ministers to do.

  Unfortunately, Trump did win an election and we do have to put up with him/navigate around him for the next four years.

  I do hope, though, that the Republicans becoming more and more unhinged prompts us to be a bit less US-reliant, and to seek partnerships with other countries, and to make our own country a bit more self-reliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re replying to a lemmy.ml user, they almost certainly think pulling out of NATO and allowing Putin to continue his genocide in Ukraine is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Typical nanny state

  My house isn’t inside a school or a hospital, therefore I can’t even smoke in my own home. Absolutely raging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a real working person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so fucking sick of this discussion.

  If your income is in the form of dividends, stock selling, or collecting rent money, that doesn’t mean you’re a worker.

  If you work as an employee for a company, and are also a landlord on the side, then yes you are a worker. But you are a worker because of the working for a company part, not the landlord part.

  End of discussion.

  Now let’s look at a paragraph from this dog shit article, breaking it up into points…

  I know investment bankers and corporate lawyers who work far more hours and under much greater pressure than me.

  And? Nobody ever said investment bankers or lawyers weren’t workers. They work for companies and are paid.

  They have no inherited income, come from ordinary backgrounds and their wealth is entirely down to their salary.

  Ok? What does this have to do with assessing whether someone is a worker or not?

  But that salary is simply too large for them to count as working people.

  When did the government or anybody ever say that anyone with a decent salary isn’t a worker?

  In any case, I’ve watched several episodes of Industry, and they are patently the wrong type of working people. And what’s more, they are having way too much sex, although Starmer has not quantified how much coupling working people are allowed.

  I don’t even know what to say about this. Are they unrelatedly complaining about sex in a TV programme, or do they genuinely think Labour’s view on who counts as a worker comes down to how often that person has sex and how many people they have sex with?

  It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking paywall too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was certainly annoying. I contacted JustEat to try to find out who did it, but I couldn’t get any information from them

  Thankfully I live in rural Northumberland and only occasionally travel down to Newcastle or up to Berwick or Edinburgh, so I don’t see them much.

  I’m not even sure you can use any of the delivery apps here. Just old fashioned ringing up and asking for a delivery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah he got away and wasn’t identified

  I’m fine now, it was a few years ago. I just have an ugly scar I’m a bit self conscious about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s a path with a lot of pedestrians on it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that cyclists are expected to get off their bike and walk like everybody else.

  I had my jaw fractured because some speeding JustEat delivery man came blasting through a pedestrian area of Newcastle on his bike, clearly not paying attention and going at far too high a speed.

  It was very painful, I have a scar on my face, I couldn’t work or eat comfortably for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pay boost for millions of workers next year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a larger increase than I was expecting, what, like 3x inflation?

  It’s certainly not a magic silver bullet that singlehandedly fixes our low wage economy like a lot of people on Reddit/Lemmy appear to expect, but it’s a positive step at least.

  I just really hope there’s serious infrastructure and employment investment, particularly in the seriously impoverished areas like the North East of England. And I hope their planning permission changes will actually have a noticeable effect. Time will tell.