Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Let’s call it what it is. It’s transphobic dogshit.
The fact it will pass by default if not taken to a vote is stupid, but it’s probably what will happen under the current transphobic administration.
- Comment on Bran flakes could be classed as junk food under new healthy eating guidelines 4 days ago:
Ok, I didn’t know that there was this effect. I’ll admit I don’t know much about health and nutrition.
That said, shouldn’t we consider all sugar content when evaluating how healthy an item is?
After all, you can take orange juice and ultra process out all the healthier stuff, leaving only the sugars. Those won’t be “added” but they won’t be any good for you, providing a marketing loophole of “no added sugars” for companies.
- Comment on Bran flakes could be classed as junk food under new healthy eating guidelines 4 days ago:
Added sugar vs natural sugar is a distinction without a difference, and the fact that it has been made so far seems silly to me.
- Comment on New bill targets domestic abusers and overhauls right to buy in England 6 days ago:
increase the length of tenancy required before residents qualify for the right-to-buy scheme from three to 10 years in England.
This is probably a good thing, but only when combined with an increase in building of social housing. I am not too hopeful about that given who’s leading the Labour Party. The current administration is allergic to public spending.
- Comment on VAT's The Problem campaign hopes to stop the tsunami of restaurant closures we're seeing right now 6 days ago:
I think VAT is a pretty good system, with minimums below which you don’t get taxed and an increasing percentage as you make more money.
I just think it should be way higher at the high end, and we need to increase capital gains tax and inheritance tax.
- Comment on Tough US-style courts to crack down on repeat offenders 6 days ago:
What makes you say it’s a good idea to follow US food approaches? I’ve heard what you feed your children in schools. How everything is super processed, expensive and terrible for your health.
- Comment on This is indeed a disturbing universe. 1 week ago:
Which episode is this? I’ve only gotten to Season 3 so I’ve not seen this scene yet (assuming it’s real)
- Comment on 'The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice' 1 week ago:
A very good article. It outlines well why the guidance of the EHRC is truly nonsense.
I also like how it points out the the EHRC’s job is to push back against laws that endanger human rights, however they have been doing the exact opposite.
The EHRC extrapolates the (terrible) Supreme Court ruling from “the Equality Act means biological sex when it says sex” (which is wrong, btw, as the article points out, the writers of the act will tell you that) to “we should exclude trans people from all single sex spaces”.
If you look a little deeper (not in this article), you will find out that the EHRC helped engineer the Supreme Court ruling, and has been run by transphobes since around 2020. Since 2020, they do not have notes for a single consultation with trans rights groups, but have 100s for anti-trans hate groups. Source? FOI requests (which they sometimes delay and try to refuse).
- Comment on Asylum seekers removed from Essex hotel targeted by far right as Home Office ends contract 1 week ago:
Collective punishment.
- Comment on Starmer admits he must ‘turn things around’ as US adds to pressure over defence spending 1 week ago:
Starmer diverted 3 billion in disability funds to the military. If they want more, frankly they’re going to have to get in line. Behind the people who need that money to live.
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- Comment on Households could save £200 on energy bills in plan to break link between gas and electricity prices, says thinktank 1 week ago:
YES PLEASE. Apparently Germany did this too.
- Comment on British Heart Foundation to close 150 charity shops as costs rise 1 week ago:
BHF sells its products for a considerable markup over other charities. Just today I went into their shop and saw their DVDs and Blu-rays were double the cost compared to others.
- Comment on Inside one man’s botched deportation: seven flights, two swallowed batteries and a staggering bill for the UK taxpayer 2 weeks ago:
Frankly, this treatment is repulsive. All presumably to seek tough on crime, we take people’s rights away and expose them to inhumane treatment.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The public rightly expect to be protected from sex offenders and this individual has already been deported.
Office has declined to say how much it has cost to remove Omar, a conservative estimate suggests a bill to the UK taxpayer of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Was it worth it?
- Comment on There was an attempt... 2 weeks ago:
“antibiotique”
- Comment on There was an attempt... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on There was an attempt... 2 weeks ago:
Désolé
- Comment on Police in Nowak murder row force ‘pressured’ by diversity course 2 weeks ago:
The Telegraph is tripe. Not worth wiping your ass with (if we still had print media).
- Comment on Police chief warns anti-white bias claims could drive UK policing ‘back to 60s’ 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what the right want.
- Comment on banned. Nuuuuu Me gay 2 weeks ago:
Fair point.
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- Comment on New bathroom guidance for trans people ‘the kind of policy you’d see in Trump’s America’, campaigners say 2 weeks ago:
It’s unacceptable, but I guarantee that the Right (Reform, Conservatives and Labour Leadership) will lap it up. Say that it brings such “clarity” as they have been saying since the Supreme Court Judgement.
- Comment on Unrecyclable packaging like this 3 weeks ago:
Yeah as I said these are the plastic ones, not dissolvable. Those starch ones are fairly neat.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Energy regulator Ofgem announces 13% increase for energy bills 3 weeks ago:
Under the Marginal Pricing model, energy suppliers set prices based on the highest-cost energy source used, which in the UK is gas. Even though energy suppliers may buy cheaper renewable sources first, they must also rely on pricier fossil fuels to meet demand. Therefore, the final price paid by consumers reflects the cost of the most expensive source used.
Feels like we should abolish this system. Not sure why it even exists, as to me the price should be based on the cost. As things stand we are just giving free money to energy companies and worse petrol oligarchs.
I recognize that we will likely always need some fossil fuel energy in the UK to pick up the slack, but why are the savings of investing in renewables not making their way to the consumer?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Energy regulator Ofgem announces 13% increase for energy bills 3 weeks ago:
Why is it that electricity prices keep going up when the cost of generating it should be going down from renewables?
Gas prices I can maybe understand. But electricity?
- Comment on JP Morgan boss threatens to axe £3bn UK investment if Labour lurches to the left with Starmer replacement 3 weeks ago:
Don’t care. JP Morgan can fuck off.
Also I’m pretty sure that theh won’t actually cancel over something so minor.
- Comment on 'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive' 3 weeks ago:
That’s why we’re cutting disability benefits
- Conservatives, (Forced) Labour
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oblivion-ass conversation
- Comment on Man jailed for shouting death threats at Jews in London 3 weeks ago:
London has seen a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men
Hmmm… I don’t like how those stabbings are being used here. Especially given what happened in context.
