Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defencewww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 14 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfarewww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on 6 days ago:
🎵 Well, some of us are cannibals who cut other people open like cantalopes 🎵
- Comment on Happiest day of my life! I'm gonna be a dad! 🥰 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When being “gender critical” is brought to legal action, it is not typically not about your internally held beliefs, it’s about harassing others and discrimination.
If a white supremacist had a firmly held belief black people were inferior and they held a role in HR or talent acquisition, they would be unfit for the role and should be fired. Similarly if they were found to harass black people in the workplace.
One thing the gender criticals, like white supremacists and religious fundamentalists don’t understand is this:
Your political views do not outweigh the rights of others
- Labour must stop just ‘writing a cheque’ for benefit claimants, top minister sayswww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
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- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard it’s full.of old conservatives, so probably Farage will win. I’d love to be wrong though.
If it’s close, it’s still a humiliation so it’s a win in my book.
- Comment on MP groped breasts of two women, trial hears 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it depends on the transgression.
If it’s transphobia and sucking up to billionaires or the Israeli state, you get promoted.
If it’s something that is actually viewed as a crime then it’s more like this… sometimes.
The message is “you weren’t good enough at hiding your crimes, you’re making us look bad”. Many of them often know about those transgressions, but they’ll only distance themselves if they come out to the public.
- Comment on MP groped breasts of two women, trial hears 2 weeks ago:
I was curious as to why theh didn’t mention his party, turns out he doesn’t have one, but is an ex-Conservative
Elected as a Conservative, he had the whip withdrawn in May 2025, and now sits as an independent.
- Comment on Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes I hear “someone was murdered”, then I find out about how they have been a horrible person their whole lives, actively causing harm to people in society around them and I think “You know what, maybe the world is better off without you”.
That doesn’t mean I condone murder. Nor that I would ever do it myself. I just can’t bring myself to feel bad about it.
This is one of those times.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you download this picture you get a 5MB ~14000x19000 pixel that will slow down your whole PC.
Kind of links well to the lack of efficiency of AI so I think that’s part of the art.
- Comment on English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September 2 weeks ago:
Disgusting transphobia. This is what happens when you put bigots in charge of human rights organisations.
- Comment on Mahmood to close loophole blocking deportation of Rochdale grooming gang ringleader 3 weeks ago:
It’s always a challenge when no state wants a person.
I personally don’t think deportation ever really makes sense. If someone commits a crime in the UK, send them to prison there, and when they have served their sentence they can stay. Sending them away does not solve anything.
If a country requests extradition to charge a person with a crime, that’s a slightly different story. I think there can be arguments for and against.
Either way, I don’t trust Shabana Mahmood to thread the needle, if that was even her intention to begin with. Her policies have already caused enough suffering.
- Comment on Poverty premium: Why it costs £736 a year more to be poor 3 weeks ago:
Another one I discovered lately: if your credit rating is too low, you can’t get internet with some companies because they do a credit check, despite having internet access being a fundamental need of living in society.
- Comment on Pet prescriptions could be capped at £21 under proposed vet sector reforms 3 weeks ago:
True… unless you’re trans. Then you don’t get healthcare.
- Comment on PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds 3 weeks ago:
A lot of government processes are dehumanizing. They’re targetted at “reducing fraud” and cost savings, which in practice means doubting you at every turn and cutting away your lifeline whenever they can.
- Comment on Virgin Media fined after hanging up on customers trying to cancel contracts 3 weeks ago:
If you ever encounter this, please remember that you can go to another provider, ask them to switch you over and you can do so without ever talking to Virgin Media. That’s what I did last time.
- Comment on Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reaches 91 Percent of the UK in H1 2026 3 weeks ago:
Most of it is not symmetrical though.
Upload speeds across the board are 10x slower than download speeds, meaning many people need to get a more expensive plan than necessary just to not hit upload speed limits.
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 weeks ago:
Looks like you’re right, though I’m not sure if they are peddle-assist or not. Never used one myself.
Neither need a license as far as I know (correct me if I’m wrong).
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 weeks ago:
These are pedal bikes no? We have no license needed for those or restrictrions on who can use them that I’m aware of.
- Comment on Half of affordable new homes in rural England could be at risk if planning rules relaxed, analysis shows 3 weeks ago:
The government has proposed ending affordable housing quotas – known as section 106 agreements – for new developments of between 10 and 49 houses in an effort to jumpstart sluggish housebuilding rates. Ministers are due to make a final decision within weeks on whether developers should be allowed to make cash payments to local authorities instead.
Under the proposals being considered for medium-sized developments, housebuilders would be allowed to make payments to councils in lieu of including affordable homes in their proposals. That money would be earmarked to build affordable housing elsewhere.
Analysis of government figures by the National Housing Federation (NHF), however, suggests that in the most rural areas of England, more than half of all affordable homes are built on developments of this size.
Sounds like a nuanced issue.
That money could be more efficiently spent on council housing than affordable housing, but it all depends on whether councils would actually pull their fingers out and do it, and whether the cash payments would be sufficient to offset the affordable housing.
Right now, the affordable housing via the existing system can help people put of homelessness, but there aren’t enough.
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really see how it’s Lime’s fault that someone rode their bike into someone else. It didn’t malfunction from the sound of it.
Some compensation from the mother + child would be good, but I don’t know how much money they could even reasonably give.
More bikes in cities is usually better, but it does come with some risks of you’re acting like a moron. Less than cars but still.
- Comment on Ofsted drops ‘clumsy’ and ‘offensive’ guidance linking autism and extremism 3 weeks ago:
If you consider progressive movements extremist, then maybe this holds some water, otherwise no.
Most autistic people I’ve ever met were either progressive, left-wing activists or too focused on their special interest to engage in politics (a small minority).
That said there is a section bias in that I don’t associate with bigots, but whatever.
- Comment on Israel lobby funded a quarter of British MPs 4 weeks ago:
Sadly they are not the only ones. There are many members of Labour under Israels thumb. Possibly including Andy Burnham, set to be the next Prime Minister.
- Comment on Stalker who used fake Tinder profile to lure men to ex’s home jailed for eight years 4 weeks ago:
Truly horrible behaviour. I’m glad he’s in jail.
- Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning moneywww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 16 comments
- Comment on High-street slot machines and casinos could face £460m tax rise under Burnham 4 weeks ago:
Tax them into oblivion.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
In some parts of Europe, we have many ways of mitigating heat that don’t cost as much and work well enough to a point.
Shutters will reflect heat before it gets into the home, which can keep the temperature as low as 10 degrees cooler than outside, cieling standing and desk fans can help cool you down in 20-30 degree weather. Dehumidifiers can help in humid heat.
Beyond a certain point, you do have to use air conditioning to lower the temperature, but that’s when you get to 35deg and above, and that typically been pretty rare until now, and most of the above still help.
I think if I did have the money I would probably install a heat pump + air conditioner combo and I believe there should be grants available for those.
If you’re a renter it sucks though because you have very few options. “Portable” air conditioning is ok but not very effective and very expensive to run.
