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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨University Mergers - not the best sign!⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything less than “Grent” will be disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.

  For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):

  • Starving the elderly and disabled
  • Banning trans people from being allowed to use I public toilets
  • Implemented a ban on any website which could ever potentially contain a picture of a boob, or offer things like “quitting smoking support”, unless you upload your name/passport/3d scan of your face, postal address and email address to a dodgy company in Cypress or the USA
  • Come out in complete support of a genocide
  • Banned peace protesting and arrested hundreds of innocent people
  • Come out in complete support of the other year’s Tory/UKIP rioting
  • Come out in support of far-right nationalist flag-shagging
  • Come out in support of killing refugees
  • Various other atrocities. I’m sure you get the idea

  I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of the people disagreeing with the post are from the USA, which has completely different costs/taxes/prices etc.

  In the UK (as the original post is), it depends where you live - our mortgage is about £350 per month (5 bed terrace), but if would have been almost £500 a month without the deposit. Rent in the area is about £600 - £1500 per month, for similar or smaller properties.

  Note that this is in Northern UK, in the sort of town sometimes described as “a bit of a shithole”. I could get a train to a town an hour away and the prices would literally double - but the ratio between mortgage and rent would be pretty much the same.

  Even with the cost of repairs, and a tiny bit on insurance etc, it’s a significant saving. Also, the repairs actually get done, which was not the experience I had in rented accommodation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in a “less desirable area” you can still get a house for less than £100,000 in some places in the UK. You might find yourself with limited job opportunities or a long commute, or poor local facilities though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Budgie the Little Helicopter” and “Jimbo of the Jet Set” are both terrified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (Sorry if this sounds like I’m whinging at you - I’m really whinging about them)

  a & b) I get that peak times exist. I didn’t argue against it. I regularly experience ~400 people squashing onto a 200 capacity commuter train - so yes, dissuading other people from thinking “that’s a good time to go for a day out” is fine. Regarding telling you when it is, maybe some operators do, but I’ve not been able to find this for any of the routes I use. The ticket buying website knows when peak is, as if you select a time, it either does or doesn’t show you an off-peak return amongst the tickets offered, but nowhere actually tells you exactly when and where. In some places they have some peak in the morning and afternoon, others morning only. If you’re working away for a week, and head over on the Sunday night and get an off-peak return, which return trains are peak or off-peak? You finish an hour earlier then expected - peak or off-peak? You don’t know until it rejects your ticket and they fine you. Really, if they’d just show on the ticket buying websites/apps “this one is peak” “this one is off-peak”, that would do me fine.

  c) Yes - I’m looking forward to it :)

  d) It might say that, but that’s not what seems to happen. Even if the person in the station says “yes, don’t worry, this will be valid on that train”, the person on the train can still decide it isn’t and fine you (you can appeal it when you get home, assuming you’re rich enough to buy another full ticket plus £100 fine).

  Maybe I’m just travelling on the routes with the shittest train companies? :)

  Anyway, as you say, half of these problems should hopefully disappear when the separate privatised companies’ contracts run out :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer's new director of comms is swimming balls deep in controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is awful. He should go back to doing “Tim the Toolman Taylor” and “Buzz Lightyear”. Giving up his acting work to become a far-right piece-of-shit bigot cunt was a poor career choice.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bag of cocks. Simplify the ticketing system by: a) make all the tickets generally cheaper, so you don’t need to make special advance super saver restricted use tickets b) actually tell us when peak time is, and keep it consistent c) no more “you can only use it on this train company” tickets d) no more “you can only use it on this exact train” tickets. If you cancel my train, I’m getting on the next train that goes there and you’re accepting my ticket. e) there are three main tickets - single, day return, period return f) you can buy discounted tickets for a week, month, year of the same journey g) you can buy a ticket online, from a website to email, from an app, in a ticket office with a person or from a machine

  Basically, just get rid of the stupid shit with all the “special” conditions on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polymer P0rn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheers, mate (!) I looked at these erotic polymers from the UK, without uploading my passport, driver’s licence, name and address and video of my face, and now I’m in violation of the “Online Safety Act” and I’m going to go to prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put LGBT flags underneath every England flag.

  If they both stay up, the intention is probably positive, supportive, prideful and welcoming.

  If the LGBT ones get torn down… well, there’s a heavy overlap in the Venn diagram between the homophobes and the racists, so I think you can safely assume they’re racist flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like my knees :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be silly. Hah! A decade ago! Community didn’t exist as a TV programme in the 1990s!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it bankrupts everyone involved.

  (I realise that bankrupting Facebook is basically impossible, but we’re allowed to have dreams)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, we don’t know what they were talking about, and how loudly, and for how long, and with what accents :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and joined with a few:
  “You don’t understand, I was offered some more paid hours at work, but with the extra taxes at that income threshold, I’d only be working for £35 an hour, which is probably below minimum wage, as far as I’m aware. My life is so hard”.

  Narrator: The minimum wage was actually £12.21 for people over 21 years of age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to say this reads a bit like:
  “I barely earn more than four normal households’ worth of income - and now the government is expecting me to pay for my own children! It’s a scandal!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can England possibly be running out of water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It uses about 5 litres of water to flush a toilet, so people in the South of England could save a lot of water by pissing on Margaret Thatcher’s grave instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coal Company Sues UK After Environmentalists Win Major Climate Case in British Court⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vampires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eli Lilly ramps up UK price of weight loss jab Mounjaro after Trump demands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even sure that’s his boots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government to be sued in Arbitration Court by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m siding with the government on this one.

  It’s sad that it’s so rare to see them on the correct side of a disagreement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about driving some 80's CRTs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those look like CRT units without cases, which is slightly terrifying. Be careful.

  What’s on the back of it (i.e. connectors) and what country are you in? (i.e. PAL, SECAM, NTSC)

  Likely connectors are RF aerial, BNC, component, composite. Maybe s-video?

  Assuming they still work and power on safely, you may find the issue is in generating a signal that they accept, with modern equipment. This depends a little on what you’re planning on using them for, and therefore what you want to connect them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In any foodstuff which says “average contents”, followed by a number, you will always get fewer than average.

  For example, your packet of chicken nuggets says “average contents : 24 nuggets”. You are the person who receives 23 nuggets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the common day-to-day shops, they seemed to phase out the earlier refillable/repairable/replaceable ones for “disposable” tops. Even the e-cig shops near us stopped selling the cotton wadding and pre-coiled wires for rebuildables.

  With a rebuildable one, I was using a 5x50mm strip of cotton wadding and an 8cm length of very thin wire every month or so. These pod things seem to use a coil, wadding, heating element, metal case, plastic case, spring, screw etc every few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good work, thank you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think they do still have some of them in most city centres, which kind of makes sense (if you were closing 95% of your branches, those are the ones you’d keep) - though it’s a long way from when there used to be a few different branches in every town centre, and amongst the small local rows of shops in housing areas i.e. the local high street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how well the term “High Street Bank” works these days. Does anyone’s town/city still have any accessible physical branches on an actual high street?

  Perhaps they could start opening “high street banks” in old, disused former Wetherspoonses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before games had full epic soundtracks, you still got quality “intro tracks”, occasionally with a few other songs for whilst you’re playing.

  Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe intro music (youtube link)

  From the same Atari ST/Amiga era: Chaos Engine, Frontier Elite 2, Xenon 2 Megablast, Syndicate Wars

  For newer stuff with “full soundtracks”, you can’t beat Stellaris OST (youtube link)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t be “growing up”. That would be giving in and accepting it.

  People destroying other people’s lives and the world around them, for their own personal benefit and greed, should never be acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuggan Mastercard has decided the following things are abominations, and are therefore unacceptable to sell:

  Cats, the colour blue, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, cheese, the smell of beets, jigsaw puzzles, and rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the illegality, these people manage to sneak into the country with tonnes of coke, then distribute it to tens of sub-distributers, who in turn distribute it to hundreds of large dealers, who in turn pass that on to thousands of local dealers, in time to supply tens of thousands of parties, to supply the coke requirements of every doctor, solicitor, TV executive and regular weekend coke fan in the country, every Friday evening.

  These people need hunting down and capturing.

  Then we need to make them run our railways.