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- Comment on Got emotional thinking about this 2 days ago:
On Google Earth (rather than Google maps), you can view all the previous streetview photos from any location that has them - so the 2012 one won’t be the default one, but you can switch back to it with a few clicks.
- Comment on 👉👈 2 days ago:
Nobody’s asking you to kiss guys. They’re asking you to kiss comrades.
- Comment on The stairway to nope 5 days ago:
Because those cars are too big and don’t fit in the parking spaces any more.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 1 week ago:
It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 week ago:
Can the AI determine if I’m just uploading photos of Kier Starmer as my ID?
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 3 weeks ago:
What if we let one Reform supporter out for each immigrant we let in?
“It’s a controversial way of doing it, but it looks like complaints about immigration are down”
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.
I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?
- Comment on I understand what Trump cares about, says Starmer 4 weeks ago:
“Of course, when we say ‘family’, we include the lesser-known definitions of the word, such as ‘supporting Israel’s far right government in their genocide’, ‘trying to make trans people illegal’ and ‘starving the poor’”
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really that tough, is it?
“People driving vehicles expected to pay attention to their surroundings and take responsibility for their actions”
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 4 weeks ago:
Yes, he’s had pretty much a constant stream of chances for over a decade.
For people who actually weren’t given a chance, we need to look at people like Ed Milliband, who once ate a sandwich wrong, or Jeremy Corbyn, who thought we should increase taxes on rich people (which was, according to the news at the time, apparently antisemetic).
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 4 weeks ago:
I’m hoping it’s not one of those sudden lurches to the far right which seem to occur when someone suddenly needs access to the “special lawyers who make historical allegations disappear”.
🎵 “You’ve got too much money and now you are a Nazi
Tell me Rod it isn’t so. Is it for defending, sexual offending? Tell me Rod it isn’t so.” 🎵 - Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 4 weeks ago:
Sadly, it’s been reported in numerous newspapers, from an interview between him and The Times.
Here’s one from The Independent, but it’s pretty much in all the papers.
“Rod Stewart tells UK to ‘give Farage a chance’” - The Independent
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 4 weeks ago:
I’m more appalled by Rod Stewart saying:
“We’ve got to give Nigel Farage a chance”.
and
“It’s hard for me because I’m extremely wealthy, and I deserve to be, so a lot of it doesn’t really touch me. But that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch.”
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 5 weeks ago:
I hope the “Donald Trump Baby Blimp” makes an appearance at every place he visits :)
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 5 weeks ago:
They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.
*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*
- Comment on Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now 5 weeks ago:
or a selection of CEOs, perhaps?
- Comment on Oink 1 month ago:
And rightly so. We just call them “serial ports” these days.
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 1 month ago:
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 months ago:
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 2 months ago:
Yes, a good reasonable name like draft-final-final-final-final_v2_to_print_THIS_ONE_b
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’m not American, and I’ve likely only seen it on Lemmy, and likely in satirical forms.
Anyway, I’ve read the other linked info and a bit more, so at least feel I do know now :)
I’m also not a youth, but I’ll absolutely take that as a compliment, thank you very much :D
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 2 months ago:
What what what?!? The “Tread harder, daddy” snake is based on a real thing?!?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 2 months ago:
The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry I wasn’t clear about that - my replaced ones have never come off again - it’s the original ones on the shirt which tend to.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, it totally makes sense for some uses.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That is significantly more complicated than how I was taught to see in a button. Is this just for big metal buttons on jeans or something? It seems massively over the top for normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.
Roughly what I was taught (for a 4 hole button):
- Shove threaded needle through material into hole in button
- Go across diagonally and go down through the opposite hole and through the material
- Under the material, go across sideways a bit and come up in a different hole
- Repeat 1-3 a bunch of times until it feels strong enough.
- Tie off the thread and cut off the excess.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?