tenebrisnox
@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
- Baron Munchausen
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 1 day ago:
This. Exactly.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 5 days ago:
Why am I not surprised?
(More and more I have an absolute feeling that I’m being fucked over by already wealthy people - and there’s nothing I can do about it in any way!)
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 5 days ago:
You are right. Is a hitherto episode of epilepsy a good defence for dangerous driving in general?
I guess it could come down to whether or not the person has previous incidents of dangerous driving or they have footage or other evidence to suggest she wasn’t epileptic. If there’s no physical evidence or subsequent seizures. (I know I’m speculating and - you are right - we should assume innocence and that her account is right until shown not to be).
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 6 days ago:
Is there a way checking whether an epileptic seizure has taken place? (MRI scan showing trace evidence in the brain?) If the driver has not experienced subsequent seizures, it would be difficult to accept this one without evidence.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 6 days ago:
What strikes me is how a so-called “independent regulator” seems to collaborate with these water companies and make HUGE pay rises seem normal and inevitble.
- Comment on UK warns Putin after Russian spy ship seen near British waters 1 week ago:
Non story for sabre-rattling attempt.
Navy rear-admiral on LBC this morning said that Russian subs go up the Channel daily to noin their Northern fleet and that if the UK scrambled a response every time it would exhaust the country’s resources. He said that Russian vessels are legally allowed in the area as long as they don’t interfere with any UK underwater resources.
Distraction from the Harry vs The Sun story and calls for criminal prosecutions?
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
I’m not sure (but happy to be corrected) that there is a legal standard definition of what constitutes milk. There was a documentary on Radio 4 a few years ago that asked “What is milk?” and found that - in UK and Europe - it couldn’t be answered (other than it had some cow involvement somewhere). Some pateurised “milks” had barely any actual milk. From what I remember it was the lobbying of the dairy industry that prevented a standard definition.
- Comment on People in England facing food poisoning ‘Russian roulette’ as illnesses soar 10 months ago:
Nanny state etc. What do people want? A government that looks after them? The freedom to vote means the freedom to die of chicken-egg-poisoning. Dying of food poisoning is a fundamental British value that woke experts will have to rip from my stinking hands. (or something like that.)
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 11 months ago:
You could be right. I listened to a Tory minister on the radio today talking about ending anonymity on the internet and - more interestingly - about silo-ing parts of the internet so that certain groups, such as children, could only access certain “versions” of the internet. I wonder whether that’s the longer-term agenda.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 11 months ago:
I grew up with even less access. At school we used paper and ticker-tape to program computers. And there was no tv (which was black and white anyway) during the day. Those were the days. Boring as fuck!
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 11 months ago:
This apparently “spontaneous” group of “ordinary mothers” looks surprisingly media-trained. I’d be interested in knowing more about the founders. When the “keep our schools open during covid” group were examined they turned out to be a puppet of a right-wing thinktank.
- Comment on HMRC has seen a 50% drop in investigations into wealthy tax evaders 11 months ago:
HMRC claim that only 5% of UK don’t pay their taxes.
That 5% is worth £36 billion a year!
I’ve got my suspicions about who that 5% are. Damn you you single-parent, new trainer-wearing, work-shy benefit claimants! Damn you!
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 1 year ago:
I’m happy with having a “nanny state” if it means my sons can get dental treatment. The only NHS dentist in our area won’t take appointments (unless you go private) and say that if children are in pain to call 111. As a child I went for a check up every 6 months. That’s now not possible since Tory austerity.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 1 year ago:
Lack of air conditioners in UK state schools makes them unbearable places in the Summer.
- Comment on Energy bills in Great Britain to rise by 5% from January as cap hits £1,928 1 year ago:
Great timing. The (supposed) tax cuts will pay for the electricity bosses’ new porsches.
- Comment on There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’ 1 year ago:
I’ve just read that and can’t see anything badly written. Where was the bad writing? (Or is it just their views you don’t agree with?)
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
“The Riddle of Genius.” Ho ho ho.
- Comment on Teach primary pupils real-world maths - Labour 1 year ago:
Sorry, I posted a reply to your comment in the main feed rather than to you. Back to school for me!
- Comment on Teach primary pupils real-world maths - Labour 1 year ago:
so crushingly dull that it destroys any natural curiosity that kids have
You are right. Children have a much earlier start to school in the UK compared to other countries. This cuts short the time of their “play-based” development. By Year 1 (about 5-6) children in UK primary schools are sat at desks and taught in quite bizarre ways. From Reception (ages 4-5) they are tested continuously to a point where UK children are the most tested children in the Western World. Other, more successful countries (educationally and economically) don’t do this. We have a weird, damaging obsession with testing children and placing them into hierarchies in this country. When testing becomes the purpose and goal of an education system it is, as you say “so crushingly dull”.
- Comment on Thames Water: Is this the worst company in Britain? 1 year ago:
Perhaps more people need to know who owns these companies and how ownership affects their operations.
My local company is 40% owned by JP Morgan and other hedge funds are involved in ownership. My understanding is that this is similar across many utility companies. Instead of service being their primary concern, it is the generation of revenue.
The catastrophic role of hedge funds in the UK cannot be overstated.
- Comment on Thames Water: Is this the worst company in Britain? 1 year ago:
Is there a neighbouring utility that isn’t also in similar trouble, though?
- Comment on Russell Brand: Woman says star exposed himself to her then laughed about it on Radio 2 show 1 year ago:
Who is Olivia? Was Olivia’s complaint that she heard the two men discussing this? Not that it was done to her?
- Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners 1 year ago:
I’m not an expert on Sainsburys, really. We just used to shop there. Most of it is self-checkout but they do have 3 or 4 tills with checkout workers down at one end. I guess you could walk through there. Also there’s a security guard who I guess could let you out.
I only put up with it once - about 3 weeks ago - and haven’t been there since. We’ve done our family shopping there for 15+ years.
- Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners 1 year ago:
I don’t know. There’s always a queue because the scanner wasn’t reading the receipts properly and wlll only accept the receipt scanned once. We had to be helped through by a shopworker who checked we had paid. It was super-frustrating to wait and the gates were too strong to push through. We’ve just stopped going to Sainsbury’s now and just use our nearest Aldi.
- Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners 1 year ago:
Our local big Sainsbury’s supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.
As a kid, I always wanted to live in some science fiction futuristic society. I never thought that I’d actually grow up to live somewhere where I had to scan to get out a supermarket only to be under threat of attack by ravaging killer dogs.
- Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners 1 year ago:
Corporation bosses want to increase profits again:
“We’ve already used Covid.”
“We’ve already used war in Ukraine.”
“We’ve already used climate change.”
“How about increasing looting… to increase prices?”
- Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners 1 year ago:
You are on to something.
If you are careful and observant, you’'ll notice that things that we think “only happen here” seem to happen across Western countries at the same time.
It only seems to take someone like capitalist edgelord, Tim Gurner to reveal things are often coordinated.
- Comment on Britons place low value on teaching children obedience, study finds 1 year ago:
Excellent. Agreed.
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
Groan. Western countries have at times used taxes on wealth to enable massive infrastructure development. Straight after WW1 and WW2 almost all Western countries introduced “profit” taxes of 80-90% and increased taxes on the wealthy. It was the only way the UK, for instance, could rebuild after the war and why we have an NHS and used to have a great welfare state.
I don’t actually believe we should tax the excessively wealthy. I think we should take what they’ve stolen over the centuries back into common democratic ownership.
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
Schools are also providing free meals and access to hardship funds for teachers who can’t survive on their salaries.
UK is a horror show of increasing poverty across the board.