mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on Defence ministry spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh 2 days ago:
The answer is simple. Don’t have children. There. Problem solved.
- Comment on Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem 2 days ago:
I can quit whenever I want.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 4 days ago:
Is the news stale and not current. Yes.
So what are you on about? Please address this point directly instead of deflection. Thank you for your cooperation.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 4 days ago:
LOL pretty stale “news” no? 🤣🤣😂
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 6 days ago:
Bothsidesing is the worst thing you can do as a news site.
Bothsiding ? Oh we’re turning it into a verb now are we? OK. Cool.
I have to disagree with that. Not pretending to world is simple and presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site. Obviously people will disagree but to hide information or distort it is not news. It’s dirty propaganda.
We need less of these kinds of site that amplify hate towards others and pretend the world is simpler than it is. No wonder we’re so fucked and divided as a country. The exact same thing Farage is doing to right wingers, sites like these are doing to left wingers.
I have easy answers for you. Oh and by the way everyone that disagrees with me is some form of evil.
FFS.
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 6 days ago:
You obviously don’t remember Tony Blair fawning over Bush. Rode with him into battle. Oh wait, no. Started an illegal war that we’re all still paying the price for.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 1 week ago:
Don’t you want to put on some of this thermal paste?
Where this is going, baby, you don’t need no thermal paste!
faints on floor
- Comment on Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance tax 1 week ago:
Guys… his mother was a nurse and his father was a tool maker. Doesn’t that count for anything anymore?
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 week ago:
Hmm 🧐 seems I was suckered into the government propaganda machine. I can’t help but think Nandy’s comments this morning were calculated to cause confusion in the government’s favour.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 week ago:
I carry my driving licence too, but by choice.
Lisa Nandy was just on Sky news and explicitly said that it is optional to carry it. You’d apparently “have an ID” but you don’t have to carry it.
I’m not sure what that means for why they need it. Apparently to check work eligibility easily instead of one of several means that are, in her words, “more easily forged”.
You could quite easily develop a system like the driving licence check (for when you rent a car, for example, to check your driving status and points) to provide extra information anonymously like age range or work status or whatever you wanted. In fact if we were still in the EU we’d be able to participate in the beta that Spain is spearheading for age verification: ageverification.dev. It’s goals are explicitly privacy focused so I’d encourage people to read the details.
As a technology challenge I don’t think there’s a good argument not to have such a system rather than the patch work one we have now that was designed and built close to hundreds of years ago. However politically selling something like this to British people is always going to be the hard part.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 week ago:
40? ID says he’s 18, I swear! He’s old enough!
- Comment on UK recognises Palestine as an independent state 2 weeks ago:
About time.
- Comment on Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump's UK state banquet 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they’re the royal family and it would upset a lot of people if they were sent away.
- Comment on Musk's fellowship of Royal Society in doubt after rally address 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck is he a fellow of the society in the first place?
- Comment on Scottish Government considers quitting X following owner Elon Musk’s use of platform to incite violence 3 weeks ago:
They need to think of an alternative way to reach their racist voters.
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 3 weeks ago:
😬 not sure you’ve understood correctly my comment. There’s a good Wikipedia article on the subject. Here you go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
🙏
- Comment on Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
What nobody has properly explained to me is why… why these Western governments fall over themselves to help Israel when they are clearly hell bent on genocide?
Like what is the risk reward for them? Are they being paid stupid amounts of money? Is everyone in power blackmailed by Mossad? What is it to these countries like the US, UK, Germany, etc ? If Afghanistan or Iran came to us and said “Hey can you give us weapons and train our military so we can clear out these pesky people on the edges of our country and buy our goods and services made from occupied land for a shit ton of money” would we do that?
I think I know the reason for this: good old fashioned racism. But it constantly baffles me why the UK risks being associated with Israeli genocide like this.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 3 weeks ago:
were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications
It’s just performative. An exercise to waste time and make it look like the police and state are “doing something”. They probably take their cues from the Home Office.
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 3 weeks ago:
Overton window.
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 3 weeks ago:
people need to watch that movie “v for vengeance” again
V For Vendetta?
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 3 weeks ago:
We need to decide this with a “Great British Brit Off”. I’m sure Channel 4 will commission it.
The decider will be who makes the best curry. The winner gets to claim real Britishness.
- Comment on Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London 3 weeks ago:
It’s comical how powerless we are to combat musk’s bullshit. There’s literally no sanction we could apply to him.
Seriously go after the companies that advertise on his platform. That’s the only way. Cut his funding (when it’s not the US taxpayer).
- Comment on Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally 3 weeks ago:
In the past I would have thought this nutter is just… well… a cunt. And nothing will come of his insane words. But after the whole Kirk thing 😬.
Arrest this man now as a terrorist.
- Comment on Alleged rape of Sikh woman in West Midlands being treated as hate crime 3 weeks ago:
Detectives are hunting for two white male suspects alleged to have racially abused the woman during the assault in broad daylight. Police say they believe one suspect had a shaved head and wore gloves.
Bloody natives! Being born over here and raping our women. Smash the gangs! Who wants to start a massive country wide riot because our women aren’t safe from these illegal natives? I bet the government is even giving them free health care.
- Comment on Jewish anti-genocide protester had perfect response to police after arrest in Parliament Square 3 weeks ago:
😆 are you suggesting Keir Starmer is a paedophile?
- Comment on What the NHS can learn from the European country that helped more people survive cancer 3 weeks ago:
But does he think that’s possible in the UK? After all, Westminster is not known for much long-term, cross-party thinking.
Well. I think we all know the answer to that.
Great read though. Fascinating case study.
- Comment on Barclays boss urges UK ministers to limit public sector pay rises 3 weeks ago:
Inflation only pay rises by default. Anything else needs to be proved on merit. That way you’re not “loosing money” as you keep up with inflation and the incentive is to improve your work output to gain more. This includes high and low earners.
- Comment on Top Labour official married to lobbyist for Israeli arms firm 3 weeks ago:
LOL keep voting for the party with the “correct” colour rosette. Spoiler: they’re both the same.
- Comment on UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says 4 weeks ago:
The wrong side of history… again.
Jesus this government 😔.
- Comment on Today marks the beginning of His Majesty's fourth year on the throne. May His Majesty have many many more! God save the King! 4 weeks ago:
I’m so used to these sorts of post being in bad faith and piss taking. Honestly not sure which one this is 😅.