blackn1ght

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We can’t sit back and watch’: Former MI6 boss says Britain must get ready for war as Putin threatens Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was no promise of NATO expansion. Gorbachev himself had said there was no such promise.

  Countries previously occupied by the soviets didn’t want a repeat and sought security guarantees by joining NATO, something that they’re entitled to do.

  The people got rid of a president who was once looking for closer ties to the EU, then visits Putin and suddenly wanted to get cosier with Russia, doing a complete 180. Let’s also conveniently forget Russia poisoning of the pro-west presidential candidate in 2007. Was that the fault of the west too?

  Your comment reeks of Russian propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We should really just have EU law

  About that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They really do look very tacky.

  I was stuck in Preston Hostpital car park a while ago as I had to wait for someone to try and squeeze their Range Rover into a parking spot that wasn’t designed for such a huge vehicle. It was equally hillarious and frustrating.

• More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking spacewww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HAMMOND YOU BLITHERING IDIOT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if AI companies basically disregard scraped data from 01/04 due to all the tomfoolery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are our electric costs so high? We’re always hearing how cheap renewables are and how we’re using more renewables than ever, yet our bills keep going up? What gives?

• A quarter of Britons now disabledarchive.is ↗
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• Papers strewn on Newcastle street feared to be sensitive army documentswww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning. What's wrong honey?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spent far too long thinking how annoying that guys hair cut is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’d just call that room “the toilet”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s do you think it would be crazy to accept the UK back in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Sea tanker: Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision, as 32 people brought ashore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s create a list of countries who don’t have any grievances with the United States, so we can narrow down the suspects:

  • Russia
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Sea tanker: Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision, as 32 people brought ashore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s very typical.

• North Sea tanker: Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision, as 32 people brought ashorewww.bbc.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I get it. Their job is to dispatch the relevant emergency services to people, it’s not a mental health crisis hotline. How long are they supposed to stay on the phone for receiving abuse when there’s other calls waiting? I get that people in an emergency won’t be thinking straight but I can’t fathom why you’d dish out death threats to someone you’ve called that’s trying to help you. I think the handlers have a right not to take that kind of constant abuse.

• South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threatswww.bbc.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now scrap existing leases on private houses.

• Russia-linked Telegram channels ‘offering to pay for attacks on UK mosques’www.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So if there’s 50,000 users in a conversation and they all keep “tagging” the community instead of a hashtag, then that community would have thousands of new posts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a great podcast called “The Lazarus Heist” that goes into North Korea’s activities in stealing huge sums of money. Well worth a listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope there’s better handling of Mastodon user comments on Lemmy, because all the comments tagging other users are an absolute mess. Are Mastodon users doing this on purpose or is their client tagging the users automatically?

  If this were to become more common I’d probably just think about find out a way to block Mastodon users so I don’t see their comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s baffling to me. Maybe I’m just used to using “modern” frameworks, but the only way this could be an issue is if if you literally check if the string value equals “null” and then replace it with a null value.

  lastName = lastName.ToUpper() == “NULL” ? null : lastName;

  Either that or the database has some bug where it’s converting a string value of “null” into a null.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guarantee the majority of people will be OK with this too.

  I wonder if putting on facepaint would fuck up the facial recognition? Also, I lived in Cardiff and South Wales for a while and the atmosphere during the Six Nations was great, I don’t recall there ever being any issues. Not sure if that’s changed over the recent years as an excuse for the city to deploy this tech, but it seems kind of odd that they’d need this.

• Man admits shooting dead his mum and two siblingswww.bbc.com ↗
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• Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI sayswww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now imagine if services could go from Edingburgh/Glasgow to the Netherlands & Germany.

• St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germanywww.bbc.co.uk ↗
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