Kellamity

@Kellamity@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it’s not that the Tories are worse, but you expect it, yknow? In theory, Labour are supposed to stand up for us at least a little bit, so it’s something of a betrayal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting aside questions of ecosystems etc, I think the main reason is that we just can’t - ironic since we seem to be extint-ing all the other animals

  In South America they tried in the 50s and 60s, and more kept cropping up. They breed so quickly, if you miss an area they can just rebound. Then more can come in on ships and stuff

  So you couldn’t really localise it, it would have to be a huge global undertaking. And it would likely require widespread use of pesticides that are at best tricksy and at worst illegal, not to mention environmentally shitty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why you’re being down voted, he is literally a billionaire

  ‘No ethical billionaires’ apart from this guy apparently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of the electoral politics, as Chris notes, the important challenge in social policy is helping people who won’t benefit from wealth transfers from wealthy relatives, rather than engaging in fantasies about “generational warfare”. What matters is not generations, but class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK you start school at 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just isnt true. I’m not saying this to defend Israel and their actions in Gaza - its just really important to not get swept up in falsehoods, particularly at a time when legitimate criticism of Israel is being portrayed as antisemitic.

  There are allegations that Israel administered a birth control drug - which has to be readministered every three months - to Ethiopian immigrants without informed consent. The investigation into this was flawed, but there is literally no evidence to suggest that anyone was forced or coerced into taking this.

  What does seem plausible and even likely based on the facts is that doctors often made little or no effort to overcome language and cultural barriers and make sure that consent was fully informed and patients were completely aware of the effects of the procedure.

  This is definitely an issue in and of itself, and is a level of societal racism. But what it is not, is ideoligical forcible sterilization.

  Further, when you say ‘Ethiopian Jewish women tried to invoke the Law of Return’ the implication is that Israel was really against Ethiopian immigration. In reality, the Israeli government worked with the US to actively enable this - in 1984 Israeli covert forces worked to evacuate the Beta Israel community from Sudan to Israel during the civil war there (this is known as Operation Moses).

  Basically, there is so so much to legitimately criticise the Israeli government for right now. Repeating misinformation like this just straight up doesn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’d rather die then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pavlov's conditioning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pavlov’s dog is not notable for showing that dogs could be conditioned (bell = food time)

  What it did was show that a conditional response (bell = food time) could cause a reflexive response (saliva)

  Classical conditioning is not the same as associative learning.

  Pavlov’s dog is not about associating Thing A with Thing B - that didn’t need a russian scientist to prove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scrapping inheritance tax would cost £15bn a year by 2032, says IFS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Cost’ is applicable, because this money is money that has factored into the budget and public soending every year. To make up for not having it, you would need to find or cut the same amount of money elsewhere.

  For what its worth, the reason that Tories want to cut this is because it disproportionately taxes the wealthy, and specifically generational wealth. Assets under £375,000 (iirc) are not taxed on inheritance

  Of course tax billionaires and business properly, but cutting inheritance tax will increase the wealth gap and cost the goverment money at a time when vital public services are still suffering from 13 ongoing years of austerity