OrlandoDoom

@OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk

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

  Time to bally up for trips to the pub, the supermarket, a nice walk in the park, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hiding that racial slurs exist isn’t a way to stop racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Information Commissioner's Office response to Google’s policy change on fingerprinting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Firefox apparently blocks all fingerprinting. I’m sure others do too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP coconut milk.

  Funny that before oats and soy started gaining in popularity they had no problems with coconut milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They see younger generations using less milk and this is their tantrum.

  Meat industry does this too, but aren’t as successful most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Junk food ad ban legislation progresses to curb childhood obesity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I’d argue that alcohol and gambling are the more damaging to society, can we ban ads for those too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crackdown on illegal party drugs crossing the border⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how much they didn’t catch. My plug is doing import cannabis from the US right now. The risk isn’t much greater right now than operating grow houses in the UK so we’ve got some fun menus with US and UK cannabis on it, not something I’ve seen in the 18 years I’ve been smoking the stuff.

  I’m up for legalisation of a few substances, but the main thing I want to see is a decent effort to bring people out of the black market when doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another offensive pub name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m vegan, and I do honestly think that PETA get a bad rap for their animal shelter work, but their online presence is ridiculous and cringe and it doesn’t surprise me at all that they get ripped to shreds constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s great is all the stuff I used to listen to in Uni (I’m 37 now) is also up there, like Torche and Manatees. Now I have the money to, I can chuck all these artists that I found in what.cd all those years ago a few quid. Whilst I’m sure they would have appreciated it more back in the day, I couldn’t afford it and spent most of my uni years flat broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I try and buy albums at shows mostly! They don’t put ridiculous markups on stuff at small shows, but some venues want a cut of merch sales too, which is why I’m assuming some venues you can’t get a band shirt at for less than 30 quid. I could be wrong about this if course, but I have seen it at bloodstock where bands were literally just chucking merch off stage because they would have had to pay hundreds of pounds to have merch up in the festival shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, bandcamp bill their cut later as far as I’m aware, but when you buy an album you are paying into the artists PayPal account, you even see a partial email address. Unless that system is somehow lying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my bet, it’s the best one right now. Not sure why OP didn’t just say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it’s more of a “try before you buy service”, and money goes directly to the artists’ accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it’s perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe look into setting up your own supply chain or paying the businesses you rely on enough money to fix their supply?

  If fairphone can set up a whole new phone manufacturering supply chain to make sure they don’t have any child slaves, I’m sure this isn’t so difficult, it’s many more suppliers, but many less steps.

  Alternatively, go vegan and stop contributing to this barbaric industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex workers need the police to do better, not more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.

  I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major overhaul of workers' rights to be outlined⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it means more rights for the worker and not less I’m all for it.