Tweak
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- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 3 weeks ago:
You’re a part of the same brigade.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 3 weeks ago:
talking out your racist ass
I’m not going to engage with you. Grow the fuck up.
- Comment on The British public deserves to know what UK Energy Secretary Miliband discussed with Beijing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree that it needs to be made public, I just think that the infiltration of Chinese on the UK’s electrical network is another, separate issue on top of that. Rather than the two being directly related - or more specifically that some deal in the electrical sector is the reason why that memorandum hasn’t been made public. There’s probably some other reason the memorandum isn’t being released.
- Comment on Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm 3 weeks ago:
My south west tap water either smells like sewage or a swimming pool, nowhere in between, and if I try to use a Brita filter the filter goes off within a week.
- Comment on The British public deserves to know what UK Energy Secretary Miliband discussed with Beijing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean, a lot of upcoming BESS sites use Chinese batteries with Chinese controllers, it’s a bit more difficult to prove a vulnerability is being exploited there when you’re literally relying on hardware and software directly from China. But that’s kind of separate to this deal, it’s not the government buying Chinese equipment for the grid but businesses. Kind of feels like the article is talking about two different problems.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s already happened on reddit, various Gaza subreddits are age gated. Anything NSFW is age gated, not just porn but things from Alcoholic Anonymous to chairs Not Fully Submerged in Water on r/chairsunderwater. XBox Live is age gated, because apparently this wasn’t about preventing kids from seeing porn like they originally said but it’s now about preventing children from talking to adults.
However I don’t think it’s to do with Palestine Action specifically. That’s a separate thing, where an organisation that posed a not-insignificant military threat was dealt with in a clunky way using terrorism laws (which cover threats to civilians). I don’t consider those in charge to be clever enough to set all that up in that way; rather, they’d already planned to use the Online Safety Act in this way and would have blocked anything they deemed controversial regardless.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
So long as the instance isn’t hosted in the UK and doesn’t use any payment services, I don’t think they can do anything about it. Other than maybe block the instance via ISPs, like they do with piracy stuff.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Bluesky’s implementation of age-based content restrictions is entirely client-side, this is an intentional design decision.
This simply isn’t true. It doesn’t go through Bluesky in any way, but you do connect to a 3rd party service. Thus is is not “entirely client-side”.
- Comment on UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t she the one who held up a sign saying something like “Protect Palestine. Action is needed now.”? It’s a bit convoluted to say that was support for the group Palestine Action, and that arrest, search, and home curfew for several months is an appropriate response.
- Comment on UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house 4 weeks ago:
I can’t wait until we have our 3rd dumb fuck vote, after Brexit and Boris, and vote in Nigel Farage. Then the US will go “Hold my beer” and go for Trump for a 3rd time.
The one connecting factor in all this is the Cambridge Analytica style of influencing and stealing elections.
- Comment on UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house 4 weeks ago:
She was arrested at the scene. She was then held for 27 hours, and during that time police searched her home.
I think she was the one holding a sign that read something like “Protect Palestine. Action is needed now” Palestine and Action were on separate lines, and she argued with police that there was a full stop between the words.
- Comment on Schools, businesses, communities should be taught to counter cyberattacks, espionage, sabotage conducted by hostile states like Russia, British lawmakers urge 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure they’re getting right on that with their (checks notes) plans to ban encryption.
- Comment on Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from 'collapse' 1 month ago:
“Paid time off work” =/= time off work at your normal pay. There is a very significant drop in income for most people, down to £70 per day, which is £10 an hour if you work 9-5 with a 1 hour lunch or £7 an hour if you normally work 10 hour days. That last one is less than the under 18 minimum wage.
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 2 months ago:
Sounds like the Alcoholic’s Anonymous loophole will work, you just need to decide your higher power is a doorknob or whatever.
- Comment on South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour 2 months ago:
The thing is there are multiple companies/sectors involved here, and this isn’t addressing the worst of them (yet, if ever).
First you have the railway lines themselves. These are run by Network Rail, which is already a part of the Department for Transport. This part covers a significant expense, but it’s needed and run fairly lean.
Then you have the train companies. These are the ones running the trains, they are typically private businesses. They lease rail stock (trains and carriages) and sell tickets, while paying Network Rail for the use of the lines. These are the customer facing businesses, and South Western Rail is one of them and the one nationalised in this story. In spite of having high ticket prices and revenue, they have low profits due to high costs.
Lastly you have the rail stock companies. These are the real villains, frankly, much moreso than train companies. They set leasing prices for trains, and in turn cause the train companies to run at paper thin margins. They aren’t customer facing, so the public eye isn’t upon them and they get away with a lot. They have established long term contracts, so simply nationalising a train company won’t end this deal.
However, nationalising train companies does mean that the government (either the DfT or the new Great British Railways) will be negotiating with rail stock companies. In theory, the government are a bigger entity, so have a better negotiating position, and also they should be more motivated to bring the costs down. Private rail companies make more money overall with paper thin margins on high prices, not only because a small percentage of a bigger number can be bigger, but because having a small margin puts them in a better negotiating position with local government (“You have to give us a good deal, we can’t afford to operate otherwise, and you need us”).
So nationalising train companies might lead to lower prices in future, through fairer leasing rates on rail stock. However this won’t start to happen until these contracts are renewed.
Really, a much heavier hand is needed from the government, one that focuses specifically on the rail stock leasing sector.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
Not that odd, if anything I thought it was strange that someone would give their name and their family’s image to a paper, particularly on a subject as contentious as this.
“Al Moy” may also be a pseudonym. I wonder if “Al Moy” even exists.
Also, while the Torygraph have pulled the article on their site, it’s still up on yahoo: …yahoo.com/…/earn-345k-soaring-private-school-090…
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
“It seems as though families like us are paying more and more, and being squeezed on everything from our salaries to our outgoings. I know each party has its flaws, but I think the Conservatives are at least a bit more transparent,” he says.
More like the Conservatives didn’t target those with lots of money, those who can make reasonable adjustments, instead focusing on those who already have very little.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 2 months ago:
They were required to apologise also, although sincerity cannot be ensured.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 2 months ago:
He should have been charged. The fact that none of the legal avenues have involved him is obscene.
- Comment on Lucy Letby should be released immediately 4 months ago:
The issue here is people are trying to apply scientific reasoning in a legal setting. The two are not the same. There is a legal process for bringing in scientific reasoning - you can’t just hash it out in court like you would in an academic paper.
I say the case needed a statistician. Incredibly, the prosecution deliberately decided to avoid using one to assess questions like “How unusual is this shift pattern for a random nurse?” or “How likely was it that said nurse was personally drawn to caring for the sickest infants? How were shifts assigned?”
Yes, it might have been better for Lucy if there was a statistician. However, it’s not the prosecution’s job to prove her innocence, it’s her’s and her solicitor’s. If there needed to be a statistical analysis and sworn statement from an expert, it would be on the defendant to arrange that.
- Comment on Lucy Letby should be released immediately 4 months ago:
By definition, she was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 4 months ago:
No mention of how he was always a massive Russophile, and how Dominic Cummings started out on the UK politics scene as his advisor after living in Russia.
This cunt was a key part in getting the UK out of Europe at the behest of Russia.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
There is some reason to arrest her. She had already been in the country for 3 weeks doing who knows what, so now that they suspect she was doing something wrong it’s worthwhile to investigate.
There’s even some justification for making the detention a miserable process, so as to deter others. It’s very shitty, and I don’t agree with it, but there is at least a rationality about it.
The real kicker is the length of the detention. This isn’t in the interests of America, this is only in the interests of the private prisons padding their bill to the American taxpayer. The whole process is shitty, but this last part proves that they are only serving their own interests.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
Yes that’s my point. There’s a bit more of a process from the Canadian land border than at an airport. At an airport, you’d just be turned around and paying for a flight. At the land border - particularly the border between two countries that don’t want you - it’s going to take a bit longer because the logistics are more complicated. Also, there might be some kind of investigation, as she has already been staying in the country for several weeks at this point.
However we should be talking about like 3-4 days at most (if that), not 3 weeks.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
While I agree the time in detention was excessive, this wasn’t at an airport, it was at the Canadian land border. So it’s understandable that she wouldn’t immediately get on a plane back home - she’d likely have to be taken to a central facility and then transferred to an airport. But yeah, that shouldn’t take 3 weeks.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
She narced on herself to Canada, then America overheard.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
Exactly. Canada refused her entry first, then when America learned why they detained her.
She should have been deported and put on the next flight at her expense, not detained for nearly 3 weeks, but she definitely fucked up and took the piss with her visa.
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 8 months ago:
Yeah you get reduced hours with a number of things, particularly buses. Shops have more incentive to stay open, though.
Classic examples being Good Friday running like a regular Saturday, Saturday running like a regular Sunday but Easter Sunday is as normal because everything is already sparse enough.
- Comment on Russia ready to wage cyber war on UK, minister to say 8 months ago:
Yeah, this article is saying they’re ready to do something they’re already doing.
The one thing I would say on top of your comment, however, is that North Korea have generally been less interested in attacking other state actors and more interested in monetary crimes, like when they stole millions in crypto. China and Russia generally don’t devolve into that kind of “petty” crime; not sure about Iran though.
- Comment on Unidentified drones spotted over three US airbases in Britain, USAF confirms 8 months ago:
Lol was thinking it might not have been a good idea to move back to East Anglia, but hey ho…