wewbull
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- Comment on Too soon? 4 days ago:
Sometimes in the future…
“Mummy, what kind of man was Daddy?”
“Well… His final words were ‘Counting or not counting gang violence?’”
- Comment on Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes 1 week ago:
One MP tipped Phillips as gaining support, saying she was “an ideal successor to Angela [Rayner]. Brave, strong, principled, clear values, great communicator, sounds like a normal person.”
I think she would be an awful choice. Far too entrenched in the battles of the culture war. The press would love it, but nothing of value would ever get discussed.
- Comment on Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes 1 week ago:
Sadly, the person doing it doesn’t have fore-knowledge that they are about to make a mistake. They don’t know what to change. The advice has to be more specific.
- Comment on does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks? 1 week ago:
Having heard enough tales from my sister, Nurses are particularly bad in this regard. I think it’s partly because seniority is so heavily related to how long they’ve been putting up with this shit. It’s not the best leaders that become senior. It’s the people with the most battle scars.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
Neoliberalism is an afront to liberalism. Please don’t conflate the two. It ignores anything to do with the rights of anybody except the ruling class.
Liberals believe that every person should be free to live their best life, and that includes freedom from oppression, poverty and other social disadvantages. Therefore it’s government’s role to lift those barriers. They also believe that government can be one of those oppressors and so favour regulating as little as possible, but also recognise the need for regulations when it stops the powerful exploiting the weak.
Neoliberals just believe that companies shouldn’t be subject the regulation. It’s greedy, and exploitative.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
Talk about new-speak.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
What’s liberal about what’s going on? It’s all authoritarians keeping the population under heel.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
No way that’ll happen.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
It’s not just economic. Its a road towards societal disaster. We’ve been on it a long time but has accelerated of late. All of the post-war social democratic values have been abandoned and replaced with paranoid protection of the rich and powerful.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 1 week ago:
Oh, aren’t you a thoughtful cannibal!
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 1 week ago:
Works for me.
- Comment on Modi says Russia and India stand together even in difficult times 1 week ago:
Not really very surprising. People talk about India being the world’s largest democracy and should be “on our side”, but Modi is not a leader that cares about “a global rules based order”. If he thinks he can exploit Russia being desperate, that’s exactly what he’ll do.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
GPS isn’t the most reliable thing when travelling in a metal tube, through tunnels, and arriving in big buildings with Victorian iron roofs.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
One problem is that quite a lot of left leaning people support this. Certainly in the UK the Labour Party has been paternalistic for a long time, thinking that the public are not able to look after themselves when it comes to having liberties. On issues like this there’s little between labour and Tories, with them swapping places quite frequently.
We haven’t had a socially liberal government in 70 years at least.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia’s case was odd. They tried to fight that the act was illegal rather than them being caught by it was wrong (good for them), but did so by arguing that the Minister was uninformed and acted irrationally, which is a non starter.
The judge said that they can still contest whether they should be caught by the act. It sounded like the judge felt they’d have a decent case.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Dancing in your slippers, right?
RIGHT?
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 weeks ago:
Spherical cows is the one I always hear.
- Comment on Gotta Smash 2 weeks ago:
The centre would need to be somewhere between them for this to work. Insanely Capitalist merged with a bit more moderate capitalist… The best you can hope for is toxic goo.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 2 weeks ago:
What worries me is that they’re stealing a little bit of Jupiter’s momentum every time. If they’re not careful it’ll fall towards the sun and we’ll have a Jupiter landing on our heads.
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- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 2 weeks ago:
It’s a settlement and not a ruling, so anything agreed will be a one off cost of doing business.
- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 2 weeks ago:
How about we get a fucking ruling against these companies? A settlement doesn’t create a precedent.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
Who cares? Nobody else is fighting this crap.
- Comment on Spelthorne Borough Council Public Space Protection Order 2 weeks ago:
Conservative 14 Liberal Democrats 10 Labour 7 Independent 5 Green 2 Ind. Conservative 1
Five of the independent councillors sit together as the ‘Independent Spelthorne Group’, the other sits with the Conservatives.
for me that makes 20 tory councillors.
It would be interesting to know how the vote went. My guess would be 27 to 12
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
Go 4chan!
Not often I get to say that, but this is one case.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
None of those advanced nuclear projects are yet actually delivering power, AFAIK.
…and they won’t be for at least 5-10 years. In the meantime they’ll just use public infrastructure and then when their generation plans fall through they’ll just keep doing that.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
I guess I wasn’t trying to say there’s absolutely no-one that idolises homelander. Some people watch Star Wars and want Darth Vader to win. There’s not many of them, and social media tends to amplify the “edge lord” opinions.
Just that I thought sometimes pearl-clutchers can see people enjoying something that contains horrific aspects and interpret it as meaning those people support horrific things.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
Anthony Starr is knocking it out of the park. Amazing performance.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
The comics are from long before Trump. (2006-2012) Homelander is just what happens when you give a flawed person Superman powers. That’s the whole premise of the Boys. “What-if superhumans were real people with real flaws?”.
He’s the manifestation of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
The Boys is great because it explores how horrific a world like that would be, and how close that world is to ours.
Thankfully I’ve not seen people fawning over Home Lander. I see people say they exist, but I do wonder if that’s drive-by people mistaking fandom of the show for fandom of Homelander.
The guy is a forever child whose insecurity makes him a monster. You’re shown how all his “romantic” relationships are about him being mothered. He literally keeps breast milk in his fridge. He’s an infant given god like powers. There is nothing inspirational about him.
He’s a great villain though.
