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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… run at a massive deficit in the hopes that we’ll get acquired by a bigger country?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, if they’re a foreign agent being paid by another state, they’ll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don’t mind the uncompetitive pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It certainly doesn’t make you a worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some kind of parental software that can lock down phones like what happens on corporate phones? Like where you can control which apps are installed etc? That sounds like the best approach: just give them a phone with WhatsApp, phone and SMS. Any refurbished phone from the last 10 years would work for that (lack of Android security updates might be an issue though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee’s Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mamma mia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eboy: egirl: superstar DJ: HERE WE GO!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of it is not wanting to be mugged off. Even though it doesn’t materially affect you, having someone come in everyday and nick stuff in front of you would probably wear you down. No excuse for violence of course but I can see how it comes to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer: Labour wants to increase defence spending to 2.5%⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of phoning 999 you just shout “medic!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer suffers major Labour rebellion over Gaza stance - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes foreign policy involves stating a position, even if we can’t unilaterally make it happen. Macron has done this, which paved the way for other leaders to do it as well.

  If Starmer wants to be prime minister, he has to realise that he will eventually have to take positions on world events. In my opinion, just following America has been disastrous for us, and I’d like us to change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Khalife pleads not guilty to escaping custody at Wandsworth prison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Proper Bart Simpson energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Russell Brand Exited Comedy Central’s ‘Roast Battle’ After Facing Sexual Predator Claims On-Camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not out for blood, but if I was a woman working in the media I’d certainly not take any meetings with Russell Brand. That’s why it’s important to have this information out there even while it’s being investigated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Russell Brand Exited Comedy Central’s ‘Roast Battle’ After Facing Sexual Predator Claims On-Camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People are allowed to have opinions about cases that haven’t been fully investigated yet. Jimmy Savile never got convicted but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t innocent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broken Britain: what went wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “As Brown intended, but Cameron implemented” - that was really nice of them to implement their opponent’s policy of austerity, a policy they kept going on about at the time and still try to defend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish my government kept companies in check a bit more than they do. I live in the UK where all the water companies are owned by hedge funds and they keep discharging raw sewage into all our waterways. I feel we could do well to take back some control from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish the UK would do the same. At least in the US they learn a bit about slavery - here in the UK we learn nothing about the British Empire and its atrocities. No wonder we have statues of slave traders everywhere.