ladel

@ladel@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so engrossing. I’ve made it to chapter 77 while “working”. What a story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining the proposal, The Times has reported.

  The card, stored on a smartphone, would reportedly be linked to government records and could check entitlements to benefits and monitor welfare fraud.

  I’m not against what it’s trying to achieve, but will it achieve that and isn’t there a less expensive or better way to do it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.

  She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Stop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor guy’s aged twice as fast as all his peers since only he still ages when time gets stopped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are they banning knives and swords category by category (e.g., zombie knives, ninja swords) instead of a broader ban?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember seeing that meme, I just didn’t get it at the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like such a useful feature and I hope lemmy brings it. What else does piefed do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article says it’s not poisoning the AI data, only providing valid facts. The scraper still gets content, just not the content it was aiming for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrono Trigger Is Timeless⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it for the first time about 10 years ago on a SNES emulator (because it kept on popping up in “best game of all time” lists), and I wasn’t disappointed. Well, I don’t think it is the best game ever, but I really enjoyed it, so I don’t think it’s a game that’s propped up only by nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This mostly seems pretty achievable in my eyes. Meat consumption is apparently trending down anyway, even without government intervention. The difficult part may be turning farmland into woodland, because how do you get farmers to convert their source of income into land for trees?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear I remember reading that they’ve already been using facial recognition in some places before.

  Stories of being arrested for a false positive soon to follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re my butterfly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if it gets that far, I wonder if she gets retrialed with a proper statistician to provide comment and different experts, or she is just acquitted?