galmuth
@galmuth@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anglian Water fined £300,000 for sewage pollution in Norfolk 3 weeks ago:
Such a rubbish fine. It probably barely covers the cost of cleanup of dead fish by the Environment Agency, and the cleanup of private properties which had actual shit floating into them.
Not only was it an illegal discharge of sewage, but in an area they had absolutely no permit to do so, so it shouldn’t have even been possible for sewage to discharge here. And it was directly into a public water supply, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a beautiful National Park. They’ve clearly been extremely careless and/or nefarious when it comes to implementing the infrastructure.
The fine should have been at least ten times the amount.
- Comment on MPs back proposals to legalise assisted dying 4 weeks ago:
Reading these links, I don’t really understand why, for example, Disability Rights UK are against the assisted dying bill. They don’t say what’s wrong with the bill, they just say it’s bad. This bill is aimed at terminally ill people not disabled people, and its not clear from those links what the issue is.
The only links of yours that do explain in detail the issues with the bill, are relating to an unrelated Scottish bill.
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 1 month ago:
“There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn’t come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh.”
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 2 months ago:
Making short term rental completely illegal is not a good idea as it would impact on local tourism etc, but they should allow (or force) councils to limit licences for short term rentals to a certain percentage of housing.
- Comment on shag carpet 3 months ago:
My son had a book called “You’re Called What?!” which featured a tasseled wobbegong, alongside other animals such as the Shovelnose Guitarfish, Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm, and the Aha Ha.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 5 months ago:
That’s not denial, it’s looking at the evidence.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 5 months ago:
It’s not used as a healthcare metric. This is just debunking reports that a healthcare policy was directly causing an “explosion” in suicides.
- Comment on Mother takes autistic son back to Ukraine after facing three-year NHS wait 10 months ago:
My son is on a 5 year waiting list… maybe we should holiday in Ukraine this year 🤔
- Comment on Brianna Ghey: I'm open to speaking to killer's mum, her mother says 10 months ago:
Measures like Google Family Link already exist if parents choose to use them. I don’t think legislation restricting what young people can do online would necessarily help. It’s illegal for kids to take drugs and drink alcohol yet it still happens. Whatever measures are put in place, there’s usually a way around.
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 11 months ago:
Where are you getting your figures from?
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 1 year ago:
Ahh, you’re American - the UK system, which this article is referring to, will be different. There is talk of banning disposables for environmental reasons and ease of kids getting hold of them, but the government over here are currently looking into the best options.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 1 year ago:
Christ, chill with the venom. Fair enough, you like those flavours, but there are ways to avoid marketing them as desirable to children.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 1 year ago:
Who’s trying to stamp out vaping entirely? All I’m reading into this article is just “Kids shouldn’t start vaping, especially if they have asthma.”
The suggested solutions I’ve seen in the news recently are things like keep the vaping displays away from kids, stop kid-friendly flavours, and make packaging less enticing - all things that they currently do for cigarettes, and all perfectly reasonable IMO.
No-one I’ve seen is proposing taking them away from adults.
- Comment on More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals 1 year ago:
It depends how old they are. Kids in primary school at least have a decent amount of free time. School doesn’t start crazy early in the UK, and there’s not much homework when they’re young.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I didn’t mean to suggest that lecturing the neurodiverse person would have solved the situation in this case.
I meant that even if the girl was neurotypical and/or intended it as a homophobic insult… it doesn’t really matter - if the cop had to do anything, then just talking to the girl would have been a more proportionate response than what happened.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
I meant that if the girl was neurotypical and meant to insult the cop, then the cop talking to her would still be a more proportionate response than assault and arrest.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 1 year ago:
Ooh,. Is pressreader any good? Do you just get a PDF-ish version of the print edition which you have to try and zoom and swipe around to navigate and read, or is it a bit easier to use than that?
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 1 year ago:
I uninstalled the app last month and use the website instead too. I put a shortcut on my homescreen so there’s barely a difference.