RobotToaster
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- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 43 minutes ago:
It’s those kind of problems that makes me think it’s unlikely to happen.
Metrification alone practically caused a constitutional crisis.
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- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
It’s possible he was assassinated.
That’s always the problem with being in power, there’s almost certainly someone who wants to get rid of you, but the more paranoid you behave about it the number of people who want you gone increases.
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 1 day ago:
I doubt it will go very far, there’s been a court ruling that GBnews is allowed to host “current affairs” programs, and that impartiality rules don’t really apply to those. www.judiciary.uk/…/GB-News-v-Ofcom.pdf
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 1 day ago:
You don’t even have to go further than the article:
Approached for comment, Corbett-Dillon replied with a lengthy statement in which he said he stood by his comments. He compared his support for England to preserve its “historic English character” with his backing for Israel’s right to be a Jewish-majority state, or Japan to be a Japanese-majority society.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
There’s some irony in that sponsor block has to block four segments of the video.
- Comment on Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns 3 days ago:
When did military leaders become so spineless?
Wellesley must be spinning in his grave (he probably was already at the lack of hats in parliament, but that’s besides the point)
- Comment on 'We are getting punished for being self-employed' 3 days ago:
There’s paid maternity leave for the self employed in the UK, this is just sexism.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 4 days ago:
Since he obeyed the judge’s orders it may have been difficult to prove contempt.
Courts also seem to take the view that a right to a fair trial includes the right to fuck up your own trial.
I imagine the solicitor coaching him via the glasses will be getting a lengthy complaint to the SRA, which could see him struck off.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 4 days ago:
In conclusion she rejected Jakštys’s evidence “in its entirety” and found for the defendants.
Given this was a high court case, that will not be cheap.
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- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 1 week ago:
Some of the more Libertarian ones are rallying around Thomas Massie. He seems like one of the few American politicians who are actually somewhat honest.
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 1 week ago:
Need to know what country and state. Generally reporting something to the police is protected by the common law defence of necessity.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 week ago:
Their security was a bit wank.
- Comment on They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE 1 week ago:
“we can excuse mass surveillance, but we draw the line at racism” is what I get from that.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
But still boring
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
They’re arguing it under section 20, probably this part
the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
It looks like they’re arguing that by hosting the games valve are acting as a pirate MP3 site.
I think they would have to prove that they did so knowingly, which can only really be done if they ignored takedown notices.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
This was inevitable after valve caved to pressure from card processors. The sharks have smelt blood.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.
This is in the UK, except in very rare exceptions, we don’t have juries for civil matters.
- Comment on Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts 1 week ago:
This is pretty shoddy reporting
UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.
So, to be clear, they aren’t distinguishing between an entire mummy and a lock of hair.
37,000 items of human remains are known to originate from overseas
Experts said the findings contradict a claim made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in its 2005 guidance that said “the vast majority of human remains in UK museums are of UK origin
37,000 / 263,000 ≈ 0.14 or 14%. Am I wrong to think that 86% qualifies as a “vast majority”?
- Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise 1 week ago:
I used to be an editor on there so have a lot of mixed feelings about it, there’s a lot of bullshit that goes on.
It’s good for hard sciences, but most articles on “soft” subjects like history do have a pro western liberal capitalist bias. Although the amount of bias usually depends on what senior editor decided he owns the article, despite “owning” articles being against the Wikipedia rules.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure 200km of fibre isn’t going to be cheap either
- Comment on Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case? 1 week ago:
It will have a lot more weight if they win, since it potentially sets a legal precedent (at least in common law countries like the US and UK)
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 1 week ago:
Yes, that was my point.
If they have to pay “out of pocket” for existing tests it’s at-least consistent, if unsavoury.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 1 week ago:
Genuine question, do they have to pay for their own drug testing?
Also they’re using cheek swab testing, is that even guaranteed to pick up xx/xy chimerism?
- Comment on Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy 1 week ago:
These are the people who want to spy on all our private messages.
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 1 week ago:
Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it.
- Comment on CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U 2 weeks ago:
It’s odd they found this in the unit the manufacturer sent them for review. With this kind of scam they would normally make sure the review models had the correct processor. I wonder if this was done by a supplier or subcontractor without them knowing.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 weeks ago:
And a monitor that supports usb-c, I assume.