Rogue
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- Comment on Suspect in UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting used fake ID and traveled by bus to New York, sources say 4 weeks ago:
And bicycles too
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 4 weeks ago:
Flattr was such a good concept, it’s so disappointing it never caught on
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 weeks ago:
Actions have consequences. It’s important we have precedents that the world is just
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 4 weeks ago:
Dairy UK had argued that it was unlawful to use “milk” in a trademark relating to “products that are not mammary secretions”.
I think consumers need to argue that all milk should be accurately labelled as “mammary secretions”
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 4 weeks ago:
What a truly bizarre comment. If you think it through so you really believe that?
- Comment on Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies. 4 weeks ago:
It’s kind ridiculous, possibly even insulting to suggest the pies could be served to people in need.
If recovered there would be no verification of the temperature they were stored at, whether they were still sealed, whether vermin had been crawling all over them.
I agree the food waste is frustrating but it’s not fit for much more than low quality animal feed.
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 5 weeks ago:
Easter isn’t really a big deal in the UK. I’d expect places to be closed over Christmas but probably not Easter.
There may be reduced opening hours and smaller venues and shops may be closed but London is a vibrant city so I expect you’ll find plenty to do.
If there are specific places you want to visit it might be worth checking their website or emailing them to confirm. Or just try booking tickets for those dates and you’ll see.
- Comment on ED testing finds thousands with undiagnosed HIV, Hepatitis B & C 5 weeks ago:
So many unexplained acronyms.
- Comment on Gatwick Airport: Evacuation of 'large part' of South Terminal following security incident 1 month ago:
Somebody succeeded in taking a 500ml bottle of water through security. So to protect their profits the airport had insisted every go back through security and re-purchase the £4 bottles from the air-side shops.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 1 month ago:
Google will bribe trump and this’ll be undone immediately
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 1 month ago:
The latest budget included the funding to Euston.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Nah, unfortunately it’s been fed stack overflow. So instead of having a wealth of alternative solutions to a problem it just tells you your problem is a duplicate and refuses to help.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
I’ve found that just asking “did you make that up again?” after every response improves the quality of code Chat GPT produces. It seems to pick up fairly quickly on methods it just invented.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 2 months ago:
The antiquated single track setup.
Which apparently has no physical lockout to prevent two trains entering the same stretch of line.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 2 months ago:
Doesn’t Lemmy support cross posting?
I considered implementing Lemmy comments and theorised I’d post to my own community/instance so I had full moderation control, then cross post that to all the relevant communities.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 2 months ago:
This really shows how antiquated a lot of our rail network still is. I wouldn’t have believed this were still possible. We’ve had safeguards to prevent this kind of issue since the age of steam.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 months ago:
This data is already public. You can just create a kbin account and see who’s voting. Anyone wanting to scrape it already can, the only difference proposed is the Lemmy client showing it.
- Comment on 'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas 5 months ago:
Just as a counter: I live in a very rural part of the country, pretty sparsely populated and yet I get 1Gbps fibre. There’s a new company rolling out in the area promising 10Gbps, it’s kind of insane. So these programs do work.
- Comment on NHS and care regulator 'not fit for purpose' 5 months ago:
It’s going to take much longer than a five year term to fix the NHS. Liklihood is they’ll inject some life into it just in time for the tories to sell it off next government
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 5 months ago:
Oh, for sure in London or any other dense area where public transport is abundant, and taxis run 24/7 there is no need for cars.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 5 months ago:
Nah, if you leave people on waiting lists they give up, turn to private options or just die. That’s the cost saving approach the NHS uses for mental health services.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 5 months ago:
I get what you mean but I find anti car rhetoric way too overdone.
Given the topic is about health issues there’s going to be a lot of people who have limited mobility so cycling isn’t viable and walking may only be short distances. Therefore a car provides them freedom they need.
- Comment on BBC: Level crossing near misses and risk-taking caught on camera 5 months ago:
Because after 14 years of Tory rule our living conditions are dire and mental health services not fit for purpose.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 5 months ago:
Maybe if they raise the CEO pay then they’ll attract better CEOs who can figure it out. I bet they haven’t thought to try that
- Comment on Dyson to cut 1,000 UK jobs following global workforce review 5 months ago:
Or Shark.
Like Apple, Dyson is just good at marketing. The products themselves are fine but nothing special.
- Comment on Leasehold charges to be capped at £250 rather than cut to zero: Report – Mortgage Strategy 8 months ago:
Why the fuck would investors get compensation? Isn’t the entire point of investing that your capital is at risk
- Comment on So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels? 1 year ago:
If you only shower once a month I don’t understand why I you’d need to wash the towel any more regularly?
- Comment on How David Cameron tried to make his fortune with cash from China 1 year ago:
We’ve been fighting for transparency for so long. Now they’re providing transparency we have the audacity to complain about their blatant corruption.
- Comment on Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts 1 year ago:
Thanks! I think that’s the context I was missing. OP cut a few paragraphs when quoting the article. Lesson learned I should read the source.
- Comment on Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts 1 year ago:
Perhaps I’m missing something here, what is the issue with insisting thefts are reported to the police?
Isn’t a bigger issue that the
police declined to investigate delivery failures
Does that mean the police are denying a crime may have been committed? Or does it mean they agree there may have been a crime but they aren’t willing or able to commit resources to investigate what happened?