steeznson
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- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 4 days ago:
I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
Killzone on PS2 was the first game I played that wasn’t inverted and it took me several hours to figure out why aiming was so hard
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
If you just imagine that the right stick is their neck you don’t need to postulate a Parasaurolophus horn
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
I care more about the vertical inversion than the horizontal one. Not certain why. Have played with horizontal inversion on before and it didn’t bother me much after a minute or two.
- Comment on You donkey 4 days ago:
Her name is Jeanie though, which I’d pronounce differently to Jenny… unless it’s one of those awful new age spellings of a classic name.
Fwiw Jennifer is a fine name and people can figure out the best way to shorten it for their circumstances. Maybe living in a rural community with a lot of donkeys would affect it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
Yes, both of those and their sequels - Future Perfect and Perfect Dark - were by far the most played FPS games for me as a kid.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
It’s more like the analogue stick is representing your characters neck. IRL you pull your neck down to look up, and vice versa.
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 2 weeks ago:
Hope his hand was ok afterwards!
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 2 weeks ago:
I disagree with a lot of what Linehan says but I didn’t see his tweets as breaching the theshold for inciting violence. I think a threat needs to have the maker/sender of it claim that they, or those close to them, are credibly about to enact the violence.
The tweet I saw, not sure if it’s the one that got him in trouble, was similar to how people put “punch nazis” in their twitter bio. To me, that is non-specific and not a credible threat.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 2 weeks ago:
Can someone check if the lemon party domain is taken?
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
200 IQ child thief
- Comment on Labour to abolish most short prison sentences in England and Wales 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like the prison system is at capacity but idk if this is the right move for them politically.
We don’t need to do Broken Window Theory but there has to be a repercussion for low level crime, otherwise the perception amongst the public is going to be that crime has got much worse. Most serious crime is going to be invisible to the general public so even if we throw the book at those criminals the perception won’t change.
- Comment on ‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this is in tune with the public sentiment. Reform are probably the most in tune with polling on the issue and Labour are half-heartedly going along with it.
I’m generally quite pro immigration but the perceived unfairness of people skipping the queue has become a hot button issue / small fire which politicians can’t reframe. I think they’ll have to cut the gordian knot at some point and leave the ECHR. The asylum laws were great for the 20th century but don’t fit for the 21st century migration patterns, which only seem to get worse with climate change becoming more of a problem.
In Australia they had their off shore processing system in Papa New Guinea which was absolutely brutal and I think people are still stuck in those internment camps despite the policy ending more than a decade ago. On the flip side of that the Australian public are the consistently most pro-immigration Western countries in the world in polling. If people feel that the govt has control of immigration then they will accept migrants.
- Comment on Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back 3 weeks ago:
I work in that industry and it’s really not thriving in the UK from what I’ve seen. I work for a US brand and that’s really where all the money is. In the UK younger people are (sensibly) not picking up the habit, additionally the new (sensible) government safeguards are making people prove they can afford to gamble over a certain amount. I don’t know if they’ve introduced this proposal yet but it’s being discussed making gamblers submit bank statements to prove they can afford it if they gamble more than £1000 in a month - which seems like a great idea.
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like Scotland has a flawless track record! Part of the reason why we unified with England was that our experiment being colonialists was an expensive mistake. Managed to make some of that back being involved in the
triangular trade routesugar industry. - Comment on UK inflation rises by more than expected to 3.8%, largely driven by air fares 4 weeks ago:
Fascinating. Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 4 weeks ago:
It’s weird in Scotland where we have “cuddly nationalism”, you see saltires everywhere. My wife is from England and one of the things she remarked on moving up here was how the St George’s Cross would look mental hanging in all the places the saltire is.
- Comment on UK inflation rises by more than expected to 3.8%, largely driven by air fares 4 weeks ago:
One thing I was interested in about this news story is that “airline ticket” cost increases have been a major factor. I know that they use a weighted basket of goods, but I thought the basket was relatively static, as in it is a fairly big event when they change the goods/services in it.
Do we have flights as a year-round feature in the basket of goods? I think they make sense in summer but less so in winter.
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- Comment on Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter 4 weeks ago:
This policy sounds dumb, in particular the insultingly small amount of money involved. That said, there is a problem with shoplifting in the UK where the police aren’t treating it as a serious problem and often refuse to get involved. High streets are already dying with predatory retail unit rents and losing stock ontop of that might end up being the nail in the coffin.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 4 weeks ago:
IMO these commentators got addicted to swashbuckling, revolutionary language during Brexit and now can’t switch it off.
Labour party can’t call them out because the real politik is that it would be spun as them minimizing concerns about immigration.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 4 weeks ago:
You’ve still got Metroid Prime 4 on switch to look forward to
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 4 weeks ago:
There are still great games coming out on OG Switch. The Hundred Line and SMT: Raidou are two recent highlights.
Honestly the Switch 2 is still a pretty bad value proposition for most people (unless you really love Donkey Kong like me).
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 4 weeks ago:
My dad’s family used to have a dairy farm. There was one point in time, like 100 years ago, where they rivalled Wiseman’s for distribution in Scotland. However my uncle took it over in the late 70s and gradually made bad decisions with regards to running it. I think it was ok for a while because the long standing managers were on top of everything but when they retired everything became more chaotic. My poor uncle probably should have gone into academia as opposed to business since he’s neurodivergent* and not particularly practically minded but his brothers had left to start careers in other professions, so I think he felt the mantle had fallen to him.
From what I can tell it was kind of inertia that completely killed the business. With supermarkets charging less and less for milk, the old way of operating a dairy farm as a regular business is not really viable. Successful farmers these days don’t just do produce; they do open days and sell “country experiences” to punters who crave some kind of rural nostalgia. You pretty much have to be half farm and half events agency providing organised fun to school/office groups or families.
*From what I understand, they didn’t really have the vocabulary to recognise this in the 70s. Family thought he was bright but eccentric.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I understand where you’re coming from now!
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 4 weeks ago:
Corruption at the highest levels of government!!
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 4 weeks ago:
I can’t work out your political persuasion from that nickname for Sir Keith. There are reasons a right wing person would use it and there are different reasons for a left wing person.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 4 weeks ago:
Former Economist subscriber, in my opinion this plays into the Economist’s centre-right positioning. They are liberals and might not be the most fiscally right-wing but there is a trope they sometimes use where they remind readers that Labour aren’t always socially liberal; Tories are bon vivants who let people have a little flutter/gander/drink while Labour are hall monitor buzzkills. You actually see the trope a lot more often in the Spectator but it’s present in miniature in the Economist too.
- Comment on Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders 5 weeks ago:
Nice to see we’re keeping up with China! Social credits incoming…
- Comment on Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years 5 weeks ago:
Probably a whole confluence of factors… economists won’t have a settled view and are likely arguing about it rn