steeznson
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- Comment on Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’ 4 days ago:
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 5 days ago:
Focusing on the big 4 offices of state. Kemi’s Shadow Cabinet:
- Priti Patel: Shadow Foreign Sec
- Chris Philp: Shadow Home Sec
- Mel Stride: Shadow Chancellor
Rishi’s Cabinet:
- David Cameron: Foreign Sec
- James Cleverly: Home Sec
- Jeremy Hunt: Chancellor
There are like 30 ministerial roles though so not sure how similar the junior ministers are.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Je crois c’est un arrangement temporaire avec GOG et Amazon. Je le disais juste parce que j’ai récupéré gratuitement d’anciens jeux video Civilization, et que beaucoup de gens utilisent Prime.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 5 days ago:
To play devil’s advocate, part of being in opposition is to give parties a chance to reassess what’s important to them. Kemi wasn’t particularly senior when they were in government and the shadow cabinet has changed from the actual cabinet when they were in power.
Political parties are extremely top driven in the UK with the PM or LOTO having an outsized role in shaping what their offering will be in the next manifesto. Being in power also changes decision making like Tories can now be all in favour of online privacy and civil liberties in a way they couldn’t when they were running the home office. Similar shift in priority for Starmer being emboldened to further purge the left of his party more blatantly than when they were in opposition.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
If you’ve got Amazon prime then the GOG version of Civ 3 and I think 4 is available through prime gaming as a subscription bonus www.amazon.com/prime-gaming
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 5 days ago:
I was so confused when I saw #JonathanRossIsAMurderer trending on mastodon the other day
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 3 weeks ago:
Hidden gem in the sense that it sold extremely poorly on release. It’s become a cult classic since then so probably not “hidden” for people interested in retro games.
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 3 weeks ago:
It was definitely quality over quantity vs the PlayStation. One year after I got a bonus I bought the resident evil 2 port for it because I find the fact that it exists to be miraculous; they had to do some wizardry to fit the 2 CDs into one cartridge with 64MB.
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 3 weeks ago:
All killer, no filler - well done OP!
If you ever expand your collection then Conkers Bad Fur Day is a bit of a hidden gem which came at the end of the consoles lifecycle.
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 3 weeks ago:
Inb4 he says “only God can judge me”, shortly before a human judge casts a sentence
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 3 weeks ago:
As in which version to buy? There’s an unreal engine remaster called Reload which is a full remake of the PS2 game and then a PSP port. The former has improved gameplay and the latter is like a VN with the dungeon crawling as the unvarnished original. PSP port does have exclusive content in terms of a female MC alternative story but I’d say that was for real enthusiasts
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 4 weeks ago:
UFO50 is good value even when it isn’t on sale imo. So much content crammed into it!
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 4 weeks ago:
I had fun with Hellblade 2. Doesn’t overstay its welcome. Not sure how I felt about the ending but it was memorable
- Comment on Great guy 4 weeks ago:
It’s from /mu/ originally
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 4 weeks ago:
I believe it is still a criterion for changing gender to use the bathroom of the gender you are transitioning to for 2 years before the legal process can be satisfied. It sounds like the entire legal framework around changing gender is incompatible with requests like this.
For what it’s worth the supreme court decision simply found that someone’s sex could not be changed legally but that still shouldn’t preclude changing gender. Forbidding people from changing gender is essentially what is being asked for by these groups and society at large does not seem to have an appetite for that.
In the immediate future sex based legal protections do have the legal apparatus to trump gender based rights but it’s going to be implemented on an arbitrary, case-by-case basis. For example in the event that a trans person has a transphobic colleague of the same gender then the employer needs to provide facilities for both parties (as seen in a recent workplace dispute in Fife, Scotland). This is going to get messy where the NHS might have certain hospitals with this arbitrary need for extra facilities depending on people having the misfortune of transphobic colleagues.
- Comment on Great guy 4 weeks ago:
I saw Keanu Reeves at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
- Comment on China - Hong Kong: Civil society organisations urge UK PM to stand up for Jimmy Lai 4 weeks ago:
Not much we can do after giving it back
- Comment on Robin Ince forced to quit [BBC] Radio 4 over pro-trans views 4 weeks ago:
Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 month ago:
I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.
My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 1 month ago:
Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 1 month ago:
You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 2 months ago:
Why would these doctors and engineers commit a random act of violence?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 2 months ago:
It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.
Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 months ago:
Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 months ago:
Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 3 months ago:
To be fair, she could have kept quiet about this and avoided another round of people calling her names online, which would have been the easier path. Most people in this thread might know “Robinson” is dodgy but we’re not the target audience.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 3 months ago:
Totally agree with you. I think society/politics has become polarised to the extent that we’ve all grown colder towards perceived “enemies”; at the same time people shouldn’t be victim blamed for abuse, no matter how dumb they are.
Additionally, what we perceive as “dumb” can sometimes be other people struggling with mental illness or disability.
- Comment on UK: Chinese agents ‘given licence to spy’ on parliament as failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster spy case opens door to foreign agents, lawmaker warns 3 months ago:
I went to school with Chris Cash. His dad was my family GP and he was my cousin’s first kiss.
His HS yearbook has “most likely to end up in jail” on his entry.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 4 months ago:
I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 months 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
