Denjin
@Denjin@lemmings.world
- Comment on Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother. 4 hours ago:
You are implying that he’s a paedophile because he knows a paedophile. Am I a wife beater because I know someone who beat their wife?
- Comment on Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother. 4 hours ago:
There’s any number of reasons to not like either of them but just having an association with a paedophile doesn’t automatically make you also a paedophile which is what OP is claiming.
- Comment on Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother. 7 hours ago:
So was the Queen and Margaret Thatcher, does that mean they’re also paedophiles?
- Comment on Tax pubs on profit not property value, urges Greene King boss 1 day ago:
Green King’s (and the other large pubco chains) business model is to trap people who think “I could run a pub” and use up their 50k retirement fund to pay the GKs mortgage for them and force them to buy their product at grossly inflated wholesale prices until the go bankrupt or realise they’re in a trap and bail. Then they do it all again.
If anyone somehow manages to actually turn a profit, they find an excuse to evict the tenant and install a manager instead and extract anything of value before starting the cycle over again when it inevitably slides into unprofitability.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 1 day ago:
My dad had a mac so as kids we were very limited in what we could play. Broderbund products were therefore a staple in our house. Kid Pix, Zoombinis, Prince of Persia, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.
Classics
- Comment on I was wrongly accused of felling the Sycamore Gap tree 1 day ago:
Has there ever been a case where online “sleuths” on social media have actually got the right person when the police didn’t? And did their “investigations” ever actually secure a conviction where the police originally failed to do so?
Genuinely curious and not trying to start a witch-hunt.
- Comment on Crunching the data: are resident doctors in England badly paid? 1 day ago:
If I’m reading all this correctly and the Guardian’s numbers are correct (and given their left-bias they would naturally side with the union against the Government): The union is using RPI, which is outdated and inaccurate, to tell doctors their relative pay has been cut.
The real figure is that, yes it has gone down but not as much as the BMA are claiming, and since their last pay award is now actually increasing ahead of inflation (when using CPIH as your measure).
Finally, although we have a large number of training doctors moving abroad, they’re relatively well paid compared to most comporable economies.
- Comment on Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from 'collapse' 1 day ago:
Number of juries isn’t the problem itself. It’s availability of court buildings, lack of legal professionals to try cases in court, cost of staffing and services for those buildings and the increased time it takes to bring a jury trial to court (it takes on average of 284 days for a case to move through the magistrates court and 695 days through the crown court according to the National Audit Office).
This particular proposal, part of a range, is to have an extra tier in the crown court to deal with lower category cases, such as fraud and minor theft cases so that the bigger, more complicated violent crimes, rapes and murders can be prioritised.
Also worth noting, we don’t have right to jury trial enshrined in UK law, only the right to a fair trial. I actually think this could help reduce the issue but the biggest problem is lack of funding.
- Comment on Nigel Farage Has Mentioned Clacton Only 4 Times in House of Commons 1 day ago:
Stop giving him oxygen. Liberal Democrats have 18 times as many MPs as Reform yet everyone hangs on Nigels every fucking word making him more influential on policy than he has the right to be.
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 2 days ago:
So we should just accept every thing that’s imposed on us blindly without questioning it?
- Comment on "You can't hook copper into fiber that way, you just can't do it." 2 days ago:
The entire Internet is built on swapping between fibre and copper. There’s less and less of it now that fibre optics have reduced in complexity and cost so that they can be run into people’s homes but up until probably 10-15 years ago almost the entire world’s Internet travelled the last few miles on copper lines while the core infrastructure was fibre. ISDN, ADSL, VDSL are all built on media-converters in one form or another. So is probably around 75% of all LAN technology today because UTP ethernet is so much cheaper and easier to build than fibre ethernet LANs.
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 2 days ago:
According to The Big Issue (I can’t find where they got their numbers from) there are/were more than 20 million square feet of empty office spaces in London. Which if we extrapolate from data I can find on occupancy rates within just the city of London, equates to around 5% of the total office space.
Not really a particularly large amount when you also see that roughly 7-8% of residential properties are also currently unoccupied.
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 2 days ago:
So what’s your point, the world would be a better place if we were all Chinese?
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 2 days ago:
And the country’s largest project to convert a brownfield site (Teesworks) to housing has sucked up hundreds of millions in public grants and investment, hoarded cash and extracted private profit for one man Lord Ben Houchen.
Possibly the biggest case of corruption and mismanagement in our time.
- Comment on Social media incentivised spread of Southport misinformation, MPs say 2 days ago:
99% of people on “social media” have never even heard of Mastadon or Lemmy.
The other <1% are already here so what does this comment add to the relevant point of the source?
- Comment on My mouth suffers for the noms 2 days ago:
“Did you know salt and malts vinegar’s a non-traditional way to dress your French fries in the United States?”
“The fuck is wrong with them?”
“Like malt vinegar is not a staple condiment on tabletops in restaurants in the United States.”
“Well figure it out.”
“That’s what I says, figure it out.”
“Yeah no vinegar’s on the tables, no Kraft’s peanut butters, figure it out.”
“Figure it out.”
“Fuckin figure it out.”
“Better not forget those All-Dressed chips.”
“Ain’t got no ketchup chips neither.”
“Fuckin figure it out.”
“Someone outta write a letter.”
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 4 days ago:
Splitters
- Comment on Pass me to your interior designer 5 days ago:
So says the Omnissiah.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 5 days ago:
It does fall under the (completely bullshit) definition of an act of terrorism though.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 6 days ago:
This comment can see you arrested for expressing support of a proscribed terrorist organisation. This could have you jailed for up to 6 months and/or a fine of up to £5,000
And that fact is fucking stupid.
- Comment on Jury shown CCTV of alleged assault on police at Manchester Airport 6 days ago:
Still no excuse for the officer to kick the guy in the head and try to get him again.
Worst of all is he’s trying to spin it as an attempt to subdue him, despite the fact he’s already on the floor, been tasered, and is being restrained by another officer.
Circumstances will almost certainly justify him getting angry and lashing out. He’s just been punched multiple times, seen two female officers get laid out in front of him, it’s understandable that he saw red and acted excessively but he’s decided to go for a lie that he acted in a rational and considered manner.
- Comment on Resident doctors in England vote to strike over pay 6 days ago:
Not another one!
- Comment on UK watchdog threatens Ticketmaster with legal action over way Oasis tickets were sold 1 week ago:
Hey, I don’t particularly like Oasis either but there’s no need to be a nob
- Comment on Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds 1 week ago:
Yeah duh. Even if there’s no improvement in water quality at least our money won’t be going to shareholders and CEOs. Just that would be an improvement.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 1 week ago:
A true marvel of 20th Century engineering.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Drawing attention to the abuse of these powers is now terrorism. Please hand yourself in to your nearest police station for reeducation.
- Comment on Spectator openly shares its wet dream of mass-murdering people who oppose genocide 1 week ago:
Rod Liddle has always been a piece of shit and this is absolutely standard operating procedure for him.
Don’t forget that he ditched his wife and their young children, on their honeymoon, to instead shack up with a younger woman, who he later assaulted while she was pregnant.
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 1 week ago:
They are, what has changed is the sentences you’re likely to get for doing them (and causing an accident or being caught by the police).
Instead of points and/or a fine, you’re likely to get a temporary driving ban instead.
Interestingly it seems they’ll punish commercial vehicle drivers like this as well which could easily result in losing your job if it’s required for work.
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 1 week ago:
What this article is failing to mention is these new sentencing guidelines apply to people who have caused an accident through their careless driving.
I drive a commercial vehicle for work and while it would be a lie to say I’ve never been distracted behind the wheel (everyone is to varying degrees) but I see potentially serious accidents almost occur daily. From people cutting blind corners, driving in the middle of the road, phone in front of their face, phone glued to their ear, not looking or indicating at junctions and roundabouts.
Theres an epidemic of bad driving and we need more of this sort of low level punishment to make people think before they take that call or queue up a new song on Spotify.
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 1 week ago:
Median house price in France is €160,000 and in the UK it’s £297,000 ~ €350,000
Median salary in France is €23,280 and in the UK it’s £37,400 ~ €43,000
A house in France costs, on average, 6.87 times the average annual salary and in the UK it costs 8.14 times.
Caveat: all these numbers come from 2 minutes of googling figures so I do not vouch for their accuracy.
