LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Gorton and Denton 2 days ago:
Is it joever or did it just bidan?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 days ago:
co-op and Waitrose
I know I missed a few lol.
It’s you who’s missing the point, though.
Your cheap goods
I’ve never bought from one of those shoplifters and I’ve never personally met or seen one, I have zero self-interested motivation here.
Out of business
Now you’re getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world.
Nothing less than total corpo death.
Then we can sail to the stars.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 days ago:
And? I said “corporation”. I don’t give a fuck how “Legitimate” they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.
Sainsbury’s is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.
Tesco’s is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.
Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.
ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 3 days ago:
it doesn’t affect them It’s the shop who takes the loss
So it does affect them, then?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 4 days ago:
Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 4 days ago:
They’re selling them to people who can’t afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.
Where there’s demand, there’s supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn’t worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they’re just poor.
There’s a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it’s pretty clear that they’re not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.
- Comment on Dating app triggered rant IDK I just want to cuddle and talk to someone 4 days ago:
If it makes you feel better, I have absolutely no idea what most of what you wrote means, I’ve no idea who that author is and I’ve never heard of that book before.
Come to think of it somewhat embarrassingly I don’t even know if I can name five fiction book authors off the top of my head much less tell you what they look like.
I’ve also never had any issues with dating apps and am in a happy long term relationship with someone I met on one. Hopefully you find you somebody!
So it’s not all doom and gloom y’know?
- Comment on People with rare genetic conditions are ‘systematically ignored’ by NHS 4 days ago:
People are systematically ignored by the NHS.
- Comment on Liminal Space 5 days ago:
Thank you for replying! That’s cool to know.
- Comment on Liminal Space 5 days ago:
It’s not about raw numbers, more like subgroups, if that makes sense?
Lemmy is a niche place, yes? Skews techie, nerdie, someone very internet heavy. At least that often seems to be an assumption I see about the place. But I don’t think it’s true, so I would just like to test that assumption, this is just an observation in that test.
I think Lemmy’s audience is actually fairly diverse, I also think it skews very young comparatively, for the latter in particular I think this is a good test.
It’s also of course possible that the techie, nerdy internet heavy crowd subgroup is big enough that even isolated to that sample, the chance of encountering someone who has seen the image before is actually that small, but nonetheless it’s a worthwhile observation.
- Comment on Liminal Space 6 days ago:
I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.
- Comment on Australia will ‘examine all options’ to avoid new 15% tariffs announced by Donald Trump 6 days ago:
Give him the noble piss prize. Tell him it’s gold he’ll go for it.
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 1 week ago:
There’s enough pressure from European countries at this point regarding age verification, algo manipulation and more that soon it’s gonna be more like the American containment zone rather than a great firewall of anywhere
- Comment on Would a quarter of workers really be better off on benefits? 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny how this is meant to be right-wing slop to get me outraged about le benefits, but even if this was true (and I believed it was till I read the comments below), I always just took it as a condemnation of awful economy and wages.
Immigration outrage comes from the powers that be via the internet, but our free falling standard of living is immediately obvious and easily observed to anyone under the age of 50.
The awful shape of our streets and our people is a stark reminder of the fact that only half the population is in full time employment according to ONS, combined with non-existant growth since 2008, even when measured in GDP per capita.
- Comment on Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery 2 weeks ago:
And it’s not just newbuild housing, the rest are Victorian era crumbling shit holes filled with mold and damp up to your ears. I’ve rented “”“flats”“”" that clearly used to be someone’s attic or someone’s basement and it was the most awful place one could imagine. The flat I’m in right now had water pouring out the lights in the ceiling and it’s still the best place I’ve lived in this country by a mile.
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 2 weeks ago:
Their goal has always been the total non-existence of trans people. They don’t actually care about whether it’s the right choice for someone or not, they simply do not want it to happen at all.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 2 weeks ago:
You advocated for banning ready meals because you are crazy, I had to elaborate on it to hopefully get across that your viewpoint is insane and you should not hold it, nor should any sane person hold it.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it just gonna be Wes in power after him? The whole party is rotten. Greens are our only hope
- Comment on Israel cancels Jordanian law banning sale of West Bank land to Jews in new decisions 2 weeks ago:
The right wing nutters in Israel showing how it’s done to the rest of the right wing nutters everywhere
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I hate cooking, and especially batch cooking so I can eat cold soulless slop chicken later to keep myself alive for 0.83 years longer and I hate meal planning and how much time and mental energy it takes, absolutely none is acceptable to me.
It kills my soul little by little and honestly I’m sure it’s fine for some people, but I’m not doing that, the money saved is minimal because food costs next to nothing compared to housing etc. I could order takeaway everyday and it wouldn’t substantially put me further away from house ownership than I am now.
I WFH and I love the fact I can toss the little fuckers into the microwave and not worry about it and consume ze slop and get back to what I was doing quickly without much disruption.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Yes. You know what they are though? Fast. That’s kinda the point. I can throw one of these in during a meeting and just leave it in the microwave, then consume the slop, the whole thing taking maybe 15 mins at most, with the vast majority of that time me still being free to do something else while it’s cooking.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I remember the last time they tried to ban ready meals. We are a nation of nothing. No housing, no food, no nothing - the ultimate austerity.
My only wish is that the VPN I have to use to even browse steam workshop also physically transported me to Germany or France or something.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 4 weeks ago:
That’s completely fair honestly
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 4 weeks ago:
If you’re not gonna get drunk, what’s the point of imitating alcoholic drinks? Just drink a soda at that point, it’s tastier.
- Comment on Real and True 4 weeks ago:
10 seems kinda rad ngl
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 4 weeks ago:
I’m curious if anyone ever made a “Super Mercator” projection, something where “ze west” is even more exaggerated and some continents even more disproportionately reduced missing/removed to own the libs. It kinda sounds like something governments would do/people would like nowadays.
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 5 weeks ago:
That must be a mere fraction compared to just the sheer rent increases though
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 5 weeks ago:
Regulatory and taxation pressures? Wouldn’t it be mostly due to rising rent prices?
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 5 weeks ago:
Also, citizenship is not a thing in US or UK universities eithe
Huh? I was literally an international student in the UK at a UK university for a BSc and an MSc. It’s very obviously an incentive. I would say, the incentive. Of course the point of paying £14k a year for a degree was for well-off families of thirdworlders to give their children a better life in the west. My parents had the talk with me even as early as 10, saying that Russia is a politically unstable, backwards shithole, and that if one wants to live a life, one must go west.
They were pretty much spot on of course, given recent events, any amount of money was worth spending to gtfo from there, a life outside the third world is priceless regardless of how bad things get in terms of housing, anti-piracy etc.
In the third world people get treated like animals and so they treat each other like animals, but in the west you get a shot at something more.
Otherwise unless you’re specifically going into research where degrees are cred, you’re just falling for a pyramid scheme.
I can’t speak for everyone of course, but I knew a lot of “international students” since as early as year 9 of school all the way up to MSc and eventually work visas. Almost everyone had plans to settle, and anyone who claimed they weren’t doing it for eventual settlement and citizenship was lying to themselves big time lol, all who had it in them to not drop out are still here, counting the days.
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 5 weeks ago:
Well, shit, TIL.
So why are all these people going there then, if they have no real promise of citizenship etc.? Or am I wrong there too? Is Chinese education that prestigious? Or are we talking PhDs and researchers and the likes?
Wouldn’t mind a source as well.