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- Comment on USA | Latest Pentagon report reveals hundreds of new UFO sightings 1 day ago:
They’ve come here to watch and mock us
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 1 day ago:
Yeah so would many same folks but alas whether it’s the weather or the alcohol or weed or mold or pollution or crab bucket mentality or FAS or poor healthcare - sanity is just in extremely short supply at the moment.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 1 day ago:
We have essentially two paths: continued vassalisation to whatever circus of clowns runs the US or a more equal and independent-but-unpopular partnership with the EU.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 days ago:
We cannot win by changing the fediverse into something like what we left behind because it will no longer be the fediverse we know and love, all we have is the good fight of educating people on why it is better and ourselves as an example - a city on a hill to which others may flock if they see the shine, and it may not be a fight we can win but it is the only fight worth fighting.
- Comment on Bullworth's Asylum 3 days ago:
I love Canis Canem Edit!
- Comment on Dormant Assets Scheme: Allocating £350 million for England 5 days ago:
Anybody got a nice summary for what each of those mean and/or really do?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Thank you for your input, I’m sure you smell great bro all natural sweat and dog shit not like those “kids these days” and their fruity fumes amirite?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
sensing a culture war against vapes, really?
Isn’t there? Every time someone dies who happened to also vape the first to report is the Daily Heil and The Sun etc, then follow the Tory establishment mouthpieces who shy away less and less from culture war shite as long as they dress it up all nice for Surrey wine moms.
It’s almost as if the old business like Murdoch and Philip Morris interests are playing you to hate vaping so they can get it banned and win back marketshare from the shenzen vape/gadget mega industry that absolutely obliterated them.
It’s almost as if the people in charge of these have read a history book once and know prohibition of drugs - including nicotine - doesn’t work and they want to corner a market which is still a ton of money.
And it’s almost as if the disposable grift from the shenzen slop factories gave them the perfect storm to jump on this and you’re a pawn caught in-between, abandoned all reason and even a pretense of objectivity, driven to a steaming furvor about things that have zero impact on your life to push for illiberal restrictive authoritarian policies.
If you could just realize this, instead of defending conglomerates on your free time, then maybe we’d be in a better world right now. I hope it makes some sense.
It seems the government is going to consult about extending a vape ban
Yes, this bill gives them the power to do so, which in itself signals intention fairly well when you add onto it the specificity of other restrictions mentioned (packaging, flavour) and the existence of the new vape tax alongside it.
but it’s become a zombie and is making a lot of kids addicted to nicotine.
Yeah this goes without saying - don’t smoke, kids. Don’t vape, either. Even if it’s harmless it’s a waste of money and while I like it most people wish they never started.
That also however doesn’t mean that adults shouldn’t get the option of vaping without the morality police peeking in.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
No it’s not clear at all what you meant, because you used these things called letters in such a wrong capacity that it was no longer possible to successfully guess the meaning of your presumably stroke-induced ramble.
Not that it would’ve helped as literally none of what you said is at all relevant to anything I said whatsoever.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
What the fuck are you even on about? Where did I mention addiction, smoking, willpower, weak or any of those other things you’re referring to? Are the looney bins full too?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
And so what? Plenty of things I do not like, cars, chippies, fast food, non-brutalist architecture, low-rise buildings, smoking, weed and weed people (nothing against drugs, just weed), etc.
But I understand that others do like those things and that we don’t all have to like the same things, and when in a public space with others I will inevitably be exposed to those other things and I don’t think it’s reasonable in any society with some degree of individual freedoms to campaign the government to ban every single thing I dislike.
We should ban some things, but only with good cause, i.e. the bully XL ban, just too dangerous as it stands.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
They don’t burning smoking your idiot they’re bunning
Is this meant to be sarcasm?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
This is about smoking tobacco
Not exclusively. Please re-read the article and then familiarise yourself with the bill, particularly the following excerpts are relevant:
Subject to consultation, the government is considering extending restrictions in places that are currently smoke free to also become vape free, especially in areas where there are children and young adults.
This may sound reasonable, but surely the issue of e.g. a child vaping outside of a school is covered by the fact they shouldn’t be vaping as a child anywhere, and thus would either have the vape confiscated by parents taking them home or school staff? Such regulation placed on adults seems just unnecessary?
Unless of course: it’s not actually about the children as it tends to be with Murdoch newspaper moral panic-steered policy and is instead a much broader attack on vaping, which is supported by the broad far less “reasonable” powers granted by this bill as per below:
This sits alongside a ban in the Bill on vape advertising and sponsorship, **as well as powers to restrict the flavours, display and packaging of all types of vapes, as well as other nicotine products. **
As you can see, your statement
Disposable vapes will be banned. That’s it.
Is flat-out untrue.
Probably you do so because you got your fodder in the Murdoch papers and just need to regurgitate your breakfast. Judging by the lingo.
I’m really very sorry, and I do not want to embarrass you, but it appears you’re referring to yourself there. It’s okay. No one is immune to propaganda and we cannot all dive deep on all topics all the time.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Subject to consultation, the government is considering extending restrictions in places that are currently smoke free to also become vape free, especially in areas where there are children and young adults.
This may sound reasonable, but surely the issue of e.g. a child vaping outside of a school is covered by the fact they shouldn’t be vaping as a child anywhere, and thus would either have the vape confiscated by parents taking them home or school staff?
This is where I am worried the government is overstepping.
This sits alongside a ban in the Bill on vape advertising and sponsorship, **as well as powers to restrict the flavours, display and packaging of all types of vapes, as well as other nicotine products. **
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Hard disagree. Fuck off nanny state.
Ban smoking with proven second hand smoke inhalation effects - sure, incredible overreach but at least there’s some semblance of logic, but vaping?
Just…Why? After 20 years of being studied every which way still no negative health effects at all have been found, not first-hand, not second-hand, but what has been found is that it’s an extremely good smoking cessation device that actually gets people to stop smoking.
Nah fuck off, bus stops were bad enough but good luck enforcing this, everybody still puffing away at every bus stop and more and more just brazenly on trains and not about to stop anytime soon. Bad enough that not allowing vaping in restaurants/cinemas/cafes/bars is going to utterly obliterate the high street.
- Comment on Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England 2 weeks ago:
These are microwave meals. Cook-at-home in the article just means not ready-to-eat, like your average grocery store cold sandwich with e.g. salmon and cream cheese or BLT is for instance.
- Comment on Apple Tap to Pay Feature Expands to 5 More Countries in Europe, New Payment Partners 2 weeks ago:
Bruh I been paying only like this since 2016 with Android Pay 😭 Apple is sooo slow 😂🤣
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
Bruh. If anything they should pay extra for all the clearance one has to get as well. I love cyberchef, it’s unironically a point of national pride for me, but something’s got to give
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Just me
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Honestly you two deserve each other
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
Y ah. Here’s a fresh one, how about we demolish what the actual honest-to-god Romans built and uhm you know, build a real world-class city?
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
Nah that city is just an overcrowded poorly designed shithole.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
As that one song goes
“But we can You know we can We can You know we can …”
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Times like this I wonder whether a better world is even really possible, or whether social liberalisation was but a blip on a trajectory of bigotry, antagonism, tribalism and savagery.
Even in harmless contexts, the commodification of national identity as the first and foremost trait of a person even for the purposes of smalltalk or jest always makes me think if perhaps most are far more nationalist than they’d care to admit or even themselves think. It’s a haunting thought.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
responds with wall of text “if you throw another wall of text I’m just fucking off.”
Cute.
I know in practice it isn’t but the only ones who realistically can turn it into an actual democracy are Russian people.
Don’t hold your breath. Russians are absolutely scared into submission and honestly they’re not wrong to be scared. Political prisoners don’t have any real human rights nor do their families. In a country where the average person can barely scrounge for a car, a well-funded, organized resistance is unlikely to accomplish anything on their own.
That said, it’s not like there isn’t anything at all being done:
…wikipedia.org/…/Opposition_to_Vladimir_Putin_in_…
Protests against Putin have been going on for a long-time, but Navalny’s death has slowed things down somewhat. More openly acts of anti-government terrorism and openly fighting for Ukraine have been happening also:
…wikipedia.org/…/Belarusian_and_Russian_partisan_…
…wikipedia.org/…/Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-C…
These are far braver people than I, god bless and godspeed to them. But also, not something you can expect the average Joe Schmoe to be.
I don’t think we should give them an exception just because their country has gone to shit.
It’s not an exception, it’s the rule. People and governments are almost entirely separate. State is an oppressor of the people that exists to benefit the top 1% and corporations, more often than not it acts in complete opposition to the interests of the people and they have no power to change it, whether it’s outright a military dictatorship, one-party rule (China), practical one-party rule (Japan), two-party system (US), practical two-party system (UK) or otherwise.
It literally is. If it wasn’t a choice you couldn’t choose to become a citizen of a different state.
You can’t choose, you can try to become one but for 99% of people it’s not possible. You are in total ignorance of the realities of immigration. My parents were no oligarchs, but they were definitely really well-off, and if not for that I’d never have immigrated.
Not to mention:
Your initial citizenship isn’t a choice
doesn’t mean you can’t choose a different sex as you grow older.
Yeah, but it also is a helluva undertaking. Transitioning fully takes 10+ years easily in practice and either being very lucky and living in a country with nationalised healthcare and having the patience of a saint to not only wait the eternal waitlists but also fight through both the incompetence, the lack of understanding and outright malice or have tens of thousands of dollars burning a hole in your pocket.
When it comes to immigrating from somewhere like Russia to somewhere like the US or UK, even on top of the 10 years and enormous amounts of luck, talent and constant effort (education, job searching is 10x harder) the monetary figure gets up to hundreds of thousands of dollars easily.
Or should I blame my diarrhea on you?
No, but you should be a pragmatist and understand that it’s not realistic to suggest people never get takeaway at all, because it’s for instance - unhealthy - which is true in many cases.
People smoke, do drugs, drink alcohol and eat sugary foods despite all that, and self-control is kind of a myth, it has a lot more to do with one’s circumstances than oneself. E.g. for someone who’s only source of happiness in a dreary day is a bottle of a beer, it’s gonna be a lot harder to stop than for someone who didn’t care that much for it in the first place because they’re rich and their life is not very stressful.
The “don’t be poor” part of ILR is kinda stupid so if it’s that I get it
That part is a non-issue, because if you’re smart, self-disciplined and patient enough to get a skilled worker job in the first place and your job salary qualifies for the skilled worker visa by salary requirements then you won’t have any problems saving the £3k+. Compared to like 4 years of university at what, £14k a year, it’s barely anything.
have been regularly traveling in and out of the UK.
That was it for me. But I visited my parents for summer holidays when I was a literal child, long before I understood that Russia was not a place I wanted to be or the politics of it all, nevermind intricacies of immigration rules that would only concern me over a decade later, and it’s not like I had anywhere to live in the UK outside the boarding school.
Out of all my peers from that school that wanted to stay, I’m the only one that’s made it anywhere close, the others all have years to go for the same sorts of reasons.
And my point is that while getting a citizenship can be difficult, it is not impossible.
And I disagree. For most, it’s an impossibility. My childhood friends in Russia didn’t want to stay in Russia either, but being working class kids, they were lucky to even have a hacked PSP. Studying at some international boarding school is the only realistic route unless you’re exceedingly lucky and extremely talented and it requires being very well off.
In general a lot of your rhetoric speaks to a meritocratic, individualistic and christian-work-ethic capitalist mindset, which can be a good thing, people should try their best and work hard, and I did, but ultimately I only had the opportunity to because of my environment. It’s good to be conscious of such things as well.
As such nationality in international law can be called and understood as citizenship,[35] or more generally as subject or belonging to a sovereign state, and not as ethnicity.
Yeah, “belonging to a sovereign state” is just citizenship or “origin” in cases where no clear citizenship can be established.
When I tear up my Russian passport and burn it, I will no longer be subject to Russian laws, e.g. conscription, and instead be a subject of the British state in the eyes of the law.
Directly responsible? No. Indirectly? Yes. It’s like people have no fucking clue what a country is. It doesn’t just prop up out of nowhere. Someone somewhere defined a country and when it comes to democracies (even dysfunctional ones like Russia and the US) the people set up the country for themselves.
Please tell me you’re not this naive, or you’re not yet 18. This is not what countries are or how they came about, and the rest of your argument falls apart as a consequence of that. Please read up on the colonialist and early industrial periods.
Also, the dysfunctions of the US democracy are simply incomparable to Russian “democracy”, no matter how bad gerrymandering and electron denialism is, the fact that such things even need exist at all is the very proof of that.
If they’re not responsible then who is responsible for the US supporting Israel? The politicians? Who votes the politicians in power? The people. The Lobbyists? The lobbyists lobby to politicians and the politicians get chosen by the people. The masses being stupid and easy to manipulate is a different topic, but it doesn’t change that despite collectively making bad decisions the people are making those decisions.
Okay. I give you two options:
A) Shoot yourself with a shotgun B) Shoot yourself with a pistol
But if you shoot yourself, it’s a bed you made? That’s absurd. States give people a voice, there is no political model in existence that would actually allow the people to become the nation-state itself, for many reasons, including the fact it would be an absolute clusterfuck.
Even anarchist communes would have to have elected representatives to interact with each other and experts to elect to leave some decisions to on for instance, medical or climate policy, which would become a pseudo-state administration, and it’s inevitable that such people have their own agendas as everyone does that would become divorced from the people, the role of representation (democracy, consensus, e.g.) in such a political system is to provide a check and a balance on it.
In western nations voters are a key to power yes, but only one of many, and hardly the most important one.
You may want to run for president for instance, and given the choice, people might vote for you a 100% and you may be the best president the US ever had, but you’ll never be given that opportunity, plain and simple.
There’s a lot more I could go into, but I’ll leave it up to you to look more deeply into civics. Do it for yourself and for me, I’ve already fled one undemocratic shithole, please do not turn the west into a repressive populist junta and learn more about civics and history, thanks xoxo :)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah for sure. If that’s the basis then just block those domains. Unless I misunderstood, which is totally possible, it doesn’t seem like that’s the entire extent of the block.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
And you don’t seem to understand ~~
can we still trust .ru and .su domains? I wouldn’t, personally. It’s not like Russians cannot obtain non-.ru domains and if anything those anti-war are inclined to do so to avoid scrutiny, especially with anti-putin russian news orgs like e.g. meduza.
Definitely not .su unless you know what you’re doing and what you’re doing is some sketchy shit.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
It’s besides the point because with the Linux kernel not only should it be a net-neutrality style project where we do not let geopolitics affect it (do you really want Trump’s America to have legal power over it?)
The solution here is simple, just do not kick the maintainers unless they have confirmed ties to the Russian state. It’s not always practical to make sanctions precisely targeted, but in this case it actually is easily so.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Russia represent Russian citizens the same way the US represent US citizens.
Lolwut. Russia isn’t even a democracy.
If you’re an US citizen and you think US international actions look bad on you then tough luck.
You really think Joe Schmoe Ignoramus from Shaboygan, Wisconsin just trying to buy gas is to be held responsible for the civilian deaths in Palestine? War in Iraq? Unhinged.
Being a citizen of a specific state comes with its own responsibilities and consequences.
No, because being a citizen of a state is not a choice.
If Russian nationals have long moved out of Russia and migrated elsewhere and don’t support anything Russia does, why are they still Russian citizens?
Because they may have family there and prospects of being able to visit otherwise aren’t great.
If they choose to stay Russian citizens that’s on them.
But that’s besides the fact actually getting a citizenship in another country is very very difficult. I’ve been in the UK for like 15 years, since 10 or so years old, and only just barely eligible.
Tell me you’re a westerner without the least bit of awareness of how immigration works without telling me.
Nationality is too vague of a term because it can mean both citizen of a state and originating from said state.
No it really doesn’t.
Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture.
In international law, nationality is a legal identification establishing the person as a subject, a national, of a sovereign state. It affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state against other states.
