LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Wet winter and rising energy bills spark damp and mould warning 21 hours ago:
Mold is caused only by one thing: shit housing.
My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that’s how bad it was.
It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat, a houseshare of 5-50 “people” above. Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all.
Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.
Now I moved across the country and live in a new place, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it’s really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven’t changed a single one of my habits and I’ve never seen so much as a speck of it here. It’s bigger and has nice modern design and costs less, too.
Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.
We’ve spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes, (adjusted for inflation).
We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called “greenbelt” land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can’t help.
- Comment on US | Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war 1 day ago:
Damn and Japan’s been licking his boots hard too. No one is safe.
- Comment on Meningitis outbreak spreads to London as vaccine rollout expanded 1 day ago:
We looked at 2020 and said let’s have another one
- Comment on UK | Teenage boy arrested after girl allegedly stabbed at Norwich school 1 week ago:
This country’s bigotry problem is off the fucking charts. It’s a goddamn social experiment at this point.
The elderly are racist and decide elections while charging rent for the privilege, the children are racist and stabbing each other while “antisemitic chanting”, shit is getting absolutely nuts, we might pop off before the Americans at this point.
- Comment on MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet 1 week ago:
Aren’t these contradictory?
- Comment on Millions in England to pay higher water bills after suppliers appeal 1 week ago:
Democracy is:
- Rule by the corporations
- For the corporations
- Of the corporations
- Comment on Convicted Paedophile Was Chosen as a Parliamentary Candidate by Reform UK 2 weeks ago:
Nothing says “trust me with your money and your children” like a permanent ‘smelled a fart’ grimace and an equally permanent entry into the sex offender registry.
Honestly he looks young though I would’ve guessed he’s more in the cryptobro workplace harassment wing of the party.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 2 weeks ago:
Even though this isn’t a UK rule or UK laws, but one of an international organization, it’s certainly an optics opportunity for them to make their own fund to help those who need to pay for it.
Especially since it can be argued that the alarmism around trans athletes was started by terfs.
But if they won’t, that’s an optics opportunity for progressives, like this Pink News headline here.
Headlines like “No plans to help female athletes pay for testing” - says [insert terf org here like sex matters or for women scotland or whatever] would work pretty well too.
Especially if then some relatively rich trans person or ally then went ahead and made their own independent charity fund to help struggling athletes pay for these tests, assuming there is actually demand there (I have no idea how much they make at that level), all while having some blerbs on their website out of the way on their website about advocacy for removing barriers to participation and streamlining this and how few trans athletes there are or how some studies show that over time performance equalises and how they already test for T levels etc etc.
Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised that most cis fem athletes don’t see it that way, and I’m not sure where I stand on it either. Personally I could give a fuck about sports regardless, but while millions of trans folks are stuck suffering from dysphoria without proper care, anything that damages the terf establishment is a good thing.
- Comment on British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to compete 2 weeks ago:
Ehm, this is an international organization’s regulations. Not the UK at fault here.
The UK is just advising their own athletes of the international org’s policy - and telling them to pay out of pocket rather to “avoid delays”, even though financing is available to those who need it on a “case by case” basis.
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think reasonable is even it, it’s just a helpful assumption.
If “they” are doing a perfect job, there’s nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they’re not and play your role.
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.
- Comment on Gorton and Denton 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
People are systematically ignored by the NHS.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for replying! That’s cool to know.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
The right wing nutters in Israel showing how it’s done to the rest of the right wing nutters everywhere
