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- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
People will create plenty of content for free. Basically every blog, early YT video and all of Wikipedia was made by people who just like creating stuff for free
- Comment on Couple used fake NHS order in £2m fraud 2 weeks ago:
Er… what? Their punishment for defrauding investors was “you can’t be a company director anymore… for a while”? No fines, CSO, or prison time?
- Comment on Your Artificial Intelligence (AI) questions answered 2 weeks ago:
The third one is as close to “yes” as his weasely words will allow. I read it as a yes, anyway
- Comment on Your Artificial Intelligence (AI) questions answered 2 weeks ago:
The answers are more like “yes”, “check the source and intent”, “yes”
- Comment on Activists arrested over 'mass shoplifting plans' 2 weeks ago:
Damn. Back to the drawing board.
- Comment on AI contributes to spike in fashion sales complaints to Citizens Advice 3 weeks ago:
Maybe its my age showing, but I’ve only ever bought one article of clothing online. If I can’t try it on before purchase I just wouldn’t bother.
The one exception was a jacket that only sold in the states, a personal recommendation.
- Comment on Freemasons’ legal challenge attempt against Met fails 4 weeks ago:
Summary: Police now have to declare if they are or have ever been freemasons to the police. That’s it. 400 have done so.
They’ll almost certainly still try and get their masonic chums off with a lighter sentence.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Hey guys! We’ve invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode “Don’t Invent Dead Person Simulators!”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. Even if it turns out everything was consensual, he’s still a wrongun. Pratchett apparently said privately he wished he’d never had anything to do with him.
Oh yeah, and a bunch of his characters were plagiarised too - Sandman was apparently a ripoff of some penniless authors work and he never gave her a shoutout despite her practically begging. Also he’s not paid people for work they’ve done for him, but I forget the details. I think that was more a misunderstanding (he thought they were just doing him a favour as friends)
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 5 weeks ago:
I advocated for banning them because they’re polluting, unhealthy, and 500000 years of human history shows we don’t need them. That you insist we DO need them is probably false.
I’ll take your personal argument for why YOU use them - they’re easy and convenient - but it doesn’t justify their continued existence, any more than than the truth that “safely disposing of dangerous chemicals is expensive and inconvenient” justifies dumping them into lakes and rivers
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Ok, all you needed to say was “i hate cooking”
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but you could instead make a giant pan of e.g. spag bol one evening, put in individual tupperware tubs and freeze them. Then bring into work as an when. Saves umpteen trips to the shops.
I don’t mean to deride them in every circumstance - I probably buy them 3 or 4 times a year when I haven’t been able to shop/cook for some reason. But if they weren’t available, that would probably be better for consumers and the environment. A tin of soup is much easier to recycle
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 month ago:
Ready meals are unhealthy, not hugely tasty, and more expensive than making it yourself.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
it only makes citizens vulnerable, and who cares about those peasants?
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
Considering TOR was originally a CIA project, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if Signal was funded by a secret agency too.
- Comment on Pro-Palestine prisoner on hunger strike 'deteriorating past point of no return' 2 months ago:
FINALLY it gets reported in the MSM!
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 3 months ago:
I do hope that THIS we’ll at least hire an American-owned private company to do the reactive action in an incompetent and massively overpriced way?
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 3 months ago:
I think I read somewhere recently that something like £200mn spent on ADHD support would save £2bn in crime and benefits expenses.
I’m pulling those figures out of my arse btw. But it was something like that
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 months ago:
Same day appointments aren’t the issue. I’d settle for an appointment in 3 days time as long as I could make an appointment when I’m not commuting on public transport
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 months ago:
Maybe I’ve just had bad luck. I had an issue where my second monitor wasn’t being detected at all in Linux, but was fine in Windows. There was a fix, fortunately someone in a forum had the same issue, but it was a command line fix. And IIRC it wasn’t permanent either - I think I had to retype it on reboot.
I also have a 3 button mouse with the middle button set to double click in Windows. There was no linux driver for it. I’m sure its possible to get it working, but quite how, I’ve no idea.
Basically I’ve installed various flavours of Linux maybe 5 times, and each time had to abort and go back to windows after a day or two because I couldn’t find how to fix a particular issue.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 months ago:
For me, I’ve been using Windows for so long that when I want to change something, there’ll be a UI for it somewhere. In Linux, you have to learn a bunch of text commands and modifiers. And if you don’t already know what they are, you don’t know what to search for to find them.
One of these days I’ll learn out of necessity. Until then, Windows it just too convenient
- Comment on What Germany can teach Britain about China’s spy threat: Berlin had a tendency to overlook the ‘dark side’ of closer economic ties to Beijing, but prosecutors have begun to crack down -- [Opinion] 4 months ago:
I’m not clear what the actual threat to people in the west is? They’re costing us jobs and some wealth, presumably… is that it?
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 months ago:
Good point, there.
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 months ago:
You would be stupid to pick up two if you knew you were going to throw one away. Food waste is not a good thing.
But - as odd as this might seem - you could offer the second lettuce to someone else. Either someone else leaving the store, a friend/neighbor or work colleague. Yes I know it’s unusual to stand up in the office and say “does anyone want a frew lettuce?” but it’s not only harmless, its positive!
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 months ago:
They do put restrictions on smoking and drinking - they outlawed deals on those years ago. Tobacco is about 50x the price it costs to manufacture because of taxes, and guess what? There’s millions fewer smokers now than there were in the 1900’s! People who don’t drink, or who drink much more rarely, are a much higher number than they used to be too.
Personally though, I do think tobacco should be completely illegal. Maybe nicotine products too, though they do help people with ADD self-regulate
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 months ago:
It’s a good change. What would be even better is promoting 2 for 1 deals on fruit, veg, nuts, seeds, pulses and grains. Arguably meat too, though with the environmental impact of the industry that’s harder to justify
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 5 months ago:
10% of the NHS’s budget goes towards treating diabetes. That’s a huge amount of money. It’s not just a problem for sufferers - its everyone elses problem too.
In my view*, government has two main jobs: promoting our happiness, and curbing our excesses. This is firmly within those remits, albeit trading short term for long term happiness.
You probably wouldn’t say firearms/crack cocaine/embezzling shouldn’t be illegal just because some people can’t control themselves, I hope? This is much like that - it just seems harmless because you’re used to it being there.
People can still buy crisps and pizza. They just won’t get a discount on over-indulging anymore
*actually, Bertrand Russell’s view.
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 5 months ago:
I suspect water could be nationalised. You just make a compulsory purchase order, based on the value of the companies, and it would be very easy to say that the value of the companies is effectively nil. They’ve got debts and obligations that outstrip their income.
We could also raise the billions needed to put in the infrastructure fairly easily with a rejig of tax structure and by upping HMRCs budget
- Comment on MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist 5 months ago:
Article doesn’t say what the consequences will be. Possibly a small payout?
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 5 months ago:
Fucking hell