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- Comment on 3 days ago:
The only way they can remain MAGA is by having the three traits required to be MAGA in the first place…
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 3 days ago:
How I imagine everyone dresses on Lenny.ml
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 3 days ago:
I’m just some random on the internet but I’d rather you didn’t pay Spotify. Here’s one example for why, among many.
In November 2021, Prima Materia, an investment company cofounded by Ek and Spotify investor Shakil Khan, was announced as the lead investor in a €100 million fundraising round for Helsing, a European defense company that develops military strike drones and AI systems. Ek also joined Helsing’s board along with its co-founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf and Niklas Köhler.[171] In 2025, Ek’s firm increased its investment in Helsing, leading a €600 million funding round in the company that valued it at €12 billion.[172]
Several artists have objected to Ek’s investments in defense technology. The German DJ and techno producer Skee Mask urged his nearly 17,000 Twitter followers not to give their “last penny to such a wealthy business that obviously prefers the development of warfare instead of actual progression in the music business.” According to Sameer Gupta, a percussionist based in Brooklyn, New York, “All that money that’s being taken from artists and musicians is being funneled to this,” referring to Helsing. “I don’t know a single musician who would ever say, ‘That’s the function of music.’”[173] In 2025, the bands Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, Massive Attack, and Sylvan Esso removed their music from the streaming service over objections to Ek’s investment in Helsing.[174][175][176][177][178]
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 4 days ago:
God damn American recipes are insane.
How many onions in 1/2 cup?
Who fills a cup with cheese? It comes sold in weight, you can guess (or measure!) how much x weight is based upon how much weight you have, without having to dirty additional utensils.
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 4 days ago:
Raw beans however… Don’t mess with raw kidney beans
- Comment on AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims 6 days ago:
The same source the AI techbros are using
- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 1 week ago:
Jesus however
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 week ago:
Scots is common throughout the country. There’s also a local variant in the north east called Doric which to others is near impossible to understand. It’s perhaps more rural only, although there’s certainly still people in Aberdeen that speak it.
Do you know where in Scotland this person was from? That might help narrow it down.
Was there a lot of Fs? In Doric the “wh” from English questions is changed to an F.
What? - Fit?
Where? - Far? When? - Fan?
How? - Foo?
Why? - often how is asked to mean why, or just fit why will be askedIf you are in a Doric shoe shop you can legitimately ask “Fit fit fits fit fit?” which means “Which foot fits which foot?”
- Comment on Petition to demand Ofcom investigate GB News's Trump interview nearing 70000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
They have a broadcast licence. I expect them to be held to the standard required to maintain that licence or have it revoked.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 2 weeks ago:
This is the internet in the 2020s, I’m now obligated to provide this, in case some fool thinks you’re being serious and genuinely doesn’t see the flaw in your description:
/s
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 weeks ago:
Their support isn’t required though, it’s desired.
Mozilla have millions of $, they are actively investing in various money making schemes (sorry, financial investment vehicles) well outwith the original scope of Mozilla.
They take the money because they want the money, they could refuse it any time they want. But they won’t, because they don’t want to. They’re not a poor FOSS project with an independent developer that needs donations to survive, stop treating them like they are.
Mozilla has created some brilliant software, but they’re leaving their original mission behind, burning goodwill with many people around the world, and setting themselves up to be shunned by the open source community the second a viable alternative pops up.
- Comment on UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record 3 weeks ago:
sdgs.un.org/goals/goal15#targets_and_indicators
More farmers need to wake the fuck up and reject current capitalist, agrochemical, maximum yield farming or they’ll end up with nothing.
Drought and soil degradation have been known about for years, this is their job, they have no excuse for being ignorant.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 weeks ago:
Free at the point of service was a founding principle for a reason. A levy doesnt fix the root cause of the issue, and produces a myriad of other problems.
- Comment on Disability Charity Sacks Employee for Palestine Protest, Citing ‘Brand Reputation’ 3 weeks ago:
“Sense have a wide range of stakeholders including the wider public to consider when safeguarding the Sense brand reputation and hold and be seen to hold a neutral position,” the outcome notice said.
How’s this sacking doing for their brand reputation?
Will the people who did the sacking be sacked for also damaging the brand’s reputation? Y’know, for neutrality.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
Just because you sold your soul to the devil doesn’t mean others necessarily will.
If anything, doing it in your 60s is even more morally reprehensible because you should have enough world experience by then to understand what militaries truly are. Both the atrocities they commit regularly on behalf of politicians and vested interests, and the lies and manipulation they perform during recruitment to get young people enlisted.
- Comment on UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades 3 weeks ago:
At 4,961,538,207 shares of National Grid PLC available on the London Stock Exchange, and their latest dividend payout of 16.35p per share, that would be £811,211,497. Or £811 million in easier terms.
It fluctuates each year.
Also bare in mind each individual energy provider which also profits from infrastructure investment.
Also also bare in mind that both National Grid and the energy providers are usually multinationals with shares in more than one stock exchange.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s clutter and annoying to see “Heyyy, is jellyfin a good video app?” ad nauseam, when a simple search would answer their question faster and without wasting everyone’s time and energy.
Modlogs are visible, if there’s truly a censorship issue then we’re free to upsticks and move to another community. That’s the advantage of the Fediverse.
- Comment on UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades 3 weeks ago:
Correction:
to pay for shareholders profits
- Comment on When ducks fly here illegally from Canada 3 weeks ago:
It’s just the one swan, actually.
- Comment on The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates 3 weeks ago:
What could you possibly be referring to, there’s no way Reform are disappearing vulnerable young children in the council which they control. No way at all…
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security 4 weeks ago:
Speaking on climate, Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen, said: “The choice is between deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution; or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise]. And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.”
On nature, Nathalie Seddon, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: “We are facing a national emergency not only because the climate is changing, but because the living systems that protect the climate are breaking down.”
She added: “This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.”
And yet, despite this, we still get “Drill, baby, drill!” in our budget.
- Comment on Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill 4 weeks ago:
But The Economist just told me this is a left wing government from a left wing party!
I’m confused, why would they capitulate to business interests if they’re so left wing?
Tap for spoiler
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- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 4 weeks ago:
The games developers have discovered us and decided we’re ripe for advertising to.
Buy! Buy! Buy! Consume! Obey! Do not think! Buy!
- Comment on Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’ 4 weeks ago:
Asked if Farage therefore believed those who made the allegations were inventing them, the spokesperson said: “I’m saying there is no primary evidence. It’s one person’s word against another.”
It’s 20 people’s words against one, you snake oil salesman fascist. Along with a letter from 1981 stating he was racist and fascist.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Violence is justified if it prevents greater harm or in self defence.
Do you support WW2 veterans? They perpetrated huge amounts of violence, to prevent the Nazis performing greater harm.
Violence is sometimes justified.
We haven’t seen the evidence, I’m willing to concede if the video shows unjust use of force. But they haven’t released the evidence to us yet, and in my eyes seem to have put a huge deal of spin doctoring on this story to illicit an emotional rather than rational response.
At the moment, without the evidence ourselves, cops bash people’s heads in every day, who cares if the reverse is done to them whilst trying to stop the machinery of war and genocide?
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 5 weeks ago:
Aye, I understand my disdain of policing isn’t the norm. I’m not even completely against having a police force, but there is a severe lack of accountability and consequences for the current police in their many unjust, often illegal, actions.
I think the only constructive thing left to say, without seeing the evidence ourselves, is two things.
One) is to note this article is written almost entirely from the state’s perspective which illicits an automatic sense of right and sympathy in readers.
Two) is to reiterate that we have, as a society, no qualms about the thought of people being smashed over the head with a police baton, but when the reverse happens it’s viewed as barbaric.
If the video is released we can judge for ourselves, but at the moment, I’m firmly in the camp of “they do it to us regularly, in the name of preventing genocide why can’t we do it back?”
If video evidence proves otherwise, fair enough. But they’ve not released it and seem to be making a huge deal of the term sledgehammer when it could be any blunt force instrument.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
The police are the state’s internal violence department (the military being the external violence department). The state however has a terrible track record of using violence appropriately. Why should we accept this as okay and normal?
Yes, the police have other roles that are deemed noble like arresting rapists and murderers, or mundane like giving speeding tickets and littering fines. But their principal role throughout their history has been violence. Not what you see in The Bill, Heartbeat, or the hundreds of other police propaganda TV shows in the UK, but hitting people with sticks and dragging them into isolated concrete cells. Sometimes that may be the appropriate response, but throughout their history, very regularly, it has not been. It’s not as bad as America, but our cops do have still quite a large degree of “qualified immunity”.
I’ve even met off duty cops who bragged about beating up the “hippies”. They love a good protest because it’s an excuse to let off some steam and bash some skulls. Much the same as football hooligans but state sponsored and approved.
Palestine Action are a direct action protest group who targeted military sites to try and stop genocide. They did this fully aware that they will be met with violence. State sponsored violence and potentially privately funded violence. It appears, to me at least, that they brought the sledgehammer to destroy equipment and when met with state violence they panicked and used what was in their hand to defend themself. After all, they are opposing state sponsored violence which results in thousands of daily deaths, how can they not expect to receive similar from a state which is supporting that?
Was it wise? Probably not.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
If they had a baton in their hand instead of a sledgehammer when the police stormed in it wouldn’t be so catchy a headline. It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
A protestor in the name of preventing genocide was smashing military equipment with a hammer, and when attacked by the state violence department for doing so, used what was in their hand to defend themselves. Those that have never wielded a sledgehammer may view this as terrifying but those that have used them can see that the police’s portrayal doesn’t add up (I used to use them regularly for work). A sledgehammer brought for the purpose of violence would result in far more considerable injuries than what happened here.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah he’s a man. Till you say something he don’t like and all his toys are out the pram. But that’s a man, innit?
