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- Comment on UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record 2 days 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 2 days 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’ 2 days 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. 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
Correction:
to pay for shareholders profits
- Comment on When ducks fly here illegally from Canada 3 days ago:
It’s just the one swan, actually.
- Comment on The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates 4 days 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. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security 1 week 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 1 week 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
/s
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 1 week 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’ 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 2 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?
- Comment on Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils 2 weeks ago:
Multiple lorry loads dumped during the day over multiple days, with the land being excavated by diggers beforehand.
Sounds like this has been unofficially officially approved.
About sums up this country to be honest.
Corrupt and full of shite.
- Comment on UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter 2 weeks ago:
Also, I’m not a statistician so I may be well off here. But if it didn’t occur last year or the year before when they predicted it would, doesn’t that mean it’s more likely to occur each year that passes that it doesn’t? If it’s a regular occurrence like the headline implies.
- Comment on Trump just gave an interview to GB News 2 weeks ago:
Fuck giving this American fascist on Fascist News the attention of this community. It’s about as relevant to the UK as Macron saying he farted in Cornwall once.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 weeks ago:
Fuck the monarchy. Fuck this snivelling pathetic show of fealty to someone who doesn’t know nor care about your existence. Fuck saying this is on behalf of everyone at Feddit.UK.
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 3 weeks ago:
The article also discusses the practical and how it took one candidate 21 tries to pass
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 3 weeks ago:
Considering the potential consequences of incompetent driving, I’m surprised there’s not a cap on the amount of attempts already.
If not a cap on the total, at least something like “no more than 12 attempts allowed in a year”. If evenly spaced that allows 1 attempt per month, giving time to practice and revise what was failed before.
Any more than that seems to be a case of throwing shit at the wall until enough sticks, or rather, make enough attempts and eventually you’re bound to do one without any majors. That hardly proves competence and capability though, which is really the point of testing in the first place.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 4 weeks ago:
Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 4 weeks ago:
Aye, that’s true. My point was just that to claim the UK is Labour party led (in contrast with Italy’s neo-fascists) doesn’t really work as a contrast because they’re not really contrasting. The UK’s current Labour party is authoritarian, pro-capital, pro-austerity, anti-welfare state, anti-immigrant, anti-freedom of expression, anti-protest, anti-democracy, pro-Trump, and pro-Farage.
They’re not the Labour party any more (although that’s been obvious since 1997 when they rebranded as New Labour) but to those who don’t follow UK politics they still have the marketing of socialists, of pro-welfare state, of being pro-democracy and pro-worker. That is not the case, and they probably have more in common with Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, neo-fascist party, than they do with 20th century Labour from which they are so closely associated.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 4 weeks ago:
The Labour Party had won a landslide victory at the 1945 general election, and went on to enact policies of what became known as the post-war consensus, including the establishment of the welfare state and the nationalisation of 20 per cent of the entire economy.[2] The government’s spell in office was marked by post-war austerity measures; the crushing of pro-independence and communist movements in Malaya; the grant of independence to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Burma; the engagement in the Cold War against Soviet Communism; and the creation of the country’s National Health Service (NHS).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attlee_ministry
A number of liberalising social reforms were passed through parliament during Wilson’s first period in government. These included the near abolition of capital punishment, decriminalisation of sex between men in private, liberalisation of abortion law and the abolition of theatre censorship. The Divorce Reform Act 1969 was passed by Parliament (and came into effect in 1971). Such reforms were mostly via private member’s bills on ‘free votes’ in line with established convention, but the large Labour majority after 1966 was undoubtedly more open to such changes than previous parliaments had been.
The franchise was also extended with the reduction of the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1969.[1]
While condemning racial discrimination (and adopting legislation to make it an offence)
Education held special significance for a Labourite of Wilson’s generation, in view of its role in both opening up opportunities for those from working-class backgrounds and enabling Britain to seize the potential benefits of scientific advances. Under the first Wilson government, for the first time in British history, more money was allocated to education than to defence.[2]
One notable effect was the first entry of women into university education in significant numbers. More broadly, higher education overall was significantly expanded
Wilson also deserves credit for grasping the concept of an Open University, to give adults who had missed out on higher education a second chance through part-time study and distance learning.
Campaigns were also launched by the government to encourage people to take up means-tested benefits to which they were entitled to.[9] For instance, a publicity campaign launched by the government increased the fraction of children eligible to get free school meals.[10]
en.wikipedia.org/…/Labour_government,_1964–1970
Although the 1974–1979 Labour Government faced a number of economic difficulties, it was nevertheless able to carry out a broad range of reforms during its time in office. During Harold Wilson’s final premiership, from 1974 to 1976, a number of changes were carried out such as the introduction of new social security benefits and improvements in the rights of tenants. In March 1974, an additional £2 billion was announced for benefits, food subsidies, and housing subsidies, including a record 25% increase in the state pension. Council house rents were also frozen. Council house building continued on a substantial scale, although there was now a greater emphasis on modernising older properties rather than replacing them with new ones. That year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13%, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings “up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation.” In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.[10] In 1974–1975, social spending was increased in real terms by 9%. In 1974, pensions were increased in real terms by 14%, while in early 1975 increases were made in family allowances. There were also significant increases in rate and rent subsidies, together with £500 million worth of food subsidies.[11]
To help those with disabilities, the government introduced an Invalid Care Allowance, a Mobility Allowance, a Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension for those unable to contribute through national insurance, and other measures. To combat child poverty, legislation to create a universal Child Benefit was passed in 1975 (a reform later implemented by the Callaghan government).[13] To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher.[14]
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 4 weeks ago:
To say that the UK is currently Labour led is like saying Germany from 1933 - 1945 was run by socialists (national socialists as it were).
Their name means fuck all when their actions say the opposite.
- Comment on More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care 5 weeks ago:
Freedom of information data from Kent county council (KCC), which is controlled by Reform UK, has documented 345 children going missing from their area, with 56 of those still missing.
Somehow I don’t think this is a coincidence.
