ALiteralCabbage

@ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the inflation argument, but what gives crypto any value other than a) a relative value which is based on fiat currency anyway and b) the faith of the userbase in it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your point? The Private schooling/Oxbridge education is a marker of wealth.

  What’s going unsaid here is that for a while it was possible, because of a functioning welfare state, that an approximation of the fallback that rich people had was available to the rest of us povvos; this is the issue. It also applies to business as well as art too, to be fair. Rupert can found a business selling bespoke cat earrings or whatever and if it fails he has a fall back. If I try to run a business that’s shit or doesn’t make money and it fails and I default on my mortgage.

  It’s standard pearl clutching because the concentration of people who can afford to work in creative industries in the upper economic echelons of society is something worth complaining about because it matters and we’re culturally poorer as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UN calls out treatment of prisoners after attack on arms company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “attack” is doing some very heavy lifting here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you’ve funded the big A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although the government is using the phrase “new towns”, most of them likely won’t be: they’ll instead be extensions of existing settlements, not so much new towns as new suburbs.

  Ah, so we won’t be building more actually livable spaces, just tacking on house building to already stressed developments. Gotcha.

  I’m all for more home building, but this isn’t the answer, at least not without sensible planning (which doesn’t exist because “it takes too long”).

  What would actually make sense would be to build actual new towns which can be done, and done well, but it’s obviously a bigger commitment. It seems like they’re taking the wrong lessons from Milton Keynes. As much as it pains me to admit, Price Charles’ new town is a great example of what can be done if the will is there to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why I never considered this.

  I work for a German company and wondered why our internal prices were so high!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-Wing politics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s appeared in a few podcasts I listen to - he’s at the very least unbelievably polite in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-Wing politics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In anything I’ve ever seen him in (as himself) he comes across as a very nice chap. I hope I’m never shown to be ill informed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very easy.

  Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

  The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Annoyingly they’re doing actually objectionable stuff and all anyone seems to hark back to is the fuel allowance being cut to kill pensioners or however the Tories, Nick Ferrari, et al. want to frame it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks - same to you!

  I think it’s a combo of being a “real” adult, thinking about the implications of things going on in the world (on yourself and everyone else) and the world being a mess.

  Still, at least I’m old enough to be comfortable in my self (even if it’s anxious, unfit, and aching) and generally happy to just be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an awesome set of improvements - well done!

  I can’t promise to be any use to you, but I’m glad to swap ideas about what the fuck to make of our 30s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should research, why older people struggle to identity whose phone is ringing, if it's their own. Even if no one else in their social circle is using the same ringtone.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have tinnitus and struggle in loud places to focus on conversations because I just get an unfiltered mess and f noise hitting my brain.

  It sucks, because I can hear a pin drop the rest of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit rubbery...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s a number of popular raw ground meat products that are safely produced (mettbrotchen, tartare, etc) - it’s a problem of quality control more often than not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a metaphor you like in your language?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always heard this used to mean “I’ve gotta leave quickly” rather than going to bathroom; but I’m British so it might not hold the same meaning of you’re not also!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an ingenious machine the french used to stop individuals producing CO2. I don’t recall her name though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gig economy firms warned by UK government they may be operating illegally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to make more donations to the party in government my dude 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but, how can you squeeze profit from that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gary always comes across as a bit of a grifter - couldn’t say what exactly it is about him, but he makes me uneasy reading stuff by or about him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Never mind a lot, it’s most of the country.

  Unless you live in a large city you’re basically screwed without a car. The public transport here is atrocious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  young women are taking up sex work for financial stability when they shouldn’t have to.

  This is true, and depressing.

  But I think Kate Nash and Lilley Allen pros have other options to raise cash here - I doubt OF is a last resort for them. It is, however, a headline grabber for the British gutter press and will generate a lot of cover for two artists who really don’t have a huge amount of space in the public consciousness these days.

  For what it’s worth, there are also some sex workers who do it because a)they enjoy it and b)it’s a faster way to make money than other avenues available to them. Nash and Allen both seem to fallm under this bracket.