ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 15 hours ago:
The Government isn’t the house, it’s the around 140 ministers appointed by the PM, drawn from both houses, plus the whips. Opposite them is the opposition frontbench, which is the leader of the opposition and the shadow cabinet, and their whips. Everyone else in the Commons from those two parties are backbenchers.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 day ago:
A man was just convicted and fined for burning a Koran, under a blasphemy law by another name.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 2 days ago:
A reminder this government is also drawing up proposals for reintroduction of blasphemy laws. They know where they can shove their crucifix.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
It’s identity fraud, and also an offence under the Misuse of Computers Act, gaining access to a system unauthorisedly.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
- Comment on YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change 4 days ago:
You know they won’t take that into account.
- Comment on Hong Kong democracy campaigner accuses police in the UK of asking her to ‘self-censor’ 4 days ago:
Appeasing tankies is such a winning strategy.
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 6 days ago:
YSK that like all demographics, grandmas occupy a range of intelligence options.
- Comment on Government response to the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition 1 week ago:
The Science and Technology Secretary was more concise on X today:
“If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.”
- Comment on I just send this message to a Financial Times journalist 1 week ago:
36 currently, including Ireland, Canada, India, Australia, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, Israel, Italy, Denmark and Japan.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
America has had a concentration camp since 2001
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 1 week ago:
The database is for official use only. There is a disclosure scheme where a member of the public can ask the police whether a specific person (who is in unsupervised contact with children) is a registered sex offender or poses other threat to a child.
There do seem to be crowdsourced vigilante databases culled from media reports, which is probably a very bad idea.
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 1 week ago:
The EU is also adopting similar regulations.
- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 1 week ago:
Usually Cloudflare fights (successfully) against the orders, laying the responsibility with ISPs. This marks a change in corporate policy.
- Comment on Secret Report Reveals British Army’s Culture of Harassment and Hostility Towards Women 1 week ago:
Just wait to hear how hostile they are to people who live on oilfields.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 week ago:
The higher of €20m or 4% of global annual turnover.
- Comment on Bluesky age uk verification 1 week ago:
Today (Friday) is the deadline for compliance.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 1 week ago:
He owns Australian Sky News. He doesn’t own European Sky News.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 2 weeks ago:
- Economy collapses due to sudden withdrawal of all foreign investment. Value of pensions crashes. Housing market collapses. Local councils go bust.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 2 weeks ago:
Voters: You must crack down on immigration.
Also voters: Not like that!
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
This is the unitedkingdom community
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
They are almost exclusively white or silver, with blue and yellow battenberg on each side, and red and yellow warning chevron on the back. The high-conspicuity police livery was developed by the police R&D labs in the 1990s and became standard across Britain from around 2004.
I can’t think of a force that used black and white rather than light blue and white. Maybe there were some long ago.
- Comment on HS2 was doomed to be a mess, say insiders - because of a 'problem in this country' 2 weeks ago:
Dear Auntie, please revise your headlines to be as boring as possible. Someone might read something if you don’t.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
Well, seeing as police vehicles aren’t black and white……
And if you took a look at the picture, it replaces the battenberg on the back half of the van, with a logo that highlights the letters BT, so it looks a bit like a telecoms van.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 2 weeks ago:
The shipping lanes haven’t changed much. The priority is still to cross the Atlantic from the English Channel to New York in the shortest distance.
As a direct consequence of the sinking of Titanic, the International Ice Patrol was formed to keep track of ice from point of origin throughout its transit through shipping lanes. These days it’s an aerial and satellite patrol.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it was the wisest idea to put the rainbows on the vehicles in the first place. Is someone panicking, with visual or cognitive impairment, at night, going to instantly recognise it?
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- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 2 weeks ago:
Plod rarely know the law.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 weeks ago:
Those sentences are mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 weeks ago:
Risking a fine for the sake of a few seconds off the travel time? Why not simply stick to the limit as read from the speedo.