ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 10 hours ago:
The bookie-supported mariachi band too.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 1 day ago:
The Aussie Gov spent A$84 million on a net content filter only for a teenager to break it within half an hour of it going live.
- Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms 1 day ago:
How many minutes will it take for a 17 year old to break the system this time
- Comment on Historically love sugar 1 day ago:
Not even in a material comfort level. Buckingham Palace is in a very bad way with threadbare furnishings, the roof caving in, a massive rat problem, and large parts abandoned. The current King refuses to live there.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 1 day ago:
So you don’t count IRA bombings as terrorism because they often phoned in warnings to evacuate the area?
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 1 day ago:
Proscription means it is an offence to belong to the organisation, invite or recklessly express support for them, arrange a meeting in their support, or wear clothing or carry articles which arouse reasonable suspicion that you are a member or supporter of the organisation.
So under the law, waving a Palestinian flag is fine. Waving a Palestine Action banner is illegal.
- Comment on Armed Forces Minister refuses seven times to say whether UK backs US military action in Iran 2 days ago:
He is not a member of the Cabinet.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 2 days ago:
I mean, it was actual sabotage. Those engines will need complete rebuilding.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 3 days ago:
We know they have none, otherwise the strike wouldn’t have been possible.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 days ago:
We don’t know how sophisticated Iranian devices might be.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 days ago:
You’re missing a word there. US assessment is that Iran is not currently building nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons programme has been frozen for many years. However it is still actively generating the materials required to assemble a weapon, and if the programme is reactivated it won’t take long to get to a working weapon.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 days ago:
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They are bombing precisely because they haven’t got any weapons. If they had weapons, their nuclear weapons programme wouldn’t be attacked. This is how N Korea gets away with its shit. The attack is because they almost have nuclear weapons, and is intended to ensure the programme doesn’t bear fruit.
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Nuclear weapons need a very precisely placed and timed set of shaped explosions within the device in order to ram the material together in such a way as to achieve fission. Nuclear weapons cannot be detonated by exterior explosions, fire, earthquake, hurricane or anything else other than its own detonation system.
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- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 days ago:
Well, as sophisticated as it got in the 1940s
- Comment on Brand awareness 4 days ago:
Then you have the GIMP problem where corporate won’t approve use because of the name.
- Comment on Fine Literature 4 days ago:
In the tankie triad, they’re the same thing.
- Comment on MPs narrowly back legalising assisted dying in England and Wales by 23 votes 5 days ago:
The objections were mainly by disability rights campaigners.
- Comment on HS2 to be delayed again as costs spiral by £37bn after 'litany of failure' 5 days ago:
It’s not been abandoned.
- Comment on Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator 6 days ago:
++++++BLEEP+++++GREETINGS, HUMANS WE GOT A GREAT EPISODE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW+++++BIT FIRST DON’T FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE+++++
- Comment on HS2 to be delayed again as costs spiral by £37bn after 'litany of failure' 6 days ago:
The most complex and time-consuming engineering is required in London. That’s why it had to start there.
- Comment on A great prize, but a great risk: why we ALL need the nationalised South Western Railway to work 6 days ago:
Important? It just seems like the same Grauniad comment guff to me. The Lede begins
If fares don’t fall
All ticket prices have been set by DfT since 2020. Fares will not fall, and we know this. The fully-nationalised ScotRail has raised prices faster than anyone else, in fact.
Between 2006 and 2022, an estimated 65% of train operating company profits were paid out in dividends to shareholders
But no mention that these profits accounted for 2% of the ticket price, giving the false impression that there are massive savings to be made.
Revenue that previously flowed to shareholders should fund service improvements – more staff, better cleaning and extended opening hours at stations.
Again, given how shoe-string the profits were, that’s asking a lot.
ROSCOs are not going to be nationalised. That would cost astronomic numbers, and it is easier to filter them out as old rolling stock is replaced.
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 1 week ago:
It’s incorrect to say they have 0 expertise. One of their main functions is to set and enforce content standards, and a lot of research is done connected to that.
- Comment on DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed 1 week ago:
Maybe stress is appropriate to people who kill people for a living?
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 2 weeks ago:
On a linguistic level yes. The ancient Greeks named the islands after the Prythonic tribes, who were active in Britannia and Hibernia (Ireland).
On a don’t-annoy-the-alarm-clock-aficionados level, nope. This guy isn’t with me. Never met them.
- Comment on From Hero to Zero (Budget) 2 weeks ago:
They’re still using the Nazi rockets so not really.
- Comment on Franks and Beans: Take 2 2 weeks ago:
Or find some British baked beans.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
Ironically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
They have representation in other ways. For instance in Britain, where it is illegal for police to unionise, there is instead a government-funded Police Federation, which independently advocates for police working conditions and supplies advice and representation for police in disciplinary affairs. The main difference from a union is that it is free to members and that police are not allowed to go on strike.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
That sticker was exclusive to the LAPD, but it kept turning up in films made in Hollywood set elsewhere, so other regions adopted it eventually too.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
People who have decided to take up arms against other humans for money have passed some sort of rubicon I feel. They might be pursuaded to suppress their violent mercenary instincts for a while, but ultimately every violent repressive regime relies on these people, and has indoctrinated them accordingly.
- Comment on France's president will visit Greenland in a show of EU unity, Danish leader says 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it is. But it is a territory of Denmark that isn’t part of the EU.