ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Had to look this up 5 hours ago:
Fighting along the border was entirely immaterial. There are a large number of English who either don’t know Ireland ia a different country, or that Northern Ireland is part of the UK. The only thing that registers for most is that “the IRA” set off some very large bombs in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Brighton, fired an RPG at the MI6 building and a mortar at Downing Street.
Its highly inaccurate to claim The Troubles as a border dispute, and most of the bloodshed was in the urban areas of NI. Most of the dead in NI were killed by their “own” side as reprisals for percieved disloyalty.
- Comment on Had to look this up 5 hours ago:
That’s not a star of david, and it wasn’t added for the film. That’s the floor of the Freemasons Hall in London.
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 1 day ago:
And it’s just decades away
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 1 day ago:
It’s more the hottest summer in at least 141 years, preceded by the driest spring in 132 years, with the 3 hottest springs all occurring since 2017. In addition, a century of intensive farming has used up the residual groundwater in many places.
A nationalised water system would be just as - if not more - investment averse. Look to the RAAC situation, or British Rail. Privatisation is not the root cause of the drought.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
At this point, ml username is a choice. To be a tankie.
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 2 days ago:
There’s a hosepipe ban because much of England is still in drought. A few weeks of rain isn’t going to fix things. If it isn’t an especially wet winter, the drought will carry over and next summer will be brutal on agriculture and the vulnerable.
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 2 days ago:
The standpipes which are connected to the mains which is operated by the company which now doesn’t exist?
And somehow there is a section of people who think the army can just step in and take over a whole system for an extended period and somehow be competent at it. While also magically fulfilling all their standing obligations. If such were remotely possible, it’s time for swingeing cuts to an obviously bloated military.
- Comment on How A Blast From The Past 2 days ago:
Not Lazlow’s fault. You see, back then periodicals actually had sub-editors.
- Comment on Dubba bubba 3 days ago:
Co-founder of Vice, ladies and gentlemen. It was on the cards.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 4 days ago:
Amazon sell these devices at a loss to drive usage of their platform. They would prefer people using them to sideload would fuck off.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 4 days ago:
That’s just for Vega OS devices, which will be the low end ones.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 4 days ago:
The Select is even more locked down, it uses Vega OS which doesn’t permit any sideloading at all. The only apps are HTML5
- Comment on Reform UK pulls out of BBC film amid Trump speech edit row 5 days ago:
It was specifically October Films they objected to.
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 6 days ago:
I dunno who bothers to file bug reports with them. They’ll gaslight then get bitchy if that doesn’t work, and only then will they admit under sufferance that there may well be a flaw in their beautiful sexy code.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
Its a company town. People who run companies dont tend to vote left.
- Comment on NOOO STOP, DON'T SHORTEN CHYNEL PHELAN 1 week ago:
The day you’re diagnosed with a terminal case of onlineness.
- Comment on Um, actually, Neville Chamberlain didn't "cave" to Hitler, he actually got a lot out of the deal. 1 week ago:
The prince who, by the time Chamberlain was PM, had already abdicated and was living in exile in France? Is there some alternate timeline you’re subscribed to?
- Comment on Engine fell off US cargo plane before deadly crash: officials 1 week ago:
Sadly it fell into the environment.
- Comment on Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good? 2 weeks ago:
Uh, its called taxation.
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 weeks ago:
He has not been accused of doing that, in or out of court.
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 weeks ago:
By purchase, in the case of Sandringham.
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 weeks ago:
So you want to steal their private property? Then bankrupt a lot of homeless charities by making them use very expensive buildings, then have a lot of bored people with nothing to do because they’re stuck in a country estate?
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 weeks ago:
Remote apart from the hourly train to King’s Cross and being a straight drive up the A10, and being ten minutes away from King’s Lynn… Siberia would have been kinder.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
The Crown Estate is the hereditary property holdings of the Sovereign (as opposed to the holdings of the Duchy of Lancaster or the personal holdings of the individual).
If taken over by government, the taxpayer would have to fund a presidency anyway, which would likely cost more.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
There’s no “they”. The King claims money from the government in the form of the Sovereign Grant. He then disburses that money among the working royals as he sees fit.
The Sovereign Grant is in return for the King signing over the entire income of the Crown Estate to the government. The Sovereign Grant is pegged nominally at 15% of the income of the Crown Estate (currently 25% to fund the restoration of Buckingham Palace which is in bery poor condition).
So it’s a net gain as the government currently keeps 75% of the income from the Crown Estate.
- Comment on I hear he's homeless too. 2 weeks ago:
Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, Kensington Palace, Holyrood, Hillsborough Castle and St James’ Palace are the official residences, owned by the Crown.
Sandringham, Balmoral are privately owned by the King, Gatcombe Park privately by The Princess Royal, and Highgrove by the Duchy of Cornwall.
- Comment on King Charles Unveils UK's First LGBTQ Military Monument 3 weeks ago:
I dunno what you could possibly have been expecting, but it is The LGBT+ Veterans Memorial.
Also not sure the significance of crowbarring in a Turing reference, as he’s had at least one memorial for almost 25 years.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t expect them to
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 3 weeks ago:
And all because some prat from Mumford & Sons got laughed at for his stupid opinions.
Truly an awful timeline.
- Comment on IRA 3 weeks ago:
Particularly around Boston, so their freakout when the marathon was bombed was peak Comedy