HumanPenguin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet they won’t endorse Buy British.

  The issue with buy British is, it equates to an anti all foreign trade message. Where we actually need a stronger trade link with nations other then the US.

  “Don’t buy US” is more effective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US most equipment suppliers have raised loading unloading for contractors.

  So the big pickups are designed to be a similar height to low loader semis in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks due to vision loss I’ve not been able to drive since 2010ish.

  So have not been paying attention to the market.

  Oops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say its the reverse. The fact that disabled have been abused by tories for 14 years. Yet no one paid significant attention to protests. Means they are already invisible to the majority. So the gov knows the can intentionally ignore them while increasing the abuse…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having driven in the US.

  There smaller trucks/lorrys often used for rental etc. Uhual etc.

  We really do not want that shit on our roads.

  And as the same law is what allows many of there huge suvs. Nope def not a good idea.

  Every nation that sells cars. Expects to adjust them to differing standards. Even the US he ce why Vauxhall exists.

  Trump is being his usual cos I say so self with no real merit to his claims.

  At no point should the UK be willing to lower standards to trade. Just as we have to adapt or not sell cars the US wont cert. If the US considers europe ir the UK a worthwhile market. They can continue to adapt.

  They would have some resemblance of a point if we only made rules on their cars. But most cars sold in the UK are imported. Why the hell should the US get discounts our own manufacturers dont.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those exemption do not currently apply to actual licence to vechle type allocation.

  I do not know about the rest of the EU. But in the UK no class of car only applies to disabled users or actual road access law.

  If I live on a no vechle access road. Being disabled would not allow me to drive a car to my doorstep.

  Same goes for any limitation in the site or weight of vehicles.

  My licence (no longer valid as I now have a disability that bans me from driving.) Was an old one that allows me to drive 3,5t trucks. Newer licences do not let younger drivers do so without passing a different test.

  This is the closest we have ever come to adding a new restriction on the type of car you cab drive. No extra specification for disability has ever existed for the changes you propose. Hence why I included this need to reconsider so Ugh things in my suggestion.

  As for the rest of your response. The comment you responded to was trying to address that exact situation,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.

  Ignoring the brexit crap and assuming you ment EU and UK laws.

  I don’t think that would help. If we had a new licence class. It would just mean people need to do more tests to drive it.

  Unfortunately licence structure have no when needed requirements. Just the qualification.

  A suggested solution would be a road access class. If vehicles over a certain size (lets just say width. ) had a significant no of roads they were only allowed in for blue badge holders or loading and unloading. No parking.

  For most owners the impractical living with such vehicles would only be tolerable when they have a second transport and a safe storage area that dosent ban parking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lobbying to change the copyright to forever is certainly happening in the UK.

  And the current 50 or 70 years is def a move towards it from the original 14 to 21 years created in 1710 when copyright was first created in the UK.

  So yes it is. We are just a slower change then the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Terrible.

  Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole point of copyright by lobbying to change copyright terms to forever.

• Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savingswww.telegraph.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cold flowing water is very very different from a warm swimming pool. Especially when dressed.

  The current in the Thames can get dangerous for strong adult swimmers in certain areas. (Or the whole upper thames at certain times of year)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A quarter of Britons now disabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But just over 7% of brits claiming any disabled benefits.

  Please remember these numbers are in no way backing for the crap the government is doing. Most disabled work.

  Even most on disabled on benifits work. PIP is not about income. It is about covering the difference in cost for disabiled to live anything close to equally in society. Including getting to and fr work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the vibration of the head caused from a single mount point. The engineerinh to keep anything close to the 0.2mm resolution common on non mobile printers. Will be expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government announces plan to open up Land Registry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Health yeah, or more to the point it should have ide Tina left data removed.

  But the actual group data should very much be open. And that likely should be applied to most things.

  As foe criminal records. That is already open as most court cases are public.

  Closing it would be the first step in hiding prejudicial actions.so lets not change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government announces plan to open up Land Registry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly any non military data collected by the gov. Should be open by default.

  Even military should be required to proove the need for secretary every so often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting interpretation. Given that is exactly way rape within marriage did not exist in the UK until the 1990s.

  IE a wife was historically considered property. And this is to some extent the issue with the tate attitude.

  PS I am in no way suggesting you think that. Just pointing out how coincidental the typo / missed word is.

  PS be sure to confirm your body parts concent next time you feel lonely ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I’m likely older than you. (coincidently bang on the age where the stats placed our votes at 50/50 )

  So I was born a few years before we voted to join. And grew up watching most of the benefits becoming a part of UK life. And realise half my generation are fucking insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wars are have been with technological edges.

  But mass population of economic differences can also overwhelm that edge.

  Unfortunately the world has changed over the last 20–30 years. Technological edges have less(but still some) effect sue to ionformation technology changes and the ability to extract it.

  IE, unless that edge is such a huge change that we are basically talking a new scientific disapline/form of technology. The ability and history of global communication means nations can copy the principals and develop similar design. So the war returns back to speed and ability of implementation. IE finance and population.

  The only way a technology can now outweigh that is if the tech is so different top that being used. The opponents cannot formulate a basic theory of its methodology of function. IE the new discipline idea I pointed out above. This is due to war being so much more viewable due to the availability and distribution of video and communication. Deployment of weapons in a manner that cannot be seen and understood by your opponents, impractical.

  Of course, this is only a hypothesis. But a logically well backed one. That military professionals are now having to consider with long term planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not good enough at this law

  Nor am I. But Do know pre Brexit the EU was funding actual wood land. That is a huge part of the issues farmers have now.

  The huge farm subsidies the EU provided were still not replaced or agreed to long after Brexit. I’m not sure if they ever were at all. But farmers were forced to change growing habits with no idea what the gov was going to support.

  It was a huge part of way £350m a week was an outright lie. Not only were we not actually sending that much due to discounts. We got a huge chunk back via farm subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  to convert their source of income into land for trees?

  The correct trees are income. Less than other sources. But I spose that is where gov needs to step in. But well managed wood cultivation is both CO2 absorbing and would reduce the huge transport harm imported wood causes.

  Also, wood is getting insanely costly in the UK due to import costs. It may help other industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Def a better manned military dose. Well-trained disaplined manpower can be the most helpful aid to many a crisis.

  Unfortunately, equipped depends very much on the type of equipment. With the modern military, less spending goes on such equipment. As more effort is made to move personnel from the field. IE remote combat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit depressing that they can find the cash for weapo

  Defence increase (by 2027) is entirly funded by aid reduction.

  So seems that was the only way to fund it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please explain that one. I prefer new talent as well.

  But do not get why a well known actor would require a different story to a new one. They are after all acting, so the writer’s job story wise would be the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to totally forget multiple doctor murders and violence over the years.

  Not to mention the simple fact. Just because someone believes something does automatically mean they have the courage to fight in every way. To exclude fear of punishment as the reason these people refuse to act. It is a clear failure to look at the realities of humanity. Completely ignoring a huge history of people objecting to things but still failing to act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with her. Mainly because I’m not religiose. But if she honestly believes life starts at conception. Then its really not hate but preventing murder.

  I disagree and support the law banning this. But failing to understand the other side’s motives makes for an ineffective fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grins. Just looked. Screw up happen i make more then my share :) PS sorry for any typos im visually impaired, after a while it just gets annoying to hunt for them.

  Yeah, my calling wait list’s pointless comment was more about having an effective alternative to measure NHS effectiveness. So we technically agree here.

  My caution about using customer satisfaction. Is customers are less qualified than anyone to do so. In general they have 0 understanding of the workload involved and needs to triage the needs of a population. Heck, even if we just look at an ER environment. Where triage is litrally about life and death. Most patients are unable to place their own priorities appropriatly to those they see. Let alone based on medical knowledge, they cannot or should not see due to privacy or lack of medical understanding.

  That same triage needs to happen when it comes to the effect of medical issues on quality of life.

  If we accept more money is not going to happen ( Once again ill say it def needs to. But unlimited resources are never going to happen, no matter what % of our GDP we spend ). There will always be a need to prioritise some types of care over others. And the people receiving that care are the least qualified to make that decision.

  Satisfaction is important. But, as this is not a retail or restaurant environment. The opinions of the recipiant of care are much less important data wise when it comes to how wer need to allocate the resources we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their is a movement wanting solar on all viable new builds.

  Goven how many are sold to landlords. I assume that is in part the goal of articles like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and now can’t get her child into the UK

  While more egregious may be common. Separation of family is a clear violation of our EHCR commitments. And refusing entry to parent unless they dump dependent children (let alone babies) is pretty unacceptable attack on refugees. No matter the birth location of that baby.

  Our human rights commitments in no way approve locking refugees/asylum cases within our borders. Or rights to change their status based on reproductive choices.