HumanPenguin

@HumanPenguin@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  is the government’s own line.

  Based entirely on the water companies claims.

  The gov has not even bothered to audit and value the companies themselves. But just used the corps own valuations.

  The whole idea that the companies have any value given their debt and failures to maintain infrastructure even with that debt. Is just out right scummy bollocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zarah Sultana issues 'reconciliation statement' over Your Party⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Except this is her first post on the subject. Not directly in response to a post from the other team.

  And reading the post. It is claiming more then an attempted reconciliation. But that her a JC are in agreement. Of course JC himself has remained silent on this. She is Def more willing to share all her shit on social media then folks mine and JCs age are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zarah Sultana issues 'reconciliation statement' over Your Party⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You realise this is her first statement. That is not directly in response to a statement published by the JC team.

  And it basically states her and JC are working together to implement the plan published by that team. (iE the one she claimed they did not have her approval for).

  I tend to take every thing she says with a no other evidence bias ATM. As her claims have only ever been supported by insiders working with her.

  But it’s just as important to recognise the actions of the other team are all worded such that. Zero actual evidence or statements they could be challenged on exist. And zero info of the pack found processes and meeting is shared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zarah Sultana issues 'reconciliation statement' over Your Party⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the statement. This tittle is a little questionable.

  Her letter states she and JC are again working together to implement the published plan. And all court threats have been dropped by her.

  So the correct tittle would be along the lines of.

  She claims to be working with other founders again. We are still awaiting for JC to confirm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in three GPs in England do not work in NHS, says BMJ study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The NHS can’t afford to employ them.

  Their is a known and accepted shortage of NHS GPs. But a greater limiteion in funding to hire etc.

  This is why most GP surgeries. (Due to the history of forming the NHS most surgeries are private companies that do the hiring then are paid by the NHS). Are moving as much as possible to cheaper Nurse practitioners or other NHS staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The sales pitch for private education. Is the connections and networking it provides.

  So while both are clearly true. It is very much a refusal to look beyond such educational connections. That reinforces the strong grip on power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Malicious communications.

  So basically the officers knew full well they have 0 chance of a successful trial. As no way any court will consider the intent to cause distress.

  But instead are openly acting to silence inconvenient speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation 4 inconvenient people were silenced by officers. By forcibly removing them from the scene. Knowing full well the CPS will likely not press charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who were the key figures at the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And being a zombie means a steam roller may catch him.

  We just need to find a working one to borrow…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DWP imposes 'gagging order' on disability experts ahead of PIP review⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is basically the government via DWP. Openly saying, we plan to ignore these experts and do not want voters to know.

  Every MP needs to be connected in large numbers. Told this is totally unacceptable as a gov policy.

  Silencing the advisors used by a government to base laws. Is non democratic and totally unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour urged to create ‘national occupational health service’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You cloths really smell of alcohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked up. The crossbow law you may have mistaken.

  Technically it is still legal to own and carry long bow. But not to use to hunt. The laws requiring Englishmen to train have been repealed, and carrying arrows must be safety tipped in public. So it’s not practical. But if you have a safe private space to practice (100m from public access).you do have a technical right.

  But again carrying when. You are clearly not travelling to hobby shoot, is likely to come under offensive weapons act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawful reason is pretty open to court interpretation. Job or pass time has tended to require actual appointments or indication of intended visit. Carrying in any way as an every day thing will tend to involve it being classed as a weapon.

  I have a fairly large knife (far from a sword) strapped to the inner door of my brother’s and my little narrow boat. As on the canals and rivers it is a genuine safety need to cut ropes or remove branges weeds etc.

  But even walking with such on the towpath without a direct need has lead to friends arrest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it. Pretty much like any weapon you are required to have a lawful reason to carry. As hunting with them is illegal. Carring every day is fairly easy for a cop to question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour urged to create ‘national occupational health service’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surly creating a new organisation with different motives to the NHS. Is hardly an effective way to manage ill health. This is literally a org with the same goals as the DWP under tories and Starmer. Just with a nicer name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the right has always been able to ignore inconvenient facts. They are very skilled at denial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He is not worth 650bln. From 380 to 415 depending on source.

  The vast majority of that is in shares. If he started selling those shares (or giving them away) in the numbers indicated. The value would drop faster then he can sell them.

  So while he most Def could bribe all MPs. It would be a hell of a lot less then a billion each. Unfortunately MPs are way way cheaper then that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealthy parents rush to give children their assets as tougher UK inheritance tax rules loom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention. The desperation to divest to their children now. Is clear evidence that leaving the nation. Is not a option for the actual assets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer has rigged the deputy leadership contest so no one to the left of Thatcher can win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically no yet.

  This will sound insignificant but it is a result of the intentional set up of Your Party

  All MPs that currently support Your Party are classed as independent. Because ATM no one has the authority to appoint them as Your Party MPs.

  This is an intentional side effect of the Founders of Your Party preventing actions exactly like Starmer is doing here.

  By making the very structure of the party democratically run by membership. And requiring MPs to be selected by local party groups.

  Until the conference where members will choose a name and agree to processes/rules for the democratic selection of MPs leaders etc. No MP can be any more then a member of the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the speed it was covered. I’d not be surprised if it was a court employee. (Janitor etc). Who has a ongoing job of covering graffiti. likely due to rules of political independence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of fish will be the least issue.

  Every time the bottom is trawed. Huge amounts of CO2 is released into the atmosphere.

  The ocean base stores way more then any Forrest’s etc.

  202p study estimated trawling releases between 8.t to 9.2 billion tons a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or ATM any recent PM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Labour being owned by business interests/billionaires is no longer a suprise.

  But the fact they seem less able to hide it then the fucking Tories. Truly is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s Trade Unions Are Turning on Keir Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Def possible. But given starmers use of anti terrorism laws to silence opposition.

  I’d not be so confidence of one more democratic election.

  I can Def imagine a near future where the US shuts down elections over questionable world emergency.

  And the current government declaring a WW2 like ending of elections alongside them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Mandelson lauds Trump as ‘risk-taker’ in call for US-UK tech alliance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As early as it is to launch into godwins law.

  It is worth remembering in the late 1930. Many UK politicians and media barrona were suggesting alliances with Hitler.

  It’s disgusting that somany in both the UK and US. Either fail to see how much alike the situations are. Or genuinely do not consider it a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Secretary Peter Kyle thinks AI is just a few years from becoming as smart and capable as a human — and he wants the U.K. to prepare.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech Secrettary Peter Kyle has fuck all idea how modern AI works and how limited it actually is.

  IE it is in no way capable of comprehension. Only pattern advanced matching. Comprehension will always be needed to be as capable as a human.

  Hence why taco bells attempt need to be programmed/trained how to reject order of 18000 cups of water. While a human would automatically know such was not considered normal or acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Six arrested after red crosses sprayed on house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not entirely true. Yes flags have always been used when tribes etc go to war.

  But historically those same tribes often considered the result of winning a war. To include absorbing the population of the other. Tribe. Or the outsiders.

  Many different attitudes towards those outside members have existed with different nations and tribes over time.

  Vikings for example were nothing like the image we see in movies etc. those images were created by a single British priest as open properganda,

  He is documented as having declared them as stealing UK woman by being over clean and inclusive of their wants and desires. (Paraphrased)

  Rome was I little more questionable, but very much encouraged outsiders to join their culture. Not just as slaves. That generally only applied to opposition fighters. And those who refused to see Rome as the authority. But their Class system very much placed Rome born above others. But much like modern western nations. Immigration into Rome for employment as free citizens was very encouraged for those with any usable skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope Sorry.

  A GB news presenter is not all reformers, (yet)

  Added to UK law on self defence is very anti predictive risk as a motive. You would be required to show the reformer had a gun or some other intent to harm you. More accurately that you had reasonable cause to feel threatened.

  Now if reformers actually started doing so. iE you had evidence that GB news presenters had been successful in inciting such attacks.

  You would still need to show evidence you though the reformer was going to attack.

  So no shooting random reformers presenting no evidence of holding a weapon or aggression. But you would have a much easier time convincing a jury etc that you thought his fishing rods were a riffle.

  I hope this advice helps with any decisions you may be forced to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest a cool to kill disabled is less an ofcom broadcast issue. Then a police incitement of violence/riot issue.

  I mean it is clearly both and ofcoms answer is very much as expected given the current govs attitude to the right wing.

  But the police duty to arrest the presenters for calling for views to hunt down and kill disabled people. Drastically outweighs the broadcast licence issue.

  Anyone who saw the show should be calling the Met Police and reporting a crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get a max of 2 free. It’s only summery dismissal the court ruled against. Following disaplinery procedures is still available to your boss,