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- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 4 hours ago:
So basically he’s forcing people to pay extra to a private company to file their fucking taxes.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 6 hours ago:
Same reason the UK has the Online Safety Act: People who don’t know shit about fuck being convinced by people who do know shit about fuck but want to make money from them being sold a big shiny solution that they are convinced will work.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 6 hours ago:
I mean, am I wrong? France bankrupted itself in the war and in funding the American revolution. The American Revolution produced and popularised a lot of ideas that found their way to France and inspired ideas in the French Revolution (as well as a rebellion in Scotland but let’s not get ahead of ourselves).
The French Revolution gave rise to the idea of the Modern Nation State and Napoleon’s invasions of places like Italy and Germany implanted this idea in those places which eventually lead to the Nationalist revolutions in Germany and Italy in the 19th century.
If the American revolution failed, we’d might not have the French Revolution we know of today. If that is the case, there’s no rise of the Nation State and no Napoleon to spread it, ergo, no Germany or Italy, as well as a lot of other countries.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 19 hours ago:
I mean it’s cold in New Zealand and they invented Bungee Jumping.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 21 hours ago:
Nah you’re like Polite Americans. You haven’t got the daredevil chilled out “Australia” energy.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 day ago:
Ok so here’s the thing: If America lost the war, America would likely be akin to Australia. The UK used it’s North American colonies like they did Australia (that is, a place to transport convicts) so you’d basically be like Australia in that regard. You’d likely be like…cold weather Aussies.
Also:
- Australia would be…different? Maybe Dutch?
- We might not have had a French Revolution, or it may have been different, because a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
- Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we’d not have a lot of countries.
- Comment on Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister 1 day ago:
I fucking hate the government. They are so fucking clueless. Not just Labour but the Cons, the Lib Dems, Reform, all of them are so fucking stupid and they ignore the people there to tell them their ideas are Stupid.
- Comment on Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister 1 day ago:
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
The irony is that despite being a confessional state, the UK is 100x more secular than the USA.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
If I had to guess, they don’t care at all about porn and are using this as a pretext to censor sites that talk about LGBTQIA+ people.
Transgender people are in the crosshairs and have been for a couple of years for now.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 2 days ago:
left spotify and started downloading all my music from [COMPLETELY LEGAL AVENUES] and bandcamp. It’s good to have music that Spotify cannot take away from me.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 days ago:
Wonder what they’re gonna use that power for, especially considering their efforts to censor history and go after people they don’t like.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 days ago:
I mean you’re half right. In a zoo, the keepers care for their animals, making sure they’re well fed, enriched, and healthy.
We’re being farmed. They are using us to make money from our produce (labour). They’re using us to make money. We’re so over exploited we simply cannot afford to have children.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 days ago:
John Betjeman has been reincarnated as an Autistic German guy.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 days ago:
It’s the same for desktops. There’s no difference between Operating systems for laptops or desktops. Your can use the same install media for both with little to no difference.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 days ago:
do people pay for windows?
Yes. When you buy your computer, the cost of Windows is added onto the computer’s cost. Just for context, a Dell XPS 13 Laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled is £1,149.01, with Windows it’s £1,199.00. When you get the chance to have Linux preinstalled or even just have no OS pre installed, you find it’s cheaper than having Windows Preinstalled.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 days ago:
- Lighter
- Better on weaker hardware
- More options how you set up your system: Desktop Environments/Window Managers.
- Free and Open Source (so no paying out the arse for Windows).
- More Software options.
- Better Security.
- No monitoring by your OS provider.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 days ago:
OK so Trump is going to have to choose whether or not to side with fucking 4chan, you know, the site with regular pedophilia threads.
- Comment on Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law 3 days ago:
Jesus christ, that’s even worse.
- Comment on Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law 3 days ago:
You know the law must be bad if they block Mississippi due to this, but not the UK.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 4 days ago:
Hey, remember when people were saying Milei was a “Libertarian” and saying he will show the world what a “Libertarian” Country could look like? Remember that? Remember him dressing up as Captain Anap?
Almost immediately, dare I say the moment he got into power, he fucking went full fascist complete with the suppression of protests and propaganda announcements at railway stations. This is why I hate Right wing “Libertarians” (or as I like to call them, “Fauxbertarians”). They basically want a Corporatocracy. They’ll be like “I want the state out of our lives” one moment, then once with a modicum of power, they use it to increase the power of corporations over our lives and crush any dissent with a vigour the likes of which you only see in North Korea. They want the “government” out the lives of corporations and into the lives of everyday people. It always turns into a corporatocracy with these Children of bitches.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 days ago:
How bad to you think this collapse gonna be? We gonna see a big name collapse into dust or we gonna see something akin to the Great Depression?
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 days ago:
Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.
…and where in this chain is YOTI et al paying the government?
Frankly, you sound like the most odious little turd I have ever met on Lemmy.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 6 days ago:
A burden on the population.
The population being the people who run self hosted forums with a certain amount of British users. If you are one of those people, yeah, I’m sorry, I hate it too, but the vast majority of the UK don’t run forums with a large amount of British users. Fun fact, the End users (the people giving away their IDs) aren’t actually paying shit to anyone bar their IDs.
Taxes do not all get directly paid to gavernment. Like sales taxes, service tips ect.
VAT (what you call “sales tax”) does go to the Treasury. Like when you buy something, that 20% extra you paid goes off to the government via the Taxes the shop pays. That’s how VAT works.
Services tips aren’t really a thing in the UK, especially not mandatory ones because food service workers in the UK aren’t exempt from the minimum wage.
Are you even from the UK? Are you even in the UK? Because if you were from here, or even if you spent any amount of time here, you would’ve known the following things:
- The United Kingdom doesn’t have Federal Taxes because we’re not a Federal country. Again, we’re a Unitary Country with Devolution.
- We don’t use the term “Sales Tax”, we use the term VAT (Value Added Tax). That’s not some special technical term, VAT is common parlance.
- Service tips are not compulsory nor expected in any way, shape or form because food service workers in the UK are paid minimum wage with no exceptions. Most places here don’t even have the option to give a tip.
Considering these things, I think you’re American. In that case, please, do us a favour, don’t act like you’re a fucking expert on this. I live in the UK, Scotland to be precise. Shit’s bad, The OSA can get tae fuck, but having Yanks who watched videos made by other yanks who don’t know shit about fuck on the ground lecture me about my own fucking country as if it’s just “America with funny accents” not only doesn’t help, it’s just spreading bullshit.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 6 days ago:
As is tradition.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 days ago:
“Humans should give me chicken” says Cat.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
Oh my sweet summer child:
- Pretty much everything that’s happened since 2014 (Brexit, the erosion of Scotland’s autonomy, the nixing of the GRA, The Covid Response, Liz Truss) has pushed Scotland toward Independence. This isn’t even that big a push for us.
- The investment firm/think tank, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, IS HEAD-QUARTERED IN FUCKIN’ DUNFERMLINE.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
State created the law. That creates a cost to be recovered. How that cost is recovered is irrelevant, it’s s state mandated cost aka tax.
Just because it’s a state mandated cost doesn’t mean it’s a tax. Tax implies the money goes to the government to pay for goods and services. It’s actually worse than that: it’s a levy.
A levy doesn’t go to the government. A levy goes to whatever person provides the good or service. For example: if I tax alcohol based on alcohol content, the amount of money added to the tax goes to the government. If I place a levy based on alcohol content, the amount of money that is added goes to the person/company selling the booze. An example of a levy is the plastic bag levy, which was put in place to reduce plastic pollution. That money you spend on a bag doesn’t go to the government, it goes to the people you got the bag from, and they can do whatever they want with it, keep it, give it to charity, use it to buy Heroin on the deep web, you name it!
What this law has effectively done has made service providers (not just companies, but whoever runs the site) a choice: They can either develop their own age verification system or pay a company (like YOTI) to do it for them. Most service providers do the latter because they do not have the resources to do the latter.
Does the money go to the government? No (except maybe under the table nudge nudge wink wink), it goes straight to the company. What the government has done is force entities to give a private company money.
It’s a tax in the way, let’s say, a hypothetical Right-Libertarian government might tax you, or even an American Homeowners Association might “tax” you: making you give a private company money.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
The Online Safety Act doesn’t apply any new taxes on anyone. It forces service providers (IE: Private Companies) to institute age checks through either AI Face checks or ID either through an in house solution or buying services from a third party (YOTI or similar). It imposes a cost on a business where they have to either spend money setting up an age verification solution or acquire one from a private company. The government doesn’t impose any new taxes on people on businesses with this bill, but instead makes companies who run services give money to other companies to comply with the law.
In short, the censorship isn’t being done directly by the state, it’s being done by private companies under pain of massive fines by the state. Other than suing websites or dealing with court challenges (which is done in house), all the actual legwork is being done by private companies, some of whom, like YOTI, are making handsome amounts of cash.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
