Flax_vert
@Flax_vert@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
I know what I’m watching the next time I’m eating
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
This is why I am a (constitutional) monarchist. I trust a nepobaby over someone who lied, deceived and cheated to the top.
Like all things, democracy is a game. You can cheat at that game.
- Comment on Government on track to lower minimum age for train drivers to 18 in Great Britain 16 hours ago:
Is driving a train actually harder than a car? More specialised, sure, but my impression is that you’d just need to be able to take signals, operate communications and work the throttle
- Comment on £450m London development thrown into chaos by nesting peregrine falcons 1 day ago:
From what I gather, MI6 actually want it there because right now, the Chinese embassy is spread across London in various different buildings. The new embassy would have them all in one place
- Comment on Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness? 2 days ago:
What toxicity? You could try standing up to them potentially
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 days ago:
what
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 days ago:
That’s the employer’s responsibility, not yours
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 days ago:
What are “donated sick days” don’t you have maternity leave in the USA?
- Comment on Price of average UK home passes £300,000 for first time, Halifax says 2 days ago:
Hopefully Northern Ireland stays the same…
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 3 days ago:
Lóng… Long… It sounds very similar
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 4 days ago:
It’s got different tones, I know that
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 4 days ago:
There is. I’ve known a few people personally in fact who were from places like Iran who had entered the UK legally, and then their personal situation changed and they couldn’t return home, thus they applied for asylum. And got accepted as well.
I also want to stop the boats and the exploitative gangs doing this, but any approach that isn’t opening up safe and legal routes for applications to be made is just advocating for everyone else to bear the burden of global instability the UK played a disproportionate role in creating.
Sounds like we’re more in agreement than disagreement then?
I assume you mean there hasn’t. I think it’s a pretty apt way to describe a mob descending on a hotel to try and burn it down because asylum seekers are inside.
No? There has. People in the UK have attacked migrant hotels and even a few got attacked in Larne a while ago during the summer.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 4 days ago:
Is it much worse than the rest of Europe? Basically every european country seems to have a populist right wing anti immigration movement
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 4 days ago:
A lot of people probably could be rehabilitated through either rehab programmes or adequate mental health support. Possibly the majority if not all.
it doesn’t come anywhere close to the exploitation that the ruling class subject us to.
Facts.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 4 days ago:
I’m not anti asylum seeker. I’m anti people taking advantage of the system for legitimate asylum seekers. There are people coming over from France. France isn’t that bad. Also in addition, there’s been attempted pogroms here.
I can’t remember the statistic, but the majority of asylum seekers don’t even come over in small boats. They’re typically legal immigrants who cannot return home or extend their visa. I’m talking about the widely condemned human trafficking industry that takes advantage of our system to make a business of bringing people across the channel.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 4 days ago:
The truth is in the middle. I know someone who works in the hospital, a lot of the rough sleepers they come across aren’t really helping themselves nor extremely interested in actually getting help. Some people do just take advantage of the system as in our culture we tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of. And it works for them.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
I am in basically the same situation as you and my single asian user has no issue with it
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 4 days ago:
“Long” is interesting. It’s an English surname, but there’s also Chinese people called “Long” as it means “Dragon”
- Comment on Railway police abandon two-hour bike theft investigation rule after backlash 5 days ago:
From what I know about shoplifters, usually it’s the same pool of people per city who just keep getting slaps on the wrist. If we just locked them up for longer sentences and maybe get them some form of rehabilitation/reintegration course in prison, then the city would run out of bike thieves.
- Comment on Railway police abandon two-hour bike theft investigation rule after backlash 5 days ago:
If they’re having that much issue with catching people or a large amount of them, then harsher penalties are needed as a deterrence.
- Comment on Starmer orders release of files relating to Mandelson US ambassador decision 5 days ago:
Epstein files DLC?
- Comment on Life expectancy of LGB+ people a year lower than that of heterosexuals, ONS finds 5 days ago:
Does LGB+ include or not include transgender people? Would be important for statistics
- Comment on ‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales 5 days ago:
Fair
- Comment on Mandelson reported to police by SNP and Reform after files suggest he sent government information to Jeffrey Epstein 5 days ago:
I think the only mention he had was just articles about him being sent around regarding brexit
- Comment on Sitting here waiting for my first Bambu A1 print... 6 days ago:
What is the licence for the Bambu network driver? It’s not FOSS so it cannot be under the gnu licence
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 6 days ago:
I don’t think Minecraft is accountable - they are just being controlling for no reason. Minecraft was fine for the past 15 years of it’s existence and people kind of just accepted that 2b2t doesn’t represent Minecraft or Microsoft as a whole
- Comment on Reform UK politicians should be barred from speaking on campus, say 35% of students 1 week ago:
They shouldn’t be barred. We’re a free country, have freedom of speech. Students should be allowed to debate them and everything, just like how labour, libdem, tory, green, snp, sinn fein, etc should be allowed to speak on campuses.
- Comment on ‘Target mainland’: planned Troubles board game condemned in Northern Ireland 1 week ago:
Let’s make one about 9/11, see how they like it
- Comment on US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations 1 week ago:
It’s quite fascinating. People often make a statistic that “in x year, the average lifespan was 50-60” when in reality it was offset by infant mortality. I actually tried it myself with my own family- the average lifespan was 60, but the only people to die before 60 died before their first birthday, the other died two months after
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Not everyone watched pornography