DakRalter
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 3 days ago:
I said it’s a start, not the answer to everything.
Also:
Long-term empty homes To be classed as ‘long-term empty’ a home has to be liable for council tax and to have been unfurnished and not lived in for over 6 months. This figure is increasing all the time, but as at **October 2023, it was 261,189. **
I’m not against building more homes. We need more council homes for sure. Housing should be seen as a human need, not a commodity to trade.
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 3 days ago:
They could always start with this issue:
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 week ago:
If you were fleeing war or persecution, would you not prefer to go to a country where you could speak the language and/or had family? Being able to speak the language would also mean you can start working as soon as your claim is processed. Yes, if I was fleeing war, I would want to go to the first safe place. But after safety, the next thing is being able to actually get on with your life and provide for yourself and family.
For instance I can’t speak Turkish, I find it a very hard language to learn. So if I could choose between settling there and going somewhere like France, Portugal or Spain where I have some proficiency in the languages, I would try to get there, because I’d be able to get into work a lot quicker and become part of a community if my application got approved. And even more so if I knew people there. It’s not a case of being greedy or picky, these people are still humans who need to get on with their lives.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 week ago:
But how is any of this the fault of immigrants? My dad wants to kick me out. If I tell the council I’m being made homeless, I will get sent to a hostel in Luton. According to my tory-loving colleague, this is the fault of asylum seekers.
The actual truth is this is the fault of Thatcher and successive governments selling off council homes. Rich foreign scalpers buy up property and sit on it until it makes them money. There are thousands of empty residential properties gathering dust so they can build up in value for these wealthy scalpers. Flats where £200k can buy you a 25% share of a studio is what’s shown as affordable housing in London. Housing has become a commodity for the rich to trade and profit off, rather than a human need. I’m working class, on a little above minimum wage and soon losing my job again (because of the council, not immigrants. First job I lost was because of Philip Green and his wife being greedy pigs).
Tell me how immigrants are making my life worse, but the wealthy get a pass. Immigrants are keeping a lot of businesses going (just see the Brexit farm debacle).
So you can look for the easy scapegoat if you want, or you can actually look at what’s causing these issues. As People vs Elon showed in their poster, they tell you to blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 week ago:
Please do explain for us unenlightened plebs.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Chromosomes 2 months ago:
Budgies!
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer 2 months ago:
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 2 months ago:
So basically Pork Markets?
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 2 months ago:
Dew it! The lettuce thing really triggers her, doesn’t it!
Phil Moorhouse predicted it might just be a Discord channel, which would be hilarious if it turns out to be true.
Who would actually sign up for a Truss social media site? Apart from people joining just to spam her with lettuce memes. Do it, Liz. We need you to make this site! The future is in the balance and only YOU can save it, Liz, by making a social media site that we definitely won’t spam with lettuce memes.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 2 months ago:
That. Is. A. Disgrace!
- Comment on Do all conservatives hate immigrants? Do I HAVE to hate immigrants if I want to be a real conservative? 4 months ago:
The important thing is to know where you stand on the issue of conserves vs jam. If you prefer conserves, then you can call yourself conservative. If you prefer jams, then you’re better identifying as a jammy dodger.
whats-different.com/jam-vs-conserve-understanding…
If you like them both more or less equally then you’re a doughnut hole.
- Comment on Do all conservatives hate immigrants? Do I HAVE to hate immigrants if I want to be a real conservative? 4 months ago:
From their post history, I’m assuming they’re just having a laugh.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
After seeing this post, I was wondering what this was all about, spent a couple of minutes looking it up, only to get a PM from her.
Have you guys turned this into a summoning ritual?!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Does just viewing this thread trigger a message from her wth
- Comment on sofabomba 4 months ago:
Well, Cruise does like jumping on couches…
- Comment on What's the best way for Elon to remove the parasite class? 🤔 4 months ago:
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 4 months ago:
This annoys me. It keeps showing me cyan, but only giving me the options of green or blue. Cyan is neither. It’s freaking cyan! It’s a subtractive primary colour!
(Don’t get me started on art teachers insisting the primary colours for paint are red, yellow and blue. Naff off with that crap. Go look at printer ink, then naff right off again.)
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 4 months ago:
You literally said the problem was with insulin producing spikes from carbs, and therefore you can’t eat a plant based diet. I just showed you evidence that you can indeed eat a plant based diet, carbs or not, and maintain healthy blood sugar levels. And can even reverse diabetes.
It was obvious from the beginning you were being totally disingenuous. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that you’ll block over such an inoffensive message confirms my initial suspicion about you. You just don’t want to eat a plant based diet and will find any reason not to.
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- Comment on UK's Lammy: It's time to seize Russian assets, not just freeze them 4 months ago:
We can only dream.
- Comment on Sorry babe, the US never invested into public transit at the level we were supposed 4 months ago:
Only the Jubilee line has them here in London. They’re a good feature. There was talk of bringing them to other lines, but I’ve not heard any update on that in years.
- Comment on I miss myspace 4 months ago:
I still have the html files for my first geocities site. It was a Commander Keen fansite with info that was already on every other fansite. But it was mine! And I used marquee tags and gifs whenever I wanted to, and WordArt for the page headings.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Does this count as !bonehurtingjuice@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 4 months ago:
My apologies.
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 4 months ago:
The best was on the old T9s where you’d try to type mum, but its first choice would be nun.
- Comment on Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill 5 months ago:
Right? Is it so hard to just ask “what are your relevant skills and what experience do you have”? Why be so general and vague? I don’t get all the fakeness, I really don’t, especially in jobs like retail. Why the need for long forms and multiple choice questions and all the other nonsense.
Interviews only test how good you are at interviews, not how good you are at the job.
- Comment on Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill 5 months ago:
Same with me, except every job I got was from employers who were desperate and would take anyone. The only exception is the job I have now, which ironically enough, I’m kinda crap at.
Traditional job interviews are very much geared against autistic people. I was absolutely awful at interviews, until the job centre actually sent me to a coaching service and I had it spelt out exactly what each interview question meant and what kind of answer I was expected to give.
Turns out “tell me about yourself” doesn’t mean tell them where you were born and what your hobbies are 😅
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 5 months ago:
After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was a minor trend to call them USers.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 7 months ago:
Also, tinned coconut milk is actually labelled coconut milk just fine without a problem.
I wonder how many people might be be put off dairy, even if it’s just for a moment before putting it out their mind, if all dairy products were labelled mammary secretions.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 8 months ago:
Man, that sounds rough. I hope you’re okay now. I suppose the rider got away?
Those delivery riders with their often illegal e-bikes are a scourge. They’re like that in London too. I’ve seen them on pavements with their throttle modded bikes, even though we have both a bus lane and a cycle lane.
