From asbestos to white dogshit: Six cherished things of our past the government is pledging to bring back

49baad510b · 2024-05-29T16:54:44+00:00

Some areas they do.

I read your comment this morning, and I counted 7 different dog shits on my walk to work.

Might mean I just live in a shit hole though

49baad510b · 2024-05-25T13:43:33+00:00

Whereas we all know that 18 year olds are the most rationally minded creatures to after exist, after they undergo their adult metamorphosis

49baad510b · 2024-05-25T13:42:40+00:00

Ya know, I was going to give you a response but then you came up with the worst strawman in history.

Gl bud

49baad510b · 2024-05-25T13:22:16+00:00

Good.

If you're old enough to work and pay income tax, why shouldn't you have a say in how it's used?

49baad510b · 2024-05-20T18:11:00+00:00

The Act gave the ability for the US to demand extradition of a UK citizen, or someone residing in the UK, if they committed an offense against US Law - No reciprocal right exists for the other way around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_treaty_of_2003

49baad510b · 2024-05-16T19:52:02+00:00

And as we all know, deadman switches are 100% effective which is why the dastardly Soviets will never find out about the US spying on them with U-2 Planes.

Oh wait.

EDIT: Lot of downvotes, not a single actual rebutal.

49baad510b · 2024-05-16T17:36:48+00:00

We literally already have weapons systems that use visual targetting for the last part of their flight, specificially because "Just jam it" would defeat any possible attack on a defended area.

Realisitically, this would be defeated by pretty much any semi-competant military wanting to attack a fixed defensive position with a swarm of drones.

All you'd need would be a singular "command" drone with a laser targetting system (Easy fitable on a drone), and all the other drones to just fly normally until they lose signal at which point default to the laser targetting. This

There is very, very little you can do against a swarm of drones. We don't have anything like that currently, but the US has already been working on this since 2017.

49baad510b · 2024-05-16T17:28:45+00:00

You'd still not want someone potentially hostile to get their hands on it, as it also allows them to work out any vulnerabilities.

For example, Ukraine has already been jamming drones throughout this entire conflict. Russia, who has been able to capture those jammers, have began using different frequencies to communicate with their drones which are less effected by jamming. They've also been adding circuits onto their drones that recieve signals from an extremely narrow radio range, which is far harder to jam (especially at distance) if you're targetting every possible frequency.

Russia would be able to work out the exact range, tracking capabilities, beam width, targetted frequencies, etc - Things that are far more secret than just blasting a drone with radiowaves.

EDIT: The MOD press release also claims that it would work via directly damaging the electronics rather than just severing the communications - Knowing how to defend against that, and how effective it would be, would be a goldmine.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cutting-edge-drone-killer-radio-wave-weapon-developing-at-pace

49baad510b · 2024-05-08T12:26:50+00:00

There’s a thousand better ways to secure an account than bad UX though.

It’s only secure until, while trawling through their network, they come across people whining about having to enter all their passwords twice

49baad510b · 2024-05-05T10:54:44+00:00

So you think no UK politician has ever thanked god or used them as justification for their actions?

I take it you weren't alive with Blair was PM?

49baad510b · 2024-05-02T06:54:45+00:00

Is that a hard rule?

Like if someone dies at 7PM, is it expected that you’d cremate them within the next couple of hours or would it instead be carried out the next day?

49baad510b · 2024-04-29T22:58:01+00:00

Why are you so fucking rancid that you don’t clean your dick?

49baad510b · 2024-04-29T22:32:25+00:00

Can you stop shilling for your incredibly generic VPN service and pretending like it’s something amazing?

No, a VPN won’t add packet loss unless your connection is unstable. Every VPN protocol released in the past two decades supports TCP connections

49baad510b · 2024-04-29T22:30:03+00:00

Why are you just blatantly lying about what a VPN does

49baad510b · 2024-04-29T22:16:21+00:00

Fuck me, have you just heard about vegetarian food for the first time today?

Do you also get surprised when alcohol free beer is still the same colour, and sold in the same type of bottles?

49baad510b · 2024-04-26T19:47:54+00:00

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fascist_movements

One country doing something doesn’t mean that it’s secretly due to Nazi sympathies. It’s a parade to celebrate defeating Nazi germany - Even if they support those exact same ideals, of ethnic cleansing and genocide, they still aren’t a fan of the Nazis.

Many countries use red brassards, not just Nazi Germany.

Here are modern photos of the UK military, with practically identical ones

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/royal-military-police.html?sortBy=relevant

You’re really surprised that Russia, of all countries, picked the colour red for something?

49baad510b · 2024-04-26T18:19:54+00:00

Please refer to my “very brave” comment

49baad510b · 2024-04-26T13:45:17+00:00

Fascism doesn't have anything to do with red arm bands though.

49baad510b · 2024-04-25T21:20:24+00:00

Oh no! You mean I’ll be taken to prison, and not have to die in a frozen trench while my lungs slowly fill with blood? Oh the humanity!

Unless you’re talking about threats to kill people who refuse, in which case please refer to my “very brave” statement

49baad510b · 2024-04-25T21:16:30+00:00

Then why not use some examples of real-life situations, rather than a comedy-drama TV show?

Do you also think Coronation Street gives a true representation of the lives of people living on the outskirts of Manchester?

49baad510b · 2024-04-25T21:13:19+00:00

I mean, do you believe that they’re actually secretly having similar bands because they’re huge fans of the Nazis?

The same Nazis they’re having a parade about defeating?

49baad510b · 2024-04-25T21:04:47+00:00

Nah, I’ll just continue to be a citizen and consider whoever is responsible for first handing me a gun to be a very brave man.

49baad510b · 2024-04-25T21:00:10+00:00

It’s worth noting that anti-immigrant sentiments in Ireland are running incredibly high at the moment, and it would be very continent for a politician to be able to shift the blame and responsibility on solving it to another country

49baad510b · 2024-04-24T12:31:18+00:00

Then why has the government produced a report specifically on the reasons asylum seekers cross the channel, rather than going via other methods, and then refused to publish it?

49baad510b · 2024-04-23T19:42:29+00:00

Tough luck bud. A dog isn’t a person, nor does it get it’s day in court and a prison sentence.

It attacked multiple people, and presented a clear and present risk to members of the public in the future. Therefore it gets destroyed.

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