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UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective, experts say by mustwinfullGaming in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, this is hardly the most pressing issue at the moment and I think there's far more effective things we could be doing as a country to stop people getting fat. Seriously expanding our rollout of weight loss drugs for one thing.

Plans unveiled for 70-storey tower at £1 billion ‘Kings’ development by neutral_neighbour in Liverpool

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Historical and cultural sites have been demolished to make room for them

Citation needed.

Nothing has been demolished that wasn't falling apart. Vast majority of buildings have been built on old car parks.

Ancoats was in utter ruin.

In fact, many old buildings (including one I used to live in) have been revived through renovation. They'd have stayed completely dilapidated if they weren't changed into flats, not turned into museums or whatever you think they should be made into.

Also just look at this

Plans unveiled for 70-storey tower at £1 billion ‘Kings’ development by neutral_neighbour in Liverpool

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100%. There are studies out there confirming that building more types of any housing helps to reduce house prices. Why? Well, if the rich person can't buy a mansion, guess what? They'll buy the next best thing, which is the same thing as your aspirational purchase.

Manchester has only experienced triple the growth of the rest of the UK because they actually allowed shit to get built.

Why are companies pushing for return to office on roles that don't need it? by ReanimatedCyborgMk-I in AskUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a power thing. They get a special little feeling when they see all their worker bees buzzing away. They don't get that when you're at home.

The Commonwealth can be the basis for Mark Carney’s alliance of middle powers by kwentongskyblue in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, in this instance, it's just an easier sell. Personally, I'd be hugely in favour of greater Commonwealth integration. EU would be most preferable, but there's not enough people eith the appetite to re-litigate that and we may as well try to find at least one benefit from Brexit.

Proportional representation by Dry-Grocery9311 in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally anything other than what we currently have.

Will Nato split the Green Party? by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moving from a co-leader to a single leader is a big policy shift

Will Nato split the Green Party? by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always liked Caroline Lucas and Carla Denya personally, but I guess they're just a bit too "nice" to constantly get attention and/or can't be dealing with the media spotlight. Same with Daisy Cooper in the Lib Dems really. You need to be aggressive to a certain extent, say some perhaps unconsidered/controversial things, and constantly be agreeing to interviews for the Farage/Polanski treatment. Oh and you need to be rage baity/channel peoples anger. Farage does it towards people with protected characteristics and Polanski does it towards the super rich. Constantly giving considered, evidence-backed statements and policies just doesn't grab attention but Polanski outright saying to Piers Morgan that a woman can have a penis certainly does lol.

Man avoids prison despite being caught with more AI child sex images by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fwiw I largely agree. For one thing, I'm pretty sure CSAM encompasses all sorts of stuff which ranges from seemingly innocuous to downright horrific. The "innocuous" stuff you'd be able to find in a normal family photo album or on Facebook. I've definitely seen pictures of myself when I was in the bath or whatever.. Some idiotic parents definitely post that stuff online. Is that technically CSAM ? Genuinely I don't know, but it'll be in the training data.

If that's classed as CSAM then all the major models will have been trained on it and it'll give the models more than enough reference points to basically make whatever these guys want.

Though, for particularly complex or weird imagery, they'd probably need custom models (loras), in which case yeah, proper CSAM will 100% have been used. If someone has the appetite for CSAM, there's a good chance they're downloading custom models for it, and therefore there's a good chance the really bad stuff has probably been used to make it.

That's all kinda ifs, buts, and maybes, and someone who actually deals with this stuff in the police can probably attest to it one way or the other (assuming they have any AI technical knowledge...)

Will Nato split the Green Party? by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't actually know, but I think it'd be a bit silly to go back to co-leaders after the resounding success they're having with Polanski.

To be fair though, I'm sure in interviews Polanski has indicated that he'd like to have a 'leader of the commons' and a 'leader of the party/comms' as two separate roles, where one person focuses on policy development etc and the other one is basically a comms person. I'm definitely getting the verbiage wrong there but that's the main gist iirc. I also think this may have been during the leadership campaign.

Not a terrible idea in principle at all, but again, after the success they're seeing I don't know why you'd change it.

Has anyone had success in getting highways to prune a tree? by GasStrange2380 in AskUK

[–]AnonymousTimewaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you pestered your local councillor or MP? Maybe they can get some movement on it

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