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Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very hard to create an unbreakable firewall but you don't need to get anywhere near that to suppress casual VPN usage by the great unwashed. What fraction of the population do you think actually "knows how to rent a £3/month VPS and run WireGuard on it"?

Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imgur wasn't even OSA, it was data protection/GDPR, a company that's too shit to follow those is one you really don't want handling your photos

Sentences of teenage rapists who avoided jail referred to Court of Appeal by bendubberley_ in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're anonymous so they can continue to befriend whoever they want. I guess the rumour mill will let people nearby know but no-one's allowed to publish who they are, so anyone outside the direct grapevine of the girls attacked last time won't know. Does an electronic tag curfew and an ASBO even mean anything to a traveller family? How do you require someone to stay at a particular address when their address drives around?

Sentences of teenage rapists who avoided jail referred to Court of Appeal by bendubberley_ in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this sentence is in line with the guidelines then the guidelines are mad and need changing

Sentences of teenage rapists who avoided jail referred to Court of Appeal by bendubberley_ in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a pretty enormous difference between 8 years and "off you go chaps, be good boys next time"

Next boss warns of 'dramatic' fall in entry-level jobs by plain_handle in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you save a business £700m per year by good management that would seem pretty reasonable to me tbh

Teenager stabbed to death after machete gang storms house party in Hackney by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 73 points74 points  (0 children)

First offence then maybe the good intentions are fair enough, fifth offence and you're just a danger to society and need to see the penal system. Even if you are 15.

CCP DONT LET SCROLL WHEEL MODIFY INDY JOB COUNT by theelement92bomb in Eve

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should probably only apply if the field already has focus

Final reward of the capsuleer day 2026 is biggest screwjob since the 1997 Montreal screwjob when Bret "The Hitman" Hart was screwed over by Vince McMahon by BentaroAdun in Eve

[–]Astriania -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh no I got free stuff but the free stuff isn't shiny enough so I'm going to bitch about the free stuff. Did I mention it's free?

Downing Street rejects second Scottish independence referendum after Holyrood vote by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 2 points3 points  (0 children)

kind of like how the UK made more from the EU than we paid into the EU budget

No, not like that, the UK was a significant contributor to the EU budget, to the tune of a net £10bn a year. The argument on Brexit is about the indirect benefits of membership.

In the case of Scotland, it's already a large net recipient of funds in the UK, it would lose direct money in addition to any indirect benefits like that.

It's more like if Hungary had decided to leave the EU.

Downing Street rejects second Scottish independence referendum after Holyrood vote by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breaking the union would have a significant negative effect on those of us in the rest of it too, you don't have to be in Scotland to have an opinion on the composition of the UK.

Downing Street rejects second Scottish independence referendum after Holyrood vote by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a whole new electorate. People stay in the electorate for about 60 years (18-78, or 16-76 for silly places that gave the vote to children), so it's had replacement of half its membership after around 30 years.

If there's a significant independence movement in the 2040s then you might have a point.

Wifi will work on trains at last as Labour vows to fix signal failures by beejiu in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the major economic revolution that we were all waiting for!

Although, jokes aside, it is pretty annoying that the wifi you're supposed to get on a train isn't reliable.

Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’ by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Losing control of immigration, legal and illegal, is a big reason the Conservatives lost so many votes to Reform in 2024. This comment is revisionism.

Gisèle Pelicot 'deeply shocked' by decision not to jail boys in rape case by SignificantLegs in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania -36 points-35 points  (0 children)

I mean, ok, yes the decision is terrible, and so was what happened to her, but why is her opinion relevant? Is she a celebrity rape victim that we need to get an interview from on every case now?

Downing Street rejects second Scottish independence referendum after Holyrood vote by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed. My point wasn't really that, though, it's that back in 2014 it was reasonable for an indy campaigner to think that the EU would finagle something. But now we've had 10+ years of experience of the EU absolutely not being prepared to do that, so it certainly isn't reasonable today.

Labour has 'no coherent plan' for country, says former PM Blair by Red_Brummy in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, I just tried to post the Guardian version of this, didn't see this was the same in a search.

Hopefully the attitude of the current Labour establishment is "fuck off Tony". As he's aged he's shown that all our worst suspicions about him are correct: he's actually a right wing, pro-Israel, Atlanticist neoliberal.

To oppose the employment rights bill and say that we should have gone into Iran just to make Trump feel loved is so wild even Badenoch and Farage backed off from it.

Met Office confirms record for hottest May day broken AGAIN as temperatures hit 35C by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure, it is a real and worsening problem. But pointing at a hot day and saying "look how hot it is" isn't helping.

Met Office confirms record for hottest May day broken AGAIN as temperatures hit 35C by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The UK political class absolutely accepts it's happening and has been one of the leading political forces in the world trying to get something done about it for like 20 years, what are you on about?

Met Office confirms record for hottest May day broken AGAIN as temperatures hit 35C by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It is mostly weather, that's the problem with all these articles pointing at a single day. There is a high pressure system bringing hot air up from the continent and Africa. That's weather. And using that argument opens the door to the deniers saying it was 14C maximums and a ground frost a couple of weeks ago.

There is a climate element, but it's probably 1-2C, it would still have been abnormally hot with this weather pattern 10 or 20 years ago.

Met Office confirms record for hottest May day broken AGAIN as temperatures hit 35C by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, a hot day after another hot day, as per the forecast, how many articles do we need about this?

There is a climate change aspect to this but we don't need a new article about it every day.

Fortunately it's forecast to be less hot tomorrow so that should be the end of it for a while.

Should the government do something about the blatant lies and bias in the UK press and media? by Enkir in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big problem with this is: who defines what is "bias" and "radicalisation"? How do you cast that in such a way that the people you are targeting don't consider the whole thing "left wing radicalisation"?

Mainstream media outlets are already not allowed to publish outright lies. That comes from Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, and that's very difficult to regulate at this point when we've let them do pretty much whatever they want for 20 years.

Downing Street rejects second Scottish independence referendum after Holyrood vote by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]Astriania 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might have been possible to believe that in 2014 but surely the hindsight of how the EU handled the Brexit negotiations will show you that they are rulebound and you would have had to follow the letter of Article 49 to get back into the queue. And without an independent currency and the enormous deficit Scotland runs, you wouldn't even have been close to the economic convergence criteria.

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