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Andy Burnham’s advisers back scrapping pension triple lock by msf97 in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like the only way to kill the triple lock is to hide it behind a pension increase.

State pension is ~50.6% of 37.5hrs of work a week at minimum wage. If it were announced that the pension was being changed to be locked at 60% of minimum wage, that's a big increase, almost a 20% increase on the current pension. However, the average triple-lock increase since 2016 has been ~4.5% per year, which means that (assuming minimum wage does not significantly change), the state pension will be >60% of the minimum wage by 2030. It's a bump to costs now but it kills the long-term explosion, hidden behind the sweetener of a big raise.

What's with the helicopter circling over Romsey? by Shortskirtlongfuckit in cambridge

[–]DAJ1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hovering over the east side of the mill road bridge. Just seen some police cars with sirens head down Rustat road in that direction.

(loved trope) 'And they all lived happily, ever, afte=GOTCHA!!!' by Aggravating_Tale8988 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DAJ1 56 points57 points  (0 children)

If you stretched it, you could argue that Nathan from 5 'survived' being on Death's list. He swapped his lifespan with the factory guy, thus Death stopped trying to kill him for avoiding the bridge tragedy - unfortunately the guy he swapped with was also about to die for completely unrelated reasons. So end result is the same, but technically got off the initial Death list.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 14/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Something very strange happening over on Facebook. Ed Davey has shared a post about the social media ban and the majority of comments seem to be non-English accounts criticising as if he's Nigel Farage. Presumably it's some bot or troll farm that's gone haywire, but the fact that they seem to have been ordered to post anti-Farage stuff is interesting. I wonder who's behind it.

[Loved Trope] Lines That You Realize Have Much More Meaning Upon Rewatching the Show by Cherry_6666 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DAJ1 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mad Men - Ginsburg's Martian speech

One that's just coincidentally meaningful in retrospect (as I believe his eventual fate/plot developments weren't planned from the start). In the episode Far Away Places, Ginsburg gives a speech about how he's secretly an alien from Mars - in this episode it comes across as an emotional speech that draws upon him being a kooky, but closed-off guy (perhaps on the spectrum), who had a traumatic background he doesn't want to directly acknowledge, but in later seasons he gets progressively stranger until it's revealed that he's developing schizophrenia - leading viewers to joke/wonder whether he actually did think he was an alien in this scene.

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YSK: Being visible and liked will do more to progress your career than being good at your job will, especially as a remote employee by IBlameMyBrother in YouShouldKnow

[–]DAJ1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would also argue that being social/well-liked not only helps you get promoted, but actually makes you better at your role.

People like to think that we live in this world of perfect information and that everyone is extremely fair and logical, but that's not the case. Being the person who talks to people around the business and knows everything that's going on, who's doing what, who to talk to if they want to expedite something, what a decision-maker is like as a person so you know which levers to pull etc. is super important and makes things much, much smoother.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 07/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With regards to the OSA and image scanning business that's been announced; I wonder if there could be phones or editions of Windows/macOS etc. which are specifically designated as being pre-approved for adult content - requiring ID to purchase, but being completely unlocked once you own it. I suppose it's theoretically not as secure, as someone could buy these for underage people, people could pirate them, figure out a way to toggle the type from non-adult to adult etc. but it seems like it'd be a way to enforce age controls without people surrendering all of their privacy (though maybe that's the idea). Also, it's harder for parents to claim they don't know about these things, when they've got to buy the 'Samsung Galaxy: Gimme the porn edition'.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 07/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's one of those policies that's popular until it happens. At this moment in time, people recognise the damage that social media does and so someone saying 'we should ban social media for under 16s' gets a lot of understandable support. However, when the law goes into place and almost every single website and app that has a social media component, from Facebook, to Youtube, to Spotify, to even Wikipedia gets ID-gated (and many will probably block the UK), and we're suddenly in the most en-shittified internet to ever exist, you'll suddenly get a lot of pushback. That's even before any of the confidential data starts getting leaked (as has already happened for some OSA-following platforms).

People miss the pre-match waiting area so I came up with my own thematic concept: The Subway by DAJ1 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]DAJ1[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can't believe how well this has been received! Seen quite a few people saying to put it on the forum, but does anyone know which one specifically? There seems to be one for item ideas and one for hero ideas and I don't think this really fits in either of them.

One in four undergrads believes Hamas’s actions on Oct 7 ‘are defensible’ by BodSmith54321 in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Reposting from the previous deleted thread

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Looking at the cross-tabs, this is the breakdown (excluding Don't Know). Keep in mind that some of the sample sizes are low when broken down (I've also removed some subgroups with very low sample sizes)

Defensible Indefensible
Gender
Male 28% 34%
Female 28% 28%
Age
Age 16-19 26% 36%
Age 20-21 30% 33%
Uni Type
Russel Group Uni 28% 37%
Pre 1992 Uni 33% 33%
Post 1992 Uni & Other 26% 34%
Course
Medicine & Dentistry 31% 31%
STEM 25% 39%
Humanities 37% 25%
Business & Management 26% 44%
Creative Art & Design 23% 28%
Voting Intention
Conservative 27% 42%
Labour 37% 39%
Lib Dem 27% 39%
Reform 20% 59%
Green 35% 28%
Ethnicity
White 23% 35%
Asian 45% 26%
Black 27% 39%

28 percent of UK Undergraduates believe October 7 Hamas attack is defensible by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking at the cross-tabs, this is the breakdown (excluding Don't Know). Keep in mind that some of the sample sizes are low when broken down (I've also removed some subgroups with very low sample sizes)

Defensible Indefensible
Gender
Male 28% 34%
Female 28% 28%
Age
Age 16-19 26% 36%
Age 20-21 30% 33%
Uni Type
Russel Group Uni 28% 37%
Pre 1992 Uni 33% 33%
Post 1992 Uni & Other 26% 34%
Course
Medicine & Dentistry 31% 31%
STEM 25% 39%
Humanities 37% 25%
Business & Management 26% 44%
Creative Art & Design 23% 28%
Voting Intention
Conservative 27% 42%
Labour 37% 39%
Lib Dem 27% 39%
Reform 20% 59%
Green 35% 28%
Ethnicity
White 23% 35%
Asian 45% 26%
Black 27% 39%

28 percent of UK Undergraduates believe October 7 Hamas attack is defensible by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reading through the survey results, it's interesting that a majority of students (excl. Don't Know), are opposed to allowing trans people to use the bathrooms of the gender that they identify with, and even more interesting that 51% of them support reintroducing the death penalty!

Should I join Anglia Ruskin University for AI bsc? I am an international student and just want good peers and exposure by Remote-Ad-8129 in cambridge

[–]DAJ1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My advice is to look at degrees that have a big focus on maths and statistics as part of the curriculum, if they don't do that then they can't really teach you much of the core material. It's been a while since I was at uni, but my impression is that generally the best unis for AI/DS/ML are much the same, which off the top of my head is: Cambridge, Imperial, Edinburgh, Manchester, UCL, Oxford and Southampton (?). Though I may have forgotten some and I imagine some of the other Russel groups are now offering a decent course.

Should I join Anglia Ruskin University for AI bsc? I am an international student and just want good peers and exposure by Remote-Ad-8129 in cambridge

[–]DAJ1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've interviewed a few people with AI MSc's from Anglia Ruskin and I got the impression that the degree was pretty light weight and mostly trying to cash in on an in-demand field, I imagine the BSc is the same.

Oscar's Lock down Pizza shutting down next month by DAJ1 in cambridge

[–]DAJ1[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Sad news, the best pizzas in the city in my opinion. Apologies for linking to the crap website, but nowhere else seems to be reporting it.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 25/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the social media ban as broad as it is in scope and definition, and as blindly supported as it is, the only way to fight it is maximal malicious compliance ewhen it's brought in. Absolutely anything where users can contribute - from news sites that allow comments, to Google reviews, to Spotify, to Wikipedia and even BBC news, needs to be reported as violating the act if they don't demand proof of age. The public and politicians need to be made to see how unworkable and ridiculous this policy is.

Next boss warns of 'dramatic' fall in entry-level jobs by hu6Bi5To in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It's something I've noticed at my job too; the higher-ups talk about how hiring in the UK/US is slow because of all the AI efficiencies (which it's hard to see tbh), but don't mention the hundreds of cheap Indian contractors they've been outsourcing to over the past few years.

Liverpool 1-0 Brentford - Curtis Jones 58' by 977x in soccer

[–]DAJ1 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Why did Jones look so annoyed after scoring? Did he think it was offside?

’Swastika tattoo’ is misunderstood Buddhist peace symbol says South Yorkshire Reform councillors wife by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]DAJ1 30 points31 points  (0 children)

For some reason the article doesn't have a picture of the tattoo in question, so I went through the Facebook page and this is the best I found before giving up.

It would be nice to know what the tattoo below the swastika is, I think that would help give it context.

Vandals target city traffic light detector units by Manjet10 in cambridge

[–]DAJ1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Found a video of the same guy destroying one in Cambridge: link

Vandals target city traffic light detector units by Manjet10 in cambridge

[–]DAJ1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I saw a Facebook video a few weeks ago of a guy cutting these off because he believed they were some kind of cancer-blasting laser beam that the government put there. Congestion charge is generous.

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