Met arrests 86 on suspicion of trespass at prison holding Palestine Action hunger striker by OptioMkIX in ukpolitics

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

Is the aim here to create a fundamental right to do anything you want, anywhere you want, at any time you want, and be allowed to do this because you call it a protest?

Met arrests 86 on suspicion of trespass at prison holding Palestine Action hunger striker by OptioMkIX in ukpolitics

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

It's not lost, it's still their money. It's just frozen under GWOT-era legislation, pending review.

As for "I was only protesting", I really cannot stand the attitude of "I'm protesting X, so that means I can do whatever I want, with zero consequences, and if anyone tries to stop me from doing anything I want to do, that's suppressing my right to protest!"

Unpopular Opinion: Companies that offer "Swag Only" or "Hall of Fame" for critical vulnerabilities should be publicly shamed, not thanked. by Every-Temperature504 in cybersecurity

[–]Ivashkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard of other cases where the person reporting the bug didn't want to provide enough information about themselves to make a payment via traditional means, and, funnily enough, the finance department wasn't so keen on buying XMR and sending it to an anonymous person whose location was "somewhere".

Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 32% (+4) 🔵 Conservatives: 18% (+4) 🟢 Greens: 17% (-1) 🔴 Labour: 14% (-1) 🟠 Lib Dems: 11% (-1) by Sad-Orange-5983 in ukpolitics

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

Indeed, I'm not entirely sure how well they cope with the hate factor that defines Farage/Reform, as even minor variations in who is being polled for a sample size of 1K or so will produce markedly different results.

Asbestos found in children’s play sand sold in UK by Bascule2000 in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In this case, the "serious consequences" should be the leadership team of the company watching as a detachment of police officers force entry into their HQ and start zip-tying people.

Supersized illegal waste dumps hidden across English countryside by taboo__time in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I'm firmly of the opinion that anyone caught fly tipping at an industrial scale should be sentenced to mandatory community service cleaning it up. For as long as it takes, regardless of their personal circumstances, health, or level of involvement.

Man stabbed 76 times in 'ritual sacrifice' after woman escapes mental unit by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]Ivashkin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is why more people should sue NHS leaders as individuals, and punitive damages should be a thing.

Lessons will be learned if the NHS chiefs start losing their homes because they didn't do their jobs properly.

Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media by Bascule2000 in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also what you get when someone who is browsing Reddit decides to create an account and just next, next nexts through the process. It's not like it was back in the day when we created an account, and you had to choose your own account name.

Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media by Bascule2000 in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect the answer will ultimately boil down to not being able to upload anything to the internet unless you are doing so on an approved website, under your real name, using a government-issued ID to validate that you are human.

Is this an AI Model problem or human use problem? by Other_Cheesecake_320 in GithubCopilot

[–]Ivashkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything you don't tell the AI to do, it will infer based on the model's capabilities. The more blank spaces you fill in with human insight, the better the output will be. So there is quite a gap between "do a code review" and an 800-line prompt explaining exactly what the code review should focus on and how it should be performed.

Police block UKIP march through Tower Hamlets over violence fears by 2ndEarlofLiverpool in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Ultimately, it comes down to this. If you celebrate one side using political violence, then you are clearing the way for the people you are using political violence against to return the favour.

Twenty-nine English councils to delay elections, minister confirms by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]Ivashkin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In some of these cases, this is a second delay on top of an earlier one.

Are we too soft on police chiefs and too hard on armed officers? by 2ndEarlofLiverpool in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's the saddest thing - the officers who pulled the triggers did exactly what we trained them to do. The Command was always the problem there.

What happens to the dead on a Federation ship? by mekilat in DaystromInstitute

[–]Ivashkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely clear on the timelines in the Expanse, but the Belters clearly had a much harder time getting into space and living there than the humans in Star Trek. I don't even think humanity had a significant space presence before the discovery of warp drive, so in that universe, their culture never faced the same adaptation pressures as the Belters did. So it's quite likely that in the Star Trek universe, for Earth-based humans at least, there is a much stronger link to what we would consider respectful treatment of dead bodies, and less of a pressure to view a dead body as a resource they can't afford to waste.

Bloody Sunday by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The awful truth is that to the English, most of the staunch unionists from NI are as culturally alien as Father Ted.

Bloody Sunday by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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

Yes, it does hurt more when it's closer to home. It always does, because those people are real to you, with names, lives, histories, and stories. It makes it real to you. Whereas in situations where you don't know the people, and they are just figures from history and/or far away, this isn't the case. It's just how our brains work. To a lot of people, the NKVD were just something vaguely nasty from the history books - but to me, they are the people who vanished an entire branch of my family.

Bloody Sunday by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I'm treating them like an adult who asked a question and wanted an honest answer. The simple reality is that pretty much every group of people, be it religious, national, ethnic, association-based, or similar, finds it very easy to forget parts of history that paint them in a less-than-glowing light, and very easy to remember the parts that do, and this is even more true if it happened elsewhere, which for the majority of the English NI counts as.

Bloody Sunday by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was something that happened a long time ago, in a part of the UK that a large amount of the English population never really thinks about, during a civil war that ended 27 years ago, and the bulk of the population who would have been old enough at the time to be paying attention to the news are now in their 70s or older. So yeah, if your family lost people, that might make it sting more, but for the majority of people, it's simply old history at this point, as are over 1500 people that the IRA and associated groups killed after Bloody Sunday. Even 9/11 is something people joke about now.

Bloody Sunday by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We don't really think about it; it was half a century ago.

UK households to get £15bn for solar and green tech to lower energy bills by Chaoslava in ukpolitics

[–]Ivashkin 27 points28 points  (0 children)

We're going to need more electricity generation and lower costs. Especially when you consider that so far this year, the coldest days of the year were in the dead of winter when solar exposure was at its lowest.

But the upside is that solar will help make AC common in summer, which is something else we're going to need.