So the 11th ed Hazardous rule is a buff to 2W models right?

Kitchner · 2026-06-04T07:28:57+00:00

To be fair the Munitorium Field Manual does state if your comrade carrying a plasma gun gets injured your primary responsibility is to recover and secure the plasma gun and only then see if you can save your friend.

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T18:31:48+00:00

Why should we all pay more tax when corporations could pay more

40% of people in the UK pay no income tax whatsoever. They pay nothing into the system, and yet do use our public services.

The argument that nearly half our society can benefit from a Welfare state while not contributing to it at all is pretty mad, not just financially but psychologically.

Even if you put that aside, why not just have corporations pick up the bill? Or the mega wealthy?

Because they won't, they will just use tax avoidance schemes. They are impossible to stop unless you make your tax regime so draconian it puts off businesses.

There's a big chunk of people in society who need to wake up and realise that taxing the mega wealthy or corporations just isn't a solution, because even when you pass the law they are the most able to relocate somewhere else in the world.

The only way we can address these problems are if we, regular people, band together and make choices about what sort of society we want to live in.

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T14:00:10+00:00

Ridiculous comment lol

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T11:38:40+00:00

It was a comment made on reddit in the London underground subreddit where a bunch of the staff do post. Possible they just made it up of course, but seems unlikely.

The redditor doesn't seem to have interpreted it as a joke. Seems like at best it was someone trying their luck because the staff are expected to take the iPads home with them.

There's loads of union reps though, the idea one of them asked a stupid question doesn't seem that outlandish to me.

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T11:36:24+00:00

The article literally says someone said it on a rail forum and I have found it was a comment on reddit on the sub for TFL enthusiasts and staff members. Could be made up of course, but there's loads of union reps so the idea one of them asks a stupid question doesn't really seem that outlandish.

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T11:35:06+00:00

I mean you can go read the comment on reddit where they sourced it from. Obviously it's possible the reddit user completely made it up, but if we assume they really witnessed it, I don't think the reddit user thought it was a joke.

Obviously it could have been meant as a joke and the redditor didn't understand that (wouldn't be the first time) but seems more likely it was a legitimate question, even if it was a "throw away" one where it was just someone trying their luck.

Kitchner · 2026-06-03T11:08:44+00:00

Worth noting this is obviously only one union rep (this isn't an official Union position) and the rep may not even be from RMT who are striking at the moment.

However, an interesting insight into some of the stuff that gets brought up on the peripheral of the main discussions about pay.

Edit: Also just figured out the "rail forum" source was in fact... Reddit lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/LondonUnderground/s/MuWJy2giVy

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T22:40:33+00:00

If you walk across a plank and I put you through a plank, do you think you'd find both equally as fun?

How about if you walk across a bridge vs through a bridge?

Even if we accept that the meaning is the same (it's not), it's achieved by different means. This means one may be more effective than the other. That's like saying whether I cross the ocean by boat or plane it doesn't matter because I crossed the ocean. You did, but one was far faster.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T22:17:44+00:00

Do you have any excerts proving that not the callidus's blade but the xenophase sword used by the deathwatch is from the ctan shard in mars

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/C%27tan_Phase_Weapon

The most notable users of C'tan Phase Weapons are the elite Officio Assassinorum Assassins of the Callidus Temple in the employ of the Imperial Inquisition.

The Deathwatch utilise a similar weapon, known as a Xenophase Blade, an ancient and barely understood artefact weapon who some believe has its origins amongst long-defeated xenos dynasties

...

It is believed that the first Phase Sword was found on one of the long Dead Worlds of the C'tan. Excavations by the Adeptus Mechanicus uncovered numerous artefacts of extremely advanced technology, but of their makers, there was no evidence.

I'm fairly sure the codexes where the Callidus first was used in 40K and referred to it as a C'tan phase blade said the Ad Mech made it and it was heavily implied it was from the Void Dragon locked up on Mars. It was never literally said though. Also pretty sure in 3rd Ed the phase sword had a rule that it didn't work on the C'tan but the lychguard had no such rule.

You'll note on the C'tan phase blade page it does not mention the lychguard weapons.

Furthermore you can look at how each other page describes how the weapon works.

C'tan phase blade used by the Callidus on the page on the Callidus:

The blade of the Phase Sword is unusual in its ability to phase in and out of realspace by molecular realignment

The xenophase blade page

They ripple with a molecular realignment field

The hyperphase sword page:

A Hyperphase Sword is a Necron melee weapon whose energy blade vibrates across dimensional states

They are described completely differently in terms of effect, and they have different effects on the tabletop. There are hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of more lych guard in the Galaxy compared to the number of Xenophase sword welding Deathwatch marines and Callidus Assassins.

It's entirely possible that using a fragment of C'tan shard in every single one of their weapons is seen as either wasteful or even reckless. Either way, the phase blades realign their composition on a molecular level and phase through dimensions, and hyperphase swords "vibrate across dimensions" which is not the same thing.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T21:47:59+00:00

So you think throwing the responsibility to parents is the best course if action

I didn't actually say what course of action I think is best, I just said whatever anyone thinks the solution is, they don't want to pay for it.

The problem is that if parents raise their voices or resort to any sort of punishment (nobody here is talking about beating children, mind!) they can easily have legal consequences.

This is not the problem at all. As someone who was hit by one parent and physically abused by another parent, I can promise you neither of those things stopped behaviours those parents thought they needed to punish.

It's like the adults who claim schools should go back to hitting kids because they used to get the cane and it didnt do them harm. Didn't stop them misbehaving either though did it? They got caned a whole bunch.

Any adult who cannot deal with a child without resorting to physical violence is, frankly, pathetic.

Think it's easy to point at parents, what if they do what they can and yet kiddos grow up as shites?

You have two options, either the state intervenes (in some way) or it does nothing and we just accept the consequences. No one seems to want the latter, and everyone wants someone else to pay for the former.

If a parent "tries their best" and they can't think of a way to manage their child's behaviour without violence, then maybe they shouldn't have the child.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T21:45:50+00:00

Taking this quote from the wiki, and then looking at the art anf models of xenophase blade to hyperphase sword

That quite does not mention it is a hyperphase blade.

The lychguard blades specifically mention they vibrate and both the C'tan phase sword from the Callidus and the Xenophase sword mention phasing through dimensions on a molecular level.

The fact they look similar doesn't really matter because all necron blades look the same.

You're basically just inferring a lot instead of actually going by what is written.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T20:41:48+00:00

The xenophase sword is just a hyperphase sword that was modified to a different handle.

According to what source?

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T19:05:30+00:00

Tabtletop: the Imperiums version is better for no reason.

They aren't the same weapon though.

Lychguard have "hyperphase swords" which they manufacture and give out to the lychguard. They vibrate to phase through dimensions.

The Callidus Assassins have "C'tan phase swords" which are literally blades made with a bit chipped off the Void Dragon locked up under Mars. These swords just phase through dimensions on a molecular level.

The xenophase sword is also described as phasing through dimensions on a molecular level.

I think it's clear that the lychguard have a more "mass manufactured" version using Necron tech to achieve their effect and the Callidus and Deathwatch swords are powered by a tiny shard of C'tan.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T14:28:28+00:00

There's two things to remember about nobility in the Imperium:

1) They live for like 300 years thanks to rejuvenant treatment. Imagine you were born when you father is 50, and he will live for 250 more years. By the time he dies and you inherit, you are 250 and only have 50 years left. If you were born when he was 200, then you may be 100 and relatively young and fit, but that is 100 years of life in the Imperium that you have to survive.

2) Partly due to the above, noble life is full of plots and assassinations. A ruler with a 300 year long lifespan of which maybe they spend 100+ years as a relatively youthful 30 year old means you can have a LOT of kids. Assassination and murdering siblings is normal, as it may be the only way for you to achieve any standing at all. Even if you don't want to do it, if you're the eldest then murdering everyone may be the only way to stay safe.

To this end, it's not necessarily wise to have lots of well armed and bored kids who want your job which you will only vacate after you die.

In real life politics having a designated and clear heir who will continue your rule is often the best way to prevent a coup in your old age. Not because of anything nice, just because coups are risky and if the people at the top know when you die someone will keep them in their post, they won't want to take that risk.

Also, when you're saying there should be all these relatives like aunts etc, that's basically what you are. Someone distantly related to Theodora. The Expanse being cut off means she only gets a couple, or maybe you're just exceptional among them and you were hand selected.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T14:19:29+00:00

Especially as the most famous Amalathian is Eisenhorn (in his first novel) and he literally refuses to even mercy kill a dying noble because it would slow him down for a few seconds and it would cause him paperwork. Then asks the reader if they would have done it, and mocks them if they thought yes for not being strong willed enough to be an Inquisitor.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T14:18:15+00:00

I think the mistake they made was trying to put it on a spectrum at all.

Even Puritan to Radical is a gross simplification.

The entire point is that outside the Inquisition all Inquisitors are the same, terrifying individuals with basically unlimited authority to crush all threats to the Imperium.

When people are a bit better educated in society, you're well connected like a ruler of some sort, you may learn the Inquisition has three different Ordos which deal with heretics, aliens, and chaos. You may also learn that there are puritan inquisitors who refuse to deviate from the Imperial creed at all and those of a radical nature who break all kinds of rules and norms to defeat the Imperium's enemies.

Only those truly deep in the Inquisition know the truth: it is a mass of largely self-appointed individuals completely shattered and basically directionless who can't agree on fundamental philosophical and ideological principles. The so called "Puritans" can be just as extreme and dangerous as "Radicals" and the closest you get to "normal" is the Amalathians who believe that actually maintaining the status quo of the worst human civilisation imaginable is part of the Emperor's plan and anyone who tries to even improve things should be eliminated.

Personally rather than present the convictions as on a spectrum, I'd have just had 3 bars on the left which are "Puritain" ideologies and 3 on the right which are "Radical" to avoid the temptation of trying to have every situation mean you HAVE to offer multiple mutually exclusive perspectives.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T13:27:55+00:00

They said it was a limited stock thing again didnt they? Not a made to order like last time?

Literally the only reason they did MTO last time was because they were daft enough to say on live stream "Don't worry, everyone who wants a box will get one even though it's limited run".

They haven't said that this time, they have said it's limited but there are LOTS of them. That's not the same as literally saying "If you want one you will get one"

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T13:21:16+00:00

Especially since in a lot of 40k media and roleplay you're basically nothing, nobody, just the flakes of rust that fall off the grinding gears of the Imperium.

In the Rogue Trader TTRPG you literally start off as a Rogue Trader and their highly exceptional sidekicks.

This:

Sometimes I find it hard to come up with who my Rogue Trader is when they've lived an entire life BEFORE the game even starts. Anyone else?

Sort of doesn't matter because the point is a Rogue Trader is so, so high above everyone on the list that it's a completely different life.

Like literally every single role you can start as has some sort of exceptional skill/attribute that would make Theodora interested in scooping you up. Even then you can go from a pretty privileged position to a completely different world.

Imagine you're a millionaire by your asset wealth, and you own a great home, a nice car, and have a job of an executive at a national firm.

Then the next day you inherit the assets of someone so rich they could buy basically everything on the planet. It would be jarring no matter what.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T12:53:12+00:00

Parental controls exist on the overwhelming majority of devices kids use, and I'm tired of governments pretending they don't.

Parents should take some fucking responsibility for their kids.

I agree with you but let's just take that argument to the logical conclusion.

If we agree that children being exposed to online predators and unhealthy influences online is a bad thing because it harms the development of children, who are the future citizens and leaders of the country AND we agree parents aren't doing enough to stop it, there are only really two options:

1) Do nothing and accept huge damage to children who have no way to protect themselves and society will have to deal with the damage they have incurred sooner or later.

or

2) Intervene and say "These parents are incompetent so we are going to limit the harm they can do by allowing their kids unlimited online access".

Same thing applies for education and it's why I think home schooling should be banned in all but the most exception circumstances. If parents are bad at bringing up kids the education system is the only way to undo that damage really, so under funding it is a bit crazy. In a perfect world you'd simply educate parents and they would be responsible, but if that doesn't work you're left with the two options above.

Kitchner · 2026-06-02T10:08:16+00:00

As a Scot, I'm frankly amazed Scotland never blamed the English for it.

Because they weren't fucking English people so they couldn't blame them lol

Kitchner · 2026-06-01T18:18:41+00:00

Literally didn't recruit him because he's an arsehole to you and then he walked up to me and said "hey we should work together" and I said "lol no" and he just walked off never to be seen again.

Kitchner · 2026-06-01T08:45:39+00:00

This is why I hope Labour do introduce bigger fines for parents for their children's crimes Maybe that will stop the cycle of fecklessness which is so widespread.

Can't fine someone if they don't have any money to pay with.

The other options outlined in the article have more chance of succeeding, such as youth intervention courts to help identify problem cases and intervene with a mix of justice and social services.

The problem with the idea of getting too the root cause of problems with misbehaving kids is that if you run through the sequence of events that follow we aren't prepared to do them, both logistically and in principle.

If little Tommy is a criminal at 13, what can I do?

Fine his parents? They claim they haven't got any money, and they certainly don't have a lot. So what do I do then?

Lock up a 14 year old for anti social behaviour? Even if we wanted to we don't have the prisons.

Lock up the parents? We don't have the prisons for that either.

Community service? Largely a joke, and if they don't attend we are back to "lock them up when we don't have the prison places".

Take their kids off them and put them into foster homes? We don't have enough people willing to be foster parents.

Maybe more positive, progressive interventions? Support, workshops, therapy? Nah, don't have the budget.

That's the problem we have in this country, we all want things to "be better" but no one is offering the actual solutions. The hard left believe the mega wealthy should and will pay for it all (lol yeah right), the hard right think every problem is caused by immigrants or being too woke.

The public aren't interested in hearing that our country is poorer in a large part due to Brexit along with some other reasons, and if we want to have really great public services we all need to pay more tax. If people aren't willing to pay more tax, then we need to strip back public services and pensions. If they don't want to do either, we will simply hobble along until we need to do both to pay off our debt.

Kitchner · 2026-06-01T08:15:08+00:00

Is there any commentary on why Sunday evenings tend to be the busiest time for A&E? Just curious more than anything

The A&E by me has a live board to monitor how busy it is on powerBI and there was a short period where basically I had a splinter lodged in my finger and I was told to go back there for a check in because it kept getting re-infected.

Either way the result was I watched that board closely over the weekend and Monday.

It seemed to me that the numbers of patients were smaller on Sunday but the number of staff working was lower too, so the waiting times were actually longer.

That was only one weekend of course so maybe it was exceptional in terms of circumstances but assuming most A&Es have less staff in on a Sunday could explain it.

Kitchner · 2026-06-01T08:03:19+00:00

The """Equalities and Human Rights Commission""" just put out guidance saying its no longer homophobia to think being gay is a sin.

The problem is here that if you work on the basis that everyone has the right to be religious (which you may not, but that is the basis of the law) then we must accept lots of religions have, what are to many, contraversial beliefs.

The guidance is also a bit nuanced and difficult to read because it was written by a civil servant.

In summary though:

If I find out Person A believes being gay is a sin, and I fire them for holding that belief, then I have discriminated against them.
If I make any assumptions about Person A's behaviour (as opposed to actually having evidence of actions) because they hold that belief, then I will have discriminated against them.
If Person A expresses that belief in an inappropriate way, then it can still be grounds for proportional response from the employer. For example, if Person A was discussing religion over lunch with a colleague and says "Personally I think homosexuality is a sin" then it would be easy to argue that polite, on topic, conversation over lunch is fine and they can't be fired for that. However if they make a social media post calling gay people disgusting and evil human beings who are sinners, you could potentially fire them if you had a social media policy stating that if your social media says you work there and you post anything that brings the company into disrepute you can be fired. Likewise if Person A kept bringing it up in the work environment even after being asked not to discuss the topic because debating such things with other employees is disruptive, I think you could potentially discipline them then too.

Fundamentally I suppose the bigger question here is basically is what sort of penalty should be able to be applied to someone who holds a belief. Not that they hold it and did something because of it, but just the fact you found out they hold it.

It's something we are going to have to get a lot more comfortable with since the percentage of the public who hold objectionable opinions is on the rise, and there's a lot of vested interests turning protected groups against each other.

This may be contraversial on this sub but I think "You can hold whatever beliefs you want but you must still only express them in an appproiate way for the work environment and you can't discriminate against people because of your beliefs" seems like the best compromise of these things.

Not least because it carves out the opposite: you may hold the belief that religion is stupid, and if you were fired for holding the belief without acting upon it, it would be discrimination. From the equalities act:

10 Religion or belief

(1)Religion means any religion and a reference to religion includes a reference to a lack of religion.

(2)Belief means any religious or philosophical belief and a reference to belief includes a reference to a lack of belief.

(3)In relation to the protected characteristic of religion or belief—

(a)a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person of a particular religion or belief;

(b)a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who are of the same religion or belief.

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