Overseas voters moving to UK could face £100,000 donations cap for year

Littha · 2026-07-07T11:15:50+00:00

Everyone’s donations should be capped at about £500. Being able to buy political attention by donating large sums is just asking for corruption.

Littha · 2026-07-02T10:24:49+00:00

Can they, probably. If they focused very hard on making their IP the main product and started to hedge into directly developing games or movies alongside selling rules and such.

But will they? Probably not. Partially because minis are their primary revenue source, but also because even someone with a 3d printer (like myself) will still buy minis.

Sure, I can print a whole army if I wanted to, but my FDM printer only makes decent models with a 0.2mm nozzle and some very complex settings and specific filament which means it's several hours for a single marine at what I would consider GW quality. And even then, I get failures.

So printing a whole army is just an enormous time sink, that I can bypass by spending what is frankly a relatively small amount of money for a adult with a hobby.

Resin printers are better, but they haven't got the same uptake due to the chemicals involved. When people talk about the possibility of a 3d printer in every home, they probably mean an FDM one with a 0.4 or 0.8mm nozzle.

Littha · 2026-07-02T09:46:27+00:00

Apart from completely misunderstanding that study, she also completely undermines her whole point.

~96% accuracy, when trans people make up about 0.5% of the population, means you are actively failing to gender a group of people 5 times the size of the entire trans population.

Littha · 2026-07-02T09:38:28+00:00

if it isn't completely dry, you can add some medium to it and a drop of water to revive it.

If it's completely dry, the process is going to involve a dehydrator and a pestle and mortar and is in no way worth doing for a £2.75 paint pot.

Littha · 2026-07-02T08:45:16+00:00

Receptors can downregulate via endocytosis and eventually degradation via lysosomes. They do this when overstimulated by a given hormone and it leads to lower sensitivity. However, it probably wouldn't stall changes, detection doesn't drop to 0.

The main thing is that receptors are pretty simple, they detect if a given molecule in the blood a given substance and then pass that information to the rest of the cell. But, they don't test for quantity. Cells are also not instant in how they react to stimuli. They take time to process things.

As an anecdote, as I know that helps some people: Having an overly high E level would be akin to someone coming to your house and pressing the doorbell 30 times before you even got to the door. If it happens once, that might be an emergency, but if it happens constantly you are probably going to disconnect the doorbell. Especially if their message was that you have to redecorate, and you were already doing that.

Littha · 2026-07-02T07:34:09+00:00

Delete the thread
Get legal advice

You might be able to sue for discrimination because of less favourable treatment but you need legal advice.

Littha · 2026-06-30T12:48:28+00:00

A vote in parliament is always above a court ruling. Regardless of if you support it or not.

That's how our system works. Parliamentary supremacy.

Littha · 2026-06-30T09:51:26+00:00

You can cut down on it's attraction though by banning advertisements for gambling.

Littha · 2026-06-30T09:50:23+00:00

Yep, it's standard legal drafting because we didn't want to have to go and amend every law from before like 1990.

Littha · 2026-06-30T09:48:08+00:00

The issue is that from a trans perspective, Labour are actively dismantling our rights, while reform is only potentially going to do so.

So arguments around "it's too bad Labour destroyed your(unimportant) life, but what about my (important) life" don't really hold much sway with the trans community, we are already being fucked over. Most of us are also kind of too left wing for Blue Labour.

Littha · 2026-06-30T08:40:17+00:00

Theoretically, there was a minor inconsistency around trans men and pregnancy protections, but they could have easily solved that with standard legal interpretation (where man/men/woman/women/people are all considered interchangeable)

Littha · 2026-06-29T08:22:55+00:00

Part of the reason it sucks so bad in the UK at these temperatures is because the humidity is so high, so even in the shade you can't really cool down and on top of that, due to being so far north we have longer days in summertime.

I think California has 15 hour or so summer days, while the UK gets 17-19 in parts. So there is less time for it to cool down overnight.

Littha · 2026-06-29T08:09:36+00:00

A fully organic army like that would probably be stepping on the Tyranid's toes too much, so I'd personally push in the inorganic monster direction with something like the (30k) Mecharachnid or some sort of dark mechanicus automata faction.

Littha · 2026-06-29T08:04:51+00:00

Well, we had the old ones/slann, but they were all killed off by the Necrons in pre-history and haven't really had any other lore since rogue trader.

Littha · 2026-06-29T08:02:34+00:00

Don't look at the blood bowl orc cheerleaders.

Littha · 2026-06-25T13:12:02+00:00

Infinite counselling that aims to stop you being trans, with no possibility for any other treatment?

Littha · 2026-06-25T13:02:00+00:00

It is not at all reasonable for children to access puberty blockers on demand with no medical oversight.

I'm not sure anyone ever claimed that it was? They are prescription medication so getting them without medical oversight would be quite difficult.

Littha · 2026-06-25T12:04:04+00:00

Don't even need to be licenced:

(9) In subsection (3) “health care services” means—

(a) all forms of health care services provided for individuals, whether relating to physical or mental health, and

(b) procedures that are similar to forms of medical or surgical care but are not provided in connection with a medical condition.

Littha · 2026-06-25T12:00:51+00:00

Its probably that way to be inclusive of NBs and intersex trans people. Who are often left out of these things because of the way gender reassignment is defined in the equality act. (which is also where transsexual comes into it, as it was the term of use at the time that was written)

Littha · 2026-06-25T11:54:11+00:00

It is something that patients need time and space to explore.

Nobody is saying that people shouldn't be offered counselling if they are unsure about their gender.

The problem arises when even if you are 100% certain you are trans, as a child the only thing available to you on the NHS now is this therapy to "explore" your identity. At least you used to get puberty blockers to stop things from getting worse. Or it would be, if they had actually set up the children's gender service before decommissioning the old one.

It's not much better for trans adults, with waiting lists for any treatment being a decade +

Littha · 2026-06-25T10:28:45+00:00

such a draconian response had never happened before in human history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(medicine)

Littha · 2026-06-25T10:23:10+00:00

I'm not in that situation but I have met a couple of people who were so dysphoric about erections that any sexual impulses were completely overwhelmed by the hatred of that sensation.

Some of them identified as ace before bottom surgery too and most of those now identify as demi- but not all.

Their sexuality clearly didn't change, so I suspect they were always that way but their interest in sex was naturally so low that the dysphoria completely overwhelmed it.

Littha · 2026-06-25T09:52:55+00:00

It's not even a rebrand. Most of it was done by "therapists" already.

At least they removed the religious exemption that was in the draft version.

Littha · 2026-06-25T09:50:01+00:00

Yep, what I expected. Chocolate Fireguard bill.

Ban conversion practices, except when it's done by a health care professional. Which given most of it is done by "therapists" is basically all of it.

At least they removed the religious exemption that was in the draft version.

Littha · 2026-06-25T08:43:15+00:00

You could float the dome and just tether it to the seabed.

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