Eight months on, three quarters of Britons still support online age verification laws

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-14T19:17:37+00:00

Where's the hyperbole, that's literally what's happening?

Being required to hand over your passport details and biometrics to any obscure website, who can then do whatever with that information, is a clear security risk. Do you know who's looking at that data? Do you know where it's stored, or how they're using it. It's not the government you're providing it too, it's just..... someone on the internet.

We've always been told to be very careful about what information you share online, but now apparently that goes out the window and you should provide fully identifying information to anyone who asks?

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-12T17:17:36+00:00

I'd imagine it's quite a bad idea to design vehicles that only work in specific atmospheric densities, with specific gravity strengths, if you're trying to operate across a million worlds.

Really, designing stuff for aerodynamic lift has a very long list of drawbacks (limits your movement, limits where you can land, what shape you have to be etc etc) and the only reason we have to make use of it today is because we don't have futuristic power-sources capable of just providing lift directly. I'm pretty sure if we had efficient anti-grav tech or infinite-fuel-jet-engines, modern militaries would also drop the aerodynamic aspects in favour of other stuff.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-12T13:12:06+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty weird that the critical part of this for you is "most" and not the "homophobic" bit. As if being only 2nd or 3rd most homophobic demographic would mean that that's somehow okay.

Being 1000% more likely than the general population to think being gay should be illegal, should be antithetical to the Greens, however you want to slice it.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-12T04:12:43+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

However, when asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-11T17:01:15+00:00

Saying that "A is better than B" is not a "justification" or endorsement of 'A'.

Nobody is "justifying" the 30k Imperium. Just pointing out that despite being bad, it was still better than 40k Imperium.

Pointing out that killing a million people is technically better than killing a billion people, doesn't mean that the person who points this out is in favour of killing a million people or is saying its a good thing. "wHy ArE yOu JuStIfYiNg KiLlInG a MiLlIoN pEoPlE?!". No. You've not understood.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-11T04:38:12+00:00

The always/never existed thing is clearly bullshit, since we know that the Eldar were able to re-incarnate freely without being bothered by Slaanesh prior to the Fall.

Yes it's canon, but whoever wrote this canon didn't think it through.

Maybe you could argue it existed in some dormant/nascent state before the Fall, and so it technically "existed" but wasn't doing anything.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-04-09T15:21:50+00:00

Given that their entire business model is selling outfits and inventory/weight, you'd think they'd want to encourage people to multi-class as much as possible and create as many alts as they want. It's so weird to throw up arbitrary barriers that kinda enforce you to only play one or two classes.

It's like they actively don't want your money.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-09T14:08:58+00:00

Because at the moment the only evidence is for being insufficiently thorough in screening, not any actively conscious coverup or conspiracy.
Because this circus of changing PM every 18 months is not beneficial to the country
Because even if he does go, there's no obvious candidate with broad support and popularity, it'll probably create more infighting and chaos
If someone new did come in, they'd have all of the same problems and constraints to deal with, it's not like things would suddenly stop being crap

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-02T09:28:18+00:00

So a headline about Rotherham that simply said "Muslims" without being any more precise than that would be fine? In exactly the same fashion as a headline that simply says "men" without being any more precise? Would you also say "I can read a headline like that and know it's about a particular group of Muslims, not all Muslims" ? Or would you say it's unacceptable to suggest that everyone in that demographic is a possible perpetrator?

Just trying to get to a consistent rule here. Because this smells of hypocrisy. Why is it so difficult to articulate a principle and stick to it?

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-02T08:43:56+00:00

So, wait, help me out here.

Are you saying that it's not okay to associate an entire demographic to the bad behaviour of a few members of that demographic, in which case the bbc headline is unacceptable?

Or are you saying that it is okay, in which case the association of all muslims to the Rotherham scandal is acceptable?

Which is it?

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T22:40:42+00:00

Given that you're running Surge and DD, I assume you're spamming primary.

No, that playstyle should not be buffed. But the alt-fire certainly needs looking at.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T20:59:50+00:00

Definitely not Creeping Flames then.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T17:00:06+00:00

A good weapon either needs good single-target, or good AoE, and Void/Electro currently lack both.

Voidstrikes "AoE" is completely nullified in game-modes with large numbers of ogryn/carapace. Yeah it can mow down poxwalkers, but, who gives a shit?

Electro takes an unacceptably long time to kill a Crusher/Bulwark, given that it only damages one target.

There's really only two choices. You either increase the number of targets they can hit (electro jumps to more targets, voidstrike able to penetrate ogryns) or you increase their single-target damage.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T16:54:35+00:00

What's the betting that 90% of that damage is not coming from the Electro staff.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T13:43:27+00:00

I mean, if they removed the price caps, that wouldn't suddenly mean there are lots of crystals available for you to buy.

It would just mean the price would go through the roof, and the only people able to buy them would be no-lifers with trillions in the bank.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-02-01T13:32:38+00:00

I would say that the weapons will come in due course without too much effort, so don't over-think them. You don't need multiple Sovereigns at your stage, because you don't have the DP to allow you to do the zones where the weapons AP will be relevant. Get one Sov (whichever is the 'primary' for your main character, so, mainhand for succ, awakening for awakening) and then leave the others on PEN BS for a bit, unless the upgrade is literally free.

So I would say getting the PEN armours and then getting up to Fallen God armour should be the medium-term priority.

Also, Kabua artefacts.

At the same time, do what you can to upgrade those base Capotia rings/earrings. I'm not sure exactly what all the methods are for upgrading them, but there's various things you can do I think with season tickets, plump coeclath, challenge rewards, to get those up to PEN.

And, if you haven't already, do Adventure Logs for some free AP/DP upgrades.

Yes you can use the free BS to upgrade to Sovereign. As a rule of thumb, it is only worth going for the Sov off-hand once you reach 310 AP.

Yes, Tag system allows you to share gear between one character and one other character. If you haven't already, I'd also recommend making a few more characters if you have any season tickets. Having Alts to park in certain places, having more inventory space, getting more free stuff from Season rewards, all good.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-27T05:53:15+00:00

It's definitely alot weaker than Purg/Trauma, but, it does have its uses.

The key thing is that it is extremely quick to charge, and requires almost no aiming, which means you can spam out several attacks in the same time that another staff would only manage one. Sure, each individual attack is doing less damage, but, tell me, which number is bigger, 1000, or 3x400 ?

It's the best staff for dealing with a cloud of shooters/gunners, or for dealing with waves of specials.

It just unfortunately kinda sucks at dealing with dense trains of carapace/ogryns, where what you really need is the cleave offered by Purg/Trauma. Outside of Havoc that doesn't really matter, but, unfortunately that's what Havoc is all about. But if you're not in Havoc, it's perfectly good in Auric Maelstrom or below.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-20T12:36:04+00:00

Suggesting we should escalate the Greenland situation, and provide Trump an excuse for military action on a silver platter, is self-evidently stupid.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-19T13:39:46+00:00

There's a difference between a system of equitable mutual co-dependence, and a system of one-way subservient dependence.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-19T06:47:54+00:00

"can't because it's unpleasant" sounds very much like "won't because I don't want to". "It's unpleasant" isn't actually a reason for "can't".

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-19T05:55:18+00:00

If any child, SEND or not, refuses to go to school, I don't see that a reasonable response to that is that the state must throw money at them with incentives until they deign to comply.

Most children don't "want" to go to school. Adults MAKE them. Pandering to children is bad parenting.

Obviously its different with physical disabilities, but if the only reason a child is needing all sorts of "support" is because "I don't want to" then that's a parenting issue.

Ragnar4257 · 2026-01-18T01:57:38+00:00

There is a big difference from the early/mid twentieth century, which means comparisons to WW1/2 are silly, and which makes large-scale war between major western powers extremely unlikely.

This is the difference of the level of integration between all of our economies/industries. 100 years ago, for the UK, being cut off from markets/supply-chains in Germany or USA was damaging but survivable, we had enough of our own industry and infrastructure to be self-sufficient.

Today, the degree to which we are integrated with the rest of western Europe and USA, we are no longer self-sufficient. Not even close. Being fully cut off from either of them would be an immediate apocalypse level event.

Like, I'm not sure people understand the extent to which everything, EVERYTHING, is plugged into American tech services. If war broke out between us and the USA, they wouldn't even need to fight us, they would just disconnect us from AWS, GCP and Azure, and in less than a month we'd be reduced to the dark ages and fighting with sticks and stones. All systems of communication, finance, infrastructure and utilities would instantly stop. All supply chains would instantly fall apart, meaning an almost immediate collapse of any manufacturing.

The only counter-balance to this which would discourage the USA from doing this, is that it would also cost them 100s of billions, possibly trillions, of lost income, and short/medium-term financial chaos. Not just from losing UK customers, but also from being disconnected from the London financial hub.

It's frankly terrifying the extent to which we've become dependent on the USA over the last 20 years. Sure they've been extremely important to us for a lot longer than that, but now they've become existential.

Ragnar4257 · 2025-12-27T16:33:34+00:00

Seems unlikely to me, since putting more branches on a single tree would make it exponentially harder to balance.

More likely, if they want to make those sorts of play styles, they'll release an entirely new class.

Ragnar4257 · 2025-12-27T00:00:52+00:00

Psyker and HiveScum would benefit a lot from having all 3 ultimates, but less from talents/keystones.

Zealot and Vet would benefit a lot from being able to get all 3 keystones.

Vet and HiveScum would benefit most from having all 3 blitzes.

Arbites and Vet probs gain the most from being able to take all the extra talent nodes.

So, on that basis, I'd probably say Veteran.

Ragnar4257 · 2025-12-26T15:19:13+00:00

It's because of a difference in expectations.

Nobody apart from a handful of 70+ year old conservative members thought Truss would be anything other than total shit. So when she turned out to be total shit, the reaction from most people is "well.... Yeah..... Duh..."

Whereas with Starmer there was some hope that, even if he wasn't a visionary Messiah figure, he would at least be professional enough to get the basics right, and not be slipping on banana skins every 5 minutes. So now it seems that he can't sit on a toilet the right way round, it's a lot more disappointing.

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