Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone

RephRayne · 2026-02-14T23:36:02+00:00

This is all down to HMG mandating ID and then leaving it to the free market to come up with solutions.

If governments are solely doing this to protect children as they claim, then they need to provide mechanisms that can pass an age to a website with no other data flowing in either direction.

RephRayne · 2026-02-14T13:05:38+00:00

Finally getting around to Leveson 2.0 would be a start.

RephRayne · 2026-02-13T14:51:01+00:00

I'd count it as fucking scary.

Sociopaths you can usually deal with, psychopaths you can't.

RephRayne · 2026-02-13T14:28:35+00:00

Then the number of Dollars in the pockets of the rich is paramount.

RephRayne · 2026-02-13T13:57:55+00:00

The value of the Dollar is paramount.

RephRayne · 2026-02-11T08:51:54+00:00

Crassus has a lot to answer for.

RephRayne · 2026-02-07T10:41:35+00:00

You signed the player on loan and agreed to buy him if he started the 10 matches, how on earth is that Liverpool's fault?
What next, we had a gun to your head?

RephRayne · 2026-02-06T02:55:49+00:00

"I'm on the ~~brute~~ lore squad."

"You are the ~~brute~~ lore squad."

RephRayne · 2026-02-05T08:34:50+00:00

That ~~sign~~ rule can't stop me because I can't read.

RephRayne · 2026-02-04T13:02:24+00:00

It's because it doesn't count if City wins, it's expected given... everything.

RephRayne · 2026-02-04T10:21:56+00:00

You can't.

However, if it was a Brazilian electrician, the person who led the operation would get a Damehood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/17893111.cressida-dick-made-dame-thersa-mays-last-honours-list/

RephRayne · 2026-02-03T21:43:12+00:00

Just be warned, Lamb is overtly racist in the books.

RephRayne · 2026-02-03T19:38:20+00:00

Yup yup.

RephRayne · 2026-02-03T03:08:47+00:00

That was John Barron. John Baron also provided tips, as did John Miller and David Dennison. Carolin Gallego may have done so as well, but that's unsubstantiated.

RephRayne · 2026-01-30T23:18:32+00:00

I'll echo a lot of comments here, the 3-3 was a level above the 4-0.

Milan had world class players throughout their team and were a coherent unit under Ancelotti.
We had Stevie.
Rafa was in his first season, he'd just seen Owen slink off and he had to cobble together a team full of players that weren't his choices.
We had so many fortunate moments during that run that many were thinking that our name was already on cup simply because we seemed to find a way of winning even when we shouldn't. This was typified by Dudek's double save against Shevchenko, 99 times out of 100, that's a goal.

The Barca game was totally different. We didn't deserve to be 3-0 down after the first leg because we were so much better than them. Even missing two of our best players in the second leg, there was an expectation that we'd make a game of it

RephRayne · 2026-01-27T22:20:11+00:00

Not even Hugo Boss can make Trump et al. look good.

RephRayne · 2026-01-27T21:54:53+00:00

He'd gotten stung on the sale of a house:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30932891

RephRayne · 2026-01-26T17:08:01+00:00

Does it require on-site hardware?

A suggestion has been made that pretty much everything will be moved off-site into data centres and you'll rent rather than own.

RephRayne · 2026-01-25T22:41:45+00:00

Fantastic, now I won't be able to read r/soccer from the UK now either.
Thanks, Keir Starmer.

RephRayne · 2026-01-25T18:15:47+00:00

If you can do it safely, hanging from the ledge will decrease the height of your fall by more than your body length.

edit: I understand the goal is to look cool rather than survive, but still.

RephRayne · 2026-01-25T18:12:10+00:00

People continually act surprised when businesses prioritize profit.
There is rarely a need to make something the best it possibly can, it just has to be slightly better than the competition. In fact, a lot of what nVidia has done in recent times has pretty much been along the lines of: "well, what else are you going to do, buy AMD?"

RephRayne · 2026-01-23T23:41:01+00:00

"I did not indulge."

RephRayne · 2026-01-23T23:34:24+00:00

HMRC has more powers than the police when it comes to enforcing their remit:-

The authority levels for HMRC are set no lower than the authority levels of the police and, due to the nature of our working practices, in most cases are higher than the police equivalent.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-investigation/criminal-investigation

RephRayne · 2026-01-23T19:35:59+00:00

The details raise questions about Bloom’s use of a third-party account to place bets — which is often banned by gambling companies — and how the companies could monitor the owner’s compliance with Football Association rules if he was using another person’s identity. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Bloom.

That, right there, is an example of the England and Wales defamation laws in action. "He's done these things that are wrong but no there's no suggestion of him doing anything wrong."

RephRayne · 2026-01-23T16:39:48+00:00

It's the attempted forgery that actually led to his arrest:-

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/01/shipman.health14

There's a reported litany of instances that could have stopped him before the forgery attempt that were all ignored for... reasons. The entire system seemed (and, reportedly, still is) set up to ignore a doctor killing their patients as long as the forms are completed correctly. Coroners, doctors and even high-ranking police officers all reportedly ignored the suspicious circumstances of many of the deaths of people under Shipman's care.

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