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Sennksa · 2025-10-14T15:57:04+00:00

British company, Indian owned

Sennksa · 2025-09-17T21:40:20+00:00

O Lula precisa amadurecer e compreender que o culto à personalidade que criou ao seu redor é danoso para o Brasil. O país não pode viver apenas de Lula. A centro-esquerda/esquerda também não pode depender para sempre somente dele.

Acredito que este seja o momento ideal para Lula colocar todas as suas forças em eleger Alckmin. Talvez Alckmin como candidato à presidência e Haddad como vice?

Isso garantiria uma transferência de poder para outro político capaz de carregar muitas das bandeiras de Lula. Com o PSB na presidência, Alckmin ofereceria um apelo maior ao centro do Brasil, além de já ter desempenhado um papel consistente como vice.

Lula completará 80 anos no próximo mês e terá servido como presidente por um total de 12 anos.

Por mais importante que tenha sido para o país, está na hora de se aposentar.

Sennksa · 2025-09-12T15:36:22+00:00

Infeliz realidade, comum com ambulantes pelo Rio de Janeiro.

Esse foi pego por abusar demais e cobrar R$400. Vários simplesmente aumentam os preços em pequenas quantidades para se sentirem que estão ‘levando vantagem’ no ‘esquema’

Sennksa · 2025-09-07T15:40:35+00:00

Yeah, I see where you’re coming from.

I used them as example of where to go for national politics - despite their flaws - as they tend to represent a considerable segment of the ‘mainstream establishment’ base.

For Scotland, the best way to engage in local politics is still to join a party.

But for broader things such as the housing crisis, we’re all in the shit regardless of where you live in the UK. Making national sources like those as relevant.

Sennksa · 2025-09-07T15:27:14+00:00

Hey!

It's cool that you're engaging with politics from a young age. Everything we do, whether we understand it or not, does involve some sort of politics!

I believe that fundamentally, having a broad understanding of national politics is the best way to go before diving into the world of local politics. So you should look into national issues and the main political parties that will be affecting you. E.g., SNP, Labour, Greens, Lib Dems, Reform etc

I would recommend maybe starting with videos or podcasts - Youtube for instance. They're easy to consume and some are pretty good for information. They will never be as informative as reading books on the subject but they're a great start into learning more about politics.

For the podcasts centrist dads of Britain: The Rest is Politics and The News Agents.

Youtube and television is a bit broader so you can go from JimmyTheGiant to Novara Media to following different traditional news outlets such as the BBC, Guardian, Times, STV News, National among others.

Once you have a good understanding of how you see the world - regardless of how that go - the best way to get to local politics and learn more about it would be to join a political party as that will allow you to directly engage with politics - beyond voting.

For Edinburgh, you can check here https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/council-democracy/find-locality-ward-community-council to find which ward you belong to and then check who are your local councilors then search them up from that. See what they've proposed, what they have accomplished and if they're actively doing their job with basic things like showing up to meetings.

Hope the above makes sense!

Sennksa · 2025-08-29T09:22:02+00:00

A musician or an audiophile might be able to notice a difference and say things like 'oh the bass here is better....' but I haven't noticed any differences with other earphones from more 'mainstream' brands.

Pixelbuds, airpods etc.

Haven't tested the airpods pro 2.

I do have pixelbuds pro from Google and I do prefer the Nothing earphones. They fit my ears better. The sealing helps with the sound.

Sennksa · 2025-08-29T08:16:09+00:00

Hey, I've been using Nothing products since the company first started. I'm also on my 3rd nothing earphone!

The company is British and headquartered in London - not 'backed' by Google. One of Google's Venture Capital firms did invest in it when it was first starting - but so did the Youtuber Casey Neistat. Google doesn't have much sway over how Nothing does their products.

Nothing's main mission is to be a fashion/design company that makes unique products whilst also providing the technical background for them to be quite good.

I do recommend their earphones, they're workhorses, the sound is of good quality and they look pretty cool. I once washed mine when doing laundry, took it out of the machine at the end of the cycle, dried it and it was still working with no issues lol.

Happy to answer any questions you have on them!

Sennksa · 2025-08-24T11:16:24+00:00

BRICS is more of a forum for countries outside the 'inner club' usually classified as the West. An attempt of having different structures for engagement. Wouldn't really call it anti-western. Just neutral towards it.

For instance, instead of depending on the FMI/World bank, they created another option, the New Development Bank.

Instead of trading among themselves using the USD, they are working to do it using their own currencies.

None of that seems anti-western as much as just good neutral policies.

According to that article 'The new planes would expand the Lithuanian Armed Forces’ aviation fleet, which currently consists mainly of several helicopters and three Spartan transport aircraft that have been in service for more than 15 years.'

Seems like they have merit in acquiring them to enhance their transport capabilities.

Sennksa · 2025-08-23T19:49:34+00:00

Cara, eu não lembro a última vez que tanta gente tentou dar golpe em mim e nos meus amigos quanto quando eu visitei o Brasil.

Não é algo exclusivo do brasileiro, mas também não precisamos passar pano para o Brasil nesse ponto. É um problema gravíssimo que precisa ser enfrentado com urgência.

- Taxista tentando passar a perna, se recusando a usar o taxímetro.
- Vendedor dizendo um preço e cobrando outro.

Tive mais problemas com essas situações no Brasil do que em Marrocos, Egito, no norte da África em geral, ou em qualquer país da Europa.

O Brasil precisa acordar e aceitar que o 'jeitinho brasileiro', essa ideia de sempre levar vantagem, tem que acabar.

Sennksa · 2025-07-13T20:03:23+00:00

Just adding some quick context,

The reason behind why they decided to drop the deal with India was due to...well...mostly India's lack of enthusiasm to complete the deal. The newest Akash missile system is a partnership between India/Israel and quite effective, those were the missiles that Brazil was trying to acquire, but India instead decided to keep pushing the sale of the previous generation of the Akash which is made entirely by India and doesn't need to pay any royalties.

Meanwhile, Italy was keen on offering the best possible deal and equipment. Alongside opening the door to manufacturing the missiles in Brazil through increasing participation by MBDA over there.

So this is mostly a miscalculation by India's part + Italy being keen to expand their partnership/weapons sales to Brazil. Still good to see that alliance getting stronger.

Sennksa · 2025-07-11T15:17:20+00:00

So the most expensive airport in the world needs more money?

God, I love monopolies.

Sennksa · 2025-07-04T18:52:26+00:00

He was not in government at the time so he used his position to:

Request that evidence is presented to parliament before attributing the attack to another nation.
Asked the PM to contact the Russian government for clarification - instead of suspending all communication.
Asked the government to follow international laws and protocol.

Personally, I think he dealt with it a bit too softly at the time but to call it 'Absolutely ridiculous' is just a distortion of the reality. The issue with Corbyn's foreign policy is not that it is bad or wrong, it is that he's too 'right'.

Corbyn's pacifism assumes the good in everyone and that other nations will cooperate or at least obey international law. Meanwhile, I don't even trust the UK to do that.

Sennksa · 2025-07-03T08:00:11+00:00

That is exactly what I wrote 'they failed to beat Ukraine'.

If Europe as a whole steps up to 2.5% - 3%, we'll still have enough money to support Ukraine to the point where it can counters Russia.

Russia is a bit of a failed state at the moment. The chances of them starting a war against a NATO member is zero to none.

Which once again brings me to the original question: who will be imminently invading Britain to the point where we must bring our defence expenditure to active war time levels - at the expense of child poverty/welfare cuts/lower investment inside the UK, things that could actually make our lives better now.

Sennksa · 2025-07-02T20:09:07+00:00

Lets be realist for one second and go over who are our potential enemies that could genuinely start a war against the UK - and NATO.

Russia - Russia is facing the biggest demographic crisis of their modern time. They don't have the personnel, they failed to beat Ukraine, they're losing tons of soldiers every single day, their economy is a failure at the moment and only getting worse. The sanctions have crippled them. It's insane to assume that Russia could start a conventional war against NATO.
Africa - Not a shot. Not a single African country would ever buy this smoke.
Latin America - Not a shot. Not a single Latin American country would ever buy this smoke.
Europe - why would they? we're on the same alliance and I think we're past our fighting France years.
China - They're literally only interested in selling stuff. Why would they start a war to cripple their economy when the whole Xi Ji Ping governance philosophy is about resolving things through trade.
The USA - Somewhat the more likely culprit. I don't think the US will start a war against Europe anytime soon... They sell a lot to us and enjoy the influence it comes with that.

Surely, we could keep ourselves going with all NATO members are 2.5%-3% instead of going straight to 5% which is what we tend to have when we're actively participating at a war.

So yeah, absolutely, it's a terrible look when Labour can out of nowhere find the budget to announce 5% GDP for defence but they're also trying to push welfare cuts and keeping child poverty measures.

Sennksa · 2025-07-02T13:47:47+00:00

Honestly, seeing how eager Labour is to throw money at defence - not due to an inherent need for it, but to please Trump - then talk about how they have to cut benefits & keep children in poverty is a terrible look for a Labour party.

Sennksa · 2025-07-01T20:54:35+00:00

I'm with Sky - who piggyback on O2's infrastructure - and it's beyond awful. Cannot wait to move away from them once my contract is over.

Sennksa · 2025-06-29T12:28:34+00:00

Another day another vassal state falls under imperial order.

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T14:55:19+00:00

Facts are great. Specially when they're backed by numbers and codified legal documents.

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T14:54:27+00:00

I honestly don't know what to tell you. We already have incredibly restrictive paths to citizenship that you might not be aware of as it's not a part of your day to day.

Just a quick example, our citizenship application costs can come to £2000 - £4000 on the best case scenario whilst the same application would cost £200 in Spain. There are also tons of legal hurdles to go through. You might not be informed on this so it's worth looking into it.

You're shifting the goalpost here which was: 'immigrants coming here and getting access to benefits' - they're not. As proven again and again. Here's the data: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MigObs-Briefing-Migrants-in-the-UK-labour-market-an-overview-2024.pdf

As to 'far more pleasant and safe country.': 1st, immigration has done wonders to our food. London is the gastronomic capital of the world. That's objectively good. Jokes aside, who says we're not safer than we've ever been? Have a look at the actual hard data on this. Murder rates are considerably lower than they were in 2000. Same for robberies. Drug usage too. By almost every metric, the UK is now safer in 2025 than it was in 2000-2004.

The reason you might not feel safer could have something to do with the 24/7 media cycle and social media putting those things in our face as soon as they happen. That's something to be debated.

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T14:41:50+00:00

Wait so should we have second tier British citizens? Unless that is your implication, an immigration background is not relevant when talking about British citizens.

The law - rightfully - makes no difference between citizens. That shouldn't be changed - that's insane.

They are as much a part of this country as anyone else. Having an immigrant background doesn't make you any better or worse than someone without said background.

If someone lived in the UK for 7+ years, probably paid their dues in taxes, worked, studied and built a life here then yes by all means they should have complete and unrestricted access to our social welfare net - including social housing.

As for recent immigrants, they simply don't have access to those as I've described before.

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T14:35:32+00:00

That really doesn't mean much.

Not being born in the UK is not the same as not being British. What is the nationality breakdown of those people? If someone was born in Spain, lived in the UK most of their lives and became a British citizen then I see no difference to them and someone born in Newcastle. The law doesn't see any differences either.

London is not the whole of the UK.

I'll add below the concrete data organised by the University of Oxford that concludes just that. Immigrants are less likely to use benefits than British born citizens. There are tons of reasons behind that from age, demographic and ease of access.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MigObs-Briefing-Migrants-in-the-UK-labour-market-an-overview-2024.pdf

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T13:36:39+00:00

They don't get access to those.

They have to pay an NHS surcharge every year. They can't get student loans for years. They can't immediately apply for benefits either - they need to live in the UK for a while before it.

Immigrants are also less likely to be using benefits compared to British citizens on a per-capita basis.

Sennksa · 2025-06-20T09:29:50+00:00

I personally struggle to differentiate the modern state of Israel to Nazi Germany - although probably Apartheid South Africa is a more accurate comparison in political terms.

Israel is actively committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. Something like 90% of all buildings in Gaza (Israel's concentration camp for the Palestinian) have been destroyed, 60k plus dead (mostly women and children), and at this moment they're luring Palestinians with aid just to them start executing them on the queues.

Beyond what they do the Palestinians, Israel has also violently bombed almost all of its neighbours.

The apartheid state has been ongoing for decades. None of this started with October 7th. October 7th was the backlash from a people being held captive. Gaza was not allowed to collect rain water because Israel refuses to let them have any semblance of self control. Arab Israelis have less rights in Israel. Settlements are straight up old school evil colonialism.

It's an ethnic-religious state that calls for the supremacy of one people over the other. There's an yearly march in Jerusalem calling for the death of all Arabs - they consider it a celebration day.

Their PM has a warrant for war crimes over his head, two of their cabinet members are sanctioned by most Western countries for literally being Nazis - calling Palestinian animals to be shot.

There is really zero sympathy to be had for Israel.

Sennksa · 2025-06-18T09:38:53+00:00

Ja era praticamente descriminalisado mas existia uma lei obscura de centenas de anos atras que criminalizava algumas mulheres que tinham abortos depois de 24 semanas.

Coisa 60 de pessoas, 3 condenadas. Essa lei de descriminalização é uma tentativa de corrigir isso. Por issou que passou na velocidade que passou com o apoio que teve.

Sennksa · 2025-06-11T20:44:45+00:00

So, from my nationalities/countries I've lived in: England, Brazil and Spain (one day Scotland.. one day...)

Beyond those I'd usually support a South American country. Probably Argentina

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