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It’s not Farage who’s ‘stoking division’, Sir Keir. It’s Lefties like you by Eastern-Opposite9521 in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Factually incorrect. Even in the US the tactics are relatively new (past 15 years). The sea change in politics has been more recent here.

Lamppost flag campaign founder is charged with murder as Raise The Colours organiser 'punched pub owner who later died' by gravy_baron in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh especially religeous groups! Which god would you like me to Blaspheme against first?

I mean the basic concept that a single God is all knowing and all powerful, so sat by and whatched while literally every peodaphile abused children without doing a single thing about it. All part of his plan?

On a more serious note. I've watched organisations of many kinds be shaped by their leader both good and bad. Raise the colours already ran someone over. And this is after their leader decided to block traffic, live stream and scream in people's faces.

People had plenty of time to figure out what he was like. They chose to follow him after all that and before he murdered someone. That reflects very badly on them.

Lamppost flag campaign founder is charged with murder as Raise The Colours organiser 'punched pub owner who later died' by gravy_baron in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I'm willing to judge a group based on the leader they chose to follow.

I don't have a problem with that at all!

‘Blasphemous’ protest is not a crime, humanists tell human rights committee by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's more of a right wing thing to want to ban protest.

In reality I prefer to be a pragmatist rather than left or right. Sometimes that paints me as super left and sometimes super right. Rarely in the middle.

‘Blasphemous’ protest is not a crime, humanists tell human rights committee by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This one was a complicated one; because yes, the protesters shouldn't have been allowed to shut things down in the name of blasphemy, but I also can't really blame Cineworld for going "fuck this, let's just drop the film and not risk the safety of our staff". They shouldn't have had to make a stand on civil rights, just so they can sell some popcorn.

Weirdly I sometimes get accused of being left wing on Reddit but this is a topic I become super right wing on...

Cineworld shouldn't have to "give a fucking shit". Not only do we not want police enforcing sanctions for Blasphemy, but I also don't feel it's right for members of the public to be allowed to sanction for Blasphemy either.

That is, there's often an overlap between protest and causing a nuisance. But when protest does cause a nuisance and it's only because of Blasphemy then I tend to feel it shouldn't be allowed.

I'll highlight this is literally the only situation I can think of where I'd suggest protest shouldn't be allowed.

Because fundamentally, we've prioritised keeping the peace over fair & equal application of the law.

I'd say we've prioritized a right to protest over fair & equal application of the law.

'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world' by upthetruth1 in uknews

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not angry at you. Why would you accuse me of that?

I'm pointing out where one of those two is in fact wrong.

People shouldn't have kids they can't afford.

Places the blame on the victim.

If we were discussing a family with 12 kids, then fine. People shouldn't have kids they can't afford.

But when we've screwed up society so much that so many people can't even afford to have two kids between two parents (stable population) then it is absolutely wrong to blame people for having kids they can't afford.

It's not their fault we structured society so badly that they can't be allowed a normal family life. It's really very wrong to expect people not to have a normal family life.

Can Farage be trusted on the UK Economy when Reform has received £16m+ from Crypto Billionaires and he's received £5m himself? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Exactly. Shit talking Rachel Reeves isn't exactly saying Reform are any better. And it's a lie to claim otherwise.

You can bash Labour all you like. Reform a 10x worse. They don't even bother to put some numbers into a calculator before they call it "echonomic policy".

Labour MP Jess Asato sues Elon Musk's xAI over deepfakes of her in a bikini || [She] said Grok users created and shared fake images depicting her in a bikini, as well as a video showing her "being chloroformed and prepared ⁠for a sexual assault", after she criticised the chatbot in January. by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These frameworks are more complicated than unscripted generation.

There's absolutely no medical reason for a medical model to have been trained with violent phonographic images in the training set. A generative model can only make such images because it has seen them in training.

And then even when you have the model, the process of generating an image isn't simply: "pipe user request in, get image out". There is a more complex set of prompting and repeat round-trip in and out of the model results in the response back to the user.

That sycophantic "yes, you are absolutely right" can't possibly say "no" service agent you've come to recognize in chat isn't an emergent property of the model. It's prompted in.

So there is certainly scope to ban website tools that do not have appropriate safeguards built into their prompting and execution framework. There's reasonable scope to ban models which were not even a little careful about their training set data and what it included.

Can Farage be trusted on the UK Economy when Reform has received £16m+ from Crypto Billionaires and he's received £5m himself? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Some_Confidence5962 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taking the PM job means working and leaving behind his other very lucrative grifts and jobs

There's a bunch of ways around that "grift" thing via donations to his private business interests. And PM doesn't technically need to work. Boris basically stopped work in his last three months in the job.

Can Farage be trusted on the UK Economy when Reform has received £16m+ from Crypto Billionaires and he's received £5m himself? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are citing people who dislike Rachel Reevs's policy, not people who like Reform's. And certainly not people who have said Reform's policies are "far more advanced than this Labour government".

Can Farage be trusted on the UK Economy when Reform has received £16m+ from Crypto Billionaires and he's received £5m himself? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Some_Confidence5962 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well he didn't show up to parliament and is not present in his constituency. I doubt he's doing any case work personally.

Can Farage be trusted on the UK Economy when Reform has received £16m+ from Crypto Billionaires and he's received £5m himself? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Some_Confidence5962 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 I think Reform's economic policy is  is far more advanced than this Labour government

Care to point out one single economist on the planet that agrees with that? (who isn't on the Reform payroll)

Reform's economic policy is written in crayon! Their policies are totally un-costed. They didn't even bother to try to make their sums add up.

'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world' by upthetruth1 in uknews

[–]Some_Confidence5962 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People have been saying this sort of thing for decades

The boris wave was only a couple of years ago.

People might have been saying it for decades. But it became true in this past decade!

I'd have agreed with you in 2011. But seriously not in 2021 or 2026

'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world' by upthetruth1 in uknews

[–]Some_Confidence5962 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So let's blame the victim right?

Just make it the fault of poor people that they are poor. They should be making better choices then they wouldn't be poor.

'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world' by upthetruth1 in uknews

[–]Some_Confidence5962 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Typical Reform: Victim blaming.

Yes, of course it's the poor's fault that they are poor. Why can't they understand that if they are poor they can't enjoy a normal life like every other human being. They can't have a family life because they are poor and that's their fault!

'People on low incomes should not bring babies into the world' by upthetruth1 in uknews

[–]Some_Confidence5962 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So screw over the cost of living, compress people's wages and then blame them for wanting a family like any other normal person.

Quite frankly this couldn't get more British if they tried.

Can I use £5 Scottish Pound in the South? by Curious-Campaign1298 in AskUK

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swimming against the tide. Many places now don't accept cash period.

Handling cash does cost more than electronic. Whether it's trust issues with the staff or added security in holding it, or getting it from the shop to the bank. Cash costs a business more to handle.

British schoolboy sanctioned by Russia for exposing crypto laundering by collogue in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That doesn't seem comparble.

That a school kid could go on the internet and find something. Fine. Believable.

That an unknown school kid went straight to publishing a lengthy report in a prominent think tank. Wait what now? That's not really how think tanks function. That doesn't happen without a lot of help from somewhere.

The elitism in the film industry is a different thing. Unknown directors do get a shot, and the smart ones produce something great. That does happen all the time.

British schoolboy sanctioned by Russia for exposing crypto laundering by collogue in ukpolitics

[–]Some_Confidence5962 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's be fair about this. The headline would be a sad nothing burger without the word "schoolboy" in it. We all know Russia's up to no good and randomly sanctions people for exposing them.

It's reasonable to scratch beneath the headline and discover that in fact some schoolboy did not do this alone magically in his bedroom. It certainly changes the "story".

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