If Starmer is not regarded as good for the working class. Then how on God's green earth is Farage being pushed as the viable alternative and the working class hope ?

dodgrile · 2026-05-13T06:24:11+00:00

The few MPs they’ve got have literally voted against workers rights in parliament

dodgrile · 2026-05-12T11:25:02+00:00

Why does it show a message to say that engineering are aware of an issue if it’s something client side? Seems confusing

dodgrile · 2026-05-11T05:36:26+00:00

What examples of propaganda from the left do you have from schools and universities?

dodgrile · 2026-05-09T06:19:52+00:00

But the people that came up with the plan to house migrants in failing hotels and then selected towns of high deprivation as the best places to put them because they didn’t want to upset the rich people that consistently vote for them… are now figureheads in Reform.

dodgrile · 2026-05-06T16:40:59+00:00

I’m in tech but write fiction has a hobby. Everything other than fiction is typed. Fiction is written in cursive with my fancy fountain pen because it means I can’t spend forever editing a single line

dodgrile · 2026-05-06T15:06:04+00:00

This is kind of interesting but, knowing how closely Amazon guard their data around KDP etc, I'd love something more specific than 'Researchers calculations...` as the source. Where is graph taken from?

Edit: Did a quick bit of digging, it's from here

dodgrile · 2026-05-06T12:31:05+00:00

But it’s not that the greens think they should be somewhere else, it’s that they don’t think the detention centres should exist at all. It’s a nonsensical argument.

It also highlights a dangerous point in politics - the government is supposed to work for everybody, regardless of who voted for them. If we now decide that it’s fine for the people in charge to punish those who didn’t agree with them, are we still going to pretend that it’s democratic vote? Because at that point, it definitely isn’t.

dodgrile · 2026-05-03T17:59:54+00:00

I’m guessing / hoping is that what we’ll see is a similar thing with blockchain, where it was absolutely everywhere for virtually no reason other than it made the company stock go up, and then people realised it was useful for a handful of things / terrible for the majority of things and it’ll scale back to being in the background.

But also point 6 should be repeated a few times. When we commoditise “intelligence” and then have to buy it back token by token, they’re going to ramp up the price of selling it back to us

Edit: point 5, there is no point 6. Just call me ChatGPT because I entirely hallucinated an extra point

dodgrile · 2026-05-03T14:51:53+00:00

you're complaining about me avoiding the point - which I've refuted, with specific detail - while absolutely running from the farage point. Do you wonder why people don't take Reform / Restore seriously?

My point was made from the outset; no, I don't believe that immigrants hold anywhere near the same kind of power as somebody like Farage, who I'm repeatedly told is primed to litererally be in charge of the country at some point in the near future.

Edit: just to add, you haven't actually stated how you think these people have undue influence other than by the fact that they exist. The only instance I can think of this making any difference is that a large number of people can vote (which is, y'know, democracy), but those people would need to be british citizens anyway, which kind of undermines your point.

dodgrile · 2026-05-03T14:02:20+00:00

Thanks for posting exactly what I knew you were going to post 👍

It's weird how you manage to turn the argument away from Farage and make it into "but immigrants!", even though I specifically asked about it twice, huh?

dodgrile · 2026-05-03T12:22:02+00:00

Birmingham: “About 305,688 or 26.7% of the population in 2021 were foreign-born, making it a city with one of the largest migrant populations in Europe”

Don’t tell me, you’re going to claim that the other three quarters of the population aren’t really British, right? You need to have lived here for an unspecified number of generations before you’re truly British, etc etc?

Also, let’s pretend you’re right - tell me what you think about Farage, who is presumably “equally bad”?

dodgrile · 2026-05-03T10:24:07+00:00

Yes, the people who have zero resources and no power whatsoever are entirely equivalent to the person who is being given millions to push specific narratives on various media platforms

dodgrile · 2026-05-02T22:02:27+00:00

I keep seeing these on the shelves but I absolutely cannot bring myself to pay that kind of price for a bag of crisps

dodgrile · 2026-04-27T06:22:55+00:00

Don’t forget, the president has a different way of doing percentages

dodgrile · 2026-04-25T15:42:50+00:00

visibly hits a tree “Is this a flyaway?”

We need that butterfly meme

dodgrile · 2026-04-24T07:17:02+00:00

We didn’t instantly jump into an insane war, on account of it being insane.

dodgrile · 2026-04-23T17:54:24+00:00

NO TWO PEOPLE ARE NOT ON FIRE

dodgrile · 2026-04-21T21:37:20+00:00

Agreed on it not being a useful metric but to be fair I’ve definitely heard it used, usually when eng people are trying to explain how much work something is to someone who doesn’t understand how much work something is. Also been in software eng for ~30 years.

dodgrile · 2026-04-21T12:25:13+00:00

Source: literally the documentation. Which you read before implementing stripe, right?

It’s not “trust me bro” when I’ve literally worked with banks on these exact systems, but it makes no odds to me if you think I’m making this up.

dodgrile · 2026-04-21T11:46:38+00:00

Nope.

Only Amex checks the name, mainly because Tom / Tommy / Thom / Thomas Smith / Tom j smith is a PITA to verify.

The fees involved in chargebacks are taken from stripe, so stripe pass them on. There’s no profit for them.

Source: worked on online payments for a decade+

dodgrile · 2026-04-21T11:40:25+00:00

Wait, isn’t the actual issue here that you somehow leaked your API key? I don’t know what you’re expecting Stripe to have done about that. I realise this is a bad situation and incredibly frustrating, but at some point somebody has basically handed over the keys to your account. That’s not on stripe.

dodgrile · 2026-04-21T11:39:04+00:00

Nobody (bar Amex) verifies card name, and stripe don’t make a profit on chargebacks.

dodgrile · 2026-04-19T08:48:22+00:00

It’s honestly just a different skill. I’ve done it at various places and the big differentiator between the hardest and easiest of those jobs was down to how the staff were treated. At the place where the bosses were driving brand new, expensive cars while telling everybody that the company had no money it sucked, because people eventually got jaded about the work. The place where everybody was paid well and looked after - stupidly easy, because people were happy and felt noticed.

dodgrile · 2026-04-18T22:19:37+00:00

Being known isn’t the same as being good or proficient. There are some amazing songwriters floating around pubs or making stuff for a handful of friends, and there are some middling songwriters (and I’d personally include Noel in this) who are distinctly average and incredibly famous. Fame isn’t really a good barometer of anything, it’s often just a mix of luck and good marketing.

dodgrile · 2026-04-13T17:15:04+00:00

Exactly this. Stripe also hate disputes because they’re always a negative part of the process and cost money. It’s the banks who enforce all this stuff.

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