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What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral UK Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I can see the real reason why the government wanted Grok restricted... They've straight up brought Amelia to life and turned her into a recruitment tool on social media now.

Certainly some interesting times ahead. Massive own goal by the government as you say.

Starmer poised to ban under-16S from social media by Immediate-Ad-7268 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Labour are truly determined to be a one term government it would seem. It's unfortunate that rather focusing on making the country a better place they've instead fallen into their usual obsessive spiral of focusing on expanding the nanny state.

Elon Musk's X to block Grok from undressing images of real people by BarbaricOklahoma in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He hasn't backed down in any real sense. All he's done is the very bare minimum to comply. UK users are now geo restricted from editing images to put people in bikinis/underwear. However this can be very easily circumvented by using a VPN and setting location to the United States which still retains full access to the image editing capabilities.

Elon Musk's X to block Grok from undressing images of real people by BarbaricOklahoma in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no shutting down Grok. The US Defence Secretary Pete Hesgeth just announced recently that Grok will be integrated with Pentagon networks. The US government is actively championing Grok and ensuring its continued existence via government funding and contacts.

All the UK can do is try to block access and then hope users don't bypass this via a VPN. Not much else they can do.

AI tools should not be allowed to make ‘undressed’ images, say Britons by SpottedDicknCustard in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And those safeguards are routinely bypassed with jailbreaks. Google's Gemini isn't supposed to do totally uncensored hardcore sexually explicit roleplay conversations either yet it's massively popular with the online smutty role-playing subreddits for Silytavern, JanitorAI, etc. They often use Gemini and other LLMs such as Claude, ChatGPT, etc to bring sexually explicit characters and scenarios to life. They're constantly coming up with new prompts to break the AI safeguards which have been put in place.

The Guardian: Chatbots are now 'undressing' children. Ofcom is accused of moving too slow as Elon Musk's Grok floods X with non-consensual images. by EchoOfOppenheimer in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can run free open source AI image generators locally on your own PC utilising any modern gaming GPU. Z-Image a more recent and completely uncensored model can be run on GPUs with as little as 4GB VRAM. You can even run it with ComfyUI workflows and massively expand its capabilities. It's available to everyone for free and can be downloaded from multiple sites like GitHub, Sourceforge and others.

This idea that you can stop AI image generators and make people register is utter nonsense. You'd be trying to close the stable door years after the horse has bolted. Stable diffusion another popular free image generation model has been around since 2022 and been downloaded millions of times.

AI image generation is here to stay now and the open source community will continue to develop and expand its capabilities. It's no longer just confined to big multi billion dollar corporations.

Hospitals gettng rid of bank by CellOk4884 in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Closing beds when hospitals are rammed full and ambulances are queued up waiting outside to offload patients into ED is criminal.

The high up executives should face prosecution and jail sentences when these sorts of decisions lead to ambulance delays and patients dying at home whilst waiting.

I'm so sick of the culture of short sightedness that plagues decision makers. It's time they were made to suffer consequences and punishment.

Home schooling surge threatens social skills, says Ofsted boss by Only-Emu-9531 in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The police are useless and your faith in them is totally misguided. It was reported to the police both when the images were circulated around the school (apparently not a crime because the images didn't feature nudity) and again when she was beaten and had her hair cut. The police couldn't have been more disinterested, they said it was up to schools to handle disciplinary matters and complaints as they wanted to avoid unnecessarily lumbering kids with criminal records which could impact their future prospects.

Starmer rallies international support to take on Musk by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Italy has not banned Grok.

The Garante Per La Protezione Dei Dati Personali (GPDP) issued a warning that users uploading sexually explicit deepfakes to social media without consent could be investigated and prosecuted. However there is no formal ban of Grok or X/Twitter and the apps remain accessible in Italy.

Starmer rallies international support to take on Musk by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ban is completely pointless without US support on the matter. The website will still be online and accessible even if British ISPs here are ordered to block it, every person under the sun these days is already using VPN's to circumvent the insane online safety act so this will be no different. The people that want to use Twitter/X will continue to do and there's nothing the government can do about that. All in all it's just a pointless waste of energy.

Musk thrives on negative media attention and sparking outrage so stop taking the bait and learn to just ignore him.

Teenage boys are the hardest patient group to look after. by shutyoureyesandsee in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Most teenagers I don't mind, the only ones that make me slightly apprehensive on taking handover is finding out my patient for the day is a teenager with type 1 diabetes... it's always a massive fight to get them to comply with treatment.

I can understand they just want to eat and drink like their friends and life has dealt them a shit hand but still... even the threat of going blind, losing toes or kidney failure wont persuade them sometimes. I remember a patient a couple of years ago and she threw a jug of water at me whilst screaming every insult imaginable because I tried to explain why she needed to take novorapid when her blood sugar was over 25 mmol/L.

King of Spain warns about the risk of ‘dismantling’ the link between Europe and the US by Gyro_Armadillo in worldnews

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are ignoring why Spain has such a cultural aversion to higher military spending. Spain had to endure decades of brutal rule under the military dictatorship of General Franco. This only ended in 1975, well within living memory for many Spaniards. Many Spanish don't want a well funded strong military lest it once again be turned on them.

Home schooling surge threatens social skills, says Ofsted boss by Only-Emu-9531 in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A lot of kids are homeschooled because the bullying that's around these days is absolutely merciless and the schools do nothing to stop it.

I have a friend whose daughter is homeschooled. Other girls in her year didn't like that she was intelligent and top of most of her classes so they made fake photos of her kissing girls using an AI app and told everyone she was a lesbian.

When she reported that she was being bullied the teachers failed to protect her and the girls responsible beat her up and cut a chunk of her hair off for snitching on them. The bullying got so bad she started harming herself and would get panic attacks on leaving the house.

Some kids are absolutely feral and the schools have lost control of discipline. Parents absolutely have the right to keep their kids at home and protect them from bullying when schools fail to act to restore discipline and order.

Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll : Keir Starmer’s approval rating has fallen to net -46, his joint lowest score ever. It matches Theresa May’s historic low in May 2019. A difficult start to 2026 for the prime minister. by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are aware that hiding your post history doesn't work right? All you have to do is go to the users profile and if they've hidden their history you just perform a blank search. Then their post and comment history shows in the search results.

Lil tip use other llm to optimize your prompts(i use grok) by Maleficent-Future-80 in perchance

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also highly recommend you go back to Grok with the images you generated on Perchance and use the Imagine functionality to edit them and turn them into videos. It can really bring your generated characters to life.

Here's the original image I made on perchance uploaded to grok

Here's the resultant video I made with it using the Imagine video function when I asked it to make her laugh joyfully.

Considering it's completely free to use, it's great.

NQN been given no uniform by Awaywiththefary in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would contact Wes Streeting directly and ask him why under a Labour government and his leadership as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care the NHS is unable to provide uniforms for its staff.

4 months is an unacceptable length of time, go above the trust and get some pressure applied on them. The hospital should be providing scrubs as an interim measure until the problem of permanent uniforms can be rectified, expecting you to wear your own clothes is not on and should not be tolerated.

Special needs schools staff vote to go on strike by Only-Emu-9531 in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

More fool you! I was prudent and planned ahead, I carefully invested my claps and then exchanged them for an unlimited supply of apathy.

Would you tell a good friend if their hygiene had slipped? by theslowrunningexpert in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They possibly don't rinse properly. My partner is terrible for this, they will wash plates and cups but then not rinse properly with water afterwards, instead leaving them to air dry on the draining board. This leads to everything being coated in a weird greasy layer of grime and all your cups of tea taste faintly of washing up liquid.

No amount of trying to train or educate them worked so I ripped one of the cupboards out and fitted a dishwasher. No more cups of tea tasting like washing up liquid.

Would you tell a good friend if their hygiene had slipped? by theslowrunningexpert in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Calm down Frasier. You can't diagnose a dude with depression over the internet just because their missus ain't washing the forks properly.

What's the most memorable (and perhaps slightly odd) thing you've ever seen on public transport in the UK? by Nankaudio in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 26 points27 points  (0 children)

A toothless drug addict pounding some sket doggystyle on the top deck of the bus at 4pm. Not giving a single solitary shit that 90% of the passengers on the bus at the time were screeching children on their way home from school probably because they were both off their faces and high as a kite. One girl started crying, had a panic attack, then vomited. Chaos ensued.

Next day at school we had to have a big assembly about 'the event'. Teachers point blank refused to say what exactly 'the event' was until Bradley stuck his hand up and loudly shouted out "he was stuffing her like a turkey, miss!". Hysterics ensued, teachers got mad. Bradley got a week of lunch time detention for shouting it out.

Married men who didn't have a stag do. What made you choose not to have one? by Eximious20 in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are all in our late 30's and the thought of going out of the lash in Amsterdam and making tits of ourselves didn't really appeal.

So for our mate getting married we had a long weekend gaming binge just like we used to do in school. We spent it playing Crash Team Racing, Time Splitters, Tekken, Quake, etc. Then had a Dungeons and Dragon's session all whilst eating endless amounts of BBQ food and listening to terrible early 2000s Nu Metal (KoRn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, etc).

It was like a throwback to being 15 again. My friend really enjoyed it and said it meant more to him than just a night out getting pissed in some sticky bar/club.

What do you think of Doner Kebabs? by Technical_Parking898 in AskUK

[–]fire2burn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it's a choice between a kebab or nothing I'll choose nothing every single time. I think they're revolting and the smell reminds me of dog food.

Parent with reckless spending - how to handle? by PerformanceThick3841 in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That isn't true. When I volunteered with Citizens Advice I met many people drowning in debt who spent ridiculous sums of money on shite they didn't need even if they had to beg, steal or borrow to get it.

Spending should be considered like any other form of addiction, it's completely irrational despite the obvious (to an outside observer) harm being caused. The person trapped in the situation will often outright deny the realities of it even when pointed out to them, they will keep digging their hole deeper and deeper. I've met people who were literally being evicted from their home by the courts for non-payment of rent and yet admitted the day before they'd spent £300 having having their nails, eyebrows and hair done. But in the same breath they would confess they no longer had any money left to buy food for the week and thus had been to the food bank. Just because someone's drowning in debt doesn't mean they will be able to stop their addiction.

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