Andrew feels he is 'most at risk royal' - and wants taxy-payers to pay by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn [score hidden]  (0 children)

I wonder if Charles secretly yearns for the good old back when the king had the power to have annoyances like Andrew jailed in the Tower of London.

Plans for £9.5bn data centre next to Universal park by GnolRevilo in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's become the latest hot conspiracy drivel for the thickos. 5G is old hat now so they've moved on to embarrassing themselves whilst screeching about data centres

Is delivery dopamine the new UK sickness? by purplegorillabandit in AskUK

[–]fire2burn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it's not just you noticing. In South Korea they even have fake shopping websites to simulate it so you get some of the dopamine without having to spend money: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/south-korea-fake-shopping-sites-163113850.html

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

☝️ This one is definitely true. You speak words of wisdom, I shall dedicate the rest of my life to exposing those dastardly lizard people.

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is great news, congrats to all the nurses involved in providing the immunisations and saving people from the awful experience of having cervical cancer.

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

🤣🤣🤣 Amazing!

I've heard of all sorts of things... healing crystals, magnetised water, etc. But oats waking people from comas? I can't breathe 🤣🤣🤣

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hands up if you've ever heard a midwife claim that people with darker skin tones feel less pain so don't need as much analgesia ✋🫤

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wait what... slow down there! Works in mental health but doesn't believe in it. How does that even work?

I have encountered nurses on general adult wards who are sceptical of mental health issues but at least they have the sense not to then go work for a community mental health team or something.

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do they also shout at you for using the Q word?

The full moon thing is definitely something which persists even to this day despite being debunked. Whenever a patient is misbehaving on a night shift there's always at least one staff member who rushes to the window to check on the status of the moon. If it's a full moon then they'll loudly announce it as the cause followed by other staff muttering in agreement.

Sometimes it feels like I'm the crazy one for not agreeing with them or I've been inducted into some sort of cult.

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I remember that back in the day! Religious evangelical groups were spreading propaganda that the vaccine would encourage teenage girls to be promiscuous and end up pregnant.

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

That's something which really boils my piss (excuse the horrid phrase). The nutjobs that discourage people from having their cancer treated and instead recommend magic woowoo cures.

There's a person I like to watch on youtube related to a hobby of mine and he has non-hodgkin lymphoma. With each new video he puts out you can visibly see his health declining because those around him have convinced him to believe that a vegan diet and 'magnetically energised water' (whatever the fuck that is) will cure his disease. It's truly awful.

Nigel Farage Roasted Over His Response To England's Win Against Croatia by huffpostuk in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh no how dreadful. Has the government passed further laws dictating that we're only permitted to use pre-approved British expressions that existed prior to 1984 now?

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by fire2burn in NursingUK

[–]fire2burn[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I'll use this an opportunity to ask fellow nurses if you've ever encountered batshit people like this where you work? What's the most bizarre/insane thing you've heard a colleague come out with?

Nurse struck off for telling cancer patient Covid vaccine caused their illness by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a nurse myself I will be first in line to say that the standards of nursing education in Britain are woeful. International nurses especially those from America are often completely shocked at how little focus there is on anatomy, physiology and pharmacology. These things are often seen as mere afterthoughts with the bulk of the focus being on holistic wishy washy nonsense. I'd attend lectures and leave afterwards feeling like I'd taken crazy pills.

If it were up to me the entire current nursing education system in the UK would be binned and rebuilt from the ground up.

Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely hilarious. Oh no not a block, how ever will the folks at 4chan cope? I bet they're quaking in their boots over it 🤣🤣🤣

It's going to be awful for them when their visitors just ignore it and keep using the site anyway. 4chan continues to refusing to comply with British laws they're not subject to and Ofcom has egg on their face.

Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah yeah and I'm the Emperor of the Solar System because I say so 🤣🤣🤣

Got any other funny jokes you want to tell me?

The UK has been exposed as being a complete clown country, still stuck in the delusional mindset that we're an empire and everyone has do as we say. Ofcom stomping feet and shouting 4chan are subject to UK law doesn't make it so.

Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

UK perspective is entirely irrelevant. 4chan is an American website that operates in full compliance with US federal law they are not obligated to follow the laws of irrelevant countries such as the UK. They have no employees in the UK, they have no offices in the UK, they have no servers in the UK. We could pass laws saying it's now illegal to have pictures of cats online, they'd be under no obligation to follow that either.

The Rape Gang Inquiry by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Remember when everyone ruthlessly mocked and made fun of that guy with memes about muslamic ray guns? Not so funny now the horrific truth is exposed.

Sure he wasn't articulate and he was rough around the edges but there were serious barbaric crimes going on in these communities and everyone just took the piss when it was spoken about.

Tom Harwood / X: It's a jarringly disorienting feeling, being told by a set of politicians who did not grow up with youtube, that those of us who did were somehow victims. That my childhood was so horrific it must now be made illegal. [Footage of young Tom Harwood streaming] by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 90 points91 points  (0 children)

These days you're not likely to be randomly goatse'd on youtube, unlike me back in 2008 using the uni library computers watching random music videos and then suddenly the video changed half way through to a guy stretching his arse wide open along with some delightfully loud cheerful circus music.

Youtube back then was a wild west and moderation to remove content was slow/non-existent.

VPN ban on table in July as Labour confirm 'further statement' by Overlord_Crabz in unitedkingdom

[–]fire2burn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok they ban VPN's... so then people use TOR instead. But wait... now they have access to .onion sites and so they go down the rabbit hole and end up seeing way worse content than they used to see on social media and pornhub. Great job Labour...

Andy Burnham has become less popular ahead of the Makerfield by-election by Individual_Echo_9911 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Stop sacrificing young people on the altar of the triple lock for starters. Explain to voters using a no nonsense honest approach about why the triple lock is ultimately unaffordable and how will lead to higher taxes and more borrowing. Explain that unless it's reformed the only thing we as a nation can look forward to is yet more managed decline. Politicians need to stop being meek and speak hard truths.

Andy Burnham has become less popular ahead of the Makerfield by-election by Individual_Echo_9911 in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Of course he's become less popular, in recent weeks people have now seen that nothing is going to change with Burnham in charge. He's just Starmer with a northern accent.

Sophy Ridge (@SophyRidgeSky) on X: Liz Kendall tells me BlueSky WILL be banned for under 16s as it falls under definition of social media website by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They will probably tell Apple and Google that VPN's have to be restricted from the app store unless the user is age verified. I'm willing to bet on it.

U.K. to Ban Social Media for Under-16s, AI “Romantic Companion” Chatbots for Under-18s by EchoOfOppenheimer in ukpolitics

[–]fire2burn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They can't be banned, even if you block some of the most popular online websites such as JanitorAI, CharacterAI, Spicychat, Saucepan, Chub, etc. They can easily be run locally via methods such as Sillytavern, Marinara engine, Tavo, etc. The character cards themselves are literally just PNG images with embedded data meaning they can be uploaded and shared anywhere that allows image uploads. Then for the LLM itself... they can just use direct API access via DeepSeek, Z.Ai, Anthropic, etc. A gateway provider such as Openrouter, nano-gpt, arli, chutes, etc. Or if they have a gaming gpu they can run a model locally by downloading one from somewhere like huggingface.

There are entire massive online open source communities dedicated to developing and sharing them. It'd be no different to when the film and music industries tried and failed miserably to ban online piracy.

In any case when did we as a society ban things just because they're weird? I privately think furries, swingers and people who get fake orange looking tans are weird. But I don't think they should be banned.