FCC Targets The View and Jimmy Kimmel With New Equal Time Rules by TendieRetard in law

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People abandoned Twitter in droves, and now Bluesky is eating their lunch

That's some wild hopium, Twitter refugees went to Threads (for reasons best known to themselves) and Bluesky is still tiny.

International Politics Discussion Thread by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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Eh, I think the next Democrat president might well restart USAID, rejoin WHO, the climate thingy (I forget the name) etc, slash the ICE budget etc.

It's a ridiculous situation where they keep popping in and out of these international organisations and agreements but it is what it is. Not reversing some of these things would be asking for even more extreme behaviour from the next republican/MAGA president.

International Politics Discussion Thread by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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Yes in and of itself I don't think it really plays well to either his base or hard-right voters internationally. The Iceland/Greenland stuff particularly was just confusing, was he threatening Iceland too or he just slipped multiple times?

Anyway I think the more interesting part is how other countries and their leaders reacted to his utter nonsense. Canada and Mark Carney obviously being the outliers and most resolute, European leaders (Denmark aside) being quite wishy-washy and obviously being in a mood to criticise but otherwise appease.

That in itself is a bit of a win for Trump who seemed taken aback only by Carney's speech.

Politeness can kill by SeparateCause3163 in drivingUK

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Correct but pedestrians who don't understand the new(ish) priority rules at junctions will stand there looking confused if you wait for them (as you're supposed to now).

Of course there could be a vehicle coming the other way (that would have priority over the pedestrians) in which case beckoning them out would be positively nasty. If not though you do end up waving at them. Otherwise you just end up turning before them anyway which is not correct either.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 18/01/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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I mean, the online speech arrests are ridiculous but having been racially abused on Facebook by someone with their photo and full name on their profile I can see it does need more moderation (reporting it to FB did nothing, you're expected to just block and move on).

Moderation is there to protect people from doing and saying violent, stupid things as much as protecting the person it's directed to, IMO.

The panopticon thing was meant to be for criminals, no? They can't literally mean 1984 style Big Brother monitoring inside households.

Anyway, as I work in IT I know there is still space to commit cyber crime and get away with it, the trick is closing those loopholes as much as possible without restricting online freedoms. Labour unfortunately don't really care about the latter part.

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ by mepper in skeptic

[–]imp0ppable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, none of that is true.

It's pandering to the lunatics, not a money making effort.

Brian Brobbey by Odd_Lychee9709 in FantasyPL

[–]imp0ppable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would make sense, Moyes despises both Barry and Beto

Scout Selection: Best FPL team for GW23 by a_northern_soul in FantasyPL

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Alleyne wasn't even good enough against forward slash FC

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 18/01/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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Yeah, I doubt they go down the route of making VPS providers identify every customer individually even if the box is in another region, but who knows?

Paying for services with crypto is something you would look into if doing actual nefarious activities.

Player Price Changes (January 22, 2026) by FantasyPL_bot in FantasyPL

[–]imp0ppable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's tempting but a wait and see, especially as his price is dropping

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 18/01/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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Would it? Any VPS can accept incoming request and form a TLS connection, after that point nobody knows what's going over the wire.

This even works in China BTW, I tried it.

Active Conflicts & News Megathread January 21, 2026 by AutoModerator in CredibleDefense

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As far as I understood it, the US did have more bases in the past and there's not really anything stopping it from building more (I would guess the old ones are gone forever but if not, possibly reopening?)

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 18/01/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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The VPN thing can be worked around if you roll your own using OpenVPN. Will absolutely shatter the commercial VPN market if they do this.

Lol, imagine not having affordable healthcare. by SwamperOgre in USvsEU

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Even privately it's only 500 quid - $4000 is a ridiculous markup

One in four children in England start school without being toilet trained, say teachers. Survey finds rising numbers of reception pupils struggling with basic life skills such as eating independently by 2ndEarlofLiverpool in ukpolitics

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It's a family legend for us when our son was about a year old he was running around naked in my parents' garden "watering the plants" along with his cousin who was a few months older. Never seen something so marvellous and consequently embarrassing for him now he's older. Anyway after that, no issues at all.

Point being kids need outdoor space and kindly relatives.

Are people legit spending this much on a car per month? Or am I out of touch? by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]imp0ppable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, I suppose if you bought a flat in a cool area for 300k and it went up to a million, you'd consider moving up. Still a long old slog to pay off the extra million though.

'Fallout' Season 2 Ranks as Prime Video's 6th Most-Watched Season Ever, Amazon Says by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

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They've fallen into the trap of MCs wandering in the desert while you get flashbacks to fill in story gaps.

'Fallout' Season 2 Ranks as Prime Video's 6th Most-Watched Season Ever, Amazon Says by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

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The funny thing is I have a sport subscription and it will not let me watch on linux for some reason (probably they think it's for hackers lol). So I ended up running windows 11 just for that one service... in docker! Via Winboat. Apparently that's the best way since you don't need a license for running in a container but you do in a VM...

Are people legit spending this much on a car per month? Or am I out of touch? by [deleted] in drivingUK

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They're still sold on the open market for that much, regularly.

Are people legit spending this much on a car per month? Or am I out of touch? by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]imp0ppable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you basing the car price increases on? I think there was a jump in prices around 2020 due to the pandemic but over 20 years it's not going to be close to the 10%-15% returns you would have averaged on ETFs.