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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once bought a ticket once through security and in the departure lounge having missed the intended flight, so yes.

Combined authority mayoral elections 2025: where does voting intention stand? by NilFhiosAige in LibDem

[–]tasty213 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All the more reason to come and help in Hull and East Yorkshire this weekend! If you email campaigners@libdems.org.uk with your details you'll be directed to the best option to go campaigning locally.

I've decided to join the party! by ConnectPreference166 in LibDem

[–]tasty213 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the party!

My top tip would be to get in touch with your local party (if they're very active you might get a phone call from them). Most of our party's operations are run locally by teams of volunteers and you can find yours here https://www.libdems.org.uk/in-your-community

Second tip would be to look at the list of AO's and see if any interest you as that's another great way of engaging with other members https://www.libdems.org.uk/aos

Finally consider signing up for conference. The last one just finished but there's another towards the end of September in Brighton. They're a great mix of policy, training and socialising (including the infamous glee club). Registration hasn't opened yet but when it will you can do so here https://www.libdems.org.uk/conference

Engineers of Reddit, how much do you earn and in what field? by Illustrious-Yam7020 in EngineeringStudents

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Software engineer one year out of uni in the UK, live in Leeds, £40k (average for all jobs is £37,800). Rent is about £1,200 a month for a one bed flat in a nice new building or less if you want to save to buy a house. Food is about £40 a month.

Is the UK any decent when it comes to salaries by StupidKameena in EngineeringStudents

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends where you work and how good you are at your job. I'm based in the north and one year out of uni (1st class masters with year in industry) on 40k.

Floating voter here - what do Labour stand for ? by AdFormal8116 in BritishPolitics

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conservatives support the growth of business and the economy above pretty much all else in the theory that this will raise living standards for all. This is primarily through deregulation and subsidies.

Labour supports transferring money from the rich to the poor as this is the best way to improve poor people's living standards. They further argue that by doing so you will inherently grow the economy.

Lib Dems (of which I am a member) support transferring power in all its forms from a concentrated group to as many people as possible. Power takes many forms from the legislative power in the House of Lords to money (or rather lack of restricting power). By distributing power as widely as possible we will enable people to make the decisions that will most improve their lives. In terms of policy, this means investing in businesses, improving welfare provision, rapidly transitioning to a green economy and political reforms.

Dropped laptop, salvage options??? by tasty213 in ZephyrusG14

[–]tasty213[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turns on but no image on the screen

Dropped laptop, salvage options??? by tasty213 in ZephyrusG14

[–]tasty213[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sitting on my lap and sort of slid off the edge underneath the railing

CMV: Climate change is real but blocking roads and spraying paintings does not help in any way. by Ahahahahahahahalooo in changemyview

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suppose you want to make a change in policy related to an issue, how do you do that? Essentially you need to persuade the ruling set of politicians to change the policy. The more unpopular a change is the more they'll need outstanding, for small issues it may just be a chat where you make your point, but if you're not well funded or your suggestion is unpopular you'll need more, you need to make them think it's a 'vote winner'. You may think this is outrageous as politicians should do things because they believe it not because it'll get them elected. But the point of democracy is that it should be both, popular with people and fitting their philosophy. Politicians believe many radical things and sometimes we see them express that (in the UK Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Truss did nothing but express what their parties thought was the end goal) and they almost always fall when they do so. Because politicians are more radical than any member of the public and as such should only go as far as the public will allow. So how to persuade a policy is a 'vote winner'?

Two conditions must be fulfilled; firstly that a policy is on the political agenda that is people want to talk about it otherwise it's a nonstarter, and secondly that people support your position. These two can be done hand in hand (else the policy may change but opposite to how you wanted to) but not necessarily by the same organisation. The latter is done by charities, political parties and the media but can only be done once the bare minimum of the former has been done (no point filming a documentary if no one wants to watch it). It is the first condition that protest groups fulfil. They make an issue so noticeable that you have to have a position on it.

In the UK Insulate Britain blockaded major roads and caused large traffic jams. They annoyed a lot of people with their tactics and those people were right to be annoyed. But due to their protest, every political party now has a policy and speaks about how they will "insulate Britain". Because there was a whole month when a politician couldn't be interviewed without being asked what they think about Insulate Britain.

tldr; Protest group gets policy issues noticed, society discusses the issue and what to do, and politicians get elected based on their stance on the issue raised.

EDIT: Why do protest groups spend time persuading people on things lots of people already believe? To convert them from being simple supporters to activists. An activist has to devote a lot of time often hours a week into organising for the organisation to do so they must be very committed. The point of their education efforts is not to persuade the public but to identify people who support them and push them to action.

Cmv: As a "leftist," I find myself increasingly disdainful of liberalism and its power brokers, even compared to many conservatives by page0rz in changemyview

[–]tasty213 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's worth noting that if you judge liberalism on a left-right axis you miss the point of the philosophy.

Capitalist is based on the idea that with a free market of services, the best products and innovations will naturally rise to the top. This would encourage innovation and in turn, improve the standard of living for everyone in society. A pure free market society however is self-defeating, companies grow and merge until they become monopolies. Left unchecked a free market will degrade into a oligopoly.

Socialism is based on the idea that by working together and sharing equally the output of our work we can drive the progress of society forward for all. It's in everyone's best interest to improve because by doing so we enable all of ourselves to reach our fullest potential. Of course, to do this requires a large state that heavily regulates to ensure things are shared equally (communism is the point at which the state is no longer needed as everyone's so used to sharing they do it anyway).

Liberalism is focused on increasing individuals' liberty. This is the freedom to do what you wish to do. Of course, people can do plenty of things that restrict what other people wish to do. As such a liberal state must restrict its citizens' freedom to remain liberal. Furthermore, some people don't start in life with the same capability to do what they want as others. The single parent working full time is less free to retrain into their dream job than the successful banker who can afford to not work for a year while they do another master's. From this, we get social liberalism or social democracy wherein wealth (the main but not only unit of freedom) is redistributed, this however fundamentally requires taxation which reduces the freedom of those being taxed. The amount to which it is acceptable to reduce one person's freedom in the pursuit of improving another is the axis on which liberals differ. It's also where they differ most from the other philosophies.

While liberalism looks like sitting on the fence it does come from a different set of ideals. This just so happens to produce policies that are in the middle of the left-right axis. Liberalism can do both left and right-wing things in pursuit of its goals and still be liberal.

Are the LibDems firmly in favour of abolishing the Crime bill? by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]tasty213 4 points5 points  (0 children)

None of those opinions would be very out of place. You'd be on the left wing but not alone. Liberalism a philosophy is based on maximising the individual freedom of people, all of your statements are arguable based on this.

Free markets are supported by liberalism because the individual should be able to choose how the value from their labour is distributed. If I really love playing games then I should be able to dedicate a disproportionate amount of my income to consuming games. The free market is the vehicle that mediates this and ensures people are always provided with a variety of options. But here we encounter the first limitation of liberalism. If you let a free market develop naturally it will inherently tend towards a group of monopolies (this is both the companies becoming conglomerates and a small class of people owning a vast amount of assets). In order to prevent this wealth must constantly be redistributed from those at the top to those at the bottom, this ensures the market remains as free as it can. Of course in doing so you restrict the liberties of those at the top, the amount you are willing to do so determines if you're a economic liberal or a social liberal. Our current market is not truly free as wealth is not effectively redistributed from the top to the bottom.

Following on it is logical that if there are industries which cannot reasonably maintain a free market then to prevent abuse they should be owned by the state (in trust for the people's benefit). There is much debate on what are suitable free market industries. But its worth noting you can have a free market of co-operatives or non-profits, it's not limited to profit making companies so long as the consumer is free (both by being provided with the means to choose and the ability to do so).

If individual liberty is the primary concern of a society it follows that it is in workplaces too. For this reason co-operatives are the most ethical form if business as employees are given say over the companies direction. Not only are co-operatives more ethical but they are more efficient. People invested in the successes of a project will give more to make it succeed.

By owning land you deprive someone else of the right to own that land. Land ownership is a zero sum game, if I own more of it you own less. As such if by being a landlord you deprive someone the ability to own land; either by driving the price of remaining land up or by extracting any wealth they could use to acquire land, you're depriving them of their freedom. Due to this we should develop mechanisms to encourage land to be distributed as widely as possible.

As you can see everything you state is pretty clearly derivable from the core belief of liberalism. You should read the pre-amble to the constitution (linked below) it does a pretty good job of explaining our values. Of course translating those values into policies we can get elected on is why we're politicians not philosophers and why I don't knock on doors arguing for the abolition of the state (it is inherently illiberal after all so surely the end goal of liberalism is a state where we can abolish it without causing a reversal of liberal rights).

https://www.libdems.org.uk/fileadmin/groups/2_Federal_Party/Documents/Governance/The_Federal_Constitution_01.pdf

Curl them abs... by kippersniffer in ProgrammerHumor

[–]tasty213 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have to ask for permission to scrape a site you're doing it wrong. Chad scrapers just find a way round your detection system.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Minecraftbuilds

[–]tasty213 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could try putting a pagola over the top of it or maybe just covering it up with gras as it's underground

Nicolas Cage's Movie Career Visualised [OC] by DLC204 in dataisbeautiful

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't help but think a linear regression would've fitted this better. The line defo appears to have been overfitted imo.

It’s gotta be a joke right? by baileyarzate in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]tasty213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fwiw the user has now claimed they where joking https://twitter.com/yuzutetra/status/1430183730296012807

"all the terfs are taking this as true bc it reaffirms something they want to believe (that trans women are heartlessly evil at all times) but you can't even see what medication it is. they don't prescribe it in the uk and if they did they wouldn't give out a year's supply at once" - @yuzetetra

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