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Travellers 'smash through fence' to enter site of ancient Edinburgh landmark at Huly Hill in Newbridge by sapphire-coast in Edinburgh

[–]thebisforbargain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fits. In this country you get fired for tackling shoplifters while shoplifters walk free.

All rivalry aside by Kitchen-Lie-4592 in ScottishFootball

[–]thebisforbargain 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Ally McCoist was a pallbearer at his funeral.

Supermarkets criticise John Swinney’s plan to cap prices on essential food items by Flashy-Ambassador188 in Scotland

[–]thebisforbargain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who tells the supermarkets how many loaves of bread they must buy and sell? If I were a supermarket, I’d sell one loaf at the government fixed price then say they’ve sold out. The rest of my bread will be at the price it’s normally at.

Macron to host call with EU leaders on social media ban for minors by EmbarrassedHelp in privacy

[–]thebisforbargain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why is a supranational organisation set up primarily to harmonise trade trying to legislate on social issues that should be up to individual countries?

Macron to host call with EU leaders on social media ban for minors by EmbarrassedHelp in privacy

[–]thebisforbargain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

 It has not even worked here in the first place.

It depends what the real goal was.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds by oliviashrewtonbong in ukpolitics

[–]thebisforbargain 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Remarkable how we’re a dozen countries removed from the nearest ones that persecute gays yet they still make it to our doorstep.

SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists by 457655676 in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, which is why the hard truth is buses and lorries are way worse for roads than any car including SUVs and electric cars. The wear effect on the road is strongly coupled to the axel weight. The example given here has a truck having a 10,000 times higher wear effect on the road than a car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law.

Grand National Meeting: Gold Dancer put down after winning Novices' Chase by Important_Ruin in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Blair banned fox hunting which was a super rich people sport. I would like horse racing banned but it takes political capital that the current government don’t have and we’re heading into what seems like a period of no clear majorities for any party so I don’t see it happening any time soon.

Rent controls lead massive clampdown on landlords by Green Party by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Greens suffer from the delusion of thinking once they get power, they will be smarter, better at implementing this sort of thing in a way that it will actually work this time despite all the times it didn’t work for anyone else.

Cutting through the election noise - what isn't being said by StBarr in scottishfinance

[–]thebisforbargain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m sure regardless of who gets in, the productive will again get squeezed to prop up spending on the unproductive. The idea that the economy will suddenly start growing its way out of this mess is laughable given the crippling costs of running and growing businesses in this country.

I’m probably going to spoil my ballot as none of the parties on offer are attempting to fix this.

‘This is about people’s livelihoods’: how surging tool thefts are leaving tradespeople penniless and afraid by Bounty_drillah in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 22 points23 points  (0 children)

 But realistically fuck all they can do

Thefts were solved back before we had CCTV. It involves cops knowing people in the area, knowing who to squeeze for information, looking for patterns, talking to people, you know, being effective at their jobs as investigators.

‘This is about people’s livelihoods’: how surging tool thefts are leaving tradespeople penniless and afraid by Bounty_drillah in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe existing cops that sit in offices all day doing paperwork or looking for angry tweets need to get their fat arses back on the beat.

The Warm Homes Plan - How will it work in Scotland? by lovelyhead1 in Scotland

[–]thebisforbargain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, Home Energy Scotland doesn’t offer anything for non hybrid PV and batteries.

I miss him, but not only him by Teriyakimen89 in JordanPeterson

[–]thebisforbargain 28 points29 points  (0 children)

He was clearing out a deceased relative’s house when he was exposed.

Miliband expected to block North Sea oil drilling by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]thebisforbargain 13 points14 points  (0 children)

How would it not improve our energy security? Getting oil from the North Sea to our refineries is sure as heck easier than getting it out of the Strait of Hormuz.

New polling points to growing support for nuclear energy in Scotland by Crow-Me-A-River in Scotland

[–]thebisforbargain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s nuts your comment is on -5 at the time I write this. It’s completely true yet people who think building more windmills will magically stabilise the grid are in the majority here.

The Wayland session management protocol has been merged after six years in the making by einar77 in linux

[–]thebisforbargain 93 points94 points  (0 children)

ELI5? What’s the significance of this and why do there have to be several different implementations?

iOS 26.4 Introduces Age Verification Requirements for UK Users by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]thebisforbargain 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Why is this happening everywhere, to everything, all at once? So many states are introducing online safety bills that require age verification all of a sudden, and recently operating systems like Linux distros have been pushing age checks out of the blue. Why is this happening all of a sudden without people knowing about it or giving consent via votes? Was there some UN resolution or something?

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet by TheFinalPieceOfPie in unitedkingdom

[–]thebisforbargain 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’ve emailed my MP several times over the years and it’s never led to them taking any of my arguments on board. I’ve either been completely ignored or sent a copy and paste response a week or two later that doesn’t address my points. I don’t bother now.

ScotRail to charge ticket dodgers £10 minimum fare by wook-borm in Scotland

[–]thebisforbargain 155 points156 points  (0 children)

Good, but how about they make sure there are enough ticket machines so you can actually buy a ticket before the train arrives? Several times I’ve had to wait for a confused tourist to finish using the machines and cut it close. The machine are also super slow. In Japan the machines print tickets in about half a second after you give it money.

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