2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago
2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago
They mean it would cost more because the problem has become bigger and more complicated because it wasn’t addressed early
The thing is, they’re now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?
The main alternative would be state funding, proportional to vote share. The big question would be how one establishes a new party
Ah, thanks. I knew it was something like that. I bow to your superior knowledge on 80s sci fi comedies
IIRC it was a character in the movie Spaceballs, and he got into trouble for using the name
Although that photo looks like the old days, when he was Lord Buckethead. He had to change the name for copyright reasons
The oil and gas industry isn’t short of money. If its workers aren’t getting a share of that dirty money, I’m not sure it’s entirely the government at fault
VAT should be going down - it was raised from 17.5% a few years ago as an emergency measure by Cameron and Osborne. How are we even talking about it going up again when it should be the opposite?
They can vote. The article was saying they just can’t use their veteran cards as proof of identity
I’m not sure people in this thread get the significance of the song. If they don’t remember 1997, they might simply be taking the song title literally
One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But… inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up
There’s a difference though. Very few people would care if the government knows they bought some whisky, and very few would care if that information leaks out. But people will care a lot if the government know what porn they’re consuming and WILL care if this information leaks out
It’s disappointing how the article mentions the big issue is people who can’t work work thanks to preventable ill health, but then the discussion doesn’t go on to address this - as though dealing with bad diets and lack of physical activity are not even work thinking about, and it’s easier just to magic up £100bn a year
They shoot down training drones all the time, so shooting things down isn’t novel. “In anger” is a normal phrase to describe doing something in a conflict situation, in contrast to training
I think the problem is that you’re not explaining which country you’re thinking of, and seem to be suggesting it’s the same legal situation everywhere
He’s also a figurehead who announces whatever the government of the day tell him to accounce
Yes! For a moment I seriously was trying to decide if scunting was a word
You’re right, it at the same time a small number of people trying to post regularly, regardless of whether they’ve got something that really needs posting, doesn’t tend to provide high-quality content - and I fear that’s what we’re seeing a lot on Lemmy right now.
Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they’ll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that’s what the black market is priced at?