localzuk

JugglingWithEggs, 1 day ago to random

#Sunak is apparently making security a key theme of his election campaign…

But seriously, do you feel protected by a man who can call a press conference whenever he wants…and he chooses to do it in the middle of a torrential downpour? A man who doesn’t possess common sense or an umbrella will under pressure make what kind of security decisions?

Larry for PM!

localzuk, 1 day ago to random

The UK has a serious problem with poorly thought out schemes.

Deprivation of Liberty orders seem to be, quite frankly, moronic. Let's lock children up so they don't get pulled into a life of crime where they'd be, err, locked up.

How about helping them? Not Imprisoning them...

'Locked up far from my family': The teens in care detained by law - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9xxyl3gp39o.amp

localzuk, 3 days ago to random

The entire system is broken. When you've got Ofwat defending the water companies, you know the regulator is not doing its job.

Ofwat is arguing with maths.

Time for the entire water "industry" to be brought back into public hands.

Water industry investors have withdrawn billions, claims research - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4478wnjdpo.amp

localzuk, 4 days ago to Starfield

Just realised, since I played about 40 hours of it at launch, I have had no inclination to go back to Starfield. None at all.

Only remembered it just now because someone's video popped up about it on Youtube.

I wonder how many other gamers are like me? Felt they got everything there was to get in that first playthrough and just don't see the replayability.

Maybe it'll change when they release the Creation Kit and people can make better mods.

#Starfield #Gaming

localzuk, 4 days ago to random

The ICJ appears to be an entirely useless body.

The case brought against Israel for genocide will likely not be concluded for several years.

If we don't get a proper ruling one way or the other while the violence is happening, what value does the ruling have at all?

The west who supply Israel won't stop sending weapons, and it'll all be long over by the time of the ruling.

A piece of paper with the ruling will hardly be much comfort for the tens of thousands of dead.

localzuk, 5 days ago to random

The USA needs to start letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike into Russian territory. Force Russia to move its logistics further and further away from Ukraine. Render the Russian operation too difficult and expensive to maintain.

Ukraine has been suffering attrition, its time for Russia to feel it on a larger scale.

futurebird, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

localzuk, 5 days ago to random

Not sure you'd will get anywhere, or if it should.

Without the government stepping in and nationalising Northern Rock, it would have creased to exist entirely. The existing shareholders would know that investing is risky, and you can lose your investment.

Northern Rock action group seeks 'stolen' shares redress - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2vw4n61q24o.amp

MAKS23, 5 days ago to random Ukrainian

🛢️💥 ~500,000 tons of aircraft fuel were stored in these containers at the Belbek airfield.

dangillmor, 6 days ago to random

Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.

This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.html

You don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.

localzuk, 6 days ago to random

Yet more anti-democratic nonsense from the ultra-right wing leadership of this country.

It's about time the left really organises and gathers funds to take them on.

UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest | Protest | The Guardian
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

zzypt, 6 days ago to UKpolitics

Always magic tax cuts, they don’t have a single original policy.

If they want to talk about black holes they should start with the ones in their hearts.

Tax cuts and causing misery, that’s their manifesto every single time.

“Jeremy Hunt promises further tax cuts and hits out at Labour plans”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/17/jeremy-hunt-promises-further-tax-cuts-and-hits-out-at-labour-plans

#UKPolitics

localzuk, 7 days ago to UKpolitics

His pledges are the most pathetic I've seen from him yet.

6500 teachers? So enough for 1 teacher per 2 schools. Yeah, that'll solve the recruitment and retention crisis.

40,000 more appointments per week? That's less than 40 per hospital.

Sticking to tough spending rules? Rules that have consistently been shown to not work? Great stuff.

He's not exactly setting out a bold vision, is he?

#UKPol #UKPolitics

Keir Starmer makes pre-election pitch with six pledges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69016719.amp

jonny, 7 days ago to random

You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide

#UCIrvine

a wide (~50m?) staircase with maybe 20 rows of cops in full riot gear stare down a handful of unarmed students

localzuk, 8 days ago to random

It is clear that the suffering of the Palestinians isn't just a side effect of the war. It is by design. Israel has consistently failed to protect even the most basic human rights of the population.

The international community needs to grow a backbone and do something about it.

Arguments about having the right to defend themselves are irrelevant at this point.

‘No water, food, health care, toilet’: Desperation deepens in Gaza’s camps | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/no-water-food-health-care-toilet-desperation-deepens-in-gazas-camps

localzuk, 9 days ago to random

Big thing I've noticed living in a larger town (250k vs my old 10k village), women are so much more wary of men.

At a bus stop, women will actively move away from men or stand a bit away down the street until the bus comes. Unheard of where I used to live.

localzuk, 17 days ago to random

Spent the last few days trying out Manjaro linux on my home gaming PC. Same conclusion as always - lacking in finish for gaming.

Specific issues - Wayland + Nvidia is still a "you have to do all this fiddling" mess to get it to work.

Tried it with X11 instead, but then half the stuff in Lutris doesn't work, and the response for others with similar issues is "all the devs use Wayland, so you're on your own".

Doesn't seem to matter how much time goes by, the Linux community stays the same.

localzuk, 17 days ago to random

A government obsessed with other people's genitals.

This is designed just to wind up the anti-trans lot, so they'll vote Tory.

Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England | UK news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england

localzuk, 20 days ago to random

Just saw a company advertising their compatible Nespresso pods.

Nothing strange there.

Except their unique selling point is that they aren't made of aluminium, as "aluminium takes 500 years to break down".

Instead? They're made of PLA. So are "compostable". But only industrially. So you can't stick them in your compost bin.

How ridiculous is that?

Aluminium is the perfect material to make pods from as... it can be recycled!

localzuk, 21 days ago to random

This is exactly why we need to be taxing them more. The super rich think they shouldn't ha e to pay their fair share. Yet their wealth wouldn't exist without the support of the country they live in.

Good riddance to spongers, IMO.

‘I am moving – that is it’: tycoon speaks out about the end of non-dom tax status | The super-rich | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

localzuk, 22 days ago to linux

Looking for a way to rip BluRay discs so I can stream the videos via Plex, on Manjaro Linux. Every site on the net points to MakeMKV, except the BETA key for that expired at the end of April, and the site hasn't been updated with a new one... So, anyone got any ideas?

#linux #bluray #makemkv #manjarolinux

localzuk, 23 days ago to random

If Google are facilitating the IDF and it's actions in Gaza, then they are opening themselves up to serious charges regarding potentially aiding genocide, depending on the rulings of the ICC.

It doesn't seem wise, from a corporate responsibility point of view for Google to carry on with such a risk.

Not to mention, it doesn't fit with Google's supposed values.

Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest | Google | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel