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JugglingWithEggs, to random
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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,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@JugglingWithEggs a man who has access to a multi-million pound press room purpose built for holding these sorts of events...

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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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,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@futurebird Its a hell of a campaign slogan...

Trump 2024 - Death to children

MAKS23, to random Ukrainian
@MAKS23@mastodon.social avatar

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

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@MAKS23 Russia really doesn't seem to be very good at protecting its assets.

Is it arrogance? Or simple incompetence?

This has been repeated a bunch of times. If it isn't important resources just left visible, its holding gatherings of troops in large groups in open air. They keep doing it.

zzypt, to UKpolitics
@zzypt@mastodon.online avatar

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

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@zzypt their only measure of success is money. Success as an individual or success as an economy.

The very idea that money is a tool and not the goal is entirely alien to them.

dangillmor, to random
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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,
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@opethminded @dangillmor yet you have decided to side with one of those 2 sides... hypocrite.

localzuk, to UKpolitics
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

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?

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

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@zleap to put that teacher number in context - there are 468k teachers in England. So that'd be an increase of just over 1%.

It hardly seems like it's even a policy tbh.

jonny, to random
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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

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

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@jonny yet Americans keep voting for this sort of policing.

localzuk, to random
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

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,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

What's with weird adverts for products lately?

Another advert "why use ponchos if they never work" with someone off screen clearly spraying the guy in the face. "All you need is our $coat".

Except, a poncho costs like £1. Their coat is, as you'd expect, very expensive.

Do they really think people who are using a £1 poncho are going to opt for their proper rain coat instead!?

localzuk, to linux
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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,
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@visone Handbrake doesn't deal with drm.

localzuk, to UKpolitics
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The most that's ever been spent on the NHS? Only if you ignore both inflation and population growth.

If they'd simply kept up with inflation, the budget would be £196bn this year.

The £165bn this year is worth £111bn in 2010, a 16% decrease. Record spending? Not even close.

And that's before the population is taken into account! Nearly a 10% increase in population...

Chris Philp defends government NHS record after Dan Poulter defects to Labour - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68915259

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

As an aside, what kind of interview is it where the "journalist" doesn't present these facts to the Minister? Where's the challenge to what the govt are saying?

Just seems like BBC is happy to act as a simple propaganda outlet.

LALegault, to random
@LALegault@newsie.social avatar

Support these protesting, do not self-deputize as arms of state violence, they are right.

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@Beachbum @LALegault I have considerably more experience than most regarding free speech and trespass due to my own legal history.

We have the Human Rights Act, which is the law that protects our rights based on the European Convention on Human Rights.

Here, you cannot be trespassed from a public university simply for protesting. The courts have ruled on this a few times. Only if you engage in what we'd call "aggravated trespass" - where you disrupt legal activity with your actions.

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@Beachbum @LALegault regarding your constitution, yes, I have read it and have seen how often the Supreme Court upholds the right to free speech. It is considerably more protected there than here.

The weird issue I see is how your universities get funding from the federal government, have public spaces yet can act like entirely private entities...

localzuk, to random
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

Recycling batteries isn't actually that easy, though. So many people will continue to be lazy and just bin them.

The onus is currently on people to take the batteries somewhere to recycle. Which means they need to store them until they do.

So, instead of bin lorry fires, we'll have house fires instead. Realistically, councils should start collecting them with kerb-side recycling.

Bin fire in Cornwall after batteries not recycled - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68899020.amp

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@amicklei the problem will be poorly made cells. A normal cell made by a good brand will likely not be any issue for anyone unless it gets pierced.

But cells used in cheap items, such as random power banks from no-brand Chinese firms, that use badly made cells are a risk. It's why we keep seeing things like escooter fires, as the manufacturers of cheap ones use bad quality cells.

Honestly, we should be tightening up import controls on them as well.

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@penguin42 exactly, it just moves the problem around. How long until we see a Tesco go up in flames because of a faulty cell in one of their recycling tubs?

ScottLucas, to Ukraine
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localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@ScottLucas isn't it funny, Putin is busy stealing the assets of all sorts of western companies but whines like a baby when the west talks about handing over the sanction frozen Russian assets to Ukraine...

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