@als @moderatecentrist he's always campaigned using plausible deniability though. It's just those people. You know, the people we don't like. Not people who are already here. Good immigrants who we approve of are ok.
This kind of disproves that and removes the figleaf for (some) people.
Personally I'd go with the fact it's just straight up horrendous bullying. That's a harder sell for someone who says he's just fighting to protect all us poor weak victims who already live here.
@Jimbel @JensSpahnpasta I wrote to my MP the other day asking why her leader (Ed Davey) condones X by being on it. Going to try needling a bit more directly I think.
@jimmy90 @Await8987 even when he goes, he's destroyed the US's soft power (and created long-term hatred towards the US in places where USAID was suddenly closed), tanked the economy and damaged trade links. The US will either be an insular yet aggressive dictatorship or focused on healing its wounds for years to come. Meanwhile empowered US fascists are funding fascists abroad, who will adopt nationalist policies of their own if they get in. The world is a very changed place.
@okwithmydecay NB you can also often join libraries in neighbouring counties too. Useful if you like ebooks and audiobooks as it expands the catalogue you can access if you have more than one library card. They often also give you free access to online newspapers and magazines, and sometimes streaming platforms too.
But please also go in! Ours does free coffee, has desks and free WiFi, and you can use their scanner and pay to use their printer if you don't have your own.
@chramies @Itdidnttrickledown I remember a German friend of mine (well before the referendum was even a thing) being highly amused when she heard me say "on the continent". I'd never even thought about it. I suppose "on the mainland" makes more sense. Language can really affect your worldview!
@seraphine alas, I am in the UK. Who knows what's illegal or not here
@seraphine @technocrit the cookie banner is often now a "accept or leave" button, similar to how this sounds. Or "accept or pay", commonly.
I never accept.
@glitchdx hmm. I'll have to look into it. Most of the companies I work with are locked into office so I may be stuck with it but it'd be lovely to get rid.
@Gsus4 @TheBat the more worrying thing is how many times it has made something up that nobody has spotted because it looks normal.
Proofreading spots spelling/punctuation/formatting issues. You need a deeper copyedit, not just a scan, to check the sense of something. And that won't necessarily catch factually untrue, but perfectly plausible, things.
@guyoverthere123 @CAVOK only by a 4% majority, heavily skewed to the older population. Ten years later, even natural demographic change would mean we'd vote to stay in with the same referendum now - but also we've had a pandemic that largely affected the elderly.
So when you say that you're talking to dead people.
@Redditquaza @rumschlumpel 6% drop last year though (admittedly not enough)
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/
@tehn00bi @Drusas always seemed like a bad road when Facebook et al managed to convince governments everywhere not to treat them like publishers in legislation. They choose what stories people see, and make money off people seeing them. What's a publisher again?!
My local newsagent is subject to more laws about where they put the porn mags and display cigarettes than social media platforms are about who they show extremist content to.
@Holytimes wooooah.
I thought voice controls not understanding women or accents was bad enough, but I forgot those things have eye trackers now. They haven't allowed for different eye shapes?!?!
Insane.
@floofloof @FishFace the Quiet Riot podcast was discussing their utter consternation (surprise is the wrong word) that in the same year Starmer couldn't accept so much as a pair of trousers from a donor, and Reeves and Rayner were being leapt on for everything, Farage has accepted a £9m crypto donation (90% of Reform's funding for the year) and nobody has pushed him on what influence that has bought, or what went on with Nathan Gill and the Russian bribes.
@NikkiDimes @Wlm racism is about far more than tone. If you've trained your AI - or any kind of machine - on racist data then it will be racist. Camera viewfinders that only track white faces because they don't recognise black ones. Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands. Diagnosis tools that only recognise rashes on white skin.