Jared 🔶

My partner’s American and living there at the moment, so I’ve had almost first-hand experience of how truly shit the system is there!

Sounds like the American healthcare system in a nutshell. Your government actually spends more per capita on healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, subsidies etc.) than the UK spends on the NHS, because so much goes to private profit, but republicans will claim the system gives them lower taxes.

No, fuck off with this shit.

It said “did nobody say just stop” about her spending on food and then “you banished…your life goals, thanks to your entertainment choices”.

It didn’t just provide information, it passed moral judgement on it. It’s an unacceptable way for a bank to talk to a client.

Hegseth said Iranians shouldn’t be betting on surviving this war. (I can’t recall the exact wording, but it was extremely general and promised them death).

They really just don’t see Iranian civilians as human beings, but we knew that already, didn’t we?

I say government platform because private companies can’t really be trusted, as the whole persona controversy shows.

And I’m certain you could design this in a way that you can’t just share codes around, and keeps anonymity in both directions (govt. doesn’t find out the platform you used either).

I think if there’s going to be age verification, there needs to be a government platform which only knows you’re a real person and your D.O.B (info they already have!), and you sign into it and pass a code to the social media that confirms you’re overage and nothing else.

For context, I lived in a “D” property and I was spending £100/month on heating alone in the winter despite my room barely getting above 17°C. In an “A” now and I’ve barely even used the heating.

But the landlord doesn’t care as they don’t pay! And no point me investing if I’m only here for a bit

There was a plan here in the UK to raise the minimum energy efficiency of all properties to “C” (currently it’s “E”, which is met by practically anything that’s not a cavernous barn heated by a single coal fire). But landlords complained it would cost too much and it was abandoned.

If you read the article, you’ll see they were shaming someone with chronic fatigue, who’d recovered from an eating disorder, and recently lost their job for getting food delivered, and for “throwing away” their life goals by spending too much.

It’s actually pretty abhorrent stuff - if you read it.

Sure but it would cost a lot less per barrel, and run out slower, if we stopped burning it for heat like cavemen.

This isn’t an argument against doing those things btw, it’s an argument for government legislation mandating landlords make these kinds of energy efficiency improvements, and for subsidies & loans to help people afford it.

Yeah it’s affordable if you own your own home and have plenty of spare cash lying around. Not for the renters, we’re stuck with whatever our landlord gives us, and they have zero incentive to improve our energy efficiency. Electric heaters and no insulation is what we get from them.

a woman in pink sweatpants is riding a blue bicycle with a basket on the back . Alt: A man in pink sweatpants is riding a blue bicycle with a basket on the back, while shooting a stream of cash from some kind of cash dispenser gun thing

How it feels cycling to work

Everyone can read what you said: there are zero pro-trans politicians. And it’s an outright lie.

Thanks for letting me know about the cute dog 😊

There’s a huge gulf of difference between “politicians, even many democrats, suck when it comes to trans rights” (a sweeping generalisation, but not inaccurate) and “every last politician hates trans people”.

But complaining’s part of the fun! Don’t deny me my god-given right to save £100 by flying Norse over the Atlantic and then moan about paying £8 for a water bottle and sandwich

No, that would be demolishing USAID, which has already killed hundreds of thousands of people (mainly women and children) with agonising deaths from hunger or easily preventable diseases. Total death toll will be in the millions.

On the moral scales, the Epstein stuff barely scratches the surface.

In 2017, our conservative PM was promising gender self-ID and a ban on conversion therapy! She would’ve been considered a woke leftie lunatic in comparison to today’s Labour Party (on trans rights, that is)

a cartoon of a man talking to a woman in front of a sign that says business Alt: That classic “do I look like I know what a jpeg is?” gif, but it’s also getting blockier and more distorted over time

Do I look like I know what a web-pee is?

A van from West London Transport blocks a dropped kerb at the corner of the street. It’s clearly parked on a double yellow line and also blocking visibility round the corner.

Likewise this guy here, not parked on the pavement but parked on a double yellow and blocking the dropped kerb. There were free parking spots across the road, too

While he was parked there, I saw a kid almost tipped out of a pram as his mum tried to get it down from the kerb.

Yeah this low-key racism that imagines bigotry is just baked into the DNA of “TERF Island” rather than a campaign funded by JK Rowling and spread by tabloids, can really get fucked.

The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

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what about the optics of your Bluesky posts just being screenshots of the same post on X?

Well, Zarah thinks the Ukrainians should just surrender to the Russians and let themselves be murdered by the thousands…

More specifically it’s a blurry screenshot of a tweet (as in, a post on Elon Musk’s X The Everything App) featuring a blurry picture.

Zarah can’t pull herself away from the Nazi site.

God forbid parliament organises a work social.

I think I have half a dozen labels from that labeller. They hand them out like candy there. Ever said that Hamas is a bit iffy? Clearly you’re a Zionist genocide supporter. And so forth.

Well this is a fascinating read, just to learn more about our definitions and understanding of consciousness.

(The TL;DR is they’re missing most things associated with consciousness, but maybe you could compare them to if we isolated the part of the brain that does language…)

And you realise you just liked twenty of their posts & reposts and now they think you're stalking them