Thanks

Lemmy is obviously very triggered by what you’re saying, presumably because speaking against lockdowns and furlough is very controversial. But you are largely correct.

COVID cost the UK in the ball park of £360 billion, some estimates go as high as £410 billion, most of that was printed money. You can’t inject that much in to the economy all at a time where there is comparatively very little productivity and then not expect significantly higher levels of inflation, it’s economics 101.

About half the sum in the headline, maybe a little more, can be directly attributed to how we dealt with COVID.

Even it was AVNJ, you shouldn’t let some random strangers on the internet ruin things you like. Every one has a skeleton in the closet but if you like the videos, watch them.

What’s syncthing?

Why is AI bad?

I mean it’s not perfect, but it’s only going to get better.

I think despite the downsides of the internet that it’s clearly overwhelming good for society.

It’s my opinion that a huge proportion of people that identify with Reform will get cold feet in the ballot box and decide to stick with what they know.

It also adds to the HAES bullshit. Being obese is unhealthy, that’s not up for debate.

Imagine if they had a smokers acceptance day where we all had to give them a pat on the back for damaging their lungs. It’s so stupid.

No one has to accept or celebrate your lifestyle they just have to tolerate it.

And as you’re saying, if you want to be super fat, good for you, but people are going to look and that’s not their problem.

I thought you were talking about disposable vapes, if not, apologies.

Devils advocate:

If you’re known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle’s (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you’re going to be like “thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don’t need/want/have room for them, I’d just be throwing them away myself”.

Buy a reusable one

That’s not a very nice thing to say about Jacob.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but whether you live in a capitalist, socialist, communist or what ever other types of economic systems are available, you need to be intellectually honest about what types of workers the society needs to be able thrive.

How many historians do you want qualified before you would say, “maybe we should incentivise people in to things like medicine or engineering”, a hundred thousand, a million?

Of course history is important, but there’s clearly a sensible limit to how many job opportunities there are for curators, archeologists, researchers, teachers etc.

In the UK, more or less fifty percent of young people have a uni level of education but there are not fifty percent of vacant jobs that require a degree level education. It might be absolute lovely that my barista has a history degree, but they could have joined the workforce several years earlier, have dozens of thousands pounds less in debt and still had the opportunity to study history in their own time.

To be fair, how many historians etc do you need to qualify every year?

What’s the point of studying something for years, getting in to dozens of thousands in student debt, potentially getting near the top of your field and then having to go work in a Starbucks because there are so few vacancies in your field?

I agree that these degrees are nice to have, but we should be honest with students in regards to the sort of lifestyle they can expect after they qualify.

Do you remember when their protest outside the HQ of BP made the news? Me neither, but I’m sure the high rollers on their 6, 7, 8 figure salaries felt terribly inconvenienced!

I don’t have to agree with their methods or their ideology to recognise their right to protest. We’re talking about dyed cornstarch here, it’s not like they blew the thing up.

Only $7.2M? Can we start a go fund me? Ex PM’s shouldn’t be living in absolute poverty.

I’m not taking the bait. There’s obviously many worse countries than the UK to be trans in and like I’ve already said, the UK isn’t perfect but it wouldn’t be as diverse as it is without being as accepting as it is.

You can reply to this if you want, but don’t expect me to reply in turn, this is my final statement on the matter.

You’ll find that whilst far from perfect, that the UK is one of the most accepting and diverse populations on earth.

Who made you ambassador for the UK? I’m in the UK and I don’t hate them.

The whole point of protest is to cause disruption, you’re not meant to like it, that’s the point!

Yep. There’s no pain free solution to halting an addiction. You only stop when you really want to.