It’s all well and good being oh so principled like you’re making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting a Pixel 9a for $250.

Get off your moral high horse.

Indeed.

I’m not even making a judgement on Corbyn here. People can love him or hate him, either way it doesn’t change the fact that by splintering support, under our voting system, you only strengthen the opposing side.

It’s like… one of the headline problems with FPTP as a system.

At the very least, Sultana and Corbyn could’ve joined or allied with an existing party they align with, the Greens. Seriously look at Corbyn’s recent remarks and his open letter, and Sultana’s too.

There’s basically no distinction between them and the Greens, yet they’re choosing to battle against them in each constituency? It’s just electoral self-harm.

Farage must be licking his lips at this delicious bit of vote splitting.

Sigh, we’re getting Reform next by the looks of it…

Yes but remember climate is not the only factor in food inflation. This estimated 1.1% would be on top of other factors.

E: oops, missed out ‘not’

Don’t forget attacking people with sledgehammers and ram-raiding a factory with people working in it.

E: the usual Lemmy tankies think attacking people with sledgehammers is fine I guess

Live and let live is pretty much the antithesis of organised religion

I’m a very vocal critic of LLMs, I think they’re so overhyped and overused it’s hard to believe.

But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.

And what the hell is up with the major “ChatGPT is Satanist [if you instruct it to be]” angle? Are we really doing the Satanist moral panic again?

ffs, criticise OpenAI for being closed af, being wasteful, being strong political lobbyists, for stealing work, etc. You don’t need to push disingenuous stuff like this.

Oh look, one of Lemmy’s many resident tankies.

Nazi gold didn’t disappear after the Nazis fell. They still pocketed it all, despite knowing where all that wealth came from, and did fuck all to help rebuild Europe.

Other things like their appeasing attitude towards Russia, reluctance to allow weapons exports to Ukraine, and willingness to export weapons to awful regimes are all unambiguously current.

You’ve not heard of shady banking, Nazi gold, reluctance to stop dealing with Russia, women not being able to vote until the 70s, and Nestle?

Switzerland gets aggressively simped for online, and there’s certainly some nice things about them, but there’s also some pretty awful things.

Graphene won’t magically fix your dud battery.

They saved them 20 years ago. I don’t think it’s right for them to coast on that goodwill forever, especially not when they didn’t exactly buy the team out of altruism.

An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.

You can’t make this shit up

All well and good, but then we’d have a truss-like markets meltdown that drives up the cost of all borrowing and destroys investment.

There’s a reason the government mass seizing industry is only done by banana republics.

We’re better off letting them go bankrupt and letting the government step in as operator of last resort, as the law already lays out.

It’s not a wrongful arrest though, she was supporting a proscribed terrorist group, rather than any other legitimate group.

There are and have always been limitations to free speech. I can’t, for example, threaten to kill someone.

That also applies to supporting proscribed terrorist groups.

Disgusting that you’re fine with supporting them.

I’m sorry that you’re a terrorist-supporting idiot.

Why do you want British people dead so much? Are you an asset for Russia or something? Moron.

No they aren’t. Palestine Action is illegal. Because they’re terrorists. The rest are fine.

Probably a good thing that will benefit us.

The problem is, like with most things this government seems to be doing, we won’t feel the benefit for a long time. People are impatient and they want results now.

Whether that’s reasonable or not doesn’t matter. It’s the reality, it affects polling, and will affect the next general election.

Things like this, the planning reforms, the infrastructure spending they’re doing, SureStart 2.0, NHS improvements, green subsidies, etc won’t start to bear fruit until Reform are in, and they’ll benefit from it, only to then tear it all down so the next government inherits the same poisoned chalice this government did last year.

I swear people just want to be unhappy.

We say we don’t want companies to illegally hire, yet when they do and face the consequences of it, we get sob stories like this that basically state “actually businesses should be able to break the law if it’s more profitable to do.”

We can’t have low fines, otherwise companies just treat it as a cost of doing business… I’m sure we’ve all seen stories of big companies knowingly breaking the law and being fined pennies, and things like small companies fly tipping because occasionally being caught works out cheaper than proper waste management.

The onus is on the hiring company to check if the person has all the required paperwork and has a legal right to work.