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@fakeman_pretendname @Corporal_Punishment the post-Farage UKIP seems to have gone the way of the BNP, while Reform is pretending to perform respectability politics (although isn’t that far off the old BNP either). I almost miss Nick Griffin. At least fewer people swallowed his bullshit.
@theuniqueone @okwithmydecay I don’t. The unspoken bit is always race. “I’m anti [brown] immigration and I’m worried about [white] population decline” are not incompatible.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@Wen @moderatecentrist can’t say the same for NI. Wonder what would have happened with the Theresa May Brexit situation if Arlene Foster weren’t such a lunatic.
@Wen @moderatecentrist although I am grateful for Scotland/Wales still being in the UK because without them the HoC would be Tory all the time (not that that’s a good reason to stay)
@return2ozma so they crash 12* more than human drivers, even though they currently *have* human drivers?! The AI makes human drivers 12* worse. Cool.
@shalafi @Diddlydee NB in British law he’d have had a much better chance because if someone claims defamation, the statement in question is presumed false unless the person/org who made it can prove it is true. Which is an incredibly high bar in a lot of circumstances and leads to people being very careful with their words - and is also why this whole situation is really strange from the outset as the BBC have to be pretty hot on this kind of thing.
@als @mannycalavera honestly it’s mostly not overpriced. That’s a perception. It just sells more of the expensive brands, but brand for brand and value ranges compared, it’s barely different from the others. Sainsbury’s would be a better pick if they want a) overpriced and b) money funnelled directly to outside shareholders.