Zombie, zombie@feddit.uk

Except your morals by happily playing alongside a genocidal regime

And the horror is that they get hame and they’ve been given nae salt or vinegar! :o

Pro-tip!

Make your own wet wipes by using a spray bottle, normal tissue paper, and this recipe:

3 tsp vegetable glycerin
3 tsp aloe vera gel
45 drops lavender essential oil
15 drops eucalyptus essential oil
Top up with water to 500 ml

Gives the luxury feel of wet wipes and leaves your butt squeaky clean, without clogging up the drains.

Is it meant to be a panna cotta then?

Or a panettone?

God I’m hungry.

I do believe, you may in fact, perhaps, be a nerd.

You don’t happen to have a simple how-to or wiki for these services do you?

Official documentation is all well and good but sometimes it can be a nightmare to follow and understand (Nextcloud for example had me pulling my hair) for us mere nerdlings that haven’t achieved full nerdhood yet.

Various cheeses or various parmigianos?

The discussion isn’t about cheese as a concept but about a very specific type that has used legislation to create a protectionist monopoly.

I can walk down to the local whisky shop here in northern Scotland and choose from various whiskies. But it’s only an illusion of choice. Despite the romantic marketing and harkening back to the founding origins it’s nothing but factory made mass produced goods now. It’s big business, not culture. Our ignorance of the ease of manufacture and our love of romanticism is used against us in marketing in order to justify a higher price poifnt. The same applies to Parmigiano (and not Parmeggiano, unless your Italian is of the Texan dialect).

Cherry pick? I gave a real life example. You’re making up numbers out of thin air to try and, what, prevent the democratic process?

But okay, let’s go for this again. You’ve now stipulated remote and deprived. Let’s try a primary school this time though. How much could that really cost?

Well, turns out it’s £18 million in a remote coastal town that has known poverty for the majority of its existence.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6059680/new-fraserburgh-primary-school/

63 - 18 = 45

So £45 million left to create 2 new hospitals? 10% of the real life example that you’ve dismissed just because it proved you wrong. So 5% of a real life example, per hospital.

Aye, sure, awa and bile yer heed yi ignorant twerp.

A source if anybody else missed this news and is curious:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/27/hobbycraft-issues-full-recall-of-asbestos-tainted-childrens-play-sand

£63m is less than £1 per UK citizen.

Good luck building 2 hospitals and a school for that price considering the new maternity and cancer ward in Aberdeen (which has a huge hospital site already so land isn’t an issue) is to cost over £400m.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r5zy4zro

But I guess facts are an inconvenience when you’re trying to build resentment and anger in people.

They were duplicitous in bringing it to parliament as well, by tying up the proscription with two legitimate groups.

I contacted my MP about it and he gave a bullshit response about not feeling capable of voting against the motion because of the two legitimate groups.

So in future, if you want to ban any group, just make sure you slap a legitimate group onto the motion as well. It doesn’t matter whether the illegitimate group is innocent or not, it’s apparently impossible for opposition to call out the duplicitous tactics and refuse to vote for the motion until it’s been amended to remove the illegitimate group…

I have since informed my MP that I have left his party because of his actions

First, things like Coca Cola are as much cultural products as they are commercial products, so calling Coca Cola to something done outside of that cultural context is cultural appropriation.

Do you see how silly that argument is?

It’s coagulated milk, the only culture is the bacteria. This isn’t a family recipe being made in a farmstead by 5 people who personally milk the cows themself. It’s a factory. With rows upon rows of cheese produced every day, worth millions of $. Stored in giant warehouses and transported all around the world. It’s big business, not culture. Just because they have great marketing doesn’t mean they’re producing any form of culture.

The same applies to the Scottish whisky trade and Champagne in France. If it’s so cultural then locals would be making the stuff, but they’re not, it’s a large monopolistic business. In the same way the scotch whisky trade is becoming monopolised by the likes of Chivas via Pernod Ricard.

If you genuinely believe that this is cultural appropriation then you should be having a word with the giant corporations that have put so much legislation around these products that it’s near impossible for small independent competitors to try their hand at it. If it were truly culture there would be a thriving craft scene like there is with beer.

But that’s the point. If it tastes the same to everyone but those who make it their obsession, it’s got nothing to do with not caring. Whether you can afford to drop $1000 on a cheese wheel or not doesn’t factor into it.

Cheese isn’t branding and marketing, it’s coagulated milk. If a “counterfeiter” has figured out how to make the same cheese then they’re not making counterfeit cheese, they’re making the same cheese without the monopoly, branding, and price gouging.

The very thing capitalism is supposed to reward, but doesn’t in the bastardised protectionist form that exists in reality.

Why should consumers care about the financial exploitation of a monopoly? Restaurants that buy this regularly will happily buy a $500 wheel from someone else if it tastes the same to everyone but the snobbiest of cheese snobs, I’m sure.

This is DRM for physical products because they want to protect their monopoly and monopolistic prices.

If nobody but a connoisseur can tell the difference, why exactly should we, the consumers, care that their monopoly on this type of cheese has competition at a lower price?

Isn’t capitalism supposed to “breed innovation” in a “free market” built upon “competition” and “supply and demand”?

United front? I thought we were the popular people’s front?

Splitters!

https://youtu.be/WboggjN_G-4

Marxists.org

Bruh.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread

I have highlighted the relevant parts. I make and never made no comment on that specific article or story but on the overall credibility of the newspaper as a whole.

The Daily Mail is one of the biggest piece of shit right wing rags to have ever existed, is outright banned by Wikipedia as a source and supported the literal 20th century German Nazi party and still occasionally manages to make credible articles. The occasional good article doesn’t make up for the overall messaging however. The same applies to Politico.

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007.[4]

In 2021, Politico was reportedly acquired for over $1 billion by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company.[6] Axel Springer SE’s CEO Mathias Dopfner said that Politico employees would be required to adhere to the company’s principles of support for Israel’s right to exist, support for a United Europe and a free-market economy.[7]

In 2024, Politico was handed leaked confidential materials from the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Politico confirmed that the documents were authentic but refused to report on their contents. The Associated Press wrote that the decision by Politico to not report on the Trump campaign leaks stands “in marked contrast” to Politico’s extensive reporting on the leaked email communications of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, John Podesta.[110]

An investigation by The Intercept, The Nation, and DeSmog found that Politico is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry while failing to adequately distinguish between independent journalism and native advertising.[111] Journalists who cover climate change for Politico are concerned that conflicts of interest with the companies and industries that cause climate change, obstruct action, and engage in greenwashing through sponsored content will reduce the credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to be misinformed.[111]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico

Axel Springer SE (German: [ˈaksl̩ ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ ɛsˈeː]) is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany.

with numerous multimedia news brands, such as Bild, Die Welt, Fakt, and the US political news site Politico, which Axel Springer acquired in 2021.[5]

The company generated total revenues of about €3.93 billion and an EBITDA increase of 12.8% in the first half of 2023.[6][7] Following US private-equity firm KKR’s majority-stake acquisition in 2020, Axel Springer’s revenues have increased by a total of approximately €1 billion.[8][9][10] The company, including its subsidiaries, joint ventures, and licenses, operates in more than 40 countries.

In the United States, Axel Springer is ranked among the top four digital publishers, alongside USA Today, News Corp, and The New York Times.[6]

Gudrun Kruip, a scholar associated with the Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, has claimed that Axel Springer SE, along with its subsidiaries, exhibits a pro-American stance, often omitting criticism of US foreign policy.[60] This observation is then backed by allegations made by two former CIA officers in an interview with The Nation, claiming that Axel Springer received $7 million from the CIA.[61] The purpose of this funding, they allege, was to influence the publisher to align its editorial content with American geopolitical interests.[61] Although no conclusive evidence has come to light, Springer’s admission in his autobiography regarding the financial challenges faced at the outset of his publishing venture, suggesting the necessity of external funding for the company’s rapid growth led Kruip to believe that the allegations of CIA financial support are credible.[60] As of 2001, the Axel Springer SE names “solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America” as one of its core principles on its website.[62] This explicit stance has led to critiques from scholars and independent observers regarding the company’s perceived alignment with American interests.[60][63][64][65][66] Furthermore, an article in Foreign Policy has critiqued Axel Springer SE for a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes, implying a longstanding pattern of bias in its publications.[67]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE

And yet, you write. Curious.

I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861

You’ve not thought about this for very long, but almost instantly replied to me as if I’m trying to argue with you.

Why do people base their life upon work? Moving closer to where jobs are. This isn’t a thing people do because they want to but because they need to. Because capitalism demands it.

Universities don’t need proximity, as evidenced by the UK’s largest and arguably most left wing university in the country. But again, people move close to them because of a sense of need, not want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University

Recreation, do rural people not have recreation? Many recreational centres being in cities is due to the centralisation of populations. It’s perfectly viable to have recreational venues spread across an area when the chase of profit is no longer the driving goal.

Grocery stores, lol.

I’m not saying cities will disappear or that there will be no need for them. But there’s certainly no need for countries like the UK to have over 10% of the population within one city and over 80% of the entire population living in urban environments. It results in misery, mass pollution, unsustainable practices as everything must be transported, and as you originally noted, issues with enforcement of civility.

Cities will forever be a thing in human society I’m sure, but current cities are an abomination due to the constant centralisation of power and wealth. Never before has human civilisation been so centralised into so few places and it has created a myriad of problems. It’s time for a change on our perspectives beyond the constant chase of wealth, there’s plenty to go around if it weren’t hoarded by a select few as our current system enables.

“News”

https://feddit.uk/comment/22430802