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  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlBus powers
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    3 days ago

    I don’t get it?

    As an aside, there’s always something to hold on to on the bus, even if the driver accidentally fills it to over capacity slightly. Even if the primary handholds are all used up, each seat has a large handhold to facilitate moving around safely, standing and sitting down, but I’m a pinch they can be used by a standing passenger to.

    If the bus were so full that all of those were in use, it would be dangerously and obviously wildly over capacity. I’ve never seen this happen, not once in my life.








  • And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they’re using, what all their online identities are, etc.

    They claim the info isn’t being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it’s legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.

    But I don’t for a moment believe their obvious lies.

    This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It’s extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you’ve seen what they’re like.

    It’s not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it’s just very unlikely.

    Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.

    As usual, there’s no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.

    Humanity is doomed to repeat it’s failures for all of history again and again, and we’re just along for the miserable ride.




  • Alas no, brain aneurysms don’t have to have any outward symptoms at all until they strike, and then you’re dead within minutes.

    You can spot some issues before they kill you if you have a brain scan, but as you’ve got no symptoms, why would you be having a brain MRI once a month?

    So, alas, it’s a silent, deadly killer. One day you just drop dead for seemingly no reason.

    RIP Grant, you were fuckin rad.







  • Now, when you (whoever wrote the title) say settlers, do you mean occupiers, or actual settlers? It seems people forget basic facts when talking about these particular nations.

    You can’t force people from their homes, move in, and call yourself a settler. You’re an occupier from a hostile nation, or an annexer, if you like that term better.

    If you find some unclaimed land or are invited in by the locals, then you’re a settler.

    One can make the argument that you’re just being literal, but at that point - as a journalist who should be using the most clear and communicative language, you’re just trying to frame something bad under a different light, which speaks volumes about you and your agenda.