Bullshit.

Tories raise net immigration to 1 million per year: I sleep

Labour drops net immigration down to 200k per year: omg why is immigration so high under Labour

I highly doubt this will happen, unfortunately.

All it takes is certain lobbyists and press saying it’s anti-Semitic and islamophobic and it’ll be dropped in a heartbeat.

Fingers crossed, though.

The UK has been doing plenty of good, just look at the workers rights bill, renter’s rights bill, expansion of free school meals, expansion of breakfast clubs, massive increase in infrastructure investment, banning single use vapes, massive increase in tree plantations, massive increase in green energy/nuclear projects, big increase in pothole-filling, nationalisation of rail, quasi-nationalisation of steel production, large increases in the minimum wage, restarting SureStart, ending the two child benefit cap, getting closer to Europe again, extensive Ukraine support, etc.

It’s just that there’s also been a handful of bad things (e.g. OSA and other bits). And we all know what the billionaire-owned press and social media who are desperate to get the Tories/Reform in will focus on.

E: apparently some people hate those things. But I think they’re pretty good.

This is a good change.

Although on the other hand, our possible next PM came out with some anti-vaccine bollocks recently, so I’m not sure how long sensible vaccination strategies will be in place for.

I’m also not sure how many Reform-brained people will end up not vaccinating their kids and end up compromising herd immunity for the rest of us.

Of course we should. And so should everybody else.

Unfortunately though, it’ll take a huge amount of time. These things always do. Anybody who thinks we can do this within even 10 years are kidding themselves.

It is, of course, still worth doing. Second best time to plant a tree is right now, and all that.

We’d best start funding open source, and exploring domestic/trusted country-of-origin alternatives ASAP.

Young drivers make more claims primarily out of lack of experience in driving. It’s an issue that automatically resolves itself over time.

The same is not true for the elderly.

I hope that as the integration of the now nationalised rail companies continues, this shit gets cut out. It’ll probably be a matter of waiting for contracts to expire, though.

You think HMRC is conspiring with Uber with the goal of making less money for HMRC? And that after years of this, it’s never been leaked or alleged?

Dunno mate. Seems more likely to me that tax-dodging internationals are just experts in dodging tax.

Good.

People shouldn’t be seeing crypto as a means to not have to pay towards society.

If Joe Bloggs has to pay capital gains for making £50k profit selling shares, it stands to reason he should also pay it if he profits £50k selling whatever shitcoin is trending at the moment.

We absolutely care about mutilating the genitals of girls, too.

It’s just young boys that get fucked over

Similar to Trump’s in rhetoric, but without the massive advantage that the US has in that countries trying to separate from them would undergo an economic catastrophe.

So in terms of impact, probably worse than Trump.

I am so sick of tankies.

“The Toyota Corolla is an absolute failure”

“Really, how so?”

“My uncle crashed his into a lamppost and then it was rendered un-drivable”

I didn’t say it’s not a thing, I said it’s not something you really have to worry about with modern displays.

I’d definitely worry about burn-in if you have Teams open for nine hours a day and the taskbar on.

And yet, the testing seems to show that’s not an issue.

I’ve not had a single phone that’s suffered burn in.

Regardless, I’d trust someone who reviews displays for a living over my own anecdote.

There are aftermarket mods to upgrade to a 1080p OLED (which you probably don’t want to do anyway because 1080p is much harder to run)

But you can’t drop the SD OLED’s display into the LCD model, no.

Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.

Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it’s still barely perceptible even when you’re trying to look for it by taking a picture of the screen then applying filters to make it more visible. In real world usage its effectively impossible.

With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don’t need to worry about.

Yes, it was Boris Johnson who buried the report as much as possible.

Good. Clearly there’s foreign interference in our politics, and we need to uncover it and decide what we’re going to do about it.

There was that report into russian interference a while back, but:

• most of it was redacted
• it wasn’t allowed to look into foreign interference in Brexit, one of the biggest political events in the 21st century
• only looked into interference from one country
• happened years ago, and our political landscape has changed massively since then