Boba Fret

If your example pans out, it's then white collar workers who are doing less for the same pay. To blue collar workers, white collar workers would become the workshy wealthy skimming off society. It only works if everyone benefits equally and I can't see how that could happen.

Yes, but that's not what he's advocating (I appreciate you know this). He's advocating using a fictitious invention based on a technology that does something entirely different, and what's more his aspirations for that fiction are entirely bland. An alarm clock can offer a reminder service.

Well, aside from the fact ChatGPT is an LLM and so there's no such thing as a "ChatGPT Android", what he describes it doing is something an alarm clock could do, so I don't think inventing one would achieve much either.

Worst outcome Amazon makes some bad TV. I remember when Michael Gove did the same thing with the school curriculum...

Hopefully there's a takeaway option.

If Lemmy was alive and in his twenties today he'd have a sunbed on stage and play the entire set from it.

Young people don't smoke or drink which has apparently left a gap in their lives for something which can kill them. Nature abhors a vacuum and all that.

The old joke would suggest you mean breakfast *and* lunch, so I've given you the benefit of the doubt and a like!

This is exactly it. Why is no one in government pointing out so many of those protesting are proven to be attacking their own families in their own homes themselves? That's where the proportionate legitimate concerns should lie. Those figures are quite unimaginable.

Hmmm, not entirely sure about this. A green card is a serious thing over there. It means you are a permanent resident of the US. Questions were even raised in the US when it came out a UK chancellor, who was obviously living in the UK, could have obtained one.

People should do what they like, but when it comes down to it this is nothing more than sanitising something that was supposed to be deliberately anarchic. It's like giving Napalm Death acoustic guitars and have them do Ed Sheeran songs and claim it's something called morning grindcore.

No other country can compete with British conservative politicians

Very much so. If she had said "British strawberries are unbeatable" you'd think "ok, an opinion stated to rally people around domestic agriculture". But instead she made it sound like British farmers are somehow more efficient at producing calories or can harvest wheat quicker or something.

Amazing game, spent much time at friends' houses playing this, until I got the Atari ST version myself a few years later.

Love the idea you should be able to "volunteer" for a skilled profession. Has he taken this lead from Phil Silvers joining the foreign legion in Carry On Follow That Camel?

Is the "fighting age men" thing alluding to a conspiracy they are here to collectively fight something? Or is it more that they should be somewhere else fighting someone?

It still doesn't.

Yeah, it creates a collective where views otherwise socially unacceptable can be voiced freely. And gives them a tribal notion of being the oppressed underdogs.

I'd be wary of thinking everyone thinks like you and if only they could see some truth. There will be many people engaging with these kinds of posts because they want to feel angry at foreigners, not because they are being lied to. Otherwise there wouldn't even be a far right to do the agitating.

Delivery already happened in 2023 by the way, as I've said. You can look this up. You're hearing about it now because deadlines have passed for service providers.

Does that align with the original post pointing responsibility with Labour wanting a nanny state? No it doesn't. It can't possibly have happened like that can it.

Well you've changed your argument. But I'll bite...

That's not how legislation is passed. You can't just turn established laws off. It would have to be run through the commons and the lords. It would have bounced backwards and forwards as amendments were added. It's a time consuming costly process.

I agree on the left/comms part. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for Corbyn. He was experienced enough to know he needed to change but refused. It was his taking money from nefarious foreign state TV channels and alignment with similar minded groups that finally did it for me though.

I can't buy into that. Four consecutive election losses required a drastic change in direction. Any other action would have been insanity IMHO. Corbyn brought with him baggage which required distance. Some of his own making, some perhaps not, but that's the game and everyone has to play it.

How was there a coup? Corbyn fought two elections as leader. Should he have been uniquely allowed to stay leader forever for some reason?

It had nothing at all to do with the Labour government. It was passed in 2023. The clue is in the title: the online safety act 2023. Who was in government in 2023?

Whose Christmas involved gradually being exposed to porn by their parents because it was a "controlled environment"? Come on, you know you're stretching this argument now. And you know what the target of this legislation is.

This is a different point entirely. I suspect local authority child protection services would step in if they knew children were being deliberately exposed to such things in the home. But it has nothing to do with how we legislate direct access or sale to them by minors.

Because legislation puts the onus on the publisher of the content rather than the consumer. We don't use an honour system or rely on parents to restrict age appropriate goods and services being sold to minors in any other industry. If I suggested that you'd think it was absurd.

And yet social media is basically that. And it's completely voluntary for no other reason than 'likes', but billions of people do it all the same every day. Yet apparently sharing it privately with a service provider is basically the end of human rights as we know it.