Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org

@freemo My favourite was when the European Space Agency rolled their own security questions on a new satellite data portal a while back. The questions were a mix of changeable answers ("When did you last water your plants?") and yes/no answers. The minimum field length was three characters.

@freemo Does that mean there are two carbon atoms in there? C2(Head)(Hand)2(Foot)2?

Sooo, the child benefit taper thing. Benefits anyone with children who earns between £50k (old lower threshold) and £80k (new upper threshold).

Explain to me again how this helps the worst off in this country?

#budget #ukpol

I see the Guardian is going for the could-have-been-published-by-the-Nazis look this morning.

(Going by the associated headline I think it's supposed to represent Iran. Separated from the headline, it's awful.)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/feb/04/ella-baron-us-british-airstrikes-iranian-backed-militias-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#theguardian #antisemitism

@GeePawHill I'm a coder, and every so often I'll come across one at work that someone's put in. Makes me twitch just looking at them.

@freemo No we can't. RAAAARGH!

@IslabUnimi

None of the above. Two liars begging for money from a rich man, who knows they're liars and is fed up with them. I see no dignity, piety, justice or truthfulness in this quote, though if you're going to make me pick one I'll go with Truthfulness.

"“We don’t put planes in the air that we don’t have 100% confidence in,” Calhoun told reporters."

Well, no. The wheels falling off is a safety feature. If the plane detects it's in an unsafe condition then the wheels fall off, and then it can't take off. Right?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/boeing-ceo-plane-safety?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#boeing

@DrHyde Wait, I know this one! Climb a tree! Or play dead. Damn. I can never remember which is huge ships and which is small boats.

@dramypsyd "Facilitates the value exchange between contributors and the magazine." 🤣🤣🤣

Lovely piece of doublespeak. They're right, it's not "pay-to-play", it's out and out theft. Stealing is exchanging value, after all!

One of the cards in one of my (9yo) son's board games. Need to guess as many as you can. This has made my inner grammar pedant twitch badly, along with my monarch list pedant. 😂

#grammar #romannumerals #monarchs #boardgames

@cstross Yeah, I hate it when that happens... 😂

Wait, so if you turn up at a polling station as a young person on polling day with photo ID (like a young person's railcard) but it's not the right ID, you're a fraud risk and can't vote, say the Tories.

But anyone else who may or may not be British or indeed exist can register to vote and can vote by proxy, four proxies to one UK resident, "on the word of an eligible British resident" that they're eligible, in their choice of marginal constituency. WTAF?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/22/tories-hire-coordinator-to-get-expat-supporters-to-vote-in-general-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ukpol #tories #gtto #electionfraud

Tory backbencher described as "usually loyal to Sunak": “It’s clear that a plurality of people in the country are more to the right on immigration than we are and we would do well to remember that.”

Yeah, that's your problem right there. The British people think you're a bunch of softies on immigration. Yeah, that's definitely why the polls are pointing to your annihilation at the next election. No question.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/20/who-was-behind-poll-predicting-tory-wipeout-and-what-do-they-want?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ukpol #conservatives #immigration