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by foldr 1y ago
The UK has a lot of problems, but taxing the rich too much isn’t one of them. This is a shallow analysis. If I had to pick one obvious economic problem with the UK it would be the vast economic disparity between London and most of the rest
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by foldr 1y ago
The only point I wanted to make is that it’s normal to talk about “Sophie Wilson” regardless of whether or not you’re talking about events that transpired when that was her name or about previous events. In other words, if someone is talkin
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by foldr 1y ago
You’re quoting what they said about the article, not what they said about Micro Men. If you thought the OP’s first paragraph was about Micro Men then maybe that’s the source of the confusion. I am not accusing anyone of any transgressions.
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by foldr 1y ago
This is still the same confusion. Sophie did exist, she just wasn’t called Sophie. I believe OP is complaining about the minor role that (then) Roger has in the movie.
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by foldr 1y ago
I think there’s some confusion here. I don’t think the OP’s point has anything to do with Sophie vs. Roger. I think they’re just saying that the individual in question had a relatively minor role in the movie. They are not expecting the cha
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by foldr 1y ago
I agree, broadly speaking. I’m sure a lot of people (trans and otherwise) would love to escape the straightjacket of the gender binary, but an individual person has to find a way to live in the society they’re in.
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by foldr 1y ago
Apologies for the edits to my comment - wasn’t expecting such fast responses. But as I said in an edit, it’s bad form to deadname someone even if you are referring to a period when they went by the deadname. I think the OP was just saying t
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by foldr 1y ago
I think their point is that the movie didn’t give much attention to her role, which doesn’t have anything to do with her gender. It’s generally considered to be bad form to refer to someone using their deadname even if you are talking about
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by foldr 1y ago
I am just correcting some possible misconceptions about what UK ISPs are required to do by law. If you are worried about surveillance by intelligence agencies, then you might be right to be worried, but that's a separate issue.
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by foldr 1y ago
Again, this refers to the domains, not the full URL. As a factual point, ISPs do not retain full browser history, and the IPA does not require them to do so for all customers all the time. It's true that we do not know how much data IS
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by foldr 1y ago
If you remove fraud I don’t think you’ll get a year-on-year increase from 2024-2025, unless you cherry pick whatever offenses happen to have seen an increase over the past year, which is essentially meaningless. As I mentioned, there are ot
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by foldr 1y ago
The first part of your comment seems inconsistent. First you say that you have statistics to challenge my claim that crime in London has trended down overall in the past 10 years, but then you accept that "the 10-year trend shows overa
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by foldr 1y ago
The URL is sent over the E2E encrypted connection. How do you suppose the ISP would be able to see it? Maybe three letter agencies have back doors into this kind of stuff, but your ISP doesn’t.
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by foldr 1y ago
The Crime Survey data shows that crime in London, and the rest of the UK, has generally decreased over the past ten years: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand... This is consistent with my pers
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by foldr 1y ago
If I broke into a US military base and started vandalizing B-52s, I honestly think I'd be pretty lucky to escape with my life.
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by foldr 1y ago
The point is that they don’t see the URLs you visit, only the domains.
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by foldr 1y ago
>Few years back when they made it so that every ISP had to log your entire browsing history and keep it for a year This is a significant exaggeration in two respects. First, SSL ensures that ISPs cannot log your literal browser history.
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by foldr 1y ago
The OSA applies to all of the UK.
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by foldr 1y ago
The rate of knife crime with injury, as recorded by the Met, has remained fairly stable since 2010. There has been a small but significant increase in overall knife-related offenses since 2010, but there is always the possibility that this
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by foldr 1y ago
That’s an example where there’s not much point in arguing against your proposal precisely because of the impossibility of establishing any kind of shared frame of reference. If people are trying to put you in concentration camps then the ti
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t own a car. There are safer cities than London and there are more dangerous ones. London is pretty middle of the pack, if you look at European or American cities of comparable size. Even the stats that you yourself link to show that
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by foldr 1y ago
Demand for film has been rising over the past 5-10 years. Being the last major player in the color film market isn't a bad position to be in.
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by foldr 1y ago
Just a note that johnisgood appears to be another person on this thread who has very strong opinions about what it’s like to live in London based on online content that they’ve consumed, but who doesn’t actually live here: https:/&#x2
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by foldr 1y ago
Terrorism hasn’t historically been an election issue in the UK, so this seems enormously unlikely.
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by foldr 1y ago
Not really. The UK government does not operate a centrally-controlled CCTV surveillance system, contrary to popular myth. There are a lot of privately owned cameras (but no reliable estimates of how many), and some local authorities, police
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by foldr 1y ago
Ok, so what nonsampling errors in the Crime Survey make it unreliable in your view? What would you suggest as an alternative source of information about crime levels in England and Wales?
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by foldr 1y ago
Ok, to your question: no, I do not live in some kind of upscale zero crime bubble. I live near Mile End station. (And also, where on Earth did you get the idea that academics in London can afford to live in the nice districts, or that most
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by foldr 1y ago
What makes you so confident that you have a more accurate perception of life in London than its inhabitants? You were very confidently dismissive of my report of my own personal experience, so I was a little surprised to find out that you d
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by foldr 1y ago
Let's do some back-of-an-envelope stats on this. Assuming there are 9 million people in London, that means that 1/45,000 Londoners experience a phone theft on a given day. We can then (very crudely) estimate the probability that a
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by foldr 1y ago
I live in London (Tower Hamlets to be specific). Your profile says that you live in Munich.

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