Don’t worry, we’re quite good at censorship here too 😇

(Actually the policy is that genuinely awful content gets removed, other things get left so that the community can respond/vote up/vote down)

Because there won’t be any more after you state-own it all, right?

Right?

ML summary:

Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party’s online “Anonyvoter” system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.

That’s the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren’t able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it’s contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn’t available.

You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you’d need the blessing of the country’s government to pump out that much interference continuously.

I wouldn’t lump Corbyn and Dahl together.

Dahl was a beloved children’s author, but he really did make some shit takes.

Oh no! If they continue down this path, nobody will want to privatise anything!

I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I’m probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.

If they started serving up the generic “reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick” with some AI generated picture, I’d re-evaluate very quicly.

But what if the CEO is a five-star-man?

Jesus, Reach Media comment sections are a dumpster fire.

I’d like to request £500 from public funds to put up massive signs before and after that say “NO RUBBERNECKING”

At least on some smaller subs, there seems to be a suspicious amount of brand new accounts asking one question to get human answers.
It would not surprise me if reddit, or some other service, are seeding to get more LLM-able content. Of course, this might backfire if people start giving stupid answers to eff up the data.

Turns out, a lot of the problems in nixland were solved 3 decades ago with a single flag of built-in utilities.

The workload that’s starting now, is spotting bad code written by colleagues using AI, and persuading them to re-write it.

“But it works!”

‘It pulls in 15 libraries, 2 of which you need to manually install beforehand, to achieve something you can do in 5 lines using this default library’

I think this is a great idea, and I’d happily sticky a promo or decision/voting thread.

I don’t think Flamingos will have any objections either, but I will ask when I have a sec.

Tory leadership race heats up in a similar way to last nights kebab.
With the same risk of limp lettuce.

I’m down to two 2.4GHz devices over the whole network now.

The day I can disable it entirely will be a happy one!

I’m not sure if they actually do benefit students.

When I was at uni, I was just on a (iirc) 14 hour contract that covered my weekend shifts, then anything on top of that was pick-up.

Zero hour means bosses can just piss people around “lol, no work for you this week”.

All pale to the satisfaction of inserting a digibeta tape.

This is actually something I’m paying attention to: Which EVs get hacked and fossed.
I’m hoping the 40KWH zoes get done soon.