nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 9 hours ago 100%

    In a pre Trump world, probably not.

    Today? I imagine a lot of republicans would love a black man saying everything Trump says to "trigger the libs".

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Are adults really not supposed to financially helps their old parents?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 days ago 100%

    Doesn't Poland also have a weird law allows parents to force their children to pay a form of "alimony"?

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  • technology Technology AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 days ago 100%

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  • technology Technology [Meta] I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here.
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 days ago 98%

    A compromise would be to require a text summary of any video post.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are some terrible places to do road trips to?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 days ago 100%

    There's a village not far from me called Shitterton. It's actually quite nice despite the name.

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  • casualuk Casual UK Should we reintroduce wild wolves to the British Isles
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4 days ago 83%

    Sure, start with the Palace of Westminster 😉

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4 days ago 100%

    In the UK it's illegal to pay blood or plasma donors, and I think the only time we've had a shortage is due to a cyber attack.

    I think they do give you a medal or something after donating a certain number of times though.

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  • askandroid Ask Android How is Android's share menu such garbage?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4 days ago 100%

    I can never work out with google what is malice and what is incompetence.

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  • uk_politics UK Politics What’s the deal with people/the media not making the big obvious comparisons between how we are treating Israel vs Ukraine?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4 days ago 71%

    I swear NATO is basically using the Ukrainians as cannon fodder right now. Or like suicide bombers: we don’t care if they die, as long as they take some Russians with them.

    Pretty much, their goal is to weaken Russia by keeping Ukraine fighting to the last Ukrainian, not actually help Ukraine win.

    If we gave Ukraine weapons to win, it would inevitably mean enough weapons for them to take Moscow, or at least get close to doing so, at which point Russia would probably launch nukes. That's ignoring the need to train them to use advanced weapons systems.

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  • uk_politics UK Politics Protest against space radar dishes plan
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 5 days ago 40%

    Funny how there's always a magic money tree for war, but not to stop pensioners from freezing. Guess we have to stop the Russians from taking our foodbanks.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Could you do me a favour and make this post look like a Reddit post?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 5 days ago 100%

    [removed]

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  • casualuk Casual UK I'm all for conservation, but I really have mixed feelings on this one
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 6 days ago 100%

    reintroducing wolves and bears is too radical, but fecking giant spiders is okay?

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  • grimdank grimdank No heresy allowed
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 6 days ago 50%

    What the hell does it matter what gender said characters identify as? Why would it matter if we had all types of Space Marines (yeah, yeah, lore, yadda-yadda, but c’mon…the Rubicon Primaris itself contradicts a whole lotta lore… it’s 40k, its lore is as stable as melted cheese), or trans characters, or agender, or anything else?

    Approaching it from the opposite direction, 40k is supposed to be a dystopia, why would you want gender equality and all that nice stuff in a dystopia, unless you thought it was dystopian?

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  • nature UK Nature and Environment How national parks failed nature – and how to fix them
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 6 days ago 80%

    There is a post-Brexit revolution in farm subsidies under way, with billions of pounds a year being shifted from payments for simply owning or renting farmland towards “public funding for public goods”, largely nature restoration and climate protection.

    I can only imagine how much it hurt a guardian journo to write something positive about brexit.

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  • uk_politics UK Politics Sir Keir rules out extra cash to repair NHS
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 6 days ago 44%

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 1 week ago 100%

    Steel samurai from the ace attorney series.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Map of 2000+ lemmy communities
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 1 week ago 100%

    Steamdeck is right next to animefeet

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    UK Politics RobotToaster 1 week ago 97%
    Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion' https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-4942448/tony-blair-new-book-prime-minister-interview

    >This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn't actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.

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    futurology Futurology Remote surgery performed on a pig 9,000 km away using a game controller
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 1 week ago 100%

    Was it a logitech? lol

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  • uk_politics UK Politics Labour accused of pitting workers against pensioners
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 1 week ago 60%

    The headline is accurate, they are quoting the UNITE general secretary, who is making the accusation.

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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    °R and °Ra are the exact same thing (??)

    I think °R is supposed to be Réaumur

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What is your favourite board game?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    Heroquest.

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  • bugs Bug reports on any software Lemmy moderators get 2 tools only: a sledge hammer and a chainsaw. We need sharper tools in the toolbox.
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    First two seem like decent ideas, the others feel like they would be easily abused.

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  • fediverse fediverse Lemmy moderators get 2 tools only: a sledge hammer and a chainsaw. We need a toolbox with sharper tools.
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    First two seem like decent ideas, the others feel like they would be easily abused.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Indie social sign-in could go mainstream
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 66%

    Indieweb predates NOSTR I think.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Indie social sign-in could go mainstream
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    I think they're working on some kind of opt-in moderation, basically blacklists you subscribe to.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    Looks like his username is in latin characters, but he has an arabic display name.

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    Tabletop Miniatures RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%
    Best primer for rubber/soft plastic miniatures?

    I've been away from miniature painting for a while, but I just bought the new heroquest and want to paint it. The miniatures seem to be made of a weird rubber or soft plastic that I've not used before, what kind of primer works best on these? I'm worried normal primer will just flake off. Edit: I probably should add, I'd prefer something I can shoot through my airbrush.

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    technology Solarpunk technology BMW Group trials motionless wind energy system in UK first
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    so pretty much the opposite of one of those dyson "bladeless" fans.

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  • technology Technology Meta Oversight Board okays calls for violence against Venezuelan ‘colectivos’
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 75%

    permitted ‘statements expressing a hope that violent actors will be killed,’

    I guess they'll allow Americans to say they hope their police are killed then, right?

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards?
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    Mander RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%
    Whenever I follow an external link, I'm not logged in.

    I'm experiencing a weird bug lately. When I'm logged in, if I follow an external link (from lemmyverse.net, for instance) to here, the tab that opens is not logged in, and stays that way even if I navigate around the instance. If I then open another new tab, and directly visit mander.xyz, I'm logged in correctly as normal. I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this? I don't know what could cause this or how to find out if it's a bug with lemmy, mander, or my browser config.

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    london London London landlords sell up properties at record rates ahead of anticipated tax hikes
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    It's really not hard to find a way, extremely high taxes on any property vacant for more than 182 days in a year. With our current system I think you effectively get a tax discount for vacant properties. (obviously there would have to be exceptions for people in hospital/prison/etc, but the principle is sound)

    What they need to find is the will to do it.

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    biohacking RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 95%
    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine www.404media.co

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21533341 > You wouldn't pirate a medicine, would you?

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    asklemmy Asklemmy Does Wikipedia really need my donations?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    They seem to give a lot of cash away to other organisations https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579776106034757633.html (Their response is here for fairness.)

    Whatever you think of the tertiary organisations, it seems like you're better off donating directly to a cause that needs it, rather than funding a bunch of middle managers to give it to someone else.

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  • futurology Futurology The UN is testing a 3D printer it says can build small modular homes, with the smallest single-room units costing just $1,000.
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    It uses soil, without firing it sounds like they're just expensive mud huts?

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  • uk_politics UK Politics Did Labour rig Anonyvoter system to deselect a trade unionist in favour of a slum landlord?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    It missed the part about there being an ongoing police investigation into rigging "for the Croydon East selection process, police cyber-crime specialists are investigating allegations of electoral fraud and tampering of membership lists. Labour used Anonyvoter here too."

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  • uk_politics UK Politics Dan Neidle: ‘A UK wealth tax wouldn’t work’
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    If only a certain party hadn't abolished capital controls...

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy How could I make my town a little less lame
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    Walk around in a bigfoot costume at night.

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  • retrogaming RetroGaming Nintendo No Longer Able To Repair ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ Consoles, Effective Immediately | Retro Dodo
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    Honestly surprised they kept repairing them this long.

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  • fediverse Fediverse What is so hard about implementing ActivityPub? What could have been done better?
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    the protocol doesn’t define how to ensure activities propagate to every server.

    Outboxes are kinda that, but as I understand it mastodon's implementation is deliberately defective.

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  • health Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related ‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2 weeks ago 100%

    At least for something to be perjury there usually has to be "mens rea" (guilty mind).

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  • health Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related ‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 weeks ago 75%

    I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘knowingly filing a false appeal’ is a reason to boot you off the plan in the first place.

    For that to be an issue you would have to "know" it was false.

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  • uk_leftists UK leftists UK leftist party resource.
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  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3 weeks ago 100%

    CPB Communist party of Britain, probably the largest socialist party in the country.

    CPB-ML Communist party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, As the name suggests, an explicitly ML, anti revisionism, party.

    CPGB-ML Communist party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist, Another explicitly ML party.

    WPB Worker's Party of Britain, George Galloway's party, has links to the CPGB-ML.

    NCP New Communist Party of Britain, despite the name, one of the oldest communist parties in Britain.

    RCPB-ML Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain, Hoxhaists I think.

    Stalin Society, Their name pretty much says what they do.

    That's all the orgs I can think of right now, I'm not very familiar with some of them.

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    UK Politics RobotToaster 3 weeks ago 97%
    Cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school halt strike after pay deal https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cleaners-ps24000-year-private-school-halt-strike-after-pay-deal

    >"The new deal reverses and back-dates all pay cuts, introduces full sick pay and gives up to five weeks’ compensation for cleaners who had hours cut. >They have been guaranteed annual pay increases and, from April, will be paid the London Living Wage."

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    UK Politics RobotToaster 4 weeks ago 95%
    Sharp drop in approval ratings for UK Government, latest YouGov polling shows www.thenational.scot

    The same story also covered by Skwawkbox: https://skwawkbox.org/2024/08/24/labours-net-public-approval-collapses-like-starmers-in-just-3-weeks/

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    UK Politics RobotToaster 4 weeks ago 85%
    Lewisham council workers to ballot for strike action over ‘cynical and petty union-busting’ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lewisham-council-workers-ballot-strike-action-over-cynical-petty-union-busting

    "Unison said the Labour-run council in south-east London had made moves to sack several employees, including both of its branch secretaries, after announcing £25 million of cuts in June. "

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