[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

It's funny, for years the wisdom was that an economically left wing and culturally right wing party would be unbeatable, but Labour tries to be exactly that and Starmer becomes the most unpopular PM since records began.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Didn't he say he wasn't going to do this because he believes it has to be a manifesto commitment?

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t know what “Assad levels of support” is or how that’s relevant.

It's a simile.

If you look at another study, it shows opposition at 40%

That's just a poll of people in Northern Ireland and it doesn't ask the same questions as the YouGov poll I linked. The date in the article header is also wrong, this article is from 2017, you can tell from the URL and it's appearance in the Wayback Machine.

This consultation by Ulster University and Queen's University Belfast shows that 71% of people from NI believe it's a woman's right to choose (data is from 2018).

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Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state.

Bridget Phillipson is expected to confirm on Thursday that official guidance will state what businesses and public bodies must do under the law to protect single-sex spaces.

The guidance follows last year’s Supreme Court judgment that trans women, who were born male, are not legally women for the purposes of the Equality Act.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 21 points 1 day ago

Anti-abortion is one of most fringe positions you can have in British politics, support for allowing it has Assad levels of support.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

The point is that there's going to be no difference, soon Google search will be just another chatbot interface.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 30 points 1 day ago

Information-gathering agents are an evolution of Google Alerts. Beyond spotting changes, they can make sense of them, too.

… Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes to the Search results experience.

Web publishers should honestly just block googlebot at this point. Why should they provide credibility to whatever Google's stochastic parrot hallucinates if Google won't even give them any kickback?

So what do we search with instead of Google? There isn’t a lot of choice. There’s various flavours of Google or Bing.

Microsoft deprecated their Bing API back in August, instead telling people to use some Azure AI thing. DDG and the like weren't affected because they have contracts, but I can't imagine they'll be renewed.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, but we get a time off if he kicks the bucket.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

At least they didn't shit on his hair like they did to me on Saturday.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 19 points 2 days ago

For getting our hopes up?

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Last week, I arrived home from a funeral and decided to pop into my home office to make sure everything was prepared for the return to work day ahead. As I sat down to log-in my laptop, still feeling a bit wobbly from the day I had, I was greeted by the Nintendo Talking Flower toy informing me that "wasn't life great."

That was the point where I decided it was time to take its batteries out.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Who's the libertarian here? Because Burn-Murdoch isn't a libertarian.

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Plans to impose a ban on UK imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil in third countries have been watered down amid concerns over supplies and price rises.

The government will now "phase in" some new sanctions over the coming months due to the effective blockade of the key Strait of Hormuz waterway since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran.

The Foreign Office denied the shift in policy could be described as a "waiver" on sanctions aimed at hurting Russia's economy, but admitted extra flexibilities were required.

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In a new piece for the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch—author of a criminally misleading and data-torturing article about conscientiousness last year—suggests that "the most recent [birth rate] plunge appears connected with our use of technology." He notes that in the past 15 years, birth rates have been falling "across different cultures and levels of economic development." And what unites all these disparate countries? The use of smartphones, of course.

It sounds so obvious! That is, until you consider the other things that have united many countries over the last few decades.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish

He was speaking Hebrew, that's how they identified him as Jewish.

beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?

It's a populated area of London, they likely couldn't do more before people intervened.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

It's impressive that Labour found another gay man who's willing to throw trans people under the bus to be Health Secretary.

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Councillor Adam Kent's suspension came after a full council meeting on Thursday that saw the Tories team up with the Green Party, Liberal Democrats and independents to form an alliance.

The move saw Reform lose control of the county council after 12 months in charge.

But a spokesperson for the Conservative Party said: "The chairman was very clear on a number of occasions that the Conservative Party was totally opposed to the proposed arrangement at Worcestershire County Council.

"The Conservative group leader did not make our opposition clear to his fellow Worcestershire councillors and has been suspended pending investigation.

"Conservative campaign headquarters has made clear to our councillors that this arrangement must not go ahead."

It is not yet clear how the suspension will affect the coalition.

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