Be rude, someone is rude to you back. Boo hoo.

Trying to bait people into absolutely pointless arguments makes the community shittier.

[Speaking of Jews, travelers, and other white ethnic groups] They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable. It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism.

Says bigotry against some ethnic groups doesn’t count as racism because they’re white, is suspended, apologises, is let back into the party, now says her apology was fake and she stands by what she said, is suspended again.

I’m sorry, but this feels like she’s purposely getting herself suspended again in order to get some headlines before moving party. It’s a political stunt.

Oh my fucking god, really?!

You’re so smart, that never occurred to me. I thought that there was only 27 countries in the world, and all of them were in one continent!

Yes, I do realise that, genius. I’m not from an EU country myself.

However, I engaged my brain cells and quickly realised that most phones that exist are sold in the EU, and therefore the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide.

Like how the EU mandated USB-C and now it’s worldwide. The EU has quietly become the market that sets international standards over the past 20 years.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment, but fuck me it’s the most Reddit comment ever. A pointless comment just begging to start a pointless argument. Nobody can be bothered with that trolling shit. Do better.

They will not actually spend 4 years in prison, and I imagine you know that. They’ll be let out early, like most prisoners, unless they cause serious trouble in prison.

And destroying a national landmark, then obstructing the course of justice, and being in contempt of court. That more than justifies it.

Maybe all of that is fine to you, but it is not the kind of behaviour that should be encouraged.

Maybe you’re just far from the area, and have an attitude of “who the fuck cares mate, it’s just a tree innit!”, and don’t care about the obstruction or contempt of court part.

Maybe you think it’s just something those stupid working class northerners care about, or maybe that doesn’t enter into your head at all, I don’t know.

Would you feel the same if someone intentionally blew up Stonehenge out of pure malice? Big Ben? The Eiffel tower? The Colosseum? Parthenon? Any other national landmark that a great deal of people care about?

Behaviour like this cannot be given a “you’re a bad boy, a very bad boy indeed. £250 fine and 20 hours of community service”-style punishment.

You obviously don’t. You were advocating for practically zero punishment for it, and find incessant lying in court to be completely fine too.

I’m immensely glad you’re not involved in the justice system or legislation. What a fucking disaster that would be. A criminal free-for-all.

You should look up some of the messages the court case revealed. It sums up how nasty, spiteful, and truly hateful these two men are.

They took active joy in making people miserable. They knew targeting a loved cultural landmark would make people angry and miserable, so that’s what they did.

Their motivation was purely to hurt.

You’re getting angry about people talking about technology in a technology community, leading people to ask why you’re here if you hate technology being spoken about.

That’s obviously not equivalent to racism or xenophobia.

You’re yearning so hard to be a victim. It’s pathetic.

I don’t think the issue with phones is the smaller bezels or better displays.

That’s not what’s ruining them.

All phones that are sold in the EU now have to have 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

Basically, all phones have 6+ years of updates now.

I.e. translating to no real punishment. For permanently destroying a historically significant site, then constantly lying in court.

I’m sure there would be zero repercussions from that.

Jesus Christ, I am immensely thankful you aren’t a judge or legislator.

Cool yeah, let’s have short sentences for destroying cultural landmarks. I’m sure that’ll be fine.

We both know that these men will, unfortunately, be out far sooner than 4 years time.

Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 80s.

Good. Things like this being gutted under the Tories was incredibly short-sighted.

Of course we can’t do anything about this in the short term, but long term we should be doing everything we can to fix property pricing. It’s such a stranglehold on both citizens and businesses.

People can’t afford to go out and spend because it’s all servicing a mortgage or rent, which goes to wealthy landlords or banks, rather than circulating locally/improving government tax intake.

Businesses have to hike prices to pay for exorbitant rent rates, which further reinforces people not being able to go out and spend.

The government spends several billion per year on housing benefits, which has went from a benefit to help the few who fell through the cracks and needed a bit of assistance, to huge numbers of people completely reliant on it else they can’t afford to house themselves. And who gets the money? That’s right. Landlords.

We obviously can’t snap our fingers and have more houses overnight, but I hope the upcoming planning reforms and mandatory building targets actually bear fruit.

I’m a home owner by the skin of my teeth (I worked 84 hour weeks, saved relentlessly - destroying my social life, and moved to the North East where housing is cheap), but I’m fine taking a hit in house value if it’s for the good of the nation. Fuck the people who pulled the ladders up after them.

Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?

Just install Firefox. It’s not like you can’t import your bookmarks and such.

The effect of this would be extremely minimal. Almost all empty homes in the UK are homes that are temporarily empty pending sale or between renters. Having empty homes is actually extremely normal, you can’t really not have empty homes, as people are always moving.

With rare exceptions, empty homes aren’t just sitting there empty for years, like this article implies. The landlords would much rather rent them out and make money.

The UK has far fewer empty empty homes than anywhere else in the developed world. Our housing stock isn’t enough.

There’s no other option but to build more. I hope Labour’s plans can help with that, but who knows. And it’d need to be sustained.

NIMBYism is killing this country. We have the smallest available housing stock in Europe by some margin. Labour are right to be trying to make a dent in the issue.

Unsurprising. Iran has made threats about our bases not long ago, although thankfully so far they’ve not done anything. Hopefully it stays that way. The last thing we need is to be dragged into this.

Authoritarian arrest?! They broke into an RAF base and crippled multiple planes, FFS.

Why do you want Farage to win so badly? He’d be awful for the country. Do you not see the damage he’s already done?

No, the majority are not questionable. Every single one of those are unambiguously left wing moves.

People are falling victim to the anything to the right of me [socialist] is right wing.

Labour are objectively a centre-left party, and I just gave evidence of that. Saying “well all of that is left wing… but it doesn’t count!” isn’t a legitimate argument.