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Comment BBC are Gaslighting (Score 1) 25

Too right they are experts in "misinformation"
Heres 10 examples of the nations least trusted broadcaster's (BBC) "Misinformation"

1. Question Time audience composition
Audience makeup on Question Time has drawn complaints from both directions for years — Conservative and Brexit-supporting critics say audiences skew liberal-left, even hiring actors to pose as members of the public to present a false narrative.

2. Diane Abbott / Fiona Bruce polling exchange (2019)
Abbott was corrected on-air over polling figures; the BBC later admitted its review found she'd been right to say other polls suggested Labour was either ahead or tied, and conceded it should have made that clear at the time.

3. Newsnight's Corbyn/Kremlin graphic (2018)
Newsnight placed Corbyn's image against Moscow's skyline during Salisbury poisoning coverage - his hat had been digitally altered to look more "Russian."

4. Laura Kuenssberg's "grim reading" postal vote claim (2019)
On the eve of the 2019 election, Kuenssberg's claim that postal votes looked bad for Labour drew roughly 15,000 complaints from viewers since in order to make such a statement regarding postal votes sugesting she must have had access to that data prior to the result.

5. 2019 general election coverage overall
The BBC reportedly received over 60,000 complaints about its election coverage, a sharp jump from 5,000 in 2015 and 7,000 in 2017, with complaints about anti-Corbyn bias.

6. Boris Johnson Question Time audience-laughter edit (2019)
The BBC edited a daytime news clip to remove audience laughter that followed a question to Johnson about honesty, prompting accusations of favorable editing.

7. Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone (2025)
An internal BBC review found the documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the child narrator was the son of a senior Hamas official. Ofcom went further, ruling the film was "materially misleading" and breached the Broadcasting Code.

8. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack ( 2025)
Running the other direction: the BBC declined to broadcast this Gaza documentary after members of the (separate, independent) production team made public comments accusing Israel of war crimes. BBC suppressed coverage rather telling the truth.

9. Iraq War coverage (2002–2003)
BBC facilitated government WMD claims (including the "45 minutes" assertion) with insufficient scrutiny in the run-up to war. Further more the government's dossier had been "sexed up," which triggered the Hutton Inquiry, the death of David Kelly, and the resignation of the Director-General and Chairman after Hutton found against the BBC's editorial processes. So the BBC was too credulous toward the government.

10. "False balance" on economic/austerity coverage
A frequently cited academic critique (Cardiff University media research, among others) argues BBC economics coverage in the early 2010s tended to frame deficit reduction as consensus common sense rather than a contested policy choice, disproportionately featuring City/financial-sector voices over dissenting economists.

Comment US Army produces most greenhouse gas emissions. (Score 1) 93

And that was before they started burning through AI Tokens.

Let it be known that our future is bleak - mitigation is not enough and world leaders are doing the opposite of what is needed.

That said we can always spaff a few million on a new report that tells us nothing we dont already know and results in no action being taken.

Comment Optimistic and false picture (Score 2, Insightful) 132

The following is also true . People born in the 1970s may represent one of the first generations for whom continued increases in life expectancy can no longer be taken for granted. Unless climate change, air pollution, healthcare, and public health challenges are effectively addressed, future generations could experience lower life expectancy than their parents in some regions, and potentially globally under severe scenarios.

The report ignores the elephant in the room that will lead to many more premature and unexpected deaths. Climate Breakdown.

Comment A rancid idea (Score 1) 321

To say that a country is thriving at the expense of suffering and loss of life is a grotesque and rancid idea.
It incentivises continued conflict in order to maintain benefit for the country.

To say that "Countries that fail to follow suit risk disaster" raises serious moral and humanitarian concerns direction
the world is heading.

Comment Re:IWGB helped me. (Score 1) 30

I wouldnt say it was "Sorted Out" - I had to sell my home - it was that or end up bankrupt and homeless - and still unable to work due to the burnout it caused. The house sale was traumatic in itself and i had to borrow off family until it the sale completed. The positive i suppose was that we had enough to just about clear the mortgage and move to a cheaper home in Wales. Though - it has no kitchen and needs a lot of work doing to be properly liveable. An amazing view though and no mortgage or rent to pay.

Comment Re:It always puzzled me... (Score 1) 30

Gamers are a fickle bunch and speaking as someone from inside the industry there are still some that can be very mouthy and entitled when they dont get what they want. Larger companies with public IPO also have the press to deal with - bad news affects share price. There are certain dates throughout the year eg : christmas , easter and other public holidays where new updates and releases are expected. Things cant go out the door buggy, and if they do the punters get upset and the press report it. If features get cut to meet deadlines that doesnt pan out well either. All of these things are a sign of bad management and planning but also sometimes shit does just happen. I dont know if what the solution is to appeasing all the expectations of gamers and the press - but Im personally a beleiver in promising less and delivering more. Crunch culture sucks, it burns out developers fast - were usually not paid proper overtime and free pizza and cake isnt healthy doesnt make up for the long nights time after time Over time that gets refelected in the product.

Comment IWGB helped me. (Score 5, Interesting) 30

Just chiming in - I went through a year long ideal , also in the games industry i worked for the company in the UK that make a well known space exploration and trading game. Id been there nearly 11 yrs. Covid and lockdowns provided a stock surge 10x the current price. When the bubble broke they had a management reshuffle - and shed over 200 people. Similar problems with the return to work policy also. I can only assume that since id been there so long the payout would have been quite sizeable - thats when they tried to sideline me and bully me out - I fought them with IWGB for over a year, there were discrimination issues due to my disablity which they were exploiting. IWGB helped me get a settlement, i could have got more but the year long fight burned me out (im still in burnout) and i couldnt stick it any longer to take it to a tribunal. Just wanna say - even if your company doesnt officially recognise unions , you are still legally protected and if you find yourself in an unfair situation its well worth having them by your side - you are entitled to have them represent you in any meetings and there isnt much your employer can do about it.

Comment Sheer, unadulderated bollocks (Score 5, Informative) 157

The difficulties described are consequences of Apple’s proprietary platform design, not evidence that Linux or ARM are immature ecosystems. Conflating ISA compatibility with platform openness is a fundamental misunderstanding of how hardware enablement works.

“Linux doesn’t feel ready for ARM yet. Many apps aren’t compiled for ARM.”

This is the weakest argument in the article.

ARM Linux is widely deployed on:

Billions of Android devices (Linux kernel)
Most cloud hyperscalers (Graviton, Ampere)
Raspberry Pi ecosystem
Embedded and industrial systems
Major distros eg:
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian have mature AArch64 support.

And today most open-source software compiles cleanly for ARM64.
Browsers, compilers, containers, dev tools are fully native.
Even Steam supports ARM via translation layers.

The real issue is x86-only proprietary binaries.

That’s not Linux-on-ARM immaturity.
That’s legacy x86 ecosystem inertia.

Even Apple solves this via Rosetta — a translation layer.
Linux uses FEX or box64 for similar purposes.

Translation instability platform immaturity.

I guess the source is MSN though ...

Comment Propaganda / BBC Bullshit (Score -1, Flamebait) 44

"We had sex in a chinese hotel" ......
Anti-China Propaganda - like chinese hotels are the only place this is happening ...
Like BBC has broadcast one iota of truth regarding the Epstien revelations that might shed more light on the actions of the royal nonce, ex prime ministers or
high ranking british pedophiles... Weird i think isnt it that they dont have any airtime for to tell the truth on the biggest trafficking / pedophile ring ever. Maybe thats because BBC is also an organisation that enabled and paid nonces
like
Rolf Harris ,
Billy Idol ,
Jimmy Saville,
Stuart Hall,
Huw Edwards,
Chris Denning,
Johnathan King,
Chris Langham
All bankrolled by the nations LEAST trusted nonce enabling broadcaster.

I smell a dead cat story, and the reason i do not watch , not fund british nonce-enabling broadcast television via the TV License.
I highly recommend people boycott it. In fact if you ARE paying and watching BBC programmes - why do you fund this - what does this say about you?

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