UkeleleEric

Uke-player, busker, from Notts, UK, trying to make sense of the mess of capitalist colonialist billionaire-producing shitshow that the UK / world has become. Trying to be green, but still having to balance that with practical home budget. Christian, which is where a lot of my philosophy starts from, but try to be inclusive and helpful. Work as a bus driver, generally schools. Unsolicited duck pics / other animal pics welcome.
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2026-05-08 08:40:23 UTC

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Surely, by definition, MPs SHOULD know what is going on in the courts? And, passing stuff to them that they should already know would surely be covered by parliamentary privilege, I think.

2026-04-16 09:09:50 UTC

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Also, golf clubs are such a massive waste of land PER USER, worse than almost any other sporting activity. And the deliberate grassing of what could be otherwise diverse areas, together with the common use of pesticides, and artificial layout and control of the land, leads to an environmental disaster.

2026-04-12 12:14:10 UTC

Anyone in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, or nearby, who wants to join in with our flashmob next Saturday? #ManchesterRambler #Hucknall #Nottinghamshire #ukulele #protest Please boost this for reach: https://www.hucknallukes.com/home/song-competition

2026-04-08 16:21:22 UTC

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except our government hasn't stopped making pennies, and that's what our currency is called, unlike you Americans who insist on calling several of your coins odd names that don't directly tell you what they are (penny for central, dime for ...?) When my brother moved there years ago, he got quite confused that the dime doesn't even say ON IT what it's actually worth - he has to ask someone else.

2026-03-23 13:36:38 UTC

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I always thought that we should have not been in the EU in 1974, and then there would have been two roughly-equal sized blocks in Europe, the EU and EFTA, which would have worked better for all. As it was, by not leaving then, we made it so that, over time, the only sensible thing for other European countries, especially the former Soviet bloc countries, to do was to try to get into the EU, or, at the very least, come to a formal agreement, like Norway did.

2026-03-20 09:44:18 UTC

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BBC have started seeing the writing on the wall and trying to pander to the Greens?

2026-03-16 09:41:59 UTC

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Why doesn't the country with the largest navy in the world go instead? Oh, sorry, I forgot - they only started the war without asking anyone else.

2026-03-08 18:12:52 UTC

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probably because of reading this poll.

2026-03-05 10:15:10 UTC

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but that situation has lasted longer than you think - I remember a drama called 'Kathy' many decades ago...

2026-03-01 08:54:16 UTC

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The trouble is, the dictator should have died in prison at the Hague, having answered for his crime, or during an uprising by his people, not bombed by another dictator who will now impose yet another puppet regime that the people will rise against, leading to another dictator regime, and so on...

2026-02-23 17:19:18 UTC

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I didn't know walnuts had beaks!

2026-01-31 10:40:03 UTC

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I disagree. Whilst there can be small amounts of growth in parts of the economy, I don't believe that our climate really will cope with constant growth (however you define that). We have been taking and taking for far too long. We need Degrowth now.

2026-01-27 09:53:33 UTC

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I have little sympathy for someone who is supposed to keep some of this data for accountability reasons trusting to an online AI system (someone else's computer) let alone not understanding the implications of turning off consent on his account. But then, if he really was a reliable academic, he'd know he shouldn't be using AI at all.

2026-01-22 12:09:41 UTC

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or even concerns about Trump being in charge...

2026-01-14 19:39:41 UTC

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The problem is that we should never allow anyone to do this to anyone, the fact that he is a US citizen should have been irrelevant. Too many people have been fine with this being done to 'others' (people not my colour, not my belief, not my nationality) for too long.

2026-01-14 06:26:06 UTC

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The daft thing is that they always try to do it the wrong way round. Even the way they talk about it ( 'illegal workers' rather than 'illegal employers') shows how they are framing it. Most workers don't want to work illegally, as they know they're more likely to be exploited, so a scheme whereby people who are migrants CAN work (rather than sitting for years not being permitted) would remove most illegal working overnight. Then concentrate on punishing illegal employers.

2026-01-13 13:35:31 UTC

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Seriously? They think that negotiation is the way to go? They are still thinking that Trump is a normal politician.

2026-01-10 23:11:57 UTC

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Definitely for slicing tomatoes. Sometimes whilst the aristocrat was still eating them.

2025-12-31 20:31:08 UTC

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And the question is WHY are you still using them? LLMs are just complex guessing models, designed to give something that sounds like an answer. It's like trying to tell the time from a stopped clock. The only way you can tell if it's right, is if you find another clock.

2025-12-15 05:08:18 UTC

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I think that there's a perception that people go rightwing as they get older. I don't think so, I think that people go rightwing due to it being advantageous to them and their lifestyle as they get older, if they are fortunate to be well-off enough. Whereas those who struggle, or see others struggle, keep a common humanity, and tend to go left.

2025-11-12 16:56:39 UTC

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look a bit too phallic to me...

2025-11-04 07:24:20 UTC

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yes, but a sovereign wealth fund was never created - many governments just used the proceeds from BP as a boost to enable them to bribe the electorate with political decisions.

2025-10-21 09:52:35 UTC

Currently sat in Chesterfield station, on the first leg of travel of our holiday (okay, we've already taken two buses to get her). Train is to Newcastle, then shuttle bus to ferry terminal, overnight to Amsterdam, then train to Amiens (via Paris), where we are spending 6 nights, before returning via Lille and Eurostar, then back to Mansfield. Anyone fancy meeting up in France?

2025-10-20 07:12:34 UTC

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Dunno where an immigrant working in the NHS up to 80 hours a week is going to find the time for voluntary work...

2025-10-09 05:32:09 UTC

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So, if someone who AGREES with the government stance on this picks up this magazine to complain about it, will they get arrested too?

2025-10-07 09:17:44 UTC

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I wish more people would read this. Whenever someone mentions that they used AI for something, I usually switch off, and try to remember never to interact with that person again. I DON'T want to hear what a word-jumbler came up with when you switched it on.

2025-09-12 17:33:35 UTC

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As someone who has read and studied the Bible, I'm afraid to say I have to concur. Ever since Constantine, it has been obvious that the establishment tries to pervert the church by bringing a few people up to believe that they are standing up for 'good government ' or 'stability' or 'peace' and leading most of the rest of the church to be compliant. Our job should be to comfort the uncomfortable, and discomfort the comfortable.

2025-09-10 13:27:24 UTC

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And how Zionists started out...

2025-09-09 16:37:32 UTC

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yeah, it's a conspiracy that there's only the one to give it extra attention.

2025-08-29 07:56:11 UTC

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Taxing private as well as corporate landlords is definitely the way to go. The idea that anyone should profit out of someone needing a house over their head is immoral. I'm sorry that you thought that the best way to save was by exploiting others. (As a fair rent would be LESS than what it costs you to run the property, as you still have the property at the end)

2025-08-22 07:03:25 UTC

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I always remember my mum telling me, when my first son was born, to remember that he is an individual, not just 'the baby'. She explained that numerous people would give 'advice', well-meant, about what to do for various situations (eg. How to treat colic) that wouldn't work for our child, because he was an individual (and likewise what worked with one child wouldn't necessarily work for a sibling). Without realising, this was the best piece of advice she gave.

2025-08-20 21:05:58 UTC

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you really think it started on October 7th and not in 1948, don't you?

2025-08-14 15:45:58 UTC

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if someone puts that response to a non-specific sign like that, he's saying that he supports anyone who kills children or civilians.

2025-08-11 08:01:16 UTC

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BUT the real issue is that there is an easier way for the line (which is required to connect offshore wind farms to the Grid) to go - underwater along the coast. The reason that the government and companies don't want to do it that way is solely down to cost.

2025-08-01 18:23:51 UTC

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methinks Rachel Reeves is looking for a nice little job in the financial sector when she leaves politics, so is doing what she can to keep them sweet.

2025-07-29 08:33:05 UTC

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symbolic token measures to make it look like they're serious about the situation until the majority have moved on. By this point, all the Israeli cabinet, and most Israeli tourists, should be persona non grata.

2025-07-22 16:13:50 UTC

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Always has done. My dad can recall when they first proposed nuclear power stations in this country, and promised that, 'within a generation, electricity will be too cheap to meter'. My brother had a friend who used to go sea fishing off Size well, and my brother asked him if the fish glowed in the dark...

2025-07-22 11:21:03 UTC

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Now here's a radical thought- how about those countries actually start following international law themselves? Can't see it happening - people like Starmer are too in-hock to pro-Zionist lobbies and military financial profiteers.

2025-07-21 12:14:27 UTC

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Trump didn't create the monster, it has been created and nurtured for about 100 years by Western governments, including the US and UK, but not just them.

2025-07-09 16:19:31 UTC

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Although there is something to be said for putting solar on already-used land if there is a requirement for power there, that car park is probably half the problem - people really need to think about alternative means of travel, and if they need to travel in the first place. Would much prefer it if every public building had solar panels on their rooves.

2025-07-07 05:29:13 UTC

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What sort of enquiries about a plot not for sale could you make, I wonder?

2025-07-05 13:18:41 UTC

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this is what many indigenous peoples always found difficult to believe, that, just by claiming a place where you happen to be, you reduce the rights of anyone who steps there in future.

2025-07-02 06:11:09 UTC

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I don't believe that this is really what it's about. No company or organisation recruits non-locally if they have enough local staff applying. And sorting out the training first will naturally reduce the distance recruitment. So, we have to ask why is the government not dealing with the cause first.

2025-07-01 16:18:15 UTC

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I do think that marathon runners shouldn't just stop at eyebrows....

2025-06-30 12:33:36 UTC

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whilst not agreeing with the fatwah, I do agree with him that those two are enemies of God.

2025-06-27 15:53:42 UTC

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These 'well you must have something to hide' people presumably don't close the cubicle door in toilets, or close their curtains, and have transparent walls on their houses, no doors or locks...

2025-06-19 16:26:39 UTC

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Possible, but maybe not practical - you would need each phone to negotiate connection with the next one, and the interference from all the other phones would be horrific. Would probably need something like Bluetooth, as NFC tends to be too low power. If someone is jamming mobile signals and WiFi, then the Bluetooth frequency will also be easy to jam at the same time. Probably better for some of the people to have older tech like walkie-talkies.

2025-06-16 12:23:06 UTC

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Easy - the one on the right is slightly better suited to put rubbish in, whereas the one on the left has been driven by rubbish...

2025-06-10 12:24:29 UTC

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Well, if Netanyahu can get away with this sort of thing, Putin thinks he can.

2025-05-25 07:12:15 UTC

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so, despite how it's been reported as a 'u-turn', it isn't (again), but something different. The advantage of universal benefits is that they go to everyone who needs it, and have a lower administrative cost than any other scheme.

2025-04-30 16:29:29 UTC

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Especially Red Kites - they're vicious predators...

2025-04-27 21:13:01 UTC

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It also means that you could find yourself in one country but facing extradition to one of the other two for something you did not know was/has become an offence, and countries cannot protect you from another country that you also have a citizenship of.

2025-04-11 07:23:37 UTC

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similar happening in the UK - the only area with increased budget is 'defence', which in true Orwellian style, actually means 'attack'.

2025-03-19 10:24:52 UTC

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It's patently clear that this a short-term money-saving exercise. If disabled people were really the focus, you wouldn't start from an amount of money to save and work backwards. My wife receives PIP because she is unable to work. She has an incurable, untreatable condition, which means there is nothing we can do, but it costs us more money. IF this PIP was cut, we would be better off with me leaving my job and claiming benefits until I retire in just over 5 years.

2025-03-08 17:42:48 UTC

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yes, but I can't see that solar panels are really an eyesore any more than those newfangled chimneys were a few thousand years ago...

2025-02-21 13:14:03 UTC

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The simple rule is: if Trump says it, it MUST be false. If Trump accuses someone of something, that's what HE is doing, not the other person.

2025-02-12 07:14:00 UTC

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There's also another reason why new student housing is being built in cities that need normal housing - developers can evade requirements for certain other facilities, and house people more intensely, thus making even more money. When, after a few years, they prove that there's too much student accommodation for demand, it is then 'converted' into housing.

2025-02-12 06:09:56 UTC

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which, presumably, makes them unenforceable in law?

2025-02-03 09:43:46 UTC

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Boosted for visibility.

2025-01-31 09:54:04 UTC

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my dad said the rot set in when the government (believe it was the 70s) allowed building societies to take more than one income into account for mortgages. Together with the selling of council housing, previously providing a decent source of reliable rental properties, and thus keeping rents down in the private sector, and the promotion of home-ownership as a form of wealth, we are now in a situation where unproductive landlords sit on the commonwealth of the country.

2025-01-28 09:43:17 UTC

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we really need to look at flow storage batteries, and more pumped storage.

2025-01-16 19:21:01 UTC

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Definitely an underestimate.

2025-01-14 12:59:13 UTC

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Not everyone has access to decent public transport and local facilities, for various reasons, but, the more people rely on cars, the less incentive there is for other options to be made available.

2025-01-14 11:36:16 UTC

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Yeah, we need to stop most people from having cars; and, for those who have them, to use them less, and to have the best sort of car. Many of my neighbours have cars. We live a few minutes' walk from several small shops and frequent bus services (including into town, where there is a railway station, and buses to other places). Most of them COULD do without cars (I am the exception, being a bus driver going to the depot).

2025-01-13 21:42:44 UTC

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the brakes are not like new, nor are the tyres - they are shedding micro-particles all the time.

2025-01-12 12:15:01 UTC

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Not sure that that is legal. If each individual booking is being defined as a separate contract, then deducting something from their wages is not right. The only way they could do that would be for the app company to be acting as an agency, employing them, surely? Then they would be permitted to pay them on a set frequency, and any fees for getting the money earlier would be as an advance on their wages.

2025-01-08 17:44:37 UTC

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You have a separate grater for small cheeses? ;)

2024-12-30 14:12:09 UTC

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But, the number of laws passed is not necessarily a sign of a good administration. I would argue that we need fewer, better-thought-out laws, and removing redundant and unfair laws should be higher on people's agenda. But it might be partially a bad sign. How good were the laws that didn't get enacted?

2024-12-14 09:17:28 UTC

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also, Labour keeps saying "they're" going to build houses when they're not. There is no commercial incentive to build more houses, or companies would do it. Until we have government bodies actually commissioning house building (we could call it 'council housing '), more won't get built.

2024-12-13 10:06:34 UTC

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the problem is really that growth is actually good in the first place. In all my lifetime, the GDP of this country has actually made no difference to my ability to live and thrive. What has made a difference is not economically measurable, so, for most economists, worthless. Also, people's generosity has not done harm to our finite environment like the capitalist idea of continuous growth. We need to fundamentally reassess our analysis to account for that.

2024-12-08 12:09:53 UTC

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if your internet is still connected with the landline, which it sounds like it is, then restoration of one should restore the other. Landlines are soon to be removed (already have been in some areas), so you should receive notification when the things switch over in your area. At that point, you can either have a physical phone wired to connect via your router, or have it removed.

2024-12-08 09:35:27 UTC

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not just those cautions, though. Someone can be landed with a lifelong criminal record just because, after a youthful indiscretion, and persuaded by police to accept a caution, they find that, 40 years later, they are still turned down for a job. All cautions should have an expiry date.

2024-12-04 17:14:47 UTC

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that's why I bought my current one -repairable, made from mainly recycled materials, and upgradeable. Look into it - the Fair phone 5. Expect it to last 10 years, runs Android, and I've even managed not to put a Google account on it at all. (Get my apps via F-droid, or Aurora store via anonymous login.) Not owned by a billionaire or a corrupt country, no slavery connection, made in Europe.

2024-12-02 09:42:34 UTC

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so now they're not content with genocide and illegal settlement, they're going to remove freedom of religion. Wondering what will be left of human rights when they're finished.

2024-10-22 04:13:48 UTC

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so, apparently freedom of speech doesn't exist in Australia either...

2024-10-20 11:38:29 UTC

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actually, it's 36 for women... :bugcatagree:

2024-10-17 21:04:42 UTC

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made it 9513 for you...

2024-09-27 05:24:58 UTC

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but you can guarantee that this won't get Americans out of their cars and doing more for the environment.

2024-09-11 15:57:45 UTC

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think you meant Immolate?