merridew

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[–] merridew 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Labour previously gave us the disastrous Digital Economy Act (2010), rushed through Parliament without proper debate, a month before being ousted. It contained a totally not-bonkers provision for people to be forcibly barred from accessing the internet if their connection was alleged to have been used to download copyrighted media, and Lord Mandelson (sponsor) was found to have spent a lot of time with film & music industry lobbyists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010

[–] merridew 3 points 1 year ago

At one point I was wearing an oodie under a dryrobe.

Toasty core. Chilly toes.

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen it. But only among youngsters who look too young to have been ordering in pubs before 2020.

[–] merridew 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The part complaining about a lack of Russian state-controlled news media?

[–] merridew 35 points 1 year ago

"Media Matters' report said that X remains a "dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers," noting that "since Elon Musk took over the company," X has restored extremist accounts and "placed ads for numerous brands directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi accounts."

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago

Well you are free to suspect that.

But I'm not going to put the health of my family on hold pending the (impossible) total eradication of global health inequity.

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's under this heading:

How is the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being distributed?

Pfizer has activated its extensive U.S. and European manufacturing network, including thousands of highly skilled U.S. workers in multiple states and localities, to prepare to produce the COVID-19 vaccine. We currently have the capacity to produce 4 billion doses annually, pending demand.

Influenza they reckon could be scaled up to between 6-8 billion annually, if needed.

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"A teenager has described a "freaky" late-night encounter with a man wearing a "gimp suit".

The 19-year-old... said the man was "unpredictable, flopping to the floor, writhing and grunting"."

Presumably that is why.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-63421811

[–] merridew 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please tell me what you mean by "capitalist business practices".

"Ignoring warnings" is not a character flaw unique to "capitalists".

[–] merridew 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mate if you want to moan about capitalism in healthcare go and find an American community on Lemmy.

[–] merridew 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.

And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that's a bad thing.

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