Part of the problem is that highly partisan rightwingers were imposed on the BBC by the Conservatives. It speaks to Keir Starmer’s mortal weakness that he has not sought to replace them with unbiased figures.

In other words, the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left.

I don't think Starmer has much of a "mortal weakness" here, he's just right wing and winning.

The slow way, liberal incrementalism, is seemingly getting us authoritarianism not just in the US but in much of Europe as well. Not to mention the liberal incrementalists broadly seem to have stopped bothering to, you know, increment.

The billionaires are in a cartel with Trump and Musk at the helm.

I think there's a bit of a political drive to try to label chronic conditions as "lifestyle" diseases tbh, hence the loose definitions.

MAGA and getting "no regerts" tattoos, name a more iconic duo

I'm trying to generally distance myself from all the VC sprouted billionaire former 'startups'. They're a disease. Those smug faces as they turn what they promised to be 'good' into a company that develops autonomous killing machines. All those smug bastards at the inauguration, happily paying the deposit to cash in on fascism. Unfortunately Google out of all of them has the deepest claws in me I think, android phone (Apple is in the same club/cartel imo so not much help), gmail, etc.

I think for marketing purposes you could have a hot list of marketing terms (presumably these would be scarce so sold to high bidding companies) and match against those which would be a sort of middle ground between the general purpose processing and a single wake word.

You could do it in a cheap (in terms of energy) and sloppy way where it only needs to be correct most of the time of the time to have a net positive impact on ad targeting when reconciled with other user data.

Ah, one of the eagar faces at the Trump inauguration is silently stealing screenshots of peoples' phones. What could possibly go wrong? Glad I binned that stupid platform.

It's totally reasonable for them to enforce their level of anti-bigotry protections to protect their safe space instance. It's not power tripping. Besides feddit.uk is full of full time labour centrist true believers and/or probable astroturfers and is is largely low value subreddit copy paste for their most substantial communities.

Damn. I don't want to engage with them either now. Are there any better UK instances? I'm getting sick and tired of the Starmer apologetics and general meltery on there anyway.

Unfortunately our glorious PM only does that to people advocating for changes which might risk benefiting working people.

Thank you!

Post surgery sick leave. My body is still a bit fucked but it's also the most time off I've had in one go in years.

Ah that's a good one, do you know any more?

Maybe so but at some point Trump is going to tell Starmer to jump on climate change.

I'm not sure what suggests Starmer is in any way interested in proving Nigel Farage wrong about anything. It seems like he's quite happy to run with whatever narrative the right sets.

When Elon Musk experiments by taking a day off ketamine.

I sort of hate this weird liberal-austerity Vs nationalist-investing dynamic the parties seem to have settled on. "At least one entire political axis must be shit at any given time". Thanks guys.

For me the problem with being scared of Trump "ruining our economy" is that he might just do it anyway. In fact, the more we play along with him, the more we become dependent on the US, and the more we prop up the order he's trying to bring about.

The EU and the rest of the world are having success pushing back on the US (see: 90 day delay on tariffs) yet in the UK we act like we're nothing but powerless mewling kittens who must act cute to survive.

Can you tell us how the Dems are going to reform the voting system so that people's choices are fairly represented? No? They have no plans for that because they perceive themselves as beneficiaries of a broken electoral system? Wow it's almost as if they're self interested crooks themselves

Edit: people downvoting this are the same people who'd hear about coca cola paramilitaries in South America and then switch to Fanta, thinking they're voting with their wallets