George Cross
July 6, 2021•40 words
The NHS has been given the George Cross by the Queen. Will that stop the Johnsonites taking it over, so they can fuck it up even more than they fucked it up during the CV19 epidemic? Of course it won't.
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July 5, 2021•109 words
Police officers are playing copyrighted music to prevent people uploading videos of them to YouTube &c. This has been going on for a while and it's really hard to think of a good reason they might do this: it's almost certainly, almost always, an attempt to prevent evidence of wrongdoing existing.
How hard is it to strip audio from video before uploading it1? Is there an app that will do this? Why not?
This would reduce the value of the uploaded video as evidence of wrongdoing, bu...
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July 6, 2021•134 words
Face coverings will be optional in the UK from 19th July 2021. That is, perhaps1, reasonable: the rules have to be relaxed sometime, summer is better than winter, school holidays is better than term time.
But, given the trivial inconvenience of wearing a mask, and given how effective they are, anyone who cares about other people at all will obviously continue to wear one. And that is what competent people are saying.
Rishi Sunak won't, of course. And he's happy to say that in public, even t...
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