That’s not a very nice thing to say about Jacob.

At least halve the amount of ice-cream for it to look appetising to me.

How can you say it was one and not the other? I’d say it was more likely a bit of both.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but whether you live in a capitalist, socialist, communist or what ever other types of economic systems are available, you need to be intellectually honest about what types of workers the society needs to be able thrive.

How many historians do you want qualified before you would say, “maybe we should incentivise people in to things like medicine or engineering”, a hundred thousand, a million?

Of course history is important, but there’s clearly a sensible limit to how many job opportunities there are for curators, archeologists, researchers, teachers etc.

In the UK, more or less fifty percent of young people have a uni level of education but there are not fifty percent of vacant jobs that require a degree level education. It might be absolute lovely that my barista has a history degree, but they could have joined the workforce several years earlier, have dozens of thousands pounds less in debt and still had the opportunity to study history in their own time.

To be fair, how many historians etc do you need to qualify every year?

What’s the point of studying something for years, getting in to dozens of thousands in student debt, potentially getting near the top of your field and then having to go work in a Starbucks because there are so few vacancies in your field?

I agree that these degrees are nice to have, but we should be honest with students in regards to the sort of lifestyle they can expect after they qualify.

The ring piece

Do you remember when their protest outside the HQ of BP made the news? Me neither, but I’m sure the high rollers on their 6, 7, 8 figure salaries felt terribly inconvenienced!

I don’t have to agree with their methods or their ideology to recognise their right to protest. We’re talking about dyed cornstarch here, it’s not like they blew the thing up.

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Only $7.2M? Can we start a go fund me? Ex PM’s shouldn’t be living in absolute poverty.

I’m not taking the bait. There’s obviously many worse countries than the UK to be trans in and like I’ve already said, the UK isn’t perfect but it wouldn’t be as diverse as it is without being as accepting as it is.

You can reply to this if you want, but don’t expect me to reply in turn, this is my final statement on the matter.

Why is it sus?

Are you one of the people that thinks criticism of Israel’s foreign policy = antisemitism?

You’ll find that whilst far from perfect, that the UK is one of the most accepting and diverse populations on earth.

Who made you ambassador for the UK? I’m in the UK and I don’t hate them.

The whole point of protest is to cause disruption, you’re not meant to like it, that’s the point!

Still waiting for this to return to the UK and I’m absolutely furious that it wasn’t so popular that it became a standard menu item.

For anyone that hasn’t heard of Elvana (a Nirvana tribute band fronted by an Elvis tribute act.

https://youtu.be/LWgJ3-QLcvo?si=6mIOqyETRFEI2etf

Imagine if this had happened under Corbyn.

Yes, some jokes are silly and that’s why they’re funny. Although jokes can be harmful, I don’t think that this one was.

Are jokes productive for discussion or discourse? Not necessarily, but I’m not so precious that I’m going to downvote someone for making one.

I mean what’s more likely here, a guy made a joke and a load of sensitive Lemmings downvoted them or a guy was literally comparing people that support Palestine with bigots?

I endorse the use of /s so that we can avoid this type of debate, but whenever you mention it you get a load of complaints.

If you define a “shit take” as a comment that is factually wrong and or harmful, that’s fine and I’ve already said that. If your idea of a “shit take” is “I don’t like / disagree with your opinion” then I hope you’re fine with Lemmy becoming an out of touch echo chamber and I’ve also already said that. Why am I having to repeat myself?

It doesn’t take much browsing here to see plenty of rational disagreements that have been downvoted for failing to conform with the groupthink.

Yep. There’s no pain free solution to halting an addiction. You only stop when you really want to.

Reform stealing the right wing voters might not push the Tories to the centre, it could push them further to the right to try to win them back.

It worked for UKIP when the Tories promised a referendum to win their voters.