I think that most western politicians probably are privately but they can’t say it out loud because of politics.

Sorry, I guess that I needed a “/s” judging by the downvotes.

I was referring to how anti-vaccers all “do their own research” which generally involves no actual research at all.

They’re not going to stop people doing their own research into infectious diseases and vaccines though so it’ll be fine.

I think that you need to reread the comment that you replied to because you got the wrong end of the stick on that one.

They were talking about barring kids and vulnerable people from accessing the internet so that the bad guys can’t get to them.

No racism involved at all.

She’s an amazing woman. It must be so hard to go through this in private let alone with all this news coverage.

We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.

It says in the email that you can pay extra for ad free.

You have several feeds to browse Lemmy with.

• All shows everything federated to your home instance
• Local shows communities hosted on your home instance
• Home shows everything you are subscribed to

So subscribing to a community puts it in your Home feed which is a self curated list of communities that you’re interested in.

But “the people” didn’t decide on the deal because they were only given two choices and the interpretation of “leave” was down to the Government and Parliament.

It would have been much better to get experts together to decide what options there were and how each one affected us and for that information to be made available to everyone so that Parliament could have had a complete view of the various options that Government was considering.

Instead they hid away and came up with a single version of Brexit that got shot down and then they still triggered the leave process anyway.

They should have taken years to come up with a leave plan before triggering the leave process instead of the mess that happened.

Edit: and if this process determined that it really was a shit idea then act on that by either having a second referendum or just deciding that it was a bad idea and not doing it.

I think that the key part is that the government tried to come up with a Brexit plan on their own but couldn’t. They even started negotiating with the EU before they knew what they wanted and could get passed Parliament.

They wasted the best part of a year coming up with a single plan only to get it shot down because it didn’t match what most MPs wanted. It couldn’t because there were ten or twelve different versions of Brexit ranging from leaving in name only to just not even doing a deal with the EU at all.

Had they created a study group to analyse the options and the consequences of each they could have come up with a coherent plan with Parliament so that they’d know what everyone wanted before starting negotiations with the EU.

The problem was that nobody in the UK did an effective job of arguing for remain. They were caught napping because they were convinced that people wouldn’t want to leave.

When they realised that we were in danger of voting to leave it was too late.

Obviously, people in the EU said that it was a bad idea but they obviously would say that because we’re “sending them £350 million a week” and they wouldn’t want to lose that.

But not to be PM right away. Let some other sucker take that job and fuck it up (because it’s an impossible task as there are a dozen different ideas of Brexit) then he can come along later once most of the dust has settled.

I think that people tend to take just one or two reference points to decide things like this because it’s too complicated to consider them all.

The points that might have led people to believe that the NHS was improved by Brexit are that we were told that leaving the EU gave us the ability to approve and buy the COVID vaccine more quickly and that we did seem to get it more quickly than the EU.

I imagine that the model was created by elite people and so didn’t actually fail but behaved as designed.

At work, we subscribe to Microsoft Defender so that we get a centralised view of potential security issues on people’s computers.

It’s always saying that there’s something wrong with Chrome and it never alerts about the same issues that are almost certainly a problem with Edge.

That’s mildly infuriating too.

But they’ve urged Israel to act within international law so it’s ok.

Title case sucks. I don’t know why we use it.

When names are not familiar to you it takes a few goes to realise that her name is Ju Ae, not Ju Ae May or Ju Ae May Be.

It does one level of nesting with tab groups. Just drag one tab onto another to start.

I can’t believe that they formed the EU with specific criteria that you had to meet to join but didn’t put something in to make sure that each member continues to meet the same criteria.

It bugs me when they say that they are doing this and that “for the will of the people” when the majority of the people didn’t vote for them. And even if they did, it might have been for a different reason than the thing that they are talking about at the time.