WhaleScenery

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t seem to have the ability to PM people on my app but if you could PM me with those examples, I’d be very appreciative.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (41 children)

Unfortunately political systems are often held together with “tradition” and “gentleman’s agreements”, where conventions dictate how people should behave. Politicians typically followed them because it is seen as the honourable and right thing to do.

However, it seems to be a recent trend among the hard right that politicians just ignore those conventions because:

a) those conventions are inconvenient b) honour means nothing to them, and c) nothing actually enforces those unwritten rules - so there are no consequences for ignoring them

Similar things have happened here in the UK as well. I guess our political systems both assume some degree of good will & trust in its representatives, and it generally turns out that trust is misplaced.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Maybe it came along at the right time in my life, but Fallout 4 has got to be in my top 2-3 games ever.

The atmosphere in 4 is unlike almost anything I’ve played before or since. The story is great fun and I loved the settlement-building - it gave the game a sort of second life as a fairly chill building game once the story was complete.

Fallout 76 was just poorly judged and clunky. The multiplayer aspect ruined it. Although with that said, I did enjoy the C.A.M.P. idea. That was a good mechanic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

New contender for “worst take of 2023”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also make superb camper vans if you aren’t too mad about the 150 mile range!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Isn’t this just going to directly cause more fly-tipping?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The only fish I can think of that might’ve dropped the Bic is a smoked haddock.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think what makes me even sadder is that Ian Chambers (one of the directors at the hospital where Letby committed her crimes) left his job shortly after Letby was charged… only now to be interim director of nursing at a Salford NHS trust.

He spent years enabling Letby and covering up her crimes, gaslighting and silencing numerous senior doctors… only to go somewhere else and continue managing at a high level the moment that there was a risk of facing consequences for his failures.

I don’t know what’s more disturbing- the fact that Chambers moved on once he realised the jig was up, or that another trust ACTUALLY HIRED HIM. Disgusting.