Wow, UK might turn into cyberpunk dystopia earlier than anyone thought.

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    4 days ago

    The most unnervingly creepy government press release I ever saw.

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      4 days ago

      Do they even care any more? It’s like they’re only pretending to try and make it look palatable.

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        4 days ago

        Did you forget to switch to your alt?

        I knew Lemmy was just the same 12 people having conversations with themselves…

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          4 days ago

          Welcome to fedi where not everyone uses it in exactly the same way as you.

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            You are getting downvoted not because you’re using it in a different way but because you’re using it in a way only has downsides. It’s fine in a chatroom but kind of annoying on a service like this.

            It goes against internet norms that have existed since the beginning - and for good reason. Your one thought takes up 90% more screen real estate when you reply to yourself instead of putting it all in the first comment comment.

            I mean no disrespect, I just want to clarify why it’s looked down upon.

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              Contributing to stupid fucking thread derailments about inconsequential points of netiquette as we have both done here is of course another fine tradition that has been around since the early days of the net. But you know, it’s not like there was a hell of a lot of other discussion happening on this occasion. The original topic deserves a thousand times more attention than it gets.

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                4 days ago

                All right, man. I wasn’t trying to be a dick or anything. Just seemed like you were misinterpreting why people were annoyed by choice to double reply

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            4 days ago

            I have never been so cowardly as to feel the need to use an alt when replying to my own comments.

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    How are they tackling the drivers of the downfall of society; the evaporating social safety net, and aggressively underpaying the employed thanks to oligarchs? Foreign wealth buying up real estate? Polluters poisoning the water, the air?

    Will these super expensive new measures go after and hold accountable at all, the wealthy?

    No? I’m shocked.

    Remember, crime is only for the poor.