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  • We do live in a world where simply mentioning the bad shit people do can get you in trouble.

    Over on another forum site I mentioned that border security in Egypt made a British 15 year old girl strip in an airport and I received a 3 day ban off admins for “Inciting hatred based on identity or religion”.

    I never mentioned religion or any identity. I just said “Egypt made a 15 year old girl strip naked in an airport and that was a pretty shitty thing to do.”


  • To understand how seriously the British take the NHS we did a thing in Scouts where we went around the circle asking the children (aged 10-14) what the liked most and least about Britain. Out of around 20 of the kids, 5-6 said the NHS for what they liked most. The first child to mention the NHS was 11 years old.

    The weather was by and far the least liked thing about Britain.



  • Egg_Egg@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzEnglish Ivy
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    2 months ago

    Aye, this is the problem with a lot of invasive edibles. Too few people are interested in foraging and usually you can only eat so much foraged stuff.

    If everyone went out with tubs, bags and baskets on their days off and did a bit of foraging to make their diets a bit more varied and healthy then we might be able to make a dent in things like Himalayan Balsam and American Signal Crayfish. Realistically though we’d just have to limit foraging of easier to identify and prepare plants and fungi from easier to access areas.


  • I worked for an ISP that uses Openreach’s infrastructure in the UK. In order to make changes to customer installations or repairs we had to call an Openreach Contact Centre. These were basically big call centres in India. Many of my customers got contacted by scammers from India shortly after me contacting Openreach about their accounts using information like their address, contact details and information about the work they were receiving, and demanding things like card details to ensure the work went forward.

    It was obvious Indian workers in those call centres were taking pictures of customer account details and using that info to scam those customers, but my company refused to do anything about it because we “lacked evidence” and just told us to let customers know any communication about their accounts would come directly from us and we’d never ask for any card details etc.

    I’m certain any other companies, whether UK or US, that use centralised admin from India and similar places with poor security will be plagued with these exact same issues.



  • Egg_Egg@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzEnglish Ivy
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    2 months ago

    It’s difficult to eat your way through an invasive species. Himalayan Balsam is also edible but it’s thriving in the UK.

    In fact edibility is often the reason these things are so invasive, it’s why American Signal crayfish are over in the UK.










  • Again, you keep commenting on these things so you keep getting offered them and you seem to think blocking communities to curate your experience is in some way an insult to you?

    I likened you to a group of people on a social media platform doing exactly what you do. You are straight up using verbally offensive insults against me.

    I’ve been patient enough with you as it is. I will use the block feature to curate my experience now and rid myself of your nonsense.



  • Egg_Egg@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlcurved it is
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    2 months ago

    There was nothing inherently low quality about using iron sand anyway. Impurities were carried away by slag and the iron in the sand was easily recovered using washing and later electromagnetism. Imports were used as demand increased.



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    2 months ago

    What century of katana are you speaking about? Many katana were used with modern metallurgy technology and imported steel. Do you think modern Japanese created cars are also made from steel refined from sand? Do you think the guns Japanese Samurai used were made from steel refined from sand?