I’m replying again because your posts are moronic. I didn’t say that Starmer is my favourite politician of all time, I just think he seems relatively sensible. If I were to be an obedient dog then I would conform to whatever your shitty instance wants me to think, just like you do.

Fair point, thanks for the advice. I thought it was right-wingers who were meant to be arseholes, but on Lemmy it seems that some (not all) left-wingers are arseholes too.

You’re genuinely a complete freak

Yes I reported your post because normal people, in civil conversation, don’t refer to other people as animals. My hope with Lemmy is that people can be civil and polite but for some reason you didn’t want to be.

It looks like I was right to report your post because the mods seemed to agree that it was a bad post.

Do you get anything out of being this upset on the internet?

What the fuck is wrong with you

Corbyn had more left-wing positions, but he lost two elections, so I think Starmer realised that a more centrist position would give Labour a better chance of becoming the government.

I guess I’m just saying that it could be worse. If Sunak had won the 2024 election then the country would probably have experienced more managed decline.

I think it would be good to try and boost the UK’s tech sector, and use that sector to help the country in various ways. But I think everybody knows that AI is a bit of a tired meme at the moment.

We need a good economy so we can afford things like the NHS, but yes the economy ideally would benefit every Brit, rather than just a few rich people.

True, they probably don’t want more aggravation, but they may well be open to closer co-operation on defence for example, which the article mentions.

The UK doesn’t need to necessarily jump straight back into EU membership. There are other ways we can work together with Europe. Maybe at some point the UK government will consider rejoining the EU customs union and/or single market.

Yeah I’ve heard of that, maybe I should look at it more. Hopefully the Lemmy codebase is fine though. I’m just saying it’s possible, even if perhaps unlikely, that something could be lurking in the code which nobody has discovered yet. The XZ Utils backdoor was well-hidden and happened to be discovered, but maybe malicious code isn’t always discovered.

Even a technical lead of an instance may not have read every single line of code because codebases these days are pretty large. Typically you might look at the code you’re working on, but not necessarily the entire codebase.

Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t have anything malicious in it, but it’s possible to sneak malware into open source projects. This sort of thing happened to XZ Utils last year.

I’m not raising a conspiracy theory point, I’m raising what is surely a valid point: everybody assumes that someone else will read all of the source code and understand it all.

Codebases are large, and malicious code can be obfuscated. Hopefully Lemmy’s code is fine, but I definitely don’t know for certain that it’s completely clean. I just hope that it is.

Have you read all the code though? Everyone assumes that somebody else will read every single file of the source code, and understand it all. Malicious code can be obfuscated.

Maybe there’s something in the codebase that sends all our data to North Korea… who knows.

I guess it’s because many young adults move far away from home to get jobs in cities.

In the past young adults probably would have stayed living near their family, so they could see them easily.

I miss Maplin, I still use stuff I bought from there

I’m not sure if he’s claiming that Brexit is the reason for EU troubles, but I dunno because I haven’t listened to the full interview (which is here, but I think you need to be in the UK to listen to it)

Maybe he’s referring to the political troubles in Germany and France - the governments of both countries have collapsed recently

I’m not saying you do. I don’t use Twitter anymore. What I was trying to say is that I find the state of the world worrying.