This looks like a really good one, thanks!

They pretty much don’t give up

This kind of moral judgement type of advice really doesn’t help.

Sorry if that was triggering, I’m not actually that kind of super critical person. I just thought it would be an appropriate time to slip in a joke-y phrase and I guess it didn’t come across as lighthearted. I myself am very sedentary, so I don’t actually hold contempt towards people for it.

That being said, the reason I threw that phrase in was because i feel the NHS (or at least, Wes Streeting) is making precisely these kinds of moral judgements when doing these decisions. And that the government is shying away from holistic improvement of our society.

On top of that, dieting triggers a hormonal process that seeks calorific foods and holds on to more of those calories. This has evolved to help us survive food shortages, but is backfiring on a population wide level now that food is no longer scarce. If dieting were the answer then Weight Watchers and Slimming World would have solved this problem decades ago. Instead they encouraged people to fall into the yo-yo diet trap that leads to ever more weight going on each time the cycle completes.

What GLP-1 inhibitors do is to shut down or quieten this hormonal response. This means that people can then do the obvious bit of eating less and moving more without their own bodies sabotaging them.

Very enlightening. This is pretty much what I wanted to know - if it’s actually regarded safe and useful - because when ozempic was rolled out in the USA there was some uproar about it and I personally don’t trust Trump’s regime with healthcare, so seeing that the NHS was promoting ozempic gave me pause.

After seeing your reply and mannycalavera’s i’m more optimistic about ozempic

Apparently red squirrels spread out more and are more competetive with one another, and also have a much more limited selection of foods. That’s what i was thinking of. This is one of the reasons greys are considered so bad - they out a lot more strain on the environment compared to their red counterparts.

Man the law can be so dark

Every party in this country bears responsibility for the high immigration numbers

Does she not kmow how many parties there are in the country?

Was The Atomist Party, for instance, culpable for immigration getting out of control?

I’m being pedantic, however. Just think “every party sitting in westminster” would make more sense.

So it took like 5 years to get thst sorted out did it

Why does everyone suddenly seem to regard weight loss drugs as safe? Up until RFK became health chief in the USA administration, stuff like Ozempic was a joke. Now it’s actually prescribed to people other than the Kardashians

The thing is, weight loss should be about learning and easing yourself into the habits of 1. Healthy Eating 2. Adequate Exercise 3. Not sitting on your arse all day, hence I feel like giving people a hack to skip all that grind is not good - you avoid learning about how to take care of yourself in the process.

But seriously, is ozempic some sort of scientific break-through, The Substance-style?

Lol what the fuck

Our reporter goes on a crawl to find out if a tart can really be worth £45

Really depends which kind of “tart” we’re talking about doesn’t it

If I speak I am in big trouble.

Haven’t eaten greggs much in last 10 years and yet i can’t help but be excited by this.

There is no way the kids who grew up with technology in their lives from the start won’t find ways to work around it

This is why i support the age verificsrion already in place, and perhaps a social media ban for kids - if we prevent them from seeing porn in the first place then they may not seek it out at all. Kids should at least be educated on how dangerous it is before they have a chance to stumble upon it.

So yes, they can locate it via VPNs and such, but that isn’t an argument against trying to prevent them from seeing the stuff in the first place.

Even if kids were to be completely banned from the internet and it somehow magically was enforceable, they’d just end up buying physical porn.

This doesn’t really line up with the experience of me or anyone my own age. Porn is popular because it’s on the screen and super easily accessible, like literally more easily accesible than food and water, lol.

But besides: physical porn is less harmful than internet porn.

• Are we talking playboy magazines? Static images > moving videos
• Or maybe porn videos? Well assuming such sales points even exist anymore, and aren’t enforcing age rules on the products sold, I still thinm they’ll end ul with stuff less violent or psychologically dangerous than they’d be seeing on the internet
• Alao, having to buy it from the get go makes it a much easier habit to manage. Rather than an addiction.

If they actually wanted improvement, they’d fund support for parents and the educational system so kids grow up in environments that teach them good values and feel safe in.

I do not feel good about getting the government to do nanny work for parents, as it has been disastrous so far. We should aim to get parents more time with their kids - e.g via a 4day work week - and we need to emohasis the importance of actually teaching your kids stuff rather than waiting for the government to do it.

Governments can usually get away with whatever they wabt and the british government is the best example of this. I’d literally write a letter in and tell them they can get away with banning it all in one go if i thought they’d follow through on it.

But maybe there’s another reason they do it in little chunks; one distraction headline becomes about 14 distracrion headlines, so lavour gov is safe to have 14 seperste scandals over the course of the next year or so

That’s a good point. I personally think the racial fetishes are particularly harmful to how people perceive and treat one another.

Here is a link to the actual consultation if anyone wants to get there quickly.

Some really wacky ideas in there. Having completed it, it is almost like they were skewing the arguments in the “against” camp to be really really stupid sounding.

Also bungs young adults in with kids and asks you questions as if you’re a 12 year old (i did the 3rd option)

Tbf i’d be riled up if i got home to find kier starmer tossing my excessive hentai collection onto the fire

Would be more in their interest to vote RestoreUK in that case

stop with the protecting children talk. It’s all lies.

Well in this case what’s the ulterior motive?

I do think children would be more protected if they could find a way to just ban porn from being viewed made or sold here, but the age-verification seems like enough in that regard (and the former idea is overreach, so ‘boo’, but would also help adults with porn problems).

In my op it’s popular with viewers largely because it is favoured by the studios.

I have to say though, from back in my porn watching days, i couldn’t stand the weird production quality in all the step-incest stuff. And the compulsion to pair up performers who have a big age gap, or to make performers look like teenagers, is disturbing. I doubt these things have changed.

It’s funny to imagine that the government might have a porn-Tsar who is just banning all the stuff they personally consider shite. Should have been me.