Possibly because it’s presented how news used to be - a simple statement of fact without embellishment or click bait.

Would you rather:

You won’t BELIEVE how this weapon built by British boffins can yeet hundreds of Russian drones from the sky in seconds

Labour aren’t smart though. They believe FPTP gives them an advantage and thus we’re destined to misery under the conservatives as soon as the party gathers together the resources to bribe farage into disbanding reform

That’s honestly fine. Everybody deserves fair representation.

If we’d had PR a decade ago and the disenfranchised had had a voice in parliament then perhaps we never would have been dragged out of the EU.

I suspected that to be the case but left it somewhat open for the user to provide a source

What the absolute fuck. That’s insane if true.

With the nature of federation that then must cause issues for admin of other instances who end up federating that content.

It’s also worth noting that it wouldn’t just be china profiting financially. It would create a dependence on china for an essential material.

Given how rocky International relationships are at present we need to consider how we would manufacture weapons and vehicles should we find ourselves in a major conflict.

If Europe is at war with russia it’s unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.

What I read elsewhere that made a lot more sense is the Chinese owners, Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.

In doing so Britain would have no choice but to purchase steel from China.

Therefore even if it’s going to be expensive for the government to maintain in the long term it will be a better deal for Britain than letting china monopolise an essential material.

After 13 years of conservative government it’s ridiculous to believe there’s any more welfare that could be cut without inflicting unnecessary pain.

£5 billion is a tiny proportion of government spending, and this is money that would immediately be re-spent by recipients so it directly contributes to our economy.

The only reason to push ahead with this is to get some headlines and appeal to some of Reform voters who inevitably moan about benefit scroungers.

I highly recommend everyone read Invisible Women. It’s full of interesting anecdotes like you’ve just identified.

https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/

Modern smartphones are too big for women’s pockets and too big for their average hand size so as a result women are far more likely to drop phones and incur unnecessary expense of replacing them. Our world is simply designed around a male default and apparently we just accept that.

War was the one thing the US was good at, now they have nothing of value left for the rest of the world.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

US is good at pumping infinite money into the military. But they definitely aren’t “good” at war.

This is a rather sensationalist headline.

Every so often software developers need to eat food and live beneath shelter.

The developer of Boost @rmayayo@lemmy.world provides a free version that’s supported by ads, or you can purchase an ad free experience for a one time cost. That’s been a standard business since forever.

There isn’t any grand conspiracy here.