Politics Thread!

[PFVA]

About the SVB:

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) late on 10 March sent science and technology start-up companies into chaos, and has left many questioning where investment will come from in future.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586- ... b-44210925

[PFVA]

€ 30.50!!!!
€ 30.50 for 3 things of medicine to prevent fleas on LIncie.
It used to be € 30.50 for a box of 4, now it's a box of 3.
30.50!!! It comes over 10€ for each.
In which world are we living ????

[gilesgoat]

€ 30.50!!!!
€ 30.50 for 3 things of medicine to prevent fleas on LIncie.
It used to be € 30.50 for a box of 4, now it's a box of 3.
30.50!!! It comes over 10€ for each.
In which world are we living ????

In the world where they prey on people like this ..

The "anti flystroke" prevention medicine we get FOR THE SHEEP, it's called "Spot On", is THE SAME IDENTICAL ONE GIVEN TO DOGS/CATS .. but "because it's FARM USE ONLY" we pay for an entiere bottle to do 9 sheep what you'd pay for maybe ONE does for your dog/cat.

The thing is, if it'd cost like it costs you for the dog it would be "anti economical" for sheep farmers so "for sheep" it costs MUCH less even if it's the same thing.

But a dog/cat is "a LUXURY PET/animal/item" so "you can pay through the nose for it"

Likewise a professional visit from a vet for a sheep is MUCH CHEAPER than if the vet is called for a dog/cat ( UNLESS maybe your dog is really a sheepdog LISTED AS WORKING DOG ) we also found out that when we have ( luckily not much needed ) to call the vet for the donkey as the donkey classifies as EQUINE we need to pay "the EQUINE TAX" that IIRC is 25 pounds "just because" .. PLUS the "professional time with equine" that is charged MORE than "professional time with sheep".

You don't want to know how much we spent to try ALL we could for Leona when she was ill .. it's been .. in the realm of some thousands ... but she deserved it all.

[gilesgoat]

IF it's true what certain ADS say .. it's CHEAPER a HOLIDAY to Ibiza / trip to New York than a return ticket for the TRAIN from Carmarthen to London ( and after my last experience of travelling during week end I can GUARANTEE you'd arrive in New York/Ibizia some HOURS BEFORE me getting in Carmarthen !!! ).

Actually with my last trip experience I could have been almost in BRAZIL by the time I arrived in Carmarthen departing from London Paddington !!!

[PFVA]

After several months of demonstration we had the first violence incidents between police and demonstrators. It was a demonstration agains the price of housing and the right to affordable one. Not clear who start the incidents, some say it was the police, some say the demonstrators.

Ow, the incidents were only in the capital city. In all the other cities, all further north, there was no incidents.

It is one of the most integrated demonstrations I have seen. Lots of young people, lots of seniors, lots of students (renting a room in Lisbon or Porto nowadays is 400 - 500 €), and people fm all races.

[merman]

Laura Kuensberg: here is evidence police shot and killed 12 refugees in a camp in Rwanda

Suella Braverman: Rwanda is still a safe country

She tries to claim she “speaks the truth” and “the silent majority support her”.
Funny that she currently has the lowest popularity of any British politician ever (-20).

She might as well have said “Mount Etna is safe, it erupted in the past but it’s fine now”.


And I can’t believe the tax-dodging Nadeem Zahawi has been reselected by his local party to stand at the next election.


(On the banking crisis stuff. Swiss authorities now investigating the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS - criminal charges may be bought).

[skab]

(On the banking crisis stuff. Swiss authorities now investigating the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS - criminal charges may be bought).

Bought or brought?

[skab]

€ 30.50!!!!
€ 30.50 for 3 things of medicine to prevent fleas on LIncie.

Lucky you.

We spend around 100 Euros/month for our 17 year old cat's anti-high-blood-pressure medication. That stuff is really expensive.

[merman]

Tory MP Steve Benton suspended by the Party for offering access to Ministers & sensitive information on gambling regulations. Will be interesting to see what the Standards Committee make of it, given the similar evidence against Matt Hancock and Sir Graham Bradley...

...but also disappointing to see the ethics advisor clear Mark Spencer over allegations of Islamaphobia. The Tory Party has a serious problem with it.

[PFVA]

€ 30.50!!!!
€ 30.50 for 3 things of medicine to prevent fleas on LIncie.

Lucky you.

We spend around 100 Euros/month for our 17 year old cat's anti-high-blood-pressure medication. That stuff is really expensive.

Ouch! Those are expensive here too.

So are the asthma pills. I have been lucky. Both Teifi and Lincie didn't require those but lots of cats here suffer from asthma including the upstairs one.

[KlaxonCow]

The UK Government yet again fails miserably in its Welsh translation:

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north- ... k-26817404

Welsh language blunder spotted on UK Government allegiance oath webpage

People have spotted yet another Welsh language blunder from the UK Government. The error was circulated on social media after being spotted on a webpage relating to the oath of allegiance carried out during citizenship ceremonies.

In English, the oath starts: "I (name) swear by Almighty God." The Welsh translation says: "Byddaf i (enw) yn rhegi i Dduw Omnipotent."

To be clear, whilst in English, you say "swear" to mean both to curse and also to swear allegiance, these are different words in Welsh.

And, you guessed it, they picked the wrong one. So the Welsh is actually saying "I (name) will be swearing and cursing at God".

The other weird thing is that it just has the English word "omnipotent" there. Like they just gave up trying to translate "Almighty" and just put the word "omnipotent" there - perhaps because, well, "omnipotent" could be seen as being Latin for "Almighty". Sort of. Maybe they were thinking that, well, Welsh does have - like many European languages - Latin "borrow words" in it. So, umm, as we don't know what the Welsh translation is, then can we just put something Latin-like there and they'll maybe still understand it?

For the record, "hollalluog" - literally "omni-capable" - would be the proper Welsh translation there.

What's stunning in the UK Government continually getting this wrong - this is not the first time they've screwed up Welsh translations, as that Emergency text alert they sent out to everyone's phones had the German word "vogel", meaning "bird", in the middle of it, for no good nor logical reason.

It's not just that they're getting it wrong. It's these weird Latin and German words appearing in the translations without explanation.

I would say that maybe it's Google translate getting it wrong... but, no, folks have tested it and Google Translate actually gets it perfectly right. It uses the right version of "swear" - as in allegiance, not as in shouting expletives at the Almighty - and doesn't weirdly have the untranslated word "omnipotent" there.

What's most daft about this is that, you know, they could just have asked the Welsh Government to do the translation for them. They have, of course, a Welsh translation department and some of the business in the Senedd chamber is conducted in Welsh, so they're translating things like this all the time.

Like, you're the UK government. Just ask the Welsh government to do the translating for you. Or, indeed, there is a Welsh Conservative party and a few Welsh Tory MPs. Even if you don't want to ask the Welsh Labour government to do it, then you've got your own people over there who can do this properly.

Truth is - and this is really what riles Welsh people up - is that there's just that underlying lack of respect there. I bet there's no fucking errors in the Hindi version of the oath. Because they'll put the effort in to pass it to their Hindi translation department. But Welsh? Who gives a fuck, right? Just stick it blindly into "Bing Translate" and copy-and-paste whatever the fuck it says.

Although, I would caution that though they might think this "low effort" shit is just fine amongst their friends, as none of them take the Welsh language at all seriously, it does just make them look like incompetent slightly-racist twats to the wider world.

It would not be hard to get this right, if they really wanted to. They must have a translation department - get it staffed properly. And they implicitly have a "translation department" on top of that, because the Welsh Conservative party does exist (I mean, Tories might not win much in Wales, but they do have a party and contest seats and put out properly translated bilingual election pamphlets) and, anyway, surely the UK Government is allowed to contact the Welsh Government's translation department and ask for their help? I mean, it's all paid for out of the same tax pot and the UK Government is the supreme "Union" Parliament here.

Or, you know, just find a Welsh speaker, read it to them and when they piss themselves laughing at your godawful translation then you know you've fucked it up.

This is offensively "low effort" stuff. Contemptuously low effort. It would have been so easy for them to not get this wrong, but they couldn't be bothered to even remotely try.

[gilesgoat]

The UK Government yet again fails miserably in its Welsh translation:

*SNIP*

Correct me if I am wrong, wasn't ( or still is ?) Charles "the prince of Wales" ? ..

How could they possibly get wrong "his own thing" ??

[KlaxonCow]

Correct me if I am wrong, wasn't ( or still is ?) Charles "the prince of Wales" ? ..

How could they possibly get wrong "his own thing" ??

To be clear, this is not the oath that they want us to all say on Charles' coronation (that's why I've put this in the politics, not the royalty, thread).

This is the oath that they make new British citizens say when they grant citizenship - if you opt to speak it in Welsh, which is, of course, a valid option, as it is an indigenous British language.

But, yeah, you bring up yet another option for the UK Government to avoid these stupid mistakes.

Charles has given perfectly decent Welsh speeches. So the Palace clearly has a good translator on staff. How about asking their translation department to do it for you?

This is what's frustrating - and contemptuously insulting - about this. Considering who the UK Government is, and the resources available to them, there really is fuck all excuse for getting something like this so badly wrong. Even Google Translate - the proverbial "low effort" approach - nets you a better translation than this.

It speaks to the fact that they didn't even try and, most of all, didn't even get anyone to check it before publication.

[Orava]

So... Finland has now joined NATO, and this makes me a NATO soldier (reservist) - at least for the next six years. Interesting, never could I imagine that to happen in the 80s/90s even.

Finland has also granted NATO an unlimited right to use all of its area, so if you want to put a big military base somewhere you are welcome and also not said anything about no nuclear weapons.

Political decisions have personal and national consequences.

I am sure Orava joining will piss Putin the most off.

[gilesgoat]

So... Finland has now joined NATO, and this makes me a NATO soldier (reservist) - at least for the next six years. Interesting, never could I imagine that to happen in the 80s/90s even.

Finland has also granted NATO an unlimited right to use all of its area, so if you want to put a big military base somewhere you are welcome and also not said anything about no nuclear weapons.

Political decisions have personal and national consequences.

I am sure Orava joining will piss Putin the most off.

Or .. in another words "American Military Bases on your soil" .. that or Putin invasion you choose what's worse ..

Don't ask yourself what could be worse in the LONG term ...