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Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena on Sunday January 05, 2025 @07:20PM (#42606265)
Taking your statement of factualness at face value, this councillor is behaving shamelessly and inappropriately, in a manner that would not be politically advantegous if discovered more broadly.

While it may not solve your immediate problem of wishing to remain anonymous, it may be worthwhile writing of this to Private Eye. (https://www.private-eye.co.uk/). If they shine a light on you, shining it back may be your best bet.

As someone who runs a political blog in the UK, you are almost certainly aware of the magazine's existence. However for others, the magazine features a consistent section of the shameful acts one finds across local councils across the UK. While the readership is niche and the content is almost exclusively in print, not online, it has an outsized impact in media and political circles.

Re:Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:48AM (#37985588)
London, with its current population of rougly 9.6 million¹, recorded 112 homocides in the 2023-2023 reporting year².

If London had the same homocide rate per capita as Seattle, that would equate to 1459 homocides in the same period.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22860/london/population#:....

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/862984/murders-in-london....

Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:46AM (#18919476)
While generally in agreement, the "youth didn't vote" scapegoating is incorrect - their turnout numbers were roughly the same as other demographics.

I really don't rate the Guardian for all of its content, this particular article explains well and is reasonably sourced

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/09/young-peopl...

It's true that it's the size of a game (I think Deus Ex was about that big?) but in-keeping with the shifting numbers lets take a popular Call of Duty game from last year.

Steam's minimum storage guideline says 70GB(!).

Not say Atom can't be more efficient, but I think this is often our field's "I remember when a cola was 10 cents".