thanksforallthefish
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- Comment on Cant install app on android 48 minutes ago:
Caveat - I don’t use skylight or bluesky
A cursory search indicates the US should work. It also came up with a reddit thread suggesting it’s basically just bluesky - dunno how true that is.
reddit.com/…/creators_to_follow_on_skylight_socia…
"Your followers and follows on Bluesky and Skylight are the same unless you make separate accounts; something to keep in mind. "
Which implies they’re different front ends for the same thing.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 weeks ago:
Guys don’t get sucked into the misdirecting packing - this is nothing to do with keeping children safe. Better parental effort isn’t going to make this UK govt stop the initiative because it has absolutely nothing to do with child safety.
This is about authoritarian tracking of everything a UK citizen does and says online - that’s why the careful quote is about it being ok for adults to have VPN not kids.
You know how they do that ? They make it necessary to show ID to have a VPN so then they can track what the adults are doing on a VPN.
The “think of the children” pearl clutching is a sham and a scam
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 2 weeks ago:
God help me when I’m barracking for 4chan
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 2 weeks ago:
Please tell me you forgot the /s ?
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s an epithet I use because it appropriately mocks a govt who were elected on a groundswell of “we’ve had the Tories up to the back teeth” and then preceded to do things even the Tories shied away from. I dunno where Starmer & Streeting got the idea that being a Poundland Reform was going to endear them to voters but the polls answer the question. That and the fact he’s filled his Cabinet and the Human Rights board with TERFs, cracked down on protests worse than the Tories have previously done and generally made the worse parts of the Conservative party seem like reasonable people. I can’t recall who it was but a former Tory minister criticised him a couple of weeks ago for going too far on authoritarian crackdowns. Hell the welfare changes he walked back were ones the Cameron govt considered and rejected for being too extreme.
- Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs 2 weeks ago:
Which based on the last 12months of Queer Harmer’s govt seems to be a fairly accurate position
- Comment on parallels 5 weeks ago:
TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it
Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.
Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.
If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.
Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 5 weeks ago:
Yep Herpes Zoster is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)
- Comment on LOOK at these WOKE LIBRAL PROFESSORS showing PORN ALL DAY to OUR CHILDREN 5 weeks ago:
You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.
Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 month ago:
If we have agreed to host them because they are applying for asylum, and we won’t allow them to work, then how … do these people see them sleeping and eating?
Not advocating for it, but I suspect in the minds of its proponents the other half of this initiatives is refusal to accept any asylum seekers into the country at all.
Either that or they wish asylum seekers to starve to death so they don’t come.
Could be wrong, I avoid the Faragists like the plague
- Comment on Women-only tower block in Acton to open next summer 2 months ago:
Next TERF media beat up coming in 3…2…1…
And here comes JK Rowling at a gallop, absolutely frothing at the mouth
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
"The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "
I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she’s entitled to a little bit of “I told you so” now that it is bleedingly obvious
- Comment on My brain lags 3 months ago:
Sooo… Being able to hear the audio if you don’t have surround sound isn’t a reason ?
I really don’t like this timeline, can I have a new one please ?
- Comment on Wild camping on Dartmoor backed by Supreme Court 3 months ago:
I confess I remain confused as to the actual status of the land.
Is it “commons” ie owned by all who wish to use it, or is it private land owned by a single individual ?
- Comment on My brain lags 3 months ago:
The love for subtitles took off at the same time Hollywood decided to mix their audio so you can’t fucking hear the voices, coincidence that subtitles have surged ? I don’t think so. Watch an 80s or 90s movie where you can actually hear the dialogue. Better isn’t it ?
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 3 months ago:
Well spotted, yes indeed
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 3 months ago:
Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said
While I am sympathetic to anyone who has to shoplift to eat, I’d suggest a little skepticism after noting two things:
One the time period (almost exactly lines up with the period that Labour has been in power) and,
Two the source - the Telegraph is nicknamed the Torygraph for a reason…they are the mouth piece for the conservative party and make no bones about it.
I’m no fan of the Blue Tories - Sir Keir would comfortably fit into the Conservative party of a decade ago (before their heads exploded) - I’m quite disappointed in their performance. But I’d counsel a little caution on taking what smells strongly of a propaganda piece at face value
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 months ago:
My gen Z kids burn CDs - it’s a “retro” thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 months ago:
Be aware certain batches of blanks are more prone to bit rot (or more accurately degradation of the metal layer) than others - could be worth googling your blanks before using them for anything important
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 4 months ago:
Without even reading the article I’ll bet Betterridge’s law of headlines applies
en.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 4 months ago:
That’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.
A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).
If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build or own replacement or buy/lease them off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.
We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control
…org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationall…
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 6 months ago:
Thats an unusual definition. WRT has long meant “with regards to” or “with respect to”
www.oed.com/dictionary/wrt_prep?tl=true
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_regard_to
english-grammar-lessons.com/wrt-meaning/
I can’t quickly find an authoritative source other than OED which is paywalled. But in short it’s an abbreviation that dates back to the 50s
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 11 months ago:
Ok, you’ve got me puzzled. What’s a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?
The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 1 year ago:
I have considerably more characters than 6 at lloyds
- Comment on Record 420,000 patients in England had ‘more than 12 hour wait’ in A&E last year 1 year ago:
The Tories have been bleeding the NHS for 13 years in the hoping of getting it to deteriorate to a point where they can make bank out of privatising it, without the british public realising it’s their fault.
A difficult balancing act as the NHS has near universal support across all voters so assassinating it while not being caught is tricky.
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 1 year ago:
The French had a cracking solution
- Comment on Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat 1 year ago:
Under threat ? That boat has already sailed. We no longer have the right to protest
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
Did you actually read the article? It specifically calls out “overtaking on double white lines” which is ILLEGAL for a very good reason. It’s not calling ordinary overtaking dangerous.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the road rules in UK, Europe where the US has double yellow lines to mark a centre line that is illegal to cross, those lines are white here.
They indicate that it is unsafe to overtake (lack of visibility due to bends etc)
Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
I don’t believe the article anywhere tried to claim that buying a BMW turned you from a safe driver into an arsehole did it ? Therefore your causation comment isn’t really apropos.
It’s a clear case of effective marketing selecting a sub demographic: drivers who have self perceptions around their driving and certain innate traits (selfishness, lack of concern for others) will prefer to buy cars that are advertised in a way that boosts their ego or enhances their self perception.
Or to quote an (Aussie) friend of mine "maybe not every BMW owner is an arsehole, but every arsehole I know owns a BMW "
Interesting (to me anyway) anecdotal aside, here in the UK it’s usually Audi drivers who are stereotyped as the aggressive drivers not so much Subaru WRX and BMW owners (source: reddit sub discussions and pub/work conversations, not scientific of course)
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
You’d be right. Ram sized trucks literally don’t fit down London streets sized for horses & carriages from centuries ago, they’re very rare here.