RobotToaster
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- Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission 3 days ago:
Temu sell it for just over the cost of production, while the artist sells it with a high mark up, there’s a difference in affordability.
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- Comment on Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism 1 week ago:
Pretty much.
But saying anything “definitely” in medicine is difficult, especially when it comes to the brain. (Which is why medicine is full of “I don’t want to get sued speak”)
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- Comment on Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism 1 week ago:
“The causative association . . . between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism. But it is very suggestive,” Kennedy told reporters, citing animal, blood and observational studies.
Was what he actually said, the headline is click bait.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for being the first person to actually explain that rather than just downvoting.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 2 weeks ago:
It’s basic SEO slop logic applied to video.
All the popular topics are already crowded, so you shotgun very specific search terms.
For instance, if you have a web shop selling fish equipment, “how to keep fish” is probably extremely crowded, so you would target a bunch of specific search terms like “how to teach crabs to read classical Latin”
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
That was literally the first time I’ve heard of him.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
The guy who electrocuted his dog?
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 3 weeks ago:
To be fair that sounds exactly like something an organic redditor would say.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 3 weeks ago:
Persecutors have the monopoly on getting people charged with crimes.
I had to look this up and I’m surprised that in most states private prosecution is barred. In the UK it’s still legal, if expensive and uncommon.
- Comment on Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk 3 weeks ago:
All new housing should be built as high above sea level as possible, instead we are building in flood plains.
- Comment on UK: If it looks, sounds and behaves like an enemy, why are we calling China a ‘challenge’? -- [Opinion] 4 weeks ago:
However three lefts do.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 4 weeks ago:
When did the big issue become Maoist? 😆
Not that I’m complaining, it’s certainly an improvement.
- Comment on UK: If it looks, sounds and behaves like an enemy, why are we calling China a ‘challenge’? -- [Opinion] 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of political figures saying we should call China the enemy, very few that openly say we should call the USA an enemy.
That’s not my point though, because you could also say it about other countries (Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc), the fact is dealing with countries that do things we consider shitty is a basic part of geopolitics, unless you want to start a war on twelve fronts.
- Comment on UK: If it looks, sounds and behaves like an enemy, why are we calling China a ‘challenge’? -- [Opinion] 4 weeks ago:
Everything they say about China could also be said about the USA.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 5 weeks ago:
This is one of the reasons Gnosticism exists. In the gnostic interpretation the God of the old testament was the demiurge, while the snake (which may actually be an eagle, translation is hard) is identified with God or Jesus.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 1 month ago:
At this point I’m convinced he’s deliberately doing everything he can to make himself unpopular.
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 1 month ago:
They only partially nationalised rail, the rolling stock leasing companies (the most profitable part) are still private.
- Comment on UK couple may have to evict Ukrainian refugees owing to planning rules 1 month ago:
Rosemary Duckett, 80, a retired magistrate
How did a magistrate not know planning law?
- Comment on Jonathan Portes: Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong 2 months ago:
“So what would a more positive agenda look like? […] Sounding more like Tony Blair”
We’re doomed
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 6 months ago:
Will it last longer than a lettuce?
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 6 months ago:
Craigslist, but worse
- Comment on More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space 7 months ago:
People with several kids, disabled people, etc.
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 7 months ago:
@Sal@mander.xyz image uploads appears to still be broken.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 7 months ago:
They’re shovels not spades though. They shovel shit.
- Comment on Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages 7 months ago:
BRB, writing a virus in COBOL.
- Comment on Papers strewn on Newcastle street feared to be sensitive army documents 7 months ago:
Trust the MOD to be old fashioned, even when shit gets leaked.
- Comment on Captain of container ship involved in North Sea collision arrested in the UK, identified as Russian citizen 7 months ago:
the container ship appeared “out of the blue.”
How does that happen? Was nobody watching the naval radar?
If you’re carrying military fuel it’s obvious you’re a target for sabotage.
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 7 months ago:
Thanks for the warning