Churbleyimyam
@Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 3 days ago:
I met another Brit travelling in Thailand who went to hospital with a stomach problem. They didn’t want to treat him until they got a confirmation email from his travel insurance. After they got the email they gave him a massive room to himself, lavished loads of food and drink on him and wouldn’t let him leave after he got better.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 days ago:
This is the most upvotes I think I have ever seen on a comment here.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 3 days ago:
0.00000192 megameters
- Comment on 'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says 4 days ago:
Perhaps he’ll be open to looking at all the stuff which has been sold off to the Americans now. I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 5 days ago:
I’m totally up for this. Yes, some kids will find out how to circumvent it and yes, some parents won’t abide by it but even if a law isn’t completely enforceable it totally changes people’s attitudes on a population level. Look at the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces for example.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 5 days ago:
I’ve thought for a long time that a Mastodon instance administered by adults would be a good solution.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 5 days ago:
This must be utterly terrifying for them.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 5 days ago:
Competitive advantage over their deer peers.
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 1 week ago:
I absolutely love independent technology like this 👍
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could give your comment more than one upvote. I think the vast majority of us are not fully aware that we’re in the middle of an active Russian propaganda campaign. Apparently there are at least 10,000 people in Russia employed full-time on this and a tiny fraction of that here to try and combat it.
I think this is the first time our society has been subject to a state-backed propaganda campaign since the widespread adoption of the internet (which is of course not regulated like ‘legacy media’ is) and so it makes sense that most people aren’t really on their guard for it. The government has no excuse though. They are reported to by the intelligence services, who know exactly what is happening here.
- Comment on big sausage boie 2 weeks ago:
Imaginative naming, scientists 👍
- Comment on hmmm 2 weeks ago:
The fact that this is published in the BMJ suggests to me that this is, in fact, an advertisement.
- Comment on copper 2 weeks ago:
This is what can happen if you don’t get anyone to look after your house when you’re away.
- Comment on Child support 3 weeks ago:
This just makes me angry
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 3 weeks ago:
I will sign this. I also wonder whether parliament.uk itself sells behavioural data. I seem to remember getting a ‘share this data with 754 partners’ notice on a gov website once…
- Comment on novelity 3 weeks ago:
Novelousness.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it was the same for me. And I think you’re right about the lockdowns too. Apparently those kids even have lower IQs as a result…
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 4 weeks ago:
As a fellow millennial and Vice City alumni I agree with you and Gareth Southgate.
But I also think that the quantity of time that kids are spending online and in front of screens is playing a bigger part than we recognise. We didn’t have smartphone on us 24/4. And of course content producers have gotten better at making their stuff visually stimulating and addictive.
Funnily enough though, a few weeks ago I had some late night sessions playing GTA for the first time in about 15 years and noticed afterwards that I was driving faster and accelerating much hard in the car IRL!
- Comment on Getting older 4 weeks ago:
This is a good one.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 1 month ago:
Reducing dependence on crackpot America is good in my book, as long as we’re not going to just spend that budget with them anyway.
But for gods sake get rid of the tax exemption on wealth to pay for it instead of cutting things that people actually need.
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Oh OK, that makes sense - you’re talking about clones right? I thought you were saying that they don’t even come out the same species 🤣
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Wild maple trees for example do not grow true from seed.
How do they reproduce?
- Comment on FGFBD 2 months ago:
Bouffer la chatte.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 2 months ago:
If you could have as much clean water as you want, delivered to interior of your home, without wrecking the environment or greasing the palms of rich layabouts, I think £600 a year would pretty damn cheap.
- Comment on Star Wars: Ryan Gosling to Star in Shawn Levy's Movie 2 months ago:
You can tell Ryan Gosling is a good actor because he has perfected the act of acting like an actor who doesn’t need to act. In action films.
- Comment on Time to chop wood 2 months ago:
Good work :) I’m in a similar position here in the UK.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 2 months ago:
Vs lingscars.com
- Comment on Time to chop wood 2 months ago:
Nice, are you off-grid?
- Comment on Time to chop wood 2 months ago:
In California in the 1800s there were so many horses running around that people only bothered to take care of their saddle. Probably an exception though!
- Comment on What year is it 2 months ago:
He is such a dude!