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- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 8 hours ago:
I would hope they tell you ahead of time! I always had the option to borrow per semester and you could pay direct.
Paying down the loan while you are still there would be nice, but makes just as much sense to put that money towards the next semester.
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 20 hours ago:
Why did you take the full loan if you didn’t need to? Or was it not an option not to?
- Comment on Opinion: I’ve cycled through red lights. But Britain’s traffic laws are to blame, not me 1 day ago:
Not stopping at lights is just selfishness for the most part.
- Comment on Asking prices for newly listed homes in UK’s richest borough fall by £100k in one month 5 days ago:
I thought all the landlords were selling up after the recent renter right changes?
- Comment on How switching your bank account could earn you up to £220 5 days ago:
You shouldn’t be saving with high street banks anyway. Use one of the aggregator sites that uses open banking to let you open savings accounts with most providers so you can move it around easily.
I use Hargreaves Landsdown, have both a cash ISA and standard savings acct with them. (From before they did cash ISAs)
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
You beat me here. Great series and one I always use as an example in sci-fi Vs fantasy comparisons.
- Comment on Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo? 2 weeks ago:
At least in the UK, that kind of unilateral change also comes with a free contract break - if you don’t like it, you can quit without paying a y penalty charges.
You can probably try to do similar to them… They will just fire you as a customer.
- Comment on Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group 3 weeks ago:
Is ring wing when they get so right ring they loop back round and become left wing again? 😆
In all seriousness, this is one of those things where I don’t understand why an MP hasn’t make a private members bill to un-prescribe the. It’s probably worth it for the press, even if it doesn’t succeed.
- Comment on Fibre Tycoon Game Lets You Play as an Alternative UK Broadband Network - ISPreview UK 3 weeks ago:
This actually looks quite fun… Played around with it a little on my lunch break, a surprising amount of depth from a fist look
- Comment on Is it normal to feel like I'm being watched when there's no one there? 5 weeks ago:
Have you pressed the test button?
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 5 weeks ago:
Mine is like this in the UK:
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 1 month ago:
If it only takes two hours, the concurrent player counts are not going to be that high
- Comment on Shrinkflation hits again! 1 month ago:
Possible because they are less dense, so harder to fit in the same sized packet?
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Huh, more known than I expected, I think I have plugged it a few times here before though.
- Comment on How come all the crap like satellites that we put into space...it never hits a rocket or the ISS? 1 month ago:
Space is big, unbelievably big.
Low earth orbit is roughly 600 km to 800 km in altitude.
GPS satellites are at about 20,000 km in altitude.
Geostationary orbit is 35,000 km up.
The international space station is at roughly 420km altitude, travels at 27,600 km/h, yet takes 93 minutes to orbit the earth once.
Space is just big.
I’m addition, we track objects in orbit, this site says we track over 45,000 items larger than 10cm in size, with there being over a million larger than a centimetre. Satilites often have to move to avoid known debris and have outer shells that can absorb smaller impacts (the ISS has armour!)
The biggest causes of debris has been countries testing out anti satilite missiles.
Source for most numbers
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Probably a bit late to the party, Reus 2: store.steampowered.com/app/1875060/Reus_2/
Lovely puzzle/god game with eco/environmental themes. Really fun to chase all the achievements as they encourage you to try different things.
Great on the steam deck too!
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 1 month ago:
There is a species of wild cat native to the UK: www.wildlifetrusts.org/…/wildcat
- Comment on UK’s seaside towns fear impact of ending coastguard callout payments 1 month ago:
It does sound like a side job to be fair…
Maybe they should just be paid properly for their time?
- Comment on UK weather: Amber extreme heat warning issued as 35C heatwave approaches 1 month ago:
Shut your windows and curtains and it helps keep the heat out. For a 6 day heatwave the heat is going to soak in anyway though.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion 2 months ago:
The thing is that R&D is their only chance, if they stop, open models will catch up. It will be the cloud owners making all the money at that point.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion 2 months ago:
They break even without R&D though, I thought it was worse tbh
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 2 months ago:
Everything was/is mapped with trigonometry. You map the big triangles first, then once you have some nice big markers at known distances in the hills around you you can just measure angles to work out where you are. Repeat that lots and you can record the exact location of everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Workouts this week being 0 doesn’t mean that the data isn’t there, it’s just giving you a summary for the ‘calendar’ week.
You should be able to find the activity still. You should also be able to change when the start of the week is. (It’s an option you see everywhere)
- Comment on Energy regulator Ofgem announces 13% increase for energy bills 2 months ago:
It’s an auction of a commodity, you have to keep paying more until you find someone to provide the last bit. Everyone then gets paid close to that.
The big profits are going to those that invested in renewable energy to be fair though, not to the fossil fuel companies.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 2 months ago:
If your in the mountains, the tap water is better than most bottled water.
- Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel 2 months ago:
They were not ‘there’ though.
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 2 months ago:
Protein powders are meant to be for people that do enough exercise to need it. More sedate people saw all the fit/ripped people eating them and got it I to their heads it was the protein powder doing it, not the exercise… (And the manufacturers started leaning into it)
- Comment on The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly 3 months ago:
Didn’t Tesla have to give up on a robot that puts some felt on top of the battery pack because they just couldn’t do it?
Making the robots look human doesn’t solve that.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 3 months ago:
British in board doctor
- Comment on Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops 3 months ago:
Much easier/cheaper to maintain on farmland. Just stop growing stuff for biofuel. (Or grow crops underneath!
