rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? 10 hours ago:
God I’m so fucking sick of hearing about AI. There is simply no way to interact with the internet without having to hear some absolute dross about AI.
- Comment on Reeves ‘plots tax raid on landlords’ to help plug £40bn Budget black hole 3 days ago:
Awesome, just in time for my renewal. I wonder how my landlord will phrase the increase this time… “Hi, your tenancy renewal is due. Unfortunately I need to increase the rent a little bit” I reckon.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
If we keep the currencies the same, I know you mentioned earlier that £16k is about $20k, so we’re looking at about $7k difference over a year (I understand that car and health insurance are necessities, but that doesn’t work in this comparison because OP doesn’t have either so it shouldn’t be included)
That’s less than $600 a month difference – and one thing I can immediately point to is your electricity bill. It sounds like you have a family, whereas it seems like OP lived alone for that year. Speaking from experience (currently living alone also in London) my electricity bill is $67 a month, and my natural gas is $33. That’s $100, versus about $430 in your estimation (so we’re now missing $270).
I spend a fiver for my SIM card each month and have a cheap phone I paid like $100 for three years ago, so my phone plan is $6.75 vs your $168, which may be for multiple people as you said phones plural, so we’ve found another $161, bringing us down to $109 difference.
My water bill is $50, I don’t see yours but I am going to guesstimate at a three person household being maybe $80? Either way, I think the biggest difference here is likely to be groceries and toiletries, because you’ve got family!
My groceries/toiletries budget is around $470 a month. I could absolutely lower that to around $300 but work is killing me at the moment and I just need to spend more to make my life easier in the evenings. So, looking at a monthly groceries/toiletries budget (combined) - is yours at least $570?
- Comment on Prince William and Kate to move into new eight-bedroom home worth £16m - This will be their 6th 'Forever home' 1 week ago:
Well I mean, seriously, have you seen him? Yes, I know it’s a bit of a harsh statement but it really does make me think twice about incest if my sibling-kids might look like him when they get older!
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 2 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Prince William and Kate to move into new eight-bedroom home worth £16m - This will be their 6th 'Forever home' 2 weeks ago:
Holy SHIT I haven’t seen him in ages. Jesus Christ those genes are really starting to catch up to him, really puts me off the idea of incest if that’s what happens to the kids. He looks fucked up. Anyway, you’re welcome for the home Our Royal Scroungers – enjoy! 🫡
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 weeks ago:
Suffering isn’t good. The growth that can be achieved through suffering can be good. There is a very big difference. Suffering doesn’t guarantee growth. Experience gained through suffering might not always be good (we may become jaded or cynical, or worn down).
Putting that aside for now, hurting others is bad. Inflicting suffering on others is not good, and doing so to try and force “personal growth” in a direction you desire is absolutely not good. That’s strange, cruel, controlling behaviour. That’s sort of like playing god.
When people say that suffering builds character, or reference bible passages like Romans 5:3 (And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;) (apologies, I don’t know similar teachings from other faiths although I’m sure most faiths have a similar concept to this somewhere in them), they are typically talking about a sort of impersonal “suffering”. The death of a parent, sickness, poverty, that kind of thing – and crucially this idea is often separated from “blame” and is instead a sort of “faceless” suffering. It could be set up like this so that people can focus inwards or on something spiritually, rather than getting stuck in a cycle of blame or revenge, but other times the suffering in question is literally blameless, such as a parent dying of old age.
Either way, the key part in your question is that experiencing suffering is an unfortunate but inevitable rite of passage, and hopefully a person will learn and grow as a result, but that intentionally causing suffering is a choice to hurt another human and is bad. It’s sort of two separate things, really.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 2 weeks ago:
As opposed to the road, because nobody has ever dealt in or from their car.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 3 weeks ago:
We just did a project involving translating a website for multiple regions for a big company. We used a translation service that doesn’t use humans. The Belgian, Dutch, German, French, and Italian team complained that the translation was extremely weird and they had to manually overwrite the automated translations for the majority of the site (at least dozens of thousands of words) before launch.
We’re still a ways off, judging by that anecdote.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 weeks ago:
Haha, I’m not sure “we were going to lie to our customers anyway 🤷♂️” is the best pitch for the pros of AI
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha that’s totally jogged a memory for me - there’s this right wing guy on YouTube called Tim Pool, and he went on a weird little rant like a year or two ago about how he saw this AI video of a room with a glass wall, overlooking a village in Christmas time. It’s snowing outside, but it’s cosy inside the room, with a TV playing old cartoons, something like that – he’s going on and on about how nostalgic that is and then he’s like:
“…and that’s all going away. Because people keep calling their kids Mohammed.”
Absolutely laughed my arse off, you honestly couldn’t write a character like that 😂
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 3 weeks ago:
Shartclays
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 3 weeks ago:
You will have neither
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how this guy got famous, and I don’t know what he does or who he is, but every single time I hear about him it’s negative. Who is watching this guy? Why?
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 3 weeks ago:
Clicked your link and was saying “it’s gotta be… It’s gotta be… It’s gotta be” over and over while my dogshit phone loaded YouTube. Genuinely fist pumped when it did. What a tuuuuune!!!
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Haha, awesome. Have a good day ✌️
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Is that your opinion, in the same way that it might be the author’s opinion that Disco Elysium is the greatest RPG ever?
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Why did this incite anger in you?
- Comment on BBC investigates alleged cocaine use by two Strictly Come Dancing stars 4 weeks ago:
…well, yeah
- Comment on Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm 4 weeks ago:
It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.
It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.
I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.
Our water is being poisoned for money.
Our world is burning for money.
It’s just a very miserable day.
- Comment on Anon is unaware he's at risk for a heart attack 4 weeks ago:
The trouble is that legal documents are often very specifically worded to avoid implications. Legal writing is almost like a different dialect to usual colloquial English.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 5 weeks ago:
Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 5 weeks ago:
I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.
Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?
Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 5 weeks ago:
I totally see that your comment was friendly and there wasn’t any ill will, and I can definitely understand reading their comment as a bit accusatory - but the word “prejudice” isn’t the same as how I think we’re viewing being “prejudiced”.
I don’t think they were intending to be hostile, is all I’m saying. I think it’s just a case of crossed wires tbh - but I hope you’re well and have a good day! ✌️
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think they were calling you “prejudiced” as it were, they were just outlining that judging whether something counts as a “real” hobby or just succumbing to boredom is flavoured a bit by our own views and opinions :)
- Comment on Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London 5 weeks ago:
Yeah there’s a couple of these wackos on my street too. They get out and film themselves standing around yelling out and talking. They’ve said stuff to me and my ex before. It’s pretty weird but they’re harmless - I don’t mind a few harmless weirdos to be honest, it brightens the place up lol
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 5 weeks ago:
Family II
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Totally hear you man. I have spent so much time ruminating and it can certainly be frustrating, distracting, and unhelpful. I don’t smoke at the moment, which might be a blessing because I’ve found that I’ve been sort of forced to confront the way I feel about things I ruminate about. I’ve been journalling a lot, just to work through the thoughts.
Walking long distances is very therapeutic for me, allowing my mood to shift throughout the walk and letting me change focus, at times enjoying what I’m seeing externally and at others turning inwards and thinking through things that are bothering me or things that pop up in my mind. I feel more equipped and in touch with myself after a few months of really trying to face things, which is nice after years of drowning those feelings out with alcohol and whatever else I could get my hands on. I’m not all fixed up and in great mental shape, not by long shot, but I can tell for 100% certain that I’m much more stable. That’s what’s worked for me, at least!
I’m similar to you in wanting to move away from the “internet” at large. It sounds like you still appreciate the human connection though, which I also feel. For me, moving away from WhatsApp and Instagram have been I think largely because a lot of pain and discomfort has come through those platforms over the years, breakups and arguments and whatever else, and I just want a break. I don’t know if it’s the same for you.
I hope you find comfort and have a happy Sunday 🤞 Be well!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You are blessed, teithiwr bach 🙏
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I hope you’re right! Thanks for turning that around haha, that’s a nicer way to view it for certain. Enjoy your weekend ✌️