rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 hours ago:
I have come to accept that this is a PR campaign to plaster the name everywhere all over social media and let it worm its way into currently pissed off gamers’ heads for a few months down the line when they’ve calmed down and inevitably buy the fucking thing.
Pitchford is a slimeball. Rarely has a man who is allegedly not an insurance or used-car salesman given off such nakedly scummy vibes.
We need to stop giving free publicity to this little marketing man, and to this poorly optimised, expensive game.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 2 days ago:
Oh go away Elon Musk, fuck off to space already you dozy cunt
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 3 days ago:
Man, the world sucks.
- Comment on Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says 4 days ago:
I guess an argument could be that not drinking is unlikely to cause fights, whereas supporting rival teams, depending on the rivalry in question… There’s a lot of potential for tension
- Comment on The new man overseeing Britain’s arms exports is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel 1 week ago:
Holy shit. How is this guy not in jail? You can’t just order raids on people for disagreeing with you. Without even getting into whether she was right or wrong to be against those arms sales (she was right), her opinion is not unlawful and she didn’t do anything illegal or threatening in communicating it. She did what she is apparently meant to do as a responsible citizen; express her opinion to her local MP.
That’s terrorism. This man is a terrorist. He’s sending dawn raids into people’s homes for disagreeing with him. How does he still have a job in parliament?? What the fuck??
- Comment on Lucy Connolly, who urged mobs to burn down hotels, is introduced as "Britain's favourite political prisoner" at Reform UK's conference 1 week ago:
Isn’t this just the “we are all domestic terrorists” thing from that whatever American conference? Why is it here now? Get rid.
- Comment on Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine 1 week ago:
The US becomes less funny when the brain worms spread over here.
- Comment on UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts 1 week ago:
Yeah! My last place council tax was £92, granted I get 25% off as a sole occupier and all that. My current is £100 a month. Oooh I’d be careful what you wish for, we all know what happened to Birmingham 😂
Ah yeah I was wondering whether it’d be a no-data plan. That’s so cool tho, I’m into that. I would like to go no-data and just be unreachable when I’m wandering but honestly I’m so scatterbrained that I wouldn’t be able to stockpile audiobooks/podcasts/albums enough to last me 😭 good stuff tho, I am jealous!
- Comment on UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts 1 week ago:
Oooh how did you get down to £4? I’m on £6, only 5GB data and I hit the limit every month.
£83 a month on a phone is fucking mental. That’s a council tax payment in some places. That’s more than my gas + electricity.
- Comment on UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts 1 week ago:
Who on earth is paying £1800 minimum for a bloody mobile phone??? That’s insane!
- Comment on I ordered drug-laced vapes on Snapchat. It was as easy as picking up pizza 1 week ago:
He has agreed to sell what he claims to be THC vape liquids to a schoolgirl – an illegal substance which is the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.
However, we suspect it actually contains spice, a more potent drug that is highly addictive and can cause serious side effects.
Okay, fair play. Just reading the headline alone and the first paragraph, I was thinking that this reporter was a total jobsworth.
But, spice can be a pretty nasty drug, and essentially spiking teenagers with it when they’re just trying to get some weed is real scumbag behaviour.
- Comment on Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting 2 weeks ago:
Mm but then you’re in the US which I think is worse than Sainsbury’s
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 2 weeks ago:
Some sort of weird bot?
- Comment on Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting 2 weeks ago:
Haha, it’s been coming for ages. I’m pretty bored of being treated like some kind of cattle criminal in Sainsbury’s, having to go through their gated self checkout system (because it costs too much to employ a human) and obviously scan my receipt to get out because goodness knows after getting absolutely rinsed on prices I have to prove that I’ve paid too.
Fucking scumbag execs, hope they choke on the profits 👍
- Comment on The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet - Why are people freaking out about Cracker Barrel ? 2 weeks ago:
Who cares? This did not “break the internet”. This is a fully USA squabble, and even then I genuinely don’t think most Americans care. This article is just an advertisement for Cracker Barrel.
- Comment on Thanks... dick... 2 weeks ago:
I always find comfort seeing memes like this and seeing that so many of us experience the exact same pains. It might sound obvious or stupid to others, but I’ve lived so “in my own head” for so long that it’s easy to forget that actually, we’re all capable of massively putting our foot in our mouths at times – and more importantly, the cringe mistakes and faux pas of other people generally don’t get chiseled into our brains in the way our own moments do.
- Comment on Interesting choice 2 weeks ago:
Do you know the guys in the image with the flags?
- Comment on Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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 4 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' 4 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? 5 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" 5 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' 5 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???? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Shartclays
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 1 month ago:
You will have neither