rayquetzalcoatl

@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I walk a lot. Even in that much lower speed, much lower stakes situation, I can tell you that eating/drinking is completely fine but give somebody a phone and they turn into a blind moron with no concept of other people. Even I’m guilty of it, if I’m trying to skip ads on a podcast or something and I absent-mindedly look down at my phone without getting out of the way and stopping first, by the time I look up I’ll have travelled much further than I thought and have been surprised by people popping out of alleyways or crossing roads etc who are now in front of me.

  The number of times I’ve seen people physically walk into lampposts, other people, or just slowly sway side to side on the pavement, taking the whole thing up, while they dick around on their phones… People get out of elevators or up stairs and immediately stop and pull out their phones, blocking the exit for everyone else.

  You can’t use a phone and do anything else at the same time unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon knows suffering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I guess we all have I was just saying… He likes them young innit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon knows suffering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the women he goes after are too young to watch titanic nowadays lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re just talking about number of copies sold, using the term “best” is confusing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out of the loop with GTA VI, but the last I knew of it the only thing they’d released was a cinematic, non-gameplay trailer. Have they released gameplay now?

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll see how it comes out in the sales figures, I suppose! I would like to believe you’re right but I just have absolutely not a jot of faith that people will stick to their outrage. 😂

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not casting aspersions towards you personally, but we all know how gamer boycotts go generally. As in, they don’t. People cave and buy the games anyway, once they’re over the initial outrage. This is 100% marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awh yeah nice let’s just bend the knee even further shall we Starmer you pie-faced bellend

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, the world sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some sort of weird bot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know the guys in the image with the flags?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No.