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- Comment on NYPD confirms suspect had a British accent 2 weeks ago:
Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that the person who’s been going robbin people while wearing a hood is also called Robin Hood and that a real name of a real person and not just British people taking piss?
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks ago:
*Click clack
You’ve been very naughty this year haven’t you, Brian?
- Comment on Claim Denied 2 weeks ago:
Never before, in human history, has such ruthlessness been so wholesome.
- Comment on Italy: thousands strike against low salaries and weakened public services. "We are forced to do double shifts to give the minimal levels of essential care." 2 weeks ago:
As intended, from the looks of the strikes.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 3 weeks ago:
100% and you probably know this, so I’m just addin: think of infinity as a sequence of infinite numbers. The number of all the even numbers, that stretch off into infinity, are also infinite. However, that infinite number isn’t as big as regular infinity.
You can have different sizes of infinity because when things get that big, the rules change.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
You’re right to reject the logic behind that because it’s nonsense. Its not making sense to them because they still presume some kind of good faith when it come to these sorts of things.
The reason we haven’t built more nuclear power stations is because oil, gas and coal companies will make less money, if we build more nuclear power stations.
They have the means, the motive and they have a well recorded history of being that cartoonishly villainous. Nothing else makes sense.
- Comment on Stress 1 month ago:
You would have to define how you’re using “have to” here. I mean, I wouldn’t try to come and attack you for neither agreeing not disagreeing with a subject you still managed to have such strong a need to inject in.
Partly because you might be bigger than me but mostly because I generally only see doing that as soemthing I strongly frown upon, in even the most severe of cases. I’m not particularly keen on forcing people to do anything, in fact.
Really, though only you can answer that question.
I’m glad we agree that our lives are probably better now than they for the people who literally had to live in caves, thousands of years ago, though. Thank you for including that important point.
- Comment on Stress 1 month ago:
Work has never been so unstressful, if you look back at the history of mankind.
I agree that it was even worse before. Although, I’m a little puzzled as to what point is being made. Are you agreeing with me or not? I can’t tell.
Industrialization killed workers with 60 hour shifts in unsafe environments. Middle ages made you work 18 hours a day once you were 7 and made you starve if the harvest was bad. In the stone age your family died from hunger after you got killed on the hunt.
Life expectancy was never as high as today.
Looking back at what I wrote, what point is all this agreeing with or refuting?
To me, it seems like you’re arguing that the passage of time is a good thing. I don’t remember saying that the passage of time wasn’t good.
- Comment on Stress 1 month ago:
Its work
Working, in the way that we do, takes years off of our lives and ruins the quality of life of people in their final years too.
I mean, its a meme and the message is put across very well but, for me, an important distinction is that wealthy increases life, as much as, it not more than poverty decreases it. Its wealth specifically and not wages. After a certain point, increased wages actually have an inverse effect on lifespan.
Wealth, in these instances is, of course, capital that makes you money. Specifically, money you make NOT from working.
The exact point at which life expectancy and QoL increases is always around thr exact level of wealth and passive income someone would need to drastically lower their working hours or stop completely.
Women still live longer than men. There are some biological factors for this, such as oestrogen being a vasodilator etc. However, now that women more and more work as much as men do, the difference is much smaller.
Nothing else has changed, between the sexes, to an extent that could explain such a shift in the data.
Nothing else reconciles all of the positions, let alone in one single stroke.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, you can consol yourself with all the great new rock music being made
Tbf, even as someone around the same age as you, I can’t even make my own. Like, purely as a hobby but it all comes out as like stuff from the late 60s and early 70s. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t make the rock/guitar music i grew up with.
I could always drown it in fuzz or hide the guitars, like everyone else these days I guess.
I’m just having a moan.
- Comment on Pee posting? 1 month ago:
I’m going for a piss
Oh yeah, want some help with that?
- Comment on ... i guess not 2 months ago:
All must be sacrificed for glorious labour, blessed be its name, holiest of holies.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
You already know what you call a fly with no wings
A walk
- Comment on Asian Beauty 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, I can’t read the language it was written in and I can only go with the people we knew and met who could.
- Comment on The internet, every October 2 months ago:
No, they mean deathtrap Americans. I think they’re like Irish Americans or African Americans but I’m not too sure where deathtrap is.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 2 months ago:
I knew a guy who had “bad to the bone” written on his neck in Chinese. The problem is, the phrase doesn’t translate at all.
So, his tattoo read as “my bones are bad”
Tbf, he was a clown and had something like that coming.
- Comment on Scientific Method 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, I was testing my null hypothesis
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
Okay and what if I, believe it or not, actually already knew that they dont pay customers to scan things and wasn’t on Walmart side?
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
Instead, try saying “well, then they don’t pay you enough to scan everything now do they?”
- Comment on Please stop 2 months ago:
Of course, you do you. But, traditionally, in these situations people would just not read the comment and move on. They wouldn’t announce to everyone that they won’t be reading it because it’s a weird thing to do. I mean, could you imagin everyone writing that under every comment they didn’t read?
That would be a bit silly wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Please stop 2 months ago:
Lol yeah but mine was halo…
- Comment on Please stop 2 months ago:
OK, now hear me out first
Reddit is the halo of social media.
The wildness you used to get up to on the multilayer was on a new level. There was nothing like that before. On one level you were fighting back the orange hordes from the front pages, the next level you were fighting wealth hording dragons and ripping them off by playing them at their own game. On the last level they let you have freedom on, they were gearing up to try and kill a god. I mean, I don’t know how far antiwork would have gone in the end but it seemed to have been estimated far enough that action had to be taken and the threat neutralised. We might well not have killed that particular God but I reckon we could’ve given them a bloody nose all the same.
Then they parted ways with the people who actually made the game good and what you ended up with is a shite, soulless over corporatised shell of what it was before, thats little more than the skins from a game you used to enjoy transposed into one that you don’t.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the new meta 2 months ago:
The shrapnel shell is the king of this. Decided nearly ever war since its invention.
- Comment on Deceased at None 2 months ago:
I feel like the “Assistant daisy pusher” would report into them.
- Comment on When is an invasion not an invasion? When the British media report on Israel… 2 months ago:
“A special military operation”
- Comment on Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? 2 months ago:
You can play something like dota with people on a very basic computer and okayish connection. You’ll always find matches too.
- Comment on There you go little guy 2 months ago:
A recent Cochrane review examining 35 studies investigating the effect of speed cameras on speed and collisions concluded that although the quality of the studies was moderate at best, the consistency of all studies to report a positive reduction in either speed or collisions was impressive
That’s 35 for and one against, due to heavily manipulating no less than 5 different variables, in order to force themselves to have to conclude that speed cameras don’t improve safety.
Read your links folks!
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 2 months ago:
The difference being that one is well documented history and the one isn’t.
If it wasn’t the CIA, it would probably be someone one. You don’t have to take it as a personal insult, if you don’t want to. Especially as it wasn’t meant as one.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 2 months ago:
It is a wonder how this can go on. I live in London and I, like most people, can have weed delivered, just as you would a pizza flavours and all.
Most people who’ve been on the internet long enough are aware of the CIA flooding the US with crack in the 80s. They thing most people don’t realise is that the CIA have also run the global heroin game since the 1940s too. The crack in the 80s job was neither the first nor the largest time they did it. For anyone interested, Google operation gladio.
Heroin was grown in Myanmar, moved out through Thailand, shipped to France where it either ended up with the mob in the US or flooded into eroupe all under the protection of the CIA. Myanmar was the largest supplier of heroin in the world, right up until Afghanistan took the title in the 2010s.
I know right?
It make no sense at all why the UK wouldn’t legalise weed. Well, that is, it makes no sense at all, right up until the second you stop presuming any kind of good faith. The second you stop, then, as if by magic, everything clicks into place.
- Comment on Drake 2 months ago:
Wamp wamp wawa