Th4tGuyII
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- Comment on Anon's friend gets exposed 1 day ago:
In the nicest way to Anon, it may not be paedophilic, but 27 dating 20 is still sus as fuck.
Sure, the older you are the less the age gap matters - like nobody would look at an 80 year old weirdly for dating a 70 year old.
... but at 20 years old, a 7 year age gap is 1/3 of their lifespan apart. That's a fucking lot!
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 1 week ago:
Literally just enforce default-on parental controls and self-updating adult-content filtering on every consumer router sold/ISP rented in the UK - and enforce the updating of all existing routers to support that.
Respects people's privacy, gives parents autonomy over their children's internet habits, and is easy to implement because the routers are already in everyone's houses and can be actively updated as they literally have to be connected to the internet to do their job.
Let/make parents take control and whitelist specific users and/or devices to fit their situation...... But no. Instead we give the Government loads of unnecessary surveillance powers so they can kneecap everybody's internet experience to nanny the kids of parents who couldn't be fucked to learn how to use the parental controls they already had access to on basically every device they own to protect their children.
- Comment on Why are entertainment figures jump on a chance to talk about a Free Palestine but not a Free Kurdistan? 2 weeks ago:
Partly at least, publicity.
Due to the way it came to be and its allegiances, Israel is generally treated as part of the "Western world", and is thus much more in the European and American spotlight.
Thus its absolute oppression and genocide of Palestinian people has a lot more Western eyes on it than the plight of the Kurds.
- Comment on Sweet 3 weeks ago:
Guy in the middle must have a splitting headache
- Comment on 🍳 challenge 4 weeks ago:
There's an egg in a pan emoji??
What on Earth would you even need such a specific emoji for??
- Comment on Sometimes the simple Minecraft cave base is the best base 5 weeks ago:
Underground/Cave/Mountain bases are goated. On top of all of this, they're easy to expand without having to redesign or move, and in modded you can make room for glorp inside the walls almost unnoticeably
- Comment on I remember 1 month ago:
The words Bacon and Epic can't be put side by side without mentioning EpicMealTime.
Man singlehandedly kept that fad alive way longer than it ever should have been. I wonder what they're up to nowadays?
- Comment on Anon does nothing 1 month ago:
Yes, I do agree that you have a level of personal responsibility towards yourself - and that you owe it to yourself to make the best of the hand you're dealt.
But turning 18 doesn't suddenly absolve your parents of their failings.
If they failed to teach Anon the basic life skills that would help them to be a proper member of society, then that is still their failure - even if it is a failure being further exacerbated by Anon themselves.As @some_kind_of_guy said, your last paragraph negates itself...
A good parent would've forced Anon to learn those skills, and wouldn't just stand-by going "they're an adult now, not my problem" - nor would they coddle them and allow them to be a NEET. Both are forms of neglectful parenting, as I said its a lifetime job.
- Comment on Anon does nothing 1 month ago:
Being a parent is a life long job that you chose when you had a kid, so that latter take is wild.
But in any case, even if I agreed with you, do you not believe parents have a responsibility to teach their children basic life skills?
You brought a kid into the world, you should at the very least teach it how to look after itself. - Comment on Anon does nothing 1 month ago:
I feel like there's only so much blame you can put onto a single person for their situation before you wonder what the hell is going on with their parents/guardians?
Because someone in their mid-20s having no basic life skills cannot be blamed purely on Anon. Either their parents are neglecting them, or coddling them to the point of sabotage.
Having said all that, if Anon is articulate enough to write all of this - then they've got a high enough IQ to at the very least try to do something about their situation, even if its just doing volunteer work for a while to build up some basic skills.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 1 month ago:
Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.
And as you say using a real currency will at best make no sense, or at worst offend a group of people who may boycott your movie.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
- Comment on Welcome to 2026 1 month ago:
Turns out lack of regulation is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, the quality of pirate sites varies wildly - with some being virus infested hellholes.
On the other hand, there's no legal bullshit to get in the way of them providing their service. Their competition can't easily just cut them off from content.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 months ago:
Exactly this. Universal healthcare still leaves room for private facilities and insurance, it just forces a minimum standard on the market that they clearly don't want in the US
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 months ago:
On the brightside, if/when the Switch 2 gets CFW or homebrew, they'll have an otherwise useless button to make use of for their own keybinds
- Comment on take a deep underwater breath 2 months ago:
Ideally one would walk everywhere or take public transport, and in Europe at least a lot of people do...
But even then that's not always feasible - especially if you live in a country that has actively sabotage both those methods of transport - so making the cars they drive able to operate off of renewable energy (dependent on their source of electricity) is better than ranting like an old man and doing nothing
- Comment on take a deep underwater breath 2 months ago:
Trees don't actually produce that much excess oxygen at all. If I remember correctly, only about ~1/1000 molecules of O2 generated by a given tree actually ever leave its local environment. The rest gets used up by the tree itself and surrounding wildlife
- Comment on Don't be so quick to judge 2 months ago:
The gross bit sure, but from my understand pissing on them would help put them out due to piss being mostly water
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Don't particularly care, except for that she is essentially just promoting anorexia to her fanbase of young girls who don't know better, which is pretty fucked up because Ariana should know better.
- Comment on Don't be so quick to judge 2 months ago:
Piss would be too good for them. I'd just get some marshmallows and stick out
- Comment on Today is my 25th birthday 2 months ago:
Don't worry friend, in the blink of an eye you'll be saying the same thing about 30.
Besides 25 is a great time. You're likely early in your career so you've got plenty of choices still to make and probably not that much thing you down, and you've likely still got plenty of healthy years left with your body, especially if you put in the work and keep it fit.
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
That and landlord's favourite - "Trade Magnolia"
It's not an ugly paint colour, but it's boringly neutral and inoffensive, devoid of any character whatsoever.
Once I own a place of my own, I swear to god I avoiding that colour like the plague.
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
Apart from the garish turquoise carpet, I think the original looks timelessly vintage.
Whereas the one on the right looks fashionable, but has almost no character of its own - kind of like those rich people houses you see on YouTube listed for millions, but nobody actually ever seems to buy.
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 2 months ago:
Gotta be ragebait.
I sympathise with having "nightmare tenants" who trash the place, but fuck any Landlord who says you can't work from home because god forbid you use your home that you pay them for because you'd cause a bit more wear and tear than they would like.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 months ago:
C. The moving portal platform breaks the black platform and the whole thing goes through the portal.
Jokes aside, B.
Devoid of any other external forces, in the cube's reference frame there's functionally no difference between it moving towards the portal or the portal moving towards it at a constant acceleration.
Ergo the cube should be pushed out the other side at the same momentum that the system had prior to the collision, and not be simply plopped out as in answer A.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 months ago:
AI tools are some of the most powerful and destructive things humans have ever created. And they are being effectively tested by the public in real time in the real world. When the Manhattan Project was trying to work out the power of their atomic tech, they did not do so by sending everyone the specs each morning and seeing which houses blew up.
Honestly, this. In their desperate attempt to break even, AI companies are throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, without any due regard as to its effects on society at large...
Which unfortunately have proven time and time again to be horribly corrosive towards human culture.
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 3 months ago:
- Comment on This one's for the gardeners ;) 3 months ago:
Was about to say exactly this. Wild seedlings are no less vulnerable than indoor seedlings.
But you tend to succeed more often when you have 1000s of chances rather than one. - Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 3 months ago:
Oh I agree. They've should've been renationalised years ago, but I'd equally take today since they've decided to abuse Government bailout money.
- Comment on I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan 3 months ago:
Burnham has a break clause and every reason to use it. He should not waste the chance.
Even if most people who know of Palantir are against its use; even if Palantir's whole platform is statistically proving to be cost-ineffective and bad at its job; even if multiple senior public office leaders call for the break clause to be enacted; even then, I still have my doubts anything will be done about it as long as the contracts proves lucrative enough for the cronies.
After a decade if Tory bullshit, I was happy for a non-Tory to finally get into office, and more than happy to give Starmer benefit of doubt - after all he had a decade of Tory bullshit to clear up - but he has proved himself to be much of the same.
I genuinely would like for Burnham surprise me, but I'm not expecting much different.
I think we'd need a new party, not red or blue ties, in to see any real change - ideally that'd be the greens, but I guess we'll see what happens. - Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 3 months ago:
Aren't Thames Water in such high debt that they just had a Government bailout?
If they've got the money to give these incompetent idiots such high raises, the Government ought to ask for its money back, cause they clearly don't need it.