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- Comment on Briton threatened with deportation from Sweden over Brexit rules goes into hiding 1 day ago:
So he sent an email to the tax department rather than the immigration department, and thinks that their response back was related to his legal status as an immigrant, rather than regarding his tax status.
- Comment on Pfft 3 days ago:
Well, I forgot about that. Looking at it, I’d say it was a part that I managed to get through quite quickly, since it wasn’t just describing the texture of a wall for a full page.
- Comment on Pfft 3 days ago:
I tend to read books about religion and history, so there isn’t really a lot of breaking the mold there unfortunately.
Gormenghast and Neuromancer are the kind of heavy atmospheric and descriptive fiction I like, but they don’t really deviate from standard punctuation or presentation in any way.
- Comment on Pfft 3 days ago:
I hadn’t even heard of it until your comment.
I respect going all in on breaking convention a lot more than leaving out punctuation as a style.
- Comment on Pfft 3 days ago:
This is the standard line, but a lot of the time I find it to be bullshit. Sure, Cormac McCarthy gets to look cool and modernist by not using quotation marks, but my view is you would spend less time trying to decipher narrator vs. character if he did use them, and you would have a better reading experience at the same time.
- Comment on strassen's algorithm kinda hot tho 1 week ago:
The problem is that we cannot actually define sentience/consciousness either though, and it is likely the human brain is not the most efficient way to achieve it.
For me the question is more around the theoretical minimum for consciousness and how close we are to that.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
Yeah a lot do actually. A lot of Danish people have combined open plan dining and living rooms with only two rugs in the vicinity of the couch and the dining table. There is then often a lot of unused space and hard surface around. The acoustics of my ex-girlfriend’s parents house was always horrible to me, you can tell when it was built in the 1970s it was fully intended to be carpeted.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
I mean it is a problem, people just aren’t aware of it, or just live with it. It used to be much more common in Scandinavia but for some reason fell out of vogue. Everyone’s living room is now horribly echoey and I have no idea how they put up with it.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
sound/echo dampening.
- Comment on If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see the problem. There are many ways that it could be useful, particularly with editing files.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 5 weeks ago:
Broadly agree, but I think that there is about a 1% chance of working out with the billionaires in control. They will just get their assets expropriated when a war occurs, or the AI will just take over once given the tools.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 month ago:
The underlying mechanism of government pensions in their current state requires there to be more people paying in than being paid out, so growth is needed.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 1 month ago:
No, its not. I also hire and we take the time to look through the CVs of relevant candidates. If I call someone in I will have questions about their CV for the interview.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
He is talking about anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Pathetic rat.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 2 months ago:
Wonder what I said to get a full URL wildcard ban
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 months ago:
Pretty much constant. When I was younger and had nothing to do, could sometimes do it more. I basically never have so little to do anymore though.
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 months ago:
Usually 1 or 2 times a day, more often 1.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 months ago:
I feel like a trillionaire in 2026 would not be that surprising to someone from the 1940s, considering they had billionaires back then too.
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
Clip to a carabiner on your belt loop
- Comment on The ride of a lifetime 4 months ago:
Yeah just like how it isn’t a chickens farmer
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 months ago:
If you’re saying that it’s not a problem in Europe then I can’t imagine how bad it is in America. I get blinded by taller vehicles all the time on the road in Denmark. I also don’t think most people’s automatic high beams work correctly.
- Comment on Rebuilding 4 months ago:
What’s the joke
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 months ago:
I went in knowing nothing about the book other than there was a supernatural clown in it. When I read that scene I had to stop, then go online to find an explanation of what the fuck I just read and how it is related to the plot. I was absolutely baffled by the amount of people saying they thought it was fine to have, some people even said it was a good allegory for leaving childhood.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 months ago:
No, it is even more bizarre. They have sex because the group is lost in the sewer and apparently this makes them know where they are, somehow, so they can leave, which they then do. It adds literally nothing to the plot, apart from really shoddy symbolism of growing up.
- Comment on Some people call me the Space Cowboy... Some people call me MAAUUUU-RIIICEEE 5 months ago:
You see a lot of people in Ireland with names like this. A senior politician was called Dick Roche (pronounced roach)
- Comment on A body battery in this economy? 5 months ago:
Just do amphetamines
- Comment on Structural Engineers 6 months ago:
No, we would not. The beams have a loading that they must adequately support. They have a span that is dictated by the column spacing.
You cannot just throw in supports (i.e., columns, bracing) everywhere to reduce the span until it works, otherwise you impact the usability of the building space and drive up the cost of construction.
Reducing the beam to beam spacing means you are increasing the number of structural elements and therefore cost, and probably also using the material inefficiently. The expensive part of a beam is the connection, and you typically want to reduce the number of connections and crane lifts as much as possible.
- Comment on Structural Engineers 6 months ago:
There is the possibility of misconfiguration, but ultimately, a member can be too weak even if the configuration is correct.
- Comment on Structural Engineers 6 months ago:
If a member fails it is in fact because it is too weak