bampop
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- Comment on I support this 1 day ago:
Also a dedicated lane for leaving your groceries while you go pick up the reusable carrier bags you left in the car.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 2 days ago:
You can save on your groceries too!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
The moon’s not the real issue here. We should be thinking about how to block out the sun
- Comment on Give. Me. My. Wish. 3 days ago:
If you wished for another genie they’d probably say it was against the rules. Giving them an incentive to supply another genie is fair play.
- Comment on Social events 4 days ago:
Loneliness begins with waking up. Meals are available, if you went shopping recently.
- Comment on 0/10 game 1 week ago:
It’s nice to have some reward for looking in the nooks and crannies, without feeling like you have to search in every nook and cranny. What is the best way to achieve this? One way could be if you had interesting items each of which could be found in several places, and when you’ve found it in one place you won’t find it in another.
- Comment on They say you can't hear images. 1 week ago:
Sorry you missed out. It’s not too late to fix that
- Comment on just build the planes like that 3 weeks ago:
Typical overengineering solution. All they need to do is fly 30m to the left
- Comment on The meat! 3 weeks ago:
Skeletons must be terrified of us, knowing there is another skeleton inside us… trapped, smothered, enslaved by the meat.
- Comment on Doesn't want to pay child support. Denies he is the father of this boy 3 weeks ago:
Plot twist: DNA proves he is his own father
- Comment on MPs recommend BBC charter renewal is scrapped and licence fee is extended beyond TV 5 weeks ago:
Trying to restrict iPlayer access to the UK is absurd. There’s a huge international market that would gladly pay to watch iPlayer, but the BBC won’t take their money. VPN providers, on the other hand, are more than happy to step up.
- Comment on Name me country which has better food than England 5 weeks ago:
Name me a country
- Comment on Sounds Pretty Cool Honestly 5 weeks ago:
I’ll settle for one of those. No less. Do we have a deal Satan?
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 1 month ago:
You need something you can walk to, like Another One Bites The Dust, Stayin’ Alive, anything by ZZ Top, that sort of thing
- Comment on Live laugh love 1 month ago:
Once they’ve figured out there’s soft meat on that thing, I doubt they’d stop at one eye
- Comment on Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment… 1 month ago:
It’s true that he was in a corner and there was no easy way out, and I’m sure Macklemore never wanted to put him in that position. He still made the wrong choice though.
He could have dug his heels in and defied Kraft, maybe cancel the tour, whatever it takes. If it cost him 70 million, he can afford that, but given the unreasonable basis of Kraft’s demands, I expect there’s a legal case to be fought there. He would have had a lot of support, and it would have been a public disgrace for Kraft. Sometimes you just need to grow a spine and do what’s right. Money isn’t everything.
I do feel some sympathy for Ed Sheeran. He just wanted to do music and not be in the political spotlight. And when it comes to punishing people for complying with injustice, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But I am glad of the conversation it has sparked. When the time comes to not comply, we need to recognize that moment, and we also need to recognize what it means to say “I don’t do politics”.
- Comment on Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment… 1 month ago:
Why is it so evil to not do politics? He’s not harming anyone.
It’s impossible to “not do politics”, that’s a bullshit position which just means taking whichever political decision is easier and more self serving. Sheeran chose to comply with demands to deplatform one of his supporting acts, to serve zionist interests. There was no apolitical decision to be made. A choice not to act is still a choice. He had to pick a side and he picked the genocidal one.
Don’t get me wrong, I think what he did was dumb and selfish rather than deliberately evil, and I can sympathize with that to a degree. He just wanted to maintain a comfortable status quo. But we should recognize that inaction in the face of injustice makes us all complicit, and there are times when that inaction is simply unacceptable.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 1 month ago:
No doubt the sentencing of the Palestine Action protesters influenced the outcome here. In that case the jury convicted them of criminal damage and the judge used that to sentence them as terrorists. Pulling a bait and switch like that has consequences. The intended consequence was to intimidate protesters into silence. The actual consequence was to undermine confidence in the legal process. This jury knew that a guilty verdict would give the judge free rein to do the same trick, and they knew what an injustice that would be. The jury did the right thing, given that they were acting within a broken system.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
That’s so neat, we should resurrect the Indiana Pi Bill with this value!
- Comment on I will not be opening for Ed Sheeran 1 month ago:
it’s so hard though. I’m thinking about opening for Ed Sheeran. I really like money
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
They had the same intelligence as us. What they didn’t have is the same education. That’s the difference that education makes.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
256/81 (~= 3.16) as the stand-in for π.
Interesting choice, it suggests they didn’t have any way to verify the accuracy of that approximation, since 22/7 is way closer, but (4/3)^4 is really cute and elegant.
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 1 month ago:
That’s the true horror. It’s like a recurring nightmare where you’re powerless to stop it. Also you can’t wake up
- Comment on Just a matter of time before it's reality 1 month ago:
The cool thing about the model with wifi is you get the built in camera and microphone as standard
- Comment on How hard could it be? 1 month ago:
“The race must be won at all costs. When I am god-emperor of the universe, then we can talk about curing cancer or whatever”
- Comment on Complicated 1 month ago:
Is it really work though?
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 month ago:
Just putting it at a level that we could relate to, like someone who is comfortably wealthy but not insanely wealthy. What we see as ludicrous extravagance is cheap and trivial to someone like Bezos.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 month ago:
Scaling that down by a factor of 50,000, it’s like having a net worth of $5.52 million, and a boat worth $10,000. You spent $1,100 on your wedding and bought your wife a ring worth $100.
- Comment on The cylinder must remain unharmed 2 months ago:
For anyone still on the fence maybe this helps Image
- Comment on The Bane Of My Existence 2 months ago:
The teeth are smiling but the eyes are saying “killll meeee”
