crapwittyname
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- Comment on Anon is looking for a router 3 hours ago:
Actually, you go up. Then the earth rotates beneath you, turning your up into sideways.
- Comment on The Odds Are Good When The Goods Are Odd 2 days ago:
Tactical bluke
- Comment on Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted 1 week ago:
You are moving the goalposts. These authors will be treated differently to authors who support Al-Qaeda. Therefore there is a spectrum, or, at least, an uneven application of the law, in practice.
- Comment on Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted 1 week ago:
The fact that the Welsh children’s laureate isn’t being questioned by police as she would if this were about an actual terrorist organisation is the evidence. I thought that was already obvious.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
Get a refillable vape. You only need to change the coil, and it’s recyclable. You can get all the same flavours. It’s also cheaper as well as not being environmentally destructive.
- Comment on Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted 1 week ago:
We don’t have a spectrum
We do. Because, as implied above, PA are not as bad as Al-Qaeda. For example.
- Comment on Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted 1 week ago:
This adds another layer of farce to the whole thing.
Remember, the proscription places Palestine Action in the same bucket as Al-Qaeda. Imagine if the Welsh children’s laureate donated their royalties to another author in solidarity with their support for Al -Qaeda. We would be reassessing that laureateship at the very least. But nothing like that will happen, because the proscription of PA is ridiculous, and everyone knows it. - Comment on Reddit started censoring French protests after bots attempts framing it as all violence rioters failed to sway overseas opinion on reddit 2 weeks ago:
“Encouraging physical harm against a place” is a ban.
Skateboarder? Straight to jail.
Lockpick community? Jail.
You built a sandcastle? Go to jail.
Toilet user? Believe it or not, straight to jail. - Comment on Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist 2 weeks ago:
The density of space? I don’t follow. 1kg of uranium produces about 10^7 times more energy than 1kg of lithium batteries.
Uranium is denser than batteries too, so 1kg of uranium takes up less volume than 1kg of batteries. Is that what you meant? - Comment on Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him? 2 weeks ago:
25 years ago and he’s done the time. Man has paid his debt to society and should be left alone.
- Comment on Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist 2 weeks ago:
Uranium has better energy density than any battery.
- Comment on [Video] Green party: "If you believe Jewish safety can only be achieved by the slaughter and genocide of Palestinians then you are racist." 3 weeks ago:
Learn the difference between “Islamist”, “Hama’s” and “Muslim”. Stretch goal: learn the difference between “Arab” and “Muslim”.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 3 weeks ago:
That’s mostly BBC news to be fair. Wouldn’t a change in management be just as effective at tackling those problems? Genuine question. The BBC used to be a left wing bastion.
- Comment on Burnham Rules Out Coalition With the Green Party 3 weeks ago:
Islamo - commie! I love it. I’m getting that on a t shirt.
- Comment on Burnham Rules Out Coalition With the Green Party 3 weeks ago:
Laughably facile take.
- Comment on [Video] Jewish Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland denounces Green Party arguing almost all Jewish institutions are Zionist, and Zionism is in all Jewish prayer books 3 weeks ago:
It’s a shame to see someone for whom words and context are an integral part of their job failing to understand both.
It’s hard to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s just missed the point because he’s stupid or negligent. - Comment on Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says 3 weeks ago:
There was a “concerning trend of violence targeted at political figures, religious or community groups”, as demonstrated by the killing of the former minister and Reform UK spokesperson Anne Widdecombe.
It was right there in the article. And it’s “Anne”, which you would have got right if you gave a shit about her life and weren’t just using it to score political points.
Classy.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 3 weeks ago:
The cartoon would then have to show the relative sizes of the groups as well (about 6 to 1), so 1 person gets 2/3 while 6 people get to share 1/3. Or, each person in the 1% gets 2/3 of the pizza, and each person in the 50% gets 1/18 of the pizza. Or, the 1% get 12 times more. The real figures are a lot worse, with the bottom 50% holding about 1/50 of the total household wealth, while the 1% hold 1/3 and the rest being distributed among the other 49%. The reality therefore is that those 6 people have to split 1/50th of a pizza, for 1/300th of a pizza each. What would 1/300th of a pizza look like? Crumbs I reckon.
Anyway, it’s a cartoon. - Comment on I'm sick of bad news and contention. comment things that you love about the UK. 1 month ago:
Standing on top of a mountain, with a sea view, watching the clouds roll in, swathing the coast. Driving through a temperate rainforest so green and vivid you can -somehow- feel at one with nature while gearshifting. The most rewarding hikes I’ve ever been on. Rain on slate. Warm, welcoming pubs. Enough land to get lost in alone and yet enough people to make new friends with later, all in the same 10-mile radius. Wales is fucking amazing.
(No, I don’t work for the Wales tourist board, I just live nearby.)
- Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 month ago:
I chose a simple standard candle for a quick explanation, but yes, these are all independently verified by other methods, which in turn verify each other etc. Parallax is a good one: at one side of the earth’s orbit and the other, you measure the relative position of the thing you want to know the distance to, which is just like closing one eye then the other. Distant objects move less in your vision than close objects do.
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 1 month ago:
Thank you, digital workers, for your dutiful work which allows me to not log in to Reddit, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and still stay in the loop.
Your payment shall be in upvotes and well-written comments.
o7 - Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 month ago:
We make the following assumptions:
- We are not in a privileged or special place in the universe.
1a. Therefore the universe should look the same from where we are as from almost anywhere else. - Supernovae emit a very reliable amount of light.
2a. Therefore we can accurately tell how far away a supernova is by its light signature. - We can tell how far away distant galaxies are when a supernova goes off in them.
Therefore, we can map out and count the galaxies in our local area, and, using assumption 1, we know that the number of galaxies in our volume of space is the same as in every volume of space. Multiply the one by the other and you’ve got your answer.
- We are not in a privileged or special place in the universe.
- Comment on [Video] Woman assaulted after heckling Nigel Farage at his conference 1 month ago:
The good news, if you can call it that, is that he is having a very bad week.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 month ago:
So it translates to “Prenag”? I love it.
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 2 months ago:
Exactly this. If the infrastructure is good, you get a well educated, productive, reliable workforce. The rich need to be taxed, for their own good. Many of them realise this and welcome it, because they can’t do it for themselves. The government has a duty to do it.
Personally I’m for the transfer of ownership of the means of production to the working class, but even neoliberals should be on board with a wealth tax, regardless of the fact that a side effect is a more enjoyable life for the riffraff. - Comment on Me attending "AI University" at work today 2 months ago:
Copilot is useless. I’ve yet to take less time explaining what I want from it than it would take to do it myself. Very big, one off repetitive tasks -you know, the exact type you want to quickly automate- are never properly understood or executed, and smaller ones need so much refinement that it’s not worth the time. Productivity gain < 0
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 2 months ago:
I think you have your answer. The bias towards Israel, and the transphobia are writ large in this thread as reasons.
These have been well documented, and on their own render opposition to BBC news reporting a perfectly reasonable position to hold. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That is why empiricism relies on sensory information.
So you don’t need axioms for empiricism, just to be clear. Your saying “actually” could make it look like you’re disagreeing, when you’re actually not. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We don’t need axioms for empiricism. That’s the entire point. We ask reality questions and infer limited and verifiable knowledge from the results, without ever stating that anything has been proven.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s no evidence for the Copenhagen interpretation either, it’s just the most conservative.