crapwittyname
@crapwittyname@feddit.uk
- Comment on UK weather: Amber extreme heat warning issued as 35C heatwave approaches 1 day ago:
All great advice. Can I just add two details?
- Install the foil on the outside of the windows if possible. The sun will still heat the air between your window and the foil, raising the temperature in your room, if you install on the inside.
- Kitchen foil works just as well. Harder to install, but cheaper. I crafted some sun blinds with tinfoil and cardboard that I use every year.
I can’t stress enough how much is a difference the foil blinds make. Goes from unbearable to comfortable almost immediately.
- Comment on Imagine How embarrassing that would be 3 days ago:
Why do you think that?
- Comment on Imagine How embarrassing that would be 3 days ago:
… Except if the USA was the aggressor, invading that country in a folly war. I think there is doubt about that.
- Comment on Imagine How embarrassing that would be 3 days ago:
It’s actually politically damaging to help the USA in its folly wars under this regime. Trump is even less popular in Europe than he is in the US. I guess they probably would help, but not definitely, and definitely not enthusiastically.
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 1 week ago:
Advised is irrelevant in the context of banned. It does have something to do with what other people have been “stopped from”; because it’s a comparison, and there is therefore no error.
As an aside, “Mr Musk” deserves no respect from you. He is a fascist, and should not be tolerated.
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 1 week ago:
Is that the point though? Isn’t the point that he has done far less to endanger the UK population than Elon, and yet he is banned and Elon isn’t? Surely that’s worth discussing?
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 2 weeks ago:
I like this game. You missed the one where he recreated Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of blood” speech.
- Comment on Hottest May day on record in UK as temperatures pass 34C 3 weeks ago:
Our houses are built to keep heat in. They are a nightmare to cool. Nobody has blinds to block the sun. It’s… not great.
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
The fun of justifying a reference frame outside the universe. Sorry I’m getting a headache.
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
Yep I think you have to imagine dots suspended in space inside the balloon to better get what’s going on, and you’re right, the “edge” of the universe is definitely nothing like the surface if the balloon. Probably?
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
Best analogy I heard for it is if you put a load of dots on a balloon, then inflate it. Are the dots getting further away? Yes. Is there just the same amount of rubber between each dot as when you put the dots on? Yes. Can you measure the relative speed of the dots? Yes! But have they actually gone anywhere? No…ish?
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
I guess so. I think there are a lot of service roads onto the motorway that the public doesn’t have access to, which means in theory the emergency services would never have to drive that far through traffic. But I’m guessing.
- Comment on Dress for the job you want, not the job you have 5 weeks ago:
Mafk
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
That’s how it works in the UK. You see a blue light in your rearview, then everyone tries to find space and the emergency vehicle proceeds at a clip of 5-10mph, while the affected people ahead burn/bleed etc.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but you’re ignoring the advantage of smart motorways. By removing the hard shoulder, that ensures people who break down can block an entire lane and endanger themselves and others in the process! Smart! Bonus!
- Comment on Anon carpools 5 weeks ago:
‘Irish logic’ is where things are backwards, in a specific way. It’s kind of a single mindedness. Usually it’s a misunderstanding-based joke, not exactly stupidity, but a silly perspective. E.g. it takes more Irishmen to change a light bulb because one holds it and the others swing the ceiling round.
I’m first generation Irish immigrant, and my family loves these kinds of jokes, we don’t see it as hateful. But I wouldn’t tell them around any old Irish person. - Comment on How to turn the phrase "The 1%" into a grawlixed slur? 5 weeks ago:
Alternatively, insist on calling all immigrants ‘expats’?
- Comment on How to turn the phrase "The 1%" into a grawlixed slur? 5 weeks ago:
If you have to work for s living, then this isn’t about you.
- Comment on Wild Ones 5 weeks ago:
If I removed all of the spiders from my house, the fly population wouldn’t increase? I don’t remember my high school biology too clearly, but I seem to remember a definite link between predator and prey which would suggest rampant increase in an environment where predators are sparse.
- Comment on Wild Ones 1 month ago:
Yep. Spiders are top 10 ugliest creatures in history, but I would never kill one unless it was a lethally toxic variety. Because they keep the population of disease-carrying, filthy-egg-laying proboscidean-vomiting flying vermin down. Spiders are bros.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 1 month ago:
“Blah” ones? Do I detect a Scouse accent there lad?
- Comment on snow isn't real 2 months ago:
The angle is having an ingroup. Build a community around absolutely anything and people will come, just so they can belong. Flat earth is just one of these. Flerfing is funny because it’s so absurd, but the same psychology is at play for e.g. the manosphere, local football teams and anything else if you look hard enough.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“New” data. The [old data](The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza - by Owen Jones share.google/REmAEw5FxFyKRgyP2) convinced me just fine
- Comment on The Future is Now! 2 months ago:
Ah ok. In your first post you said “it has to be AI”, which made me think you were saying the video was fake.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 2 months ago:
Are you certain that there is a claim that the company responsible for the tripping robot put this out as a piece of publicity?
Because if not, if it was a leak, or taken by someone not affiliated, then it would make sense it’s on the internet.
Or, are you arguing that because there exists a robot which can run remotely at 10 m s^-1^, that this one shouldn’t exist? Because my car goes 0-60 slower than a McMurtry Speirling, and yet it exists. - Comment on Fake News 2 months ago:
Technically, it didn’t disappear at all!
- Comment on Water bills are rising and thousands are planning not to pay 2 months ago:
It’s been 10 years so this might have changed, but I refused to pay a water bill because a) I was being charged for a previous tenant’s debt, and b) they weren’t allowed to cut my water off because I had a child under 5 in the house (same applies to disabled residents iirc). So if this is the case, a lot of households would have legal protection
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 3 months ago:
Molests Any Gender and Age
- Comment on POV: you walk into a meeting with people who make 10x your salary 3 months ago:
They’re all the same person for sure. I’m not sure if that person is you though.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 3 months ago:
Keep that shit at a reasonable volume outside of daylight hours