bryndos
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- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 8 hours ago:
'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' (TV, 2000s) also had something similar in the "skipper the eyechild" episode. Nsfw if anyone searches it. I'd be quite surprised if they paid royalties for that.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
Holding down a b-17 flying fortress?
- Comment on Hold on a second... 1 week ago:
Min Plank
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 1 week ago:
Surely there can't be that many sheep on Soay to come up with such an estimate.
I suspect the scientist got a bit lonely out there doing the fieldwork, tried something that he'd normally get away with on a domestic ewe, got rebuffed, and wrote this paper to slander the whole species as revenge.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 1 week ago:
If it ever gets close enough to Pluto that a full Pluto is the brightest light source, it'll turn into an orange dog.
- Comment on Lost in the Sauce Etymology 2 weeks ago:
that pig's a pretty mean bastard
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 weeks ago:
feckin feck, gaerruls , erse
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 2 weeks ago:
All humans should evolve into spheres.
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 2 weeks ago:
parrot
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 2 weeks ago:
The op webshite required lot's of logins; and less said about the date format for the age verification . . .
redacted seems way less bother.
- Comment on Is there a place you can gamble on if it rains tomorrow? 2 weeks ago:
Bet on "will England manage to draw the test."
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 2 weeks ago:
shooting fish?
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
I suppose you think mega shark vs giant octopus was a "failure" too.
I'd hate to live in such a picture of success. - Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 2 weeks ago:
Belief is power.
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no
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 weeks ago:
Ad companies often mark their own homework.
Sales directors are more often gobshites than scientists.
Competition doesn't really drive out inefficiency very well, or very quickly. - Comment on Where can I Ai a whole video? 2 weeks ago:
This post made me realise that the community I actually want is "stupid question, stupid answer"
- Comment on Mr Fantastic 3 weeks ago:
Once again proving that programmable RGB lighting enhances performance.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, spent too much time recently trying to get a "modern" database to accept one of out transactional systems' dummy EOT value (3456-02-01).
Took far, far too long for me to realise that it only wanted to store date/time in nanoseconds !? Fuck me, you'd have to be dumb fuck computer to want to measure every date in nanoseconds - even oracle wasn't that dumb, oh hang on we're "upgrading" to MS.
There must be a joke in here to do with dates that only last a nanosecond, I think it's to do with pandas' breeding rates.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
In UK I've mostly have heard 'naughties' for the decade sine about 1999.
But I rarely heard "naughty X" as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I'd say "oh" would be most common here after "two thousand and X" too in my experience.I always thought that "'aught" was an American contraction of 'naught'.
"aught" in old timey-English can mean "other" or "else" or even "anything". In my local dialect we still say "owt" meaning "anything" as an opposite of "nowt" nothing".
- Comment on The American mind cannot comprehend this 3 weeks ago:
UK is generally shite - and probably getting worse.
intercity trains and local bus services are probably better than average USA - if there even is such an "average" for USA.
I don't think much in the UK is as good as say NYC though - and if there is - say maybe central London, it's fucking expensive. I recall from years ago buses and metro in NYC being quite cheap - but not like continental Europe levels of cheap.Good job UK is not in Europe anymore - bringing the equally meaningless EU average down.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 3 weeks ago:
Its probably evidence of excess market power and abuse of consumers.
In the UK that's "enforced" by the competition and markets authority.The way it works is cma does a lame investigation, the regulated parties lawyers all 'prove' their clients did nothing wrong.
cma goes away.cma did a review of supermarkets about 15 years ago, let them off scott free.
Now they're pushing it even further.TBH for fresh fruit and veg and stuff there are still proper markets in most towns - so people going to supermarket are just lazy. SO I do partly blame the consumers here for not supporting a diverse economy.
That's essentially their defence to the CMA, the consumers do have options so it can't be abuse - they choose to give us market power because the consumers can't be bothered to shop around.
And there is something to be said for their arguments - they were given the market power by consumers - so the consumers are at least partly to blame for this situation. Consumers are benefiting from reduced shoeleather costs that may exceed the losses due to this.CMA doesn't do sophisticated local market and transaction costs analysis though. I'm sure there are areas where price differentials exceed transport costs - meaning there is significant lack of local consumer choice. But it takes a lot of number crunching and fine-grain geographic data to prove. I personally think they shoudl take cars out of the equation and use public transport costs+time only to figure local market size - but that'd be easy for them to argue out of court. All they have to do is allow say a 30 minute drive, and generally that will mean there is no local market power concentration.
- Comment on Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear 3 weeks ago:
In my experience in work there are thousands of documents written in powerpoint or MS word that should be done in DTP software. Fuck the way people abuse text boxes in word. Most people just don't know they have it, or have to request it from IT, and remember what their budget code is, even though it's probably included in their license. I won't use it because of no one else knows they can get it; I'd be giving them all an excuse never to edit the document and they'd just commission me to make all changes in it, forever. They'd probably use it as an excuse not to read the document either.
Similar problem with Visio, people using smart art in ppt to create what should be a flowchart.
Unfortunately i cant not use visio, and no one else will ever request it, because they're arseholes'.I agree there is better software available - but non specialist businesses are unlikely to procure that, so publisher is basically the only option. And once publisher is available the business case for anything better becomes harder to make.
MS is rarely the best for any specialist use, but I think they just wanted office to tick a load of boxes for generalist procurement so it wins "vfm" choice for procurement teams who don't care or know what their users need. As long as office is the defacto choice for businesses, they've achieved their goal.
I guess they've realised publisher was never really a material factor in office suite choice.
- Comment on Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 4 weeks ago:
This made me rewatch con man s01e08.
"Your voice has this unique quality that we think is going to be more effective with the Marion storyline." - Comment on what happens when you cut something? 4 weeks ago:
If you shear (scissors) then there should be less loss, maybe some distortion though.
If you saw, you lose the sawdust.
if you slice (knife), it might be either way or a bit of both.Most likely you lose something, whether it's a loss that matters, that depends.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
Cheap , fairly-easy, portable, storable source of energy, and the current supply chains are very high capacity.
Lots of well understood methods and machines to use it. An oil tanker on sea or land moves a hell of a lot of energy to wherever people want it.Population keeps growing. No way are all of those people going to leave that stuff in the ground, if "we" don't take the cheap stuff, "they" will. So it becomes like a race to find and extract it all.
Even if you don't want it personally, someone in your economy or military will be better off for it. Some people will go looking for it - and someone'll get rich if they find it.
- Comment on my Lemmy feed 4 weeks ago:
I read the shitposts - pretty much my whole feed except from sciencememes, and never see too much politics, the odd one here or there but nothing annoying.
Maybe I have enough user level blocks in place already.I do see far too much of this of this corn crap recently, so I'm just building up a whole new section of my blocklist.
If there isn't any diversity in shit posts soon, i guess i just ditch this community as it'll be more efficient.I guess i should expect a dirty protest from shitpost - but I'd rather the literal shit posts than one more day of this cornucrapia.
Does ratemypoo.com still exist - maybe I'll just browse that.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 5 weeks ago:
18+ you drink too much
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 5 weeks ago:
I wish I had never been born.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 5 weeks ago:
Competition, especially free market competition is one of the enemies of capitalism.
Fortunately for capitalists in a liberalised (unregulated) market it's not too hard to build up market power somewhere in the supply chain, and squeeze out, or effectively force the competition into franchise.
Almost unavoidable economies of scale in industries like banking are huge problem, that concentrates critical market power and drives out competition under the guise of plausible investor friendly sounding shit like "risk premia", "international competitiveness", "labour cost efficiency". Directed credit, sectoral and regional should be part of being a bank, the banks have been given responsibility for running the economy, but not made accountable for it. That's why they can get away with investing in real estate bubbles instead of productive industry.
FDR was one of the last USA leaders who seemed to understand the role of banks - sadly that was a long time ago and those ideas seem to be long forgotten.