FishFace

@FishFace@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some links there but the reason I highlighted that is because there are some short term climate impacts (like the heatwaves we’ve just experienced) and recent wars that my point is less true of.

  Maybe the best way to explain this month-to-month point is to ask what your explanation is for the previous month’s figures. Back then we had almost the same amount of pressure on cost of living, right? (And, to a slightly lesser extent, almost the same pressure from climate change and war). So, if those things all lead to negative monthly growth figures, we should have had that in the previous month, surely. But we don’t.

  My explanation for this is that we have basically already seen most of the negative economic impacts (at least in terms of growth figures) from most of the causes you’re talking about, and it’s only the most recent changes to cost of living that are biting now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had always wondered...⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s from Alfie because the goblins in that have a pretty distinct, crazy look. I think it’s an incase goblin that he’s drawn not in the Alfie universe.

  Obviously this distinction is hugely important because directing someone to the best porn comic ever on the false promise of standard looking goblins when all they’ll get are crazy looking goblins and normal looking halflings (havlins) (and snakes, and goat people, and men, and feels, and…) would be terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I passionately support this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And then…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Applying logic to such statements is misguided. The Tories don’t want to resolve this situation, and probably aren’t willing to do what would be required to actually follow through on such “logic”. That would mean removing asylum seekers without assessing them which is only legal under the refugee convention if you’re removing them to a safe country. The Tories aren’t willing to make Britain an international pariah, so that means a return to something like the Rwanda scheme. Maybe they’ll try that again but it went so badly the first time.

  The conversation about refugees suffers massively because the media let politicians get away with this pattern of saying things that carry certain implications and not bringing attention to those implications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: I’ve cycled through red lights. But Britain’s traffic laws are to blame, not me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever your opinion on Britain’s cycling infrastructure, blaming anyone but yourself for your own choices is a bad look, a bad position and bad for people’s opinion of cyclists. This guy should shut up. (Not the first time someone will have said that about him…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Factors which remain the same from month to month (like climate change, ongoing wars, and cost-of-living crises) necessarily have similar impacts on those different months. Therefore if there’s a different impact - in this case seen in volume of goods sold - then that must be due to things that are different between those two month. Surely you agree with that?

  worldwide impacts of climate change, multiple wars

  You didn’t mention these in your first comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that these are month-on-month figures, no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line cook quietly handed me this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How big is that drink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell OP has never lived anywhere with seagulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flat earthers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that gave me a different perspective on this is that conspiracy theorists tend to believe a whole load of conspiracy theories. And the conspiracy theories that people believe follow certain patterns: they can be falsifiable, but not so easily falsifiable you can’t come up with some arguments that take real work to debunk. And while they obviously contradict mainstream beliefs, this combination alone is not enough. Basically, someone needs to plant the idea for it to spread: most people aren’t deciding for themselves that everyone is lying about the Earth being round, they get it from someone else.

  I think all this tells us that it’s not really about the facts. There’s a cognitive bias at play here which engenders belief in things which enable the believer to feel like they’re in on a secret and are therefore one above the common person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  XD <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the only difference to indicate that that country is Canada

  Is there a district of Ontario, California called “London” or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason people hate America… well. One reason people hate the United States of America is that (some) Americans don’t know that Canada is a different country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  image Cataracts maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She deserves it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  NOT spelled the same dammit, NOT the same!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is more than half of what you deserve!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but as a fellow cyclist I still laughed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MeowIRL⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried this with mine and they just ineffectually bap at whatever it is :( freeloaders!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drowning in grid scale batteries⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The op sure is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get in my cup!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they in the pee too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All aboard the Pythagorean Express⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Traingle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's gay to brush your teeth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I have no control over the direction of my thoughts. It’s actually debilitating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's gay to brush your teeth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I just thought about it for a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's gay to brush your teeth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that will not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it just be… guys being dudes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get attention around here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s not fair. If you say “Capitalism” you can also get plenty of attention!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True torture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I counter with manual breathing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When y'all gonna learn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that, while you can’t convince a crackpot of anything, you can study them like a scientific specimen and it can be quite interesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When y'all gonna learn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s rare but it’s there, and when you genuinely find someone who will take your points and offer their perspective in return it can be a glorious thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  French orthography is way more coherent than English. From the spelling you can pretty much tell how a french word is pronounced. Not the other way around, sure, but that’s a damn sight better than English which manages neither.