ThePyroPython

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't have nice things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that, it’s the whole system.

  The human brain has a perception rate of motion up to 300 frames per second and visual data up to 1000 frames per second. Now it’s non-sensical to think of the human eye and brain like a CMOS image sensor and CPU because they simply do not run on the same principles but for the sake of argument we’ll take the upper limit of 1000 frame per second because the brain relies on an intuitive sense of hand-eye position that needs to be processed unconsciously for it to react fast enough to environmental stimulation.

  So that’s 1000 times a second minimum (1kHz) for the whole VR system to measure the change in relative position of the controller to the headset in 3 spacial dimensions, 5 degrees of freedom, the acceleration of that change, packet up these numbers, transmit them via a radio link to the headset, unpack that data in multiple processing threads all waiting for their sprint in a CPU core, get repackaged for other threads a dizzying amount of times, be used in calculations for the game’s physics engine, which then produces graphics data shoved through a HUGE buffer to the GPU before that sends the appropriate electrical signals to 100,000 of nanoscale LED lights to shine into your retinas.

  So yeah, it might suck a bit of power and it’s a fucking miracle that GNERATIONS of engineers around the world have contributed incalculable hours of their lives to ensure that your beat saber or goon session last just slightly longer than your stamina!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also the Rochdale Herald.

  Rochdale makes Northern Post Industrial Shitholes look like Star Trek San Francisco.

  Source: grew up around there, the trains(and then Trams) run twice as fast through there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that it’s Northampton, I’m in favour of this population reduction strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened? Huh? You lil bitch?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ship GPS, Transponders, Sonar, weather information from a data feed, and the large scale deployment of sea monitoring bouys allowing us to observe and measure storms and rogue waves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that poorly implemented price controls would be a bad idea because without proper considerations you end up with bread queues for crops or what we have currently for the energy market where the government is forced to cover losses from unsellable wind power because the energy companies don’t want to turn off the gas baseline so they can charge the highest electric rate possible.

  Trying to wrangle market forces is nigh on impossible which is why the most effective ways to incentivise and deincentivise economic activity is through tax-breaks and raising taxes respectively.

  An example would be a land tax and a brown-field rebate. You want to stop property developers from buying up land just to sit on it waiting for the value to increase so that more housing and infrastructure can be built so you implement a land tax to stop them from sitting on said land and do something useful with it. At the same time you don’t want them to be paving over an easy to develop on green space when a brown-field site would be much more preferable so you give them some rebate money to cover additional clean up costs before development work can begin.

  We already have effective economic tools before us to leverage the speed that a free market can move at by giving them a very clear preferred direction by influencing profitability indirectly.

  So I don’t see how opening a chain of stores that provides basic essentials that would compete on the open market is akin to price controls or the fall out from it.

  Large chain supermarkets like Tesco, ASDA, and Aldi put enormous pressure on farmers to reduce the purchase price per tonne by leveraging their huge market share. If you don’t want to agree to sell to Tesco at the price they negotiate, fine, but you’ll struggle to shift that volume that Tesco would buy to other suppliers.

  This is why owner-operator farmers, despite being wealthy in terms of land can see little income financially from the sale of their crops and produce. This is also why they’re slowly selling off land for housing development or selling the whole farm to a larger international farming conglomerate who can compete on the same scale of supermarket chains like Tesco.

  This is not good for food security, which is going to come under further strain from climate change as yield prediction will become increasingly harder.

  So why not create a nationalised retainer that can buy these goods for a better price per tonne for the farmers and sell them at or slightly below market rate to the consumer because they’re not beholden to increasing supermarket shareholder value quarter on quarter?

  With that massive financial pressure gone all they have to do is price goods to cover the costs of buying produce, distribution, and all the usual overheads (wages, etc.).

  This way the corporately operated supermarkets either have to compete on price and offer better deals to farmers or find a different way to add value.

  It’s the same logic behind Great British Energy just with food security rather than energy security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Supermarket bosses and shareholder greed.

  I’m with Zack who wants to do what Mandini is proposing: start a Nationally owned supermarket chain.

  British farmers get paid fairly and consumers get lower prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy, just wait until you hear about zero-crossings and phase-lock loops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget they’re fiddling strange multi pronged metal sticks, muttering about impedance matching, in a giant spiky room with large metal doors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to quibble but that line was delivered by Goldfinger not Dr. No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope they’re just wind socks that blow in the direction of public opinion and private interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid Career Marine Biology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would an assassin go after a Marine Biologist? Does OP happen to be Dirk Pitt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who wants an animal as a pet that is more of handful than a goldfish, hamster, or rabbit needs to pay for a license to own it.

  I have known too many people that own a dog(s) that they can’t take care of properly due to work or other life circumstances.

  The fee will go to the local authority to offset the cleaning of dog shit they have to do. The fines still remain in place.

  I’m trying to think of other irresponsible actions from other types of pet owners, but I can’t think of any.

  Please comment below or I ammend my proposal to being dog-owners only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I support this.

  Pubs are constantly getting squeezed out by competition from supermarkets and whilst I’m not a big drinker or even a regular at a pub, it’s a part of British culture that should be preserved.

  HOWEVER, if we’re talking about legal reforms to preserve pub culture, there’s many other issues that need addressing.

  Examples include: Brewery-owned pubs being one of the worst types of franchise business for squeezing “owners” out of every last penny and having a ridiculous amount of control on how the pub is run even if the Landlord/lady has other ideas about how it should be run.

  The power of brewerys over the pubs they control needs to be weakened.

  It’s fairly easy to convert a pub into a single residencey and little to no planning permission is required. It’s impossible to return a former pub back to being a pub even if the community consents. Given that pub is short for “Public House” when more of these were vital parts of the community, said community should have first right-to-buy dibs to keep it going for the community.

  Freehouses should have lower rates and brewerys should not be allowed to pressure freehouses into dropping that status in exchange for not paying exorbitant prices for produce.

  Weatherspoons and StoneGate need to be broken up and the Franchise model needs replacing with a Cooperative model.

  And as a last example, repealing the ban on gambling games and replacing it with more sensible regulation. E.g. games cannot allow the house to take a cut of winnings, must be organised by a regular patron, limited to a single night of the week, with a simple one page from registering with the gambling association so the appropriate authorities are aware, and a limit on the monetary value per round.

  That last one is two fold:

  1. Small friendly bets on card games in pubs is less likely to drain gambling-prone people’s income than a betting shop and comes with an inbuilt support network.

  2. Smaller “don’t-take-the-piss” events and clubs with a light touch of regulation is much better for keeping the peace and not causing social problems than letting large corporate betting shops swallow the high street whole along with desperate and addicted people’s money to a tax haven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I AM PIZZAIUS!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an expensive hobby to get into, I did my first game in about 10 years, enjoyed it so much that I got hyperfixated and went all in because I know I love this hobby.

  £110 for Airsoft rifle £180 on starter clothing (undershirt, shirt, trousers, imitation plate carrier, ammo pouches, pistol holster, gloves, mesh eye mask, and large bag to shove it all in) £40 spent so far on BBs £40 for first site session (outdoor woodland) £20 for second site session (indoor CQB) £40 for third site session (outdoor abandoned base) £50 on a piccatiny rail mounted torch with pressure pad

  Petrol costs travelling to sites, food, drink not included, I’ve so far spent £480.

  Having said that, I have nothing else to buy right now so that’ll last me a good while.

  Whilst I’m not in the shit financially from this spending spree, DON’T DO WHAT I DID, that was a bit reckless of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I might have gotten into Airsoft before my paycheck has arrived… Sorry wallet, you’ll feel better in a few days time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd read that⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that make Deckard a Can Opener?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you truly believe that this is a human being?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You misspelt his middle name.

  It’s Charlie “human fountain” Kirk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once a month.

  It’s actually become a bit of a self-care routine because I go to a Turkish barbers who’ll also do ear hair burning off (nowhere near as intense as you’re imagining), noise hair waxing, and a hot towel cut-throat shave.

  I actually like the sensations from them all and I walk out feeling clean and fresh, gives me a monthly little boost of confidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The world is powered by a collective STEAM engine:

  Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics.

  Arts is such a fundamental component for communicating advancements and inspiring the creativity that fuels further discoveries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a cis het man, the “male loneliness epidemic” is more a collection of symptoms of multiple problems without one source.

  Those who claim a single source usually point to women because they’re a misogynist grifter looking chasing clout or to sell a scam course / supplement.

  So without further ado, here’s my non-academic (and probably ill-informed) reckon based on conversations from online and IRL, lived experiences, and perceived societal norms. Have your large pinch of salt on standby.

  1. Both men and women have been socialised that the only emotions men show is anger or laughter. Men have been socialised that the only emotion they can express in front of other men is anger and laughter. This means the amount of emotional support men can use from their support network is limited, they’re not practiced on how to deal with them, and either have to figure it out by themselves, be lucky enough to have a friend or partner whom they feel emotionally safe to express these feelings, can afford to seek professional help, laugh the problem off with self-depricating humour to repress the emotion, or turn it into anger usually as a result of succumbing to one of the aforementioned grifters.

  Understandably, women have been socialised that if a man is showing emotion then that could turn into frustration and anger and so then they either have to risk taking on unpaid emotional labour or remove themselves from the situation. So sometimes you get this scenario where women want men to be more emotionally open but then recoil when they do because subconscious alarm bells start ringing that “you’re in danger” because there’s a decent chance that they could be.

  Thankfully this is changing with younger generations, but it will take a generation or two.

  2. Male support socialisation is centred around problem solving, not listening. Even if a guy has friends he can lean on emotionally, the conversations are usually focused around fixing the problem rather than providing a listening space and reassurance that those emotions are valid.

  This is the main reason I pass off an “I’m fine” to friends and family because they’d try and suggest solutions to the problem rather than just listen.

  Again, this is changing in society but these kinds of changes are slow.

  3. Loss of third spaces. This affects everyone, not just men. But these third spaces where people can socialise without being forced to spend money are key for building communities. When people had disposable income or access to lines of credit it didn’t matter that there was an expectation that you had to pay for parking, food, drink, ticket(s) for the activity. Now, that’s less of an option for many people.

  This hasn’t improved and will likely only get worse as late stage capitalism squeezes out anything that is unable or refuses to make more and more profit per quarter.

  4. The lack of third spaces has moved friendships, courtship, and dating online. Whilst this has meant many people have made connections (platonic and romantic) that would have gone missed, the big tech companies have realised that anger and loneliness are good for business.

  The social networks get far more engagement from posts that make people angry and therefore their advertising revenues increase.

  Similarly, the dating monopoly Match Group, has realised that having more men than women on the platform means these men will spend money on these platforms for a chance at matches. So they purposely profile men who are likely to pay for things like “super likes” etc. and do nothing to make the experience more pleasant for women.

  This isn’t anything new by the way, it’s the same reason some clubs make guys pay on the door and women get in for free, and it’s the same reason why there’s more female sex workers than male sex workers.

  Men are willing to pay many and women don’t have to, but women have to put up with a lot of entitlement from the men who have paid for matches / to get into the club and be constantly fending off attention from men they don’t wish to reciprocate the attention to.

  Without third spaces for general socialising, the only place to interact with potential partners is paid and will therefore skew financially in favour of women at the cost of their peace-of-mind.

  5. This is more of a personal sentiment but others might empathise: I don’t want to feel like I’m harassing women.

  I’m not cold approaching anyone when I go out because I don’t want to interrupt their precious free time they get in between the grind of life. I don’t want to interrupt them socialising with their friends or be creepy on the dancefloor by getting in their personal space, or even glancing over too much.

  So I stay at arms length, avoid eye contact, and only approach or get close if I’m getting multiple very strong signals large enough to land an Airbus A380.

  6. This is definitely just applies to me, but I have exceedingly low self-confidence, self-esteem, and low opinion of myself from a deep rooted depression. That’s a straight-up non-starter for trying to be with anyone else because nobody, man or woman, likes an emotional anchor dragging their mood down. I’m working on it but without paying a lot of money for therapy (the NHS waiting list is a joke), I’m stuck trying to work it out myself (see points 1 & 2).

  So until I’m fit for socialising in that way, I’m purposely isolating myself in that regard.

  Oh and for added flavour, I don’t want to be around watching society collapse as the world continues to burn not can I distract myself (or be ignorant enough) to not pay attention to it.

  To be honest, right now my mind is telling just to wait for my mother to pass away then withdraw all my money, disappeare abroad, burn through it in pure hedonism then off myself once the cash has run out. At least this way I can enjoy a shorter life rather than suffer a longer one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP should send his brother to Stevenage with a hammer, he’d have the place leveled to the ground before the town council could say thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bread makes you fat?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting a little nature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah people forget that nature isn’t all smol fluffy and cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon crunches some numbers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon forgets that progression isn’t linear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh ffs, I thought that rule only applied to posts and comments going “as a man…”. God damn it, I was just trying to make sure my perspective isn’t echo-chambered and my one or two comments there were appropriate and being supportive to the women who participate there.

  Mia culpa I guess, mods of that sub feel free to go and delete my comments in that sub if they violated the rule because I’ll leave it up to your judgement to decide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dirty slut for water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s called being parched and the water in that moment will taste like nectar from the gods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's got the morbs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chronic Morbs for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you guys do better?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m feeling like an Alright Crested Greb.