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- Comment on Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again 1 day ago:
I’m usually pretty cautious around “smart” stuff that lets organisations spy on you but I somehow didn’t consider the smart meter.
When are you usually away from home? Did you get a good night’s sleep or did you drive while sleep deprived? What time did you leave your home? Did the time it took you to get from to your workplace mean that you broke the speed limit to get there? Or, in a custody battle: Have you ever left your 11 year old child home alone? How often, and for how long? If you are claiming benefits while looking for work, can you explain why you have been away for a couple of days? These are just a range of questions that energy consumption data can answer, or at least guess: maybe you just fell asleep with the lights on, but data is against you and it’s now up to you to demonstrate that you didn’t drive while sleep deprived.
A good summary of ‘why you should give a shit’!
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 2 days ago:
That’s some real blue-sky thinking
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 2 days ago:
I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”
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- Comment on Rules for Life 3 days ago:
It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with, it doesn’t feel pity, it remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead
- Comment on Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access! 3 days ago:
I completed Afterbirth and put it down for a few years, I’ve recently got Repentance and not only did I pick it up again pretty quickly but there is so much new stuff. I can’t recommend it enough!
- Comment on Best BBQ on the block 5 days ago:
Then Dogi (AKA BuniDog) joined the comic. He’s based on a real live dog I saw late one night strolling the street in a makeshift wheelchair.
www.bunicomic.com/2014/03/25/characters/
I think this was Dogi’s first appearance
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 5 days ago:
EEA and EU are related but not the same
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 6 days ago:
especially when the animal walked upright on two legs, which it seemed likely to have done when climbing or scouting for prey
i.e. on all fours the rest of the time
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 1 week ago:
The crazy one is when you see someone who owns both a PlayStation and an Xbox!
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 week ago:
It’s definitely a fascinating subject! I guess the big question is whether we all have two consciousnesses already or that situation only develops after the split. It seems to me that healthy brains have both sides working so well together that they’re essentially one unit, and they only start behaving separately once their forced to.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 1 week ago:
Do you have very small hands? The 3DSXL aches my hands if I play for too long but I’ve never had any problems with the Switch, or even a GBA.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
Royal Mail list the thicknesses that are allowed, but they all go in the same letterbox so I assume their machines can handle it
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
You can, yes. Also a lot of the time the things you’re sending are small enough to fit in a letter or large letter.
- Comment on trapped! 1 week ago:
Star Wars has princesses, heroes, evil empires, and forgotten magical powers; it’s heroic fantasy but in space instead of a pseudo-mediaeval setting. I guess that’s why people call it “Space Opera” rather than sci-fi!
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
Also a lot of people who do use computers! Lots of people selling their stuff of eBay or Etsy will be sending things in the post. Way less letters than the old days, but way more parcels (I think).
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
Yeah I had a read up and there’s been almost nothing from Nintendo, so everything is educated guesses at best
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
They have??
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 week ago:
A disconnect doesn’t necessarily imply two separate conscious entities though, right?
- Comment on arthropods 1 week ago:
There’s probably still a bit of aerodynamic effect, but yeah that sounds a lot more scientific!
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 week ago:
It is proposed that it is possible that a person may develop two separate conscious entities within their one brain after undergoing a corpus callosotomy.
So unless you’ve had your brain cut in half to treat your epilepsy then you’re probably alright
No conclusive evidence of the proposed phenomenon has been discovered.
- Comment on arthropods 1 week ago:
It’s not even very good logic (in my humble, non-expert opinion). There are more cars about, so even if the number of bugs was the same there would be less bugs per car, and that ignores that cars are more aerodynamic and so are probably just killing less bugs anyway!
- Comment on Lawyer 1 week ago:
Yoink, that’s going straight to !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
- Comment on Antybooties 1 week ago:
Woah
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 27th April 2024 1 week ago:
Oh fair, double embarrassment for me then, not only have I been looking for my own community but I missed it six times!
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 27th April 2024 1 week ago:
Dammit, I spent 9 months carefully curating !freegames@feddit.uk and it’s never once appeared here, then I made !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk for a laugh and it’s already caught on within a week lol
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting little article
In other words, it is activist hedge funds and modern executive compensation practices — not corporate law — that drive so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation; mistreat their employees, customers and communities; and indulge in reckless, irresponsible and environmentally destructive behaviors.
So I guess the publicly-owned model allows the bad shit to happen when the majority of shareholders are get-rich-quick hedge fund types then?
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 2 weeks ago:
Owe, my ass
What do you owe your ass (other than an apology)?
- Comment on Anthropology 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that complicated, aliens
The middle finger gesture was used in ancient times as a symbol of sexual intercourse, in a manner meant to degrade, intimidate and threaten the individual receiving the gesture. It also represented the phallus, with the fingers next to the middle finger representing testicles
It’s a classic human cock-and-balls, simple as
- Comment on Anthropology 2 weeks ago:
