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- Comment on science rules! 3 days ago:
I was gonna say it’s so out of character I’d almost half assume he actually believes there to be grass there
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 4 days ago:
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn’t matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He’s also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they’re getting everything they dreamed of and more.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 days ago:
That’s kinda a different case than what everyone is referring to when they’re talking about this
However, it’s an interesting point: do we know those voice actors are being paid the same as if they did the lines all themselves or is this a studio cheaping out on paying actors to do the job?
There might have been a load of actors who turned the job down before they found someone desperate enough for the money or native enough to not realise it will likely drive down wages for voice actors if this becomes commonplace.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 days ago:
There’s no shortage of games that are fun to play, you can just select for studios that don’t rely on the Grand Plagiarism Tool to get you to give them money
- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 4 days ago:
Always used to pick Razer
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 5 days ago:
It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.
Avoid it and encourage others to do the same
- Comment on Can we go back to 2019? 1 week ago:
The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.
If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.
If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit.
- Comment on Can we go back to 2019? 1 week ago:
I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.
Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):
- 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
- 2008: subprime mortgage crash
- 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
- 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
- 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
- 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
- 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
- 2020: COVID
- 2021: failed Coup in the US
- 2020: Putin invades Ukraine
- 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
- 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
- 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
- Comment on Water time 1 week ago:
The non-can-only-be-used-to-refill-a-bottle kind of water fountains being as ubiquitous as they seem to be, seems to be a uniquely American thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the UK since I was in school
- Comment on really makes you think 1 week ago:
Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 1 week ago:
They highlight the arrest of Republic anti-monarchy protesters during King Charles’s coronation, charges and arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators and long sentences for climate protesters as examples of the crackdown on the right to peaceful dissent.
Funny how the flag shaggers get a pass to literally travel across the country to batter police officers when a pensioner wearing a t-shirt gets arrested on sight
Why do these laws disproportionately affect progressive protesters, hm?
- Comment on T2 butter mold 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen something so pointless that I’ve wanted more
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 3 weeks ago:
When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender.
Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.
Food is another
Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the only solution is a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah it’s CD quality on everything and 24/96 on most stuff
You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically
Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 3 weeks ago:
Imagine sniffing your own farts this much
- Comment on Try our new cheesedogs! 3 weeks ago:
Those are some heavy links
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 3 weeks ago:
I am both
I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was gonna say, it kinda needs to have azadirachtin in it by definition.
If someone sells you neem oil that’s lacking, they’re just a con man.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 4 weeks ago:
Well there’s some truth in that it’s not entirely it, the price is reduced because the data they get from tracking your spending habits has a value
They’re not pushing people to these cards for fun
- Comment on We've all bean there 4 weeks ago:
Okay why the fuck is the exact comment I planned to make the only comment that already exists in this thread
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well maybe you shouldn’t be trying to do DTP in a word processor
- Comment on Met announces extra policing for 'Unite the Kingdom' protest in London on Saturday 4 weeks ago:
And especially given the thugs beat up the literal police last time, they’ll treat all attendees with the same zero tolerance they displayed with the pensioners wearing Palestine action tee shirts …
Right…?
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of hobbies where you can happily enjoy it and only ever spend little if anything.
On the other hand, I’ve found it’s pretty uncommon to find a hobby where you can’t optionally fall down an expensive rabbit-hole of some kind, usually around any kind of equipment or tools you might need as part of some hobby.
Thankfully for most hobbies that kind of thing is not required to enjoy it. You don’t need a fancy guitar to enjoy playing; you can read books from the library, you don’t need to collect your own; in most big enough cities (in Europe at least) you don’t even need to own a bike to go for a cycle (though regularly using bike rental schemes might be a sign to just get a bike)
- Comment on Grim Statistics 5 weeks ago:
Just replied to the other comment
- Comment on Grim Statistics 5 weeks ago:
This one is probably my favourite
- Comment on Grim Statistics 5 weeks ago:
Great views up at the top of the tower
I was lucky(?) enough that the volcano was going off whilst I was up there a couple of years ago and got some great pictures
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 5 weeks ago:
That’s a bit sad
They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time
- Comment on should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it? 1 month ago:
The point of life is to enjoy it
You seemingly made the choice to make your life less stressful for about the same compensation as you got before for a stressful job.
I don’t think you need to be particularly smart to understand that’s a pretty great trade off. Just from what you’ve written here, I completely understand your reasoning and it makes complete sense to me.
Your colleagues are giving crabs in a bucket energy
- Comment on YSK: Championship Manager 01/02 is legally available for free 1 month ago:
Well getting this running on my steam deck has just become one of the top 10 entries on my to-do list
