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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Manchester City football club cheated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  They got new owners who then brazenly and repeatedly broke the spending rules and proceeded to win the top flight league 8 times over the past 15 seasons (and a load of other silverware) directly because of that, after not even coming close for half a century. They then hid this rule breaking via dodgy backroom sponsorships, cooking the books by nearly £1bn.

  That’s before going into how the whole endeavour is very clearly political sportswashing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Met Police urge students to move 7 October protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  The Met has abused hundreds of women

  They can fuck off into the Thames

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delightful⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  House spiders are pretty predictable, generally stay in their lane

  Flies are all round bastards, determined to ruin any situation they can

  I’m allied with the spiders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult friendships be like: "I miss you bro let's hang out in November"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly always a combo of too much shit going on sooner, not enough funds in the bank until.

  One of my groups of mates takes at least 6 months notice to get something in the calendar we can all make it to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's mom has questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’s a form of brain training to be able to remember the right sequence of words to search to summon a niche meme

  Meme folders are the junk food of internet society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I choo-choo-choose you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Victorian doctor or steampunk art student? Hmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've gotta ask yourself, "What's the point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To make it easy for the people who own media organisations and their pals to take everything you, your family, your friends and neighbours will ever own, for themselves whilst brainwashed morons clap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s kinda what I’m saying, cloudflare is a CDN, handling a lot of traffic is the point of it. It’s a pretty big stretch to link that to AI “taking over” it. Heavily using it perhaps, as I insinuated with customers getting bigger bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI being associated with those issues is kinda secondary (and cynically, scapegoating to dodge scrutiny). It was ultimately engineers shirking the responsibility of their jobs and not checking their work that caused the issues. If someone wants to tell an agent to fuck around with production and not check what is about to be deployed first, that’s the engineer being a negligent dumbass, not any kind of malicious AI

  And unless Amazon wants to lose significant amounts of business due to that becoming a repeat occurrence, they will have already put safeguards in place to make sure engineers do their jobs in future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How exactly would an AI agent “take over” AWS or Cloudflare? That doesn’t even make sense.

  The whole purpose of cloudflare is literally to take a shitload of traffic, your quote from wherever it’s from is just describing Cloudflare working as intended? The only thing happening here is customers getting bigger bills

  For anything external to “take over” AWS in any remotely meaningful way, AWS would have to have a long cascade of internal fuck-ups so all-encompassing, that it’s kinda unfathomable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right kind of vibe⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s something deeply unsettling to know that there’s someone out there who genuinely thinks Happy better than Africa

  I actually can’t think of a worse choice, maybe wheels on the bus or some other nursery rhyme? Even that would at least feel subversive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bound to Isaac⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All time GOAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The new DG is literally a former Google head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sacre blu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jean-Luc Fromage is a fantastic name for a parody account

  I hope this isn’t a planetary alignment situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Pokémon have different names in ENG?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also pretty common for Japanese media at the time (and probably still now?) when it was localised to other languages, especially if they expected it to be consumed by kids. the Final Fantasy games also come to mind as having localised monster names rather than direct phonetic translations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still believe in having friends despite there being long, long gaps of time between the last time you communicated or hung out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep I’ve got several mates I can meet up with after a year or three and it’s like no time has passed.

  Hell I recently bumped into someone at a wedding I’d not spoken to in about 15 years, we did acknowledge the gap in that instance, but now are chatting again pretty casually

  On the flip side there are people that if I go a couple of months without seeing them it’s a bit awkward until the cadence is up again. Nothing really wrong with it, just some friendships differ from person to person at the end of the day, would be silly to expect uniformity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation to defederate from hilariouschaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the instance just the latest in the line of EH regens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I move out of the USA with little to no money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is probably the most practical solution as long as OP is open minded about the destination

  I’m not sure what it looks like these days but if you’re young and smart, look into teaching English somewhere abroad, if you’re young and physically able, look into various work away schemes.

  If you’re older and in a professional career, try to find a market where your skills are in demand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, I think I was watching an adaptation of something I’d read, I’d probably be more inclined to know the characters by their names. I’d generally say that’s probably only 10-15% of what I watch overall

  FWIW sometimes I don’t even get the actors’ names and they get called “the guy from that comedy we watched the other month”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m crap with names as it is, let alone a temporary second one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chiltern Railways enters public ownership in Labour nationalisation push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot wait for this to happen to Avanti

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is a Fahrenheit

  Sounds like a disease

  Keep that shit away from me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨physics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's right, you know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they were some of the big ones, though digg, maybe newgrounds and even OG (no subreddits) Reddit was in the mix too

  But you’re forgetting all the thousands of random phpBB/vBulletin/myBB/Invision/SMF forums run by passionate nerds with only around 20-30 other equally passionate nerds using them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter is coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Autumn and spring are better than both. Both of the extremes are getting less fun every year.

  I don’t like it when it’s so hot I want to take off my skin

  I also don’t like it when it’s so cold I have to somehow instantly magic another 4 layers on/off me when walking through a door to not freeze/sweat to death.

  Give me comfortable 2 layer weather where I can wear the same thing indoors and outdoors and feel fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than £2m spent by government on influencers since July 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Over 26 months

  … Across over 100 influencers

  That’s really not a lot of money when you put it next to traditional advertising costs.

  Now watch the right wing press use this as an attack line because they don’t like new media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can fish and chip shops survive? ‘We made more money by closing than staying open’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah to add to the craziness, it seems like the threshold has not been adjusted in nearly a quarter of a century

  100% on the side of this legislation being untenable in its current form

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wooden chopsticks(s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve pretty much only seen it at shit nightclubs and areas with a big student population. They’re not super common and I’ll be honest it’s been a few years since I’ve seen one, but then I don’t really go to either of those kinds of places anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was curious

  bristol247.com/…/council-bans-advertising-of-fast…

  The new advertising policy bans advertising related to cars, airlines, fossil fuels and excessive consumption including fashion.

  Bristol is the first UK council to ban adverts promoting ultra-fast fashion, including any references to flash sales, stock or time limited offers, and Black Friday.

  The ban specifically refers to advertising of petrol, diesel and hybrid-electric vehicles and SUV’s; flights, airports, cruise holidays and travel agents; firms and lobbying related to the fossil fuel industry; and marketing that encourages excessive consumption of fashion products or trends.