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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally 451°⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I wondered if it was only because we’re used to it - if the book/film had been called “Celsius 233” all along, then perhaps it would work just as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally 451°⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, almost certainly. Apologies, I thought that was obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally 451°⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  233°C, if anyone wondered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PDF] The Rape Gang Inquiry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, exactly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MP called up the goonsquad to terrorize his own constituent at 4AM for criticizing Israel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a combination of “it’s really important to this person” and “love”. Switching to what your loved one supports happens with all faiths, and occasionally, even football teams.

  I have no problem with that.

  I do, however, have a problem with that actually meaning “they have to support Israel’s genocide” or “they have to arrest anyone who says mean things about Israel”.

  I suspect you could burn a Union Jack in the middle of your City Centre and there’d be no legal response to it (assuming you had an adequate fire risk assessment).

  I also suspect if you burnt an Israeli flag in the middle of your City Centre that you’d be quickly arrested for “terrorism”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PDF] The Rape Gang Inquiry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty nasty document by some pretty scary people.

  (It’s a far-right report about how all rapists are foreigners, and all foreigners are rapists, and how Restore/Reform/UKIP are the answer)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨back on Lemmy after a month away, it feels like coming home🫶⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at those eyes, I think your Maus has been helping himself to your weed stash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The pub doesn’t buy it, the customers in the pub buy it. It’s been pretty common (in places I’ve lived) for decades - traditionally it was heroin users stealing and selling.

  It’s not as common now, as there’s fewer pubs and they’re a lot more expensive (and richer people are less likely to want cash-in-hand stolen bacon), and everyone buys things with trackable card payments - but when I was younger, bacon, cheese, perfume, cigarettes, casettes, CDs, DVDs etc could all be bought off “smackies” at your local pub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of their intentions is to massively invade people’s privacy, so I think they’ll go with that option :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action Activists Will Be Sentenced As Terrorists, Court Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, actual terrorism in Belfast recently “merely a riot”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GB News Presenter Denied Racist Violence in Belfast Was a ‘Riot’ and Claimed ‘Not a House Has Been Burnt Down’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. It’s fake and it didn’t happen
  2. If it did happen if it was accidental
  3. If it wasn’t accidental, they deserved it
  4. If they didn’t deserve it, it was probably actually woke leftists that did it
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “[…] the entire world’s resources become dominated by 3 players within the first two weeks. There’s a barely-funcional civics system where players can elect somebody national leader, and there’s a toy government of the president’s cronies […]”

  I mean, that doesn’t sound fun, but actually sounds pretty realistic :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 100 academics have urged the University of Oxford to reinstate a lecture series that was cancelled after protests from trans activists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When it says “trans activists” does it mean “anti-trans activitists” or “people who think trans people should be allowed to exist”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drugs gang leader who sent 23,000 texts jailed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realise there was a legal limit on sending texts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50m Met police contract⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, that’s exactly what I can see happening :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if you’re impressed or disappointed.

  To cover both:

  1. Yes :)
  2. Yeah, sorry :(
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a shitpost.
  This is a shitpost.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  brass fastener / split pin (wiki link)

  They can be used in place of staples or treasury tags to join paperwork together, but they’re mainly for making things where cardboard needs to rotate on some other cardboard, like cool 2D puppets or secret-code-wheels or toy clocks or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About bajoran's actors makeup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought that was Admiral Cain off of Battlestar Galactica at first.

  (It is the same actress, but also similar clothing and hairstyle)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iceland chief says two-tier policing does exist and has even blighted his supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, two-tier policing does exist - except in entirely the opposite way this is claiming.

  Smash up a city centre in a right-wing protest? Loot and burn down local businesses? Drag people out of cars and kick their heads in in front of their children? Smash up a hotel, and violently assault their staff?

  Government and police say “All fine. We understand why they’re angry”.

  Block roads and motorways with tractors to protest against large companies paying tax on property worth millions?

  Government and police say “All fine. We understand why they’re angry”.

  Hold up a placard saying “Save the environment”, “trans people are people” or “I’m not 100% convinced Israel is entirely correct”?

  Terrorist! Send the riot police in! Smash their faces in with batons and drag them down the road. Imprison them without trial for over a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Free of the shackles’: Michael Grade’s GB News defence raises concerns over relaxing of Ofcom rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  […]pretty much anything.

  as long as it’s right-wing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cake sheds are making bakers £1,000 a week - but the dream might be over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mixed feelings about this - there’s clearly a point where “I’m making a bit of food for friends” drifts into “I’m running a small shop” - but at what point in that do you say “you need to make sure your food preparation area is compliant”?

  In an ideal situation, there would be a significantly smaller street trading fee for micro-businesses, or perhaps one which scaled with business size? If the council was running for the benefit of its community, the focus would be on supporting these micro-business through the process of bringing things up to standard and applying for the correct things, instead of fining them for being wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They be chompin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Birdseye Crispy Chicken Dippers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They be chompin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clockwise from left:

  Pepperoni Pizza
  (Probably) Turkey dinosaurs
  Spiced curly potato chips/fries
  (Maybe) Fish or chicken fingers
  (Probably) chicken nuggets
  Alphabites potato chips/fries
  Potato waffles
  Potato Smiles
  Spaghetti Hoops in Tomato Sauce

  Mostly potato, therefore mostly vegetable, therefore healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They be chompin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks absolutely delicious.

  Not sure if that’s Autism or Britishness to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  Game looks quite good. No evidence of any Nazi related stuff in the gameplay, Steam forums etc. That seems entirely to be GOG’s doing

  Might buy it at on Steam at 45% off as part of their “women-led games” sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, even if 90% of scientists did say that… what percentage of those scientists are not biologists?

  Do we need to know a geologist’s or physicist’s opinion about “some sort of weird meat-science”?

  Like the old “Yeah, sorry, I am a Doctor, but I’m a Doctor of Jazz, not medicine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, though I don’t remember the first one quite as well as the 2nd. I played them both a lot, on either Atari ST or Amiga.

  lemonamiga.com - James Pond Underwater Agent

  Apparently there was a third one, but I don’t remember it at all. Seemingly it only ran on the newer Amiga 1200, so I probably never played it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a brilliant fact, and perfect example if anyone disagrees with me, thank you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about James Pond 2: Robocod?