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- Comment on Thoughts on Stewart Lee? 16 hours ago:
He looks like a crumpled Morrissey.
- Comment on Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam 19 hours ago:
I’m not quite sure what the fuss is about with this one - I thought it was quite a clever joke, and I don’t really think there’s anything distasteful about it. Still, the game is of no interest to me whatsoever.
- Comment on Trump shares misleading video of King Charles and fainting worker 3 days ago:
“King uses mind powers to make man wobble, before force-pushing him over”
- Comment on Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed 4 days ago:
Also, many people in Portsmouth become boiling hot with rage if they see someone who looks “foreign” or “gay”.
A person who appears “foreign and gay” walking into the wrong pub at the wrong time can raise the local temperature by about 31°C (approx 88 °F)
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Is Turning A Free Speech Victory Into A Defeat 5 days ago:
That article is an absolute shit-heap of right-wing drivel.
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 6 days ago:
“I already work at that job but they’re firing and re-hiring at a lower salary” must be pretty high up.
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 6 days ago:
We use the phrase “self-unemployed”
- Comment on Do analog triggers matter all that much? (In general and aside from racing games) 6 days ago:
As well as accelerate and brake, they’re very useful for aircraft rudders or some directional thrusters in spaceships.
I can’t think of much beyond that though. I think the analogue up-down-left-right sticks are a lot more commonly used - if only for moving a character in 360° rather than 8 directions only.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 1 week ago:
True, but I’m fairly sure “on accident” doesn’t come from non-native speakers.
- Comment on Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK 1 week ago:
I love their choice of picture.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 1 week ago:
That’s kind of fascinating - though it’s only about 1/10th of the amount by weight - so something like 75g of protein would need ~300g of Steak or ~3kg of Broccoli (about 10 full heads of Broccoli).
For plant based proteins, you’re probably better off with beans.
- Comment on Three UK airports hit by cyber-attack with data of 8.7m customers accessed 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 2 weeks ago:
You have a lobbying meeting with people from various NHS trusts, and advertise directly to them one-to-one, then things go into further tests/trials and may be chosen as one of the solutions/options to a particular ailment.
You can then pay some sort of additional bribe/special offer directly to doctors to be the preferred option for that particular ailment.
- Comment on We must end rough sleeping but hostile architecture must go too 2 weeks ago:
To separate rough sleeping (sleeping outside) from homelessness (not having a home).
Someone who has no official address, but is sleeping on the floor in a friend’s house temporarily is homeless but not rough sleeping.
Someone who has a home and address, but isn’t able to go there for some reason (often escaping from domestic violence) may end up “sleeping rough” i.e. outside on a bench, in a tent or shop doorway.
Many other variations/examples obviously, and plenty of cases of both together.
Both situations need slightly different support.
- Comment on Study of 3,400 children links London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) with improved lung growth 2 weeks ago:
Daily Mail Headline tomorrow:
Lefty Liberal plan to give British air to Foreigners
Foreign children living in London with artificially strong lungs from left-wing ULEZ regulations were found to be breathing up too much British air, leading to concerns that there’s not going to be enough air left for normal, hard-working British people and their wives.
- Comment on Landlords Are Jacking up Advertised Rents to Dodge New Tenants’ Rights Law 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes you can hate both the player and the game.
- Comment on Landlords Are Jacking up Advertised Rents to Dodge New Tenants’ Rights Law 2 weeks ago:
Sort of. Only by landlords and large corporations.
- Comment on How can we revitalise the high street? 2 weeks ago:
In many city centres, huge amounts of property are held by pension funds, “investment portfolios” and “property holding groups” etc.
In their heyday, some of these shop units would be rented out for £20,000 a year. However, they’re no longer worth that.
If they are rented out for something like £4,000 a year (or lower), they would definitely be used - there’s plenty of tiny businesses, out of place shops that want a better location etc.
Unfortunately, from the vampiric property holding company’s perspective, if they rent the unit out at £4,000 a year, it’s only a £4,000 a year “asset” in their “property holding portfolio”.
If they keep the rent at £20,000 and nobody rents it, it’s still “worth £20,000” theoretically as an asset - and this imaginary money can be borrowed against, invested etc - so they can turn imaginary money into more imaginary money, and we have derelict shops.
Some politicians are scared of taking this on, because if done quickly, the bubble of “imaginary rent asset value” may cause another financial crash, or collapse of pension funds.
Anyway, really these places need a “if it’s left empty for 6 months” compulsory purchase order of the building for a very low price. There’s plenty of small businesses, community projects etc that are desperate for spaces at reasonable prices.
Anyway, this doesn’t cover every dead high street, but it’s certainly a lot of them.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 3 weeks ago:
They need to make one of those to hand to Reform Councillors and supporters.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 3 weeks ago:
Probably not a coincidence.
- Comment on business is business 3 weeks ago:
Partially, but it’s the £5000 camera in combination with the additional kit a £5000 camera owner carries around with them, like putting a tripod bag and a spare lenses bag on the same shoulder.
- Comment on Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha, but nah, this was in South Yorkshire, not East Yorkshire. They’re dee-dars down there - “Er nerrr” is generally a Hull accent :)
In Hull they would have said “Err nerr, there’s a rerbert on me fern curl!” (Oh no, there’s a robot on my phone call).
In Rotheram, they’d just sound like either Sean Bean, or Sean Bean with a higher pitched voice.
- Comment on Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist 3 weeks ago:
Call me biased, but I think the most stupid thing about this is that it considers Yorkshire speaking as a “regional accent”, rather than “the best and most correct way to speak English”.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps - though the comedy, drama, radio, documentaries etc are mostly still fairly “centre to centre left” - it’s mostly just the news reporting.
It often seems like the “shift in society” has been manufactured, and that that the BBC have been part of this manufacture - and that shift is really just a change in boldness, volume and support - people are loud and proud about hating people over race or gender etc.
I feel a far larger part of the shift was when the Tories threatened the BBC with funding cuts, cancellation and “sharing the licence fee with poor impoverished media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch” unless they removed their “left wing bias” (actually central bias at the time) and starting promoting a “balanced” (actually right to far-right) viewpoint. This was accompanied by sacking and replacing key staff members with their own right-promoting appointees.
That’s continued and got worse - they’ve spent much of the last decade promoting the voices of increasingly extreme right-wing viewpoints, and either silencing, mocking or generating controversy about any minor centre or left-wing viewpoints.
None of those people changed when the government did, so it’s stayed in the right and possibly drifted even further. Remember that in terms of many of its social policies, our current Labour government is more right wing then Cameron’s Tory government was.
- Comment on A blessing from the lord! 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably made by the artist Jeff de Boer, rather than being a historical suit of armour.
hodgins auctions - artist Jeff de Boer
Some of it sold for about 6000 Canadian Dollars about ten years ago.
So though the price has likely gone up a bit by now, you still might get something for £6,000 or whatever - it just might be kitten armour or mouse armour.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 3 weeks ago:
The BBC as a whole is great. The news programming though…
It’s admittedly still one of the better ones - and on non-political reporting is probably still fairly trustworthy, but it’s been shifting further and further right for the last 15 years, to the point where it’s just embarrassing to pretend they’re anywhere near balanced these days. It spends an awful lot of time promoting Nigel Farage for something which is pretending to be impartial.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 3 weeks ago:
Well, it depends if they voted for or against the plans. Those who argued and voted against can carry on as normal.
For those who argued, lobbied or voted for: They can use a bucket in the middle of the room, or they can not go at all.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 3 weeks ago:
That’s one of the things that’s no longer allowed
- Comment on How switching your bank account could earn you up to £220 3 weeks ago:
£220 probably isn’t worth it, for the amount of buggering about changing banks causes, with all direct debits, standing orders, online banking, online shopping etc needing updating
- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 3 weeks ago:
Like triangles?
Like trains?
Come to West Yorkshire and visit Shipley’s Triangular Train Station!Shipley Train Station (wiki link)
