PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Fun in the Sun 1 day ago:
Go on, I’m here to ask dense questions and learn dense answers.
I can see that the central graph is x^3, but what equation repeats it twice along the X axis, and am I missing a pun?
- Comment on A great meal 3 days ago:
- Comment on A great meal 3 days ago:
was this cropped by David Blunkett?
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 1 week ago:
“why can’t we get a mortgage?”
“Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment”
“oh no”
- Comment on Senior MP calls for Marilyn Manson concert in Brighton to be cancelled 1 week ago:
Tough line to draw really.
The legal system is built on “innocent until proven guilty”, so it’s understandable why entire careers aren’t brought to a halt because of one or more allegations of misconduct.
Problem is, how do we let that continue while listening to complainants, making them feel heard, and safeguarding future potential victims?
I’m not asking you in particular, you’re just the comment I’ve replied to - it’s one of those impossible situations to draw a line in the sand without fucking over one of the sides.
- Comment on 43 pregnant men 1 week ago:
Brooks be spinning in his grave so fast, you could wire him up to a dynamo and power a small African country
- Comment on Anon’s a sucker 1 week ago:
classic
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
I hear you, the issue for me is that a third of your country people voted for the cunt, another third didn’t care enough not to vote against the cunt, which leaves a large majority of Americans complicit in this - enough in my view to effectively use the term as a blanket reference to most people in the country.
Speaking on a more granular level, I wish you well and the best of luck - but the majority of your population can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Good luck, mom 2 weeks ago:
My other half’s mam fuckin’ loves Candy Crush, plays it most (if not every) night, maybe clears a level or two.
What really makes me smile is that whenever she drops a bollock and effectively renders a grid unwinnable, she’ll take the L and come back tomorrow. Fuck the MTX and fuck the extra time/re-rolls/level skips; she just goes back the following day and tries again.
Mad respect, if nothing else than to be the marginal player base that fucks with the “line goes up” metric.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 3 weeks ago:
actually one of their banger songs, fair play.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. As always though, context is key.
I tend to look at it as a see-saw. Run-of-the-mill kindness and general acts good nature sit near the fulcrum of one end of the seesaw. Similarly, a single or very few acts of genuine heroism and selflessness sit right at the far end of the “good” end of the seesaw, providing as much effort the lean towards the “good egg” character trait than the dozens of daily acts.
Similarly, being a general cunt sits near the fulcrum of the “bad” end for me, genuine malicious acts of emotional daaaamage or shithousery sit in the middle, with outright rape; murder; Nickelback fan club membership; and noncery sit at the par end.
So yes, on balance, if someone is habitually a good spud on the daily but happened to get a bit frisky with someone other than their monogamous partner once, I’d still say overall they were a good person but with shit judgement.
Equally, someone like Jimmy Saville or raised millions of pounds for British charities with his fame and stardom appeared to be a stand up guy, but the covert fiddling offsets that almost instantly.
A crude metaphor, but it works for me.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, friend. It’s lovely to have such a positive reply.
I’d recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I’ve had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I’ll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 3 weeks ago:
I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.
After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I’m doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.
I’m doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I’ve got no plans to use it and there’s no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It’s wonderfully liberating.
That said, I appreciate I’m in a privileged position to be able to do what I’m doing.
- Comment on Letter tier list. open for peer review 3 weeks ago:
“so is it clearer with lens one…”
“…or with lens two?”
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 3 weeks ago:
The only minor problem with debit or charge cards in Europe is that the initial preauthorisation amount is actually debited from your account - so if the preauth is £15 or £30 or £40 - regardless of whether you put £1.50 of juice in or £14.99, the £15 is debited until the transaction finalises and the remainder is refunded a few days later.
As much as I like using contactless payment to avoid using an app or an RFID or NFC card, I do have more problems with failed attempts to charge using a bank card.
Using the ChargePlace Scotland card to tap in seems to work way more consistently for whatever reason, across that network.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 weeks ago:
I agree - I’m not expert but I know that the mining of rare earth metals and the disposal of some EV components are problematic. It’s not a perfect solution.
That said, better solutions such as fuel cells or hydrogen are still 10-15 years away, and “better” shouldn’t be the enemy of perfect. I’m not particularly car proud and cars tend to last me twelve-fifteen years so I went for an EV hoping that an even better tech will be available by the time I need a car next time round.
- Comment on Ready for dinner 3 weeks ago:
This pizza was sponsored by AmigaOS
- Comment on Anon gets banned for having Nothing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got the 2a Plus and it’s… fine?
It’s specs are fucking brilliant for the money, but there’s something I can’t quite put my finger on that makes it a bit slower than it should be. It’s like someone’s taken a modern laptop with decent processing and GPU components… but put in two SO-DIMMs from 1997 in.
The camera is fucking atrocious for taking quick photos or taking rapid photos one after the other.
Otherwise, half decent handset yeah
- Comment on Living a lie 4 weeks ago:
A colleague of mine used to work quite high up in UK Government, achieved all she wanted to, and came to our team. Absolute golden woman, genuinely lovely. She was from Glasgow originally but spent most of her time in London, poor soul.
When she was in “professional mode” - she had a voice that I could fall in love with. A beautifully smooth tone and a lovely rhythm, confident but gentle, in a nice heart of England accent.
As soon as she came out of a meeting or put the phone down though, she threw the voice out of the window and it was “fuck off you pure cunt” or “get tae fuck you fuckin roaster” or “no mate you can pure fuck all of the way off”.
Absolute gem. No ego, you knew where you stood, and it was highly entertaining.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 4 weeks ago:
For the modern effect, get a foldable or clamshell phone and flick it closed with some major sass.
It’s the best thing about having a foldable.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 weeks ago:
Ah nice one cheers friend!
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 weeks ago:
But how can I impress people with my competitive qualities? I had fourteen sex last night, and before that I did four sets of three sex at a time.
I’m even the speedruns any% TAS WR holder at 3.19 seconds.
Do my colleagues not need to know about this???
- Comment on Technically the truth 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Speak American 1 month ago:
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
- Comment on Speak American 1 month ago:
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 1 month ago:
How am I going to wreck the heels of my trainers or give my fingers ungodly numbness and pain then though?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was going to say something similar. Step One sounds like a lot of effort if you’re going to do Step Two anyway.
- Comment on Know when you are appreciated 2 months ago:
Not nearly on the same scale, but one of my favourite photos of me in a proud moment is me kneeling beside a local beach holding an oversized PR cheque for two hundred quid (my back-of-a-fag-packet maths suggests that’s around US$266) for a charity I ran for.
Now, two ton is next to fuck all in the grand scheme of things, and I was only expecting my colleagues and pals to empty their pockets of smash; euros; washers; and the odd Drachma into the tub - but for folk to think so highly of me and break my own target many times over in an era not too far after the credit crunch… well even now I look back and think “fuck yes past me, you did a bit of good there bro”.
Granted, I’ve given more in monthly GAYE donations (lol) off my top line in UK taxation dodges than that figure, but I absolutely get how the opposite is true - a relative minnow getting a cash boost that guarantees their R&D (and livelihoods too) for another fixed period of time.
Fuck yes. (sorry for the anecdote.)
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. My other half has been stuck with me for nearly twenty years now and bigger and better things have come up that have needed the money spent on it.
The bit of paper will come in handy if one of us kicks the bucket though, or even when it comes to claiming certain tax allowances in the UK. I just want to make sure they’re sorted financially when I end up brown bread, and proving their connection to me is going to me one of the last things on the list in the immediate aftermath of a bereavement.
I’m not arsed one way or another about it though.
