PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Taking one for the team... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions.
Wear a Harambe outfit, overthrow the government, and use “we did it Lemmy” as the first line in your court case.
- Comment on Bro... 2 weeks ago:
Time to suggest a coffee and a piss stop, and furiously Google “one day car insurance policies” I think.
That, or make sure your life insurance policy is in order and text your partner “enjoy the free house!”
- Comment on Anon is a time bomb 3 weeks ago:
It would be quite something.
“Hello Mr so-and-so, you’re married to a paeeeedoooooooooo*”
*depending on jurisdiction, of course
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 3 weeks ago:
Not really.
You make some points I agree with, you make some points I’m neutral on, and you make some points I disagree with.
In nearly all cases though, you appear to take an insular view which comes across as confrontational and adds little to the discussion but a sour taste.
It’s pointless discussing a topic with you when you either take a deep rooted view with no opportunity for open discussion, and take a childish “I told you so” position when hearing a dissenting view.
That’s likely why you are getting downvotes. Other views may apply.
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 3 weeks ago:
Good luck.
When I joined the workforce full time a good number of years ago. I was chuffed to fuck to be earning £20k a year at the time. In the intervening years, the cost of living has gotten ludicrous.
In metropolitan areas, I’m not quite sure how anyone but the DINKys can cope with the financial pressures of city living.
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that Mike Ashley’s clownshow? Sounds like you dodged a bullet.
That said, I suppose depending on where you are in your career, it’s good experience and portfolio work.
Reminds me of the police service in Scotland inviting people to complete a survey… about their stay in police custody. I’m not entirely sure what results they’re expecting there. Probably the brainchild of some “management consultant” who has probably never set foot in a public building before.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
Nah I was in a pretty small town, semi-rural but not buttfuck-nowhere either.
It certainly wasn’t labelled “ableist” then, it was simply “being a little shit” - I only really learned of the term ableism around 10-15 years ago.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know - the term “ableist” has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90’s you’d get a bollocking for throwing around the terms “mong” or “spaz” or “flid” within earshot of a teacher.
I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself, but when you’re in single digits of age, it’s just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone’s physical or mental development challenges.
It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
We had a dude called Richard in primary school that went blank at the thought of a nickname. Obviously, as responsible classmates we helped him out, and he was christened Romanian Richard.
Richard was not Romanian, nor did he have any ties to the fine country of Romania.
Whatever inexplicable logic that was at play here, directed that he should have the last ten seconds of the Taz-Mania theme sung to him repeatedly, sorta like:
“Richard Romanian,
Richard Romanian,
Richard Romanian,
We mean you!”
Before making the appropriate Taz noises finishing with a raspberry in close proximity to his face. What was really weird, was that Richard didn’t appreciate this new fame and form of address, which was a real shame because everyone else did and it was highly entertaining before teachers got involved, parents got called, and it was saved for the days when Richard was really being a oil-fired arsehole.
These were the days before we drew the line from Richard to Dick, you must understand.
- Comment on Sadge 3 weeks ago:
F
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m bored and lonely STOP
Come to my room to watch a movie STOP
I pick STOP
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah absolutely. My compass has been set to the UK’s sixteen as it’s all I’ve ever known, and even then anything below it (excluding the exceptions you’ve noted) feels a bit icky.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I mean, anything in the low teens is wild to me, but a single digit age?
The whole “must be married” thing as well made me chuckle. Partly for the religious interference, but mainly for the ease of which the clause could be abused.
In retrospect, it’s very little to chuckle about.
- Comment on We all have our pet peeves, eh? 5 weeks ago:
Scotland-specific, but the first one is pure dead Glesga so it is but, and the second one is proper Edinburgh ken
- Comment on We all have our pet peeves, eh? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 5 weeks ago:
apology for poor english
when were you when svenska calculator post drop?
i was sat at home eating IKEA meatballs when notification ring
‘Calculator switch set to K’
‘no’
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 month ago:
32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.
I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.
- Comment on Clouds Beyond 1 month ago:
nice
- Comment on Clouds Beyond 1 month ago:
All I see is a really abstract triple-goatse
I should never have grown up with the internet.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 1 month ago:
oh no
Does that mean he’s coming back to the UK?
- Comment on Total Fire Ban Statewide today 26/12 1 month ago:
What am I going to do with my mixtape now?
Fingers crossed people will take notice of the guidance. Whether they’ll follow it is a different thing, mind.
- Comment on That's a good one 1 month ago:
That one took me a minute.
It should win a gong.
It kept me ticking over, anyway.
- Comment on 'No Contract, No Coffee': Starbucks Workers Launch Five Days of Strikes 2 months ago:
It’s a shame they’re not selling merch with that slogan on it, it’s a banger.
A good way of adding to the strike fund too without needing to attend.
- Comment on Jumping in would either give you superpowers or cancer 2 months ago:
Maybe you need 350 carbon monoxide alarms!
- Comment on Thames Water boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar 2 months ago:
Fuck all, really.
Competitive packages should attract successful candidates, not cunts who consistently fail at both moderating pay, and literally shitting in the rivers and leaving for the taxpayer to clean up.
Fuck the shareholders of this company, it’s an abject failure and needs to be brought into local authority ownership.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 months ago:
I mean, it sucks that you pinned your hopes on your crush having to follow a social pressure to kiss/fondle/fuck/whatever the “forfeit” for spin the bottle was in the first place.
It sucks that you had to go through that, but at what point does that declination of your advances suck less?
I mean, society has unfortunately favoured shitty games like “pull the bull” and “poke the bear” over any sort of genuine attraction which has usually disadvantaged women anyway - that’s not to turn it into a gender thing, but maybe the idea of sparking a relationship from a forced interaction sucks from the outset.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 months ago:
Dying of piles sounds awful. Like, it would have been nice to marathon Ye Olde Stranger Things or Squide Game without having your arse falling to pieces on your
deathbeddeathsofa. - Comment on Spread 'em 2 months ago:
I was going to say that it had prioritised the most uses combination of letters… but I have a unique name that I’ve saved to the custom dictionary and it still reverts back to the anglicised name, like “stop autocorrecting my own damn name to something else”.
At least we know AI is fucked for a few years yet.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
Yeah, a bit of sense is all you need. I’ve not used spoofing tools but a few of my friends have - we live rural too and it revolutionises the game. Even our local small city centre isn’t really raid friendly - it’s not like you can hang a out Times Square and literally walk into a full raid whenever you like.
That said, the weekly Pokémon Club in rural areas is a great social, and mons tend to stay in gyms for more than twelve seconds making it a bit easier to get pokecoins. The game is still heavily skewed towards city centres though.
