deadcatbounce
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- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 days ago:
I better withdraw my original comment. I spent a while re-researching the original intent, the Heller case and some of the subsequent cases to its current interpretation.
I believe it was originally intended to prevent federal overreach. Except that when there was a belief by some people that that had happened and there was an invasion of the capital. That confused me. I don’t know what the rights and wrongs were - apparently the alleged overreach wasn’t adjudged to be severe by anyone.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 days ago:
YSK that Americans will provide, carry and use their weapons for everything except the second amendment intended purpose.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 2 days ago:
Because they don’t need to. As Zuckerberg himself said: people will voluntarily give all kinds of private information to corporates without being asked or by the gentlest of requests.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To be honest, learn who you are before going on an app or trying to engage for a partner.
You’ve been together (in perception, at least) a long time and you’re still that married person and it will take time to remember who you are without that other person, regardless of whether you were a functioning couple or two people in the same house.
The loneliness is just the transition sinking in.
I’m a couple years older than you.
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 1 week ago:
Incineration is the best way.
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 1 week ago:
Thank god. Paternity fraud finally not so easy.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to launch national inquiry into grooming gangs 2 weeks ago:
Everyone knows what the conclusion will be and that it will end with the words: “lessons will be learned.”,
- Comment on Reeves vows to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by next election 2 weeks ago:
Once you can’t afford your homes because of the tax and other new charges together with the rising prices, hotels won’t be necessary.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 4 weeks ago:
Those might be the rules, but I was a child when the rules last actually applied or were applied.
No-one with any ability as a politician will go anywhere near politics this century. And when I say ability I mean moral compass.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 4 weeks ago:
Thanks Water immediately raise prices to cover it. Ditto Anglian Water.
Nationalise it, accounting for the infrastructure deficit rerouted to dividends. De-gravy train it.
- Comment on Labour peer apologises for writing to UK Treasury to promote crypto firm he advised 1 month ago:
Would the first person to find a politician who isn’t bent, please turn out the lights.
Parliament is redundant.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Even in England, our gay PMs have to be married. At least until their wife finds out.
- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 1 month ago:
Which model? I find the 4o to be rubbish; I just get bullshit. 4-turbo was great. 4.5 is the only useful model there at the moment. Perplexity is what I use for searches and it’s good on references. ChatGPT for making things.
- Comment on Water bosses face two years in prison if they cover up sewage spills 2 months ago:
Likelihood of anyone ever being convicted whilst actually guilty: zero.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
As a male. None.
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 2 months ago:
They’re missing a word on the end of that sentence: “today”. Tomorrow, however …
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 2 months ago:
Foot in mouth*
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 2 months ago:
Oh ok.
I haven’t been to a circus recently. My knowledge in that area is wanting, I’ll admit. 😳
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 months ago:
All good!
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 months ago:
The irony of using ‘Z’ in the title.
It’s our language; you broke it.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 2 months ago:
Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.
[ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]
A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don’t know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.
A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.
Maybe you’re complaining about people using the soft mode.
In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that’s a little weird tbh. I’ve always indicated, wherever I’m going, on the basis that when I don’t, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.
Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won’t let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 2 months ago:
Hell, I remember a time people just said “um”, “er” quietly and paused between words when they hadn’t thought the thought through.
Instead now they use ‘like’ as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.
It gets real confusing when what they’re explaining is the concept of similes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Given the electronic searching of your electronic gadgets (phone etc) that they can/will do before you get in, I think I’ve made my lifetime’s visits to the US already.
I really wanted to see the Midwest. There was a good person who piqued my interest further talking to me about it here recently.
- Comment on X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover 2 months ago:
At this point, I just see it as a Microsoft/Meta move: buy, absorb, destroy. Use as tax loss.
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 2 months ago:
Is the name intended as pure irony?
AFAF.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 months ago:
Sounds idyllic. Back in the day ('95 ish) Mrs and I flew into Boston and toured the five states around there in about two-three weeks (!) just getting a taster. Went back again later but had mother-in-law and kids with us so look-see wasn’t going to happen.
Loved New England, especially the seafood (even the tourist version) but couldn’t do the over-commercialisation (ten minutes of programme then five of adverts).
By contrast, I love the looser financial controls. I passed the US SEC Series 7 and UK Registered Representatives prior, so the contrast was immediate.
Being in the middle of nowhere with a media server in the internet age sounds the best of both worlds.
Congrats sir! Enjoy!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 months ago:
That’s the thing I’m taking about!
It’s a bit scary tbh. If you don’t do (steer) what it says it shakes the steering wheel as if a wheel was seriously unbalanced or broken.
It’s my first new-to-me car in a while. So I’m enjoying most of the new tech but not quite this bit!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 months ago:
Well said! Blighty here.
There were so many complaints on the forums about it that I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but it’s not quite as bad as I was expecting TBF. I just have to be very careful on road merges and those funky country lanes.
Didn’t get to visit Pittsburgh so far but would love to, country is a necessarily shrinking resource here these days.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 months ago:
There are specific instructions for Audi, BMW and Mercedes which void their warranties should you ever even think such scandalous thoughts.
- Comment on Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access? 2 months ago:
Torrents are about distributing data.
That answers your question.