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- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 11 hours ago:
Yeah given the fact that last time this happened it generated hurricanes in parts of the world that don’t normally get hurricanes, I’m going to go ahead and say that we could probably not include this year in the climate change models.
It does no one any benefit at all to muddy the waters, and it just gives the climate change denyers some ammunition.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 11 hours ago:
I don’t understand why people think that October is supposed to be a cold month, it’s never been a cold month, it’s not until late October the leaves start turning brown. The coldest months are January in February.
I blame Charles Dickens, he was the one that decided it had to snow in December, even though it never does. r.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 17 hours ago:
He’s definitely on something. Him and Elon have probably been hanging out, the best give off the same energy.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 17 hours ago:
Yeah I hate it when people refuse to answer questions they’ve been asked. Only really stupid person would do that.
Seriously though why is anyone asking this guy his opinion on anything, is a fascist and his company is basically a fascist incubator. It’s not like he’s going to have a insightful nuanced opinion or anything.
- Comment on Beware! 17 hours ago:
Is the FDA announcing this, so I’m guessing the announcement is that somehow the licorice has been contaminated with uranium or something because they just keep escalating.
- Comment on JD Vance visits a small british town 2 days ago:
The perfect depiction of American excess complete inability to read the room. Transporting numerous armoured vehicles all escort a complete non-target to a country famous for having no guns.
- Comment on JD Vance visits a small british town 2 days ago:
DFS on lockdown
- Comment on He Has Arrived 4 days ago:
I had a car that started with AF1 but I’m not the president (I’d probably do a marginally better job).
- Comment on ‘Intimidatory’ far-right marches should not be allowed, says Angela Rayner 6 days ago:
The idea that the people who enabled the genocide in gaza want to curb the far right at home is pure fantasy
Yeah, no one thinks that.
- Comment on ‘Intimidatory’ far-right marches should not be allowed, says Angela Rayner 6 days ago:
Well, that’s that sorted then. I’m sure they won’t be a problem if we simply don’t allow them. The far-right are famous for obeying the law, thant and their correctly spelt placards
- Comment on Zamn... That's what happened ? Zamn... 1 week ago:
I’ve got embezzled hundreds of thousands of pounds from a family members business. That’s a pretty good reason not to talk to someone.
I stay well out of it though since everyone involved is an awful person.
- Comment on Don't 1 week ago:
Enemy in this case being determined as being anyone with brown skin, women, arbitrary list of people they don’t particularly like, political adversaries, and anyone with an IQ greater than that of a sea pickle.
- Comment on Don't 1 week ago:
It’s always fun to ask these types difficult questions that they haven’t thought about.
So if somebody burns your house down in an arson attack and is subsequently arrested by the police, that’s a job done is it, you are not requiring any additional support, compensation, or assistance. The fact that the miscreant has been arrested is good enough for you is it?
- Comment on Don't 1 week ago:
Yeah they should get a new flag with an angry lemming on it, extremely aggressive but not really a threat, and basically just irritating.
- Comment on Life comes at you fast! 1 week ago:
It’s the common retort of middle managers whenever subordinates complain about upper management. God forbid that you actually advocate for change, much easier to just keep your head down and accept a managerial paycheck.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
The moon has lots of water, and oxygen, which is all you need. Almost rocks on over the ice that’s your fuel. Sure you could get all that on earth but then you have to haul all of that weight out of a gravity well, much easier to simply fuel a ship up with the limited amount of fuel it needs to get to the moon and then have its stock up somewhere with less oppressive gravity.
The question is, what kind of craft are you going to send and where to warrant Moon refueling as opposed to just another multi-stage rocket?
Literally anywhere in the solar system. Refueling on the moon is an enormous efficiency bonus, far apart from anything else not having a huge booster section massively decreased costs. In the long term you would probably build spacecraft on the moon and leave them in orbit of Earth and just have space shuttles handle the landing and taking off part. You could build enormous spacecraft with gravitational centrifugees since you no longer have to worry about landing mass or aerodynamics.
- Comment on PlayStation Reportedly Sending Game Developers Massive Survey With Question Asking About Physical Discs 1 week ago:
They did this without consulting developers so they probably want to work out how to pissed the developers are.
Imagine your hard at work developing your game, and you’ve got your distribution strategy lockdown, and then Sony comes along and gets rid of game discs, well that’s the entirety of South America and quite a lot of Asia gone then, with no consultation or for warning.
This was a massive screw up on Sony’s part and now they’re trying to work out how to rectify it without actually rectifying it.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 1 week ago:
Presumably it will be harder to hide Trump’s bodies since all the grass will die in a 30 foot area due to all the bronzer leaking into the soil
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 1 week ago:
Everything about his death is just amazingly poetic, he was killed by one of his own for not being enough of a bastard, while he was speaking at a school about how there is no gun violence problem in America.
- Comment on I'll wait 1 week ago:
Vodka with grapes in it,
Vodka with barley in it, Vodka with raisins in it, Whatever the fuck jägermeister is, Vodka with nothing in it, And the unacceptable, gin - Comment on Sacre blu 1 week ago:
It’s one of like three episodes that I can actually really recall with any accuracy.
- Comment on Terrorist arrested over video of dinghy slashing 1 week ago:
Depends if you spend your time hanging flags from lamp posts or not
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Not quite. The founding is actually worse.
Bill Gates was shown, in good faith, a tech demo by, I think IBM but I may be wrong with that, for a new graphical user interface they were planning on releasing soon, and he just stole it and released windows, before they could get their product to market.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the game pass idea. But that there was never anything good in it, and they kept raising the price. Sometimes they had so much filler content in there that if you discounted the games you didn’t want and only looked at the games you did want, it would have actually been cheaper to just buy the game directly. Which is in what people did.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Why don’t they just get out of the industry, they clearly don’t want to be in it anymore. It’s just been stupid decision, after stupid decision, they basically have a license to print money and instead of creating the games that people want, and then selling them for people to play on their confusingly named consoles, they instead muck around with it by raise prices, closed studios and discontinuing IPs.
- Comment on Finally, the EU got a partner more into action and less into "negotiating" (i.e. demanding and whining and not reciprocating). 1 week ago:
Then it would turn out that one of his billionaire mates had just bought shares in a barbed wire manufacturing company.
- Comment on Two arrested after fire at Folkestone’s Grand Burstin Hotel 1 week ago:
God I hate modern journalism
The force asked that anyone with relevant information, including CCTV or dashcam footage, contact them quoting 46/155727/26.
How am I supposed to do that, I don’t know the names or faces of the people you’ve arrested, so how do I know if they’re on camera or not?
There is absolutely no story here, there was a fire which is not a fact that was in contention, and the police have arrested some people and then let them go, not much of a story is it.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft don’t have a distribution platform for PC games, even when they did no one used it. So the lonely be able to introduce this in games that they are the publisher for which is actually not that many games.
I’m very sure steam already prohibits in-game advertising. So Microsoft would have to distribute these games themselves and the moment that any publisher decides to go their own route they immediately decrease their revenue, even if nothing else has changed.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 2 weeks ago:
What’s amazing is they are proposing to introduce such a scheme in the product that people aren’t forced to use.
I just won’t play those games. End of problem.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
I’m just imagining a thousand years from now some archaeologists is trying to understand the technological purpose of the fidget spinner.