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- Comment on Mortgage rates rise despite interest rate cut 1 day ago:
Wasn’t this expected though?
The Bank of England said that they weren’t going to alter interest rates despite a slight interest rise because they believed it was only temporary and would settle back down in a few months.
Obviously though mortgage lenders can do whatever they want. They have a justification for raising rates right now so why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 day ago:
But like a really boring version of it without any kind of gameplay mechanics and it’s just basically life.
- Comment on Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell Movie Is Officially Dead 1 day ago:
The last game came out over a decade ago so the youngest audience would have to be 20 plus. Might as well take the opportunity to make it r-rated.
- Comment on Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games 4 days ago:
Well that’s not how the law works you don’t get to violate it just because you don’t like it.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 4 days ago:
The problem with listening to things like that is that they are self-selecting for the absolute worst things that have ever happened. It’s not like they go on today’s podcast nothing really happened so we’re going to talk about a case of minor vandalism instead.
Nah they will dig back to the 1960s in order to find something to talk about. Seriously look up how many podcasts are still going on about Jack The Ripper despite the fact it was about 150 years ago.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 4 days ago:
Yeah they claim to have a job, go outside, and appear physically intimidating.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 4 days ago:
Nah I would prefer to just complain about it on the internet.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 4 days ago:
That was you’ll take away from that comment?
They make a fairly good point that you seem to be ignoring
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 4 days ago:
I don’t want to have sex with my friends. I know where they’ve been.
Anyway people’s relationships are complicated, there’s plenty of people I like who I do not find attractive.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 4 days ago:
Yeah one can be prevented the other can’t so let’s worry about the thing we can prevent.
If AI is going to kill us all the only thing we could do to stop that is not make AI which is basically not going to happen. We can alter society so that it’s no longer based on the assumption that everyone will be able to find employment.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 5 days ago:
Let’s face it though, the movie never made a lot of sense.
They replaced humans with artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence capable of independent thought (why did it need to be capable of independent thought).
All they needed to do was literally replace the humans with remote control relays, there’s absolutely no reason for it to be an AI. If you are giving artificial intelligence access to weapons, then you are the problem, not the artificial intelligence.
I wish we could have a sensible conversation about AI without assuming that it’s going to kill everyone because it happened in some movie. AI’s biggest threat to humans is that it will replace everyone by doing a better job, and our entire economic system will fall apart, not that it’s going to start Armageddon.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
Isn’t that the point though. He’s replacing his car with a horse because apparently a horse makes more sense in this guy’s world.
If after buying the horse you have to use a vehicle to transport it, doesn’t that invalidate the argument? I
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
I’m reasonably confident that my car cost considerably less than a horse would every year
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
Where is this guy getting a horse for $1,000 from?
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 6 days ago:
It is somewhat depressing that everybody’s understanding of artificial intelligence and technology in general is derived from a sensationalist movie, which made no effort to be even remotely realistic.
- Comment on Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division 1 week ago:
What indie developer would deliberately sign up with take two?
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 1 week ago:
So anyone want to take a stab at translating that?
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
I think you’ve just demonstrated that you’re not at all interested in rigorous intellectual discourse and instead merely interested in trying to engage in some kind of one-upmanship.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
It’s pretty clear what I meant they’re not banning smoking they are banning smoking outside of hospitals.
Jesus you go out of your way to being an obtuse idiot
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Yeah let’s kill all the children.
They don’t burning smoking your idiot they’re bunning smoking outside of hospitals and schools it’s right there in the title.
- Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 1 week ago:
How much time does it have to be before it becomes history rather than just the past. When does history start?
- Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed 1 week ago:
I do find it interesting though that the finals is another game that basically has not been advertised to anyone, and that has a very strong but small community. So not advertising your game is not automatically a death sentence although it probably doesn’t help.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 1 week ago:
I have two computers that I attempt to install Windows 11 on just out of curiosity. My old gaming rig which has a motherboard from I would think 2016 (technically the entire computer is from 2010 but other than the case I don’t think any component is that old) can install Windows 11. A laptop I got in 2019 can’t install it. How does that work?
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch wins race to become Conservative leader. 1 week ago:
At least for a while, until they get closer to a general election and actually need someone mentally stable, assuming they can find someone.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
Right but they raised the very important point that the article is basically complaining about a bunch of people not being considered working when they are working and are considered working people.
They’re literally complaining about nothing
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
They’ve just been flailing around while they’ve been having the leadership contest. They don’t really have a direction.
Hopefully now they have a leader they won’t feel the need to argue about literally everything.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
It is such a stupid discussion because there are many people that work in industries that are in high demand and thus get very high wages. But that’s the point, they get a wage, thus are a worker.
It’s the Tories that started trying to muddy the waters about this because they’re angry about something, although God knows what, because they appear to be raging against the made up version of the policy rather than the actual policy.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
This is what happens when finish scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
Yes much better to have the incompetent self-serving fascists be in charge.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
Even her own supporters don’t really support her. There was an interview with a conservative MP on the financial times YouTube channel, What he basically said that he supports her more than he supports RJ but realistically neither of them are long-term viable candidates.
He said that as long as the conservatives obsess over the culture wars they’ll never win another election.