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- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
Ah I see, so you’ve divided the world into your enemies and your allies and you think that people who you previously saw as your enemy will still be your enemy. The thing to remember is they don’t know you exist, nor do they care about what you’re thinking.
In the last election they might have voted for the conservatives because they wanted the conservatives to be in charge, a vote for the conservatives is also a vote against Farage, so perhaps they don’t want Reform and will vote for whatever least worst option is presented in order to not get Reform. In the last election that was a Conservative candidate, in this election that’s not an option so it’s binface or Farage, and if they’re voting against him then literally anything will be better.
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 1 day ago:
I know how history works. I don’t need a time machine to know that a country in economic dire straits will find someone to blame. I just need to look at contemporary US politics. If you’re ever in doubt start a war, preferably somewhere in poverty so you don’t get your asses handed to you, inevitably miscalculate, and get said ass handed to you. Wait 20 years and then do the same thing all over again.
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 1 day ago:
We kind of do know though. Hitler latched onto a movement that already existed he didn’t create it, the world is full of potential leaders they just need a cause. I’m so someone would have been found.
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 1 day ago:
Yeah this is the Hollywood version of time travel but in the real world that’s not how things work.
Adolf Hitler didn’t invent Nazism, any more than Donald Trump invented MAGA, now just two individuals who were the right moment in history to take the opportunity, have they never existed someone else would have done it possibly later on but it would still happened.
Nazism for example came out of frustrations with the rest of Europe over the treaty of Versailles. If you want to prevent World War 2 it isn’t enough to kill Hitler you have to first prevent World War 1, in order to prevent World War 1 you really have to prevent all the stupid little wars that predated it. The number of people you would have to kill in order to prevent Nazis is enormous, probably in the thousands.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
But this isn’t a normal by-election this is a by-election caused by someone who is under investigation for parliamentary misconduct and also is simultaneously under police investigation for criminal conspiracy to handle stolen money.
The normal rules don’t apply.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
No because it’s percentage of the vote not quantity of votes.
All sorts of things could happen, perhaps the poor turn out in the last by-election was because people assumed he was a shoe in so didn’t bother to vote. Perhaps people forgot (it seems like the sort of place where voter apathy is quite high). Perhaps people will be more likely to vote in this election because it seems funny. Perhaps he has really pissed off a lot of his voters due to his complete absenteeism from the position.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 1 day ago:
Alright the worship I want to see travelling through is going to have Donald Trump on it. We’ll see how well protected it is.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
Farage won Clapton with 45% of the vote with multiple candidates. That same showing this time would lose him the vote. Which would be hilarious because not only would it on seat Farage, it would also be the fifth by-election they failed to win.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 2 days ago:
That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.
The fun is in front end, it’s 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, to develop a 16th way, eventually you get better but the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.
- Comment on Brits will use anything other than the imperial measurementss 2 days ago:
Beer and milk measured in pints but no other liquids are.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 days ago:
Living as someone who’s in a WhatsApp country, the absolutely won’t respond to texts. Nobody texts anybody, even old people don’t use SMS.
If I get an SMS I won’t even see it because I have notifications disabled because all I ever got was spam.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 days ago:
They’re also typically the laziest people in the world. The hate to expend any amount of effort and they don’t get much from commissions if it’s a rental.
When I was buying my house it took the sellers 5 months to sort out the paperwork. It took them any half a year to process the purchase of a single house.
- Comment on Artisanal 3 days ago:
The vantablack thing is a bit complicated because while it’s utterly ridiculous he’s the only artist allowed to use the substance (and is an utter prick about it, which is honestly the larger issue).
It has to be a somewhat controlled substance because it’s ridiculously carcinogenic, obviously that doesn’t mean you can’t sell it to other people it just has to be dolled out carefully and with instruction.
The pink is amazing though, I saw some in a museum once and it honestly looks like it’s lit up, cameras absolutely do not capture it. It just looks normal on cameras. It’s worth going and having a look if you ever have the opportunity.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 days ago:
Personally I think the whole concept of gamers is stupid. You cannot have a demographic comprise predominantly of multiple different sections of a population, that’s two broader of net to be casting. It’s like saying that everyone who drives a car is a car enthusiast.
Anyone who plays games is a gamer but there’s a huge range of ages, ethnicities, and nationalities. Besides someone who plays a lot of FPS is not the same as someone who predominantly plays grand strategy games or the Sims.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 days ago:
Whether or not you want to make the moral distinction is a personal choice, but there is an economic distinction to be made as well.
Pirating a AAA game is fine because the studio is gonna make more games regardless.
Pirating an indie game is stupid though, if too many people do that then the developer won’t be able to make enough money and won’t make more games.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 days ago:
Doubling down on the idiocy I see. You could have avoided see me like a prick for the second time if you would just vaulted to read the second sentence
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 days ago:
That’s the thing they always tell you. It isn’t a mobile platform, people are prepared to pay higher prices but you need to set expectations with those prices.
If you’re charging $15 for a game people are going to expect at least 10ish hours of gameplay, if it’s going to be under that you want to be sub $10.
Although having said that I think I only paid £12 for Minecraft (about $15) and I’m probably thousands and thousands of hours into that.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 days ago:
It’s not “gamers”, it’s just people, some of which are nobs who one shouldn’t listen too
- Comment on You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum" 4 days ago:
Politics, yep, checks out.
- Comment on 'Millionaires tell me every day that they want a wealth tax' 5 days ago:
They want it to go out as tax so they can then claim a bunch more on top of their existing charitable donations.
You don’t pay tax on charitable donations, and it’s a good way to hold off some money if you don’t want to pay tax on it, at least until such time as you can relocate your money to a less taxing nation, but there is a limit to how much you can tax exempt in a year. For normal people this limit is irrelevant because it far exceeds the amount of money they would ever get in a year like alone amount they would be able to give as charitable donations.
If there was a millionaire tax they could pay that and essentially offset the tax they pay by reducing their charitable donations. They would end up in exactly the same position as they currently are, but society would be slightly less pissed off with them. All to their benefit.
The only millionaires and billionaires that don’t want this other ones that are doing weird dodgy tax things so they don’t pay anything. Most of the wealthy 1% do actually pay their fair share of tax (although it isn’t high enough) because it’s so little money to them that it’s not worth fighting about it. Likes of Elon Musk a special breed of narcissist who actually put more effort into not paying tax in its worth.
- Comment on More buildings to receive dangerous cladding removal funding 5 days ago:
That’s an awful headline.
More buildings are now allowed to access funding for the removal of dangerous cladding
There I rewrote it so now it makes sense.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 6 days ago:
Well yeah if everyone’s using wall hacks in which case who cares?
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 week ago:
I was wondering why you had to turn the air conditioning off just to be able to drive past someone.
- Comment on bro got neutered 1 week ago:
You absolutely shouldn’t be borrowing money. The stock markets are ok as long as you have some realistic expectations and you don’t overextend. But people always over extend.
- Comment on bro got neutered 1 week ago:
Yeah my brother-in-law was a bit like that. Is fortunately grown a brain since they got a kid.
I have no idea why he believed that he would be able to get free money somehow. That’s the one thing life teaches you is there is no such thing as a free lunch and if somebody is trying to tell you there is then they’re trying to scam you. Or they’re just stupid.
It’s exactly the same with pyramid schemes, the people who can afford to be in pyramid schemes are generally savvy enough to not get involved in them. It’s only the people who find life to be eternally difficult that seem to be convinced by them.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 week ago:
He’d come get back from that. He’d have to move to America after that, he wouldn’t be able to go out in public in the UK.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 week ago:
Every time they interview reform they should have bin face inas well, to provide balance.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 week ago:
Well yeah. Farage is a threat to everyone one way or another.
He’s eating the conservatives alive they need to get rid of him.
He’s pulling Labour to the right and there is some understanding within the party that that’s not a good thing.
The Lib Dems are finding it difficult enough to get anyone to vote for them when there’s only other two options, they don’t need a third
He’s not really a threat to the Greens, I suspect they just want him gone because he’s a in the pockets of the oil industry.
And of course Rupert Lowe hates him, and it’s totally on board with anything that humiliates Farage.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 week ago:
I can’t wait for the return of ceefax. It’s where all my holidays came from when I was a kid.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 week ago:
Surely he must have taken money from the Russians just like his mate did.
I bet there’s some newspaper out there just sitting on this story waiting for the optimum time to spring it. Which will be just before the election. I’d actually be prepared to put money on that.