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- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 day ago:
It’s rather ironic how bad his English is. I’m seriously not quite sure what she did, does she literally just have a cooking recipe and somehow he’s turned on by that. Not sure I want to understand.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 day ago:
Yeah but mostly they’re not this weird.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 day ago:
I don’t think anyone’s advocating for anyone’s death I think that’s the point they’re advocating for no death.
If advocating to stop a wall makes you a Nazi them I’m sorry, but I’m a Nazi. Although that doesn’t really gel with their whole ethos they have historically demonstrated, so I am suspicious.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 day ago:
I did have one once. Unfortunately I didn’t measure my pre and post racism levels so I’m not sure if it helped or not. Also it was made by a large overweight man so perhaps it didn’t have the full effect.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 day ago:
That is what it was like in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Unless you lived in one of the major cities,which was like four cities at the time, you didn’t really see anyone who wasn’t Caucasian.
It wasn’t racism, it was ignorance.
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 2 days ago:
And what defines that genre?
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 3 days ago:
Gallium or bust.
It’s not really useful but it looks cool and it’ll eat away at both if their metals.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don’t remember having a problem. I didn’t think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
But the game isn’t even available on PlayStation so why am I creating an account? At the very least it’s pointless busy work. And apparently not even well thought out.
- Comment on Sunak to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind 6 days ago:
This won’t go anywhere. It takes absolutely ages to do these investigations, I can’t imagine the conservative government will last that long. Besides the oil companies will highly suspect drilling licenses will be denied when Labour are in government, so they’re not going to spend the money on the investigations if they’re pretty confident they won’t be allowed to actually drill.
This is just him showing everyone how massively Tory he is to all the upstanding voters that have left for reform (please come back, we need the scumbag vote).
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 6 days ago:
The campaign should have very much steered away from using the word video game at all. It allows them to dismiss the entire ideas oh look at them nerds. If they’d said software, and emphasized the corporate angle, we may have got a better response.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 6 days ago:
You are probably better off for asking that same question in 6 months, maybe less.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
What happened here is basically the private company that took over didn’t care because they had no competition. They were also incredibly corrupt and evil which didn’t help but they also didn’t do basic maintenance and stuff on the infrastructure so everything fell apart.
It all works as long as the government actually puts money into public services but every now and then you get one that seems to think that the solution to a tiny bit of debt is to spend no money at all, on anything.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
They take pictures of the letters as they come in from all angles, and then a computer algorithm builds a 3D structure of the letter so they know how big it is and which machines it can and can’t go through if it’s too big to go through a particular machine it gets redirected to another process. Also they have metal detectors so the keys would be detected right away.
Maybe in the '90s this was a problem with large items in envelopes but not anymore because they can detect it before it gets anywhere near the problem machine.
They have a whole list of things you can and can’t post and one of the things you can post is live insects so obviously they’re not mangling everything to an auto sorter.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
They already had a perfectly good method for preventing stamps from being used more than once which was to stamp them. But sometimes they fail to do that too.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
The only people who like the RM the way it is is the government. Everyone else would be quite happy for it to go back into public ownership. But for once they’re not actually at fault here. Charging the recipient is just how it works.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
How?
The only thing someone could do is send me a lot of annoying mail. I just never pick it up and it never costs me any money.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
I am confused how the QR code was supposed to stop forgery. I have never seen anyone scan the code at any point in the process so I don’t understand how it was supposed to help.
I’ve scanned the code myself and it’s just a number sequence. Unless you’re checking that against some sort of database, which I assume is the idea, then the existence of the number sequence itself proves nothing. But as I have said I’ve never seen anyone actually scan the damn things. I don’t even understand who’s supposed to do it.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
It was also different platform. Ps5 games are not compatible with PS4 consoles.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
The switch 2 it’s just an upgrade. You’re still going to be able to play all the same games
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
Microsoft have sucked at naming things basically forever. Look at their windows versions. First they were numbered after the year release which made sense, they kind of break the trend with millennium edition but it’s still sort of worked because it came out in 2000. Was also a 2000 which confused things and then after that it just continued to go downhill.
95, 98, 2000 (presumably because they didn’t want to call it 00), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (because nine is evil for some reason), 11
There’s a rumor the next version is going to be called X, I assume because they haven’t really advanced as a company since the '90s and they still think that’s cool.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
My employer requests all sorts of things, but I simply ignore any email that doesn’t say the things I want it to say
3 years later and I’ve not been fired, so I guess they don’t really care that much.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
That’s a deflection. Not a retort.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
So why are they allowing part-time work then. If working in the office is necessary then surely it is necessary 100% of the time. So if they are allowing anyone to spend some time working outside of the office then clearly they can spend all their time working outside the office.
The managers just don’t want them doing that.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
I’m also a big fan of being able to work from home a couple of days a week
Partial work from home is ridiculous. They fully admit that it isn’t necessary to be in the office but at the same time still want to have some kind of control. So they settle for this not at all a reasonable compromise compromise.
If you want to go into the office fine that’s your prerogative, but I don’t think it’s fair to pretend there’s some kind of justification for it.
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 1 week ago:
They live in a little bubble of their own without much reference to the real world.
He was chosen by the party in part because he had relatively high approval ratings, higher than the parties actually. Problem was they never wondered why, they never wondered if it might be because he was chancellor during the pandemic and was the face of the furlough scheme.
Perhaps people liked him because he’d never done anything really offensive, as far as they were aware, and had given them some money a while back. But none of that was because of any talent on his part. So inevitably when the public had to judge him on his own merits, and found out that he doesn’t have any, his popularity rating dropped.
This was an inevitable chain of events that a concussed hamster would not have had trouble predicting.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 1 week ago:
Watching him play combat though drives me mad.
- Comment on Why haven't I heard calls for sanctions on this abominable regime yet? 1 week ago:
Just because the government used the word illegal doesn’t mean they actually are committing a crime. There’s no law that says that you are not allowed to come to the UK to seek asylum. Such a law would violate the international law of human rights, so I’m sure the Conservatives are all for it.
They are perfectly allowed to seek asylum in any country they wish, they are not required to seek it in France. Now if they were trying to enter the country illegally that would be different, but they’re not, they’re actually seeking asylum so they go to the authorities and declare themselves.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 1 week ago:
The combat looks like it needs work. I hope that something will do it just walk near enemy to attack
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
If only some kind of communication system existed that allowed them to communicate from the comfort of their own homes. Sci-Fi nonsense I know.