wewbull
@wewbull@feddit.uk
- Comment on Diagrams 5 hours ago:
The Serpinski triangle of Venn diagrams.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
As someone who can command the end of other people’s lives on a whim, you also qualify. Snapping your fingers ends your life too.
- Comment on South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour 3 days ago:
They’re nationalise the train operating companies, right? Not the company that owns the lines, which seems the wrong way round to me. The tracks and stations are the vital resources.
- Comment on Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same 3 days ago:
So reverse the trend. Stop licensing your catalog for streaming and sell physical media.
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 4 days ago:
Well looking at that still image, it appears that that cycle lane is of a decent size and has double yellows. Looks like the safest place for a cyclist to be in that case as it allows people to pass safely. If I saw someone cycling out of the cycle lane in that situation I’d think they’re being foolish. Taking a greater risk than necessary and causing an obstruction.
Is someone not being in the cycle lane an excuse for road rage? Of course not. There’s no excuse for road rage.
- Comment on ‘Andor’ Season 2 Emmy Submissions Revealed in 23 Categories Including Directing, Writing and Four Guest Stars 5 days ago:
Being submitted doesn’t really mean much.
- Comment on Speak American 6 days ago:
🏴 English (Dragon tongue)
- Comment on Speak American 6 days ago:
Or in American …
The nnecessary ""s hant s.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 6 days ago:
I’ve been to Egypt several times, and sometimes I’ve stayed with people who have moved there.
The impression I get is that there very few ways for people born there to raise themselves up above what I call “The Hustle”. There’s a state of being where the key to survival is extracting money out of everyone you meet. By fair means or foul, you must make money.
It can be making sure every person that walks into your shop buys something. It can be being a kerb crawling tuk tuk driver pestering walkers by. It can be thieving. It can be taking bribes in local government. Everybody is on the hustle. You can’t afford to trust people because they’ll take any advantage they can. It’s a permanent state of stress and fear.
…and then there are the immigrant whales that move there, buy a big house on the coast and exploit the locals by flashing the cash.
All of that said, when people do manage to find something stable, they’re a great people, but there are so few decent ways to make enough money.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
Good point. There can’t be anyone left alive by now.
- Comment on Low River Levels in UK Raise Concerns of Drought 1 week ago:
We seem to either be getting annual floods or annual droughts. That suggests to me that we’ve fucked up our water usage in the country. The window for having enough rainfall without some community having to get flooded out seems to have vanished.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 1 week ago:
Grrr…yes. You’re right. Isometrically.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t project onto a 2D surface as a square though.
- Comment on The NHS gave £330 million contract to Palantir to build an NHS data platform. Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it. 1 week ago:
Try the £10b that was spent on the failed NHS IT project that ran from 2002-2011
- Comment on The NHS gave £330 million contract to Palantir to build an NHS data platform. Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it. 1 week ago:
Stop farming NHS IT out to contract. Build the capability within the NHS to build the system it needs, not what some consultancy thinks it needs. It’ll be better and more secure.
- Comment on The NHS gave £330 million contract to Palantir to build an NHS data platform. Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it. 1 week ago:
The Palantiri weren’t evil. It was only the fact that Sauron possessed one that made them dangerous. However they were also key in his defeat as he was deceived by what he saw through them.
They were just an object that allowed you to see long distances.
Palantir the company? Totally evil.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
He could be Prime Minister if the house stood behind his leadership. It’s only convention that makes the leader of the largest party the presumptive prime minister. The house can send whoever they want to the king.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
Not as an independent, no, but he could form the Recyclon party with a few of his kin.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Count Binface could too.
- Comment on [XKCD] Pascal's Law 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a modern mining operation.
Well it’s fracking
- Comment on The Beetle 3 weeks ago:
…is going the other way.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 3 weeks ago:
It’s known to melt witches in seconds.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
1375…
We can work with metals, so we can probably make boilers.
I invent steam power 400 years early.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 4 weeks ago:
…most kids…
Most kids? (⊙_⊙)
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 4 weeks ago:
No, we say “FUCK! It’s cold”.
- Comment on Reeves suggests UK-EU trade more important than US deal ahead of Washington talks 4 weeks ago:
Us downgrading to accept any US standards that are not already EU accepted. Means we will not be able to sign a simple deal with the EU.
Which is, I think, somebody’s plan. Brexit distanced us from Europe. US standards would make the split irreparable.
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 4 weeks ago:
It could but I don’t see it being a big jobs spinner. I’d expect us to automate the hell out of it.
Of course, the issue still remains that the materials need to be supplied from “clean” sources.
- Comment on stay healthy with just these 6 exercises 5 weeks ago:
I’m the picture of health
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 weeks ago:
“Iron Knight”?
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 weeks ago:
Trump is certainly the wrong model, but they do need to communicate better. In particular I think they need to communicate the reasons behind their decisions.
- Why aren’t we standing with countries like Canada in response to Trump’s sabre rattling?
- Why haven’t they just told Trump to get fucked in trade talks when his administration is asking for changes in our laws?
- What are the cuts on winter fuels and disability benefits paying for?
- Why are we not looking to rejoin the customs union to remove barriers to trade with the EU?
Etc, etc, etc.