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- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 week ago:
How about Heineken?
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 2 weeks ago:
And an idea I could absolutely see Musk hoping to copy, turning Twitter into a US version of WeChat.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 2 weeks ago:
Completely agree. It’s really frustrating, not to mention pretty off-putting regarding Linux.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 2 weeks ago:
Because every conversation on here that involves Windows will ALWAYS end up with someone saying, “Use Linux”.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 3 weeks ago:
Oooooh, oobidoo!
I wanna be like you-oo-oo!
I wanna walk like you!
Talk like you!
Scoo-doo-bidoo! - Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure, but I was once (un?)fortunate enough to witness what happens when a bear was faced with an orangutan.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t really talking about care homes, I was talking about treatment, operations, maternity care, etc.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 3 weeks ago:
All fair points - but the fundamental point about people getting access to free healthcare has remained so far.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 3 weeks ago:
Just on the free healthcare thing - in the UK, the NHS is hugely iconic national institution, and politically it’s almost a no-go area in terms of its founding principles.
Which is not to say that privatisation hasn’t been creeping into the NHS for some time - it has, starting in earnest with the Thatcher governments on the 80s.
However, no matter how right wing a party is, it would be almost political suicide to make an all out effort to remove the basic tenet of the NHS - universal care, free at the point of delivery.
Unfortunately, what’s tended to happen since the 80s is (IMO) a managed decline of the NHS, with layers of management brought in and services allowed to decline in quality and availability.
The result is that the public do start to question the model, see the NHS as second rate, and start to lose some of that loyalty towards it.
However, it will take some time to ever get to the point where a government or any stripe is safe to even talk openly about moving away from the NHS model.
And hopefully that point will never come, and instead the NHS will be given renewed commitment and support both from government and the wider public.
It really is one of the very best things about the UK, and were we ever to lose it, it would be a criminal dereliction of duty by those into whose care it has been passed.
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 3 weeks ago:
That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 4 weeks ago:
The other thing about this price point is that it’s a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.
So suddenly it feels like, “oh hey, that’s a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway” - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 4 weeks ago:
Similar, I think I paid £65 for Street Fighter Ii: Champion Edition on MegaDrive. That’s US$84 - and that was in 1992.
I must have been mad. Although, I probably played that game more than any other, at least until some of the huge open world games of recent decades.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 4 weeks ago:
It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 4 weeks ago:
Old doesn’t mean irrelevant though.
I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I’d consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 weeks ago:
As Miss Jean Brodie tells us, either way is correct :-)
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 weeks ago:
Think it depends where you put the stress.
I’d say “Ad VER tis ment”
But if I was stressing the tis part, a “tize” sound would feel more natural.
That’s how I would say advertising, for example, “adver TIZE ing”
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 weeks ago:
Is that the one about the monkey in the tree? I remember absolutely cracking up at that.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 5 weeks ago:
😁
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 5 weeks ago:
After that, just Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, the rest of the way.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 5 weeks ago:
Off the top of my head without too much thought…
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Know Your Enemy - RATM
Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Strange Fruit - Nina Simone
Making Flippy Floppy - Talking Heads (just for the line, “Our President’s crazy, did you hear what he said?”)
Dark and Long (Dark Train) - Underworld (no political message, but it’s long, and I love it and pretty sure he’d hate it) - Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t make it any less annoying though! 😁
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 weeks ago:
One reason to avoid using words is that in a global economy, they may want to sell the same product in multiple countries, so you potentially run into translation issues/costs and confusion over whether a product is the same between two different places. Using just letters and numbers eliminates that.
Of course, that’s all for their own convenience, not for the convenience of the end customer.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 month ago:
Well, my point was really that, nowadays, a launch by anyone would likely result in other launches, leading to all out war and global catastrophe. I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 month ago:
We would have nuclear war every year.
I suspect we’d only have it once.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
Pretty sure there’s at least one Agatha Christie novel that uses that idea. A little here, a little there…
Although, actually, maybe it was the other way round, like someone was deliberately dosing themselves gradually to build up a tolerance. Something like that.
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 1 month ago:
Seconded, brilliant film.
- Comment on Does measles effect allergies? 1 month ago:
That’s a really interesting question. I have no idea, but I’d be interested to read what someone with relevant knowledge had to say about it.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Ah, interesting - that could definitely be an option, thanks 👍
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Oh ok, cool - although I’ve actually never used Chat GPT either (I sound like a total luddite here, I know!)
Thanks for the tip though, will keep it in mind 👍
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Ah, thanks, that looks a useful site.
Sadly, this is my work as well as personal PC, and Photoshop and Premiere are more or less essential for me. I know there’s Photopea, which can handle PSD files, so that would probably do to replace PS, but not sure about Prem.
Happy to try something else, but it’s finding the time to learn everything again that’s my real issue.
Still though, that’s a great resource, so thanks 👍