MadBob
@MadBob@feddit.nl
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 1 day ago:
There are stations on Anglesey where you have to stick your arm out for the train, and the only two routes they lie on are served by the kind of 1970s DMU like you mentioned on its way to Chester or a Pendelino on its way to London.
- Comment on Brassica 1 week ago:
Also nice sliced and pickled.
- Comment on Too op 1 week ago:
Physical attacks, as opposed to what? Chemical warfare?
- Comment on Not only are they watching you, they're judging you. 2 weeks ago:
Time makes fools of us all I suppose!
- Comment on Sad 2 weeks ago:
You do that kind of arithmetic quite often if you work in a kitchen.
- Comment on Not only are they watching you, they're judging you. 2 weeks ago:
Riled up? Are you sure?
- Comment on Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now? 3 weeks ago:
Raglan Road always reminds me of In Bruges.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
But I suppose part of solving a maths problem is staying within the confines of the question and listening to instructions, so if someone says “using pi equals 5”, I’d just use pi equals five and take my point with grace.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Well I suppose for example rounding to the nearest integer is a method of implying “let 1.8 = 2”, no? Not too outlandish, I don’t think.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 3 weeks ago:
Enjoy!
- Comment on Let π = 5 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re overthinking it. The first thing you’re told when you learn algebra is that a letter represents a number and you can say “let a equal (number), b equal (number)…” so you can let pi equal whatever you want for the purposes of one simple problem.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 4 weeks ago:
I did wonder what people were thinking I was saying, haha, but I accept I must’ve just written it clumsily.
Here’s the documentary on youtube, it’s actually a standout example of investigative journalism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbL8opM6TM
And there’s this youtube video essay based on it which sexes it up a bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 4 weeks ago:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/ “Wakefield admits fabricating events when he took children’s blood samples”
I suppose I wasn’t clear, but I was referring to the fella who first came out and said the MMR vaccine was linked to autism, which was fraudulent of course and there’s a good documentary about it, but I mentioned it specifically because he was taking children’s blood unethically. Mad cow disease is less relevant but it’s more broadly an example of unethical treatment leading to an epidemic.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 4 weeks ago:
Even the nineties and beyond, if you think of the vaccine-causing-autism to-do and mad cow disease.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 4 weeks ago:
There’s a company near me with a product called “Damn, Daniel” and I refuse to buy it, look at it, recommend it, or discuss it with anything less than disdain.
- Comment on snek id 4 weeks ago:
My housemate left a pubity on the bog this morning.
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 4 weeks ago:
I began keeping my family at arm’s length after they bullied me to tears after I’d told my sister I thought she was quick to jump to conclusions. I couldn’t believe the logical jumps she was making after I’d said it, and furthermore that no one took my side, and further furthermore that they just kept at it until I cried and didn’t comfort me at all. It’s an emotionally complex position to be in!
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
Ah okay, I follow now!
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
Of all the things you want your haircut to be, it’s precise?
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
The other thing about it is that mammals, with rare exceptions, have to have had a baby before they produce milk, and of course since dairy farmers want to make a profit, they just force pregnancy on their animals and take their babies away to bring about a “surplus” of milk for them to sell. So if this ends up happening with people, I want no part of it.
- Comment on How was your Easter? 1 month ago:
I didn’t realise Chris (Simpsons Artist) was still going. Or is this not recent?
- Comment on How to know you're in Indiana. 1 month ago:
Oh him? He’s not a driver.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
Trinity’s a common enough Christian name!
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
“Ashleigh” is normal too and not a part of this modern spelling trend. For example, this one was born in 1912: olympics.com/en/athletes/ashleigh-gordon-pilbrow
- Comment on You 1 month ago:
Those people are actually less than two foot tall.
- Comment on Meat. 1 month ago:
All along!
- Comment on Meat. 1 month ago:
It’s good that you mindfully reduce meat intake and at least think about it, and I’m not trying to force you to do anything, but the logic here doesn’t follow. You could equally say “everything in this world has nuance and can never be binary (so this can’t be binary)”.
Do you know the idea of a kind slavemaster? Namely: if someone told me they only buy products made by slaves with kind masters, I’d be a bit baffled and I’d say “but it’s still slavery isn’t it?” There’s basically nothing worse you can do for something’s welfare than having it destroyed, no? Barring edge cases where you’re putting something out of its misery (definitely not the case when making animals into hamburgers).
- Comment on Meat. 1 month ago:
Wonder no longer: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/…/þikkwī
- Comment on Yep, defintely not a bad person 1 month ago:
It also seems like they want someone to reply “*fiancé” so people can reply in turn like “out of all the problems you have with this story…”
- Comment on Even the $44 billion didn't help. 1 month ago:
Sometimes your photos appear only after you die!