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- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 1 week ago:
Those might be the rules, but I was a child when the rules last actually applied or were applied.
No-one with any ability as a politician will go anywhere near politics this century. And when I say ability I mean moral compass.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 1 week ago:
Thanks Water immediately raise prices to cover it. Ditto Anglian Water.
Nationalise it, accounting for the infrastructure deficit rerouted to dividends. De-gravy train it.
- Comment on Labour peer apologises for writing to UK Treasury to promote crypto firm he advised 3 weeks ago:
Would the first person to find a politician who isn’t bent, please turn out the lights.
Parliament is redundant.
- Comment on Mastodon doesn't like Addy aliases 4 weeks ago:
How does it defeat the purpose?
The domain have nothing that is traceable to you. What’s the issue?
- Comment on Mastodon doesn't like Addy aliases 4 weeks ago:
Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It’s not very hard.
You can use the domain for other things too.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Even in England, our gay PMs have to be married. At least until their wife finds out.
- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 5 weeks ago:
Which model? I find the 4o to be rubbish; I just get bullshit. 4-turbo was great. 4.5 is the only useful model there at the moment. Perplexity is what I use for searches and it’s good on references. ChatGPT for making things.
- Comment on If your dog realizes that your leather jacket is the skin of another animal then it probably thinks you're a psycho. 1 month ago:
Anything oil based, like plastic, is the bodies of another animals. Your dog is probably wearing a plastic collar, if not a leather one … oh wait!
- Comment on Water bosses face two years in prison if they cover up sewage spills 1 month ago:
Likelihood of anyone ever being convicted whilst actually guilty: zero.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 month ago:
As a male. None.
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 1 month ago:
They’re missing a word on the end of that sentence: “today”. Tomorrow, however …
- Comment on Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets 1 month ago:
I’m not criticising you. I’m trying to get someone to explain what the end result is; which you did just above.
I don’t know the product names. I don’t tend to be focused on product names because they come and go. Your first message didn’t help me.
Your last precis is just what I needed. Ideal. Thank-you.
- Comment on Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets 1 month ago:
Wasn’t being critical at all. Not expecting you to write for anyone.
I wondered what this actually provides. If you were explaining to someone with a good knowledge of the world, not grandma!!
- Comment on Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets 1 month ago:
Thanks fella. What do they actually do? Elevator pitch stylie!
- Comment on Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets 1 month ago:
Excuse the ignorance, what am I actually reading about here?
I read the first few paragraphs and an out of my league.
What are ‘we’ trying to achieve?
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 1 month ago:
Foot in mouth*
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 month ago:
This got me wondering about lionising Go in films. I think I need to start a such a movement amongst directors or screen writers.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 month ago:
Oh ok.
I haven’t been to a circus recently. My knowledge in that area is wanting, I’ll admit. 😳
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month ago:
All good!
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month ago:
The irony of using ‘Z’ in the title.
It’s our language; you broke it.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 month ago:
Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.
[ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]
A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don’t know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.
A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.
Maybe you’re complaining about people using the soft mode.
In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that’s a little weird tbh. I’ve always indicated, wherever I’m going, on the basis that when I don’t, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.
Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won’t let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 month ago:
Hell, I remember a time people just said “um”, “er” quietly and paused between words when they hadn’t thought the thought through.
Instead now they use ‘like’ as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.
It gets real confusing when what they’re explaining is the concept of similes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Given the electronic searching of your electronic gadgets (phone etc) that they can/will do before you get in, I think I’ve made my lifetime’s visits to the US already.
I really wanted to see the Midwest. There was a good person who piqued my interest further talking to me about it here recently.
- Comment on X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover 1 month ago:
At this point, I just see it as a Microsoft/Meta move: buy, absorb, destroy. Use as tax loss.
- Comment on I should wash my hair. 1 month ago:
Oh bless.
- Comment on I should wash my hair. 1 month ago:
Biggest mistake is not repeating the wash-rinse twice. Ask a hairdresser why they do it that way.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
Sounds idyllic. Back in the day ('95 ish) Mrs and I flew into Boston and toured the five states around there in about two-three weeks (!) just getting a taster. Went back again later but had mother-in-law and kids with us so look-see wasn’t going to happen.
Loved New England, especially the seafood (even the tourist version) but couldn’t do the over-commercialisation (ten minutes of programme then five of adverts).
By contrast, I love the looser financial controls. I passed the US SEC Series 7 and UK Registered Representatives prior, so the contrast was immediate.
Being in the middle of nowhere with a media server in the internet age sounds the best of both worlds.
Congrats sir! Enjoy!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
That’s the thing I’m taking about!
It’s a bit scary tbh. If you don’t do (steer) what it says it shakes the steering wheel as if a wheel was seriously unbalanced or broken.
It’s my first new-to-me car in a while. So I’m enjoying most of the new tech but not quite this bit!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
Well said! Blighty here.
There were so many complaints on the forums about it that I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but it’s not quite as bad as I was expecting TBF. I just have to be very careful on road merges and those funky country lanes.
Didn’t get to visit Pittsburgh so far but would love to, country is a necessarily shrinking resource here these days.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
There are specific instructions for Audi, BMW and Mercedes which void their warranties should you ever even think such scandalous thoughts.