deadcatbounce
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- Comment on Tributes paid to boy, 15, after Sheffield school stabbing 18 hours ago:
Wtf. Fifteen. That’s well before life actually begins.
To my (old) mind, when this starts happening, it shows a society in deep distress. I don’t know if it’s being picked up by the media more often or happening more often.
- Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? 19 hours ago:
I just list the mass spectrometer components. Simples.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 5 days ago:
This is premium quality fecal master in your water; thanks Thames Water and Anglian water. Premium is reassuringly expensive.
- Comment on Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals 6 days ago:
Phew! Thank-you. I missed that.
- Comment on Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax. 6 days ago:
Boys, no-one has yet stated that the front bench has paid the due tax on the freebies they’ve been getting so far. Not even thinking about the free cash the last twenty years worth of government have given to their mates.
The seriously rich only pay tax voluntarily. Start with the medium wealthy and the grifter MPs.
- Comment on Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals 6 days ago:
Gen Y/millennials and X discover Christian religion (at least?) is a safe place for paedophilia. Gen Z not listening to parents or grandparents.
Be careful people. It’s not safe at many levels.
- Comment on Family courts: 'Watershed moment' as press allowed to report 1 week ago:
The biggest thing that needs to happen is that there needs to statistics published.
All governments have lied or pretended not to collect the numbers. That has to change.
Everyone on the streets knows what’s going on, the statistics will prove it.
- Comment on Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive 1 week ago:
Since very recently they can look through your bank accounts if you just receive any government payments, including stare pensions.
Meanwhile freebies all the way for the front bench. And no-one is expecting anything for it, would you believe. 🤬
- Comment on Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive 1 week ago:
Yes. Make sure that they can go to work by removing their ability to drive, as well as the criminal sentence, and jail time.
Another dumb idea by yet another corrupt government.
Everyone knows how desperate this government is to throw the disabled under the bus. So I have little confidence that those labelled frauds are actually did anything wrong.
I’m old and it wasn’t always like this. Or at least it wasn’t so open.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 4 weeks ago:
When you have a significant change in the population dynamic, it takes a significant time for the population not (really) effecting this change to adjust.
From my perspective as an old bloke, Women now treat relationships as transactional, men haven’t kept pace. There are obviously a number of reasons and I’m not making that statement to judge or analyse; mass change requires motivation. The motivation presented itself. Society is in the same incredible flux as when the pill became a real and common thing fifty years ago.
The risks for a man of a relationship significantly outweigh the rewards. Being aware of the overwhelming risks and deciding not to engage doesn’t stop one being lonely.
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” - Robin Williams
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 4 weeks ago:
Actually I can agree with this. They’ve been crap since the turn of the century.
The irony of asking a king named Charles of over-throwing the Government isn’t lost through. 🤣😂
- Comment on Are affordable apartments easy and cheap suicide prevention? 4 weeks ago:
Kind of. My parents were appalling people. I was a good kid but it didn’t matter.
You can leave them, but you can’t leave yourself. When you get away, learn to be kind to yourself. It’s much more difficult than it sounds.
- Comment on Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. 4 weeks ago:
It finally occurs to me. When younger people complain about capitalism, it’s the 21st century almost-feudal version of capitalism that they’re complaining about.
The oligarchs/large corporations don’t seem to stop wanting exceptional amounts of money more whilst everyday people are really struggling. I’m not taking about the bottom end of society who are double-decimated, but average everyday middle-classes and pensioners. Members of Governments have their noses in our trough too.
I understand what they mean now. Sorry it’s taken me so long.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 weeks ago:
Not heard that before, and I’m old. 🤣😂
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 weeks ago:
And now you know why everyone hates Oracle.
- Comment on Low turnout in the 2024 election may have been due to undecided voters being overwhelmed by choice 2 months ago:
Or maybe: all of the parties are crap.
Sounds more plausible than “all of us are stupid”.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 months ago:
Quite so. There is an optimum time to renew as given by Money Saving Expert amongst others.
My point was to draw the mal insurance company practice within the realms of subscriptions so that it will be caught by the enquiry and anything that emerges from it.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 months ago:
With car insurance almost invariably automatically set to annually renew by the insurance company whether you want that or not, car insurance is a (disguised) subscription service.
Every money advice place esp Money Saving Expert dating look around annually, auto annual renewal should be illegal.
I f#@king hate that car insurance companies do that.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 months ago:
Because everyone knows who the mother is through birth and following months/years if they’re lucky, and the only connection a father has with his children is a last name.
It’s quite reasonable that mums want the same surname as their children so …
The trouble with that is that between twenty and thirty percent of children, depending on source, call the wrong person ‘dad’.
- Comment on Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary 2 months ago:
What? You mean you don’t need a participation trophy for going to work? With a ceremony? And a comfort blanket?
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” – G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 months ago:
The poor should pay the taxes because “only the little people pay taxes”.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 months ago:
Oh, ok. Thank-you.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 months ago:
Thank-you
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 months ago:
Help me out here. What’s BMI2 - searching gives me computer related stuff and running “BMI weight” just gives old BMI stuff.
- Comment on Has anyone had success with debloating their Phones? 3 months ago:
Buy a phone that didn’t have to much bloat to start with.
One Plus was fairly clean, until watsit left to set up Nothing. Pixel is clean ish but you need a new launcher (hat tip Niagara).
For Christ sake don’t buy a Samsung. I thought that everyone knew that about Samsung. Smh.
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 3 months ago:
The whole idea behind PFI (or whatever is called now) is to move state debt off balance sheet.
There’s no way there isn’t going to be a PFI shitty (for the tax payer) deal involved. Probably with the same shareholders as the former Thames Water.
- Comment on Is it worth fresh installing Fedora 40 or just upgrading my existing installation? 4 months ago:
Don’t forget the inst.sdboot .
Fedora f41 is right around the corner, hang on a few days/couple weeks?!
- Comment on Best phone sync 4 months ago:
If you’re using Obsidian for free then maybe try the built-in link which you’ll find in the built-in options I think. It’s a cost option but cheap.
I’m not having problem with Syncthing, bar dealing with the stupid attempts to deal with deleted files that Android leaves laying around. I have
.stignorefiles with.trashed-*and.trash/entries on the Linux machine. Still having problems with_ed directories though and Syncthing conflict files when the sync isn’t fast enough when I switch between the two.Sometimes it takes Syncthing a while to work out the best route between the two nodes. Sometimes days. It used to send my packets to the internet before letting them back into the local network. Eventually it found a more direct route between them. I’m not sure but I think it has something to do with local IPv6; I’m talking out of my ass though.
I’m not affiliated to Syncthing or Obsidian besides being a happy user.
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 6 months ago:
One in three is not one-in-ten one might expect. And it’s not hundreds it’s thousands of women making false claims for money against male victims.
We don’t have population (in the statistical sense) data to know for sure. Maybe the passport biometric data will eventually let us know for sure.
However, there are other individuals involved, usually in the act of conception, not just women.
“I’m on the pill/implant/coil … you don’t have to wear a condom. Take the condom off.”. A female paedophile teacher has just been jailed here because the baby made it kind-of obvious she was lying. Apparently she got pregnant whilst she was on bail with the same child.
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 6 months ago:
My mom was like that. 🤣😂