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- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 9 hours ago:
I wonder if that’s why Google advertisers. They are probably the most recognized company on the planet so they definitely don’t need the eyeballs.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 9 hours ago:
I was going to say that’s incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything I feel I have ever heard about Comcast seems to back up this move.
I’m surprised about IBM though, more because I didn’t realize they were still around than anything else.
- Comment on Mortgage rates rise despite interest rate cut 1 day ago:
Wasn’t this expected though?
The Bank of England said that they weren’t going to alter interest rates despite a slight interest rise because they believed it was only temporary and would settle back down in a few months.
Obviously though mortgage lenders can do whatever they want. They have a justification for raising rates right now so why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 4 days ago:
Yeah one can be prevented the other can’t so let’s worry about the thing we can prevent.
If AI is going to kill us all the only thing we could do to stop that is not make AI which is basically not going to happen. We can alter society so that it’s no longer based on the assumption that everyone will be able to find employment.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 5 days ago:
Let’s face it though, the movie never made a lot of sense.
They replaced humans with artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence capable of independent thought (why did it need to be capable of independent thought).
All they needed to do was literally replace the humans with remote control relays, there’s absolutely no reason for it to be an AI. If you are giving artificial intelligence access to weapons, then you are the problem, not the artificial intelligence.
I wish we could have a sensible conversation about AI without assuming that it’s going to kill everyone because it happened in some movie. AI’s biggest threat to humans is that it will replace everyone by doing a better job, and our entire economic system will fall apart, not that it’s going to start Armageddon.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 6 days ago:
It is somewhat depressing that everybody’s understanding of artificial intelligence and technology in general is derived from a sensationalist movie, which made no effort to be even remotely realistic.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
I think you’ve just demonstrated that you’re not at all interested in rigorous intellectual discourse and instead merely interested in trying to engage in some kind of one-upmanship.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
It’s pretty clear what I meant they’re not banning smoking they are banning smoking outside of hospitals.
Jesus you go out of your way to being an obtuse idiot
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Yeah let’s kill all the children.
They don’t burning smoking your idiot they’re bunning smoking outside of hospitals and schools it’s right there in the title.
- Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 1 week ago:
How much time does it have to be before it becomes history rather than just the past. When does history start?
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch wins race to become Conservative leader. 1 week ago:
At least for a while, until they get closer to a general election and actually need someone mentally stable, assuming they can find someone.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
Right but they raised the very important point that the article is basically complaining about a bunch of people not being considered working when they are working and are considered working people.
They’re literally complaining about nothing
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
It is such a stupid discussion because there are many people that work in industries that are in high demand and thus get very high wages. But that’s the point, they get a wage, thus are a worker.
It’s the Tories that started trying to muddy the waters about this because they’re angry about something, although God knows what, because they appear to be raging against the made up version of the policy rather than the actual policy.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
This is what happens when finish scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
Yes much better to have the incompetent self-serving fascists be in charge.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
Even her own supporters don’t really support her. There was an interview with a conservative MP on the financial times YouTube channel, What he basically said that he supports her more than he supports RJ but realistically neither of them are long-term viable candidates.
He said that as long as the conservatives obsess over the culture wars they’ll never win another election.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
Then he’ll take over and try to bring the party back more towards the middle which will also fail because it’ll immediately cause a bunch of infighting between those with more than two IQ points and the current lot.
The only way for the conservative party to survive now without splitting up is to have a cull of the extremists and I just don’t think Cleverly has the balls for that.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party 2 weeks ago:
I seriously doubt she will last until the general election. I’m betting on a vote of no confidence within 2 years.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information 2 weeks ago:
If you’ll find for course you don’t get given notice. If somebody is breaking the rules and being dangerous you don’t want them hanging around for another 2 weeks you want them gone now.
If it’s a layoff then yeah you get notice
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
If a tree folds in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it does it make a sound?
For this experiment scientists recruited Gilbert, no one really pays much attention to him, and it’s assumed the universe won’t either.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
The M2 macbook air now starts at $1000 for 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Limited storage aside, that’s surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops.
What do you mean limited storage aside?
If we disregard the fact that it’s terrible value for money, it’s a good deal. No laptop sold in 2025 should have anything less than a terabyte.
- Comment on Apple Tap to Pay Feature Expands to 5 More Countries in Europe, New Payment Partners 2 weeks ago:
In my experience this is always a fiddly experience because the NFC reader is on the back of the phone and they always hand it to you, screen up.
If they just turned it upside down it would work so much better.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 weeks ago:
How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?
Because they do? They get Windows laptops. They don’t get Linux laptops.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 weeks ago:
By landing?
Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 weeks ago:
If it’s on YouTube then it’s a scam, spaceX don’t have a YouTube channel, I assume for some stupid petty musk reason.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Every person I have ever met that uses an iMac for the first time naturally assumes that the Apple icon is the power button. Fact that it isn’t the power button is utterly idiotic
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Apple didn’t want to muddy their nice design by including functions.
Frankly you’re lucky it has any ports
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you have to hold the power button in to force to shut down?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
The fact that everyone hasn’t taken on this design trend just shows how stupid it is.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 weeks ago:
Right but without tagging they can’t do facial recognition can they.
What I’m saying is that if there’s a photograph of me on Facebook and someone tags it and goes ah there’s Bob Smith, does that that it’s me or is that just a label that says Bob Smith?