BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 4 days ago:
They’ll not combust, I’d hazard a guess that air pods are made from ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 6 days ago:
I’ll probably fuck my terminology up here, forgive me, I try. Questions I have:
Are there a lot of people who look at other people’s genitals in public toilets?
Can these people be arrested because I think they might be perverts and I don’t want them looking at my kids?
Are people going to have to start showing their genitals to security guards?
Has someone given security guards the right to demand to see people’s genitals?
How the fuck does that even work when someone’s had gender reassignment surgery?
Presumably trans men must now use the women’s toilets?
Does someone who’s had gender reassignment surgery need to bring their full medical history with them in order to prove they’re using the “correct” toilet?
Not aimed particularly at you flamingos - just questions that are coming to mind reading this thread.
Seems to me this would be a lot simpler if people would just stop looking at other people’s genitals in toilets uninvited.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 6 days ago:
How would they know what genitals someone has? Did I miss the memo where we’re supposed to look at other people’s genitals in the toilets? I’m not on board with this.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 6 days ago:
This is the same person that once said “it’s not right to say only women have a cervix”
Zero conviction.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week ago:
This doesn’t appear to be given to a centralised authority. If the authentication process fails then it falls back to the previous method anyway. In reality most people won’t bother to authenticate if it involves any significant work.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week ago:
I’m not seeing the advantage of everyone having to do the same vetting process repeatedly.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 1 week ago:
At first my thoughts were “does she really think she’s that relevant” now I’m just waiting for the hilarity to begin.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
I can see them railing a line of asbestos just to own the libs. Better than vaccine denial I suppose, at least it limits the damage.
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 2 weeks ago:
How do them boots taste?
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 2 weeks ago:
Lol, what sort of manager can’t open a toilet? He didn’t want to. Frankly, I’ve spent years at a time where being more than an hour from a toilet was not a possibility for me and of the hour long window I had discomfort started at 10 minutes by 60 I was in pain and at real risk of shitting myself. I’ve never shat on anyone’s floor but i have zero sympathy for someone who lacks the basic humanity to open a shop toilet for someone in need.
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, “I can shit in your toilet or I can shit on your floor” is a pretty powerful message. Maybe the manager will be more open to those in intestinal distress in future.
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
Yeah makes sense, Focus definitely ends production at the end of the year. Always been a fan of Fords in general, decent quality, decent price, just all round decent cars.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Meh, once they grow up their things aren’t nimble enough to assemble stuff any more. Waste of energy training them.
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
You make a fair point, my comment was more to say that US brands can make a good sensible car if they want to and be damn successful at it. I’ll be a little sad when they discontinue the focus. Have they stopped Mondeo estates as well?
I guess the Puma/Capri combo are a more euro-centric SUV.
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
The funny thing is, the one American automaker that made an effort did quite well and we sometimes forget they’re American, namely, Ford.
- Comment on Australia: a story in 4 pictures 2 weeks ago:
Jesus fuck that name needs some work, common brown snake, could we not have went with “Antipodean Death Bringer” or something like that
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 3 weeks ago:
I try and just ignore it and read what I’m interested in regardless. From what I hear about the YouTube algo, for instance, clickbait titles are necessity more than a choice for YouTubers, if they don’t use them they get next to no engagement early and the algo buries that video which can impact the channel in general.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 3 weeks ago:
They do it because it works on the whole. If straight titles were as effective they’d be used instead.
- Comment on Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker 3 weeks ago:
Have you never read a BBC HYS comments section?
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Held off on the switch at Christmas in anticipation of switch 2, mostly for the kids, think I’ll try them with PC gaming and see how they get on. I’ll get a lot more bang for buck upgrading my graphics card.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 4 weeks ago:
They do not appear to be banned under this legislation.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 4 weeks ago:
Haha, exactly my first thought on reading this. Release some 3D printed cases too.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 4 weeks ago:
Also built in anti-NIMBY defences. Easy transport for the raw materials too, the more I think about it the more wins there are.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, lms is still going strong!
- Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors 4 weeks ago:
So what exactly are we losing?
- Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors 4 weeks ago:
Why do you feel that Vs when merges happen?
- Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors 4 weeks ago:
Would you really want everyone in the world looking at every end of day commit before you’ve refactored it into something vaguely passable?
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 5 weeks ago:
I reckon there’s as many people on Lemmy that wear F91Ws as there are automatic watch wearers.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 5 weeks ago:
Lol, Casios