AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on Got my invite 7 minutes ago:
Nice try, officer.
- Comment on Got my invite 2 hours ago:
If it’s the actual Bavarian Illuminati, then they probably picked you as a credulous, deep-pocketed nobleman who can be pumped for membership dues in return for initiation to an endless ladder of degrees, each revealing profoundly esoteric secrets which don’t actually mean anything. If you’re one of a handful who show themselves to be sceptical and open-minded, perhaps Adam Weishaupt will take you aside and reveal that all that woo was just bullshit to part the rubes from their money, and the true mission of the Illuminati is to spread Enlightenment ideals, such as secularism and anti-monarchism, which the authorities take a very dim view of.
- Comment on Piping mouse 5 hours ago:
Do they make human-sized ones?
- Comment on We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours 1 week ago:
Do you want the boring accountant’s truth or the Herzogian ecstatic truth?
- Comment on I don't think so 1 week ago:
More so than that. It was the Nazi-era term referring to “the true Aryan German people”, and excluding all the Nazis regarded as degenerate or un-Aryan, as used in the adjective “volkisch”.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 1 week ago:
I thought it was a sugar spoon with a faceted bowl
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 1 week ago:
The runcible one (1)
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 1 week ago:
Health insurance plans to offer porn subscriptions
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In a neoliberal society, having some human cashiers for the lonely people to have a natter to about their aches and grandkids while they ring up their groceries is as much human contact as one can ask for. This isn’t Communist 1970s Sweden, where the government employed social workers whose job was to check in on lonely old people.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
OK boomer.
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 2 weeks ago:
The next step is to have a social network where your chatbots date other users’ chatbots for you, and you can scroll through their updates
- Comment on Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors 2 weeks ago:
Great news! Now those participating in BDS boycotts can finally buy state-level spyware.
- Comment on Indonesia to block Israeli team from competing at gymnastics world championships in Jakarta 2 weeks ago:
Indonesia used to deny entry to anyone with an Israeli stamp in their passport. Did they lift this policy?
- Comment on What do we do when all the crts are gone? 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if someone like the Czech guy who started a nixie tube factory a decade or two ago could pivot to artisanal CRTs for deep-pocketed retro-gaming enthusiasts.
- Comment on wish 2 weeks ago:
And then there were all the kids wishing they were in America rather than their boring first-world suburb/provincial town. They didn’t get any more specific, and I imagine they were probably thinking of New York/LA/somewhere glamorous, and would have been bitterly disappointed if the maliciously-helpful wishing genie had whisked them away to a rustbelt town in Ohio or some unincorporated community in Alabama or wherever.
- Comment on Losers 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of life’s great mysteries
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 2 weeks ago:
On one hand, it sucks that in the Trump era, maintaining shareholder value involves not offending Nazis. OTOH, though, given how tedious the American Revolution one was, essentially running on rails with your character inserted into key episodes, the Civil War episode would have sucked. Presumably you’d have been riding shotgun with Harriett Tubman and/or General Sherman in a succession of semi-interactive cut scenes, repeating until you shot/stabbed enough confederate NPCs to be rewarded with possibly a short break of open-world exploring as a treat.
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 2 weeks ago:
This is unacceptable. We need an economy where everybody is in the wealthiest 10%
- Comment on As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable energy 2 weeks ago:
Then Australia will need to decarbonise its transport. In the cities (well, Sydney and Melbourne at least) it’s building out more effective public transport systems and increasing residential density to allow less car-centric lifestyles. Between major cities, aviation is still the undisputed king, and with there being no safe electrical storage technology with an energy density approaching A1 kerosene on the horizon, renewably-powered electric airliners aren’t happening any time soon. Australia still has railways, but they’re in a poor state: old, slow Victorian-era alignments, and a lack of electrification. Passenger trains run between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, but they’re slow (you’d get better Sydney and Melbourne quicker driving at the speed limit down the Hume Highway than on the XPT train); meanwhile, working passenger trains between the east and west coasts were replaced with premium-priced boomer rail cruises some time in the era of cheap flights.
For decarbonisation, Australia will need improved passenger rail. Ideally high-speed rail, though that will take a generation or two to build (the Albanese federal government’s generation-defining HSR project is, wait for it, an intrastate line between Sydney and the regional city of Newcastle). A better approach might arguably be to quietly upgrade existing lines, straightening out the slowest curves and adding electrification in increments, while increasing service frequencies and reliability. Where HSR is built out, it should be classic-compatible to add value to the rest of the line. (A HSR line connecting Sydney to Canberra in one hour would cannibalise the aviation market between them, and would also shave a few hours off a Sydney-Melbourne route that could use the alignment before crossing to the old slow line.)
Also, not neglecting night trains: they’re easy enough to dismiss as some kind of whimsical fantasy or Instagram photo-op for hipsters, at least if the mindset is “yeah, nah, normal people just fly, mate”, but there’s a revival in them happening in Europe, and plenty of people find boarding a train in the evening and getting off in the centre of town next morning to be convenient. Having the Sydney-Brisbane train leave at 2pm and arrive at 4am doesn’t show concern for passengers. And ordering replacement trains without sleeper carriages (as TfNSW did) is a huge lost opportunity. Until you can do the trip on a Shinkansen in under 5 hours, you need sleeper carriages.
- Comment on TV/MA 'High School' teen drama shows should be set in college and centered around young adults or adults. 3 weeks ago:
Teenagers should be piloting giant robots, not doing drugs and hooking up
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
You can make them modular, with telescoping rails, for portability. The blade needs to be weighted, but the weight can consist of a stack of weights, like on gym equipment. In fact, you could probably repurpose a bench press machine into a guillotine with a few minor modifications.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
Kittens meow, but adult cats in the wild don’t. So they literally speak baby talk to us.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 4 weeks ago:
That’s accurate. The assets look cheap, and the game itself is a bit dull.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
There’s an Everett True energy about this
- Comment on Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance tax 4 weeks ago:
Tony Blair would undoubtedly approve
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 4 weeks ago:
One example: the early-80s arcade game Elevator Action, in which you play a secret agent who abseils to the top floor of an enemy building and has to grab secret files and make his way down to a getaway car on the ground floor. Well, that’s how it’s described. In reality, you’re a spree shooter rampaging through an office.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 4 weeks ago:
Are they talking about her physically modelled breasts?
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 4 weeks ago:
Also, you don’t want to know what she thinks of trans people
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Time to reset the “days since” board to 0
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 weeks ago:
Horny philosophers want only two things