tankplanker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage says Boris Johnson is not welcome in Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Farage scared of allowing his supporters a free vote between him and Boris shocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What this chart is missing is the impact of the quality of the screen and the source material being played on it.

  A shit screen is a shit screen, just like a badly filmed TV show from the 80s will look like crap on anything other than an old CRT.

  People buying a 4k screen from Wallmart for $200 then wondering why they cant tell its any better than their old 1080p screen.

  The problem with pushing up resolution is the cost to get a good set right now is so much its a niche within a niche of people who actually want it. Even a good 4k set with proper HDR support and big enough to make a different is expensive. Even when 8k moves away from early adopter markups its still going to be expensive, especially when compared to the tat you can by at the supermarket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Richest 4%? Show us the gap between the richest 1% and the richest 0.1% vs the bottom rather than dragging down the multiplier by deliberate widening the boundaries to imply its not even more lopsided when you look at the rich as people who travel by private jet and super yacht.

  Do the wealthy need to cut their emissions? Of course, but stop pretending that they emit anywhere near the amount of the actual rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it pushed me to finally put in an order, got to wait till December now as I’m in the third batch.

  I wanted to wait till we had proof thst the graphics card would be updatable and a better one would be available as their AMD card is a bit too lightweight for me.

  I would rather it had been a better AMD card, I have a 7900 xtx in my desktop, but i will take what I can get at this point, especially as I know I can upgrade later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With CDs they were negatively impacted by the loudness war as it became much more widespread. Having to hunt around for the right recording, often the earlier ones, can be expensive. Normalisation of the recordings by streaming companies is just an awful idea as it doesn’t fix the bad parts of the mix just turns everything down.

  I prefer SACDs to CDs, mostly because they tended to be mastered and mixed better than the CDs of the past two decades. The surround audio mixes are mostly just gimmicky, although they are a good fit for some records, but they almost always had a two channel mix that you could pick instead. The higher frequency range is mostly pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how do you pay the overseers to enforce it when money is no longer valid? And the overseers are bigger and tougher than your average billionaire?

  Slavery only works when there is money to pay the overseers and a legal system to protect the owner class from being extorted by the overseers.

  ICE is in a similar boat and they have to pay significant amounts to attract people to carry out ICE fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.

  Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is he going to staff it with? There is zero chance he will cook and clean for himself and he will need a substantial army to protect himself from the collapse of the human race.

  If he goes with people how long before the security guards realise they can dump his scrawny ass off a cliff and have a better quality of life as money becomes irrelevant? If he goes with robots how long before they break beyond what they can self repair? If he goes with robots with human engineers, how long before the engineers realise the same thing as the security guards and program the robots to kill Bezos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Till they come after you for doing so.

  The way it will work is a public crackdown on a couple of the big providers, then a few high profile cases where unlicensed VPN usage will be a tacked on offense with additional penalties for those getting investigated.

  Its the same with the identity checks now, big porn sites and the like have them or will have them very soon, some small scale stuff does not and might get away with not implementing it. Using such small scale sites then becomes grounds for further investigation if you get swept up with it later.

  These things are never about 100% compliance, there will always be those who can work around it. However working around it will in itself become an offense and grounds for further investigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, do you have a license to use that VPN bruv?

  I have been saying this is the long term aim of this style of legislation for years.

  They knew when they implemented IPA back in 2016 that VPNs would be an ongoing problem and have been chipping away at the perception of them since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets worse if you compare Jane with Janet and John who both earn say 50k each, as they still get that child benefit despite their combined net income being about double what she earns.

  They simply refuse to look at household income, and treat even married couples as singletons living separately for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acquired a sliding mitre saw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, should cut it like butter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acquired a sliding mitre saw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t already checked the alignment in both planes with a good quality square.

  I guess you purchased an aluminium cutting blade for this? Also if you decide to cut fine wood with this get a better blade than stock.

  They are such a useful tool, I’ve cut thousands of floor boards and framing with mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This with the right controls and rules could actually be a positive thing for people who don’t want or aren’t ready for a relationship with a real person. However as the people who are running things are Elon, Sam, and Mark, there is fuck all chance of that and whatever this ends up as it will be exploitative and will result in deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK inheritance tax clampdown will not spark mass sale of family farms, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who purchased farms to avoid paying IHT such as Clarkson can usually afford to pay for a good accountant to help them plan avoiding as much IHT under the new rules as possible as its quite generous if you have at least seven years (and money for a good accountant) before your kids will inherit.

  Those who are actual multi generational farmers, even if that’s just the parents and the children they want to inherit the farm, there aren’t that many who are over the threshold for a married couple plus the various exceptions if they can go the seven years.

  Its those who lack the time or lack the quality advise that will struggle, its not a huge number, less than 500 farms a year should be dragged into paying more without proper planning at the seven years to implement it due to allowances. I think thats the only bit I do not like, as once again we have allowed a loop hole for those who can and should be paying more tax and the expense of everybody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts discuss plans to save water as dry conditions worsen across England⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two decades ago we needed the water companies to fix their leaks rather than paying bonuses, dividends, and loan repayments to help the former.

  At least that long ago we needed more reservoirs rather than allowing the cost and nimbies to stop them.

  But right now we need to be cutting back on new data centres and other new projects that can’t afford their water debt. Stop making the problem worse without an actual plan or funding to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple and escalating his feud with Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hes also exactly the type of person who this would cause a massive hissy fit over and demand immediate changes to Grok that would further stunt its working

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its possible that the local businesses have lost business because terminally lazy people can no longer park directly outside their shops and will not walk a short distance to them, this should be extremely easy for the business to prove if its actually true, I have my doubts its a significant amount. I suspect the people most inconvenienced by not being able to park outside the businesses are those that actually work there. This is the only remotely serious suggestion I see from the anti bike lane crowd in this instance.

  My local village center is meant to be no parking on the high street, has had times its been enforced properly and times its been ignored due to pressure by local businesses. Recently they started enforcing it, directing people to the free (under two hours) car parks on the edge of the high street. Car parks were full with people who own and work in the shops, so they prevented them from parking in the car parks all day, so now they park on the residential streets off the high street enforcement area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s the point of the license from Ofcom, to approve the endpoint address used for the VPN. Most work places don’t use some random IP address but a small pool of known DNS entries for their endpoint. Just because you are using a VPN doesn’t mean nobody can see which endpoint you using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has always been the main aim of legislation like this to nobble VPNs, they just needed the “child” “violent pornography” etc. excuse to do so. UK government already monitors all of the internet traffic for the UK, except for MPs who are exempt, VPNs are a blocker for this.

  Obviously, not even the UK government would expect a private VPN ban (work VPNs would likely need an Ofcom license) to stop everybody from using a VPN or suitable alternative, its not the aim. The aim is to stop the majority from doing so and criminalize the minority who do still bypass the block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Work based VPNs would likely have to obtain a license from Ofcom, it would be highly unlikely to block them completely. Probably be requesting a back door into the work VPNs at the same time just like they have for other encryption, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The completely made up and arbitrary fiscal rules? The ones we could change at any moment, for say, defense spending?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sick of them refusing to address the actual problem. Triple lock costing too much money right now? I know let’s fix it by reducing the amount of people claiming it for an extra year, years from now. Punishing the very people actually contributing the tax revenue to pay for the pension and the triple lock today.

  If you are spending too much money now you either need to reduce the money being spent now by binning the triple lock or increase taxation this year and be hones thats what its (part) paying for. Except you too chicken shit to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The threat he is trying to make is around the government being on the hook for the loans and urgent improvement works at a time the government is trying to cut costs.

  Should we nationalise it? Yes but it needs to be in such a way that we write off the costs of doing so as much as possible. I have no idea how we can protect ourselves in doing that without causing at least some problems downstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour backbench MPs push for tough, wholesale changes to gambling regulation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this will go nowhere due to large bribes donations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s not the same thing as a bland food diet, that’s up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

  Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

  No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

  Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

  Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

  Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  just eating potatoes for every meal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a small percentage of people keep weight off long term, Ive seen figures around 20% so whatever works for you is the right answer but its unlikely to be the same solution for the rest of your life. Its a higher relapse rate than alcoholics.

  Speaking from experience, if you only buy healthy food it massively reduces the attack vector of unhealthy food, and by unhealthy I mean calorie dense food that leads to relapse due to its high processed sugar content.

  If I am eating clean then everybody else in the house is eating clean, its no different from an alcoholic needing no alcohol on the house. Obviously food exists outside the house as well, but its about reducing your exposure to it as much as possible, which includes avoiding majority of restaurants.

  Unless you have a problem with over consumption of food its very hard for people to directly equate it to an addiction. When people who can self regulate food intake, who have never had to diet in their life, try to give diet advice its like a fish giving running advice.