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- Comment on A friend is making custom bike parts, this is a mould he asked me to make 1 week ago:
A bicycle.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
So do something about it. If you just sit there and post “I don’t want this” on the Internet they’re just going to keep doing it.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 weeks ago:
If you believe that an omnipotent God designed everything to be exactly how it is, then its a perfectly logical statement. But then you also have to accept that God gives kids cancer.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
The amount of it in our environment has been ever increasing though. There’s more of it in the oceans, the soil, the rivers, the plants. The whole food chain and ecosystems are contaminated more than ever before.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 weeks ago:
The idea that the actions of world powers are in any way governed by morality is largely a myth. Politicians will try to twist reality and use morality to justify killing people abroad and sometimes morality does align with their interests by coincidence.
But the motivations are always about furthering financial and strategic interests. See the overthrow of the Iranian regime in 1953 to protect oil interests, CIA coups and supporting murderous dictators in countless South American and other countries around the world, the recent Iraq war etc. If a government gets elected somewhere that would threaten our business interests (by taxing or nationalising them for example), we have historically supported bloody coups to remove them and install murderous facist regimes that enable us to keep making money at the cost of countless innocent lives.
Strategic in the sense that we prevent other powers in a region from becoming strong enough to challenge us. Keeping ourselves on top and in charge by keeping others down. Israel is a valuable ally in this regard - they maintain power in the region by keeping others down and keep them focused more on destroying Israel than attacking us.
Palestinian lives aren’t important to our governments. They have no real power and there’s no real profit to be made from them. Our strategic interest in supporting Israel will always trump any humanitarian interest in preventing genocide.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 5 weeks ago:
The BBC isn’t booking anyone they’re just covering Glastonbury festival.
- Comment on System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster review - a careful makeover that doesn’t wholly stave off the ravages of time 5 weeks ago:
What are you talking about bad voice acting? DX:MD was all serious and professional but it lacked the comic charm of lines like “A bomb’s a bad choice for close range combat”.
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 5 weeks ago:
I would interpret this to mean that your 15 minute break is now a 30 minute break.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 1 month ago:
In the end the RAF are the ones supplying and supporting the terrorist Israeli regime.
- Comment on Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series 1 month ago:
Agree. 5 was a fun spectacle but the character switching really was ass, and playing as V it felt like the winning strategy was just buttonmashing. Still was very happy it got made after DMC.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 month ago:
That X1950 pro and Core 2 Duo are pretty awesome if the year is 2007. 5400rpm HDD lets it down a bit though.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
If your employer is paying you the bare minimum, then you’re the sucker if you’re putting in more than the bare minimum of effort.
Sure, if you work really hard you might get some recognition in the form of a thank you and perhaps a gift worth less than $50. If you do it for long enough you might get a promotion and a pay rise - but you’ll still be earning far less than the person they hired from outside to do the same job and you’ll have worked much harder for it.
In most companies, 99% of the benefit from you working hard goes to the owners. They don’t give you any more than 1% because they don’t have to.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
You mean you don’t think he’s still out there?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
What about Bogdan, who was catapulted into space in 1377 in a freak trebuchet accident which was never recorded?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
“The 1% aren’t rich” - Aux
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
So? A lot of people dont have PAYE income, they still have income. What point are you trying to make? Are you trying to argue that £181k doesnt put you in the top 1%?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
Top 1% of income from all sources which includes your 200 mega rich families. 1% of 70m people is 700k people. Of course the top 0.1% are way richer.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
I think most people would see that as ultra rich or super rich. To most people “rich” means having significantly more money than them. So given that the median salary in the UK is £37k, most people would probably say someone on £80k is rich, even though its pretty easy to earn that much and still want for more.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 2 months ago:
The reference is from his first book which was all about his experiences living with the downtrodden in Paris and London. In fact that’s why he used the pen name George Orwell - he didn’t want to risk harming the reputation of his middle class family.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
£181k is all you need to be in the top 1% in the UK.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Global warming solved.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 months ago:
But you don’t want to do anything that requires security on them like shopping, email, or anything that requires you to log into to an account that you dont want stolen.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 months ago:
Baked beans are also just one type of British bean preparation.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
Europlugs are small, similar to us plugs. But the bulky schuko is very common in Europe. Europlugs are compatible with schuko sockets and many others.
You can fit two or three europlug sockets in the same amount of space as one schuko or British socket.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
Everything. Map, factions, units, weapons, companions, knighthood orders, horde armies. Its just the biggest and highest quality conversion mod I’ve played.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 3 months ago:
Linus memorises it.
- Comment on Bethesda release Oblivion Remastered for £50 3 months ago:
Best I can do is £15
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 months ago:
Not only does it make you gay, your sperm will testosteronize the woman, turning her into a gay man.
- Comment on Australia: a story in 4 pictures 3 months ago:
Looks like a common brown snake. Second most venomous in the world. It won’t kill you in 2.5s, but a bite on the arse could do you in in an hour.
- Comment on Thanks reddit, very helpful. 4 months ago:
It’s a copypasta