starlinguk
@starlinguk@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I block trackers instead of asking nicely. It’s amazing how many seemingly innocent sites stop working.
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 3 days ago:
Public schools are what Americans call private schools, the other ones are state schools, academies, council schools, etc.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 5 days ago:
I don’t live in a city but I know all the train and bus numbers around here. Because in some countries you get public transport outside the big cities …
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 5 days ago:
Private schools in the UK serve awful food. Stews, custard with a skin, spotted dick, that kind of stuff.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 days ago:
Will you stfu already?
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 6 days ago:
All saying identical things with identical avatars. Google could easily weed them out using AI but instead they use it to ban random channels without explaining why.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 6 days ago:
I don’t mind the Kallax or Ivar shelves with stuff. It’s a cheap way to show what your videos are about.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 6 days ago:
I find it obnoxious and distracting.
- Comment on Conservative 1 week ago:
Liberal world? Hahahahaha!
- Comment on There is a limit how much power the pedal assist of an e-Bike is allowed to provide (at least in many countries). There is no limit though on how strong the exoskeletton is that you use on a regular b 1 week ago:
You can go faster, the engine just cuts out. You can zoom down a hill at 35 kph no problem.
- Comment on There is a limit how much power the pedal assist of an e-Bike is allowed to provide (at least in many countries). There is no limit though on how strong the exoskeletton is that you use on a regular b 1 week ago:
Only… the speed limit of an e-bike is lower than the speed a normal bike can go when, for example, the wind is at your back, so that’s bollocks.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
They didn’t invent plastic recycling. They are, however, using it as an excuse to make more plastic. The EU had regulations against over packaging (like putting cucumbers in plastic) for a while until plastic recycling became a thing and they went ‘meh’.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
Other kids have to use them.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 2 weeks ago:
The entire antivaxx movement has 7 people at its core, all of whom have something to sell.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 2 weeks ago:
EBay.
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who votes PVV, VVD, BBB or FVD is against democracy.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
Pro birth. After that the kid can die for all they care.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2 weeks ago:
Brb, painting cow.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 2 weeks ago:
The vacancy required German, but the department is from all over the place and we speak English a lot of the time. Nobody cares because they’re not bigoted asshats.
- Comment on Community for people learning Dutch and German 2 weeks ago:
Why both? They’re not similar enough. Sauce: Dutch person learning German.
- Comment on POV 2 weeks ago:
*pickanic
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 2 weeks ago:
RFK has a business selling snake oil. All those at the root of the antivaxx movement (and iirc that’s only 7 people) have something to sell.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
Piercing headaches sounds more like Covid.
- Comment on Covid Conscious - A support community for those still trying to prevent the spread 3 weeks ago:
Tuberculosis would be a good one. It’s another very deadly and common disease people think is no longer around.
- Comment on Marriage is FOMO 3 weeks ago:
That’s not why divorce happens, you numpty.
- Comment on The New Guy 3 weeks ago:
Dudley Moore.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 weeks ago:
I doubt it. I’m in a group with 3 MAGAts, a British incel and 26 liberals and despite having access to sources through this group for the past 15 years, they still vote Trump (and love Kirk).
- Comment on It could just have been a cop's "sniper" with bad trigger discipline and now they try to cover it up with gay bullets or whatever 3 weeks ago:
They’re definitely looking for a more convenient culprit. They know who did it and they don’t like it.
- Comment on Forum sites with a wide selection of topics and/or a setup like the Craigslist forums? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been on the Internet since 1992, even ran a BBS, and it never looked like that.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 4 weeks ago:
My own parents didn’t take my son to the emergency room when he had an asthma attack and was literally turning blue because they’d been taught asthma isn’t ‘that bad’ and people who have it are hypochondriacs.