tetris11
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- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 17 hours ago:
I’d argue that it wouldn’t happen under the monarchy, because the monarchy has always had a tenuous hold over public opinion and their livelihood could tip either way depending on how the public was feeling.
But under a system where the powers that be are beholden only to shareholders in major companies? No, those countries have more in common with Sparta than a democracy
- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 22 hours ago:
I dont like the monarchy, in the same way that I dont like the BBC.
But to remove them and replace them with something far far worse? No thank you.
I’m weirdly glad that some of my taxes goes towards experimental green towns, or part of my license fee goes towards high quality educational kids shows.
- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 1 day ago:
if at first you don’t succeed…!
- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 1 day ago:
Heh. And yeah the conservatives at the time sounded almost as bad as the ones we have today – wielding the power of counties with almost no constituents (e.g. the empty ancient city of Sarum had 2 MPs, the undersea city of Dunwich had huge voting power, and the Isle of Wight transparently bribed the few sparse voters it had because of how large it was)
- Comment on In the spirit of the King's Birthday 1 day ago:
The reason being, that when the king dies, it’s been tradition to dissolve parliament and call for a new election. The conservatives at the time did not like this because they lost 100 seats (after, um, killing 500 people at a peaceful protest in Manchester)
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- Comment on A place for conservatives 1 day ago:
That is not a question and you know it isn’t
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 day ago:
I’ve already bent the knee and received my royal liquid prize, I am not so greedy to demand more
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 day ago:
Sometimes I look at rich and influential people, and literally splooge myself over their inherent greatness.
Look at the sword. Look at that ring. Look at those ears. Not only a face a mother could love, but a whole adoring nation, ready to get down on our knees, unzip those royal garters and just go to town on that royal member.
The weight of responsibility, balanced with a diplomat’s wit, grounded by the sheer heft of the royal johnson keeping him firmly tethered to the plight of the working class.
That scrumptuous smile, so coy and yet so understanding, why if he were a duck I would eat him raw
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 days ago:
Kid Rock is neither a kid, nor a rock.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 1 week ago:
I’m not a facement bucker, I’m a facement buckers son, and I’m only bucking facements till the facement bucker comes
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
Mark Sewards, MP for Leeds South West and Morley, argued that consumers were asking for a “fairly simple” guarantee from game makers: that they won’t suddenly be left with nothing after purchasing a game.
“I am not demanding that publishers keep servers running forever,” he said. “Campaigners are not asking for indefinite technical support. We are not asking companies to keep pouring resources into a game that they have finished with. What we are asking is fairly simple: that publishers should not be able to deliberately disable every copy of a game that consumers have already purchased, leaving them with nothing.”
Sewards argued that the end of support seen in many modern video games wasn’t the same as an electronics company ending support for an old printer, because it “still prints documents”.
“What we are seeing with games is different,” he said. “It is as if someone bought that printer, and then one day the manufacturer sent out a signal that deliberately stopped it from working at all, claiming it had reached the end of support. That is not support ending; it is obsolescence, which has an entirely different meaning.”
Much respect for this MP and to Leeds for electing him. I genuinely feel that he understands the problem, and has conveyed it in a very palatable manner for debate.
- Comment on Overwhelming majority of Brits say the country feels divided 1 week ago:
my barber: this isn’t my country anymore
me: well what is this country to you
barber: …
me (mentally): oh, he’s repeating a soundbit that resonated with him on sky news
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
I frickin love cucumber water
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
I liked her, she was warm. I could read a book under the covers just by screwing in a lightbulb down there
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I’m from the UK/Germanu. The dollar is a worldwide currency with far reaching impact
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Any. If it happened under Obama, it will most certainly happen under Trump
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I mean, the housing bubble burst and the government pulled 7 trillion out of its arse and handed it back to bankers, doubling the cost of current living from the knock-on inflation. Life went on, and not a single banker (except maybe some lackey in Iceland) was punished. The Rich got exceedingly wealthy after the crisis.
This time: the government will pull 700 trillion from its arse and hand it back to investors. Life will go on, no one will be punished, the cost of living will be a few times higher than what it is now, and the rich well get richer.
My interpretation: the big investors fully expect the bubble to burst and hope to win from the fallout/bailout
- Comment on Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts 1 week ago:
Oh, shame – I quite like them
- Comment on Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts 1 week ago:
“I’m part of a club that brings awareness to climate change. We go around the country touring museums.”
- Comment on Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts 1 week ago:
Is their participation in this a surprise or is it expected from what you know/knew of them?
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
At the Hall of Justice, we join our heroes enjoying a celebratory game of Tuxkart on their PopOS devices after their latest defeat of Lex Luthor’s DOS army.
“That was a great buffer underflow, Batman” said Superman, piping his Krypto into a GPG wallet.
“Thank you, Superman. Evil shall think twice before compiling on a non GCC system without warnings enabled!”
- Comment on What 1 week ago:
My ex lived in Lörrach and I simply could not understand her familys dialect for years. We then went to visit her cousins in Frankfurt, and whaddayaknow, perfectly understand everything around me
- Comment on What 1 week ago:
my barber (closet reform, but never says it because he knows he’d lose customers):
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“these left-wing protesters, very hateful people aren’t they?”
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“doesn’t the earths temperature fluctuate anyway?”
(I’ve mentioned to him what the protests are about, and that we have ice record data showing unprecedented CO2+methane along with said fluctuations. He’s either partially or willfully deaf.)
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- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Lörrach :p
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
The question was where, not what.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Compute science
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Man what a boring place Karlsruhe is when you compare it to its slightly more southern or slightly more frenchy neighbours, but what an absolute powerhouse of tech talent it breeds for the people who study there
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
*Reads comments in thread*
I started with a pair of matchsticks and a trenchcoat that I got at Galipoli in WW1, using the Phosphorus I found in the Bosphorus to craft makeshift TI calculator based on specs I got via Fax from a Samurai. I ran slackware on my slacks until we defeated the Ottomans, but they unleashed their puppy linuxes on us, and we stood no chance.
- Comment on Head of UK’s largest union says she doesn’t know if Starmer will remain Labour leader 1 week ago:
thats true, he’s not the labour we want but he’s the exact labour he said he’d be
