sanguinepar
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- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 1 week ago:
She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge…
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 1 week ago:
Best thing on Reddit, always made me laugh 😁
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
‘Better’ is a subjective judgement - for me the answer is absolutely not, I’ll always prefer a real physical book.
For others the answer will be yes, and for yet others it’ll be maybe or sometimes.
There’s no objectively true answer to the question though.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 1 week ago:
Only for travellers with the Mrs Grace L Ferguson Airline (and Storm Door Company)
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 1 week ago:
If they pay to power it with sustainable energy then it doesn’t. Simple as that. Energy use is really not a problem.
It is if doing so means taking up existing capacity in sustainable energy.
If they were always adding new sustainable capacity specifically for their data centres, that would be one thing, but if all they do is pay for the use of existing capacity, that potentially just pushes the issue down the road a bit.
If/when there’s enough capacity to supply all homes and businesses then this issue would disappear, but I don’t know how close that is.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
You’re using all 3 of the shells, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
True, but they can’t literally stop a law happening until it is written to suit them. Figuratively, maybe through influence, pressure, money, etc - but not as an official, formal thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Given the way the US has been recently, I’m willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.
That’s an argument I’ve often heard, in favour of monarchy - “Would you prefer a President Blair/Johnson/Farage?”
It’s a fair point, but they never have an answer for what would happen with a King Blair/Johnson/Farage.
With a president (or any other democratic system) you can, at least in theory, have a say in who represents the country. As it is we in the UK are stuck with a mind-meltingly wealthy, influential and unaccountable family who have extremely questionable members and histories.
They influence laws to benefit their own ends, they shield abusive behaviour and individuals, and they do it all in the name of maintaining a tradition that fundamentally says that some people are simply “better” than others.
Monarchy is just repugnant to me - and not just the British Monarchy, the whole concept.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 month ago:
How about Heineken?
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 1 month ago:
And an idea I could absolutely see Musk hoping to copy, turning Twitter into a US version of WeChat.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 1 month ago:
Oooooh, oobidoo!
I wanna be like you-oo-oo!
I wanna walk like you!
Talk like you!
Scoo-doo-bidoo! - Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 1 month ago:
Not sure, but I was once (un?)fortunate enough to witness what happens when a bear was faced with an orangutan.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 month ago:
I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t really talking about care homes, I was talking about treatment, operations, maternity care, etc.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 month ago:
All fair points - but the fundamental point about people getting access to free healthcare has remained so far.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 month ago:
Just on the free healthcare thing - in the UK, the NHS is hugely iconic national institution, and politically it’s almost a no-go area in terms of its founding principles.
Which is not to say that privatisation hasn’t been creeping into the NHS for some time - it has, starting in earnest with the Thatcher governments on the 80s.
However, no matter how right wing a party is, it would be almost political suicide to make an all out effort to remove the basic tenet of the NHS - universal care, free at the point of delivery.
Unfortunately, what’s tended to happen since the 80s is (IMO) a managed decline of the NHS, with layers of management brought in and services allowed to decline in quality and availability.
The result is that the public do start to question the model, see the NHS as second rate, and start to lose some of that loyalty towards it.
However, it will take some time to ever get to the point where a government or any stripe is safe to even talk openly about moving away from the NHS model.
And hopefully that point will never come, and instead the NHS will be given renewed commitment and support both from government and the wider public.
It really is one of the very best things about the UK, and were we ever to lose it, it would be a criminal dereliction of duty by those into whose care it has been passed.
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 1 month ago:
Ah true :-)
I meant they don’t make sense on their own terms (which themselves are deeply questionable)
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 1 month ago:
That middle row is perfect - you could easily just have that, and the point he’s making would be crystal clear.
Trump’s actions don’t even make sense, let alone meet any standard of fairness or intelligence.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
The other thing about this price point is that it’s a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.
So suddenly it feels like, “oh hey, that’s a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway” - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
Similar, I think I paid £65 for Street Fighter Ii: Champion Edition on MegaDrive. That’s US$84 - and that was in 1992.
I must have been mad. Although, I probably played that game more than any other, at least until some of the huge open world games of recent decades.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 month ago:
It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 month ago:
Old doesn’t mean irrelevant though.
I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I’d consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 months ago:
As Miss Jean Brodie tells us, either way is correct :-)
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 months ago:
Think it depends where you put the stress.
I’d say “Ad VER tis ment”
But if I was stressing the tis part, a “tize” sound would feel more natural.
That’s how I would say advertising, for example, “adver TIZE ing”
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 months ago:
Is that the one about the monkey in the tree? I remember absolutely cracking up at that.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 2 months ago:
😁
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 2 months ago:
After that, just Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, the rest of the way.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 2 months ago:
Off the top of my head without too much thought…
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Know Your Enemy - RATM
Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Strange Fruit - Nina Simone
Making Flippy Floppy - Talking Heads (just for the line, “Our President’s crazy, did you hear what he said?”)
Dark and Long (Dark Train) - Underworld (no political message, but it’s long, and I love it and pretty sure he’d hate it) - Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 2 months ago:
Doesn’t make it any less annoying though! 😁
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 2 months ago:
One reason to avoid using words is that in a global economy, they may want to sell the same product in multiple countries, so you potentially run into translation issues/costs and confusion over whether a product is the same between two different places. Using just letters and numbers eliminates that.
Of course, that’s all for their own convenience, not for the convenience of the end customer.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 2 months ago:
Well, my point was really that, nowadays, a launch by anyone would likely result in other launches, leading to all out war and global catastrophe. I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.