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- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 8 hours ago:
Just change it to We Wished You…
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
As a counterpoint to that, after WW2 the UK created the National Health Service, comprehensive education and the rest of the welfare state, while nationalising many huge industries. For the UK that was pretty radical stuff, and it lasted until the 1980s when Thatcher and her mob started tearing it all apart.
Whether you’d call that modern I’m not sure, but it wasn’t traditional either.
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
I agree with this, and yet British politics feels a lot more fragmented now than it used to. The Tories are likely looking at being reduced to a rump at the next GE, and Labour will probably get a kicking too, unless they smarten up their act toot sweet. Meanwhile Reform will likely gain a lot of seats (vomit) and the Greens may start to get towards double digits. And the Lib Dems will likely just keep on Lib Demming along.
I think there’s a very real chance of a proper hung parliament next time with no obvious stqble majority coalition possible:
- Reform perhaps to win the most seats (although I am desperately hoping that their claimed support will not translate into as many seats as they think) and try to partner up with the Tories and maybe some of the Ulster Unionists
- Labour to probably lose half their seats, and be forced to look at possible LD, Green, maybe even SNP partnerships.
And possibly neither side able to put together a working coalition that would last for very long.
In which case, FPTP would have done the opposite of the two party system and led to even more divisions! Fun! 🤪
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.
Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I’m regularly doing a small job for one client here and other there, and so on, so it’s easier to just leave them open.
I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.
It’s messy, but it works on the whole. It’s a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it’s safe to close! 😁
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 1 month ago:
Great tune!
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 1 month ago:
Good shout - OP, this is probably the one.
- Comment on Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting? 1 month ago:
This is a stunningly beautiful extended metaphor.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 1 month ago:
+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: youtube.com/@dadhowdoi
Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.
OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.
You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 month ago:
Naggers?
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 month ago:
🙂
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 month ago:
Yugoslavia. Mainly because it’s not there anymore. Would love to go to Croatia again for the first time though.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 months ago:
Nothing wrong with red hair. Mine’s brown now, but was red when I was a kid, and I got bullied for it all the time. Fuck that noise, and fuck the way it’s just accepted as being socially ok to mock people for their hair colour.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 2 months ago:
For me, they are like saying “bread” and “braid” 😁
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 2 months ago:
It’s a good question. I always wonder the same thing about the US vs UK versions of Craig and Graham.
US - “kregg”, “gram”
UK - “krayg”, “gray-um”
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 3 months ago:
I see you’ve got a rye sense of humour.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 3 months ago:
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 3 months ago:
He listed the items because that’s the rules of the sub.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 3 months ago:
I don’t see anything wrong, or even odd about what he’s wearing. It’s just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I’d even register his clothes tbh.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 months ago:
No worries - the general point still stands though I think 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.
I’m not sure I agree - why is a long term aspect necessarily for something to constitute true happiness?
If I can’t remember something, does that mean it didn’t make me “truly happy”?
If so, that would mean that a child given a toy they play with for years but eventually lose interest in and forget as they grow older, didn’t experience “true happiness” from that toy, which doesn’t seem right to me.
I don’t think permanence or longevity are factors in whether ones happiness is true or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Agreed - that’s why many people love, say, the Mona Lisa, or Starry Night.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think you’re going to have to provide a generally acceptable definition of “true happiness” - and a definition that isn’t contingent on the points raised in your question.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Depends on context - if said amiably between friends, it could be fine.
In the context of your comment about it being your boss who said it, and why, I’d say it’s pretty insulting (if not necessarily an intended insult).
It’s pretty dismissive of you as a person, instead focusing on your value (to his bar) in terms of attracting male customers. It’s not very respectful of you tbh.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 months ago:
The way Africa looked on maps has never had any bearing on my or probably anyone’s thinking of how important the country is in global politics or economics.
Africa isn’t a country though, it’s a continent. And one possible impact of the continent being represented much smaller than it really is, is people thinking of Africa as a country
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 3 months ago:
I would say because a lot of mythology comes from the oral tradition of storytelling, passed from person to person and age to age via spoken word and memory.
There’s actually a SUPERB podcast about Greek mythology, called Podyssey. It’s tremendously interesting, and the host, Alex Andreou, just did a 3 part epic on Aesop, both the person (or rather the ‘person’) and the Fables.
Well worth a listen, either just that one, or the whole show tbh.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 3 months ago:
one can argue all day about whether it’s appropriate to have a monarchy in the modern day
That was my main point, I wasn’t really talking about how expensive or otherwise they are (although admittedly it came from a misunderstanding of QE).
I’m from the UK, and it absolutely sickens me that we still have a monarchy, any monarchy (let alone this particular one). I’m opposed to monarchy in principle, and would be even if the specifics of our monarchy weren’t so repulsive.
Appreciate the detailed post, but the cost argument is just window-dressing for me. It’s the core concept I reject. Hopefully we can get shot of them one day.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 3 months ago:
She didn’t help much either though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Completely agree. Dad is totally overstepping here, it’s none of his business whether OP arranges dates or not.
I’d refuse to go on the date out of general principle.