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- Comment on I sometimes can't sleep at night. Perhaps my brain's "CMOS Chip" battery ran out and my circadian rhythm defaulted to my "factory settings" of Beijing Time (UTC +8), which would explain my insomnia. 4 days ago:
But seriously tho, it’s just depression, can’t sleep, hence this showerthought
Well… maybe. You’ve accidentally come up with something that actually exists, called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. And about half of people with DSPD have depression. 😬 (Also common in ADHDers.)
The circadian rhythms of people with DSPD are offset compared to people without it, so it is a bit like time zones in that respect. And if you try to “fight” it, by getting up early and holding down a 9-5 job, the effects are often compared to jet lag.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
This may or may not be a joke, but yes, this is very often talked about among ADHDers!
I’m AuDHD and thankfully this is one area where my ordered, autistic side wins out – i.e. I have meticulously organised bookmarks and “Raindrop” tags for everything instead. 😄 I couldn’t stand having tons of tabs open.
- Comment on The VPN panic is only getting started 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have kids, but if age restriction did come for VPNs, I honestly think I’d subscribe to one for them. Or at least bring back the idea of having a “family computer” in the main living area, where they can use a VPN with supervision.
I know everyone’s kids are different, but surely it’s better to at least attempt to teach them how to use the internet safely and in a healthy way (adblock, security, privacy, bots, scams, the perils of social media, discussions about porn and when it is and isn’t healthy/exploitative etc.) rather than keeping them on The Pretend Internet till they’re 18 and then unleashing them on the world. 😬 So they can fall for every scam and get “hacked” every few days and argue with AI bots like old ladies.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 3 weeks ago:
Not that I’ve seen, no.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 weeks ago:
It irks me that all you ever hear about is “Ugh, Microsoft trying to force people to use Edge again”
And yet, when I did use Edge, I had to install an extension to remove the huge “We recommend using Chrome” banner on every Google service. 😬
- Comment on It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language. 4 weeks ago:
Phones have cameras as well as microphones. Also, all public places have cameras. 🤔
- Comment on UK steps up review of headlight glare as drivers complain of being dazzled 1 month ago:
The Renters Rights Bill just went through and became the Renters Rights Act, too
gov.uk/…/historic-renters-rights-act-becomes-law
They have actually done some decent shit, but they’re doing an awful job of getting the word out 😬
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 1 month ago:
Chris, 36, and Joanne, 29 say they used to go to Pizza Hut for a date “every now and then”, but now they order in a Domino’s and think Pizza Hut is “very overpriced”.
Unless things have very seriously changed in the last year or two, that sounds like bullshit. Domino’s is crazy expensive. Pizza Hut is just “kinda expensive”.
- Comment on Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk 1 month ago:
Will they be abandoned, though, or will they just become slums where the people who are too poor to move to the non-floody areas have to live? 😬
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think I made about $15, but admittedly it was over the course of like 2 years
- Comment on Modern batteries are great! 2 months ago:
“This segment of the defibrillation is sponsored by Zocdoc”
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 months ago:
Yeah. In Tomb Raider 2013 she goes from crying about killing a deer, to wiping out hundreds of people with families, in the space of about an hour. 😬
- Comment on Fire Emblem Shadows, a smart device game introducing a new style of battles featuring role-playing and social deduction, available today 2 months ago:
September 2, 2025: Nintendo patents creature-summoning mechanics, to try to stem the flow of Pokémon clones
September 25, 2025: Nintendo releases Among Us clone
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 months ago:
abortion
Use pro-choice, not pro-abortion; and use anti-abortion, not pro-life. Anti-choice can be used when talking about opposition to all reproductive rights, including abortion, birth control, family planning etc.– The Guardian style guide
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- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 months ago:
Probably projecting
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 2 months ago:
It’s from African-American English, from the 1930s! And it’s always had more or less the same meaning – originally “being awake to (aware of) racial discrimination”, but now it’s obviously grown to cover discrimination and inequalities in general.
Would that imply that things that are not “woke” or are “anti-woke” are “asleep”?
Yep! 👍 But don’t forget, these people are also against Antifa, i.e. “anti anti-fascist”. They don’t care how bad the labels sound, as long as they’re making people’s lives miserable.
- Comment on Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession 2 months ago:
Credit scores are meaningless. I’m currently under an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) because I lost my jobs and couldn’t pay back my debts.
It’s literally a court order that, among other things, says I’m not allowed to take out any credit without permission, or move house without permission, until the end of the 7-year IVA. I have to give all my available income to a company and they divide it up between my creditors.
So, literally a “this man can’t be trusted to manage his debts” contract.
And yet! My credit score keeps going up and up. I’m now substantially above the UK average.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 2 months ago:
Well, precisely. If they get their way and never have to see a brown person again, it’ll be the transes next, then the gays and disableds and anyone neurodiverse, and then… women, I guess?
And they still won’t be happy, because they’re too fucking thick to see that it’s ultra-rich people they should be angry with. 😬 Omg what a magical time to be alive.
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 2 months ago:
I don’t think it should be called a “protest” when it’s, like, “protesting against certain subsets of humanity existing”.
Kinda feels like a totally different thing.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 2 months ago:
Here’s his YouTube video, if you’d rather go straight to the source: youtu.be/7AyEzA5ziE0
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 2 months ago:
At the very least, racists.
I’m getting sick of reading about “anti-immigration protesters” clashing with “anti-racism protesters”… last time I checked, the opposite of “anti-racism” was “racism”.
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 2 months ago:
In January 2006, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) changed the classification of the licence fee from a service charge to a tax. Explaining the change, the ONS said: “in line with the definition of a tax, the licence fee is a compulsory payment which is not paid solely for access to BBC services. A licence is required to receive ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, satellite, or cable”. A briefing paper from the House of Commons Library described the licence fee as a hypothecated tax (i.e. one raised for a particular defined purpose).
…wikipedia.org/…/Television_licensing_in_the_Unit…
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- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 2 months ago:
Any why wouldn’t you? Resolution and framerate are the same either way… and I think you can even play with a real Wiimote on Dolphin, instead of the shitty Joy-Con motion controls?
So it’s basically $70 for… what? New pages in Rosalina’s storybook? Lmao no thanks.
Nintendo’s greed is staggering, this generation. I couldn’t believe they announced the Pokémon Legends DLC before the game is even out. “I know you haven’t given us your money yet, but… please can we have some more? 🥺”
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 2 months ago:
The BBC is taxpayer funded, it shouldn’t have to “sell” anything.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 months ago:
Get back to work, Lazy Disabled People! >:(
*Off-peak times only, terms apply
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 3 months ago:
Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven’t been used to extort people yet. It’d be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).
SecurAge🛡️
“Log in with Google to verify your age.”“Sorry, we weren’t able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification.”
“Now give us £1000, or we’ll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts.”
- Comment on ‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis 3 months ago:
Turn it off and on again
- Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 5 months ago:
I think also the fact that AI subscriptions are generally quite expensive, when compared with other online subscriptions.
Copilot Pro: £19.00/month
ChatGPT Plus: £18.99/month
Gemini: £18.99/month
Claude Pro: £15.00/monthCompared to (just off the top of my head):
Microsoft 365 Personal: £8.49/month
Google Play Pass: £4.99/month
Adobe Photography Plan (Photoshop, Lightroom, and 20GB cloud storage): £9.98/month
Apple Arcade: £6.99/month
PlayStation Plus Premium (top tier): £13.49/month
Amazon Prime: £8.99/monthAnd it has a free offering, so there’s not even a pressing reason to upgrade for most people. 🤔
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 months ago:
I’d love it if you did that! Thanks!