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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember every time we find Putin backed propaganda outside of Russia in the wild, it’s nearly always boosting predominantly conservative viewpoints versus anything else.

  Outside of their borders they’re more interested in people fighting with each other than anything like coming together. Right wing politics is how they do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 1%⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think there’s a 5V pin for VGA.

  I think if we had the scenario where we had a higher voltage than needed, we could have a toasty voltage regulator making something happen, but going the other way would need boost circuit unlikely to exist in these parts, in my understanding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’s like those scam emails that deliberately have mistakes so that morons end up self selecting as anyone with their head screwed on sees the obvious scam

  … OTOH that’s a level of intellect that would be surprising from a Tory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole fruits are pretty healthy in reasonable moderation

  if you gorge on 3 boxes of grapes you’re still gonna have smashed through over a thousand calories

  The big caveat is fruit juices which remove all the fiber that makes you feel full, particularly anything concentrated.

  At that point you’re getting closer to a soft drink than fruit (though you’ll still at least get the vitamins)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk's Turning Point promotes Christian 'blackshirts' in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Worm even when dead

  Get in the sea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 Outdoor broadband hub UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 3 as my phone carrier with a high end modern phone (pixel 9 pro), so my experience shouldn’t be limited by hardware.

  I’d say in a city (Manchester, Liverpool & London mostly) I get 5g about 30% of the time, that’ll get speeds around 50-80mbps. The rest of the time I get their oversubscribed 4g which struggles to do 1mbps

  The more rural you get the chances of 5G shrink to like 5% of the time, though the 4g speeds improve a bit closer to the 10mbps mark.

  Of course YMMV, but it might be worth getting a 3 PAYG ESIM or something on your phone just to see what the signal is like by you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very good question that I’m now curious about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know that advertisers want the ads to be as intrusive as they can make them? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A successful no confidence vote in the UK triggers an election at the earliest opportunity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny that it used to work that they’d put a mostly fabricated story out in the press so they could point and say “people have been saying”, etc

  Now they summon ephemeral flash mobs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do not struggle in the face of your certain demise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet you if it exists, the Scottish soft drink company Barr probably makes it

  It’s been absolutely years since I had either, but I reckon Tizer is probably not too far off that red bull taste. I might be completely misremembering though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t ban Molotovs if it comes to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [We] would like to get rid of the clawback scheme … which charges us for our own success,

  Your own exploitation, you mean?

  Something like 95% of all meaningful pharmaceutical breakthroughs come from public academia

  More than anyone else, I really struggle to see any humanity in spin-doctors from the pharmaceutical industry. I’d say it’s pretty clearly inhumane to gouge the sick for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dream chat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, I’m not saying someone with a choice between the two should go for the nuggets.

  Hell, I certainly wish I had the disposable income to be happily having someone cook me a kilo of fillet mignon every day. Though, my insides probably wouldn’t be too pleased after a few days…

  But yes, if someone wants 50g of protein, is out somewhere away from home and only wants to spend a fiver, there’s not a load of options, and this was always a good one when I was more strapped for cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dream chat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well only a quarter of that fillet minion would be actual protein for one.

  The box of 20 nuggets is apparently 320g, so let’s round up to 333g for easy maths. $15 for a kilo of nuggets. And conveniently ~15% protein.

  So a steak has 2/3 more protein, we can buy less for the same overall protein

  At least where I’m from, I don’t think I’m getting 2/3 of a kilo of cooked fillet minion for anything close to $15 (cheapest I can find with a quick Google is a raw one from Aldi at £7 for 170g = $9.50, so $38 for roughly 2/3 of a kg)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dream chat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  50g of protein for a fiver was always great value (though I’m sure they’ve put the price up on it now)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this meme implying that olives, Campari and cigarettes is not the peak of human diet that we all know it to be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steady⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a person capable of anxiety if they’re missing a fifth of the oxygen they’re supposed to have?

  IIRC 95% is like “you should probably talk to the doctor” territory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Share price probably

  Companies close to trump are likely to get preferential treatment

  Investors typically try to invest in companies they expect to grow in value. Many of them (particularly institutional investors) do not care what the company they’re investing in does, they just care that the line goes up after they buy and before they sell.

  Investors buying shares all at once push the asset price up

  My theory, these kinds of companies put their logo next to trump in the hope it triggers a spike in investment and therefore a boost to their share value.

  That in addition to the old classic, if they get something like an ad spot for their bribe, it becomes just a business transaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented

  This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science, i guess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That milk is still pasteurised, it’s not raw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Chrono Trigger Taught Me The Word ‘Epoch’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came in with that first paragraph on my clipboard to highlight how silly this is

  For one, it’s pronounced identically to the word epic in most cases. I’m going to guess that nine times out of ten, if you used epoch in a sentence, most people would assume you’re saying epic anyway, regardless if that makes sense in context.

  No. It’s not. It’s pronounced ee-pokh or ep-okh. Anyone pronouncing it like “epic” has got the vowel sound entirely wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly baffling how tone deaf his government is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cargo space? No… car go road…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to do every 6 weeks

  If I’m going to a wedding or something at the 4+ week mark I’ll get it done early

  If I don’t get it done until 8+ weeks it starts to get into an unmanageably scruffy zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Keir Starmer says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too fucking late

  If I see anyone with a flag and it’s not currently the world cup or euros, I will always assume they’re a flag shagger and they have nothing of value to contribute to existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, right...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah if someone says “fall” in the UK it’s an instant outer that the person speaking is either American or has spent a very long time there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’m just looking at all this as an interesting social experiment on sunk cost fallacy

  I wonder how long they can go without delivering on anything