waz
@waz@feddit.uk
- Comment on Prince Harry makes surprise visit to Ukraine pledging support for thousands injured in war 19 hours ago:
He left, so their wealth is not his to spend, but he wouldn’t be in a privileged position to start with without them. Not sure why the Guardian is calling him Prince still though, unless it’s just for reader recognition, rather than just some Harry bloke.
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 1 day ago:
Who lit the fuse on your tampon? Always helps I find.
- Comment on UK banks face lawsuits over mortgages that left people with huge debts 6 days ago:
Read the article; “borrowed £33,000 from Barclays in 1998, but her debt to the bank is now estimated at about £660,000 and could rise further.” That is really bad and would never be outweighed by the rise in the property value.
- Comment on Starmer: Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’ 2 weeks ago:
“Sir Keir Starmer has made a forthright defence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and said those calling for the country to leave it were “not serious” people.”
First paragraph of the article.
- Comment on New to printing, not sure how to diagnose issues 2 weeks ago:
teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration
Follow the steps and you’ll get greatly improved results. I think it looks like under extrusion, and others think about other things, But calibrating all of the items in the guide will get you to check that in the early steps.
- Comment on human geography 3 weeks ago:
So you’re not going to tell us the phrase he actually said then? I’ll assume he was offering to have the ‘last suck on this fag’ At least he wasn’t asking to get the last cigarette for free, and therefore would be looking to ‘bum a fag’ All manner of confusion would ensue I’d assume, also being a Brit and I have never heard ‘fag’ being recognised as a slur here, it only means either cigarette or to do mundane tasks for older boys in public(private boarding) schools “oh Tarquin, have you heard? Simpkins is fagging for Fontleroy don’t you know?”
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 3 weeks ago:
Clip ons for safety, but it’s quite standard
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 3 weeks ago:
All clothes cost money, and if you wear your street clothes to school they wear out quicker and get replaced more often. So the focus should be cost of uniform, not whether to uniform or not.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Zara ads banned for 'unhealthily thin' models 5 weeks ago:
When your knees are fatter than your thighs, it’s time to start eating cake again!
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 5 weeks ago:
Not in London; about a fiver. Depends on the establishment and the drink itself, ranges from £3-4 ish to £6. The usual cooking lager to Guinness range.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 5 weeks ago:
A phone for the price of a couple of pints? £16? Two pints? Very London of him to assume that’s the price of a couple of pints. Actually unreadable.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
Or if you’re too arrogant and self absorbed to think the rules don’t apply to you.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
Oh yes you can, do 30mph over the speed limit and you will more than likely be banned for that one offence.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
We kind of do have a pronunciation of ü The cornish town Bude, would be pronounced by locals as “Büd” It’s how I explained to my kids how to handle umlaut words, if it was the English word “lane“ imagine it’s spelled ‘laen’ and then get rid of the e to make ‘län’. It’s rare but some English words still use æ as a sound not a pair of letters. Spelæological for caving for instance. Often simplified to speleological.
- Comment on Ukrainian author killed by Russia awarded UK’s prestigious Orwell Prize in political writing 2 months ago:
That’ll help.
- Comment on AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England 2 months ago:
What’s fucking ridiculous, is that any industry could not have to report water usages. Let alone an environmental disaster area like AI.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 3 months ago:
That’s my point about permissiveness, if the rights weren’t there about self identifying, but everyone’s ok with it, then it feels like more rights, which may or may not be supported in law. But then when a lack of support in law is being enforced by bad feeling alone, people who want to cry about who’s using which toilet, then the end result is that it feels like a loss of rights. I think it’s a bad thing, but I also understand that in law, being able to do something without a fuss, and then later not being able to, is nothing to do with rights unless the law actually changed.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 3 months ago:
Misleading title, they’re apparently not reducing rights, they’re communicating that the rights have not changed, but assumptions were incorrectly made and it ‘feels like reduced rights’ It’s not a nice thing to learn and needs to be handled carefully and compassionately, even a policy to be permissive and encourage to normalise what the assumed increase in rights were working towards making them actual rights. But yeah, antagonistic headlines as ways.
- Comment on Trump’s UK Ambassador Has Investments in Industries Set to Benefit from Trade Deal 3 months ago:
Is anyone surprised that any of this isn’t just to make their rich mates richer?
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 5 months ago:
VORON
- Comment on xkcd #3065: Square Units 5 months ago:
I was briefly fascinated by ‘chains’ at school, in the system of rods, links and chains. The idea of chains was you go around the outside of an irregular area and the number of chains related to the area in acres. 1 acre to 10 square chains?
- Comment on xkcd #3065: Square Units 5 months ago:
So TIL. I have never heard of this, and I’m not sure if this happens in the U.K… I had always assumed, growing up with feet and inches and metres interchangeably, that area is always stated as the length of the side squared is how it is done. Has this happened as a mis-advertising tactic to make things sound bigger than they are?
- Comment on What peripheral do you think should make a comeback? 5 months ago:
I miss the Time Crisis gun for playstation
- Comment on Core One vs. Corona 2.4. 6 months ago:
Yay! Waz.squared
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 6 months ago:
So - bad OP for not giving credit/ citing reference?
- Comment on let's try this again... 6 months ago:
Sovol sv08 is a voron based printer, not like a prusa at all. And voron as a project, might be a self build from kits, but are better than what you’ve listed as best of anything, in capability and in terms of open source.
- Comment on Want a Heat Pump? Ask Your Employer | With the rise of remote working, some companies are offering benefits that will help their UK employees cut heating emissions at home. 7 months ago:
Paywall that isn’t side stepped by reader mode
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 7 months ago:
Use reader mode and side step it
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 7 months ago:
I mean, written a little anti-establishment, but you’re completely right, the ‘producer’ slip issued to bring your documents in has been standard stuff for decades and all of the digital info is available to them as soon as they stop you, so it’s literally just proving your face matches the documents to have it with you. If they just had your mug pop up on the screen in their car, who would need to produce anything?
