david
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- Comment on Babe, wake up. Polls are open 5 months ago:
Sweet of you to call me babe. How much did I drink last night?
- Comment on Babe, wake up. Polls are open 5 months ago:
Title: George Carlin Doesn’t Vote. Reaction: Idiot.
Subtitle: George carlin speaks the truth, Voting Is another way to keep you in a closed distracted bubble. Reaction: George Carlin is working to bring about the end of democracy in the USA. Clearly he doesn’t believe in it. I do.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 5 months ago:
Well, the shit of foxes, but yeah, bit unfair that.
With fox shit, you can put it in the bin and never see it again, but Farage is more of a stinky, greasy, smearing, permanently unflushable turd that’s been hanging about in the loo for decades. Every so often you think he’s gone away, but it turns out he was just lurking the other side of the u bend and pops back again.
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 1 year ago:
Well, perhaps it might be possible to catch some tummy bug from someone else, I don’t know, but you inhale the fecal particles when you flush anyway I suppose.
The lid stays down all the time (well, in between use) at our house, with the idea that you minimise the amount of fecal particles floating around your room. I know it doesn’t eliminate it, but I want to flush as much as possible of the poo and not inhale it, so I insist on the lid being closed.
I’m not claiming danger, I just don’t like the thought.
- Comment on 1,000,000 children living in most extreme poverty as figure almost trebles since 2017, report finds 1 year ago:
Which part of “figure trebles since 2017” were you thinking was the fault of someone other than the tory government, and by what means did they cause it, and what, ffs, has it got to do with pronouns?
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t put toilet paper up my nose - I don’t trust other toilet users to not touch the toilet roll and I don’t trust the room to not have fecal particles from lidless flushing on things. I don’t want tu put someone else’s poo up my nose.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You’re right.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Oh, I thought it was the CEO’s online reputation and the fact the people are hearing more and more that their after sales service is shit, eg being charged £17000 for a new motor which is apparently the driver’s fault for driving it in the rain. In Scotland.
cambridge-news.co.uk/…/couple-charged-17000-tesla…
Apparently the problem has been known for some time:
- Comment on Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest 1 year ago:
They locked up the suffragettes for protesting too, back before women had the vote.
- Comment on Why Is Britain Retreating from Global Leadership on Climate Action? 1 year ago:
We were only a leader in cutting emissions because we were so badly reliant on coal fired power stations and have moved away from that. We still do a lot worse than France for example, who we beat in percentage reduction terms, but we still emit much worse than they do!
- Comment on The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work 1 year ago:
Idiots.
- Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success 1 year ago:
It’s better for the planet too.
- Comment on England and Wales judges told not to jail criminals -including rapists- as prisons full 1 year ago:
If I was a betting man, I would put money on them soon enough blaming leftie lawyers for the forthcoming downturn in custodial sentences.
- Comment on police moment 1 year ago:
Top troll trolling.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
Fair enough, yeah, you don’t want to be reading anything more complicated than a sentence or two, otherwise the might be a risk of developing understanding or perspective. Best avoided.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
Sorry to have overestimated your attention span.
- Comment on Labour calls for inquiry into English schools £370m budget bungle 1 year ago:
Never underestimate the Conservative Party’s ability to make a cynical and nasty policy decision and then implement it badly, leading to doubly unnecessary hardship for others. I’m that area, its abilities know no bounds.
- Comment on Now that the Middle East conflict is back. Was wondering why they call them settlements instead of towns? 1 year ago:
Well, whilst I abhor the violent terrorism that Hamas have committed and abhor the overwhelming overreaction and horrific vengence that the state of Israel have, as usual, immediately begun, it’s just not accurate to call what preceded recent events “peace”.
The people I know who have visited Israel and Palestine recently variously called it “viscious apartheid”, “appalling”, “military occupation” and phrases like that. No one called it peace.
I think you erroneously assumed that because it wasn’t in the news, violence was not occurring, whereas I think it’s more accurate to say that it wasn’t in the news because the violence was so everyday and constant that there was nothing new to say about it.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
OK, let me put it another way. I don’t think there’s a safe amount of incel writing to read and I think that the phrase “involuntary celibate” is loaded with resentment from the start.
I think it’s OK for any of us to be unhappy that we’re not in a sexual relationship, but I strongly believe that categorising onesself as having celibacy imposed is, at the outset, inventing a fictional collective will and conspiracy on the part of a large and nebulous group of people, who are individually and collectively not even slightly responsible for any individual’s or group’s happiness or sex life. As a self-label, it inexorably leads to blaming others.
It’s true that some teenaged girls can be powerfully cruel, dismissive, hurtful and nasty to boys who take an interest in them, and at those times, those girls are guilty of psychologically damaging the teenaged boys they have emotionally attacked, but they are still not in any way whatsoever responsible for anybody’s sex life nor in any way whatsoever for the lack thereof.
It’s also an oxymoron. The word celibate is only correctly used for someone who has chosen to abstain from sex for some reason (usually religious). It’s logically impossible to involuntarily abstain, because abstinence is a choice but definition. For example, if you are ineligible to vote or someone prevents you somehow from boring, you aren’t abstaining. You are only abstaining if you can vote but choose not to.
So, in summary, involuntary celibate is a phrase that deliberately twists meaning and twists morality, placing responsibility and blame on a group of people who are neither responsible or to blame.
You’re deluding yourself if you think that you’re one of the non-racist MAGA fans, just as you’re deluding yourself if you think you’re an incel who isn’t incorrectly blaming other people for your lack of sex or that you aren’t on the road to toxic misogyny with that way of thinking.
There are many things wrong with society, with gender relationships, and with dating expectations, but women and men’s absulote freedom to not have sex whenever, wherever and with whomever they feel isn’t one of them.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
What’s your definition of MAGA, just make America great again, or also election denial?
- Comment on pic by Joel Goodman 1 year ago:
Seems OK. Thanks for the info.
- Comment on Private Eye - In The Back - False account Tees freeport , Issue 1608 1 year ago:
Free ports are, from the beginning, designed to be areas where the law and taxation do not apply. It isn’t even slightly surprising that financial crime pervades them.
- Comment on pic by Joel Goodman 1 year ago:
What was the chap protesting?
- Comment on Race Condition 1 year ago:
Actually made me laugh, thank you.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
I don’t know who you are, or what you write, but thank you.
- Comment on fucking fool 1 year ago:
When you find out about Dunning-Kruger and realise that that’s why everyone else in the world is so stupid apart from you.
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
github.com/jah2488/elm-companies Vendr use it too (didn’t spot them in the list) www.vendr.com
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
Elm (for frontend).
Nothing is as easy to refactor, maintain, add new features to, work with after a gap, nothing else is as crashless and rock solid.
No compiler is a fast, friendly, helpful and insightful.
Its syntax is weird at first (even stranger than python) and the autoformatter is mad keen on black lines but after a short while it’s just so clear and easy to follow.
You have to let go of your object oriented mindset and stop trying to turn everything into objects and components but everything I hated about maintaining old code evaporated once I did.
It’s genuinely nice to add new features to old code, something I’ve never experienced before in a few decades of programming.
The elm slack is also a very helpful place indeed and you usually get a lot of support pretty quickly.
These last few years I’ve rediscovered the joy of coding.
- Comment on AITA for responding to my officemate's snide remarks about my lunches with an elaborate, restaurant-style display just to annoy her? 1 year ago:
Dana is not sounding like she’s a lovely person.
- Comment on You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic. 1 year ago:
I think people downvoting this didn’t spot the sarcasm.