Flax_vert
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- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 15 hours ago:
Don’t think it’ll ever be not awesome.
I’d love someone to make a modern foldable smartphone in the shape of a 3ds. With the controls and everything, and a stylus. But also cellular capabilities and a modern camera system. Most of all, a chip that can emulate the 3ds. Would be even cooler if one eventually came out that can emulate the Wii U.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 17 hours ago:
I still play animal crossing new leaf. Just got the golden net the other day (my town has been going since 2013)
- Comment on Judge rules bike camera footage is legal, as phone-driving solicitor’s attempt to sue camera cyclist for breaching data protection laws 3 days ago:
How is this any different than a dashcam?
Oh wait, cyclist.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 days ago:
Like taxes?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 days ago:
But what if you realized that the ones burning your house and attacking your neighbours were the police? Then, the obvious option would be to turn to yourself and like-minded friends to create your own institution to protect the community from assault.
This was what happened during the recent 25-year conflict
“Recent” that happened in 1969.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 days ago:
wait no he has a point
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 days ago:
Here in Northern Ireland the paramilitaries used to take it as “window cleaning money” but didn’t actually clean the windows unfortunately.
My mum who grew up during the Troubles said they did protect and they still do. Anti social behaviour is often met with “kneecappings” (shot in the back of the knee, it’s generally carried out via appointment)
A while ago someone was crucified against a fence. It was likely over a drug feud.
I knew someone who once had his dog stolen. He went to the police and they did nothing. After waiting a week he went to his local paramilitary and they had it sorted that evening.
A few months ago, a riot and house burnings were orchestrated by them in Ballymoney to push Romanians and Gypsies out of an estate community due to anti social behaviour.
- Comment on China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs 4 days ago:
It sounds kinda wholesome tbh. Although it’s a shame they have to pay to be there
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Especially if dad is paying. At worst, it’s free food.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Should have asked first.
If I was single I wouldn’t have really minded if my parents set me up. But I would have liked full transparency that they were going to.
I feel like his heart is kind of in the right place but the execution is wrong
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 5 days ago:
Lay offs aren’t related to your behaviour. Just that they cannot afford to keep you.
- Comment on ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head 1 week ago:
Hate it when that happens to me
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 week ago:
I can’t believe it’s not satire
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 week ago:
That’s odd.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 week ago:
- Comment on Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on 1 week ago:
Nice argument but it fails to account for a defence against my modded honda civic that is now 1 yard away from you travelling at 80mph in your direction with nothing intention of slowing down. Maybe if you stepped out of the road instead of typing this comment, you would have escaped unscath
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- Comment on Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on 1 week ago:
Journey times up- by how much? Five seconds?
I heard it saves a lot of money in road maintenance
- Comment on Trump Media to broadcast GB News on US streaming platform Truth+ 1 week ago:
So zero people can watch it in the USA as well?
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 week ago:
Isn’t that censorship
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 1 week ago:
Isn’t this the one that had literally zero viewers a while back
They’re useful for their live television coverage of the twelfth. And that’s it.
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
I think we should just let King Chezza take the wheel at this rate. Only one in power who has a bit of sense tbh.
- Comment on If you went to an island, and formed a new country and forcibly inject everyone there with a drug that makes them happy, you new country could surpass Finland as the "Happiest country in the world" 1 week ago:
Apparently antidepressants don’t make you happy. They just make you feel nothing instead of depressed.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 1 week ago:
In the UK, growing potatoes isn’t illegal as far as I am aware
- Comment on NSFW on Lemmy 1 week ago:
It’s also bad because of the UK online safety act. I don’t want our flamingo to be at risk :(
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- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 week ago:
Actual interesting question:
How much energy and resources would we save by simply slowing down AI response time? A lot of the time you get an instant response from an LLM, and sure, it looks impressive, but most of the time you don’t need it that urgently.
- Comment on AI is 'breaking' entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns 1 week ago:
It is near impossible to get internships these days.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 1 week ago:
I actually did the maths. My grandfather and his siblings in his family had an average age of like 50. But it’s because two of his siblings died before their first birthday and one shortly after. The next person to die was like 60.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 1 week ago:
I actually did the maths. My grandfather and his siblings in his family had an average age of like 50. But it’s because two of his siblings died before their first birthday and one shortly after. The next person to die was like 60.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 2 weeks ago: