baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
At 66, I'm a serious music (mainly prog rock) loving, geeky cat butler living in Ware UK. A lover of all things LOTR, since I first read it over 50 years ago, scifi and what have you. Ex soldier, and other trades ;-)
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 6 days ago:
What sort of person makes almost his first task something so petty? And in front of a crowd of
supporterscultists. I notice he signs with a big sharpie instead of a pen like a normal president. That’ll be so it’s bigger than other signatures and everyone can see it. - Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 week ago:
That’s the bit I don’t understand either.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 1 week ago:
There was one in Hertford (near Ginger Indian restaurant) around Christmas, think it had French plates. Remember having a laugh as it was pissing down and they were having trouble turning round in our small streets. Everyone else manages though, even the dustman ;-)
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 week ago:
No security or monitoring? No warnings about digging or mining?
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 2 weeks ago:
And yet I keep hearing from nuclear fans that there’s nothing to worry about and that it’s safe. And how is this cheaper than renewable. That place has to be maintained and secured for 100,000 years.
If we put that onto our timeline, we were just getting out of Africa and using stone tools.
That’s not the sort of gift we should be leaving our descendents. Okay we have to deal with what we have, but we shouldn’t be making any more of the stuff. Because there will be an accident somewhen down the line.
- Comment on Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation 2 weeks ago:
And by his lack of action, let them in. ‘Sleepy Joe’ seems rather an apt moniker, although not for the Mango Mussolini’s reasons.
- Comment on X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent 5 weeks ago:
As someone in the comments pointed out, ‘Grifters gotta grift’.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 1 month ago:
Good, the less cheap tat the better.
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 2 months ago:
Of course it is. They’ve not (yet) been taken over by billionaire fascists.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 2 months ago:
Welcome to cable* TV!
*With or without wires.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 months ago:
Well played. I’d forgotten all about that :-)
- Comment on Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI 2 months ago:
Two posts up from this, is a post about a complete OS on a 1.44MB floppy.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
You could just ask the mice.
- Comment on 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe 2 months ago:
He’s correct though, they’re not trying. They’re doing.
- Comment on Funky guys I found in my last hunt. 3 months ago:
Why NSFW?
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 3 months ago:
Great. More 3 page life stories about someone’s partner and their fur babies and puppers (I hate that term with a passion) before you get to the recipe.
Sticking with DDG but going to retest Kagi, as DDG seems to be slipping.
- Comment on Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England 3 months ago:
Good luck with that. After all it worked so well with cigarettes.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 3 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password 4 months ago:
Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported plan will cost $6.99 monthly, with that price going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 4 months ago:
Excellent work.
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 4 months ago:
He should know, as the purveyor of wankpanzers and all.
- Comment on please help me with some arguments for my wife 4 months ago:
Wait until she’s old enough to decide for herself. I would be really jacked off to find my parents had put my life online from the minute I was born.
And Google of all the ones she could have chosen? Your wife needs to have a good talk with herself.
- Comment on Phone companies to be asked to help tackle rise in snatch thefts 4 months ago:
Some of the responsibility needs to go onto owners though - you see people walking around with £1000+ phones like they are a slice of pizza. You wouldn’t walk around with that amount of cash on in your hand.
I suspect a good proportion of those don’t even have find my phone or whatever switched on. Could it not be on by default, or would that be a nightmare?
And FFS people, stop putting your credit cards whatever in your phone case. Put a password on it whilst you’re at it.
- Comment on New Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter In New Light 4 months ago:
So, Trump is threatening to jail himself. Makes sense.
- Comment on U.S. unveils sweeping sanctions targeting Russia's wartime economy 5 months ago:
It should have happened they day they moved into Crimea.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 5 months ago:
These bastards want to scrounge every single penny they can. They deserve to go under.
- Comment on Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure 5 months ago:
At this point, the (human) dentist and patient can discuss what needs doing – but once those decisions are made, the robotic dental surgeon takes over. It plans out the operation, then jolly well goes ahead and does it.>
Whether you change your mind or not!
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 5 months ago:
There was a post on here recently that listed BBC presenters pay, and it mentioned him getting a pay rise.