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 EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 13 hours ago:
Good, the less cheap tat the better.
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to cable* TV!
*With or without wires.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 4 weeks ago:
Well played. I’d forgotten all about that :-)
- Comment on Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI 4 weeks ago:
Two posts up from this, is a post about a complete OS on a 1.44MB floppy.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 weeks ago:
You could just ask the mice.
- Comment on 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe 5 weeks ago:
He’s correct though, they’re not trying. They’re doing.
- Comment on Funky guys I found in my last hunt. 1 month ago:
Why NSFW?
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password 2 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 2 months ago:
Excellent work.
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 2 months ago:
He should know, as the purveyor of wankpanzers and all.
- Comment on please help me with some arguments for my wife 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
So, Trump is threatening to jail himself. Makes sense.
- Comment on U.S. unveils sweeping sanctions targeting Russia's wartime economy 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 months ago:
There was a post on here recently that listed BBC presenters pay, and it mentioned him getting a pay rise.
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 4 months ago:
He just got a bloody pay rise as well!
- Comment on Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor — bewildering scientists 4 months ago:
Aliens.
- Comment on The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine 4 months ago:
Christ on a cracker. We are better than this. I suspect there are a lot of people getting ready to grease their palms here.
- Comment on Samsung expects profits to jump by more than 1,400% 4 months ago:
We can look forward to cheaper phones then.
We can, can’t we?
- Comment on US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as a show of force against nuclear-armed North Korea 5 months ago:
I can remember when North Korea being a nuclear power was ‘fantasy’ and ‘it’ll never happen’. Despite all our sanctions, they’ve still managed to develop nukes. Thanks to Russia, China and Iran. And we day back and watched because we wanted that cheap oil and gas and the plastic tat from China.
- Comment on Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads 5 months ago:
Free Ad Supported Television? So in other words commercial television.
Or just call it what it really is, an Ad Supported Service. ASS.
- Comment on Afghanistan: Three Spanish tourists killed in shootout 6 months ago:
Sad though this is, I can’t help wondering why on earth people are visiting as tourists. Is it because it’s edgy? They want to boast to their friends? Now they are dead, someone has to sort out all the issues their murders have caused, and their families and friends are mourning their loss. All for a stamp in a passport.