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Modern music albums aren't really written with that in mind in my experience. They're optimised for people skipping through playlists in a streaming service, not going on a journey through an album.

My landlord is an accidental landlord and the setup is the best I could hope for. As I understand it he met his wife later in life when they both had their own houses.

I've been here over four years and I've met him twice. I'm paying far below the market rate. Granted, the house is very tired and it's very expensive in terms of energy use, but it still works out far cheaper than the places I see on property websites now.

I absolutely agree with you that landlords as a social class are scumbags. I guess it's the same thing as when people say "all cops are bastards" etc.. Of course not /every single/ cop or landlord is a bastard, but when acting as a group their aims and priorities are in direct contention with everyone else.

I do notice that the GMBN and GCN videos that are just advertorials do have "AD" in the top corner when you look at the video thumbnail. I'm assuming this is an EU or UK thing, because there are a lot of other channels that do exactly the same thing but there's no such "AD" callout.

https://imgur.com/iorhrD7

These videos take away from the channel's integrity for me but at least they're clearly marked as ads

In England the water companies routinely dump raw sewage into waterways, to the point where it isn’t safe to swim or even go near the water in many places and there are massively deleterious effects on ecosystems. It’s a huge scandal at the moment because the formerly public and now privatised water companies are doing this dumping while continuing to pay huge dividends to shareholders and the toothless regulator is doing nothing about it.

I don't think it's as much jealousy in this instance as it is a dislike of unfairness.

My tech lead earns more money than me. This is absolutely acceptable to me because I am aware they are better at programming and they have more responsibilities than me.

If I found out a coworker at the same level as me was earning more than me I would be upset with that situation.

At some rapidly-approaching point I'll have no time to do anything else in the day other than complete word puzzles before the next day's appears

I wouldn’t swim in any bodies of water in the UK at the moment, there’s a massive scandal with the privatised sewage companies paying massive dividends to shareholders while neglecting the infrastructure and repeatedly dumping raw sewage straight into waterways.

It keeps recommending me far-right political videos for some reason. I think it's because I like watching Forgotten Weapons and InRangeTV, even though Forgotten Weapons has essentially zero politics in it and InRangeTV is run by a left-libertarian.

Even after doing the "never recommend me this channel" thing it keeps recommending me this Jordan Peterson-type shit about "leftist woke idiots getting owned".

Plus, no matter how many times I tap "Not interested" on the Shorts section every week it's back.

Everyone's a "brand" these days. I get the same kind of feeling when I see a bio written in the third person but which was clearly written by the person themselves.

Nevertheless that's how it used to be https://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tech/gaming-gadgets/apple...

What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested

They were trying to present a certain image, I would imagine they put the German terrorists in front of the German TV cameras, the French in front of the French cameras etc.

But what’s the difference grammatically if there’s a space or not? Let’s take “streetcar stop”, although there is a space there, what function is “streetcar” performing other than being a noun? It’s not an adjective, you can’t say “that stop is streetcar”, that doesn’t sound right, you’d have to say “that stop is /for/ streetcars”.

So I would argue that “streetcar stop” still parses as a complete compound noun grammatically. This is just a matter of orthography in my opinion. German may more readily “freeze” compound nouns and put them into writing as a single unit, but both English and German are full of long ad hoc compound nouns.

There were hundreds of these cases, and the affect post-masters were calling the IT helpline repeatedly saying sums of money were going missing. Personally I think that if you have hundreds of people of good reputation and standing swearing up and down that they didn't steal money, and there's a record of their having called repeatedly to report erroneous data in the software, then there should be some sort of investigation to figure out what was going on. Instead they were shouted down and threatened.

I live in Northern Ireland, I get 5G pretty much everywhere I've cared to look. I do a lot of cycling and I stream Spotify at max settings and it's never cut out even in the middle of nowhere so I assume I'm getting at least 4G everywhere.

In Belfast I get 115/20 mbps down/up with EE, I think I remember hearing there's something dodgy with whether what your phone shows as 5G is actually 5G but that's easily fast enough for anything I'm likely to be doing from my phone.

I'd say it's been like this for years. Looking at a coverage map it looks like it gets spottier out west where fewer people live though

It’s ideology. I take a marxist view on this: the method and mode of production in a capitalist politico-economic system encourages people to take their job into their identity and to think of themselves and others in terms of the labour value they can provide. For example, look at the fervour stirred up by right-wing types over people on state benefits, dehumanising rhetoric is the norm.

Like Zizek says, the conditions of society dictate what it’s even possible to believe at a subconscious level.

It’s the idea of implanting a foreign object in my body. I’m imagining seeing it in a mirror or something and it completely freaking me out.

I remember when I was young a friend broke their leg badly and needed one of those devices with the scaffold that has pins going into their legs, I couldn’t even look at it it freaked me out too much. Maybe that experience gave me a phobia

I've never seen it mentioned but the idea of having something implanted into me is completely horrifying. Am I alone in that and everyone else is looking forward to getting some kind of chip implanted in their brain? It triggers the same kind of horror that imagining having a limb amputated has associated with it.

Do people who get pacemakers or cochlear implants or organ transplants need counselling or is it just not a problem for most people?

It's not just reducing the amount of the product, a lot of products also reformulate to make things cheaper to produce while keeping the price to the consumer the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/21/shrinkflation-...

Sometimes it's nice knowing how to do something simply for its own sake. I know lots of random little facts and calculation tricks which don't really help me in any major way but I enjoy and take pride in knowing them.

It seems to be younger people where I am. What's funny is they don't hold the phone to their ear like I would, they hold the phone with the screen facing them right in front of their faces. I assume that's because their generation don't really do phone calls anymore.

I've never used voice messages like the ones being talked about in this thread so I don't know if there's a particular reason they hold the phone that way

That's with every dialect of English. English has phonemic stress, i.e. the way you stress a word can change its meaning or make it unrecognisable unless you're speaking to an English-speaker familiar with people who speak English coloured by whatever your native language is. This is a particular problem for French-speakers, since French doesn't have phonemic stress.

British and Irish people will probably understand French-accented English better than Americans because of greater exposure to French.

I think it's the revelation that a shared culture and experience whose existence you took for granted really never existed. You feel untethered.

I live in Northern Ireland and I get this feeling when I come upon a street festooned in Union Flags and painted kerbstones. It's like stepping into a different country.

I walked past a guy using a pneumatic drill the other day. It was so loud I crossed the road to get away from it and my ears were ringing for a while after I'd passed him. He wasn't wearing any form of ear protection at all.

He can't have been much older than 20.

I'm not Italian or an expert in neo-fascism, I'm just going by what I've seen other people say. Even Wikipedia calls them neo-fascist, and it has a few academic sources backing that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy

Regardless, they are pretty indisputably on the very far right of the overton window

I mean, he's also going to be speaking at a youth festival for the reigning neo-fascist party in Italy. What's that aphorism, "when someone tells you who they are you should listen"?

I think he really does just have far-right sympathies.

In the UK I haven't had a pay increase anywhere near inflation since 2019. I've had to move company twice since then in order to maintain or increase my standard of living. I'm now making 65% above what I was making in 2019, whereas if I'd taken the pay increases offered I'd be making 13% more right now than in 2019.

Considering prices in the UK are 22% higher than they were in 2019 that's pretty bad, and IT is a well-paid industry, so you can imagine what it's like for people on lower wages.

If anything there needs to be more regulation in the UK, I don't understand why every year I have to go through the song and dance of calling up my ISP at the time, saying "it's too expensive I'm going to leave", and getting them to put the price down.

It seems like a lot of these companies' revenue relies on people being too lazy or ill-informed to do this so you end up paying way more than you need to be.

It literally takes two minutes on the phone sometimes.

Poe's Law applies here.

In the past I've been given little key fobs with my debit card that give you a 2FA code when you press a button