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The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party and the only reason they added support for an in-out referendum was due to pressure from the side of the party who wanted "out".

The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.

The whole point of the Lib Dems supporting an in-out referendum was that in the event they were actually elected to power and therefore able to enact their platform, the UK would be in a state where they would obviously support "in" because the only people who would ever vote for the Lib Dems were people who were EU maximalists.

I vouched this dead submission and voted yes as a support of the status quo, because you can trivially put "Elon" into search bar and find that they aren't a shortage of Elon political submissions.

Look, my highest rated comment on this site is asking Dang to unflag a certain thread on Jan 6, 2021. You need to understand there are plenty of people on this site who will flag anything political regardless of the content, because frankly that's not what this site is for. I understand that perspective, I don't get my news from here I actually go to news sites and read there. Hacker news is an entirely different compartment of my life and I assume I'm not the only one.

On the other hand, people flagging Elon isn't some new phenmoenon. People have spammed every single time he's been in the news for years. Like Taylor Swift, the guy is a bonafide superstar. Millions of people who both love him and hate him for years have hung on his every word and action.

Speaking for myself, I decided Elon was a piece of garbage when he called the submarine guy a Pedo, but I was still happy to get some Tesla stock when I thought it was a good deal. My real life friends of 10+ years, apropos of nothing, were taunting me in a more mean spirited than joking way in December 2022 that the value of the stock had fallen, boy aren't you sad you lost those thousands of dollars. Then at least a couple times a month since they want my opinion on the Elon outrage of the week, most of which aren't real outrages but shitty celebrity gossip they found out about because they spent all their curiousity about the world on r/all, where thousands of Elon haters were doing the same thing. This has been the temperature from a certain segment of the population for years.

I'm legitimately concerned about some of the stuff going on, but I do honestly think there quite a large component of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", even if there is also a component of "Don't Look Up". The fact of the matter is if you honestly believe there is an in-progress fascist takeover of the US Government, there are 50,000 better things you could be doing about it than debating the Hacker News current events flagging policy.

My dad and I both bought a 4a (5G) at the same time, ours both died within a week of each other. With mine at least I know the issue was that it just stopped charging entirely, no cable plugged in would fix it.

Unfortunately, the 5G variation doesn't appear to be part of this program.

I guess it's been over a year since the reddit blackouts, we were due for more ludicrous drama and laughably inflated moderator egos. I wouldn't be surprised to see similar posts in other subreddits, at least until Reddit swoops in at someone's behest and threatens to take their toys away.

Duolingo only has themselves to blame though, I'm struggling to name another non-social media app who has cultivated a fanbase with such a weird parasocial relationship with it.

Previously she was elected by a coalition of the center-left, center, and center-right. Due to major losses by the center, she made concessions to get the greens on board as well, which is why the vote count is up.

It's part of a broader trend in Europe where in most countries, since the share of the far-right grows and the share of everyone else shrinks, the absolute refusal to work with the far right is leading the remaining parties to attempt increasingly complex and discordant coalitions.

My take is doing this means that people who vote far-right never get any evidence that they should change their vote and people who are dissatisifed with what they vote for are left with increasingly few alternatives since the majority coalition sucks up more and more parties.

I think it will be interesting in a few years to compare the likes of France and Germany who are all in on the blockade, vs the Netherlands or Sweden where the far right is part of a governing coalition they don't have full control over.

Any amoral schemes you care to share with the class?

I definitely feel a bit drained about my job lately, but then last night I was looking through my linkedin connections and basically everyone who left in the last 6+ months doesn't have a new job title, at least not one they care to share on linkedin.

No harm in keeping the resume up to date, but I'm not getting my hopes up at all.

We have this nonsense in Washington too, I made an effort last time I went to pick up takeout to bring one of my reusable bags with me to avoid the 8 cent bag fee, they had already bagged my order in a new one, the restaurant was like "Oh you have your own? We'll just take that one off your hands." Well, it wasn't one of the restaurants it was just a random grocery store one I had laying around, what are they going to do with it?

I wonder how many people even know those heavy bags ARE supposed to be reusable. I only know because I was bored and read my shopping bag.

We also have some kind of ban on fastfood giving you plastics without you asking for them first that as far as I can tell literally no one, except for a singular KFC near my house, actually abides by. It's all just ridiculous theater.

Funny to see this now. A couple days ago I was on vacation in San Diego and visited the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park and a lot of the traffic flowing through my head about it are all points addressed in the above article:

"Almost everyone working here is quite old"

"The amount of space this takes up is incredible, I wonder how people get into this hobby, I've never lived anywhere where I'd have enough space to set up a model railway long term"

It's kind of a shame too, it was the first time I think I've ever really appreciated the large scale model train installations. When I was younger I'd see them at random historical museums and mostly just think "yeah choo-choo sure does go in a circle haha". I think the San Diego museum did a good job of conveying that it isn't really just about the trains as much as it's about modeling the landscapes and towns the trains actually go through. Viewing it from the perspective of a massive scale diorama of some region really raised my overall appreciation for the whole endeavour.

I'm in this situation with my car right now, I have the money to pay it off but why bother when I can make the monthly payment with savings account interest.

This is where I'm at. I want very little more than to than to buy some permanent property that I can remodel to my taste at my leisure, but mortgage rates just keep going up. Why spend 3.6k+ a month on mortgage when I can spend 2.1k a month to stall. I really can't imagine going in on a house right now without at least a 20% down payment to skip out on PMI (and lowering the amount of the mortgage overall)

I think the argument in the macro sense about who is more at fault between the pervert store owner taping my conversations at their store and the pervert store owner who paid money for the tape because they just had to know what I was saying is a very subjective one. I personally do blame them both equally. The actual micro case of why I'd stop shopping at Store B and not Store A is mostly just related to my personal situation.

I know corpos and governments are passively spying on me either directly or by having others do it, and honestly as long as they maintain an absolute minimum level of social decorum to not let me know about it, I don't REALLY care enough to do anything about it. Google/Youtube just couldn't be bothered to do even that much.

I'm generally pretty pro "pay for the service you're using", but, I just can't bring myself to pay for youtube. It's so...creepy. I'll be in a small Twitch chat talking about donuts or something, I go over to youtube and my recommendation has at least 1 video about donuts in it. This happened like 3 times in the span of 2 days, so I convinced the chat to artificially talk about camping, a topic I have no time for, for about 15 minutes. Lo and behold: camping videos.

Part of me can somehow still tolerate this if it's at least free, but I have no desire in a world where I'm paying for this. If it means I have to rewire my brain to go for a walk or do pushups or open a book or slam my head into a wall every time I think about going to youtube...so be it frankly.

Ha, one of the Seattle ones shut down is the former Dollar Tree on the Ave in the U District. They started a big remodel of the building right around when I left in 2017, thing barely lasted 4 years apparently.

Not for nothing, Postwoman has existed for years, but a couple years ago they renamed to Hoppscotch. Might want to choose a different name because I definitely thought you were them changing their name back, and I'm sure others will as well.

I bought a 6800XT because I was due for an upgrade anyways (I've come a long way since playing Skyrim 20 FPS low on intel integrated graphics laptop) and it came with the game. I'm playing it on 1080p high everything. Realizing that isn't exactly dripping in ambition for that tier of card, I haven't run into any serious problems.

The first big city you end up is definitely chewing frames but the rest of the game works fine...mostly. I will say I walked into a coniferous forest for the first time, and while it was maintaing 60 FPS, the card was sounding and heating up like it was going to explode more than it had at any other point in 30ish hours of play. The forest had this thick layer of fog over it too so you couldn't see too far ahead of you (and therefore the game didn't have to render too much), so I think some areas are more problematic than others.

As a frequent pedestrian, I can't square this thought at all. If the right has a red that means the crosswalk directly in front of the car has a green. I've never had issues walking perpendicular to traffic because almost no one thinks they have right of way sitting in front of a red. The issues I've had is when I'm walking parallel to traffic and people turning right on green have the thought "Oh, he's far enough away from my lane, I can squeeze in", causing a cascade of people having the same thought. Or even people who just don't notice me b/c they're looking straight at the light more than they're looking right at who is waiting on the sidewalk.

Personal opinion, I have negative interest in a platform whose name implies that I'm going there to get into a stupid internet fight with someone.

Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to have internet fights on occasion, but in my daily online I don't log on and say "Yes I'd like to have an argument please", which the word "squabble" implies to me.

Ludicrous circus.

If the Canadian government thinks social media should pay for journalism, they could just raise tax revenue from social media and spend the proceeds on journalism.

Instead they create this mechanism which basically lets the social media company walk away very narrowly if they don't like the economics, and then they start crying and pissing their pants when the social media company...walks away. And then the media in this story brags about how they "undermine" Facebook by...continuing to participate and drive engagement on Facebook.

Ay ay ay.

(1990)?

Seems weird that AP doesn't include the article date even if it's one that predates AP on the web.

Yeah I can't believe this paragraph:

>"For example, if you were told about two conversations – one about guns, taxes and crime and the other about gay marriage, animal rights and abortion – you could guess with confidence which took place among progressives and which took place among conservatives – even without knowing anything about the content of either conversation."

Was written by a real human being. Like... I know plenty of church going Catholics who are happy to talk about gay marriage, animal rights, and abortion, and they aren't conversations that anyone is going to call "progressive".

I don't really identify with this article, mostly b/c it's talking about material goods, whereas the most I do with my friends lifestyle wise is play video games and go out to eat. But speaking as one of the wealthier friends, I think an easy lesson is if you value keeping your friends, don't be a cheapskate.

One of my friends just told me his wife is pregnant with kid #3, I'm not going to run a collections on his $25 worth of sushi, I'm honestly just happy to see his face once in a blue moon.

Everyone left on reddit after 2016 are by definition people who viewed Spez stealth editing comments of users he didn't like as "not a good enough reason to leave" (with some new users who had no idea that happened).

Hopefully some people walk away understanding "just because they're abusing people you don't like doesn't mean they won't one day abuse you", but not going to hold my breath on that one.

Yeah I clicked this thinking it was a poorly made intentionally meta humour site...and I still have no idea whether it is or not because I can't interact with the rest of it because WebGL, at least on my computer, is the most annoying experience of all.

Yeah, the article is comparing the blackout, which started on a Monday, to the traffic a previous day, a Sunday.

I don't have any deep insight into social media traffic, but 6.6% Day to Day with no other context of what a normal usage pattern might be is worth very little.

The average time on site being the lowest its been in 3 years is more damning, although easily explained by the pattern of "I go to my favorite sub, oh it's set to private, ok going somewhere else", not to mention broken google results.

Interesting, I do my shopping out of the Bothell QFC so that's my frame of reference. It must be a more Seattle proper thing. I guess Bothell is also nominally a college town so maybe it's just students looking for cheap, bad beer. I admit I can't remember the configuration of the beer section of the U Village QFC back in the day, although I know they had a seperate entrance for harder alcohol.

I gotta think this says more about the types of grocery stores you go to more than anything. I live just outside of Seattle and any random Safeway or QFC (Kroger) is going to have all the generic big corpo American light beers in it. Something more upscale like Whole Foods, less likely.

I rotated the credentials on things I care about like the masterpass, banking, stocks, etc, but I couldn't be bothered on like, Jersey Mikes. If they steal my upcoming free mini turkey club, then congratulations tbh.

> Also from a purely fitness perspective, if you're male and want an opposite sex partner, be liberal. Vice versa.

Uhhhh.......anecdotally my mostly male friend group is rapidly approaching our 30s and exactly 1 of us is married, and it isn't one of the liberal ones.

The more liberal ones are having more sex, probably even more than the guy with 2 kids, but I also know for several of them the long term goal is to actually raise a family, and it isn't clear their politics has done them any favors on that end.

At the end of the day though, I don't see any of them becoming good church going boys just to find a good church going girl to have kids with. That's a thing my dad did in the 70s that lead to me, but I'm not convinced it made anyone involved in the process particularly happy. I'm also an aesexual though so maybe I just don't have the genetic desperation everyone else has to draw context from.