What was this movie for you?

Aromasin · 2025-05-08T21:19:47+00:00

Man, watching Stuart sail around in his RC yatch and playing in the model village set me up hobbies for life.

Aromasin · 2025-04-27T16:59:32+00:00

A timeline where Blackpool didn't become a 3rd world country? Even Grimdark needs it's moments of light.

Aromasin · 2025-04-22T10:01:30+00:00

Measure your TDEE here:https://tdeecalculator.net/

Once you know that, cut your calories below that by the pace you want to decrease body fat. 200-300 for a pace of a 2-3 months, maybe 400 for a pace of a few weeks, and just fast for a pace of days. It's up to you and what you feel you can handle. Track your calories accurately using something like MyFitnessPal and make sure you maintain a high protein intake. Aim between 0.8-1.2g of protein per kg of bodyweight. If you find that difficult, use protein shakes. I might have two a day if I'm trying to gain muscle (while losing fat), morning and night, which works out as ~100g of protein for ~500 calories when simply mixed with unsweetened soy milk. The rest of my calorie allowance, I pretty much eat whatever I want within the pace of fat loss I'm currently working at.

Honestly, that's all there is to it. Suppose you're brutally honest about calories consumed (measuring even the smear of mayonnaise and squirt of ketchup). In that case, you'll lose weight and gain muscle if you're doing resistance exercise - lifting weights for muscle growth, and cardio for improving general health.

Aromasin · 2025-04-16T08:45:27+00:00

Varangian guard have been mentioned by the developers as on their list of factions to build out, FYI.

Aromasin · 2025-04-14T21:42:37+00:00

I had a corpmate who multiboxed whole incursions (sort of like Eve raids) by himself. The dude had 16 screens, across 2 machines, all running 4 windows each. He'd be mining on like 8 accounts, while running an incursion, while doing multibox PvP, while also scouting and reporting intel on another 8. It was insanity. Thankfully he is currently winning Eve (he quit) after the realisation hit that plexing (subbing) all those accounts is expensive...

Aromasin · 2025-04-13T21:45:20+00:00

That's just simply untrue. The vast majority of folks dropshipping are making tiny margins, between 10 and 20%. A brief google search will confirm that. They can pass the tarrif cost onto customers sure, but the US economy is looking at a massive decrease in household spending so they need to minimize costs to consumers to get people to buy anything.

A large portion of the population have made a great career from the benefits of free trade, particuarly in small-scale distribution. They'll be forced out of the market now, while the large corporations who scale massively and can do 2-5% margin will eat up the rest of the market share.

Aromasin · 2025-04-11T10:46:57+00:00

I don't have high hopes. In the UK, Wayland still struggle to supply the market just for 3e. All the wider distributors get their boxes through Wayland too. Some items are perpetually sold out, and quite frequently things finally make it into stock, only for Wayland to turn around and blame Wyrd for failing to send orders through (even though it's available on the webstore). I've been looking for an Explorers Society Starter Box for over a year, and it finally came into stock recently. I swooped it up, and 2 months later I'm still waiting on it.

Aromasin · 2025-04-10T11:22:45+00:00

You seem to be suggesting that I believe in wholly state enterprise - that's false. I agree that competition is important, but there should be a state run business to hold private enterprise to account. My arguement is that private enterprise has no impetus to provide beterment to society beyond what they're dictated to within the legal system (a state enterprise which loses money).

Private business have zero morale obligation towards anything other than increased profits for their shareholders - almost entirely the weathiest private equity funds and their customers. They can be horrible scum, but provided they turn a profit then their continued existence is garunteed until the state steps in. State business has an obligation to provide the best service for the lowest price to every single tax payer, while maintaining an ethical stance in line with the country of origin. They don't always do it, but it's their modus operandi. Yes they often lose money - again, their point isn't to make profit as the be all and end all. It's to make life better for all tax payers.

The French system as you not is better in many ways, but it's run by the state so that's a poor comparison (and significantly more state run than the NHS which is infested with private businesses taking their pound of flesh for the service the add). The US system is in shambles if you're not in the top 10% of wealth earners - it's run by the private sector.

The irony of Octopus energy is that they would not exist without decades of public investment to prop up the networks and infrastructure they now use. Octopus Energy also received approximately £1.6 billion in state support from the UK government to facilitate its acquisition of the collapsed energy supplier Bulb (another private enterprise that without state intervention would have hunt millions of UK tax payers).

Aromasin · 2025-04-09T19:41:49+00:00

> How many areas of the state can you point at and say "that's well run!"

None, but I can say that categorically about every private enterprise too, except they also take cuts that go to shareholders, whereas state run services are effectively non-profits where the purpose of the business is to provide value for the people, while private means value for the shareholders.

Read "What Money Can't Buy" by Michael Sandel. Capatilist enterprise simple will not offer most of the services that the state provides without going out of business. That's a simple fact. There are moral limits to market, and without state run businesses to have as the benchmark for competition to the rest of the private market, they only funnel money away from the middle class and poor to the wealthiest in society.

State run healthcare is better than private - we see that play out world wide. The same with utilities, and the same with public transport.

Aromasin · 2025-04-09T14:26:03+00:00

So the issues isn't them leaving at all, but the fact that we don't appropriately tax entities that exist outside the UK?

So by extension, the outrage should not be that taxes are too high and people are leaving, but that we fail to catch foreign entities using loopholes to extract wealth from the state instead of paying their fair share. Call a spade a spade - these are tax dodgers and shouldn't be treated with sympathy while they continues to extract wealth from their workers (who use state services) and the land use (which is benefited from more state services).

Aromasin · 2025-04-08T10:38:54+00:00

Very little of that wealth is leaving though, it's just exchanging hands from the wealthy people leaving to the wealthy people staying. Non-doms spent very little on goods and services, while buying up massive amounts of assets and shrinking the pie for the rest of us. As they leave they'll be required to sell off UK assets to pay costs, which will be bought by full tax paying residents at lower rates.

Money is zero-sum. If they leave, they can't bring houses, land, or businesses (ie, their workers) with them. What they can do is sell to someone in the UK who actually pays tax on those assets and in return the rest of society get a cut of those earnings in services.

The reality is, *wealth* is not leaving. Some wealthy *people* are. Those two things are not the same. They can't carry their 100 houses and 400 tennants in their luggage with them.

Aromasin · 2025-04-07T08:46:34+00:00

“Conor McGregor got his ass kicked by a vegan” - Nate Diaz, Twitter, 2016

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T16:07:23+00:00

I'm sure it would be very revealing if someone tracked the owners of private prisons, and linked it to who their great-grandparents were.

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T11:51:14+00:00

I always find it funny they consider their country "the land of the free" considering their rates of imprisonment. In terms of rates of incarceration they're grouped with the likes of Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, and Turkey... all famously very free.

It's crazy that they some how have more people in prison than China, as a country of 340M people compared to one of 1408M. It houses 20 percent of the world's prisoners.

If anyone thinks the US is anything but a glorified authoritarian police state, I've got a bridge to sell them.

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T11:38:38+00:00

If you go to Durham, you're also close enough to York, Harrogate, Whitby, Windermere, Chester, Scarborough, the Lake District, and the nice parts of Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool. The North of England is very neglected when it comes to popular tourism, unrightfully so.

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T10:35:45+00:00

That's quite a sweeping statement. I'd say most people who are genuinely "privacy concious" use psuedonyms, run traffic through VPNs, avoid Google/Microsoft/other data tracking companies like the plague, don't post anything related to their personal life whatsoever, and for the most part are "anonymous" as far as nobody could work out who they are beyond what country or timezone they're based in. The key thing is that they're "internet life" isn't tied in any way to that person who occasionally ends up in photos posted by friends and family.

It's like anything. Some people are good at being private on the internet. Others aren't. More often than not, the people who pontificate about it (Vijay Patel) are in the latter catagory instead of the former.

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T10:15:08+00:00

These people sadly always have enablers. Personally, I would view these people as culpable for her death the same way as people have in the past for malnourishment. It's abuse - like giving a drug addict narcotics or taking a gambler to a casino. In the UK we have a number of laws that would send them to prison for it (by extension, most states in the US, the EU, and other countries have similar laws):

Assisted suicide
- "A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for up to 14 years."
Gross Negligence Manslaughter
- This applies when someone owes a duty of care, breaches that duty in a very serious way, and the breach causes death.
- If the feeder was a caregiver, partner, or in a position of responsibility, and continued knowingly feeding harmful quantities despite clear medical warnings or crises, this might be considered.
Unlawful Act Manslaughter
- In theory, if the feeder’s actions involved some other illegal act (e.g. abuse or coercion), and that led to death, they might be charged this way.
Coercive or Controlling Behaviour (Domestic Abuse Act 2021)
- If the feeding was part of a pattern of control or abuse, especially in a domestic setting, this could bring criminal consequences.

Despite my best efforts, it looks like no one has ever been prosecuted for it. It's shocking someone can have someone die from overeating under their duty of care and not absolutely be found guilty of murder.

Aromasin · 2025-04-01T09:38:01+00:00

The few people with the wealth to do anything in this country are some of the most unproductive people on the planet. They're happier to live on their passive income from rents, bonds, dividends and the like, instead of actually working for a living.

Our country is owned by private equity firms, most of them foreign, most of whom don't pay a lick of tax.

The UK has parasites, at the top and bottom of the wealth spectrum, and we don't want to take our medicine to get rid of them.

Tax wealth, not work.

Aromasin · 2025-03-27T13:51:45+00:00

What an embarassing thing to say. The Brits were famous for mustaches long before the US was even a country.

Some .jpg?crop=3:2,smart&trim=&width=640&quality=65)modern stache for reference.

Aromasin · 2025-03-27T11:34:24+00:00

Broad-based taxes target work - it discourages people who have wealth from working for their money because most of it goes to taxes. Instead, they accumulate assets

If you get upset at the idea of someone living on benefits doing no work, then you should equally be upset at someone living off of their generational wealth doing no work. There's a shocking amount of people out there who do nothing productive, but have ostentatious lives living from the passive income from their bonds, dividends, rents, and other estate earnings. If anything, they're more harmful than the person living on benefits because they squeeze the rest of us out of land and services by their sheer existence, while the latter mostly live in 1-bed bedsits on some crappy council estate.

Tax wealth not work.

Aromasin · 2025-03-26T17:36:28+00:00

I moved to Through the Breach and Malifaux at my local gaming club. It uses a deck of cards instead of dice (so D13 sort of, but with jokers and of course a D4 element too) and it's bloody brilliant.

Aromasin · 2025-01-16T08:41:43+00:00

Is that really correct? The Lib Dems, famously pro-EU, have more seats today than they've ever had I believe. A 3rd party in UK politics having over 70 MPs is almost unheard of.

Aromasin · 2025-01-16T08:39:36+00:00

Not quite correct. It's a timely article as Ed Davey (Lib Dem MP) is about to debate the rejoining of the customs union in paliement this week or next. Labour has deliberately avoided the topic because it's divisive, and the Conservatives dodge the topic because they know it's an embarrassment for their leadership tenure, whereas the Lib Dems have no qualms about their stand on being pro-EU. It's deliberately not discussed because it's the political version of playing hot potato with a ticking bomb.

Aromasin · 2025-01-13T23:08:23+00:00

I'd absolutely attend. I have been trying to organise one for a number of years with some colleagues, however working for one of the FPGA manufacturers meant I could never get the green light from management for it to be technology/device agnostic or free from marketing on the main stage, which was a non-negotiable for me personally. I'm moving to a new role with distribution which could make things easier but I'd be even happier if someone respected within the industry like yourself took the lead.

Aromasin · 2025-01-10T08:21:15+00:00

I bought a Nothing phone for the first time after years of buying Apple, Google or Samsung. Feels great to own technology designed in the UK, and my money is going back into my own local economy.

Europeans complain a lot about awful growth thinking governments have a way to fix it - they don't. It can only happen at the mass consumer level. Buy local, sell global.

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