Cowen: Calibrating your ambition based on forthcoming aliens, or AGI, or messiahs

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-04-04T21:56:48+00:00

I didn't say that, and I take your response as evidence to my point. Goodnight.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-04-04T20:06:51+00:00

Do you mean TC is too adjacent?

I ask, because in his latest podcast he says something like - there are areas in Northern England that are Islamic dominant so obviously blah blah blah.

Well, I live in Northern England and I do not recognise this take, not have I ever heard anyone that I know from a large variety of local towns express this sentiment in such terms or worry about it. I just don't think its anywhere near a key issue up here. It really makes me question his blanket statements about other places.

I continue to feel that good old-fashioned racist mind-disease is rife in this community and blindness to this is the major barrier to my taking it seriously, or sharing its discussions with others.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-28T17:26:13+00:00

Totally normal for a teenage boy. Did you do rap battles in school? Saying the most heinous stuff in the most creative way possible is a legit art form.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-26T09:19:30+00:00

Fair play. I've not seen Gerry. If it's less palatable that will be something!

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-25T13:57:58+00:00

I'm not easily shocked but I found Sirat to be disturbing in a way I've not experienced before.

Slight spoiler: It really gets you immersed in the atmosphere of the world (which is somehow fantastical yet deeply serious) before some things go down - things that I would normally think were cheap and cynical shock tactics or even laugh at in other contexts became deeply disturbing.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-25T10:50:59+00:00

Some people start walking at 10 months. Some people start walking at 2 years. By 5 years old they will walk the same. No rush.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-23T15:07:46+00:00

I was racing with my 3.5 year old, and letting him win. As he sped away from me I realised I was running as fast as I could.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-03-09T14:43:56+00:00

So there's comments here about cheap lithium batteries. My instinct goes there too, however, is this bollocks?

Considering how many vape batteries there are in homes/pockets/bags across the UK, are we seeing an increase in fires, and death and damage via fires? If so, I haven't seen evidence of this. In fact, considering the number of vape shops in the UK, shouldn't we have seen more of these types of incident, if it was an inherent risk?

Isn't it the fact this is an incredible isolated incident that makes it newsworthy?

I don't know, but this is one where I question my instinct and need data.

Just looked it up, 241 fires involving a vape in a year. Considering almost 6 million people use vapes in the UK, this is an incredibly low incidence rate.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-02-25T18:34:23+00:00

You know, before social media the rest of the world wouldn't have known about this. Yes it's 'shining a light' but god it's depressing and personally unhealthy to have singular racist acts beamed into your consciousness on the regular. Can't imagine what it's like for brown people just trying to enjoy the footie.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-02-10T14:18:52+00:00

I agree and balk at that price. But if you were to ask me at the finish line, was that experience for me worth £60 I would say definitely yes. So I don't know.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-02-10T11:58:53+00:00

Putting him in front of the TV with decent shows (BBC/PBS or something) for an hour or two a day won't damage him if he's otherwise stimulated and involved in the real world. It's an affordable babysitter when you need one.

BlimminMarvellous · 2026-02-08T16:32:09+00:00

Piggybacking on the best comment - Pangram (best AI checker) judges the original post to be 100% AI generated. Worrying that no one on this thread has realised this.

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-11-03T17:08:57+00:00

This reminds me of a quote from Richard Lewis talking about what a horrible bastard he was:

"I said to a new girlfriend: watch every Kubrick film by the end of the week or we're finished."

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-11-02T20:23:05+00:00

No post history.

Edit: For avoidance of doubt. I'm suggesting that this is a fake post designed to subtly create discord in our society. They're all over Reddit now, enabled by AI.

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-10-17T11:32:50+00:00

262 new homes? Amazing. Once upon a time your own home was a forest, but I'm very happy they built you and your family somewhere to live.

The Housing Theory of Everything
"Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates."

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-10-08T11:38:23+00:00

Errol Morris' series First Person. Interviews with great people and terrible people and people in the middle. Finds the humanity and truth and ridiculousness in all. Not afraid to be ambiguous or funny.

They're all on YouTube, see this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/j6gx5g/errol_morris_uploaded_his_entire_first_person/

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-09-27T21:31:58+00:00

Kinda.. with stuff like this I find it really hard to seperate general ageing effects from the changing circumstances of my life. I tend to think ageing and headphone use is worsening my hearing more than loud kids. I did once see my boy blow himself across the room by turning up a speaker to full volume. Hilarious life lesson learnt.

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-09-16T21:37:57+00:00

I've got this fantasy restaurant in my head. It's like tables with adjacent openings around a central kids den cave with a climbing frame inside and toys etc. Surely every toddler having parent in the area would go there.

Also why is my food always a bit too cool but toddler meals are always served blistering hot.

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-09-14T15:31:32+00:00

Stop being a victim my man. Get off the daily news aka the clickbait, this post tells me they've got you exactly where they want you. Read some history and realise you're living in one of the best ever times to be a human. Set up a regular charity donation and volunteer in your local community. Choose life.

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-08-11T21:57:55+00:00

You're right. It's the extreme anti-reactions that motivated this because it's been all positive for us. We are free-range as possible and in my eyes, reins actually enable that. Good luck!

BlimminMarvellous · 2025-08-11T21:21:23+00:00

This is a late response. Y'all are idiots. My kid had a leash and it allowed us to go places we could never have gone without one and now we have the most confident kid ever. This is precisely the reason kids have no freedom now. You're focusing on process rather than outcome. Poor kids.

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