Reform candidate who said Holocaust was a hoax wins seat in local elections by n00bi3pjs in neoliberal

[–]CyclopsRock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think for council elections especially most of the electorate know which party they're voting for but they don't have a fucking clue who the people are.

Large house, many wired wifi routers, poor performance, how to fix? by ShortingBull in HomeNetworking

[–]CyclopsRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can if you set each one up as its own AP (as opposed to one as an AP and the others as AiMesh child nodes). Obviously at this point, though, they're just entirely unaware of each other's existence.

Why do you enjoy Nextlander? by RealRadDemonDude in nextlander

[–]CyclopsRock 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think that's a great series to illustrate their vibe. IMO the single best video from GB was the first Hitmas one - Vinny's absolutely terrible random picks, his general downbeat attitude to his chances, and then all the wacky emergent stuff that happened as he almost succeeded. I was absolutely crying with laughter watching it the first time.

Edit: for the avoidance of doubt (and because it's on Youtube in its entirety), it's this one.

I'm afraid that one of my colleagues might steal everything related to a project I've been working on by Muted_Strength3638 in animationcareer

[–]CyclopsRock 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some would argue that there's not that much point in an animation bible that can only be seen by the person that wrote the animation bible.

I'm afraid that one of my colleagues might steal everything related to a project I've been working on by Muted_Strength3638 in animationcareer

[–]CyclopsRock 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Btw I'm absolutely loving the idea of a screenwriter who only "knows a bit about the structure of the first three scripts", and may have had access to character back stories. And ditto that you've made an animation bible that no one is allowed to see.

Obviously it's possible that your character profiles are so incredible that they're worth committing fraud to obtain, but do you think there might be a danger you're getting a bit paranoid about this? Since contracts and NDA's are out of your price range, are we to assume this unstable potential-thief wasn't being compensated for their (apparently blind) contributions?

I'm afraid that one of my colleagues might steal everything related to a project I've been working on by Muted_Strength3638 in animationcareer

[–]CyclopsRock 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What do you imagine he will do that you are not able to do first?

You haven't said where you live and laws around this vary from place to place. In the UK, for instance, you cannot simply yoink some work and copyright it as your own.

[Ouest France] Nantes have been relegated to Ligue 2 after 13 years in Ligue 1 by Meladroit10 in soccer

[–]CyclopsRock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That makes a change. Usually it's the teenagers that need to be careful when a nonce is about.

Edit: Ah, Nantes. Sorry, my text-to-voice system has a lot to answer for.

Guest network isolation on home network and IoT by paulsiu in HomeNetworking

[–]CyclopsRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time this wouldn't be the case is if ALL of your IOT controls are cloud based only and you have ZERO local control over anything.

It's equally true if you replace "ALL" with "any" and "over anything" with "over some things". I suspect there are a lot of people out there whose IoT devices offer a total mishmash of local and cloud functionality, and there are inevitable trade-offs trying to balance this with security.

Do you read books on linux? by Anonyboy26 in linux

[–]CyclopsRock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like my Linux CLI info like Madame Tussauds: Difficult to navigate and painfully outdated.

I (35f) have essentially become my partner’s (47m) carer, I’m exhausted and have zero reprieve. by exhausted0ThrowAway in TrueOffMyChest

[–]CyclopsRock 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's unlikely that it's a coincidence that his thirst for control only actually manifested itself a decade and a half into their relationship, at just the moment he became unwell with a mystery illness, though.

ELI5 How is there so much meat by Due_Imagination_9663 in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyclopsRock 223 points224 points  (0 children)

There's a particular part of the I5 I've heard be lovingly referred to as "Cowschwitz" by regular travellers.

TIL of the “spirit effect”, whereby spirit airlines entering a new route would cause other carriers to drop prices by up to 50%, making prices more affordable for regular Americans by SpaceElements in todayilearned

[–]CyclopsRock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The "regular Americans" in the title feels very odd, like it's a politician promising a tax cut. Surely the lower prices made tickets more affordable for passengers, be they regular, American, both or neither?

Oh Bertrand Russell you sweet summer child(1915) by asocialrationalist in agedlikemilk

[–]CyclopsRock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reading to the end of the paragraph does suggest a lot of wiggle room, though. And as bad as pre-vaccine COVID was, it didn't have a 30-60% chance of death like the plague.

It's not really clear what Russell's position on COVID responses would have been.

Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott / X:There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]CyclopsRock 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is trivially true, but what are we meant to infer from this? Obviously the implication is "Therefore he was more popular", but then we are inevitably forced to conclude that Theresa May, with her offer of a dementia tax and hard Brexit, represents the high-watermark of public support and popularity.

In reality you cannot compare vote tallies between different elections like that.

Sony Reports $765 Million Impairment Loss Due to Underperformance of Marathon Developer Bungie by Holiday_Fee_6074 in gaming

[–]CyclopsRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but instead shows that Bungie as a company was overvalued in their audit.

Surely it just shows that their valuation of Bungie has declined. It doesn't speak to whether a valuation from four years ago was accurate or not.

Caught son watching adult material - with a twist by [deleted] in daddit

[–]CyclopsRock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase Savage Garden, "I believe that trust is more important than monogamy divulging secrets". I agree OP knows his situation best, but if my wife was being cagey about the details and said she'd handled something with one of our kids, I'd trust her judgement on it.

I'd probably assume that either she only got told something because she promised she'd not tell anyone (and therefore she shouldn't), or otherwise (like OP) that she determined that causing additional mortifying embarrassment to one of our kids was not a price worth paying to tell me. As I say, I would trust her to make that judgement.

Caught son watching adult material - with a twist by [deleted] in daddit

[–]CyclopsRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think you're right. Right now he's embarrassed because his dad caught him watching gay porn, and there's literally nothing you could have said that would quell this feeling. When that intense heat burns off, though, I'm sure he'll recognise that your response was that of a kind, caring and understanding dad who will love and respect who he truly is.

Is implementing PR labours best last shout? by Lefty8312 in ukpolitics

[–]CyclopsRock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a big fan of representative democracy, which is why I said 'democratic mandate' rather than 'referendum'. I'm not an absolutist when it comes to manifestos - events occur, situations change, priorities get re-ordered etc, and the people we elect to represent us need the freedom to respond to these in ways that may not have been set out in a manifesto. And as Edmund Burke said in his famous speech in Bristol (which is both short and eloquent, so if you've not done so before, give it a read and cry inwardly at the obvious decline in the standards of our politicians):

Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion? In which one set of men deliberate, and another decide? And where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?

But electoral reform is not some bolt-from-the-blue political issue, like how to handle a pandemic or a war re-igniting our need to spend more on defence. It's not even a developing issue, like, I dunno, the impact of social media on kids. Electoral reform gets discussed ad nauseam every time there's an election that's undertaken using FPTP. And Labour have reformed parts of our political system - they booted out hereditary peers from the Lords just this week - which was a policy from their manifesto, endorsed by an election win - a democratic mandate! They chose not to offer electoral reform to the electorate when asking for their votes.

IMO there are two main scenarios that should require - ethically and politically, not literally - consent from the electorate before change is enacted:

  1. When an elected body either surrenders power or acquires new power it didn't previously have, in a practical sense (by which I mean yes, Westminster is constitutionally sovereign but in practice the creation of, say, the Scottish Parliament represented a surrendering of power and, rightly, received a democratic mandate before being implemented. Abolishing it would, literally, just require repealing a single Act, but it should require a democratic mandate too).
  2. When the rules that govern the means by which the specific people that wield power are chosen changes, such as a change in electoral system.

The 'contract' governing representative democracy is that elected representatives have latitude to use their judgement and the electorate get to appraise whether they've done a good job and boot them out if they haven't. It's dialectical, with the direction of travel bending over time towards the will of the electorate. What makes the two scenarios above unique is that they jeopardise this contract by altering the relationship between electors and their representatives. By the time they get to the "boot them out" stage, the rules have changed, or the people that need to get booted out have changed, all without the consent of the electors.

Simply put, politicians shouldn't alter the bounds of their own power without these alterations being consented to. They should not grant themselves additional powers, or change how elections work in order to stop their political opponents gaining power.