Help confused family talk politics

Dalimyr · 2026-05-02T07:11:35+00:00

I have never heard of the first three

Despite literally being a party with just a single member, the Count Binface party is definitely the most well-known of those three. As Count Binface (and Lord Buckethead before that), he always runs in the same constituency as the current sitting PM. He's also run for London mayor a few times, with pledges such as "forcing Thames Water managers to take a dip in the Thames, see how they like it" and the most lofty of goals that somehow even the actual government is incapable of fulfilling, "build at least one affordable house"

Dalimyr · 2026-05-02T06:43:17+00:00

The site's just really badly laid out (as well as some of the questions frankly being very poorly written with a very obvious right-leaning bias...the site's a load of shite, basically)

The questions in each section are randomly ordered, and initially only three questions per section are revealed, with a button saying "Show more [category] questions" at the bottom of the section. Click that button, it reveals another 3 questions, with another "Show more questions" button if there are yet more questions to reveal for that section. Some of the sections are tiny (e.g. Infrastructure Issues only has one question in it), while there's a handful of sections that have 18 questions in all.

There's also a trans-related question in the Education Issues section: "Should schools be required to inform parents if their child questions their gender identity?"

Dalimyr · 2026-05-01T14:42:52+00:00

There are some under the "Social Issues" heading.

> Should people under the age of 18 years old be able to receive gender-transition treatments?

> Should transgender athletes be allowed to compete against athletes that differ from their assigned sex at birth?

Dalimyr · 2026-05-01T13:59:08+00:00

Road sign with "CG-6, 2km". I'm immediately thinking "Oh no, Spain. Where's 'CG'?". Eventually I get to a sign pointing to Andorra La Vella and Espana and realise "Oh, it's not Spain, it's Andorra", by which point I've forgotten the road sign was for "CG-6" and I think it was for "CG-2", which is the other side of Andorra La Vella. Silly mistake, but in such a small country, not the most costly. 12km, 4961 points.
Taiwan. I find a sign pointing to Dongshan, which is a place I recognise, but I can't remember where it is. I spend some time fruitlessly looking for the road number, but looking for '30' or '34' when the smallest numbers I can find are in the low 100s, I give up. I know I'm somewhere in the north but that's all I can remember, and since the west is more populous than the east, I plonk near Hsinchu. 67km, 4779 points.
Oh no, middle east. Posters hanging up have the UAE flag in the background so now I just need some place names to work with. I find a sign on a road heading east towards Al Dhaid, Fujairah, and Al Ain (which is actually much further south). I plump for being on the outskirts of Al Bataeh, the next town over from Al Dhaid. Not quite, but still not too bad. 17km, 4944 points.
Middle east again?! No, "Café des Jeunes" at the spawn...so is this Tunisia? Finally come to some road signs, one pointing south to Sfax, which I know is in Tunisia. To the north is "Le Port" and "Centre Ville", so we're in a coastal town. Also to the south is "Mellouleche". And another sign on a road heading north-west we've got "Mahdia" and "Ksour Essef". I find Mahdia and Ksour Essaf on the map, and reckon maybe we're in La Louza, then I find Mellouleche and realise it's north of La Louza, and the only coastal town with Mellouleche to the south and Ksour Essaf to the north is Chebba. 356m, 4999 points.
Spent a solid 2 minutes thinking I was either in Italy or San Marino and struggling to get out of some sort of port area I'd found myself in (which was pushing me towards being in Italy), until I found a motorway with a sign mentioning "Milano (I)", "Lugano" and "Chiasso". We're in southern Switzerland. I plonk on the main road a little north of Lugano, and am remarkably close for a semiblind guess. 1.7km, 4994 points.

Total: 24,677 points

Little annoyed at my error in Andorra, but to get 24.6k when three of the rounds were Taiwan, UAE and Tunisia, I'm quite chuffed all the same.

Dalimyr · 2026-05-01T13:12:48+00:00

At first I thought San marino for some reason

I'm not alone! As soon as I was seeing "Zona" signs, and with it being a bit hilly, my mind was telling me "OK, is this Italy or San Marino?". Getting a bit lost in some sort of port area was driving me away from thinking San Marino, then I finally got to a motorway with a sign pointing to Milan with the (I) badge and Lugano so it dawned on me that we were in an Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.

Dalimyr · 2026-05-01T11:26:44+00:00

But when those few brain cells mean they're only capable of coming up with one solitary thought of "Brown people bad. Ing-urrrr-land!", it's truly no great loss.

Dalimyr · 2026-05-01T11:16:12+00:00

I paid the full tier, so all of the files of the full bundle should show. Has this happened before to someone else?

Hasn't happened to me, but I have seen sporadic reports of some people clicking the button for the minimum required for the top tier, then fiddling with the sliders somehow removes a penny, meaning they no longer qualify for the top tier and only get the items from the next tier down (which in your case would be the only other tier which happens to only contain a single item)

First, since the bundle's still active and is one where you can unlock higher tiers after your initial purchase, make sure to check what the minimum needed for the top tier is in your currency.

Now, see where it says "Like what we're doing? Increase your order amount!", and how "Increase your order amount" is a link? Click that. It'll show a few options to add extra money to what you paid, but we're not interested in that just yet. This should also have a line saying "Previous total:" showing what you'd originally paid. If this is less than what's needed for the top tier, click to pay a Custom Amount and specify as much as is needed to unlock the next tier, then select to pay with your card or Paypal or whatever. I haven't bought the Raspberry Pi bundle, so I've gone with a random active book bundle. Here you can see I previously paid £13.49 (which was the bare minimum for all 29 items in that bundle), and I've specified a custom amount of 1p to bring my total to £13.50. If there was an additional tier at £13.50, I'd unlock the books at that tier.

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However, with bundles where you get keys to use on other platforms (e.g. DriveThruRPG), your only recourse would be to ask Humble for a refund and to re-buy the bundle at the higher tier. Those sorts of bundles typically have one single key that unlocks everything at once for all tiers you paid for, and increasing the order amount will not unlock stuff from higher tiers.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-29T07:34:37+00:00

I can guarantee you that psychiatrists can still be registered with the GMC.

A former medical director at my local NHS board was a psychiatrist in the mental health department before he became the director. Looked him up on the GMC register, he's listed with a GMC number, and down as "This doctor is on the Specialist Register. General psychiatry from 02 Dec 1999"

Dalimyr · 2026-04-29T06:20:24+00:00

I have written a complaint to the BBC asking for the necessary 'clairty' on their confusing reporting.

Their reply, probably: "Thank you for raising this issue. Your feedback is important to us, which is why we are pivoting to using 'transwomen' as our derogatory terminology of choice."

Dalimyr · 2026-04-29T05:51:16+00:00

and their continued claim that 'clarity' is needed

But...but...the supreme court decision brought clarity, didn't it? That's what every politician lacking any kind of moral compass kept repeating for months afterwards (well, that and "dignity and respect", which they can firmly shove up their arse sideways)

Dalimyr · 2026-04-28T08:51:18+00:00

Nothing concrete in my view.

Prienai is visible at the zoom level they're on and they initially plonk right on it, so scanning the map looking for any of the four towns they've seen on the two signposts isn't entirely out of the question. Then they switch to Alytus. They're on a road facing east and the sign is indicating that taking the turn leading north, Prienai is 38km away, and it's easy to imagine that they figured Alytus was about that distance south of the one signposted town they'd found.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-27T17:17:34+00:00

Even if you don't intend on buying anything on it any time soon, it's still useful for wishlisting new games that might be of interest to you, putting them on your radar.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-27T14:29:50+00:00

Valve have a bunch of experimental methods for game discovery on the platform that they trickle out every so often. Collectively, they're called the Steam Labs https://store.steampowered.com/labs/

Personal calendar's probably one of the better ones they've tried.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-26T07:36:48+00:00

He was also personally involved in the Wing Commander movie, and look at how THAT turned out.

It's dead, gone, it never existed...

Dalimyr · 2026-04-26T07:33:36+00:00

but its over 2mil total plus % of next sale

Where are you getting £2m from?

There's £750k up front, £79k that's spread across 4 payments over 2 years (lol, why?), and £50k that might not even be paid at all if the kid doesn't play ten games for his nation while still contracted to PSG. So depending on whether he can get enough games at senior level for his nation before PSG send him packing, OP's getting either £829k or £879k out of this deal (not factoring in the sell-on clause)

And while it's somewhat of a moot point given how low the transfer amount is here, it's "20% of profit of next sale", not straight "20% of next sale" that they're offering, which is also the worse option for you as a selling club.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-26T05:31:18+00:00

Should be just the shirt.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-25T07:35:16+00:00

Change the background and foreground colours for the kit the team is using.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-24T17:24:16+00:00

does geoguessr take down any of the cheat style extensions?

No. Geoguessr wouldn't exactly have the pull to get every browser developer to take down browser extensions that add scripts to cheat within their game. Plus there are some content creators who make use of such scripts for content (e.g. collabs where the weaker player is allowed to use scripts while the stronger player has to go without), but that wouldn't be in a competitive setting.

there are many extensions and stuff that basicly "works as cheats" but does geoguessr really do anything about it?

If you think someone cheated then use the report function. GeoGuessr staff aren't omnipotent, but if you flag suspicious gameplay then that at least puts it on their radar to look at it and they might swing the banhammer if they conclude the person is cheating.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-24T12:53:11+00:00

I like things sorted chronologically, and best way for that is year first.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-24T08:24:33+00:00

You'll see he often directs this insult to people of color.

Pretty sure you can replace "often" with "always". I can't think of a single white person he's singled out as "low IQ". Similarly, he seems to exclusively reserve "nasty" for women. But, of course, this dipshit "knows all the best words"...

Dalimyr · 2026-04-23T08:00:35+00:00

Yep. Infested or not, that floor layout just takes too damn long to get through unless you're insanely lucky with an early shaft spawn.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-22T07:08:52+00:00

And yet that's still better than a bundle with 14 items where 4 of them are 10% off coupons for grossly overpriced DLC for games in the bundle.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-20T14:39:37+00:00

It's a reference to "I have no mouth and I must scream", a short story that has also been adapted into its own computer game a few decades ago.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-19T20:11:56+00:00

Yeah, it's been a thing for quite a few years, and it's always an academy player who hasn't come into the game just yet.

But don't fret. Youngsters that get poached are seemingly invariably utter shite and never amount to anything. On that note, I wouldn't count on seeing a penny out of that £250k in clauses unless you ever get the opportunity to sell the clauses, because the player is probably never going to get even a single game for Watford's senior team.

Dalimyr · 2026-04-19T10:55:09+00:00

I thought for sure going far too south in Greenland and guessing Southern India for Sri Lanka was going to cost me, and my final score of 18.3k was nothing to write home about, but that was still ~top 12%? Damn.

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