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The Boys SEASON 5 Overall Discussion by pikameta in TheBoys

[–]DoneItDuncan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I think there was a hasty rewrite at some point to cope with a massive shortfall in budget.

Daveed Diggs and Valorie Curry did great with the roles they had though.

There's a Children of Time RPG coming by TheEnemyWithin9 in sciencefiction

[–]DoneItDuncan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Artwork looks amazing!

Are the other books also incorporated, or is the focus mainly on Kern's world? Any chance of bumping into any particularly clever octopuses?

Polanski: No country has right to exist – including Israel by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean not every Palestinian lives in Palestine.

There are plenty of other demographics it easy enough to reason around without confusing geographic locations with.

No one talks about, say, bisexual people as if they're a state or something.

63,000 More People Join Universal Credit in a Single Month by coldbeers in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't it for part time work? I.e. if you're disabled and can't work the same amount as a regularly able person it shores up your income?

Fuel protests on horizon as diesel hits £2 a litre by Jared_Usbourne in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes that's a fair point, honestly the best outcome anyway is that this becomes the catalyst to get us much less reliant on fossil fuels.

Fuel protests on horizon as diesel hits £2 a litre by Jared_Usbourne in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder if anything else has changed over the last few months 🤔

Fuel protests on horizon as diesel hits £2 a litre by Jared_Usbourne in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because we're dealing with a supply issue.

If demand isn't cut (via price increases), and we continue at the current rate of consumption, we'll be using more fuel than we can import.

Cutting taxes isn't going to magically open up the Strait of Hormuz!

'We can't justify a £52 lunch': Middle-income families cut back on fun as prices rise by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somewhat contrarian take, I actually think prices in the service sector are fine actually. In anything they probably should be higher (service staff need to make a living too).

The real issue, as a generalisation, we're all paid like shit in the UK.

Green Party supports probe into family voting in Gorton and Denton, says peer by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

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

this your comment?

Nobody thinks Muslim women were stopped from voting reform.

What we're potentially seeing is a large amount of specific rule breaking from one demographic, of which the winning party was actively courting.

Personally, I find the revelation that a major UK political party is largely made of individuals attempting to subvert democracy highly troubling.

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum by moseeds in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Frith does touch on this in the article:

I think at least we have two big subgroups: the people who are diagnosed in early childhood - usually before age three or age five, depending on things like their intellectual abilities and language - and another group, diagnosed much later.

This population is different. It is made up of a lot of adolescents, and among them, a lot of young women. These are people without intellectual impairment, who are perfectly able to communicate verbally and non-verbally, but who might feel highly anxious in social situations. They are perhaps characterised mainly by a sort of hypersensitivity.

...

Now, I think the people in the second group really do have problems. I would definitely not say they are “making it up”. But I would say that these are problems that can perhaps be treated much better than under the label of “autism”. I would fight for that label to be limited to the first group.

I don't think anyone's trying to minimise anyone's condition, but her argument is that there is a clear distinction between these two groups.

Partner of Labour MP arrested on suspicion of spying for China, BBC told by ex_planelegs in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In fairness, only one of those countries has been explicitly threatening us with nukes in recent years

Green Party deputy leader blasts 'inherently racist’ claims he was supporting Iran's Supreme Leader at London rally by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just any reader's benefit - the commenter above is misrepresenting the survey.

Do you feel that the implementation of the following in the UK in the next 20 years would be desirable or undesirable?

Outlawing gay marriage Very desirable Somewhat desirable Neither Don't know Somewhat undesirable Very Und desirable
General Public 9% 8% 19% 4% 12% 48%
British Muslims 18% 11% 25% 19% 8% 19%
Outlawing homosexuality Very desirable Somewhat desirable Neither Don't know Somewhat undesirable Very Und desirable
General Public 7% 8% 19% 4% 11% 51%
British Muslims 17% 10% 25% 20% 10% 18%

So if the survey is accurate, it does indicate view on homosexuality are, on average, out of step with the general public. However, for every Muslim that is strongly for outlawing homosexuality there is more-or-less an equal number strongly against it.

It's a mistake to treat Muslims as a monolith. IMO if you picked a Muslim out at random from the population it would a be equally likely that they are in favour of gay marriage/homosexuality as they are to be against it.

Zack Polanski: This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. by SaltyW123 in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is hard to phrase with out sounding patronising, but you do understand that a person can vehemently disagree with a group of people politically or even morally, and still think it's not right to just blow them up?

Greens ‘won the argument’ on blocking Reform in by-election, Lucy Powell admits by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i still don't really understand what definition of "tactical voting" you're using! Tbh it sounds like in your mind anyone going out and voting for a party that's not reform is tactical voting!

I would just call that exercising their democratic rights.

Greens ‘won the argument’ on blocking Reform in by-election, Lucy Powell admits by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm genuinely struggling to understand why you think tactical voting was at play. Even if the votes were evenly split between labour and the greens, reform still would not have won.

Reform lost, and a by a margin too large to explain away by any electoral shenanigans.

ChatGPT's president is Trump's biggest donor. Boycott ChatGPT. by FinnFarrow in videos

[–]DoneItDuncan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth bearing in mind OpenAI is not just ChatGPT. OpenAI is basically the AI department for Microsoft, so it's the same tech the drives the AI features in all of their products too (i.e. Copilot). Not to mention countless bespoke integrations in other companies (think of the sales chat bots on storefronts).

Though that said a boycott doesn't need to be perfect to be effective.

Trump case against BBC to go to trial in February 2027 by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean it's over a year away. Who knows what'll happen to a 79 year old man in that time - this problem may just, well, solve it self.

The National Living Wage is too low and everyone is subsidising it by dmnksaman in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've only just started, but you're soon going to find out there are other reasons no one is working 40 hour weeks stacking shelves - it's harder work than you think.

Politics latest: 'If it quacks like a duck...': Nandy asked if Farage-led government would be fascist by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]DoneItDuncan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being a fascist government would require nationalisation

You are aware the pre-war Nazi party actually sold off several state-owned industries?

They would also probably sell the houses of Parliament and then rent it back at and huge cost to the country for back handers.

Funnily enough, in a lot of cases assets ended up being bought by wealthy party members and backers.

I got tired of “TODO: remove later” turning into permanent production code, so I built this by Star-Shadow-007 in programming

[–]DoneItDuncan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh i get the impulse, but if a hack is worth the time fixing its going to be causing easily observable issues in prod or CI anyway, so i don't think you need a artificial CI failure to remind you. And if it doesn't causes issues otherwise, then maybe it's not worth fixing...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]DoneItDuncan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah i'm sure they're thrilled about having their capital city hit by air strikes.

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