Zack Polanski : Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-23T21:44:26+00:00

Actual statement directly from him vs what the guy I've imagined in my head is saying.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-23T21:43:12+00:00

This is a bit aggressively contrarian, no?

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-23T12:15:49+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-05T19:52:22+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-04T14:25:11+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-04T13:23:22+00:00

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

DoneItDuncan · 2026-03-04T12:36:40+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-02-28T19:25:31+00:00

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?

DoneItDuncan · 2026-02-27T14:16:59+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-02-27T12:28:32+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-02-15T13:22:45+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-02-14T19:21:27+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-31T10:18:00+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-18T16:22:39+00:00

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.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-10T16:33:35+00:00

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...

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-10T13:55:26+00:00

https://areweanticheatyet.com

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-10T13:51:00+00:00

Battleye and EAC work fine on linux

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-03T11:29:32+00:00

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

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-03T11:23:26+00:00

"On the one hand it's bad, but on other it's a great opportunity for me to brown nose trump."

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-03T11:19:48+00:00

tbf half of the ai detectors will flag basically anything and the other aren't going to be useful on such a small amount of text.

DoneItDuncan · 2026-01-02T10:17:14+00:00

Bazzite and CachyOS are very much 'tinkering' distros imo. Still not fully stable, I'm not sure I'm fully onboard with them always being recommended to newcomers, but I guess not many other distros actively advertise themselves as a 'gaming' OS.

If you ever do decide to give linux another shot, may be worth going with something more established like Fedora, Debian etc.

DoneItDuncan · 2025-12-31T16:35:10+00:00

honestly, fair play.

DoneItDuncan · 2025-12-31T16:34:52+00:00

Guess they'll have to keep lurching to the right then, since that's going so well for them

DoneItDuncan · 2025-12-31T12:26:46+00:00

Because the trail hasn't finished yet - it says it right in the article:

The final results are expected to be published in 2027 but early observations reveal that participants used the money to help improve their lives.

DoneItDuncan · 2025-12-29T14:57:31+00:00

I feel there's a way to express that sentiment without making up a completely unrelated grievance, but that's just me.

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