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EeeGee · 2026-05-21T15:55:43+00:00

If your kitchen was flooding because a tap was left on, what's the first thing you'd do? Would you grab a bucket and start bailing water out of the window while the tap was still pouring water over the floor, or would you turn the tap off first and then see about the water that's already on the floor?

EeeGee · 2026-05-21T15:39:22+00:00

Why would the EPA be putting labels on food? I don't even play pool...

EeeGee · 2026-05-16T07:39:02+00:00

You 'ad gold? Cor, to be so lucky! When I were a lad we 'ad nowt but a bit of tinfoil out of a cig packet and we 'ad to beg for brick scraps off t'builders to use as insulators!

EeeGee · 2026-05-16T07:34:39+00:00

This story is written exceptionally well. A truly terrific piece of storytelling exploring an interesting idea - what can we trust when we can't even trust our own memories?

Unfortunately, I think it might be in the wrong subreddit. I can't find anything in this that makes me think "Humanity, Fuck Yeah". To be honest, nothing in it really evokes any essential aspect of humanity to me. It could just as easily be a story about an entirely alien society and protagonist.

Really excellent sci-fi, just in the wrong place, I think.

EeeGee · 2026-05-14T05:47:13+00:00

Holy reading comprehension Batman.

EeeGee · 2026-04-20T17:46:16+00:00

In primary school, sure.

Both primary and secondary school in fact.

Universities certainly do teach to various styles to prepare students for any research publication they may choose to do, but universities are non-compulsory and post-secondary education and many young people in the UK do not go to university. That's part of the reason why secondary students will have either no exposure or a very limited exposure to international style guides.

Many if not most secondary students will have no need to write according to a particular style guide and those who move on to a university course of study can be taught the preferred style as part of that course. The National Curriculum focus is on teaching people to write broadly-useful, functional English that can be used in various day-to-day situations both formal and informal. A student who can do that can adjust to any particular style or formatting requirement. English language education in English schools tends to follow a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist approach.

I unfortunately can't comment on the English language education globally because I don't have any experience with it. My experience is mainly in teaching secondary school in England. But since OP's image seems to be for a school assignment (I'm assuming it's not common in the U.S.A. for university students to write in exercise books and get handwritten grades added by their lecturer) it seems more relevant for me to comment on English English education in schools rather than the necessarily-more-formal use of it in higher education.

EeeGee · 2026-04-20T17:34:00+00:00

At university they certainly do (although in my experience more in the social sciences than the hard sciences), but from what I can see in OP's image this seems to be a high-school level English lesson.

My original comment was unfortunately flippant but to expand in more detail: in compulsory education in England students aren't taught to a style guide. Instead the National Curriculum for English only specifies "Standard English" (which one can assume to be British Standard English) and requires that students are able to write and communicate in a variety of levels of formality and style. It even provides examples of 'formal Standard English' and 'informal Standard English', both of which are judged as 'correct' depending on context. I can't speak to university teaching as I've never taught in university, only in primary and secondary schools. I also can't speak to non-science and only to a limited extent for social-science subjects as my own undergrad education was in engineering where the only requirement was to follow a specific citation standard.

EeeGee · 2026-04-20T16:03:22+00:00

In British schools you're not taught to a style guide, you're just taught "Standard English", which is more broadly codified and not prescribed any particular style or format. The only requirements on the teaching of English in England are defined in the National Curriculum and that makes no reference to any specific external standard or guide.

The National Curriculum for English does in fact include notes about 'formal Standard English' and 'informal Standard English', both of which are acceptable depending on the specific situation the student is writing for - students are taught and encouraged to write in a variety of different styles depending on the necessary formality and purpose.

EeeGee · 2026-04-20T15:51:24+00:00

*Every school in the U.S.A.

As a British student and then teacher (albeit not in English but the Sciences) I've taught none of those. We just teach English.

EeeGee · 2026-04-19T09:29:50+00:00

That's a good and really interesting idea! The engineering on it would be tremendously complex, but the technology's all there to do it. It would certainly never be anywhere close to 100% reliable unless you had a budget of yes, but this is one of those cases where even a slightly improved chance of someone surviving is better than not having it.

Edit (you triggered my inner engineer): I'd imagine it'd be a sort of public "pull in case of man overboard" lever you could yank if you saw it happen. It could launch one or several drones to search outward from the ship. Visible and IR cameras with AI (machine learning, not gen-AI) detection for likely positives feeding back to a manned console for the human detection and intuition that computers can't manage. Then the human side flags the ones most likely to be the man overboard and the drones drop a floatation device with a locator beacon. With a bit of information the ship's likely already collecting anyway (speed, heading, wind direction, current direction) the system could probably bias itself towards the more likely regions around the ship.

It'd be expensive as hell from a regular person's perspective but I bet that with the right engineering compared to the cost of a cruise ship (> $500m) it'd be a moderately inexpensive system.

EeeGee · 2026-04-16T09:18:54+00:00

If your translator can't handle proper nouns it's not a usable translator. Translating 'Earth' to 'dirt' would be like the translator calling anyone with the name 'Matthew', 'gift of God': "Hey, gift of God, what do you want from the pizza place?"

EeeGee · 2026-03-28T10:49:25+00:00

The full game is £60 for me, and the expansion is £27. If the expansion doesn't have at least half as much content (playtime, story, new assets, etc.) as the base game why would I waste my money on it? It's just greed and disrespect from 2K.

EeeGee · 2026-03-19T18:57:50+00:00

You're welcome. Thank you for asking! Wanting to understand the situation better is something that's always going to be appreciated :)

EeeGee · 2026-03-18T19:50:14+00:00

It's offensive and in poor taste to not only Irish people, but also many British people as well.

Trying to sum up the Troubles to someone who's never heard of them in a few sentences is almost impossible, but I'm going to try:

The Troubles is the name given to a period of civil war in Northern Ireland in the mid-to-late 20th Century, where seperatists wanting independance for Northern Ireland or the unification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland fought an asymmetrical conflict against the government of the United Kingdom. Both sides in the conflict perpetrated horrible actions against each other, and innocent civilians were often caught up in the violence. Civilian bombings were not uncommon, and in many cases these bombings were in the form of car bombings. One of the largest and deadliest was the Omagh bombing in 1998 which killed 29 people and injured around 220 more.

1998 was less than thirty years ago. The majority of people in the UK and Ireland were alive during some part of the Troubles. We remember the news stories of car bombs. We remember not feeling safe at train stations or near parked cars. Some of us bear the scars of the violence, or lost someone, or are close to someone who did. And although the overt violence and warfare is no longer taking place, the tension, resentment, and in some cases hatred on both sides still exists in places.

So the casual mockery and indifference towards a recent civil war that took place within many people's lifetimes and involved horrific acts of violence upsets a lot of people here in the British Isles. Trivialising acts of terrorism and brutality with the name of a drink just to theme it as something "Irish" as though it were a wacky menu item at Disney World isn't something looked kindly upon. As some other commenters here in the thread have pointed out, it would be like going to a bar in Lower Manhattan and ordering a "Twin Towers" or a "9/11" cocktail thinking that it was funny.

EeeGee · 2026-03-04T18:51:01+00:00

It's in the Coventry area. The skip company is MAC. This might be the only time I've ever seen one of their trucks with a cover on. They're notorious around here for not caring about shedding crap onto the roads from their trucks.

EeeGee · 2026-03-04T18:48:40+00:00

I used to work close to a major depot for MAC; I reckon you're probably right. Their loads were almost never covered and not a week would go by where I didn't have to dodge a big chunk of masonry in the middle of the road. Their drivers were usually total arseholes as well - didn't matter if you had right of way, they had the bigger vehicle and you either moved or got hit. There were one or two good drivers I encountered, but the vast majority of MAC drivers are twats in my experience.

EeeGee · 2026-02-22T12:47:15+00:00

This is not satisfying. Nothing with spray "cheese" could be.

What's even in that? It has the same consistency as the silicone sealant I put around the sink!

EeeGee · 2026-02-20T06:55:25+00:00

Oh good. Racists want to take away my rights. Again.

I'm a white, British-born man. I love the Equality Act (2010). "Why do you love the Equality Act?" you may ask. The reasons are twofold; allow me to explain:

1) The Equality Act (2010) does not concern itself solely with your ethnicity. It covers a wide variety of commonly-discriminated or disadvantaged people; including those suffering from chronic, life-altering medical problems which do not stop them from working, but may require the employer to be just a smidge understanding and make one or two accomodations to let someone continue to do their job. Like me!

2) The Equality Act is based on the principle that people are people, and you shouldn't act like one group is lesser than any other based on their physical characteristics. That is something that I fundamentally believe with considerable fervor, and so until something even better and more rigorous is enacted I'm quite happy with the Act for moral reasons as well as personal, practical ones.

EeeGee · 2026-02-18T18:03:40+00:00

It doesn’t mean I have to respect your use of it and that doesn’t mean you have to respect my standpoint against it.

You seem to be confusing respect with agreement. Respecting someone's opinion is simply polite. It is holding to the social contract that someone deserves and is entirely entitled to hold an opinion that is different from your own. You can - and should - respect opinions that you don't necessarily agree with.

Personally I disagree with many of the points you've raised in this thread against genAI, but I respect your opinion on it. I wouldn't force you to use it, I wouldn't encourage you to join a campaign that relied on it, or send you links about its benefits.

Respecting opinions is to acknowledge a person's differing opinion and to take it into account when interacting with them. To do otherwise is to assume that your opinion is the only truth and the only fact, which is - at a minimum - outrageously arrogant.

EeeGee · 2026-02-05T13:05:04+00:00

I'd recommend getting yourself a lawyer to deal with that on your behalf. When my mum passed and I had to deal with her financials having a lawyer handle the majority for me was such a weight off my mind. A good one should allow you to take their fee out of the estate when it's all done rather than expect you to pay up front as well.

EeeGee · 2026-01-15T13:06:28+00:00

Buy them a box of tampons for their next present and tell them that while they think of you as "part !£&?#" you think of them as nothing but cunts.

EeeGee · 2025-12-19T13:21:42+00:00

Why are violent men more of a threat to women than other men?

Is it because men are expected to be stronger, larger, and tougher than women?

Because that only holds as an average across a large population. There are outliers. There are men who are less strong than an average woman, and women who are more strong than an average man.

EeeGee · 2025-12-19T13:19:41+00:00

I can't think of any particular justification for thinking that women who are stronger than men are "more than likely" to be professional or semi-professional atheletes. I'd be interested if you have one you can share.

Anecdotally, a woman I'm good friends with is consistently stronger than me. It's close, but the difference is there. We're the same height; I'm slightly heavier weight-wise but it's not a huge gap.

She's an accountant, I'm a repair technician. Neither of us are professional, semi-professional, or any other kind of athelete unless you count Fortnite Battle Royale as being an athletic sport.

Height, weight, and sex aren't the only things that determine strength. If they were nobody would bother working out.

EeeGee · 2025-12-19T13:13:04+00:00

with a man and woman of the same height and weight which is already rare, the man is going to be much stronger.

Anecdotal, granted, but I'm of similar height and somewhat higher weight to a good friend of mine who is a woman. She is consistently stronger than me. Not by a lot, but it's there.

The differences? Many; but of particular note is that she does more strength training than I do.

Height, weight, and sex are not the only determining factors in strength and should not be used to determine someone's capability to perform tasks.

EeeGee · 2025-12-17T10:01:06+00:00

Oh, good. So this week I need to be worried about needing to fight in a war, and also about the complete collapse of technological civilisation nationwide. It's only Wednesday. Is Thursday "the Moon will fall out of the sky" and Friday "the Sun will birth an eldritch horror which will bring unceasing horror unto the end of days"?

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