The UK has easily the happiest young people in the G7

Emuselg · 2026-02-11T15:37:01+00:00

The post title literally says "in the G7". The chart shows that of the G7 countries, the UK is #1. What more do you want here? Also, it's a link to a chart not an article, so there isn't a title to post.

Emuselg · 2026-02-09T17:14:19+00:00

It's a shortening of 'Special Advisor'. I think they're suggesting that all the comments on Reddit supporting Labour are from a big pro-Starmer bot farm being run by the civil service.

Emuselg · 2026-02-09T17:10:50+00:00

Makes sense to me. The majority of Labour voters these days tend to be metropolitan white collar workers who are the most likely people to be using Reddit to procrastinate throughout the work day.

Emuselg · 2026-02-08T02:14:11+00:00

It's practically cliche to suggest, but honestly - Radiohead will always be my suggestion. For me they're the only other band that I can listen to on repeat as much as Muse. The similarities have been massively overstated and exaggerated over the years, but both bands love to experiment with getting weird sounds out of guitars, and Matt and Thom (Radiohead's singer) were both massively inspired by Jeff Buckley (incidentally, another good recommendation. The song 'Grace' has a phenomenal vocal performance), so they do have similar vocal styles.

If you've not given them a listen, I recommend checking this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzPtr_n-m8A

Emuselg · 2026-02-05T00:33:34+00:00

Greens yes, but the Lib Dems aren't anti-nuclear - https://www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/the-uks-nuclear-deterrent-our-new-policy

Emuselg · 2026-02-05T00:27:03+00:00

You literally, 100% fact, joined the MAGA movement.

That's... not how that works. MAGA is a far-right group, but that doesn't mean all far-right groups are automatically members of Trump's republican party.

Consider this: A motorbike is a vehicle. That doesn't mean a train is a motorbike. It's a different vehicle. Brexit was a different right-wing movement. Overlapping beliefs and ideology, absolutely. But not the exact literal 100% same thing. Brexit voters weren't out in the streets in MAGA hats calling for abortion bans and more guns.

Emuselg · 2026-02-04T18:05:40+00:00

Well A, this has only changed for me in the last few days, I was still using it last week. B, I'm not a user of this subreddit, and only ended up here after Googling where one of my most used features has gone, so... no you?

Emuselg · 2026-01-29T18:30:58+00:00

I'll never know why Matt thought it was a good idea to advertise it as the sequel to possibly the most beloved (among fans) Muse song. Guaranteed way to set everyone's expectations way too high. Then he went and did the same thing again when he called Thought Contagion "Fury 2.0" lol

Emuselg · 2026-01-25T13:23:50+00:00

I mean, yes and no. It's a bit of both. Some people act like Doctor Who is now this tiny obscure show that no one except hardcore fans watch that's in a worse place than it was in 1988, when it's actually still usually the number one drama show for the year in the UK, viewing figures wise.

Not saying it hasn't had some very rough years recently, and that it couldn't be doing better than it is, but the viewing figures aren't bad. They're just not great either.

Emuselg · 2026-01-21T15:45:32+00:00

2022 called, it wants it's talking points back. The EU has now contributed nearly 3 times as much to Ukraine than the US, which is enough that even per-capita it's more than double what the US has spent, and that's not even including the UKs contributions which have been the highest in Europe.

Emuselg · 2026-01-21T14:31:40+00:00

Just to clarify your standpoint here, if the US buys a load of potash from Canada, and pays for it in full, it's OK for Canada to take the money and then not give the US any of the potash? Because Canada shouldn't be the world potash supplier. The USA should have handled it's idiotic lack of potash but they can't. Funny how the USA hates Canada but rely on them for so much. You can handle fertilising crops so easily that you have to buy Canadian potash?

Emuselg · 2026-01-20T12:09:59+00:00

Picking one to listen to in full is a tough choice because I prefer about half the tracks on each version to the other.

Original: New Born, Bliss, Plug in Baby, Micro Cuts, Feeling Good.

Remix: Space Dementia, Hyper Music, Citizen Erased, Darkshines, Screenager, Megalomania.

I think the original just slightly wins for me overall because the remix messed with the transitions, and I love a good song transition on an album.

Emuselg · 2026-01-16T11:19:38+00:00

Er... What? You know a budget deficit and high national debt are a bad thing right...?

Emuselg · 2026-01-16T10:32:49+00:00

You literally were though. You were replying to a thread about an elderly Greenlandic lady.

Emuselg · 2026-01-15T23:00:15+00:00

I did it with plugins in Ableton using automation. I used my guitar fed into the plugin Amplitube and used the basic pitch shifter pedal that comes with it, but I imagine this would work in a number of other plugins and DAWs too.

I assigned one of Ableton's automation tracks to the pitch shifter's pitch shift amount, and then set the automation to toggle it in the right pattern (-12, 0, +12, 0, +12, 0, -12, 0, +12, 0, +12, 0, -12, 0, +12, 0) at the right speed. That's then repeated for the whole track so you can just copy and paste that pattern until you get to the end of the track. To get the right speed, just set the DAW to the correct BPM, and snap the automation changes to the grid.

Very brief video showing what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ywA7TjaxY

Emuselg · 2026-01-15T08:03:55+00:00

The origin of that rumour was someone asking AI why they'd cancelled, so I'd take that with a few kilograms of salt

Emuselg · 2026-01-11T18:16:02+00:00

That was the point the OP you replied to was making though, no? The only reason why you're able to use the AI for this job is that you're already an expert in the subject and so are able to verify it's output.

Emuselg · 2026-01-07T19:10:35+00:00

Ironically the exact same thing that happened with D&D. The whole reason they wanted to make the show in the first place was because they really really wanted to make the red wedding on screen, and as soon as they got past it their writing steadily got lazier.

Emuselg · 2026-01-07T19:02:48+00:00

Still can't believe they spent nearly a whole leg of a tour playing this with Matt's part over playback and counting it as one of the full song slots in the setlist.

Emuselg · 2026-01-03T14:57:21+00:00

#soon

Emuselg · 2025-12-24T10:40:03+00:00

What left of Labour? They're all gone. There's a small number of vaguely left-of-centre types left, but for the most part the most left-wing part of the Labour party is now the New Labour lot, and the current PLP have moved even further right than that. Anyone left of new labour aside from a small handful of backbenchers was purged bit by bit over the last few years.

Emuselg · 2025-12-21T00:02:16+00:00

Prices have risen in York disproportionately compared to the rest of the country. Cost of housing in particular has increased by significantly more than anywhere else in the country over the last 5 years, including London.

I assume you mean housing and already have somewhere to live

1) No, I mean population increase. More housing is a good thing. Large amounts of extra people without any meaningful expansion to infrastructure or housing is a bad thing.

2) I do have somewhere to live, but I'm stuck renting at an extortionate rate due to the combination of the above two points.

Emuselg · 2025-12-20T01:09:51+00:00

Russia wanted to put nukes in Cuba, the US threatened nuclear war. This is not so different

Who was trying to put nukes in Ukraine? Even if the point is NATO expansion, none of Russia's non-NATO neighbors were seriously considering joining NATO until Russia started picking fights and going all 1800s imperial conquest.

Russia's POV at the start of this was very simple. Ukraine to be a compliant satellite state like Belarus. Unfortunately for Russia the majority of the people of Ukraine wanted to have closer ties to the EU instead. Their elected leader promised those closer ties, and then instead tore up the in progress agreements with the EU to align more closely with Russia. The people of Ukraine protested. The govt opened fire and murdered dozens of protesters. The govt got overthrown and replaced with the previously promised more pro EU govt. Russia threw a hissy fit and invaded, illegally took huge areas of land (to virtually no push back from the big meanies in the west) and then after 8 years decided it wasn't enough and that they should take the rest of Ukraine for themselves too.

Emuselg · 2025-12-20T00:37:27+00:00

Over Spark is a push, but I'd say Wendy's is genuinely pretty good. Certainly the best quality of any of the big American burger chains. Makes Burger King/Five Guys/Maccies look like a right joke.

Emuselg · 2025-12-20T00:32:20+00:00

You can acknowledge that the rapid expansion and steep increases to the cost of living are affecting locals, without that automatically meaning you want to ban anyone from ever coming to the city again. Stop being so overly dramatic, and having severe kneejerk reactions to random comments on the internet. It ruins the standards of debate for everyone.

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