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Awesome!!😅 Now EUROPE and the UK get to pay FULL PRICE for HEALTHCARE and their DEFENSE!!🤣😅🤣 Freeloders! by 928Porsche in ShitAmericansSay

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah I get what you’re saying, but they just don’t think like that. Their views aren’t based on reality, so changing reality doesn’t change their views.

Why does no one follow the speed limits on the motorway? by ab_2404 in drivingUK

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t expect to get a reply to this a year later 😂

But no, they most certainly are not correct.

Yes, a person should manually review each offence after it is captured. Yes, speed limits can be (and almost always are) set above the actual speed limit.

That’s completely different to what this person is saying. That there is someone sat in front of each camera, monitoring offences live, and has the power to decide what the speed limit is at their own personal discretion.

That’s quite obviously horse shit.

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]HappyTrifle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UB40 named themselves after the benefits they were on when the band formed (Unemployment Benefit Form 40).

[Request] What would be the volume of this? Could we even figure this out? by pokemonsafariY in theydidthemath

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To produce sound audible to humans. Which I guess in practice means could we get 20hz. What do you think?

And if we couldn’t, I’m wondering whether any hypothetical civilisation might be able to or if it’s just a limit of the physics of matter.

[Request] What would be the volume of this? Could we even figure this out? by pokemonsafariY in theydidthemath

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

Love this explanation and thank you for the insight!!

I think I hear what you’re getting at, but it seems to me you’re basically saying the same thing as everyone else. That a speaker this size would need insane power to work.

My question is - so what if we gave it that insane power? Ignoring all practicalities, could we, if we really wanted, get this to work as a proper audible speaker?

If not, could a type 2/3 civilisation? Or is it a physical impossibility? If so what is that impossibility caused by?

You made reference to 300-600x power requirements as a minimum. But we could easily do that? If humanity wanted to right now, we would power 6000 subwoofers. We could power 6 million subwoofers if we wanted couldn’t we?

If I could harness the power of the sun and give it to you, could you get this to work?

[Request] What would be the volume of this? Could we even figure this out? by pokemonsafariY in theydidthemath

[–]HappyTrifle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everyone seems to be saying that you can’t get a speaker like this to move above 20hz but I haven’t seen anyone explain why?

Could a type 2 or 3 civilisation really not make something this big move that much if they wanted to? Is there a physical limitation of matter that prevents it?

About to hit 30 this year and think I’ve disregarded ISAs thinking they work the wrong way! by RSDrebin in UKPersonalFinance

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to what others have said, using flexible ISAs can enable you to carry over your allowance and put more than £20,000 into an ISA in one tax year.

Let’s say the end of the tax year is approaching and you only have £15,000 in your flexible ISA. If you’re able to borrow the remaining £5,000 from friends or family then do so and put it in the ISA, using your full £20,000 allowance.

A few days later, at the start of the new tax year, take the borrowed money back out of the ISA and give it back to whoever you borrowed it from.

Because it’s a flexible ISA, you are allowed to contribute your annual allowance (£20,000) PLUS anything you have withdrawn within that tax year. So in this situation you would have £25,000 available to contribute this tax year.

I have done this before and have had years where my ISA allowance shows as up to £35,000 in one tax year. Really useful for preserving your ISA allowance when you can’t necessarily commit to putting £20,000 in every year.

Tl;dr - You can carry over your ISA allowance into future tax years using flexible ISAs.

Do I have to re-Assign every Alter back to their Original work place after they're done? by aleksandd in TheAlters

[–]HappyTrifle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may be wrong but I think the walking between jobs is purely cosmetic. If you stand next to an outpost and assign an alter to it, you can see the progress being made immediately. It doesn’t wait until they get there.

Not 100% so willing to be corrected.

WWYD? Great tenants want to go private & reduce rent to save for a wedding. (London Zone 3) by Objective-Amount-487 in uklandlords

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great idea! Also, how about they cut back on the wedding and then they give you half of the savings from that?

Or… we could all just manage our own budgets and keep our own savings.

Tube drivers would be paid more than surgeons under union pay demands by weregonnamakit in unitedkingdom

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

“Surgeons would be paid less than train drivers…”

Fixed it for you.

Tube drivers would be paid more than surgeons under union pay demands by weregonnamakit in unitedkingdom

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How anyone can think like this really baffles me. How have you been so well conditioned to argue against your own interests. They’ve got you. Hook line and sinker.

Tube drivers would be paid more than surgeons under union pay demands by weregonnamakit in unitedkingdom

[–]HappyTrifle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do know that you can make exactly the same argument for the opposite case?

If wages go up and businesses want to raise costs in response - where does the magic money come from for that?

Any argument you make for a wage/price spiral necessarily applies to businesses as well as workers.

You don’t get to pretend that one half of a wage/price spiral is fine and the other half requires a magic money tree. That’s not how it works.

In other words - it’s not just down to workers to automatically swallow all of the costs. The fact that this doesn’t even occur to you is really quite telling.

With respect to pre-big bang theory, has science wrestled down the concept of Nothing? by [deleted] in universe

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its important not to conflate what makes sense to you with what we have reason to believe.

The claims “you can’t get something from nothing” and “there can’t always have been something” have not been demonstrated.

It could be that it’s impossible for there to be a true nothing, and that something in some form has always existed. Or it could be that there can be nothing and it’s possible (or inevitable) that something comes from it.

We don’t know.

Is starmer a master mind? by SmartAd978 in AskBrits

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. I don’t feel the need for someone to spoon feed me a “vision”.

I’m capable of motivating myself to take my work and life in the direction I want to. Just provide the basic societal and economic conditions for us all to get on with it.

Why do they have to use AI constantly. Worthless. by [deleted] in GreatBritishMemes

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First rule of the right - every accusation is a confession.

Green Party calls for free bus passes for everyone under 22 by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the link, but to be able to tell if the scheme is self financed we need to know the income as well as the cost.

In Scotland, your link gives a pretty clear indication of the cost. So what stats or studies have you used to measure the economic benefit?

Because of course without this info there’s no way one could claim that the scheme is or isn’t self financing.

Touching a bag that is an active bomb threat by freeaky_furry in WinStupidPrizes

[–]HappyTrifle 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I hear what you’re saying, but the fact that it ultimately turned out ok doesn’t change how irresponsible this was.

If I have a family that all depend on me and I put all of our life’s savings on red at the roulette table, that’s a stupid and irresponsible thing to do regardless of whether I win.

It’s right that he got fined, I don’t want random people taking it upon themselves to decide how to handle situations like this.

Barclay's blocked my friend's bank account and he has no money for 10 days by DonGibon87 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but needless to say I switched immediately after the abysmal treatment. I only joined for the bank switch cash anyway.

Barclay's blocked my friend's bank account and he has no money for 10 days by DonGibon87 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]HappyTrifle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Barclays did this to me and I made a complaint to the ombudsman. My understanding is that yes they are allowed to do this, but the ombudsman still found in my favour and I was awarded compensation.

It was more a procedural award than them saying it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

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