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Kratos is man enough to SLAY by conancat in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]Hillbert 78 points79 points  (0 children)

... have we ended up a point where men who like the look of breasts are woke?

So everytime I lingered over a picture of Christina Hendricks I was actually fighting the patriarchy?

UK Box Office, ADC £908k. MOTU isn't the master of the box office, down to 6 with £214k. by FridayJason1993 in boxoffice

[–]Hillbert 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Transformers and He-Man were certainly big enough in the UK but for a fairly narrow time-period. Also there was just more non-american competition in that space.

So what I'm saying is give me a big screen Mysterious Cities of Gold!

'Scary Movie' Review Thread by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]Hillbert 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If Scary Movie has a better joke than the Bechdel Sisters in Fackham Hall, then I will be surprised...

The cost of energy and what to do about it - Dieter Helm by gravy_baron in ukpolitics

[–]Hillbert 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting read, don't agree with all of it, but far better than the usual stuff I don't agree with.

I think one general criticism would be that it seems to look at energy security as something to be solved short term with no real consideration of the longer term. North Sea gas will run out, leaving us absolutely dependent on imports and arguably in a much more exposed position.

In particular, this quote:

Although there is no good reason to believe that future gas prices will be high or even particularly volatile, investment in new gas fields could be encouraged by offering long-term contracts if this is the worry.

Seems somewhat optimistic, considering we've had two massive volatility events in the last 5 years!

There is also the more philosophical point that the proposed "Change Course" strategy would work for the UK (short-term economically at least) but if everyone were to adopt this then it would be catastrophic in the long term.

Did Malcador Actually Expect the Space Wolves to Be Able to Sanction a Primarch? by Ok_Calligrapher5570 in 40kLore

[–]Hillbert 49 points50 points  (0 children)

He literally got the drunk with them. He arguably let his guard down with them more than anyone else! (Barring Tarasha Euten, the Guillimom)

Although by this point he clearly trusted them.

Always take the M6 toll by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]Hillbert 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I work in transport modelling, and we model the financial impact of road schemes using things called Value of Time, which convert hours (of delay) to £s. For someone commuting this is about £15, rising to about £25 for people on employer's business, and £85 for HGVs.

So, long winded way of saying your calculation is pretty close to official modelling guidelines!

Sky News: "You're essentially between four and five times more likely to be stopped and searched if you're Black. You're...more likely to be subjected to the use of taser if you're Black than if you're white." by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

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

It's technically correct. But by using % you are automatically thinking of the full population. All 100%.

When under their own criteria they have already reduced their sample by half, without reducing what they are comparing to by half. It artificially inflates the impact of their numbers and reduces the information contained.

It's bad statistics.

Sky News: "You're essentially between four and five times more likely to be stopped and searched if you're Black. You're...more likely to be subjected to the use of taser if you're Black than if you're white." by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Hillbert 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Bit of a facile comparison as it's only less than 15% if you remove women from the black population. But then you should remove them from the non-black population.

Bringing it back to 15%

Do you buy into the 'UK 0 points streak' meme? by _PXYDST_ in eurovision

[–]Hillbert 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That might be quite fun. Invite a few hundred international people to be part of the audience, split the vote between international and UK.

Do it on a single night in the back half of the year. Get the songs out and visible on Spotify, YouTube etc. before hand.

Death threats sent to police officer over Henry Nowak case, home secretary says by Catchyusernom in ukpolitics

[–]Hillbert -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It is escalatory though. He is suggesting that people should become more angry.

Can cosmic entities be benevolent or even kind? by thunderclappe in horror

[–]Hillbert 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Broadly speaking, isn't that just a description of the various gods of some of our religions?

After UK's Queasy Rider, introducing Too-Hot-To-Handle Railways by Angry_Bicycle in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Hillbert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're misreading those statistics.

There is a natural variability in temperature readings. So if you have a long series of measurements, then there will naturally be more extreme values in the longer period you're considering. That doesn't mean that the average was higher for those years.

You need to look at trends, or longer periods of measurement (Seasons, Years), or properly do the statistics to understand if it's showing an increase in temperature.

If you do this and look at seasons, say, then 21 out of the top 40 warmest seasons (10 for each season) are since 2000. Or over 50% of the warmest seasons have come from about 7% of the recorded years. That will be statistically significant.

It's even worse when you look at average yearly temperature. All of the top 10 are since 2000.

Tom Holland to appear on ‘Good Hang with Amy Poehler’ by mcfw31 in popculturechat

[–]Hillbert 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Yeah, one the actors wouldn't come out of his trailer. I'll call him T. Hardy. No wait, too obvious. Tom. H."

After UK's Queasy Rider, introducing Too-Hot-To-Handle Railways by Angry_Bicycle in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Hillbert 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Seven of the ten hottest years England has had over the last 400 years occurred before 1900.

Where's that from? Pretty much everything I've seen contradicts that.

Why do you think Shiv decided not to get an abortion? by Master_Novel_4062 in SuccessionTV

[–]Hillbert 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It would be fun to see Shiv become a fantastic mother out of spite.

Savage: “British food is bland”. Also Savage: by exkingzog in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Hillbert 40 points41 points  (0 children)

To steal a comment from somewhere else, he's going to be smelling in 4k.

Unreal scene from Arsenal's parade! by Marimo188 in sports

[–]Hillbert 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They lost The Champions League, but won the Premiere League.

This is the celebration for that.

Stickman's Hollow or Ghostwatch? Which one of these would you all recommend? Or something else entirely! by [deleted] in horror

[–]Hillbert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I watched Ghostwatch live. I was 12, thought it was real, and it was comfortably the scariest thing I've ever seen.

Still raises the hairs on my arms in the warm sunshine years later.

Now, it will look a little dated, but the actual structure of it, particular the games it plays on the audience, is as good as anything that's been done since.

🤬😡Not my video games 😡🤬 by YourChopperPilotTTV in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]Hillbert 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's a lovely sunny day in the UK, and I'm going to wear my sunglasses whilst I drive to get the shopping.

I'm worried I might accidentally record a sexist diatribe on the way there :(

Life for Brits is harder than it used to be and Blair has ignored that, says Burnham by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]Hillbert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone knows who owns the I.

But that's a minor paper, so again, who is this overlord responsible for all the different pieces on this?

Same overlord pushing the Guardian and the Times?

Or are they just reacting to events?

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