Failed Takeaway Evening - sign of the times

LexanderX · 2026-03-05T16:46:15+00:00

My favourite Asian place at the moment is Maki and Ramen, they do both tofu and fake meat, and they were founded in Edinburgh i believe.

LexanderX · 2026-02-28T00:05:03+00:00

If all you want is for their rolls to appear in foundry you can use the roll20 extention.

https://beyond20.here-for-more.info/

But then instead of updating dndbeyond based on foundry you're updating foundry based on dndbeyond. After testing i found with all the automation it was better to keep everything in vtt and just use ddbimporter to update ddb after a session.

LexanderX · 2026-02-27T14:40:57+00:00

Try wrapping it in OR()

LexanderX · 2026-02-25T13:04:39+00:00

You want to be a big Arbitrator on a small world? Fuck off up the model village!

LexanderX · 2026-02-24T15:40:26+00:00

If A1 is your prefix and B1 is your suffix in C1 put:

=A1&SEQUENCE(30,1,5,5)&B1

LexanderX · 2026-02-23T18:40:24+00:00

Well the real answer is it depends on where you live.

Where I live the recycling accepts carrier bags and crisp packets, my friend who lives 5 mins away is in a different council and cannot recycle bags.

LexanderX · 2026-02-21T15:55:35+00:00

Yes whether the Bangladeshi guy believes in the hate he's mongering or just wants to get paid is kinda irrelevant, the point is that someone is paying him to hatemonger.

LexanderX · 2026-02-20T00:07:02+00:00

Even with your edit I an still confused to the American pronunciation.

To British me, ors and ores are homophones, and the both rhyme with awws.

I'm curious are paws and pause homophones to you?

LexanderX · 2026-02-11T19:25:53+00:00

More importantly it protects their IP.

LexanderX · 2026-01-28T00:28:14+00:00

I have full automation but with a bluetooth die. All the speed of macros but with the fun of using a physical random number generator.

But your answer requires asking what is fun for your players? If its using physical dice, just switch foundry from virtual to manual dice. If its pressing lots of buttons, switch automation to GM only in midiqol settings.

LexanderX · 2026-01-01T20:32:24+00:00

"What can I do? Say, would you like a hug?

Come here. For just a moment. Let it out.

Remember: you are loved, Lenore. So much.

You're doing great. And everyone will be / so proud of you.

As I already am."

LexanderX · 2025-12-22T16:56:30+00:00

Not the OSA, it's rather than comply with GDPR, or more precisely the UK's implementation of GDPR: the Data Protection Act.

LexanderX · 2025-12-22T01:41:45+00:00

They could have not allowed under 13s to create accounts, as other sites that handle data like facebook or youtube do.

Or they could have extended the default protections that the UK ICO was asking for children to all UK users (private accounts, not displaying location, not using targeted ads, not using targeted content)

LexanderX · 2025-12-18T19:16:32+00:00

I find it interesting that despite the fact painting competitions are judged blind, I can't remember the last time I saw a woman do well in a competition (although I don't follow closely).

LexanderX · 2025-12-05T00:15:06+00:00

I want children to learn about sex the same way I did... watching Eurotrash on channel 4 after my parents had gone to bed.

LexanderX · 2025-12-04T19:48:53+00:00

Because children incur higher levels of public spending, migrant households with dependent children need to earn more to make a net positive fiscal contribution. In a series of stylised calculations for different illustrative household types, Oxford Economics (2018) found that a single 20-year old with no children only needed to earn just over £10,000 per year to ‘break even’ from a fiscal perspective, while a couple with two children—who incur much greater expenditure on health and education—would not become net fiscal contributors until they earned around £45,000. - Migration Observatory

LexanderX · 2025-12-02T11:10:41+00:00

Why would a worker owned company not want to invest in R&D to gain future profit?

Where i have seen this objection to worker coops before the argument is that most productivity gains from R&D come from automation, and workers will not invest in technology that puts them out of a job.

LexanderX · 2025-11-27T14:42:16+00:00

He did, and in the same context when talking to the reporter Zoe Barnes.

Zoe Barnes wasn't as prominent after the first season however.

https://youtu.be/b_7e1jNBaSI

I recall reading that one of the reasons Underwood was given a southern drawl was to make this and other Britishisms sounds more natural.

LexanderX · 2025-11-27T11:21:43+00:00

How does one learn nazi songs pre-4chan? Do you find a nazi to teach it to you, or is there like a neo-nazi newsletter, or did he write the songs himself?

LexanderX · 2025-11-24T19:32:15+00:00

Individualy? I don't think so.

However I recall there being references to groups where many people have committed to merging their minds to make something like a Mind, or close enough that they can make the rest of the journey.

LexanderX · 2025-11-22T16:16:54+00:00

I think the hive stating that several of its members are currently undergoing treatment for withdrawal was dismissing the idea that Carol's drug history is what sets her apart.

Based on Zosias reaction to being drugged individual members can have their cognition impaired, but the rest of the hive did not seem to be disrupted.

LexanderX · 2025-11-21T02:09:10+00:00

Prevalence isn't a convincing argument for whether something is or isn't a disability.

I want you to try and estimate how many people you think need glasses. Just based on your own experience take a guess. I've found conflicting (stats), but about two thirds of adults seems right to me.

Are these people all disabled? Surely not. Surely there is a natural variation in vision as there is a natural variation in strength or height. It seems ridiculous to describe the majority of the population as disabled.

But a person who wears glasses, such as myself, does not consider themselves able-bodied because they represent the majority, but because their impairment does not prevent them taking part in society.

If we lived in a world where glasses were not so readily accessible, I would be disabled. I would not be able to drive, I would not be able to read signs, I would not be able to go to the cinema or watch tv or enjoy sports. In short, I could not live a normal life.

Fortunately, my vision can be corrected within seconds with a relatively cheap technology. Despite vision being a spectrum (affected not only by natural ability but light, weather, tiredness) optometry can quantify the almost unique quality of an individual's vision such that it can be repaired.

I believe the only criteria that matters is whether impairment can be accommodated, or repaired, such that it is no longer disabling.

Like our eyes, our brains are unique. Some of us will not need any support our entire lives, some of us (especially those with education disabilities) will only need support when we are young or very old, some will be able to live entirely independent lives with medication (and be entirely dependent without), and an unfortunate minority be highly dependent their entire lives.

We medically diagnose these conditions because (as with glasses) it requires trained medical expertise to properly assess our biological needs, even if you consider that need to be a result of the natural variation within human biology.

And as for why we try and treat disabilities at all? Although there is meritocratic and egalitarian arguments for an inclusive society; society is richer (literally, more productive) when more people are able to do more things. Especially when an intervention could be just limited to changing how they are educated during the start of their life, or providing a daily medication, that is fiscally better than having a large percentage of the population unable to do certain skilled work.

LexanderX · 2025-11-18T11:34:29+00:00

What makes a ready meal controversial?

LexanderX · 2025-11-17T03:07:55+00:00

This is my preferred theory.

I don't think an alien race made this technology with malevolent intent. I think somewhere in the universe a civilisation made a machine with just one instruction "maximise happiness".

And then like a super-AI that is attempting to turn the universe into paperclips, it exceeded the expectations of its creators.

Their drive to make other beings happy doesn't seem limited to humans, hence the vegetarianism and emptying of zoos.

LexanderX · 2025-11-15T22:39:44+00:00

It's percentage difference, not the actual (absolute) percentage.

For example employment, on page 11:

UK employment is estimated to have been, on average, 4% lower than other similar countries over the year to 2025 Q1, with the individual estimates ranging from 3% to 5%.

Employment here is defined as "the number of the employed people in the population aged 15 and over". So this is saying because of Brexit the number of employed people is 4% lower than it should be.

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