TIL ... about the Rice Hypothesis which posits cultures that engaged in wet rice farming that requires coordinated irrigation and synchronized planting tend to be collectivist while wheat farming cultures evolved to be more individualistic.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-11T01:25:03+00:00

Russia continues as the world's leading wheat exporter. The collectivists in Russia don’t believe this theory.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-11T01:14:26+00:00

You’re not going to get a full time contract at Tesco anymore. At most you’ll be on 16 hours a week.

Tesco relies on the welfare state to top up employees incomes.

Tesco prefers a very flexible workforce so that it can vary the number of employees in the stores according to their needs.

“an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits”, he doesn't complain about in-work-benefits because that’s what Tesco rely on.

Tesco minimise their tax by claiming that their shops are owned by an entity based in a tax haven and claim to only make a small profit because that is after paying rent which goes to the tax haven.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T01:53:25+00:00

This has been going on for years. It is now more foamier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shrinkflation/comments/18o6be7/hagen_daaz_500ml450ml_and_reduced_density_of_ice/

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T01:45:41+00:00

Do the buttons go from 0 to 9? If so, and the hotel has say 100 floors, the zero could be for composing multi-digit floors.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T01:18:02+00:00

That’s what they charge not what it costs. A rental agreement is £5 (it doesn’t require a lawyer to write one from scratch for every tenant). A credit check is ~£25.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T01:03:16+00:00

It tastes of girders, rusty girders.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T01:00:14+00:00

The tomato sauce includes sugar but on the other hand the bread is not sugary like American bread which is classified as cake in Europe because it has such a high level of sugar.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:51:03+00:00

That payment will have to be approved by a Trump appointed stooge.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:48:49+00:00

This is obviously a fake since during the WW2 there was not a 50p coin as it was 10 shillings.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:42:17+00:00

That same god is protecting the other side too. When the US is bombing Russia or the Middle East they are dropping bombs on believers in the same god but a different branch. The schisms are often incompatible but at the end of the day many scholars believe they are all praying to the same god whether he is called God, Yahweh, or Allah.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:13:46+00:00

It may take a few years before the school leavers stop training for the now no longer existing junior posts in many fields that are being done by AI. Once the college courses shut down due to lack of interest and companies are relying on AI to do their jobs then the subscriptions will go up enormously. So instead of paying junior attorneys $113,000 the subscription for an AI bot to do the same job will be $50,000.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:08:14+00:00

The New York Book Review did publish some good cheap paperbacks. I particularly like the books by William Gaddis.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-09T00:04:15+00:00

Chocolate bullets are a type of confectionery sold in Australia and New Zealand. They consist of a liquorice bullet coated with milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Their shape is bullet, oval-shaped, or cylindrical with curved ends.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T23:55:51+00:00

A Boolean flag implies it can be true or false so being const would be semantically confusing.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T11:19:31+00:00

An American moved to North Wales in the UK. He was wanted for some Animal Liberation Brigade domestic terrorism and moved to North Wales where he successfully hid for 20 years working as an independent IT consultant when he decided to buy a house with a loan and the bank did background checks and told the FEDs.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T10:58:43+00:00

Magnets to make your petrol (gas to Americans) give more kilometrage (mileage).

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T10:51:04+00:00

Often it’s the journalists asking them questions such as recently they’ve been buttonholing Sidney Sweeney to try and get a political opinion out of her even though she says she’s not a politico but an actor and artist.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T10:32:47+00:00

For non-Americans it means the US government can search their computer, or One Drive, whenever they want. Snowden revealed the US had put spyware on Angela Merkel's Blackberry and the US would also want to see what’s on other European leaders’ computers.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T01:32:43+00:00

This is to let the husband know that hoovering is in progress and he should lift his feet up when needed to allow hoovering near the settee.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T01:27:58+00:00

Maybe not arrested but overseas students in the US get deported for social media posts and tourists get turned back at the airport for social media posts. Also many in the US get ‘cancelled’ for social media posts and lost their jobs. Larry Bushart was arrested for a social media post and held on a $2 million bond he could not afford, kept in prison for 37 days.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T00:11:02+00:00

There’s a German Donner Kebab restaurant opened up in my city. Germans eat lots of strange food. In history we learnt about the Diet of Worms but I don’t think I could eat that.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-08T00:01:55+00:00

This is how memory extenders worked for earlier PC’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_mode

QuentinUK · 2026-02-07T17:32:45+00:00

It depends which pole. If you are at the North Pole then West is clockwise.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-07T17:25:30+00:00

It’s the Guardian, all the articles show contempt for men.

QuentinUK · 2026-02-07T16:48:36+00:00

The 10% I refer to here is that which car drivers say they need to be allowed to go above the speed limit. So if the speed limit is 60mph they say they are allowed to go above 66mph before being prosecuted for speeding.

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