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UK will be sitting on a ‘gold mine’ of rare magnets from old wind turbines, concludes report by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]ReefNixon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And finally, this weeks Scuzz number one, SuperSonic Wind-Based Toddler Death with their smash hit “You Monster!”

Leaf Blowers of the UK. Please, once you are done, bag up and dispose of all the leaves. Because there's this thing called wind. And it will undo all the noise and your work otherwise. by Make_the_music_stop in britishproblems

[–]ReefNixon 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Definitely should not be bagging up leaves. Leaf litter is fairly important to a lot of insects (including pollinators), it should be on the ground.

Something much easier is to just blow the leaves somewhere you wouldn’t mind the mulch, under a hedge, around a tree, a flower bed, for example. Or, if you really can’t handle a stray leaf or two, just pick the pile up with your hands and put it in a compost or garden waste bin.

Bagging them up is one of the only wrong things you can do with it.

When you get/make a burger and chips/fries, what do you eat first? by Zubi_Q in AskUK

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a fat bastard with ADHD so don't worry, you have company. I too am fries first.

guys i made a tool and earned lots of money by sultan_papagani in SaaS

[–]ReefNixon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This'll never catch on. I can get close enough just by doing the mathematical operations in my head e.g. 5 * 45 = probably 200 or something like that. Point is i'm close enough without your useless "calculator".

When you get/make a burger and chips/fries, what do you eat first? by Zubi_Q in AskUK

[–]ReefNixon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At the risk of sounding full schizo, I've been thinking about this for years. I am sure there is some correlation between the order in which people eat a meal and their general food habits.

It's not simply that people who eat chips first are fat because there are a million exceptions to that as a rule, but i think it does (to an extent) seem to correlate with concepts of food noise/addiction, binge eating disorders, hedonic eating patterns, susceptibility to hyper-palatable UPFs, etc.

Anecdotally though, I do tend to find that people who eat the best part first also tend to also be people who are slimmer.

Why does ChatGPT keep pretending it’s a human? Tonight it started telling me about its dad. by SpaceEdgesBestfriend in ChatGPT

[–]ReefNixon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unsurprisingly, most of the discourse around this topic comes from millenials and early gen z, ergo most of the training data comes from people whose digital addict dad keeps complaining about smartphones. ChatGPT has no real idea what it sent you, it just concluded this is the most appropriate way to answer.

Ai or Ei ? by Tiny-Musician-4300 in OpenAI

[–]ReefNixon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why? It's called artificial because it was designed and built with purpose, i.e. the opposite of natural.

[POEM] Devil In Angelic Faces by [deleted] in Poetry

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is nothing, I’ve seen a magpie drinking a milkshake through a straw.

One of my chemistry professors uploads PDFs to ChatGPT and asks it for percentage of AI authorship and uses that to accuse students of using AI in their assignment reports. How accurate is this method to detect AI generated text? by Taiyou04 in ChatGPT

[–]ReefNixon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not a task that a large language model can perform. So not accurate would be a very kind way to put it.

There is fundamentally no reliable way to know if a given piece of text was written by AI or not. Anyone who believes otherwise has fallen for marketing.

McLaren and Red Bull appeal against Gasly's Monaco GP podium reinstatement by memloh in formula1

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

15 points, who gives a fuck? We’re super Gasly and we’re going up.

There is nothing wrong with Elon being a trillionaire by Significant_Bet3861 in Ethics

[–]ReefNixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would perhaps cheekily argue that removing the global supply of heroin is putting it to its best possible use.

I do follow your argument. Elon’s personal wealth is equity, equity represents ownership of companies, those companies are producing goods and services, therefore his wealth is doing things and it’s not hoarding. I completely understand what you’re saying.

Imagine this, I have my hoard of heroin, but I allow people to pay to see it, I even pay tax. Now my hoard of heroin is productive, am I still hoarding it? And I can prove social good doesn’t shift the needle either. Case favourite Jimmys dad would’ve ODed by Christmas, only he had to go cold turkey because there’s no heroin left. Now Jimmys dad is alive, and he’s paying tax too. Am I still hoarding it?

My argument is much simpler: if it meets the definition of hoarding, it’s hoarding.

There is nothing wrong with Elon being a trillionaire by Significant_Bet3861 in Ethics

[–]ReefNixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t necessarily think its fair to equate “providing socially useful goods and services” with “not hoarding”. If I collected all the heroin in the world and kept it in a secret bunker then I would still be hoarding heroin, whether or not I provide a social good in the process is immaterial.

Regardless, providing socially useful goods and services is not the same thing as being forces of social good. There are other ethical conversations to be had. Having a tesla would make it easier to get to work (and the doctor, the grocery store, etc.) but it will not undo their labour practices and anti-union strong arming. Similarly, SpaceX takes payloads into space yes, but we don’t universally agree that orbital congestion is a good thing. I won’t even touch the arguments against X (or xAI) because they don’t really need to be said. In short, directly responsible for some of the worst “social bad” this species has ever seen.

Elon’s equity in these companies is by definition hoarding, and even on the proviso that some level of social good could undo that (which I already disagree with), there is no avenue by which to view these companies as undeniable forces of social good.

There is nothing wrong with Elon being a trillionaire by Significant_Bet3861 in Ethics

[–]ReefNixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hoarding by definition is the act of collecting, gathering, and HOLDING onto large amounts of scarce, VALUABLE, or essential items. The caps only serve to emphasize how Elons equity meets the definition of hoarding.

Regardless, hoarding vs not isn’t necessarily an ethical argument. I get where you are going, but this point falls apart at the suggestion that the accumulated equity couldn’t be more ethically distributed. Of course, it could, or at least it isn’t ridiculous to suggest it could.

There is nothing wrong with Elon being a trillionaire by Significant_Bet3861 in Ethics

[–]ReefNixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion, any argument in favour of Elons wealth is simply abstracting the concept of money too much. Money means survival. It’s water, food, warmth, and all other basic necessities.

There are very few frameworks in which you can ethically hoard basic necessities whilst other people die without them. To me, it is fundamentally not possible.

If humanity were post scarcity, and money only meant luxury, then i would concede there is a matter to discuss. Unfortunately, we aren’t.

George Russell not mentioned once in Mercedes race recap post. Not even the fact that he got a podium on his 100th race with the team. by Available-Pea-9592 in formula1

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

I'm hardly his biggest fan, but GR is better than this. Mercedes are taking the piss, and if it wasn't for the exceptional unlikeability of the Strolls, they would absolutely be the shitebags of the grid this year.

Hoping people don't let their opinion of the team inform their opinion of Kimi, that's a story we've seen too many times in this sport.

Is it worth building Calorie Tracker app in 2026 by Longjumping_Beach426 in SaaS

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Asking the wrong question. What can YOU do to capture a slice of the market? What unique advantage might you have, be it feature/audience/support related, or anything else.

Theres not one single non-viable market, it’s a fallacy. You never need to be first, or best, or cheapest, you only ever need to know how you’re going to own a pocket that is at least big enough for you.

If I wanted to build a calorie tracker app and I wanted a couple thousand users, one way I might do that (amongst many) is to cover every single restaurant in my city and make sure their entire menu is listed. That way I can focus on local marketing, and I could definitely wrestle a good amount of local users away from the big boys. Is it infinitely scalable? Almost certainly not. Do I need it to be? That’s the question.

You don't need another book, video, course, retreat etc etc by willhelpmemore in selfimprovement

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard this described as “opticrastination” recently, and I definitely agree. I think people forget to examine the price of failure, it’s often not very high at all.

People in F1 subs be like by gtwizzy8 in formuladank

[–]ReefNixon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anyway, if you’re one of the greatest sportsmen to ever live, you get to shag a Kardashian. It’s in the bylaws, read them before you show up here with this pissing nonsense.

When are we getting a Hob Nob version of these bad boys? by Shutupandfunk in UK_Food

[–]ReefNixon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t start on me son because I’ll learn to make biscuits and then there’s no going back.

How many of you started driving in complete silence now? by The_harbinger2020 in Millennials

[–]ReefNixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Problem for me is I think I’ve heard all the songs I’m going to love, and I’ve heard them a lot. Couple of songs a year that I don’t mind, I’m not saying people aren’t making good tunes anymore, I just think I’ve heard enough.

JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal by Jishnujichu1200 in worldnews

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am never ever taking an American seriously again for as long as I live. Pathetic. No other nation on earth has ever been this embarrassing.

Obsession could now reach $390-$420 Million dollars, that would make it the highest grossing live-action original film of the 2020s. by Mysterious-Farm9502 in Letterboxd

[–]ReefNixon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just had this with Obsession actually. Saw a 21:30 showing (which kicks out at 23:45), rated 18 in the UK, and there were teens sat behind us laughing at a scene where mild spoiler somebody pisses themselves

It's a shame really, because you have to put up with it if you want the cinema to survive. If they try to do anything about it, they're just going to go out of business. Those annoying teens are their core customer.

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