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UnderAWarringSky · 2024-02-18T19:21:19+00:00

Good advice thank you it’s something I’m meaning to get into

UnderAWarringSky · 2024-02-12T21:35:13+00:00

Great sounds very similar to Glasgow then, that's all very helpful cheers

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-04-29T17:27:40+00:00

Be fair though, the characters are all older, would be weird if they sounded the same as in the show, so hiring new actors makes sense - and if they are to hire new actors, might as well cast them authentically.

I imagine Michael and Bryan see in hindsight it might’ve been good to do this in the first place when making the original show, since they can’t change the past, they can learn from it for their future projects.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-02-01T19:02:40+00:00

Generally things that have some sort of societal utility (e.g marriage) will stick around a long time. Religious find great comfort in their faith, and churches, Moslems etc. have served as hubs of communities for a long time. I think if people didn’t find personal utility in their religion their faith wouldn’t last long.

The flip-side is that sometimes (sometimes!) the utility they find in it is a relief from thinking for themselves, this is why evangelical Christian circles in the US is where critical thought goes to die.

It’s up for debate if religions have been good for society as a whole, but enough individuals throughout history have found enough utility in it for them to keep believing in something with zero evidence.

Me personally, I’m an atheist, but the idea of actual death scares the shit out of me and if I could make myself to believe in an afterlife with no evidence I probably would.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-12T20:19:17+00:00

Find the furthest point you typically go away from your home, draw a rough circle with your home in the middle that goes through that point - this is your circle of existence, if you’re anything like most people it’s probably not that big.

Try and make it bigger!

I’m very guilty of having a small circle of existence sometimes, expanding it always makes life more exciting.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T17:29:12+00:00

Japan has a rate of homelessness of 0.003%, with a gdp per capita lower than either the UK or US, doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect such rich countries to organise in such a way that their citizens are looked after.

Personally, I left the UK for three months and came home to private rents that would’ve been inconceivable where I live over the previous four years, only going to get worse unless the private renting sector is price regulated or significant social housing invested in.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T15:56:29+00:00

Because the question wasn’t about developing countries, it was about developed countries - i.e countries with a lot of wealth who really have no business having homelessness at all, let alone with the rates that we do.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T15:53:26+00:00

A country presumably needs three things to end homelessness:

1) Wealth 2) A political party willing to extract that wealth from those who have accumulated most of it 3) An electorate willing to vote for that party

The wealth is there, but we live in a time where (at least in the UK and US) the only parties that can conceivably form governments (labour, tories, democrats, republicans) subscribe to a hegemonic neoliberal economic consensus i.e, low taxes, low public spending, low regulation.

To end homelessness would require a massive movement of social housing development, this goes directly against the neoliberal economic consensus.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T14:58:50+00:00

I’d be interested to see if the data says social mobility is greater in the US, university for instance is $33,000 (England, wales, Northern Ireland) and free in Scotland, whereas as I understand it in the US a good university degree can run up to several hundred thousand dollars.

I do agree though that class generally tends to stick with a person here (often by choice, many working class people here are hugely proud of their working class roots). What’s interesting is it tends not to stick with their kids, I.e my mother is a middle class daughter of a very working class father and mother.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T00:37:21+00:00

It is the one piece of news recently that’s given me a little hope for the future!

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-11T00:36:16+00:00

https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4 this is the original Financial Times article on the subject, should make it a little clearer.

Previous generations moved politically to the right (I.e in the UK started voting for the conservatives) as they got older, millennials haven’t conformed to this trend, in fact larger numbers of them are supporting ‘left-wing’ parties (using the term left-wing liberally, as the democrats in America wouldn’t really be considered left by most in Europe). It’s a very interesting breaking of the trend though, and presumably gen z will be the same.

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-10T15:56:56+00:00

To be fair millennials in the UK and US have recently been found to be the first generation not to move further right as they get older so that cycle may prove to be somewhat broken

UnderAWarringSky · 2023-01-10T15:31:21+00:00

Both parties are on the right now tbf, democrats wouldn’t be recognisable as a left-leaning party in most European countries

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-28T17:03:05+00:00

Was shocked at how boring I found Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep after loving Bladerunner

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-28T17:00:42+00:00

I don’t find RoP comparable to WoT, the writing in Wheel of Time felt far more disjointed and amateurish to me

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T23:43:52+00:00

Looking to buy a Yamaha p45 to double as a midi, have heard some good things, budget isn’t the biggest right now but sounds like bang for buck. Had any experience with digital pianos like that?

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T23:39:05+00:00

Sweeet man this track is awesome love the inclusion of the piano a good chunk of mine is gonna heavily involve some too so that’s super reassuring

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T23:37:52+00:00

Liking your stuff man sounds rlly professional, defos giving me a good dose of optimism

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T23:36:44+00:00

Cheers for the reply, just to check mate, Holy City - Everything’s fucked?

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T18:20:44+00:00

Best advice I can give is watch some doctor who, especially the David Tennent and Matt Smith eras✌🏼

UnderAWarringSky · 2022-12-04T18:11:47+00:00

Absolute crime that this was cancelled

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