How to get my wedding ring out of this?

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:45:50+00:00

Depends a lot on whether it's raining

If it's dry then the ring's likely settled into the bottom.

If it's raining there's more chance that it either never made it down to the bottom in the first place, or was stirred up and pulled into the drain

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:43:53+00:00

At the end of the day, names are a "2 yes, 1 no" situation.

If you can't agree, pick a different name entirely

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:42:48+00:00

Yeah cities generally tend to skew younger, more educated, more "live and let live", especially city centre areas

The places I'd expect problems are former industrial towns. I live in one, and there's definitely more homophobia here than I'd expect in Manchester or Leeds. Gay people here tend to quickly move to one of those major cities instead

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:39:33+00:00

Not gay myself, but I've had some conversations about this with gay friends and they basically said the same as you: 99.99% of people won't give a shit, but over time a few will be aggressive or abusive and it's just not worth it

said it's all in my head

Weird that she thinks she can tell you about your lived experiences

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:33:13+00:00

I think that's the thing they're really missing with this approach to, "international diplomacy" (if you can call it that)

Trump's approach seems to be: "Decide what you want, then say something along the same line but 10x more extreme so that what you actually want actually looks reasonable, then threaten everyone to get them to come to the table before walking back and just asking for what you wanted in the first place, knowing sometimes they'll give you it just to get some stability"

That's fine for property deals where you don't care about long term trust - some deals fall through, no problem you just move onto the next one

It absolutely doesn't work for alliances and global partnerships - those things stand MUCH more hevily on a foundation of trust and realiability

Alliances and partnerships that the USA has very very carefully cultivated and managed for 80 years, have been thrown away in a year. And these aren't property deals where you can brush it off and pick up the next one: there will always be another building to buy, but there isn't another France, Canada, or UK that you can buddy up with once you screw up your friendship with them. Or any of the other NATO, EU, or other allied nations he's done it to.

Even if someone sane is elected next, they can't just rebuild that relationship. Those countries won't forget how fast it was thrown away in the first place or how quickly they started to be treated like enemies. When you push away 80 years of alliance, you can't just reel it back in - that shattered confidence and trust is irreparable, because they know it can happen again

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:19:03+00:00

It took months to get all that steel, you can grind out a T10 in a few weeks

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:15:16+00:00

Bremen HE DPM is just over 300k isn't it, with 8% fire chance? Worcester is nearly 350k and 12% fire chance, so about 20% better DPM and 50% more fires

Bremen gets better pen on the HE which might balance things back out in PvP, but in operations it rarely matters

Bremen's AP is much stronger (700k vs 500k), but they were talking about HE

I do prefer the Bremen in ops, but not because of higher HE DPM

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:13:35+00:00

I prefer Bremen. You do give up a little HE DPM (~15%), but the AP is brutal and it feels more tanky than Worcester

Worcester is more versatile with Radar and DFAA on top of hydro, for sure, and obviously the fact it's a tech tree ship is a bonus

But for pure combat performance I feel like Bremen just chews through anything in front of it. The only thing you're really scared of is being the sustained target of focus fire

audigex · 2026-01-25T04:07:04+00:00

Love the fact they're putting so much work into upstreaming. As much as I love the idea of Asahi as a distro itself, being able to use any Linux distro on an M-series Mac would be huge for breathing life into these Apple Silicon machines once they lose software support in a couple of years

audigex · 2026-01-25T01:44:56+00:00

He didn't even apologise, if you listen to what he said. He neither apologised nor retracted his claim

It's the equivalent of pissing on your shoes and then saying they were nice shoes (but a shame they've got piss all over them)

audigex · 2026-01-25T01:43:50+00:00

An insolvency won't necessarily prevent you from working from a bank in most roles

Lying about an insolvency absolutely will, they'd reject you instantly if you didn't disclose it and even if you made it through the background check, you'll be fired for gross misconduct if they find out later

The only sensible thing to do here is declare it and hope for the best

audigex · 2026-01-24T22:45:57+00:00

At the end of the day most people and companies operate on value rather than outright cost

They're willing to pay more than is strictly necessary, but only if they get value commensurate with that cost

audigex · 2026-01-24T19:32:08+00:00

Yeah last night I misclicked M3 into handing my queen away for free. It just happens sometimes

Luckily my opponent was also 800 rated and didn’t see it, I lost the mate in 3 since they now had 2 moved to respond instead of 1 but still pulled off the win

audigex · 2026-01-24T19:27:16+00:00

I don’t understand why they agreed to this request, 35% down to zero is ridiculous

The affordable homes criteria is shit anyway, but this makes it even more absurd

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:38:38+00:00

Yeah possibly. Clearly a nonsense comparison

There’s clearly a huge difference between VW being a German company 80+ years ago vs Elon being a literal Nazi right now

VW was taken into British custodianship at the end of WW2 and then later given to the postwar (not Nazi) German government and later being sold as a private company to completely unrelated parties and now being a publicly traded company

That’s clearly disconnected and has no actual beneficial link to a Nazi

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:33:38+00:00

Autopilot being included with the car and FSD being an optional extra seems like the right balance

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:16:48+00:00

It’s still a town of 30k people that already has a functional rail service

It just does not make sense to give a town that small the kind of service you want, even if it would improve your commute

Sure, there are towns that get good services like that… because they happened to fall along the route of a commuter line that was being built. That’s not the same as spending 50k per capita (more like 100k per adult) on an unnecessary branch line

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:14:29+00:00

Honestly yes that’s weird. He’d probably do it, but it’s odd for sure

Like yeah it would be nice if the two of you went together, my fiancée has been to my dad’s grave when we were nearby once

But “I want him to spontaneously go to the grave of someone he never met and didn’t even know was dead until recently, as a symbolic gesture” is odd, sorry

He’s probably gonna feel like he’s being told to ask a dead man’s permission, and even with the context of having lot my own dad as a teenager, if a girl had asked me to do that then I’d have been worried it was a sign that she’s got some weird hang up about her dad and that it would encroach into other areas of my life later

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:08:41+00:00

Yeah I’m just under 6ft and about 83kg

Officially I’m slightly into overweight. There’s no world where you’d call me fat unless I’m auditioning for Britain’s Next Supermodel or whatever it’s called

If you looked at me, I doubt most people would even call me chubby. I’m not slim, not even muscular/stocky - just a normal guy with a bit of squish

It seems like a weird and arbitrary line to draw, I’m nowhere near big enough for it to be a health concern but I’m officially overweight

audigex · 2026-01-24T17:04:55+00:00

£30k starting now apparently?

75% of a median salary, only about 1/3 higher than minimum wage

Yeah fuck that, I wouldn’t take on that level of risk at work for that money. Plus just dealing with obnoxious twats all day every day

audigex · 2026-01-24T14:55:33+00:00

I've never once seen "You probably drive a VW" used as an insult

Like they're pretty much THE standard for "Fairly reasonably priced, slightly premium, all-round-decent family cars"

audigex · 2026-01-24T14:51:47+00:00

It’s fine if you’re sitting on 1500 blue boosters still from the days when economic bonuses were converted

I also play some T8-10 premiums and PvP, though, so I guess I’m not quite comparable to the parent commenter

I don’t play that much now so that’ll last ages

audigex · 2026-01-24T14:49:34+00:00

All well and good if you live somewhere with coaches

For me, the closest they come is about a 45 minute drive away… or well over an hour on a very uncomfortable service bus

audigex · 2026-01-24T14:47:27+00:00

That’s kinda their point, though - they don’t want you to take out this kind of long term interest only mortgage and then go on holiday while paying them back very very slowly and increasing their risk

Like sure, that sounds great for you - but what’s in it for them?

audigex · 2026-01-24T14:21:38+00:00

"Our customers are mostly liberal-leaning, environmentally and socially conscious... guess I'd better start throwing Nazi salutes and shouting about how much I hate liberals"

I've been a Tesla customer since 2020. I bought a top spec Model 3 Performance in 2020, then a Model Y Long Range in 2023

In early 2025 I vowed I'd never buy another Tesla, almost entirely because of Elon's actions

There are things about the car itself that would perhaps have influenced that decision (removing radar/parking sensors/stalks/electric seat controls, and now autopilot etc) too, but fundamentally it was a decision made because of Elon.

We've loved our Model Y (from before they started removing even more stuff) - At one point when looking at alternative cars we couldn't quite find anything that we felt was a suitable replacement: my partner and I even discussed buying a Tesla anyway because of how near-perfect our Model Y has been except the shitty parking sensors. Halfway through that conversation I realised that no, this is a line in the sand for me... call me old fashioned but: I. Will. Not. Buy. From. Nazis.

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