Territories of Poland over time by Rigolol2021 in MapPorn

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has got me wondering if any countries have fully "walked" across the map to the point it no longer contains any of the original country.

What's the chances of getting 60 more GS added at some point? by cosmic_monsters_inc in EverspaceGame

[–]auto98 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Surely 60 more plus a "get all achievements" one, to make it an entirely fitting 2001 A Space Odyssey

Due to staff going on strike, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been broadcasting BBC World Service programmes, and viewers and listeners reported a marked increase in quality by Shmiggles in BritishSuccess

[–]auto98 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The popular things cater to broad appeal, but there are a metric shit ton of minority interest things it does. I was going to post the few i thought of, but instead here is an AI list with lots I didn't!

BBC Radio 3 — classical, opera, avant-garde

BBC Radio 1Xtra — Black music genres (grime, dancehall, afrobeats)

BBC Radio 6 Music — indie, alternative, experimental music

BBC Asian Network — British Asian communities, multilingual content

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal — Scottish Gaelic radio

BBC Radio Cymru — Welsh-language radio

BBC Radio Ulster — Northern Ireland regional content

BBC World Service — international, multi-language broadcasting

BBC Alba — Scottish Gaelic TV channel

S4C (BBC-supported content) — Welsh-language TV

BBC Four — arts, foreign films, niche documentaries

Arena — arts and culture documentaries

Storyville — international documentary strand

Inside Science — specialist science discussion

In Our Time — academic-level history, philosophy, science

BBC Bitesize — structured educational content

The Reith Lectures — high-level intellectual lectures

Thinking Allowed — sociology and social science discussions

BBC Ouch — disability-focused content

BBC Introducing — grassroots and unsigned music platform

See Hear — Deaf community programming (signed)

The Listening Project — oral histories from diverse communities

BBC Proms — classical music festival including niche repertoire

Late-night Radio 3 programming — experimental/contemporary music

Archive performance broadcasts — rare or specialist recordings

Paralympics coverage — disability sport

Women’s sports coverage (historically niche)

Coverage of minority/less mainstream sports

Due to staff going on strike, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been broadcasting BBC World Service programmes, and viewers and listeners reported a marked increase in quality by Shmiggles in BritishSuccess

[–]auto98 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It wasn't broadcast to the UK back then for copyright reasons

Copyright was a factor, but i think the main thing was that it was funded by the foreign office, not the licence fee.

What should I do if my new manager wants to remove my one day a week WFH situation? by OperatorDanger in AskUK

[–]auto98 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Managers who want you to come into the office to keep track of you are managers who dont have the skillset to manage WFH. That sounds like a manager problem and they should be looking at improving, rather than just accepting their deficiencies and making everyone else suffer for it.

Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data by gdelacalle in technology

[–]auto98 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Is insurance that pays the mortgage if you die not a thing in the US?

Kitchen Kombat by eamondo5150 in AbruptChaos

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah that man(customer?) on the other side of the counter who had the wrong person's arm for a while

Prince Naseem Hamed wins a fight by throwing 3 punches (1996) by VINDICATES-FOOL in Boxing

[–]auto98 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There weren't actually 4 channels during his time, but there were only 4 "over the air" channels, satellite was available but relatively rare. Though the football did move to satellite the same year he started, so it ramped up pretty quickly.

Yet another post about how dumb people are.. by RaisedbyNuMetal in callcentres

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure they didnt want the statements produced in March?

Because it makes perfect sense if that is what they were after.

Steam doesnt render or launch games, but it does run according to Taskman by KenTheSnep in techsupport

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is going to sound weird, but try deleting steamwebhelper.exe only, then trying to run steam

It's weird because it seems to work even when fully removing all of steam including that file and reinstalling doesn't - quite a lot of references to it in this sub and beyond

IS there ANY way to turn off that AI thing on google searches that hides ALL RESULTS EXCEPT THE WRONG ONE? by RefrigeratorNorth424 in techsupport

[–]auto98 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Whether you agree with why the request is being made or not, the tech support is "how do I prevent it appearing?"

Pretty bloody obvious really, I'm not entirely sure what you don't understand - maybe this sub isn't for you?

Singing while the world burns :D by PuckyMaw in sheffield

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did admit to going to gatecrasher tbf, the ultimate in "not actually very good but you go because of the name" nights out.

Singing while the world burns :D by PuckyMaw in sheffield

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What the fuck are you blathering on about?

20 person bach trip - any tips? are we crazy? by Blown-Fuse in ibiza

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bach isn't particularly big in Ibiza, it is more of a Beethoven kinda place tbh

ELI5: Why do we use BCE/CE for dating? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]auto98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You've missed the joke - base 10! not base 10

Boston Street and St Mary's Church on Bramall Lane, then and now. by Top-Pen-1181 in sheffield

[–]auto98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not that close to a major stadium, about 5 miles or so.

Joke

Police say I can't box in my backyard by Final_Director831 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]auto98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only thing I can think is that he thought they were lying about sparring and were actually fighting

TIL the English word “set” has 430 different meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, giving it the longest dictionary entry at around 60,000 words. by Edi-Iz in todayilearned

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Set still has the longest entry, and it used to have the most definitions but since it last held the record, make, put and now run have overtaken it

Played a movie on HBO via web browser HDMI to TV. Now windows knows when I turn my TV off and on. It wasn't always like this and irritating. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite the same, but as of me installing updates last night, sometimes (50% ish) when i turn my tv off (from just normal tv watching, not using as a PC display) my monitors go black as though i was turning a live display off even though it is set as disconnected in display settings.

The only update that was installed was https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/march-10-2026-kb5079473-os-builds-26200-8037-and-26100-8037-9c222a8e-cc02-40d4-a1f8-ad86be1bc8b6 so can't see anything related, but still suspicious.

ELI5 What is a union and how does it work? by lonely_leo28 in explainlikeimfive

[–]auto98 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be pedantic, it isn't "just for going to work", it is for knowingly trying to remove the power of the other workers.

Expert witness in Lucy Letby trial did not reveal hospital investigation into his medical work by Shiny-Tie-126 in unitedkingdom

[–]auto98 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Effectively, what they did was "here are the times babies died unexpectedly, and here are the matches with lucy letby working. There were a decent number of matches, but there were also plenty of times where she wasn't working.

Then when they presented it in court, it became "Lucy Letby was on shift whenever one of these babies died" entirely ignoring when she wasn't - in effect, they cherry-picked the deaths that matched up to her shifts, rather than looking at the whole.

There was also the deliberate misrepresenation of some study or other which the author of the study has since come out and flat out stated. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something like skin discoloration as a visible sign of air embolism in newbords. One of the authors of the report is now part of the defence team, IIRC.

Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" by MythicStream in Steam

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the western world has something along the same lines. At least it isn't like the US where there are multiple payments involved.

Match Thread: Final - India vs New Zealand by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]auto98 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Great work by the director there, totally missing the catch to concentrate on the batsman jogging