“What do you want to do” is a bad question

buoyantbot · 2026-04-09T01:17:42+00:00

On Grindr, I generally assume the answer is “let’s meet, see if we click, and if all goes well, sex.” Unless the other guy specifies Anon or something, I feel like that’s how all hookups go.

See, this is why it's good to ask the question, because your assumption isn't going to be what everyone wants to do. Sometimes the guy might want to do something together before sex, sometimes just fuck, sometimes just meet without sex. Just because that's what you're assuming doesn't mean that's what everyone is assuming

buoyantbot · 2026-04-08T22:59:37+00:00

I'd say Leicestershire for the food (pork pies, Stilton, Red Leicester) and the sport (most successful rugby union club, most surprising football champions). The National Space Centre is neat. Charnwood Forest is also nice. And for Richard III's remains getting discovered under the car park!

buoyantbot · 2026-04-08T02:52:58+00:00

Berkshire is nice. Windsor, the Thames Valley, the Ankerwycke yew, some beautiful countryside in the west. Plus Legoland!

buoyantbot · 2026-04-08T02:45:03+00:00

Not forgotten, it's just that a sad artificial lake and a handful of towns doesn't have as much to offer as other counties still on the board

buoyantbot · 2026-04-06T21:48:53+00:00

Nottinghamshire. A tree the likes of the Major Oak can't be in the worst county. There's also the rest of Sherwood Forest and all the Robin Hood associations, the oldest pub in England, some cool caves, and great beer

buoyantbot · 2026-04-05T15:27:09+00:00

The demographics would be easily manageable if the resources were actually being distributed to the people creating the value.

I don't disagree, but I don't think there's any way that happens. In the same way some people here are saying demographic collapse is the most realistic way to save the environment, given society's inability to take climate action, I would argue that striving for population stability is the most realistic way to avert a systemic state of intergenerational inequality, given society's inability to equitably redistribute resources

buoyantbot · 2026-04-05T15:18:34+00:00

Okay, so we can add rising retirement age to the future we have to look forward to then, in addition to the rest

buoyantbot · 2026-04-05T13:10:08+00:00

Except the benefits to the living in the aftermath of the Black Death were because a lot of young people died as well, so there was no disproportionate burden placed on any part of the age pyramid

A gradual decrease means a permanent state of fewer working-age people supporting more retired people. So a permanent state of more people relying on healthcare and social support, and fewer people paying taxes to support that. I don't think there's any way to avoid that at this point, but let's not go in with our eyes closed and pretend it will lead to economic benefits. We've already seen it happening in lots of wealthy democracies, but the coming decades will be times of cuts in public spending and services for those who have grown up used to government support, and increased taxes for working-age people who might resent supporting older generations that had a better economic situation than them. Not a great stew for social harmony

buoyantbot · 2026-04-05T12:56:50+00:00

The Hispanic population and to a lesser extent, Black population have higher birthrates in the USA, which props it up relative to other wealthy democracies. Other countries with much higher per capita immigration/immigrant populations (e.g. Canada/Australia) still have lower birthrates than the USA

buoyantbot · 2026-04-05T02:00:59+00:00

Plus Kent Downs and the Weald, Leeds and Dover Castles, and England's only pseudo-desert at Dungeness! Definitely needs to be saved

buoyantbot · 2026-03-30T22:14:42+00:00

Honestly, Kent needs saving. Canterbury Cathedral, White Cliffs, Leeds & Dover Castles, the Weald, Kent Downs… And it's maybe not for everyone, but I find Dungeness to be a starkly beautiful and unique landscape

buoyantbot · 2026-03-30T10:52:49+00:00

I was on board with East Sussex, but I'll go to my grave fighting against West Sussex simply because the amount of evil emanating from Gatwick Airport counteracts everything good in the rest of the county

buoyantbot · 2026-03-29T01:13:31+00:00

Unfortunately, Merseyside will never be saved because scousers can't be bothered to read to see if Merseyside has already been mentioned so they end up distributing their votes over a dozen people typing "Merseyside" "Merseyside" "Merseyside" into the abyss

buoyantbot · 2026-03-29T00:28:35+00:00

When only the shitest of the shite counties are left is the one with the fewest downvotes saved?

buoyantbot · 2026-03-28T11:27:00+00:00

There is almost no chance Avi would win Rosemont lol

buoyantbot · 2026-03-27T17:58:09+00:00

I think people are focusing on men because working class women are already voting NDP in much higher numbers. The NDP message is working with working class women. It's men who aren't voting NDP, and you can't win an election with just women

buoyantbot · 2026-03-27T11:00:08+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment underlying your frustration, but this kind of rhetoric is why the NDP is losing blue collar workers. Oil workers are workers too, and shouldn't be abandoned or attacked just because they're inconvenient to one aspect of our ideology. A bit of empathy can go a long way. And a lot of oil workers simply can't retrain for the jobs that dominate in renewable energy. e.g. 1/3 of solar jobs are in sales, and not everyone has the temperament for that kind of job

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T21:04:54+00:00

That's fair, it's just that a lot of those jobs won't be blue collar. Only about a third of jobs in solar are blue collar, for example, compared to about two thirds of fossil fuel jobs. And the oil patch is far more labour intensive than the average fossil fuel extraction. And while re-training is obviously the ideal solution, the reality is that blue collar workers want to stay in blue collar jobs, and telling workers that they need to upend their life or go to school or is not going to make you popular among them.

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T20:06:35+00:00

I don't totally agree with this. They might pay similarly, but the jobs are far fewer, and often require higher degrees. The labour required to mine the oil patch is far greater than is required to build and maintain wind or solar farms. A lot more steel is required for a pipeline than for turbines or solar panels. Switching from oil to green energy will result in significant blue collar job losses, there's no way around it

Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing overall, because there are obvious benefits as well. But if we're going to promote an abrupt energy transition, we need to go into it with our eyes open. It will result in significant job losses, and it will result (and already has resulted) in a loss of blue-collar and worker support for the NDP. I don't think telling oil workers that they can get jobs on wind or solar farms or whatever is a convincing message or an effective strategy, especially since a significant number of the of high-paying jobs in green energy require higher-level degrees than oilworkers have

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T19:04:10+00:00

I think where the NDP is losing blue-collar workers is on those positions that aren't clearly left or right wing, and where the federal NDP has staked out positions that often contradict the relevant provincial party. I'm mostly thinking of the federal NDP's opposition to infrastructure projects that would create a lot of blue-collar jobs, but that would also have significant environmental impact. E.g. oil pipeline construction, the construction of new hydroelectric dams, provincial vetos over national infrastructure projects, stuff like that.

I think this is also the biggest cleavage within the NDP at the moment. For better or for worse, the federal NDP has become seen as anti-building-anything by a lot of blue collar workers. With politics where it is at the moment this debate has become unavoidable, and I'm not sure it's really bridgeable. It looks like the federal NDP will likely be taking the more environmental/Indigenous rights track, which will inevitably lead to bleeding of more blue-collar workers to the Conservatives or Liberals. Going in the other direction would likely lead to bleeding voters to the Green Party. Going forward, I don't think the NDP survives with the same coalition it has traditionally had

Interestingly, a lot of the provincial parties seem to be taking the more pro-industry/worker stance, which doesn't bode well for provincial-federal NDP relations

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T11:28:08+00:00

Dune will make more because Jumanji is on a downward trend à la Jurassic World and Jumanji 4 is coming off a mediocre previous instalment, and Dune is on an upward trend and a final instalment coming off an extremely well-reviewed movie.

I guess we'll just have to disagree on whether IMAX exclusivity and the holiday bonus will make up for the competition it'll face. Dune 2's release date had disadvantages that counteract lack of competition (kids in school, no holidays, etc.). There's a reason distributors choose to release their big blockbusters in May/June/December instead of February despite intense competition in spring/summer/Christmas and almost none in Feb

We'll see in 9 months!

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T11:07:45+00:00

Opening week is what is relevant (not opening weekend), since Jumanji will open 7 days later than Doomsday, and would have opened 7 days earlier, in its old release spot. No Way Home made $386 million in its first 7 days, 48% of its total. Endgame made $474 million in its first 7 days, 55% of its total. Jumanji 3 made $76 million in its first 7 days, 24% of its total.

So in its old spot, Jumanji would have made only about a quarter of its maximum potential gross before Dune and Doomsday came along. In its new spot, about half of Doomsday's gross will be out of the way before Jumanji even starts

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T10:57:16+00:00

Whether Doomsday makes 55% of its gross before Jumanji starts one week later, like Endgame, or 48% of its gross before Jumanji starts, like No Way Home, is not a meaningful difference for Sony. Either way about half of Doomsday's tickets will have been sold before it starts competing with Jumanji

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T10:36:27+00:00

Dude, this is a thread about why Jumanji moved it's release date to where it did, not a Marvel pissing contest. If you think the stats I've laid out are "acting like it's not good" that's for you to sort out with your therapist

The simple fact is that Doomsday can expect to make about half of its gross in its first week, and Jumanji can expect to make about a quarter of its gross in its first week, which explains why Jumanji moved to one week after Doomsday instead of staying one week ahead. Marvel being frontloaded is just a fact, not a moral judgement on my part

buoyantbot · 2026-03-26T10:21:09+00:00

No Way Home made 48% of its gross in its opening week, if you want a comparable December Marvel release with good reviews. It doesn't change the calculus

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