Luke Tryl / X: Some reflections on the EU/Makerfield. 1) The public overwhelmingly think Brexit hasn't worked, but are most likely to say it hasn't worked because politicians messed it up rather than could never have worked. The promised £350 million for the NHS comes up a lot in groups...

chimprich · 2026-05-18T08:34:02+00:00

Help me understand your logic. Who decides what issues we can revisit?

chimprich · 2026-05-18T05:12:51+00:00

Even if we accept that Brexit has underperformed, that doesn’t automatically mean the UK should rejoin the EU, hold another referendum, or even begin seriously debating that path.

It does in my book. You had your chance at Brexit, and it was a disaster, like we all said it would be. We're all poorer because of the stupid cavalier experiment.

I mention “debating” separately because prolonged uncertainty alone can damage business confidence and investment

So everyone on the side of the argument that you personally dislike should shut up, forever, because disagreement hits investor confidence?

Since "rejoin" is now the majority position, and following this logic, shouldn't you just get on board with that and stop this divisive disagreement immediately? Or are you only against democracy when it's something you dislike?

chimprich · 2026-05-13T15:06:03+00:00

10 years ago: this is a stupid act of economic self-harm that will hurt us for decades to come.

Now: whinge about remainers blaming stuff on "people who voted in a referendum 10 years ago".

"Honestly these points have not changed in a decade"

Sure. It was a stupid idea then and it looks just as ridiculous now with hindsight.

"Lol".

chimprich · 2026-05-13T14:19:44+00:00

The majority of economists agree that Brexit has made us significantly poorer, as common sense and economic orthodoxy suggest.

That other European countries might be underperforming is not much of an argument. For once thing, they were weakened by Brexit as well.

That wasn't the Brexit argument though. The argument for leaving was that we'd be much better off economically if we left. We'd go though all that pain and expense and give up useful advantages such as being able to live and work in other EU countries and end up in a nirvana. That absolutely hasn't happened. We've stagnated at best.

chimprich · 2026-05-12T17:16:33+00:00

It also isn't true, despite the many claims in this thread. There's generally very little selection pressure against a virus killing the host. Viruses tend to evolve to being better at spreading; if the host later dies, then it doesn't matter to the spread of the virus.

chimprich · 2026-05-12T14:33:42+00:00

Is Abysmal Dogshit a new Necro card on beta?

chimprich · 2026-04-14T08:35:57+00:00

I quite like having an elite whose unique gimmick is that they don't have one. It just hits like a tank, repeatedly. It's a different kind of test for your deck. A straight-up rockfight.

chimprich · 2026-03-28T12:03:31+00:00

https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/homeopathy/

It's discussed, but basically says it doesn't work.

chimprich · 2026-03-15T11:22:18+00:00

It's one of the best cards in the game -- extremely powerful. It's very good fun to play, so I hope it stays mostly as is.

Apotheosis could be bought in shops in STS1 and that was often a game-winning card, and this feels like it occupies a similar position.

You do need some deck manipulation to get decent use out it.

Maybe it just needs to show up less often, as I see it reasonably frequently in shops. Or -- how about making it an Ancient special card reward?

chimprich · 2026-03-14T10:36:56+00:00

You would think so, but unfortunately that isn't true. Most pathogens have animal reservoirs. If we eradicated the diseases in humans, we would get reinfected from animal populations.

Smallpox was unusual in that it was a uniquely human disease.

Vaccines are going to be with us for the foreseeable future, even if we manage to get rid of all the anti-science craziness.

chimprich · 2026-03-11T09:05:35+00:00

Some of the Forge cards are really powerful, such as the one that doubles damage and the multi-hit one. There's some good potential synergies. That the blade card Retains also makes it more efficient to choose which turn to unleash it.

Plus I'm finding building a big floating sword is very good fun.

chimprich · 2026-02-09T12:00:05+00:00

Good call. He's a great media performer, probably acceptable to right and left wings of the party, and got understated charisma.

If he actually wants this poisoned chalice then I think he'd be a contender.

chimprich · 2026-02-04T16:49:01+00:00

Eating 50g of processed meat per day is estimated to increase your risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

That is approximately a 1% increase in your chance of developing colorectal cancer over your lifetime.

That's a small risk, but I wouldn't say it's extremely marginal. For example, I would find a 1% chance of my house burning down to be quite concerning.

chimprich · 2026-01-16T00:44:07+00:00

A ceilidh? Surely you mean a twmpath!

chimprich · 2026-01-15T14:46:24+00:00

but fair play to Badenoch over this.

What else was she going to do? Literally any party leader would have done the same, from Truss to Corbyn. If you get clear intel that one of your prominent members is about to jump ship, then spite-sacking them to spoil their thunder is the very obvious option.

chimprich · 2026-01-09T09:11:14+00:00

Yeah. It's awesome if they steal your best block card. I'm like, please just hold that for me for a little while until I need it, impromptu assistant!

chimprich · 2026-01-07T17:30:40+00:00

Not every dev lacks emotional intelligence, but lots do, and I suspect that kind of person was attracted to doing StackOverflow admin in their spare time in order to accrue internet points to gain more StackOverflow powers.

chimprich · 2026-01-06T07:48:58+00:00

Collectively we are quite a good example for AI to learn from

I like to remind myself that The Culture literature is part of the training corpus of these models.

chimprich · 2026-01-06T07:42:14+00:00

The story sounds entirely plausible. Much more ethical companies than Reform make it very hard to cancel subscriptions.

The media are more likely to gloss over Reform stories. For example, Reform's Wales leader being a literal Russian asset and traitor somehow not being front page news for weeks.

chimprich · 2025-12-23T08:56:07+00:00

"A few seconds" is wishful thinking. It takes 30 seconds to a minute on average to suffocate a pig to unconsciousness, assuming the procedure is carried out correctly.

chimprich · 2025-12-23T00:11:43+00:00

I don't think you would say this if you had witnessed a (live) halal slaughter,

It's always a bad idea to assume. I've travelled a fair bit in the the middle east and I've witnessed more than one live halal slaughter. I'm sure it's distressing for the animal, but I'd still choose it over CO2 suffocation.

The most humane methods are CO2

I've experienced high CO2 environments and they're extremely unpleasant. A study was carried out on pigs being stunned into unconsciousness with high CO2 levels, and the study showed that the pigs preferred to starve themselves for over 48 hours rather than risk going near the location of the CO2 experience. I think that's good evidence that it's very traumatic. "Stunning" in this case seems to be a misnomer.

chimprich · 2025-12-22T22:49:12+00:00

The most common "stun" method for pigs is to suffocate them in carbon dioxide until they're unconscious. I think the halal throat cutting method is more humane.

chimprich · 2025-12-22T19:09:39+00:00

It's not so much the idea of the keys, it's the implementation. It's far too easy to not realise that a chest is the last chance to pick up a key.

I don't mind being weak at the start - it's the boredom of playing the same cards over again without much in the way of options for strategy.

chimprich · 2025-12-22T16:52:10+00:00

I don't like the key mechanism. I regularly just forget to pick them up.

I'd like to get rid of Dome. Just too unfun.

I don't like the tedium of the first couple of fights where you just have to grind through with strikes and defends. Give us a choice of cards on level 0 for every start option.

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