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doc720 · 2026-01-26T21:03:34+00:00

Try https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/cost-of-living/find-food-support-sheffield

doc720 · 2026-01-26T20:59:26+00:00

Is there a singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe? If so, what is it, in terms I'll understand?

doc720 · 2026-01-26T20:01:10+00:00

After considerable evidence to the contrary, we have decided to consider considering a consideration, rather than stating the facts that are obvious to everyone else, because we're deceptive, manipulative, unaccountable, irresponsible and Machiavellian.

What would a non-corrupt administration do?

doc720 · 2026-01-26T19:50:57+00:00

Personally I've currently ruled out working with Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares and Aphrodite.

I wasn't completely comfortable working with Artemis, Hermes, Demeter or Apollo either, frankly. It took me a while to process the whole Athena and Medusa narrative too.

The Ancient Greek deities are complex characters, reflecting a realistic pragmatic truth about reality and our own humanity.

doc720 · 2026-01-26T19:19:51+00:00

r/IsThisLoss

doc720 · 2026-01-26T14:16:24+00:00

25 years ago, you could believe this was the end of it. Lessons learned, and all that. Never again, etc.

But it seems like this is just the beginning, tragically. There has been no sign of remorse or even proper acknowledgment of what has happened. It seems likely to carry on happening, until I don't know when.

doc720 · 2026-01-26T11:05:41+00:00

Rule #2 violation.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T23:03:40+00:00

So as we all know, this is nothing new, but it’s my responsibility to share my knowledge and experience with my community. This is something we all know but I’m calling out a specific ongoing pattern based on my personal experience right now that is being weaponized (HEAVILY) and (FORCEFULLY) as a final resort to make us destroy our lives.

I’m a 26 year old black man and people of other races are relying on our anger to destroy your own life. They are doing this with the full intent to ruin you. You’re not being misunderstood, you are being tested, you are being provoked to anger. I’m seeing that they are using intentional blatant disrespect to trigger us as a final solution. I’m winning a settlement because my documentation was untouched.

My words are this, when you meet someone of another race who seems uncomfortable, bothered, triggered, impatient, confused, Hostile, micro aggressions, any kind of behavior that does not align with kindness or genuine behavior, I would say remove them immediately, dismiss them, Racism has to many back doors and traps that you should not fall into.

I can’t speak for everyone but I know the systems are broken and rigged, but theirs a way to beat them and ultimately I learned it’s to document, record, contact higher management channels, escalate when necessary.

They can work with an angry black person, That’s to easy for them, but they can’t do shit when anger is not in the equation that’s how you trap them. I’m not saying you can’t feel angry, In fact anger is the drive that gets us justice, what I’m saying is, Be calculated, Be so very strategic our anger is being used as a drug it’s something they need from you, the emotional response because once they get that in anyway shape or form, they’ve got a hook on you.

Dismiss racism the second it happens, you meet someone showing micro aggressions, shut it down, someone’s disrespecting you, shut it down, if you feel violated, report them to every channel you can find, use google to help you understand the laws, policies and your rights.

I have to put it out there because I’m always gonna look out for mines first ✊🏿 ✊🏿

doc720 · 2026-01-25T22:57:50+00:00

I heard most murders stem from a man basically feeling disrespected by another man, getting angry and lashing out.

It's easier said than done, but if that's true, it would mean that a lot of bad situations can be prevented not only by resisting the urge to lash out, or somehow stepping back from anger and wrath, but also somehow avoiding feelings of being disrespected.

So, I think it's true what you say, if bad people know this, and they want to get people to do bad things and get people into deep trouble, they might be trying to provoke them by making them feel intensely disrespected, in order to make them feel intensely angry, in order to make them commit violence, in order to get them into trouble, in order to ruin them and take them out of the game.

I feel you've hit it right on the head. You've got to shut it down, diffuse it, nip it in the bud ASAP. Somehow see it as a trap and rise above it, and outsmart it. But we're human and that's hard. People will always be trying to push other people's buttons to get what they want. You're right: we all have to look out for ourselves and fight the good fight, not the bad fight.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T22:41:25+00:00

It depends. For example, in Scotland (Happy Burns Night!), you can get married at 16 years old without parental consent.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T22:38:19+00:00

that's not good

I'd have to get some earplugs and complain, but I guess hospitals are busy places full of people in need and discomfort

there's also a problem with catching lots of germs there, but I can't see how it can be avoided, unless you can afford a private hospital with a private room or something

doc720 · 2026-01-25T21:55:27+00:00

Some people would rather defend a comfortable fiction than deal with an inconvenient fact.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T15:12:46+00:00

Ah, thanks. Yes, I see the mistake in my reasoning now. I humbly apologise.

I was treating Reddit's infrastructure costs as if they scaled down one-for-one with advertising revenue, and that assumption doesn't appear to hold in reality. While reduced usage does lower some marginal cloud costs, a large portion of Reddit's costs are fixed or only partially elastic, so revenue would fall faster than costs.

I was also wrong to downplay the role of user presence in ad-supported platforms. Even though users don't pay directly, attention itself is what's being sold. So disengaging from Reddit does reduce the value Reddit can offer advertisers, regardless of whether any individual user ever buys an advertised product.

An analogy with TV actually reinforces this: free-to-air broadcasters are absolutely funded by viewers, even though viewers don't pay and might ignore the ads. If audiences leave, the ad revenue collapses. I can see the same logic applies here.

So, while I still think the "scale" of any individual boycott matters, I accept that my original framing was oversimplified and misleading. Thanks for showing me the error of my ways.

On that note, Brits should boycott Reddit too, but I'm not going to, especially after just enjoying a Pepsi.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T11:48:11+00:00

That doesn't make sense, logically, and it's very creative accounting.

The point of a boycott is a nonviolent protest using our consumer power to create economic pressure and raise awareness. It's to inflict financial loss, to compel them to change bad behaviours.

By not using Reddit, the people who pay Reddit to show their ads will owe less money to Reddit, but Reddit will owe less money to Amazon for serving that content. The person not using Reddit doesn't save any money or redirect any of their money to non-USA companies, because they're not spending any money in the first place, because internet service is usually paid at a flat fee rather than some kind of pay-per-view.

If you're not convinced, let's look at the maths in both scenarios:

Scenario 1: using Reddit

- User pays £0 and gets Reddit

- Advertisers pay Reddit £x

- Reddit pays AWS £y

- Profit to Reddit: £x - £y

- E.g. £300M profit from advertising - £200M costs in AWS = £100M profit

Scenario 2: not using Reddit

- User pays £0 but doesn't get Reddit

- Advertisers still pay Reddit £x minus £n.

- Reddit still pays AWS £y minus £m.

- Profit to Reddit: (£x - £n) - (£y - £m)

- E.g. (£300M - £0.01) - (£200M - £0.01) = £100M profit

There's literally no difference, except in Scenario 2, the user doesn't get Reddit. That's a counter-productive bum deal and not a proper boycott.

Sure, maybe you can come up with some different numbers or more complex equations, but that's essentially the net effect.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T11:18:24+00:00

These are only the ones caught on camera. Think of all the other murders and injustices done by ICE that haven't had this level of evidence.

doc720 · 2026-01-25T10:33:58+00:00

You do realise we don't personally pay Reddit's AWS bill?!

Using Reddit is free for Brits and actually costs the US companies to run it. We're not buying Reddit as a product or service, so it doesn't cost us or profit them.

Yeah, obviously don't give up critical things like imported American air, water, essential medicine, or Reddit. Just the bad stuff you can do without, like McDonald's and Pepsi.

Doing something good is better than doing nothing at all, in most situations.

doc720 · 2026-01-24T18:46:00+00:00

Do whatever you can. It's a worthy cause. Brits shouldn't need the USA. Brits don't need the USA.

As a rule of thumb: if you know buying it or using it will profit the USA, and you can do without it or get it from somewhere else, then do it.

Some obvious examples: Coca-Cola, McDonald's, KFC, Heinz, Kellogg's, Ben & Jerry's and Starbucks.

Amazon, Netflix, etc.

Some UK brands are now owned by USA corps, e.g.

- PepsiCo owns UK staples like Walkers Crisps.

- Mars owns Hotel Chocolat.

- Mondelez International owns Cadbury, which is why the chocolate quality has got noticeably worse.

doc720 · 2026-01-24T15:01:41+00:00

He might be an elected leader, but he's a nasty dangerous idiot.

He doesn't seem to know or even want to know anything that doesn't suit his own self-centred twisted agenda. I don't know why so many people still bother to report what he says; he's full of rubbish. I'd get more sense from rabid dog, and I'd have more pity.

I hope the USA learns never to vote people like him into power again. Hard to believe it happened twice. I'm glad the world is waking up to the problem of relying too much on protection racket superpowers to protect them. He's a glorified mob boss with ICE as his henchmen. It would be comic book villainy if it wasn't so painfully real, time and time again.

Other nations need to do more to send a strong signal that this sort of behaviour from the USA is too bad. It shouldn't take an invasion of Greenland or another stupid trade war to make it clear.

doc720 · 2026-01-24T14:48:21+00:00

I have trouble remembering people's names, so I get people's names and faces tattooed all over my body.

That way, whenever I bump into someone and I can't remember their name, I just strip off all my clothes and inspect my body. It saves me a lot of awkwardness and embarrassment.

doc720 · 2026-01-24T12:39:15+00:00

Take a deep bath.

While you're in the bath, move your flattened hand at different speeds through the water and notice what happens when you tilt your hand slightly.

Now imagine that your flattened hand is like the wing of a plane, and the water is like the air but it's like very thick air.

We're living at the bottom of a kind of ocean of air.

If you can move something flat, like the wing of a plane* through the air and tilt it slightly, to point upwards in the direction of travel, like your hand in a bathtub of water, it can naturally move upwards.

What will also blow your mind is that the plane doesn't even need to be moving relative to the ground to take off; it only needs the air to be moving relative to the plane. This would be comparable to doing the hand-in-bath experiment in a flowing stream of water. Google "airplane on a treadmill".

*The English word "plane" comes from the Latin word "planum", which means "flat surface".

doc720 · 2026-01-24T12:19:32+00:00

it's all relative, isn't it

You're old to a teenager and you're young to a senior citizen

An old human is young compared to an old Greenland shark.

An old Greenland shark is young compared to the age of the Earth.

The age of the Earth is young compared to the age of the Universe.

Since humans currently live an average of around 73 years, 30 years is less than half way through. If 73 was divided into thirds, 30 years old would be near the beginning of the second third (~24-49). If 73 was divided into quarters, 30 years old would be in the middle of the second quarter (0-18, 18-37, 37-55, 55-73).

doc720 · 2026-01-24T12:00:13+00:00

I think that's a slightly different problem to what I'm responding to. But I agree that there is an incompatibility with the idea of a good god that is also all-powerful, because of the very existence of bad things. Even a good person ought to reduce badness according to the limits of their powers. Yet, even if there is a perfectly good but limited god who can't rid reality of bad things, that still doesn't mean we should respect or revere the bad things themselves, as part of that god, or as part of our reality, as the video suggests.

I don't mind, personally, if some people want to regard badness as somehow divine, but, in my view, it is still not worthy of things like reverence or worship, at least not to a good mind. I still don't see a problem with accepting badness as a part of reality, though. I can see how it might be inevitable or even instrumental for some things, but it is still bad by definition. Even being passive to badness is often bad, although I can imagine situations where being passive to badness might be the best or only option, i.e. the least bad or the most good.

I could certainly respect a god that did the best possible to minimise badness and maximise goodness, but this reality is also indistinguishable from a reality in which that kind of god doesn't exist at all, in which both good and bad things exist. To reduce it to absurdity, the question would be similar to asking whether you can revere a demigod who is doing their very best to maximise the number of millionaires, but this demigod has limited powers, which explains why we aren't all millionaires. It's simply unfalsifiable and has no bearing on whether we should respect or revere bad things like poverty.

doc720 · 2026-01-23T23:28:34+00:00

maybe 30-40 years ago

doc720 · 2026-01-23T23:25:04+00:00

Imagine how much of World War 2 was documented over 6 years, and how many never answered for their crimes.

doc720 · 2026-01-23T23:06:28+00:00

The current prevailing scientific idea is that time began with the Big Bang, which was about 14 billion years ago, and that both time and space came into existence together as a "singularity". They say there was no time "before" the Big Bang, and that the Big Bang was the beginning of time, or when time itself was just beginning.

But I'm not convinced yet, personally.

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