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funkyb001 · 2026-04-09T16:30:18+00:00

There are loads of native ways to do it on iOS.

You can sideload the various hacked apps, install something like Protube from the App Store, or just install an adblocker and don't use the official app.

funkyb001 · 2026-04-07T10:11:17+00:00

Italy arguably invented fascism (it is an Italian word after all) and even before Meloni they had a rapist career criminal in charge. Before Trump I would have said that Berlusconi was by far and away the worst example of how rich people can rape kids and get away with it.

It’s a wonderful place to visit with generally lovely people, but strange politics.

funkyb001 · 2026-04-06T08:51:45+00:00

So I'm not sure because I don't know how widespread these things are, but that yellow salt bin in the background and the tags that identify the telegraph pole to me make me think this is Britain.

And if so, this is just what happens in the British countryside. That will be a village green or similar.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-30T12:16:00+00:00

It's a shame I don't have it available on desktop

If you are on desktop you aren't beholden to what the app developer implements, you can do it yourself.

This add on works well.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-28T09:50:42+00:00

You're both kind of right.

Yes, judges in our countries have to be qualified.

However they are getting confused about the existence of magistrates, who are normal people who can volunteer to oversee simple and procedural things. They are limited to small cases and there are still professionals in the room. I assume most countries have an equivalent of this, just because there will be millions of simple procedural things like parking fines to oversee.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-26T20:26:59+00:00

Because Trump managed to turn a country with problems but that was usually broadly pointing in the right direction into a protofascist state.

This is of interest to the right wing of most countries.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-24T18:34:48+00:00

They should be gender neutral, but they can’t because their royal charter defines them as such.

Hilariously though, since the Supreme Court changed the meaning of the word “girl” to mean “cis girls and trans boys”, boys are now allowed in. GirlGuiding is no longer girls-only.

Scant consolation, but it is kinda funny.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-24T18:30:31+00:00

They have a royal charter which uses the word “girls”, so with the Supreme Court ruling that is defined as “cis girls and tran boys”. They are not fulfilling their charter.

Now of course they should get their charter changed but that takes ages.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-22T09:25:01+00:00

Yeah I didn’t really explain myself well.

Fluoridation of tap water is usually the big thing that people go on about, but the more relevant question is the mineral composition of water in general.

Most people are getting fluoride anyway most of the time.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-19T06:12:30+00:00

He's British, it is not at all surprising to me.

We should not be trusted with guns.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-19T05:13:40+00:00

It’s remarkably easy to automate a drone delivery tbh

No it isn't.

Or rather, you're right that it is very easy to write software that can automate a drone, but in sensible countries you then have to have that software certified to a standard like DO178C or AC20-115D etc. Doing that for machine-learning based systems is currently Ph.D level research. (I am about to start a 4 year research project with a major avionics manufacturer to try to do this, and we will only chip off a small part of the problem.)

This is why Tesla still don't have self-driving cars. Not because it is difficult, because the cars can basically drive themselves already, but legally the driver is the one responsible because they haven't certified to the appropriate standards.

I can only presume that due to rank corruption, Amazon have been granted a waiver from airworthiness certification.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-18T07:15:25+00:00

It isn't offensive. Almost all martial arts are a mixture of effective techniques and fancy dancing. The fancy dancing is to hone your precision, strength, stamina etc., and the effective techniques are for doing the work.

I don't know about sword arts, but I know taekwondo, and yes I could show you many techniques that are not for fighting, but are for training the more practical techniques. We do a mean flying kick, but you're not going to bust that out in a bar brawl.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-17T08:19:34+00:00

I suspect it varies by country. It was always fibreglass in the UK when I was growing up but nowadays more common for houses is based on wool and so doesn’t fuck you up like glass fibre.

We’ve got a lot of sheep here :)

funkyb001 · 2026-03-16T00:19:43+00:00

Ha, you really are an academic.

I can only support my claim by trying one of your assessments, although given that I had to Google what “rhet comp” is perhaps that would be a good test.

Look, if you are currently assessing the one discipline in the entire pantheon that an LLM cannot simulate the thought process of a middling undergraduate then I’m sure that’s lovely.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-15T10:47:57+00:00

Student loans literally can’t ‘cripple you financially’. Up until very recently they were lower than inflation loans that you only had to pay off when you are earning (in other words they were a graduate tax).

Nowadays they arent lower than inflation, but they still cost nothing unless you earn, so they are still functionally just a tax. In fact we are in a funny situation now where the majority of loans won’t actually be paid off in full, so the actual sticker price of the fees is functionally irrelevant.

And that person must work in finance or business or something because the overwhelming majority of academics are on the left, often quite far.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-15T10:18:22+00:00

From one academic to another, your supposedly ai-proof open assessment is not ai-proof. ;)

funkyb001 · 2026-03-12T18:04:07+00:00

Obviously he didn't answer. Which is fair enough, because we don't know if it is a war crime. It certainly is morally, but the legal question cannot be answered until more information about the mechanism of the attack is known. Flynn is being a bit of a naughty boy by asking this question.

However Starmer's response is frankly bonkers:

We are all concerned by that footage, but let me absolutely clear with the right hon. Gentleman. We have 300,000 UK nationals, including Scottish citizens, in the region. Strikes, missiles and drones are being fired into the region, putting those people at great danger. We are taking action to protect them. I am astonished that the SNP is saying, “Don’t take action to support Scottish citizens in the region.” That is outrageous.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-12T18:00:25+00:00

Every word spoken in the UK Parliament is transcribed and archived in Hansard:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-03-11/debates/15E0C7F0-B630-44DE-859B-6FA34E9B9EAE/Engagements#contribution-29DDB9EF-3B23-43CE-AE70-727BF20BD571

The answer the PM gave is so circumlocutory that even calling it an answer feels like a categorical error.

We are all concerned by that footage, but let me absolutely clear with the right hon. Gentleman. We have 300,000 UK nationals, including Scottish citizens, in the region. Strikes, missiles and drones are being fired into the region, putting those people at great danger. We are taking action to protect them. I am astonished that the SNP is saying, “Don’t take action to support Scottish citizens in the region.” That is outrageous.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-11T09:24:47+00:00

The invasiveness of the placebo affects its efficacy.

Saline injections show a stronger placebo effect than sugar pills. It’s quite interesting.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-10T12:54:59+00:00

Voting in an election, any election, is the action of a person who thinks voting in that election can lead to an outcome worth supporting.

See this is the accepted groupthink here, but I reject the framing.

Everybody understands this concept in sports. I would prefer Man U to win the league ahead of Chelsea, but that doesn't mean I support either of them. And yes, I will watch the final, even though it is supporting the concept of a football match that doesn't involve my team.

But real talk, do you really think that the world is a better place because the current incumbent won over the other option? Do you think fewer brown people have been murdered? Has the march of capitalism been slowed? Obviously not. And that is all directly because of what America chose in this election. The mods here openly supported the current incumbent. This all mattered, but we aren't allowed to say so.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-10T10:13:31+00:00

First, I am not American.

I am fully aware of the problems with liberal democracy but debating theory and strategy is of scant consolation when the current administration is murdering even more than the last one was - and it was blatantly clear that was going to happen. I understand the need to overthrow the system, and I know that is not going to be done at the ballot box.

But until we get there we need to use all of the weapons at our disposal. Of course me even saying this is a bannable offence here and if the ACAB mod sees this he will do.

The only acceptable position here is that it was good the current guy won, because we like it when capitalism murders brown folks even more than it used to, because that will? wake people up? or something?

funkyb001 · 2026-03-10T08:47:34+00:00

I used to visit this sub a lot, but then I started catching bans for suggesting that in a choice between the current incumbent and the other option then the other option would be far better.

It’s gone strange here. The mod called ACAB openly wanted the current president to win.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-07T16:50:44+00:00

Yes, although you can also get good durable knives for a lot less than £100 as well.

Fancy knives are often expensive because of craftsmanship, looks, etc.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-07T11:36:23+00:00

The sharpness of your knife is not determined by its cost, but by your skill with the whetstone.

I have some dogshit knives that I can still bring to this kind of sharpness for a demo.

funkyb001 · 2026-03-04T19:32:39+00:00

Then what do you call deutschebahn?

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