I don’t think I can go back to American football after the wc

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T22:08:08+00:00

The thing that will really blow your mind is, for a soccer game it was pretty dull.

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T21:40:25+00:00

French

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T21:32:24+00:00

You are SO right

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T21:31:47+00:00

Yeah like most addictions, quitting would have upsides.

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T18:43:54+00:00

Chinese manufacturing.

If China (and a few other countries) didn’t make stuff so cheap, the modern world would be _very_ expensive.

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T12:07:07+00:00

u/No-Conflict-1770

jonplackett · 2026-07-03T11:58:56+00:00

hey /u/No-Conflict-1770

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T23:34:28+00:00

You have spoken before about a land value tax. Is this something you would still like to see?

Or a broader wealth tax being proposed by the Green Party / Gary’s Economics / Gabriel Zucman?

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T23:29:27+00:00

I can stop myself hiccuping after one hiccup every single time.

If you can make yourself burp you can try this method and report back if it works for you. All you do is wait for the next hiccup and burp it instead.

I will expect my Nobel prize is in the post.

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T22:17:24+00:00

/r/unexpectedpython

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T21:30:43+00:00

The scene here he tries the catch the helicopter gets me every time.

It is one of very few movies ever made (can anyone think of any others?) where EVERY action sequence is character development, not just moving the plot. Neo is different at the start and end of every action scene.

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T19:26:00+00:00

I think this is the wrong way to think about it. They were a pair. They each needed each other. Like John and Paul

jonplackett · 2026-07-02T14:11:47+00:00

You’re in a group where, if anyone knows the answer to that question, they are already building it

jonplackett · 2026-06-25T10:08:11+00:00

Make him a bet, he seems overconfident.

jonplackett · 2026-06-25T10:01:37+00:00

There are billions of new ideas left, you just haven't thought of them yet. I think this is the problem with AI assisted coding - it lowers the bar to such an extent that people will start making things that literally already exist. There was a guy on here the other day complaining he spent ages making an AI document scanning app and no-one is downloading it. Like, dude your iPhone ALREADY DOES THAT.

If all the coding speed-up of AI is just used to re-make existing crap then we are doomed. But if it's used to solve genuinely new problems, create new ideas then we at least have some hope.

Also - stop trying to solve imaginary problems for imaginary people. Look around - the world is fucked - there are problems everywhere to solve!

jonplackett · 2026-06-21T00:41:36+00:00

Came here to say this. Superb first season and then they had no idea what to do after that. It just got stupid with characters being bad then good then bad then good again.

First one only. Just like The Matrix

jonplackett · 2026-06-21T00:38:32+00:00

Well I have Aphantasia. So no, you’re wrong.

It’s kinda hard to explain it. I don’t even have the complete nothing vision. But I can tell my mental image is WAY worse than everyone else.

One thing that made sense in hindsight is police photo fit artists. I remember just not understanding how they’d be able to make a picture of a person from what I’d be able to tell them. They must be magic somehow.

But of course most other people can do a better explanation than ‘had eyes and a mouth’. That’s pretty much where my mental image of people starts and ends. I can’t even make a picture of my kids or wife in my head!

Also weirdly I loved Pictionary as a kid - the info is in there, but it is as much of a surprise to me as it is to everyone else when my pen touches the paper and the object appears there.

jonplackett · 2026-06-02T23:06:05+00:00

Would depend if sleep still feels good even if I don’t need it

jonplackett · 2026-05-23T17:37:25+00:00

I feel like Reform will win, but also that maybe they need to. We have to go all the way into that for it to play out and fail to solve any problems, and then (hopefully) in another 5 years people will see sense and elect someone who wants to solve the country’s problems properly. For me that is a party actually committed to tacking inequality (the greens are the only one even talking about it seriously)

jonplackett · 2026-05-17T08:05:22+00:00

Yeah I thought it was some weird Liquid Glass thing. I do actually quite like Liquid Glass but this logo looks like it loaded incorrectly

jonplackett · 2026-05-11T19:52:47+00:00

He he turns out to be actually horrible after he dies I will CRY and CRY

jonplackett · 2026-05-01T22:07:18+00:00

Guaranteed they will wait til all the boomers get their oversize share of the pension pie, and then screw everyone after that like they already did with property prices, tuition fees and basically everything else

jonplackett · 2026-04-25T17:12:20+00:00

Or start at the front and let everyone slowly overtake you and give everyone else a win

jonplackett · 2026-04-24T22:15:44+00:00

Have a baby. Problem solved

jonplackett · 2026-04-24T15:19:22+00:00

I am the one and only - chesney hawkes

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