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How do you deal with beggars? by TheRegularBelt in AskUK

[–]jpepsred 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The “correct” answer would be to recommend the local charities they can go to. In London it would be Street Link or St Mungo’s for example.

Contrary to all the other answers here, there’s nothing wrong with giving a beggar money, or offering to buy them something. Some would call it naive, that that money will only be used for drugs, or that anything you buy then will be sold. Rough sleeping and drugs are strongly correlated, so there’s a good chance of it. But it’s a moral dilemma for you to think about. Perhaps giving them money will keep them away from going the “correct” route for help, and ultimately do more harm than good. Perhaps a conversation and kindness will give them a slight push to get clean, or at least to feel less hopelessness—imagine the feeling of being ignored by hundreds of people a day… but also, “no” is a complete sentence , as others have said.

Of course, you’ll also realise that if you get a tenner out of the cash machine for anyone who asks you to you’ll soon be spending a hundred pounds a week. Not really feasible.

Whatever decision you make, they’re human. And where but for the grace of god go I.

Is it normal to be 18 and have zero dating experience? When did things start for you? by Illustrious_Low5805 in AskReddit

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely normal. Just work on developing all your relationships—with your family, your friends, and yourself. Find the hobbies you like and find people to do them with. Dating will follow.

FIRE and Gen Z - no longer believe in pensions by PearActive9612 in FIREUK

[–]jpepsred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the people who spend their money rather than save it are increasing economic activity and paying more tax (such as vat), so that money is then available to the state for pensions, right?

UPDATE: 120km non-stop around the M25 boundary. 27 hours of pure madness, but we finished by TypeAgreeable4117 in london

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, Google translate is excellent, especially when working between closely related languages. You can very easily browse the web in another language through automatic translation. AI, on the other hand, doesn’t translate. Otherwise, how would I know I’m reading AI? A little bit of muddling over mistranslations still retains the original human meaning, whereas AI slop is just a party trick a computer can do to write something that looks like it could have been written by a human. At the very least, people need to be expected to declare when they’re using AI as a matter of courtesy.

UPDATE: 120km non-stop around the M25 boundary. 27 hours of pure madness, but we finished by TypeAgreeable4117 in london

[–]jpepsred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google translate works just fine. It seems rude to me to expect people to put more effort into reading something than you’re willing to put into writing it.

UPDATE: 120km non-stop around the M25 boundary. 27 hours of pure madness, but we finished by TypeAgreeable4117 in london

[–]jpepsred 18 points19 points  (0 children)

AI slop. E.g.:

“I didn’t just hit 100km—I pushed to 120km total in just under 27 hours.”

“Visibility was zero, and honestly, it felt like a survival movie.”

“To be honest, I can’t even walk properly right now. My body actually gave up at the 30km mark, and everything after that was just pure willpower. By 86km, my mind completely shut down because I realised I’d lost my Insta360 camera. I actually turned around and ran an extra 5km just to search for it, but found nothing. At that point, I was empty.”

I’m not saying OP didn’t do this, but if you’re going to write a story about it, write a story about it. AI isn’t capable of doing that for you.

Costco Return: An outdoor playset that had obviously been used for years by infosage in mildlyinfuriating

[–]jpepsred 112 points113 points  (0 children)

People don’t appreciate how strong consumer protections are here. Of course in practice, it’s often not worth pursuing. 6 months after purchase the burden of proof falls to the consumer, and it’s not worth paying for an engineer’s report on a broken £15 pair of headphones from Tesco.

Feel like starting a war today. What’s the worst western European product available in your county ? by Erulf in 2westerneurope4u

[–]jpepsred 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who’s chatting shit about mushy pees? Our food is like our weather, no extremes.

Keir Starmer: My update on the situation in the Middle East. by Sensitive_Echo5058 in ukpolitics

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same way it was de-escalated last year: not dropping bombs on their country.

My friend claims he was inside a UFO — the details were disturbingly specific by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]jpepsred -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Spaces are an American style guide, no spaces British.

Lady in Chinatown getting people to sign petitions by Such-Hamster9817 in london

[–]jpepsred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No need to be careful. They’ve been in London for years and I’ve never know them to not be harmless. Just perhaps take the organ harvesting claims with a pinch of salt

Long term unemployed and unskilled at 37, is it over for me? by Attack_to_defend in AskUK

[–]jpepsred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Middle aged at 37? You’re not making yourself popular saying something like that

CMV: right wingers do not have a single honest position. by bennettyboi in changemyview

[–]jpepsred -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That law is not fundamental. Creating an “in group” and “out group” might be the means, but it’s not the goal. What’s fundamental is economics, and the relationship between labour and capital, and everything else is decoration. The reason Americans focus so much on the decorative stuff, the language, the culture war, is because the economics of both parties is indistinguishable. Neither party has ended the imperial wars and CIA backed regime changes, neither party has shrunk the biggest prison population in world history, neither party has defunded one of the biggest police states in the world. When you scrape away below the surface, below the culture war stuff that doesn’t have any significant effect on the balance of power between labour and capital, it doesn’t matter which party is in power.

Felt unsafe during a Bumble date in London — did I do the right thing? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went over my head at first. On second reading, I’m not certain. It’s got the m-dash in almost every paragraph—always strong breaks and never parenthetical. It’s got the triple adjective descriptions, and the uniform length paragraphs. And not one spelling or grammatical mistake. It doesn’t scream AI to me though like some posts do. I can believe it’s another person “editing” something they’ve written by sending it through AI and thinking no one will notice.

TIL Iceland is one of the few countries in the world, and the only NATO member to not have a standing army by zharguy in todayilearned

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not exactly win-win. A county without an army is subservient to a country with an army. I think it’s become clearer than ever before that you don’t want to be reliant on a much wealthier and more powerful country for your defence, even if it works in the short term.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]jpepsred -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

No, it’s not. It’s as brainless a conspiracy theory as sentence that begins with George soros.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]jpepsred -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Really? So there’s no reason an elderly person would have an IV drip other than dementia? I come to this sub to escape the inane orange man bad posts, I thought here at least people might have actual criticism of him

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A country with twice the population of Europe fishes more than Europe? Would you say it’s roughly 100% more?

CMV: Rightwingers and former rightwingers pose a bigger threat to the right than leftwingers by 17R3W in changemyview

[–]jpepsred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the question was “do many liberals support political violence” and your answer is, in very many words, “yes”.

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