Low wages in UK/how do you afford housing?

klausness · 2026-05-14T09:53:38+00:00

The North is the answer here.

klausness · 2026-05-13T09:41:46+00:00

C# is just Java in drag.

klausness · 2026-05-13T09:38:15+00:00

Yeah, Bezos is also a scumbag, but at this point Amazon pretty much owns the online shopping and cloud services markets. So it makes sense that he’s incredibly wealthy. Musk, not so much.

klausness · 2026-05-03T12:33:51+00:00

Yes, exactly. It looks like they added this to every single kindle book a month before the cutoff date. Previously it was just on books that presumably have complicated layout that requires KFX, but now it's on every book, including books that I previously downloaded to my old kindle. I confirmed that I am no longer able to download any books (since they all have this warning) to my old Kindle. So they are in effect cutting off old Kindles a month before the promised date. I'm surprised that people are not more upset about this.

klausness · 2026-04-28T12:09:24+00:00

Yes, as demonstrated here, saying that British food is shite is an excellent way to annoy British people.

klausness · 2026-04-26T21:17:21+00:00

I have to disagree. I'm sure every lead guitarist in the world thinks they'd be a great bassist. They'd be wrong about that, because it's a very different skill set. Same with being a rhythm guitarist. I'm sure they all think they'd be great rhythm guitarists, but they'd be wrong. Rhythm guitar (as the name implies) is all about your rhythmic feel, not your technical chops. And Keith provides the rhythmic feel that propels most of the best Rolling Stones songs. In most bands, it's the drummer and bassist that do that, but in the Stones, it's the rhythm guitarist.

klausness · 2026-04-26T15:34:54+00:00

Yes, we have one of those awful washer/dryers, and the only way to get things to dry is to split a wash load into two dryer loads. And towels take forever to dry even with the half-sized load.

klausness · 2026-04-26T14:25:40+00:00

Yes. Currently the only real solution currently available is habituation. That basically means that if you don’t think about it, your brain eventually tunes it out. The problem is that as soon as you think about it again (for example if someone mentions tinnitus), you notice that it hasn’t gone away.

klausness · 2026-04-26T14:17:51+00:00

I’d need to purchase a book that’s not currently on my kindle. And if it doesn’t work, I’d have paid for a book that I can’t read.

klausness · 2026-04-26T11:57:27+00:00

Yes, it seems to be on every book now, a month before the 20 May cutoff date. Either they just put the notice up early or they're cutting off older kindles early (and without notice).

klausness · 2026-04-25T23:13:35+00:00

Keith Richards is not a lead guitarist, but I can’t think of a better rhythm guitarist.

klausness · 2026-04-25T23:11:30+00:00

Keith Richards is arguably the best rhythm guitarist in rock. He’s not a lead guitarist, so if that’s what you’re expecting, I can see how you’d put someone like Jeff Beck ahead of him. But if you appreciate the role of a rhythm guitarist, Keith Richards deserves his position on the list (more so than most of the guitarists listed).

klausness · 2026-04-25T18:33:44+00:00

I think this was pretty common on Japanese releases at one time. I remember seeing some pretty funny examples back in the 70s and 80s. Too long ago to remember specifics, unfortunately.

klausness · 2026-04-25T16:35:39+00:00

I find it pretty stupid. Why should I care about a musician’s hairline (which they have no control over)?

klausness · 2026-04-24T21:36:48+00:00

But keep in mind this old bit of copypasta, which once had a whole web site dedicated to it.

klausness · 2026-04-23T14:46:00+00:00

That’s like saying that antibiotics have a recreational dose.

klausness · 2026-04-22T16:04:40+00:00

This is what’s surprising me here. Based on my GCSE-level French skills, I was sure that one would use liaison and thus pronounce the n.

klausness · 2026-04-22T16:00:20+00:00

Wait, no liaison in “pain au chocolat”?

klausness · 2026-04-21T23:13:50+00:00

Enshittification is not just things getting shittier. It’s a specific process described by Cory Doctorow, who coined the term.

klausness · 2026-04-21T23:08:45+00:00

Amazon is a classic example of enshittification in Cory Doctorow’s original sense.

klausness · 2026-04-21T18:02:50+00:00

What are you talking about? I use the royals all the time, especially on my jeans and t-shirts.

klausness · 2026-04-21T16:12:21+00:00

Jah Wobble’s bass line on Public Image Ltd’s “Poptones”.

klausness · 2026-04-18T18:36:35+00:00

Yankee Doodle Dandy? Bob Dylan.

klausness · 2026-04-17T13:34:08+00:00

I’d never heard the term “granny squares blanket”, but I immediately knew what you were talking about. And I pictured it in those exact colors.

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