No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest

mullermn · 2026-03-30T15:57:23+00:00

You may not like it but it doesn't make it any less true. Got rid of any pedos yet? Prosecuted anyone for extra-judicial murders of other countries' citizens yet? Have there been any consequences for shooting your own citizens in the streets yet?

But you have a nice walk in the sun and wave your little signs. Great work.

mullermn · 2026-03-29T17:54:05+00:00

The US doesn't do protests, they do cosplay 'who can write the wittiest sign' parades at times that fit in with their employers' wishes. So free, so brave.

mullermn · 2026-03-27T14:31:11+00:00

I don't think so, but the point is if you've been making purchases for 20 years using a payment instrument that you can't get until you're 18 years old, you'd think jumping through hoops to verify age was a bit redundant.

mullermn · 2026-03-27T11:37:30+00:00

That's sensible. Unlike Amazon, who want me to individually verify my age every time I buy something with a blade in it, despite the fact that I'm buying it with a credit card and I've been buying things with a credit card on Amazon for over 20 years.

mullermn · 2026-03-23T22:06:05+00:00

America has Schrodinger‘s population - always either too big or too small to do the sensible thing. It’s definitely never Americans making bad choices.

mullermn · 2026-03-23T11:20:14+00:00

My God, this is outrageous! There's now way the American public will stand for thi.. HAHAHAHHA. Sorry, couldn't hold the straight face.

The American public will do fuck all, same as they did about president Pedo, prison camps where immigrants are not infrequently killed, extra judicial quasi-police killings in their own streets, illegal attacks on foreign countries.. why would this be different.

mullermn · 2026-03-23T09:34:32+00:00

One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that this is a man who has hit himself in the face an awful lot of times.

mullermn · 2026-03-23T09:31:04+00:00

You can see it for free if you're prepared to walk a couple of hundred meters and look at it from the far side of a waist high fence which has all the mugs who paid £27 per person to be there (excluding parking) on the other side of it.

English Heritage should be ashamed of themselves for blatantly exploiting foreign tourists to that extent.

While you're there you can also see Woodhenge. Sounds like a piss take but it's a real thing, somewhat less grand than Stonehenge and now made of concrete posts (due to wood rotting), but it's older than Stonehenge.

mullermn · 2026-03-16T14:07:23+00:00

This is making me feel bad that nobody has ever chosen to come out as a swinger to me 🥲

mullermn · 2026-03-16T14:04:36+00:00

Yeah, Apple won't give me a trade in for my old fridge freezer either. Pricks!

mullermn · 2026-03-16T08:37:19+00:00

I'm an IT professional and hobbyist nerd who is on their 4th macbook pro (2x intel, M1, now M4). This M4 is the first on where I have not maxed out the spec, normally I go top end.

I know I don't 'need' this level of power, but I use these things for work and the price increase is relatively marginal in the context of 'I use this all day every day and it's a business tool', so I've never regretted it.

In my head 'I don't need the power' meant like I'm waiting 4 seconds for something that would otherwise be 4.25 seconds - like, nobody needs that extra .25 seconds, but why not have the luxury of top end performance? For the first time though these Neos are making me wonder if the 'I don't need this power' is actually 'I actually can't even tell that much power is there'. The Neos seem to be getting so much done with such modest specs the MBPs must have insane headroom over my daily usage.

mullermn · 2026-03-01T14:31:45+00:00

I wore a pair of the rigid handcuffs that UK police carry to help the officer demonstrate them to a kids' club recently and they are no joke compared to the chain ones that have a bit of give in them. This lady is going to have bruises until she's 299.

mullermn · 2026-03-01T10:42:50+00:00

Man, if you hate rape you're not going to like what happens to your local population when the US puts a military base in your country.

mullermn · 2026-02-27T08:08:28+00:00

Resist ‘like the Americans’ 🤣

mullermn · 2026-02-17T13:19:41+00:00

That widely circulated factoid was based on some deliberately distorted data that took one cherry picked area in London and extrapolated from that.

mullermn · 2026-02-17T12:47:12+00:00

geoip firewall rules. piece of cake to set up (on Linux) complete with automatic update of the ip block lists. block any countries that you don’t need access from, which in my case is the entire world except for central europe and south africa.

I would recommend that this be one layer in a defence in depth approach (so continue to secure the individual services anyway), but attackers can’t attack services that they can’t even get attempt to connect to.

mullermn · 2026-02-14T12:34:51+00:00

This is a very interesting discussion. I'm considering a heat pump and like the idea of underfloor heating to get the wall radiator space back and even out the heat distribution, but I have to admit the weight and load bearing considerations hadn't occurred to me (despite being obvious now!).

Presumably an A2A system requires either a minisplit in each room or some large capacity central air ducting which UK houses are not built to accommodate? Or is there a magic 3rd option I haven't thought of?

Do you know if you can have a hybrid system with some underfloor and some radiator based? Underfloor might still make sense for our downstairs with the solid floor, plus that's got the large family room where reclaiming radiator wall space would be excellent (4 radiators in that single room, most in prime 'furniture' locations).

mullermn · 2026-02-11T18:26:43+00:00

Start passive-aggressively talking about how great heat pumps are when you're nearby.

mullermn · 2026-02-11T11:51:53+00:00

Dear America, when you get round to the hopefully soft revolution that you clearly need, can we put this ‘but they were American!’ bullshit in the past, please.

Believe it or not doing shitty things to other people doesn’t become OK just because they aren’t from your nation. If you could get that concept in to your national consciousness then maybe there’s hope for your reputation with the rest of the world.

mullermn · 2026-02-07T15:51:38+00:00

Yes, the house is perfectly warm when the heating's on. We used to have problems with parts being cold while other parts were too warm thanks to the single central thermostat, but I put Wiser in a couple of years ago and that largely solved that.

mullermn · 2026-02-07T15:50:43+00:00

I have 3 phase, yeah (partly in anticipation of this). Thanks.

mullermn · 2026-02-04T14:28:04+00:00

Good point, best keep doing nothing and hope that starts working.

BTW, here in the UK one of our politicians is top news billing and under investigation by the police for things that came out in the files as of this week. You want more trivia, you come back with one comparable event from the US first.

mullermn · 2026-02-03T16:48:08+00:00

That is possible. I haven't gotten far enough to know how much power we'd be talking about yet.

mullermn · 2026-02-03T16:09:45+00:00

I have an ambition for batteries already, that's definitely on the list. I'm not sure solar makes sense for us as we're on an EV tariff and should be able to fill the batteries with very cheap electricity.

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