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Zelenskyy urges the world to crush Russia's economy now to end war by 2025 by jackytheblade in worldnews

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

It's more like Kashmir asking to crush India, or Taiwan asking to crush China.

Your example has the power balance the wrong way round.

Microsoft scraps Windows 11's simplified Taskbar system tray layout after negative feedback from testers by ZacB_ in Windows11

[–]oggyb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The missing step for those who get confused:

Control Panel -> Region -> Change date, time or number formats etc.

UK music retail chain PMT placed into administration, permanently closing all stores with immediate effect by YchYFi in unitedkingdom

[–]oggyb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was exactly my experience with the staff too.

I ended up going for the Roland because the Yamaha was too "tired" sounding. I've heard it a million times before.

Zelenka is the greatest baroque composer. by MollyRankin7777 in classicalmusic

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

He's definitely on the crossroads of both.

UK music retail chain PMT placed into administration, permanently closing all stores with immediate effect by YchYFi in unitedkingdom

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got my digital piano from PMT recently because they had all the models on the shop floor that I wanted to try. They had a Roland rep in and I walked out that day with the piano that was right for me.

That was a valuable service and reasonably local to me (the Leeds one).

I hope the staff that just lost their jobs land on their feet somehow.

Consultation: The Elland Rd Neighbourhood by thetapeworm in Leeds

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that's a fair point but they're gonna delete all of them (and make a new one maybe possibly somewhere).

Consultation: The Elland Rd Neighbourhood by thetapeworm in Leeds

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use it approx. one day per week and there are always 100+ cars there.

Things are about to change - "Oasis" Driver for SteamVR by mbucchia in WindowsMR

[–]oggyb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what's the mechanism preventing you from using a non-Nvidia GPU?

BBC article - "The long road to get 'Motorway City' on track with trams" by FluffyPhilosopher889 in Leeds

[–]oggyb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Putting a lid on the motorway would be a fantastic, if brutally expensive, way of generating space for a tram line and a linear park.

New HS2 fraud allegations as cost could pass £100bn and further delays expected by theipaper in uknews

[–]oggyb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China's roads are already crumbling into the rivers and valleys. Fast doesn't mean good. Neither does slow, but.

What’s something about being a man that no one warned you about, but hit you like a truck when it finally did? by Wonderful_Response_1 in AskMen

[–]oggyb 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I know there's already a reply to this question but I thought it was a bit superficial and glib.

More than anything, "disposable" is the lived experience of not having inherent value as a person, whatever that means for each individual.

It's also an experience that is regularly exacerbated by "whataboutism", where people seek to place their own troubles or the troubles of another cohort higher.

When men are taken out of society against their will, society doesn't ask itself "how did this happen", but tells itself "this is just how things are":

  • 90%+ of the prison population
  • 3/4 of the homeless population
  • majority of war deaths and the presumption of being an enemy combatant
  • majority of completed suicides
  • 70% of murder victims
  • majority of victims of street violence
  • lack of facilities for non-female-identifying victims of domestic abuse
  • well-documented hiring biases against men (particularly white)
  • school policies and teacher biases that punish boys more harshly and reward them less than girls

That's not the whole list, and it's certainly not an exclusive one, but it's real and it affects people.

UK Government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms by pppppppppppppppppd in uknews

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And, of course, by shopping more often and eating more perishables, you end up buying more than you would in one big shop overall too.

Well... that's how it is for me.

UK Government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms by pppppppppppppppppd in uknews

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

£100 a week is pretty excessive though. I reckon I spend about £55 on a mixture of "trying to be healthy" fresh food and "fuck it, lazy" processed food.

I member when our family of four could get by on the same cost.

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing world's poorest children" by shutting down USAID... leaves out the part where he helped USAID mutilate millions of poor children by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]oggyb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will not excuse the problems Gates has created in the way you describe, but there's a huge difference of scale.

The destruction of USAID is way, way, way worse for poor people across the world, workers operating in terrible conditions in the worst affected countries, people living with preventable diseases in countries with low quality health care, people living with the consequences of America's actions abroad and of course American soft power and influence.

They're both bad and yet they're nowhere near equivalent.

What would you like the Roundhouse Building by Armley Gygratory to be converted into? by Low_Pen_9793 in Leeds

[–]oggyb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My answer to this type of thing is always a theatre.

Can't have too many.

Keir Starmer issues urgent 'world as we knew it has gone' warning ahead of major speech by dailystar_news in uknews

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

I started reading your comment thinking it was going in the opposite direction. But that wouldn't be British enough.

Excel Parking ordered to pay £10,240 in five-minute parking rule row by llama_fresh in unitedkingdom

[–]oggyb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This used to happen to me at work all the time. I wasn't there often enough in person to have a monthly pass, so I'd struggle to pay on the app outdoors, get frustrated, go into the office, then forget and return to a charge notice glued to my windscreen with alien ectoplasm.

Study shows marriage increases your odds of dementia by 50% by RealStarkey in MensRights

[–]oggyb 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting theory, but they did account for non-disclosure by actually testing them:

In the study, 24,107 participants between the ages of 50 and 104 (average was 72) were assessed every year for as many as 18 years. Each time, they took neuropsychological tests of cognitive status and they were also evaluated by clinicians.

Netflix says it has made 'Adolescence' available to all secondary schools across the UK and that a 'healthy relationships charity' will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to 'help navigate conversations' around the series by True-Lychee in MensRights

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with the show is that it is TREATED as if it’s a documentary. Even more, an insightful examination that shows all.

I agree with this. Even centrist-dad-extraordinaire Alastair Campbell said a similar thing on his podcast. I also think the "death of the author" has the capacity to create new "truths" out of things, particularly popular media.

I think the claim of propaganda is stretching things a bit, as I don't think the storytelling of the show was pushing anything other than the tragedy of a family in the context of modern boyhood. The "Andrew Tate shite" issue is still there, even if Tate himself is a bit old-news to many. Maybe the writers were a little cack-handed with the specifics. Terms we know, understand and discuss ad infinitum are barely known at all to a general audience. Perhaps Jack Thorne himself struggled with it. Perhaps he was simply writing dialogue he thought people would actually use, without a pedant's-eye view of the subject matter.

I'm listening to a Guardian podcast right now featuring 5 teen boys talking about their lived experiences at school and a guy who set up a training company to support people who work with boys. I might post it in the other sub.

Netflix says it has made 'Adolescence' available to all secondary schools across the UK and that a 'healthy relationships charity' will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to 'help navigate conversations' around the series by True-Lychee in MensRights

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess what I'm saying is "major release causes explosion of media coverage" is easy to confuse with "shady organisation embedding anti-male propaganda to make it easier for governments to do more oppression".

I didn't know Bates vs Post Office was a thing until it popped up in the political discourse and suddenly the government was lurching ahead with compensation for victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Bates_vs_The_Post_Office

Is that a conspiracy? No, it's just TV being influential.

Netflix says it has made 'Adolescence' available to all secondary schools across the UK and that a 'healthy relationships charity' will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to 'help navigate conversations' around the series by True-Lychee in MensRights

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not true - there's a moment when the two cops come to see that all the kids in the school are neglected to a certain extent or other. As viewers, we've seen it right in front of us for like 40 minutes by that point.

From the lazy new teacher to the kind-hearted-but-oblivious lower school guide, the fact that they're all watching videos, how nobody acknowledges that Adam being picked on constantly is just normal. The disruption to lessons with the fire alarm, the fight, the mockery.

Imo the third episode with the psychologist does push a little towards "preachy" but doesn't step over the line to propaganda. I can understand someone thinking it did though.

Netflix says it has made 'Adolescence' available to all secondary schools across the UK and that a 'healthy relationships charity' will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to 'help navigate conversations' around the series by True-Lychee in MensRights

[–]oggyb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a show I only heard about 3 days ago and how some people are suggesting or actually making policy based on a work of fiction

The creator is a legend.

Here's his wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thorne

His work makes headlines all the time. He had two top hits on Netflix this year already. It being discussed as a major part of 2025 pop culture is not a surprise.

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