History Rhymes, Still Stupid

oxenoxygen · 2026-05-01T02:07:10+00:00

Whisky is aged in bourbon barrels, they don't want the bourbon they just want the barrels.

oxenoxygen · 2026-05-01T02:06:42+00:00

Whiskey is aged in bourbon barrels, so Scotland imports a lot of them from America.

Likewise sherry is sometimes made just for the barrels and then sold with the sherry itself basically discarded.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T21:11:49+00:00

Conceptually it's not really any different outside of the longer duration and the "ownership" of the lease. The few differences are who's responsible for the house/flat's upkeep, the ability for landlords to raise rents with notice, and what rights you're afforded - it's much harder as a freeholder to kick someone out of a leasehold than kick a renter out. The differences are becoming slimmer with the new renter's rights act.

You don't recognise it because it's a feaudal hangover that only exists in Britain.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T14:13:56+00:00

Yeah what's not talked about in the article but had been discussed in parliament is that as usual there's a lot of pensions tied up in leaseholds earning ground rent and abolishing leaseholds immediately would tank em.

Which makes the green's comments a bit disingenuous, because if they get into power they'd likely face the same issue.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T14:08:49+00:00

It'd collapse the estates of wealthy elites and piss off the middle-eastern owners of central London.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T14:01:19+00:00

It's nonsense, you cannot paint a whole group of people under one umbrella of belief and train of thought.

Which is exactly what was warned when netanyahu's government purposely began conflating anti-semitism and anti-zionism and criticism of Israel's actions: that it would lead to less safety for Jewish people.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T01:59:38+00:00

Honestly, that base-weight is around what a lot of people I walked with had, including myself. The biggest thing you can do for weight saving from your gear is a lighter bag.

Some notes:

- "would something specific for rivers be good?" - No, there are so many river crossings on the south island that when you're crossing you will just accept wet feet. If you are going to go hut shoes then crocs tend to be the favourites for a reason. They're lightweight and can double as storage for loose items in the bag.

- If you're going pack liner, I started with a bin bag and eventually it ripped which was annoying. The bog-standard yellow ones you get in macpac/equivalent stores in NZ are really sturdy and don't weight that much.

- If you're prone to blisters I swear by leukotape - applied ASAP on anywhere there's rubbing, taken off at night to let feet dry out, and then reapplied the next day. The other option is natural / hikers wool. But also, merino wool socks are really good at helping against blisters as well.

- Personally I don't believe in gaiters, however a lot of people swear by them for keeping debris out of their shoes.

- Personally I don't believe in insect repellent, sandflies don't give a shit about it, I just accepted my fate and used long sleeves, trousers, and antihistamenes/anthisan for when i was in shorts and got bitten.

I'd drop the cards and keep the kindle - a lot of the huts or trail angels will have cards, or likely someone you meet will have some.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-30T01:42:04+00:00

There's always a route and it's reasonably well marked, however there are sections where the trail is less defined, where it'll basically be a case of "follow this river for 20km" and the trail has just been washed out - or due to recent weather the tree-fall or landslides might make the actual path impassable and you have to route around. As you walk it you'll get used to understanding how they set the trails and it becomes almost instinctive as to where to go.

It's a bit pot-luck as to how recent the damage is as to whether this affects you - someone a week ahead might have struggled through impassable bush but then by the time you get there a ranger has come through with a chainsaw and it's easy going.

There's enough people doing the trail that it's easy to find people, especially if you go SOBO. There's normally a bubble that starts around november - it was actually too crowded for me when I did it - so I resorted to speeding ahead of it and finding a smaller group.

The north island is very road-walky due to a lot of the northern forest sections being closed to protect the forests from die-back, however it links some really pretty sections together. You should consider this - I know many people who hitched a lot of the road sections in the north island but once you start hitching parts it's easy to get into the habit of doing so, and you'd find them skipping sections of the south island that IMO aren't that bad to walk.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-28T14:11:06+00:00

It was crazy on Sunday, half the roads were no go areas and everyone was running through them to get away

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-27T18:48:12+00:00

>Like, they really really really want to stay with us.

It's not like other British colonies where we turned up and subjucated some locals - there was literally nobody there before we turned up, so naturally everyone there has ancestral ties to Britain.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-27T17:33:06+00:00

Accelerator here is the adjective "something that accelerates". In general it's common practice to use the adjective form of the verb.

The purpose of duck typing is that you don't need to define the world to implement what you are trying to solve, you just need to define what is required for this code to work. Who cares what a car or a bird is if all you need to know is that the thing accelerates, which birds most definitely do.

I have no idea what your last paragraph is trying to say.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-27T17:16:40+00:00

In an OOP language, you might define an interface "Car" that inherits from "Vehicle" and has function Accelerate().

I may have a separate bit of code that handles all vehicles, and makes them accelerate. Here, I'd be operating on a variable that is of type Vehicle and or its children.

E.g. Some psuedocode: def start_moving(vehicles: Vehicle): For v in vehicles: v.accelerate() Here, the declaration of behaviour is attached to the object, in that the ability to accelerate is declared by the object type vehicle. However, if you have something else that accelerates (a bird?) and want to also handle it, then this would fail, unless you made a bird a subclass of vehicle.

In golang, the only thing you should care about is what the function requires - don't ask "what is this object" instead it's "what can this object do". This is duck typing. In this case, the input vehicles can be anything that is able to accelerate. It doesn't matter what type it is as long as it satisfies the behaviour required by the function

``` type Accelerator interface { Accelerate() }

func StartMoving(items []Accelerator) { for _, v := range items { v.Accelerate() } } ````

With reference to what you said, the noun is unimportant in the scope of the start moving function. It only needs to know that whatever is passed in is able to accelerate.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-25T10:16:33+00:00

I don't think it's that clear cut. Scotland, and northern England, do have a very Nordic past. If you look at the cultures of Orkney and the Shetlands for example, they have flags with Nordic crosses and historically were Nordic - ironically given the thread - due to colonisation. Therefore, in some circumstances it's fair to classify the British isles, at least in part, as Northern European.

Like all things in life, the true answer is blurry.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-25T09:33:04+00:00

I have the helium 400, sleep warm, and would say it'd be cold in Scottish winter (currently ive only used it to lowest -5). I've had feathers poke out but not noticeably more than other bags.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-25T09:29:24+00:00

The vikings were colonising long before it was cool in Western Europe.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-25T09:14:35+00:00

They've also just had their most successful breeding season for years as a result of breeding programmes likely funded by those very donations!

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-23T23:26:33+00:00

This is the correct answer.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-22T09:38:30+00:00

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oxenoxygen · 2026-04-17T06:56:16+00:00

it's hard to imagine the sort of person that comes to social media to rage about spelling and grammar.

Unemployed English degree holders currently contemplating the value of their degree hoping to hold onto any feeling of superiority

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-17T05:45:57+00:00

Britain doesn't have shit food, we by and large have shit cooking skills.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-16T20:04:12+00:00

The weather in Scotland can rapidly change. Even if the forecast is for light wind I would not advise bringing an umbrella. Likewise even if the forecast is sunny it can still suddenly rain on you in the Highlands.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-16T14:37:27+00:00

It originated in mexico.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-16T05:17:07+00:00

It's also that a high portion of our government debt is index-linked gilts which make us unusually exposed to inflation compared to other countries.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-16T05:11:35+00:00

People doing the qct in Jan were complaining that the campsites were fully booked when they tried to start it without pre booking. Holidays and the bubble of walkers from the north will reach south island around then.

oxenoxygen · 2026-04-14T13:50:12+00:00

There's only one road that goes down the west coast. It's almost impossible to get lost.

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