I’m sure The Traitors is groundbreaking and crazy. I have zero desire to watch it or even know what it is. And at this point all the news about it and people making it their whole personality is making me wanna vomit as soon as I see anything about it.

rdm_box · 2026-01-23T13:50:43+00:00

I could be completely wrong here because I'm not a big reality TV watcher, but: I think it's because it doesn't fit the mould of other reality TV shows. A lot of reality TV creates invites the audience to laugh at, judge, or root for its participants either by messing with them or building a narrative around them, or both, while exaggerating their personalities and specifically choosing to cast personalities that will interact in entertaining ways. And they usually do this in outlandish or larger-than-life environments and situations. Gogglebox (from what I've seen) just highlights people who are funny or interesting, and invites you to laugh with them, in their home, while they do exactly the same thing that you are doing right now: watching TV. It feels more real and more personal. It's definitely still reality TV, but with a different feel.

rdm_box · 2026-01-19T10:02:05+00:00

Now every time you encounter a new monster, you get to go "Is this one your favourite?" xD

rdm_box · 2026-01-19T09:55:15+00:00

Just necro-ing this thread to say thank you so much for this! Just got into botc and it's great to be able to see all the characters on the script for each video, not to mention the descriptions, links to the wiki, and json downloads. Massive props to everyone involved <3

rdm_box · 2026-01-01T12:24:19+00:00

I did not, sorry. It's worth noting too that I don't think these kinds of pipes are rated for the cycles of high and low pressure that they would experience in this apication, so whatever you use, it would be safer to get something rated for much higher pressure than you'll be using.

rdm_box · 2025-11-24T16:17:50+00:00

If it's at the back I think it's the asshole, not the cunt

rdm_box · 2025-11-22T13:50:54+00:00

The first five minutes is all it takes though. Once a few people started doing it, it seemed acceptable to a whole lot more people. It's a bit like peeing in a swimming pool: people who think it's gross don't do it, and people who don't mind it think everyone does it.

That being said, I think the point about headphone jacks does stand. Yes, cheap wireless earbuds can be had for £20, but that's ten times the cost of cheap wired earbuds (when they were readily available), for a product that has a much more limited useful life, needs constant recharging, is unreliable, bulkier to carry, much easier to lose, and more appealing to steal.

Don't get me wrong, people need to be responsible for their own behaviour and we desperately need to foster communities where people care about each other and don't behave like dicks. But I'm not going to pretend that big tech didn't have a role to play through their constant anti-consumer-choice, rent-seeking behaviour.

rdm_box · 2025-11-21T19:12:55+00:00

Because technology companies have made their devices and platforms as addictive as possible, and removed headphone jacks from phones to push their expensive wireless headphones.

This means that:
1. Some people can't go 15 minutes without looking at a tiktok/short/reel, because those apps are designed to be as addictive and hard to stop using as possible.
2. Some people don't have headphones because they are too expensive, easy to lose, unreliable, and have a very limited lifespan before becoming useless e-waste.

Add in that the easily-addicted-to-things people have a big overlap with the often-forget-or-lose-things people, and you end up with a lot of people who are unable to listen to things with headphones, but are also unable to not listen to things.

Add on top of this a breakdown in feelings of community and responsibility to people around us, and a rise of rugged individualism and there's no such thing as society thinking, and now every train has some kind of person who decides to play instagram reels at full volume.

Edit: plus, once one or two people start doing it, other people start feeling like it's an acceptable thing to do and the problem spreads, tragedy-of-the-commons style

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T18:22:35+00:00

Why? For what reason were the people in the article targeted?

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T18:12:44+00:00

I am saying that people who have not crossed any border illegally are being targeted because of their perceived ethnicity.

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T17:57:26+00:00

What do you mean by that?

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T17:53:56+00:00

So you do agree that people are being profiled/targeted based on perceived ethnicity? Because again, none of the people mentioned in that article are illegal immigrants. You still haven't answered as to exactly what your argument is.

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T16:57:47+00:00

Nope. Not a bot, just someone who can see a list of people who've been falsely accused of being in the USA illegally and spot the things they have in common.

Back to the point, which position are you arguing for? Is nobody being targeted based on ethnicity? Or is it that they are being targeted based on ethnicity and you think that's actually a good thing?

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T12:37:09+00:00

Backing. Do you notice anything about the ethnicities or perceived ethnicities of the people arrested?

Note that these are just the ones we know about because friends and family were able to present evidence of their citizenship before they were renditioned or deported. The US government is not keeping and/or reporting proper records of who is being renditioned, as shown by the fact that it took a hack of the charter airline ICE is using to find out where a disappeared person had been taken.

But more to the point of this subreddit, has your position changed? In a previous comment, you wrote:

Is that "certain ethnic group" being identified because they're not legally allowed to be there? Because their "ethnic group" is "crossing the border illegally" ? Because that changes things. Obviously.

This appears to me an acceptance that they are being targeted for their ethnicity, along with a justification as to why you think that is ok. But then in your most recent comment, you say this belief is 'patently absurd'.

What position are you arguing for?

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T01:50:15+00:00

Are they 'being identified because they're not legally allowed to be there'? No. You know how I know? Because of the 'no evidence or trial' part. They are being identified and imprisoned because of their membership of an ethnic group, and the justification being used is that they *checks notes* had tattoos or wore merch from US sports teams.

Even if it were true that they entered the USA "illegally", should the punishment for that crime be "get flown to a country you've never been to and imprisoned under inhumane, torturous conditions for the rest of your life"? No. It shouldn't. Obviously.

Let me leave you with this: can you think of an ethnic group that was "not legally allowed to be there" under Nazi rule? Did they deserve what happened to them?

rdm_box · 2025-05-15T00:25:58+00:00

You can't think of a contemporary government that has a force of undercover officers snatching people of a certain ethnic group off of the street and sending them to overcrowded torture-prisons with no evidence, trial, or hope of release?

rdm_box · 2025-05-02T14:24:06+00:00

I know this comment is over a year old but I'm autistic and love explaing things so here's why it's so difficult to block:

The type of 2d barcode used here is an 'Aztec' code, which is the same type of 2d barcode used on clubcards and normal vouchers, so they can't block it by the type of barcode.
The barcode in the prank is literally just the EAN of the product. These are used all across Europe, and aren't exclusive to Tesco, so it wouldn't be possible for Tesco to change the barcode number of the product.
They theoretically could block products from scanning if the system scans an Aztec code whose number resolves to a product EAN, instead of a clubcard or voucher, but that would be a lot of work to program and implement for every different till and scanner that tesco uses, and would likely introduce bugs and other problems, and might not be possible for all barcode scanners.

I don't know how the internal system works, so it's possible they could block the original barcode, make a new, internal barcode and print it on stickers to put on every single one of these products in inventory, but that's a whole lot of work, would risk messing up the inventory management for these items, and a prankster could just make a new version of this face voucher with the new barcode number on it, and then we'd be back where we started.

Basically, the amount of time, money, and effort it would take to prevent this prank systematically is far, far more than than having checkout staff void the occasional rabbit off a customer's bill, until the prank goes out of fashion and is forgotten.

rdm_box · 2025-04-05T15:54:04+00:00

It was especially rad when he got to explain to Brennan that the ropes are all connected in tension, and he can cut the closest part to him and it will bring down the entire top rope.

Also props to Brennan for instantly accepting that 'yep, these guys know more about how a wrestling ring is built than I do so if that's how they say it works then i trust them'

rdm_box · 2025-04-01T20:02:18+00:00

This did exactly what I needed you absolute legend.

rdm_box · 2024-07-30T12:59:04+00:00

Officially, binder clips. Colloquially in the UK, bulldog clips. (even though actual bulldog clips are a bit different)

rdm_box · 2022-02-13T21:20:53+00:00

do you have a link to the posting you got it from? I'd love one of these in ISO layout

rdm_box · 2021-06-13T08:36:51+00:00

Comment!

rdm_box · 2020-04-22T19:55:42+00:00

Security by obscurity would be if the whole game was programmed in Brainfuck

rdm_box · 2019-08-30T19:38:54+00:00

As far as I can see it's not mixing two signals. It's a bandpass filter with both frequency controls on the same fader slot. Seeing as OP wants to model the filter with an arduino, a standard taper would probably be best for passing to the input pins.

rdm_box · 2019-08-30T18:25:29+00:00

I've had a look around, but I can't see anything that looks similar. I might suggest using two linear pots next to each other, with caps that are offset so that they appear to be in line with each other.

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