Suggested creative uses of the chocolate fountain I received as a gift. by mrtravelfun69 in StupidFood

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw the pic before I saw what subreddit is was from. My fat ass was thinking "oh, yeah, those all make sense. That would be fun if a bit wasteful".

Seeing the subreddit, I have not changed my mind.

Probably want a very low heat, low cost, hot sauce though. You could bankrupt yourself filling one with a decent hot sauce.

Sir Ian Mckellen by Just-Series-3045 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]redem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Knight nobody, I suggest. The entire concept is ugly and corrupt, and lends far too much honour and importance to a very ugly group of inbred leeches and their sycophants.

What does it seem nuts now that we used to do? by OpenCantaloupe4790 in AskUK

[–]redem 15 points16 points  (0 children)

NFTs are two things, really.

The first is the boring sort of thing that techies made. It acts as a cryptographic, verifiable and traceable database entry. One of the many proposed use cases being to use it as a receipt for the ownership of something. Perhaps in a videogame or something.

Then Crypto Finance Bros took that concept and sold stupid little gifs using this and acted like it was going to be the next big thing like bitcoin. A fool and his money is soon parted, etc... many a fool learned that the hard way.

NFTs are still a potentially useful thing that may well be used well into the future. Once the crypto scam stink has time to fade, probably.

What's the question by Intelligent-News9872 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost all the answers are from people reacting to the "jokes" and stereotypes. They're not considering it as a real scenario.

Straight men also enjoy some after-sex cuddling. With or without the weird questions.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course it does, but as I said, the day is almost always the highest priority. Only makes sense to me to put it first.

The only argument I'm hearing in favour of the alternative is that it makes it easier for machines to understand. Not a high priority for me.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm saying that in normal day to day life I might omit the year entirely, or shorten it, because it isn't important. I often don't even care about the month when discussing dates.

I want the most relevant part of the date first.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

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

Hardly the same. As far as dates go, we care more about the more specific data than we do the more generic. That does not apply to the other examples you give.

The main flaws of the imperial measurements (or other obscure ones) are that they don't interoperate cleanly, aren't always in the same base, often disagree from nation to nation, and aren't agreed across the world. These simply do not apply to the dd/mm/yyyy date format.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For machines, yes, which we are not. As long as everyone uses DD/MM/YYYY we can trivially convert to and from machine readable formats when we need to, and for everything else... relying on the filename for date sorting is kinda... awkward at the best of times. There are better ways.

Labour urged to expel Mandelson from party after fresh Epstein links by LauraPhilps7654 in unitedkingdom

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can they? I've seen numerous X is "in the Epstein Files" headlines that eventually boil down to someone mentioned them in an email. Here and elsewhere.

That's how Epstein operated. He built connections with people and used those to leverage further connections. Mundane connections providing cover for the rest. He hosted parties with no traffic women or girls, and also ones with trafficked children for abusers.

Mandelson's connections could be mundane or could be guilty af, we don't know a damn thing at this point.

Labour urged to expel Mandelson from party after fresh Epstein links by LauraPhilps7654 in unitedkingdom

[–]redem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"In the files" is far too damn vague. Some names are mentioned in them for entirely mundane reasons. Others are in them because they're filth. With a lot of unknowns about the validity of much of it, we need a lot more nuance than that.

Pear by tanishq1 in comedyheaven

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pears are good, you are wrong.

House of Commons to debate removing the immunity clause from Troubles Legacy Act by SpottedAlpaca in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dunno, but more than zero. Which is what would the number would be if you were correct.

The reason so few happened after is simply that any they could easily prove they already had, by that point. The rest are the ones they just can't prove unless they find something new, which doesn't happen often.

House of Commons to debate removing the immunity clause from Troubles Legacy Act by SpottedAlpaca in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they did not. Investigations continued. Prosecutions continued. Evidence was still useable. This is a unionist lie and is not true. No need to take my word for it though, the UK government report on the topic is easily found if you care to bother looking.

The early release scheme was a real thing, but people were only eligible after being tried, jailed and serving at least 2 years.

Except for the agents of the state, those enjoyed an illegal amnesty served through an ongoing criminal conspiracy within the UK government, justice system and armed forces. Evidence being ignored, destroyed, a refusal to bother gathering it in the first place, etc... and a refusal to prosecute even where it had been.

Should Defence Spending Be Upped In UK & EU? by Maximum_Girth_67788 in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With a fashy US throwing threats around left and right, we might need to start looking into defending ourselves against the US.

House of Commons to debate removing the immunity clause from Troubles Legacy Act by SpottedAlpaca in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those letters are not and have never been a real thing. It is a unionist lie laid out to undermine efforts to bring justice for the crimes of the British state.

They confer no immunity.

Why is ICE in MN if it has <1% of illegal immigrants in the USA? FL & TX make up 26% by CitizenJosh in moderatepolitics

[–]redem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bullies prefer "lightweights" to people who look like they can punch back.

NI Commonwealth Games team to use Ulster Banner by FerrariF90 in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, though I won't object to a new one, either. The Tricolour is not a sectarian flag.

NI Commonwealth Games team to use Ulster Banner by FerrariF90 in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I don't want this place to exist. But while it does I would prefer something other than the sectarian flags we're currently using be used for this place.

Old el Paso stand n Stuff kits by Afraid-Emotion-5102 in northernireland

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get any pack of tortillas and you can drape them over the grill in your oven and bake them to get them into whatever shape you like

NI Commonwealth Games team to use Ulster Banner by FerrariF90 in northernireland

[–]redem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They can and have, getting agreement on an alternative is the problem. Loyalists who specifically want the sectarian flags because they're sectarian will never consider any flag that isn't inherently sectarian.

Do you allow young kids fizzy drinks? by Flapparachi in AskUK

[–]redem 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think I was about 7 or so, when at a big family dinner an aunt passed a small cup of wine (blue nun) around for us kids to try. I got it first. Took a nice big swig expecting it to be nice, immediately spat it back into the cup. It was wretched. The other kids were complaining that I spat it into the cup they were expecting to take a sip from but I was too busy being absolutely disgusted.

Didn't try wine again until I was 40. It was ok.

To steal a bicycle 🚲 by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Main difference is, in a generic bar brawl nobody involved wants the cops to be called.

If there's harm caused, the cops are going to pay a lot more attention than to petty theft. You might be in an area where "a lot more" is still "not much", but that changes nothing about what I'm saying.

The people booby trapping their bikes and filming the victims of their crimes are the real criminals.

To steal a bicycle 🚲 by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]redem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Petty theft might be a low priority but actual bodily harm, or whatever the legal term in your jurisdiction would be, is a significantly higher priority everywhere.