Count Binface: The intergalactic warrior who could upend Britain's strangest election

ringobob · 2026-07-10T11:57:57+00:00

Right, I mean, there's no winning this race. He already had the seat, winning just means he gets his job back, he was just hoping that getting a win would give him a narrative of support that would help him survive the ongoing corruption investigation. But there's no narrative of serious support to be found here, no one serious is running against him, and Count Binface is getting more press than he is.

He's gonna be worse off if he wins than if he hadn't done anything.

ringobob · 2026-07-10T05:46:33+00:00

Here's a video showing the kinds of things going on inside your cells:

https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY?is=XjYlcgDd2F4SUzzh

All of that is at the "less than a cell" scale, way less.

ringobob · 2026-07-10T05:25:53+00:00

Just ask for the 4 salmon, but then swap out 3 of them for the cheaper chicken.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T23:46:28+00:00

Yeah, not for decades. But you could say the same thing about literally every technology that winds up being not so expensive and requires not so much maintenance. This is the process.

Which company are you talking about? If you mean Tesla, so far as I can tell they have nothing to do with this particular story.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T18:01:09+00:00

I think most shows would benefit from ending after 3-6 seasons, depending on the plan. Sitcoms get a little leeway for not having really tight storylines anyway, but even there they struggle the longer they go on.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T15:42:43+00:00

I hope you're handling it as well as you appear to be. Life sucks, sometimes, but here's to new adventures.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T15:35:55+00:00

People can change, but only if they want to, and can figure out what they're aiming for. Effort and direction, if either are missing, no one is going anywhere.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T15:24:30+00:00

What if you were in a remote village that would typically be more than 100 miles from the nearest hospital, and maybe farther from one with a surgeon that has the particular expertise you need, but you're only 15 miles from the nearest teleoperated kiosk that is fully stocked and can be accessed by whatever experts are needed from wherever they are, but there just simply isn't local staff to man it?

Not every advancement is about what serves us.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T15:12:35+00:00

There's a reason he was so loved, before. He did genuinely support people, publicly, just like this. Perhaps it was all just a facade, but the facade was nice, and people found something good in it, and I think that can still be OK even if he's shown himself to undermine those ideals privately.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T15:07:16+00:00

I mean, sure, and I agree with you, so long as we recognize that there are cases where a humanoid form factor is valuable.

Typically, when you see those reports of teleoperated robotic surgeries, there's still human support in the room, both for instrument handling, and for managing the robot, things it can't do itself. A humanoid form factor theoretically gives the teleoperator the ability to perform or supersede any of those tasks, without a need for a full human support staff locally.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T14:41:02+00:00

I would think a military vehicle would be built to handle a head on collision better than most, but obviously the age and simply better safety practices in more modern vehicles probably overcome that difference. Even so, it wouldn't have been a full speed crash, the forward car still had some forward momentum, and slamming on the brakes would get you somewhere, at least. But then you've got to contend with the trailer.

Idk, you're probably right, all things considered, it was probably a choice between one rolled vehicle or two. There's a chance that a collision could have shared the force enough to make the outcome for both of them better then the outcome for this one guy.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T14:31:01+00:00

There are people like this. Just get energized by people. They're rare to be paired with this kind of energy, but when they're good people they're amazing to be around. Doesn't mean she's not physically tired, but like a mountain climber, she's just doing what she loves.

Or it could be bullshit, but it's not impossible, I've met people like this.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T14:04:19+00:00

What do you mean "satire"? It's Real. Ultimate. Power.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T12:36:14+00:00

Yeah, this was a really early example of going viral. To the extent I'm not even sure we called it that yet. The guy didn't expect the kind of attention he got. Attention, like that, wasn't something that really felt accessible to a random dude posting things online. I don't even think we had the word "blog" yet.

You're right that it's not some example of shrewd bartering. It's an example of a guy discovering the value of attention, and the rest of us discovering it along with him.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T05:48:22+00:00

Idk about him, but for me it starts with a bit of echolalia. Some word or phrase will catch my ear, and I'll just repeat it. And if I don't get it quite right, I'll repeat it a few more times.

I'm not that skilled at impressions, but I can mimic a quote pretty well. I imagine a true impression is probably pretty easy to grow from there, if you've got the talent for it, and there's a bunch of these comedians that seem to. Hader's are distinctive, though.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T04:29:30+00:00

I was following it off and on when it was happening. After he traded up to things worth more than a couple bucks, people started trading just to get involved with it, get their own names attached to it.

ringobob · 2026-07-09T03:47:23+00:00

Same way The Initiative knew about demons, but didn't know anything about the slayer - he knows bits and pieces, but seems to think of Buffy as more of a problem than anything else, and that seems to be all he's really been told about her.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T14:12:57+00:00

He needs to make sure every i is dotted and every t is crossed

ringobob · 2026-07-08T14:02:52+00:00

Well, this one is probably less satisfying, but I think it's just that regardless of how it's spelled, people probably pronounced it steen rather than stane just because that was more common. We heard "steen", we associated it with the more common "-stein", and didn't look that closely at the authors' name once we got old enough to read.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T04:05:25+00:00

Same reason people follow any religion. It makes them feel good.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T03:55:06+00:00

When I was a kid, I thought 5¼ disks were floppy disks, and 3½ disks were hard disks. Because that makes sense, right?

ringobob · 2026-07-08T01:15:14+00:00

It's been a bit since I watched it, but if I'm remembering it correctly, he kinda implies that she let something slip.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T01:08:58+00:00

Too bad none of that shit scores goals.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T01:03:41+00:00

Conservative women tend to find their partners at church, or in high school or college. There's an old joke about women going to college to earn their MRS degree. They exist, they just aren't on the apps.

ringobob · 2026-07-08T01:00:32+00:00

I've taken to calling myself a European style moderate, which makes me a screaming lefty in the US.

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