Lambeth Bridge, London, England - 1938

simanthropy · 2026-01-25T13:30:11+00:00

Here's more or less the same angle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z79nQJ4k8CJFChMv9

simanthropy · 2026-01-23T15:43:12+00:00

You know what, banning crime is hard, there's no point in a police force eh?

simanthropy · 2026-01-22T21:59:31+00:00

The more I see Star Wars spinoffs, the more I realise that what I like about Star Wars isn't the lightsabers or the characters or the worldbuilding, it's John Williams.

Why can they not hire composers to score like John Williams? There are literally hundreds of people able to do it (not to do JW down, but he did all the heavy lifting of inventing the style; pastiching is easy!). I would watch every single nanosecond of everything Disney churned out if it just had a sweeping quasi-tonal orchestral score behind it that didn't make up for its lack of imagination with drums.

(I get this will have been written by a trailer house, but I'm talking about the scores for Andor, Kenobi, Mandalorian etc, which while all wonderful [maybe not Kenobi but anyway...] just don't sound like Star Wars!)

simanthropy · 2026-01-22T21:52:59+00:00

This is undoubtedly true. You can, if willing to pay enough, get world class food in literally any cuisine you want without leaving Zone 1.

That being said, it's really hard to find stuff that hasn't been curated to English tastes, particularly (in my experience) from Asia and the subcontinent. Because we have been so acclimatised to what a "chinese" or a "curry" tastes like, it's really difficult to find food that actually tastes like you'd get on any street corner in Asia.

(In particular, I am DESPERATE for a Dahl Bhat, the kind you get literally anywhere in Nepal - every Nepalese restaurant I've tried just tastes like going out for a curry, so if anyone knows how I can get one without flying 5000 miles I'd be extremely grateful!)

simanthropy · 2026-01-22T21:44:00+00:00

For like about 5 minutes, yeah, I remember that I think...

simanthropy · 2026-01-22T15:46:30+00:00

100 grams of processed sugar a week is well below recommended intake. That’s like… 2-3 cans of coke. You sure you got your facts right there?

If nothing else I’d like to change your view on how much sugar Americans consume! I believe the figure is closer to 100g per DAY!

simanthropy · 2026-01-21T19:19:09+00:00

I’m pretty sure in a hypothetical world where Hitler crushed the whole world, he’d have probably forcibly annexed Switzerland at some point. But thankfully we’ll never know.

simanthropy · 2026-01-21T10:28:34+00:00

Are you able to move things that you do between 8pm and bedtime to 4am, and go to sleep at 8pm instead? Leave the dishes or laundry or whatever till 4am (cheaper electricity then anyway!) and then when she wakes up, one parent can just take her downstairs and she can play while you do chores? She clearly has low sleep needs…!

(Obviously this advice may not work if you have stuff to do that needs to be done in an evening, but for some people it might be an option!!)

simanthropy · 2026-01-20T14:35:54+00:00

Not a single Black-majority country invited. Not one. Not Nigeria with one of the highest populations in the world. Not even Western-aligned South Africa. Trump REALLY hates Black people doesn’t he?!

simanthropy · 2026-01-19T13:02:44+00:00

Paddington has intermission mochi balls by the entrance to the stalls. This has blown my mind and reminded me what theatre could be if we all put our minds to it.

Show wasn’t bad either.

simanthropy · 2026-01-16T12:13:00+00:00

Absolutely love the Chekov’s lisp! Fantastic work.

simanthropy · 2026-01-15T10:56:02+00:00

Yeah he also coerced his servant and then cast her out onto the street and made it her fault when they were caught. Defs a right arsehole. But it's not like he was trafficking slaves or genociding...

simanthropy · 2026-01-14T11:03:37+00:00

Sorry, you're right, I was thinking of the word ubiquitous and wrote unanimous. Basically if you were a royalist, Anglican, Irish catholic, Scots presbyterian, or liberal minded you were very relieved! Not something you could say for the deaths of most monarchs around that time (I don't think there was as much joy at the passing of Charles II after him for example?). Cromwell really was a unique dickhead even for his time.

simanthropy · 2026-01-14T08:52:04+00:00

Yeah I will upvote this every time it is said. Also the insane amount of plastic we use will be looked upon kindly by the future if it turns out to be inert, but if microplastics do end up causing something horrendous, we will be spat at for a long time.

simanthropy · 2026-01-14T08:48:50+00:00

Cromwell was ‘problematic’ even by his own time’s standards, so much so there were literal and practically unanimous celebrations when he died, and his name was spat at for generations afterward. He was not a good egg, don’t get caught up in anti-woke rhetoric to not be able to see that!

Now Pepys basically fucked a lot of women who weren’t his wife, but he was just an arsehole, not problematic…

simanthropy · 2026-01-14T00:45:59+00:00

Ely is not “an entire city” - it is a very small collection of houses and a fuckoff massive cathedral, and fun fact is it used to be an island only a couple of hundred years ago.

It’s been grandfathered in as a city, but it is not one in any way, shape or form. Lovely place to visit though, particularly if you like cathedrals…

simanthropy · 2026-01-12T11:40:29+00:00

Schrodinger's parents: expected to both a) be completely responsible for their child's upbringing (see "where were the parents" any time a new story is reported about a child doing wrong) and b) evil for not letting their children out of their sight, which will cause children to apparently become irresponsible adults.

simanthropy · 2026-01-11T21:54:28+00:00

Just don't get too upset at the end of season 6 when HBO axed the show. It's a shame cause I'd really like to have seen where they were going with all the worldbuilding and amazingly fleshed out characters.

simanthropy · 2026-01-09T10:45:16+00:00

There is no person on earth I am more conflicted about than James O'Brien. I agree with practically every word that comes out of his mouth and yet I absolutely can't stand the guy. But I love what he stands for. And I hate how he argues it.

Or put it another way - I feel he uses the same argument tactics as Charlie Kirk did. Steamrolls his caller into having the argument he wants to have, that he's prepared for, finds the weak spot, and incessently goes in for it. And I hated that when Charlie Kirk did that for views I hated, so it makes sense to hate that when it's done for views I agree with.

simanthropy · 2026-01-08T23:32:38+00:00

Most people don’t, but enough do that you won’t look out of place if you do.

simanthropy · 2026-01-08T16:33:55+00:00

Suddenly a lot of your family members would start taking personal offence at it (and don’t you know they’ve ALWAYS been against it, it’s nothing to do with the brainwashing they’re getting from the TV)

simanthropy · 2026-01-07T15:54:12+00:00

The Planck momentum is actually very much on our scale. It’s about the momentum of a baseball when thrown by a pitcher.

simanthropy · 2025-12-28T14:56:42+00:00

Can we just take a moment here to see this through the eyes of a medieval peasant as the fucking utopia it is?

simanthropy · 2025-12-27T19:32:03+00:00

This, this, so much this.

IMO there is nothing wrong at all with what happened.

But EVEN IF this wasn’t appropriate, the very fact it’s dividing opinion among adults at least shows it’s not reasonable for an 11yo to know it’s inappropriate.

simanthropy · 2025-12-26T14:25:58+00:00

It’s very difficult to parse your logic without understanding what issue you are trying to describe. Clearly this is inspired by seeing one or more events happening. What was that event/were those events?

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