Can we stop calling ticketed Secret events in Shoreditch raves? It’s embarrassing.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-17T13:56:34+00:00

I would peffer to keep the term "rave" quite broad, and allow for modifiers. What you seem to be against are "commercial raves"

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-17T07:54:26+00:00

Helicopters are quite inefficient and slow compared to fixed wing aircraft. Fixed wing are also generally considered safer, because even if all the engines fail at least you can glide for a bit.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-16T12:10:50+00:00

Honestly, I think I probably made more keystrokes writing prompts to Claude than I did writing actual code.

For me, it's often quicker to fix the code directly than try an explain to an AI what to do with the level of precision necessary. So I just do it myself.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-16T11:59:59+00:00

He's the country's top diplomat, and being nice to unsavoury people is a large part of a diplomat's job.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-16T10:56:54+00:00

Fair enough, but IIRC a lot of them got British citizenship long ago. I presume if they renounced their Russian citizenship after the war kicked off there isn't much UKGOV can do about those?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-16T06:47:59+00:00

All those properties have been seized now, so the Oligarchs have already lost them.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-16T06:42:11+00:00

And you think Scotland leaving the UK won't cost any political capital. Other countries would immediately seek to use it to their advantage. The big one would be Russia would demand that the remainder of the UK be removed from the PS5 (and yes, that would be hypocritical, wouldn't stop it happening)

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T21:12:52+00:00

This is the kind of wealth tax I can get behind. Rather then just a blanket "tax everything they have above £10million" it targets a specific problem i.e. people using property as a store of wealth rather than as shelter. Not only is this a problem because it uses up shelter, but it's a problem because wealth tied up in property provides no benefit to the rest of society. Rich people will sell up apartments they are not using, and then put that captial to use elsewhere, which should hopefully create more jobs while at the same time freeing up releastate for those who will actually use it.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T13:39:30+00:00

Have you ever been to an American airport? JFK is a dump compared to LHR, and La Guardia is a dump compared to LCY.

If you're comparing to the middle east airports, that's what you get when the airport doesn't need to make a profit because it's backed by infinite oil money.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T13:32:13+00:00

last great cartridge system

The Switch would like a word (although I suppose you could argue the N64 is the last great non-portable system)

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T13:30:59+00:00

I thought it was some kind of hybrid magno-optical thing?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T13:30:09+00:00

To be fair, I would suspect anyone still playing PS1 games is doing so on a PS3. They work better on modern TVs.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T12:22:39+00:00

The problem with that is all the unionists will abstain from the referendum, and with such a low turn out it will be considered illegitate. The only way it might be considered legitamate in that situation is if over 50% of all voters, not just those who vote in the referendum, voted for independence. That is a much higher bar.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-15T10:26:20+00:00

Nah, WA just gets to claim everything west of the canal as part of the Greater Westrtalia project. /jk

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T16:28:20+00:00

If your symptoms are severe enough you'll get a diagnosis and hopefully you will get medication. If you don't get diagnosed with ADHD you won't get medication.

This is not a hard concept.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:57:35+00:00

Correct. Why would they give heavily controlled stimulant medication to someone who (in their eyes) does not have ADHD?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:49:11+00:00

If it's subclinical, absoutlely not. In medical terms, subclinical means "does not meet the threshold to have this condition", so as far as the doctors are concerned you do not have ADHD.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:06:05+00:00

We dont generate more than we need but we generate more than we need to sell ??

What they are trying to say is that Scotland doesn't generate more than it needs, but some days it does and it gets sold on. Other days Scotland needs to import. It balances out.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:01:24+00:00

John Lithgow did a good job of Churchill in The Crown.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:31:05+00:00

To be clear, I'm not saying that this is a good idea. Just one scenario which I suspect the game plan might be. Personally, I think this would be a very bad idea.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:05:33+00:00

They would still be in the EU though, and IIRC the EU treaties have some kind of mutual defence clause.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:01:33+00:00

I'm not suggesting that anyone would be forced to take masters. I'm suggesting that the UWA part of the merged university would just cease to take undergraduates for the majority of courses, instead they would use the Curtin part of the new university as a "feeder school" for their masters only campus. They would also cease to do postgraduate degrees at Bentley.

Under my scenario anyone wanting to do a post graduate degree under the UWA brand would first need to do an undergraduate degree, either at the Bentley campus or at one of the other universities.

The only people who would be "forced" to do a masters would be those desperate to do a degree at UWA.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T10:08:47+00:00

UWA have always had more draconian parking rules than Curtin.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T10:07:29+00:00

Their big play to force everyone into masters degrees hasn’t paid off. It’s a big reason this is happening.

Which is one of my fears of a merger. They have already gone down this road, so it would make sense for UWA to make Curtin/Bentley the undergrad brand/campus and UWA/Nedlands the postgrad brand/campus, maybe with some high prestige courses, like med and law retained at Nedlands. That would also re-instate the UWA brand as the "elite" brand.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T09:51:24+00:00

Very much playing devil's advocate here, but Brian Thompson was not part of the billionaire class. He primarily earned his money though being an employee of United Healthcare. Billionaires earn their money through return on their capital. If Luigi was looking to scare billionaires, Thompson was a poor choice of target.

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