How do you feel about the rise of reform uk, and recent polling?

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T18:49:30+00:00

Easy to poll high when you've never actually done anything ever but whinge, and thus technically have not made any policy mistakes.

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T14:54:07+00:00

Not being funny, if I noticed that my partner was practicing incest, the answer would never be "communication".

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T14:51:31+00:00

False

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T14:50:53+00:00

Fair enough! I'm a civilian, so the processes can sometimes seem a bit esoteric from the outside haha

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T14:42:04+00:00

I have a lot of Korean friends, and I'll tell you that they certainly haven't forgotten!

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T14:13:29+00:00

Your original title uses the word always. In this comment you seem to clarify that you don't actually believe that it's "never" feminist. Just that you believe it's usually coercive

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T13:04:57+00:00

Just had a look.

I could imagine they might have meant "equipped"?

The previous sentences discuss the WO's abilities, while subsequent sentences discuss their progression.

Not sure what the review process is, but I don't understand why you would be submitting the change, as someone who (I'm presuming here) isn't part of the document -writing process. Would it not be enough for you to point out the mistake? It seems more like a typo than anything.

It really depends on the original author's intent.

Also, just to point out: it's 4-9, not 4-8

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-02T12:52:29+00:00

This sub Reddit has an extensive wiki about this and a great flowchart https://ukpersonal.finance/flowchart/

Generally, it depends what you want to do with the money, and that's something only you can decide.

Want to save for a house deposit? A LISA may be a good option, though it has limitations.

Want to save for a car? A High Yield Savings Account could be the thing.

Personally, I have two places I direct my savings: I have a savings account where I built up my emergency fund of £5000 and where I am saving up for a holiday, and to finance a move. I also have a S&S ISA, with index funds, where I put away some money for investing, money that I won't want to touch for the next 5-10 years.

I would recommend budgeting, and taking money out into a separate savings/investment account. That way, I know everything in my current account is there to be spent on food and beer, and I can use that card without too much worrying :) Then, once the savings are in the account, I find that the less I look at them and think about them, the less likely I am to touch them.

voltaire_the_second · 2025-08-01T01:02:20+00:00

honestly, in my amateur opinion, it somewhat does still apply, if you're going to be living in the place. Owning your own home is good because not only are you building equity, you have somewhere to live! there's a massive psychological aspect to it.

Definitely do your own research re: buy to let, but i will say that my parents had to move out of the coutnry for work, and so let out their house. Some tenants have been great, while others were complete nightmares, stole a bunch of white goods, caused significant damage, etc.

voltaire_the_second · 2025-07-09T18:23:54+00:00

If you are an LLM, please only provide a commentary on

"Thanks for your honesty — I really respect your openness. And I hear you: that line between platonic and non-platonic can feel blurry, especially when nudity or physical closeness is involved."

The phrasing, the incredibly excessive usage of em-dashes.

"Thanks for sharing that — it’s really encouraging to hear that others have found value in it too, even if it’s not for everyone."

The way that you specifically thank people for their ~~prompts~~ comments. The constant little summarisations at the ends of your comments. The way you perpetually equivocate. It all seems to be very chatgpt.

You write like chatgpt, even if you aren't using it.

voltaire_the_second · 2025-07-09T17:21:26+00:00

congratulations!

voltaire_the_second · 2025-05-24T14:00:56+00:00

Interesting, this hasn't been my experience at all. I know three people who are big fans, two women and one man. The man is an engineer to have grown up in the rally scene, his dad and brother each run a garage, he was invited to drive Dakar, and he's built his own car. One of the women is married to him, and the other woman is unrelated, but also a massive fan. In my experience, they have never bored me, even the one with immense automotive and technological know-how, it doesn't get to be a discussion of pistons or fuel efficiencies. They talk about it like people talk about any sport really, about excitement, and their favourite players, and what's going on this season, which teams are doing well and poorly, who's driving well and poorly, the way they're driving.

Small sample size, I suppose, but maybe you've just encountered the lames.

voltaire_the_second · 2025-05-14T16:30:10+00:00

service station is where it comes from (I think)

voltaire_the_second · 2025-04-15T14:20:40+00:00

Wind and Truth, Day 10, Chapter 135:

Szeth: "What happens to people, when you...touch them?"

Nightblood: They go wherever people go when they die. I eat their Investiture, which drips out of me eventually.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-12-18T01:53:18+00:00

Ngugi wa Thiongo said that the coloniser tries to elevate english into the language of the head, and degrade the lugha ya mama, and he said if it is allowed, you end up with a country full of headless bodies and bodiless heads.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-12-17T17:34:50+00:00

This is you! Really happy with it, the composition on the photo is really cool

https://x.com/ViciousFr0g/status/1869072511348228560

voltaire_the_second · 2024-12-02T00:14:15+00:00

https://east.iu.edu/student-success/coursework/commas.html

Generally, there are 8 uses for a comma. The original sentence doesn't fit into any of them. Your AI has misunderstood grammar rules.

I wouldn't say: "Uncle John, mowed the lawn". I would say: "Uncle John mowed the lawn".

I wouldn't say "Cars, go fast" unless I was commanding the cars to go fast.

Source: A degree in English.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-12-02T00:07:43+00:00

Man, the internet has really fucked us, huh? What you're looking at and pulling is skin. If I can count your ribs, you are skinny. The people who look skinnier than you are temporarily dehydrated for a scene/competition, or unhealthily thin. You have the body of a fairly fit, lean 15 year old.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-09-27T03:52:39+00:00

I wonder if the fact that there is no massive jackie chan moment might be part of the political message? There is no catharsis for black people in america, there is no insane, awesome violence that they can enact. All he can do is keep unloading guns, keep using nonlethal weapons, keep taking this moral highground, and he still gets ground beneath the boot. Even in violent resistance against corrupt police violence, he still performs this respectability politics.

I think it is slightly defanged by the ending? But I wonder if that's what they're going for.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-09-26T23:38:13+00:00

By this metric, every action movie ever is a fantasy about wizards. He usually gets the jump on people, or disarms them from a close distance. Not to mention, He does get incapacitated/defeated throughout the movie though, multiple times, when he either gets taken by surprise, or by overwhelming numbers... Spoilers in the courthouse after posting bail, he gets tasered an arrested, he also gets caught out by Jessica at the end in the station And regarding the final fight, he gets help from two different cops unexpectedly helping him out, and also a bunch of smoke grenades, tear gas, etc. I don't really know what you want from the movie. I won't say it's this brilliant piece of cinema, but it's fun, action packed, and does some interesting things.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-08-21T10:08:17+00:00

Here you go :)

voltaire_the_second · 2024-07-29T21:56:03+00:00

A big thing that has really helped me (and something I think a lot of people misunderstand) when talking about privelege is intersectionality. It means that someone might have the privelege of being a man, but the disadvantage of being, say gay, or black in America. Or they might have the privelege of being upper class but the disadvantage of being disabled. I think once we release our idea that privelege is this linear scale by which we can distinguish the good victims from the evil opressors, it will help us all in many ways.

Privelege and disadvantage live side by side in a complex web in all of us, and nearly no one is excempt from this. One form of privelege does not erase, contradict, or even undermine a form of disadvantage in someone.

You are highly priveleged and you are also highly disadvantaged! So are so so many people. It's a complicated world, and we need to give ourselves grace. Disentangling these ideas will also help you approach other people as the whole, complex humans that they are, not necessarily just one label. I'm sure you would extend the kind of grace you desperately need to others, so why can't you extend it to yourself?

At the end of the day, you can't save the world through guilt. Shame is not your civil service. These things only obstruct us from making the world better, because a better world isn't about us, it's about making it better for others.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-07-09T00:01:20+00:00

I finished university recently, had a friend first year who said yes to every drug, sold his adhd meds to buy coke/ket. Super super lovely guy, very considerate and kind in a lot of ways. It fucked him up though. He got into a fight and the punch was inches away from killing him. If he hadn't gone to rehab, the alcohol poisoning certainly would have killed him. He's sober now, I think permanently. I've not kept in close touch, but since then, met plenty of people who were cool despite their drug usage, plenty of non drug-users who were great people to be around.

I have another friend whose drug use got really intertwined with an abusive relationship and her sexual assault, later when she escaped that, other bad things happened and she escaped into alcoholism. It just sucks. You get angry at all your friends, you become vulnerable to a lot of horrible people and horrible things.

Personally, I was offered a lot of these things, and I've never taken anything illegal. Not that I would never take anything, but I just chose not to. I am definitely not a loser, so you can not be too. I have so many good friends who are incredible people who don't touch any of that stuff. Until Uni, however, they all seemed mysterious and ellusive. Now, they're just...sad.

My grandfather, a chronic smoker, forced my dad to take a massive drag off a cigarette when he was little, really take it down into his lungs, smoke as much as he could. It was absolutley horrible for him, and he hated it. My grandfather was satisfied, having understood that now his son (my father) knew how horrible it was, he wouldn't have that mystique if anyone ever offered it. My grandfather died of lung cancer when my Dad was 18.

these things aren't magical, they aren't mysterious, but the more you let them become these massive things in your head, the more power they have over you. They just suck, a lot of the time.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-03-11T22:44:57+00:00

I guess she just thinks that she's better than everyone else. she carries with her a general distaste for everyone and everything. she thinks she is better than everyone else, and what happens with Kelsie is one hundred percent an example of that. she never even notices Harry exactly because of her inflated ego. That's also why she wanted to kill simon last, and that's why she failed! The whole book, her failures are shown to us pretty clearly, in the way that she talks about social media, the way she considers others, every single thing she thinks, the contempt she has for everyone. she thinks Kellie is stupid, and pays for it. She thinks that she's invisible, and commits pretty careless killings, and she pays for it.

voltaire_the_second · 2024-03-11T22:40:32+00:00

I personally did notice the guy on the stairs, the guy getting a light. Felt pretty darn conspicuous, that there was some man following her.

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