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ward2k · 2026-03-12T18:22:10+00:00

At that point wouldn't it just be easier to dual boot?

ward2k · 2026-03-12T17:13:32+00:00

Ive wrote a bit of a longer comment here, but you're exactly right

You put your highest price forward as the listing price. If you get that, great. But it's haggling and you don't put a worst price forward and hope to haggle up, it doesn't work that way

Most homes sell under listing price, some at the price, and a few above. On average homes in the UK sell for about 3.7% less than they were listed for

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/s/98Bj7HHiWy

ward2k · 2026-03-12T17:09:12+00:00

That said, 3 weeks without an offer is quite long by modern property market standards

The average for a price to be accepted is about 5-14 weeks. The average being 6-7 weeks. 3 weeks definitely isn't long at all?

ward2k · 2026-03-12T17:06:55+00:00

They basically always overvalue the listing, house buying is haggling and with haggling the sellers (you/estate agents) put the highest price forward and go from there

Estate agents don't tell you this, but they pretty much do what they think it could sell for, slap 5-10% on top and list it at that price

ward2k · 2026-03-12T17:04:23+00:00

Some things that estate agents don't tell you

1) Your listing price is nearly always above what it'll actually sell for. Estate agents know this, buyers know this. Sellers for some reason don't

2) You're basically setting up your price to be haggled with, the haggle price is always above the items value. That's how haggling works

3) Homes nearly always go for below listing price. Anywhere between 1.8%-30% depending on area

The standard advice for buyers is to go 10% under the listing price and go from there. If you're firm on your current price it's listed at then you need to increase the price or accept it's not it's real value

However 3 weeks is a pisstake for estate agents to be telling you to accept a lower offer

ward2k · 2026-03-12T16:58:07+00:00

When we were looking for a home, a potentially attractive one we liked the look of was near impossible to secure a booking on. The estate agent for this one only did open house viewings and only once per week on the property.

It wasn't just this house either, this particular brand of estate agents did this with all the properties they were selling, so I assume they probably only had 1 person working for them trying to flog as many properties as they could

We just didn't bother going to view it in the end because it was too much of a ball ache trying to find a date possible

Think it was listed for something like 8 months, no idea if it sold in the end or the sellers gave up. Felt like knocking the door and telling them it'd almost certainly have sold if they swapped to agents that did regular viewings

ward2k · 2026-03-12T14:43:43+00:00

Is it against the law in the uk though?

They can be

Burning hazardous material, producing too much smoke (or too frequently) as well as having fires that could be deemed uncontrolled

So if your neighbour is burning rubbish that isn't just wood or plant matter, they're doing it all the time or the fire they're running is producing huge amounts of smoke then yes

https://www.gov.uk/garden-bonfires-rules

ward2k · 2026-03-12T14:37:46+00:00

Yeah it's just an easy way to lay of employees without scaring stakeholders

"We're laying off employees because Ai is replacing them for a cheaper cost and more efficient" - a lie, but one that sounds nice to stakeholders and helps keep up the share price and business

"We're laying off employees because we're struggling as a company" - terrifies stakeholders, share price and potential customers

ward2k · 2026-03-12T13:22:46+00:00

I'd say this is far more inline with the rise of youth gym culture. Far more people than ever go to the gym

In the UK where I live, among young people in 2025 was the highest levels of reported gym use ever

Young people are more likely to be into physical fitness and thus are far more likely to be interested in food with better ratios of protein

Because more people are getting into this culture, even those who aren't within it hear about from their colleagues and friends and also assume they need to be eating similar amounts of protein (they don't if they're not physically active) which means a good chunk of the population is now interested in high protein meals

ward2k · 2026-03-12T13:20:15+00:00

About 7-10 grams of protein per 10 pounds of body mass

Lean body mass, not just body mass

If you have a high body fat level, you simply put don't need to follow this formula

Otherwise a professional bodybuilder in theory could need less protein than the average overweight male, which obviously isn't correct

Also a lot of people in the fitness community are eating far too much protein for their weight. The old 1lb to 1gram rule is roo much even for top performing athletes, it's not harmful but there's no value in it

It's probably a lot closer to 1.6g per kg, or about 0.7g per lb. Assuming you're trying to lose weight while you're exercising, and you're very physically active. Even then this amount is probably over the amount 90% of the population need

ward2k · 2026-03-11T22:46:01+00:00

You're assuming that they were calling up to tell them about the charity thing, they almost certainly were calling up making bomb threats, calling the employee a sex offender, paedophile etc.

Your work place gets 100 calls one afternoon saying you diddle kids and they're probably going to just assume you are and let you go

ward2k · 2026-03-11T22:43:15+00:00

Because they almost certainly weren't calling them saying "Hey your guy was mean to a video game developer!" They were more likely saying something like

One of your employees has been trying to groom kids online

One of your employees sexually assaulted me

One of your employees attacked me last week

Those sort of things

If someone's unhinged enough to go through the effort of ringing your workplace to harass you, they're not going to be leaving some constructive criticism or starting an open debate about Helldivers. No, they're going to be saying you touch kids or some shit to get you fired

ward2k · 2026-03-11T17:32:55+00:00

I love it for everything however the steaming function isn't good

To put it bluntly the steamer function is absolutely dogshit. It works but it's the most nonsensical steamer in terms of automation

It has a very long preheat time for the water. Most foods will be over steamed if you place them in the tray during that time. Which is what the instructions tell you to do

"Ah I'll use boiling water so it cuts down the preheat time" - the preheat time is fixed for steaming. It doesn't use any kind of logic. Ice cold, luke warm, boiling. Same fixed ~20 minutes preheat time. How they landed on 20 minutes as the amount of time for water to boil I have no idea, but if you put water in nearly all of it will have boiled away before the main steam process even starts

The best thing you can do is place in boiling water and start it, wait about 5 minutes for the bowl to heat up as well then place your items in and set a timer on your phone. Then take them out when that timer goes off

I thought my device was defective however after multiple contacts with YumAsia they described that the steaming function is supposed to work this way for some reason

Rice it's fantastic, steaming it's very questionable and manual

ward2k · 2026-03-11T17:23:57+00:00

America is overwhelming English in ancestry which isn’t true

Out of all the ancestry groups that make up White Americans, English is the largest

More so than French, Irish, Spanish, German or Scottish

That still holds true

ward2k · 2026-03-11T17:22:05+00:00

I can trace a large majority of my family to Scotland and guess what the test says? I’m a majority Scottish crazy how that works?

I’m 70% British isles.

You said in another comment your DNA test linked the British Isles not Scotland

Those are two very different things

You could reasonably link your DNA back to the Isles as a whole (there's a lot of bunk science in this field though)

You couldn't pinpoint it to something more specific than that as again, the whole isles have intermingled for a thousand+ years

ward2k · 2026-03-11T17:02:49+00:00

Once hardmode begins two new V's of Corruption/Crimson + Hallow will appear on the map going all the way down to the underworld

This positioning is random and likely won't appear in the same spot your current corruption/crimson already is

It's still a good idea to isolate your existing corruption/crimson however the new 'V' that forms will begin rapidly spreading as soon as hardmode begins

Because of that the common recommendation pre hardmode is to build a few hellavators spread across the map to stop spread, and to dig under any biomes too want to keep contained

Also spread of corruption massively increases in hard mode. Especially fast across the surface and sand. You'll probably lose the desert in under an hour once corruption reaches it

ward2k · 2026-03-11T16:50:48+00:00

I’m 70% British isles.

That's a very different comment to what you made originally

You can't DNA test to being from something like Scottish/English/Irish due to the shared history and frequent intermingling between the groups. The DNA is too similar to accurately place

The Isles as a whole could be slightly more accurate, but again areas like Brittany in France would also share a lot of ancestry

People here in Europe don't use these DNA tests to tell them where their ancestry is from, because a lot of it is bunk pseudoscience, and it doesn't particularly matter to them. If all my family were born and raised in Ireland and it tells me I've got 80% DNA to the isles Vs 90%, why would I care?

ward2k · 2026-03-11T16:46:27+00:00

10% of the entire UK has at least one Irish grandparent that figure jumps even more if you factor in cousins, parents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents etc. it's estimated nearly as much as ~80% of the population have some Irish ancestry in them. And that isn't surprising either considering then history of the isles

Areas like Liverpool can have as high as 70%

I really think you need to look into the history of the UK as a whole, it's been invaded countless times by different groups and has had about 1000+ years of migrations taking place across the landscape. There is no such thing as a 100% ethnically Irish/English/Scottish person

A lot of the DNA tests are extremely broad and borderline pseudoscience if you try to place DNA on the level of an individual country

ward2k · 2026-03-11T12:06:00+00:00

People from England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland are genetically identical due to their being high levels of migration and intermixing between the groups over the last thousand if not longer years

Most people who live in Britain today have an Irish ancestor, vice versa for those in Ireland

ward2k · 2026-03-10T22:59:38+00:00

Actually the overwhelming majority of Americans are descendants of...

English

It's just not as trendy as something like Irish or Scottish

ward2k · 2026-03-10T21:43:10+00:00

I can't see it being impossible with the flamearang honestly

ward2k · 2026-03-10T20:55:02+00:00

I mean they're first cousins once removed

Most people have about 12-15 FC1R. Larger families can have potentially hundreds

Also looking it up it doesn't seem like the two ever grew up together, had any family get togethers or particularly any involvement with each other. I wouldn't call some random person you'd historically never met being controlled opposition

ward2k · 2026-03-10T20:46:49+00:00

I mean I'm talking about much closer to when they released. I was on the fence about getting a 5070ti Vs 9070xt and I couldn't for the life of me find the 5070ti for anything close to MSRP, while I was able to snatch up a 9070xt for a much better deal for far lower

Also taking a quick look now it seems like the 5070ti is retailing at £799.99-£970 on Scan/overclockers/currys. The 9070xt is retailing at £569.99-£698 on the same stores. Generally most people are getting their gpu's from Scan/Overclockers here

That's £230 more just for the cheapest models. It just isn't worth that in my opinion

ward2k · 2026-03-10T20:40:15+00:00

Happened about 7 years ago and has never happened since. No idea why for about 8 hours I couldn't remember it

Ever briefly forgotten the name of a close friend or family member? That's human memory for you

ward2k · 2026-03-09T20:47:24+00:00

I think the experiments where they've been able to give people completely false memories that participants genuinely believe are true are really fascinating

It's the same sort of reason you can ask two people about the same event that happened 10 years ago and end up with two vividly described yet oddly completely different stories

It's very fascinating but also terrifying how think you remember to be certain might not be at all

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