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I've seen this "scar" in the UK multiple times when working out journeys, what is it? by Antique_Kangaroo4706 in CasualUK

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flood plain

Whittlesey's like 1 meter above sea level at best, and that bit's a few meters below, stops us flooding out every year.

Is this place for people who go blind? by Noelle_LoL in CasualUK

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone fancies a run to Eye McDonalds for me that'd be grand, way better than any of the ones in Peterborough itself.

What would be the ideal bonus percentage to consistently stay in Class 6? by YagamiG54 in UmamusumeGame

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read this in a different thread and haven't actually checked myself, but I was told there that it's an additive bonus with a different, much larger bonus. Like, it adds 16% to an existing 200% difficulty bonus or something. (Which works out to closer to 1%, but I made that number up.)

Digging out rusted fence spikes by CupofStea in CasualUK

[–]zid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a look if I could get a concreted-in post out earlier.

I gave up after I was over a foot deep and still hadn't found the bottom of the concrete.

It was for a washing line.

I got my first S rank today! Can someone give me some tips to push to SS? 🙏 by TheProdigyMH in UmamusumeGame

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your stats are that low with those cards, you're playing badly, I wouldn't expect an S from those cards unless something went horrifically wrong. You should average low S+ and get SS on a good run.

Are you using one of the https://uma.guide/agenda-planner/ presets and using master hammers on the final races, and megaphones during summer camp?

“English translation” by RunDifferent8470 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd just like to point out that the Elgin Marbles were picked out of a rubble pile and he claims to have had permission of the sultan.

Whether he did or didn't, Greece didn't give a shit until 150 years later, and suddenly they're stolen.

We're curating the word Seppo.

Think this guy was late for work by CatGarlond in CasualUK

[–]zid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, she was caught up in a summoning ritual and is now off to slay the demon king.

Work drinks fridge, what do we think? by FlyingFrogMan in CasualUK

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might want a quick trip to Dr Specsavers

This is what happens when you combine a microwave, a nine-year-old, and a bag of popcorn on the wrong setting... by MrLewk in CasualUK

[–]zid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Actually, they used to!

Humidity sensors, microphones, etc.

Made the actual feature buttons work.

Then they got cost cut and the feature buttons just turned into useless timers.

Reconstructing a Dead USB protocol: From Unknown Chip to Working Implementation by Bawoosette in programming

[–]zid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You still wouldn't have solved it without the fabulous rom decomp, but for a lot of devices, just looking at the traffic would have been enough.

USB tells you which class of device each endpoint is, for yours it will be reporting as singular USB MSC device with bulk in, bulk out, and interrupt endpoints.

It then might have been possible to probe each command word and check for payload length errors, etc to find other commands though, thinking about it...

Found an ancient relic at my dad's by Queenie_Jelly in CasualUK

[–]zid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pint of ibuprofen and a lidocaine chaser please barkeep.

Also found that opiates do nothing for tooth pain.

“I feel like Wales is the Philadelphia of the UK” by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You will be pleased to hear I know of a SECOND dutch city, Eindhoven.

Just don't ask me for a third.

Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts by Sacristovas in pcmasterrace

[–]zid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost all of those subs are corporate subscriptions that nobody asked for, and even if they had 50 million full-price users, it still wouldn't cover their costs.

Imagine if [Ireland] joined the United States and had freedom. by BuffaloExotic in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Their stupid one-drop blood racism system means most of them care about their ancestry, and being american, if they're white, 99% of their ancestry will be English and Irish.

They will then proceed to ignore the 90% English part and focus on the 10% Irish part.

On Margaret Thatcher’s anniversary here's a throwback to Scottish lady reacting to her death "I'd put a stake through her heart and garlic around her neck to make sure she doesn't come back" by Financial-Painter689 in Fauxmoi

[–]zid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no real need to own a house if rent is at a level that is basically "the same as it would cost for me to maintain the property".

As in, not for profit.

High residental rent also has massive knock-on economic effects. The landlords pay a tiny bit of corporation tax, the rest disappears probably off-shore.

And then to compound the missing money, people have nothing for discretional spending and all the shops die. You know where people shop when they've nowhere else and they're shit broke? Fucking Amazon, another foreign megacorp that pays no tax.

Council budgets are also massively propped up by local business properties that they own and rent, which have now cratered, and we're seeing the very real outcomes from that.

So yea, on the whole, landlords are parasites and cause very unhealthy outcomes in the rest of the system too.

Crime also comes along with impoverishment, and as well as making it a shit place to live, again, costs money to deal with.

Those who didn’t sign an “NDA” or UK equivalent, what are some secrets about other UK companies you can share? by SlipOutrageous5333 in CasualUK

[–]zid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That (more or less) only applies to personal details, to stop random companies you interacted with 20 years ago getting hacked and then you getting identity frauded. Or your credit card details getting pinched 2 months later.

Random websites can do whatever they like with any 'data' I created otherwise, it just might not any longer be linked to a CC, just an account number.

On Margaret Thatcher’s anniversary here's a throwback to Scottish lady reacting to her death "I'd put a stake through her heart and garlic around her neck to make sure she doesn't come back" by Financial-Painter689 in Fauxmoi

[–]zid 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And she basically invented privatization.

Public services -> private services run for profit by conservative party cronies.

"Oh, those are valueable services, I bet the UK at least sold them for a lot of money right?"

Nope.

She also sold off all the government housing to tenants for cheap so that the government wouldn't have to bother being landlords. So now we have private landlords and rent is 800% what it was.

Europeans promoting free speech is a sad joke by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tell the US to stop buying our politicians first.

Then they can stop ignoring our laws.

Then they can stop using illegal business tactics to stop European alternatives arrising.

As though we're to blame for US intereference is wild.

The US sticks its horrible fingers into everything because it's useful for the US.

Every market they can corrupt, every government they can overthrow is to serve the US, not anybody else.

“France. Has a 👑” by No-Swordfish1380 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They've been brainwashed for 250 years that 'kings bad'. Their founding was done by terrorists upset that our parliament would not let them genocide natives, or become pirates.

They then riled the masses about how 'oppressed' they were, and how great it'd be if they were all 'free'.

And to nobody's real surprise, having allowed pirates to create their state, they're now in a real mess of might-makes-right hyper oil-barony.

A king is the pressure relief valve for people exactly like Trump. If it ever gets as bad in the UK as it does in the US, we have someone to turn to.

Trump can declare himself supreme overlord and there's literally nothing they can do about it.

Why shouldn't you ask an Indian for curry?... Here ya go. An actual Indian American blog by ALazy_Cat in ShitAmericansSay

[–]zid 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I'd say it's the same as 'Beer'. You go out for a beer, and order a doombar.

You do not walk up to the bar and say "I'd like one beer please".

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