That we should renationalise all public services here in the UK. I genuinely believe that. I’m essentially a left of centre capitalist, but I believe private companies using shared national infrastructure for shareholder profit under the lie of ‘competition’ is bullshit.
I like the idea that we’re interconnected ‘nodes’ collectively experiencing life from our own viewpoint, but part of a larger consciousness. But fucks knows.
Would the curvature not get in the way at a certain distance?
EDIT
I was thinking if the moon was somehow ‘resting’ on the earth’s surface. If you head West, to around the Boston area, it would be eventually be obscured by the curvature of the earth.
Never tried it in my life. Pretty sure you can get it here in the UK, but most of those style drinks (monster etc) look so artificial that my own innate cowardice keeps me away.
That said, I barely drink soda since the sugar tax, as all the soft drinks now have sweeteners that I taste as bitter - even my national drink (Irn-Bru) has been ruined.
So, with that in mind I’d probably be keen to try US Gatorade, as I’m guessing it’s loaded with sugary goodness
I think so. Humour was needed growing up in a Scottish school. I approach most things with a sort of ‘Gallows Humour’. A kind of pleasantly self-soothing mindset that accepts that we’re all pretty much fucked, so we might as well have a laugh while we’re at it.
Wholesome, traditional. Just casually rolling like the guy Dick Jones had killed in RoboCop.
Alcohol and, very occasionally, cocaine.
It’s actually pretty decent on Limmy, I’ve found…
The only topic I’ve struggled with is the trans stuff. It goes without saying that there’s a depressing level of intolerance and hate out there, invariably ramped up by the media (distraction?), but also so much treading on eggshells, obfuscation and, frankly, attention given to a subject that the vast majority of folk may privately find a little confusing, but ultimately don’t have any great interest in.
Bots
Billionaires
Billionaire-bootlickers
Excessively talkative people who tell you everything about their life - but take zero interest in yours.
Companies that make you jump through hoops when you call them and force you listen to recorded messages about how you can get what you need on-line, before they finally put you through to a call-centre in India.
My lack of discipline when it comes to drinking and eating
The fact that my body has taken to waking me up at 4am
To me the hate is quite simple to understand. Socialism means that the extremely rich will be worse off financially. The 1% have an unnatural love for money, and the idea of being less wealthy for the greater good is totally abhorrent to them.
For generations they’ve been able to demonise socialism using their disproportionate influence through the media, to the extent that the majority of the population now fear it.
We’ve really not moved on that far intellectually from the witch trials. People are collectively ignorant and fearful, and with the right nudges are easy to control to the point where they’ll literally vote against their own good. They are the proverbial Turkeys voting for Christmas and I honestly don’t know how we will ever get past it.
Sadly no, just fiber to the cabinet, then copper to the house. When I called the provider to tell them I was switching to Starlink they said there were ‘curently no plans’ for fiber to the premises in my area, so I suspect it’ll be a few years away at the very least.
Annoyed to be paying money to that dick, but it’s literally 10x faster at 420mb, which is what I’m getting now.
Elon’s a straight up Bond villain. I feel guilty for owning a Starlink, but it’s the only high speed internet in my area. Ridiculous that this pricks behaviour means that I now have to justify my choice of IP.
My old friendships are maintained through annual city breaks where me and my rag-tag group of middle-aged food, beer and cocaine enthusiasts congregate for a weekend of laughing and talking shit. Usually followed by a week of abject depression and a few months of financial ruin. I love it.
Nope, meant to but life got in the way. I do live in the far north of Scotland, so our summers are not particularly warm, like at all. But yeah, wasn’t wise.
Kudos. There’s a small local garage on my street, and the guy put my two on for £20, which was pretty good. We have an EV, so I just bought two for the front.
This was in December last year, and I didn’t swap them back. Hopefully, they’re still good for this winter.
In a trashy book from the 50s called Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger includes a short section about the then Nancy Davis during her early acting days at MGM.
He claims she had a reputation for being very friendly with studio executives, and that she was “popular” among them. Anger frames it as part of the Hollywood casting-couch culture of the era.
Probably BS, but who knows.
But sleep is amazing. To me it’s a partially interactive movie where you disassociate and live out different lives with other characters who are often an amalgamation of different folk you know, in weird semi-familiar settings both past and present. It’s wild.
Hey! Don’t leave out those of us kicked off Reddit. Actually that’s maybe not a great Badge of Honour, socially speaking…
Honestly nothing. The more I read and listen about any topic that can be debated the more unsure I am of my stance. I’m pretty sure that billionaires simply shouldn’t be allowed to hoard so much money, but I’d probably fold under a multi-layered, informed rebuttal - it’s more a gut feeling that i’d likely fail to articulate.
I was on Reddit for years. Had multiple throwaway accounts (which was the norm) and about half a mil karma on my main one. It meant nothing, I just sort of accumulated it over 10 years. Then I got banned from a sub, got a site wide ban after using my throwaways (ban evasion) and that was it. I tried to get back in using a VPN and Brave, which worked for a bit, but with zero karma I couldn’t even post in the subs I once liked. Pretty soon my account was banned for the same reason. I was a bit pissed at the time, but honestly the mods were so awful that I think it was for the best - and Limmy just feels nicer.