Toaster
@toaster
Leftie, scientist, research software engineer, fan of alternative comedy and tabletop gaming.
Looked up the path of totality, and man is this a bad case for the Mercator projection.
Shakespeare In The Park in NY did a ‘modern military’ staging of Troilus and Cressida and the design somehow feels *less* historically accurate. At least actual Greek soldiers will have worn camo and flak jackets at some time!
Some are just mad, like I think we should ditch first-past-the-post and it’d help the left as we’re underrepresented. But this question puts it on a par with “ban women voting”.
I remember a while back posting a photo of Bath and Americans being incredulous about how everything was made of stone. When most US houses are just a frame with wooden panels on, it doesn’t exactly give you the right idea for how easy home modifications are for the rest of us.
There’s an army billboard parked on a quiet side-road just outside the war graves cemetary. Critical approval of whoever decided to take the job but absolutely fuck it up.
Like, if you visit Queen Victoria’s palace Osborne House you *absolutely* learn that after Prince Albert died she had an Indian toyboy. The idea there’s no people of south asian descent here…
Visited the Solent Sky museum finally. It’s like a hoarder’s house, full of strange mannequins, and every other display panel ends with “tragically they/the plane were lost in a crash”.
Nope. AI has the appearance of productive work, but actually creates economically *destructive* problems: www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce... That code churn stat is absolutely horrifying. We’re replacing all our code that people understand with ephemeral, AI-generated trash.
The most clueless, mush-brained opinions in the world *always* come from people tagged by the @daddys.cash labeller. It’s like clockwork.
Missed opportunity! Don't tilt the flag, have it level, and have the middle stripe go through all the other carriages. It'll look terrible but it's *commitment*.
Don’t get how Pain Suisse are everywhere now, but I saw precisely zero en Suisse.
Insulin Russian roulette day. Inject and nothing happens, nothing, nothing, BAM!
Truly incredible to discover that if you’re corrupt enough for long enough, the evidence effectively hits an integer overflow and clears.
Was thinking that Starmer hadn’t, but… checked wiki and his school converted to paying whilst he was a pupil and he got grandfathered in. I’m sure seeing the ladder get pulled up behind him and depending on the charity of the rich to keep his place did no long-term mental harm!
It’s literally in the screenshot of the definition. Why are you so opposed to acknowledging clear, publicly-stated genocidal intent?
I mean, if you perform acts whose intended purpose is to destroy a group, it’s genocide. That wasn’t the case for killing German soldiers, but destroying all the power in a nation that relies on desalination for water would definitely qualify. You can’t *not* know it would cause mass death.
God that article has a stupid paragraph. “Paradoxically”, telling people you’re price-gouging them makes them unhappy?