sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I’m worried going forward we’ll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.

not just UK slang, used in America and Australia too - a bit less common than ‘whine’ which I’d say it’s a synonym of.

thats not what they were saying

the app is called TEA - it is a gossip vector masquerading as a safety mechanism, and people are making all sorts of claims about innocent people they had a bad date about, including their full name, location, workplace, pictures of their face - and accusing them baselessly in some (or most) instances of violent crimes.

If you can’t see how not only that wouldnt make women safer, but instead is a black mirror episode - there’s something wrong.

People against this app aren’t against women’s safety, and they dont necessarily believe our current systems and protection are adequate - but getting lynched by half a city because of a jaded ex is not a solution and is a crime of its own.

I mean half the posts on similar Facebook groups complain about the men being “narcissists” yeah its a shitty personality trait but thats clearly not a fucking safety issue, its about gossiping and doxxing people.

Most people don’t even bother making a budget — a task that only needs to be done once a month, and is easier now than ever, thanks to technology.

Avoidable debt and spending beyond means are one thing, but budgeting only helps so much when the cost of essential goods has skyrocketed, rent is out of control, and pay is all but stagnant. I applaud the sound financial advice of making a simple personal budget, but the problem is (for most people) far, far greater than credit card debt at the stage people are BNPL groceries…

if you’re diluting the isopropyl anyway, wouldnt it be cheaper to get a lesser concentration in bulk?

Paint is cheap

I mean, compared to gold bars I guess. (Guess who’s painting their house)

Uh oh! We made an oopsie 👉👈 sowwy we wost your data

Two buttons on the bottom of the window:

• “It’s okay fam!”

and

• “I’m a grumpy meanie who doesnt understand things happen!”

I know its not everybody’s cup of tea, but plain standard Ubuntu these days has a lot of polish and interoperability. The addition of gnome tweaks, extensions, and flatpak have left me not wanting much extra customisation.

This is after being on a dozen other distros and finding ironically they can be less customisable unless I want to spend an entire in terminal.

the other option is a faster, more privacy focused, free, open source operating system.

I made the switch a little over a year ago, I know not everybody can/wants to - but major distros are honestly polished enough these days that I haven’t looked back, I should have switched to Linux years ago.

Not everyone will agree, but I think Ubuntu + installing apps through Flatpak is a winning option.

Americans saying the metric system is dumb while reasoning that its bad because they can’t do decimals and fractions properly will never not be funny.

“omg 1/3km is 333.33 metres! it doesnt make any sense!”

1 foot = 0.33 yards? "totally logical, so easy!"

5280 feet in a mile? “wow so simple”

10mm in a cm, 100cm in a m, 1000m in a km? “its impossible to grasp!”

you guys think you’re so ahead of the rest of the world, while crashing probes into Mars and not knowing a 1/3 pounder is bigger than a 1/4 pounder, but everyone else easily converting volume to weight to temperature to distance at every order of magnitude are just laughing at you.

IMO its always about scapegoating, you need to find a minority which is prevelant enough for people to have encountered, but not too many that they’re in everyone’s family or work or friend circle - and that won’t have significant civic or voting power.

Post-ww2, ethnic divisions are more taboo, gay rights are too broadly popular to pursue, but trans people are the conservatives best punching down opportunity, while trying to appeal to people on the fence by being ‘virtuous’ and ‘saving the kids’.

I think the filmmakers would be delighted that its the programming language you think of when you hear the movie and not the whole…thing.

you know full well its not a matter of liking the product you’re affiliated with, but an undisclosed conflict of interest in an environment where people have a reasonable expectation of transparent, non-biased testimonials from normal end users, not shilling from paid employees.

The meme isn’t literally saying modern life is ‘just as bad’ as medieval serfdom - it’s highlighting that despite almost unimaginable progress and development since then, economic and social conditions for the average person are becoming increasingly shit - and that the overlap in this venn diagram is a shameful rebuke of our complacency and the failings of the current system/those which are disproportionately benefiting under current uncertainty and exploitation.

In any case, suffering isn’t a competition - someone who’s circumstantially stuck in their shitty apartment paying off a lifetime of debt might be (more) free from the TB concerns and formal landlord permissions that medieval serfs had, but it doesn’t for a second mean that people are guaranteed a healthy, happy, prosperous life - or that anybody in a developed country has the ability or the capital to do what they want or go where they please. Shit, I can’t have 2 days to my fucking self without the ordained holy approval of my moron manager, in practice I’m no more free to venture or travel without affecting my livelihood when it comes to needing someone’s say-so.

Amazon workers pissing in bottles to raise their children in a society which increasingly expects the individual to bear all costs of life but will gladly subsidise corporate malpractice is a crappy situation - and farmers in 12th century England having it worse doesn’t diminish the shittiness of the situation for people alive today. I agree that historical literacy is important, but the meme doesn’t exist to insult the serfs, it begs us to avoid their plight with infinitely more resources, having won hard-fought battles to avoid that sort of lifestyle.

I don’t want to wait for the economic outlook gets even worse until we’re all living in Meta/Tencent company towns and sleeping in pod hotels eating gruel for a comparison to become fully valid.

This masterpiece will confirm to anyone outside of Germany that they’re not joking: Alexander Marcus - Hawaii Toast Song

non American here. the red line was January 6th. Don’t wait to see if more boxes are checked, every autocracy in history relied on people planning to resist when things ‘really’ got worse. By then it’s always too late. They’re planning accordingly.

I think their main point was that under capitalism, people will only ever be viewed for their economic utility - exploitation of affected groups is inherent to that reduction in a human’s rights and their contributions beyond menial labour.

So the take isnt defending the status quo, it’s saying how the best case scenario in an inherently soulless and uncaring system is to be paid cents on the dollar, and that more intervention to secure better pay, respect, and working rights, by definition, will always move further and further away from “capitalism” in it’s purest, most discriminatory forms.

yeah the kid 100% had their dumbass parent’s decision ‘put upon’ them…how this is anything other than child abuse/manslaughter is beyond me - whether they’re in a fringe religious group or not, they are still killing people that didn’t have a real say in that outcome.

exactly the sketch I thought of when I saw this post!